I got up at 8am today which was actually 7am, stupid BST! I made a fresh pot of strong coffee and sat out on the patio on our Christmas present from my in-laws - a lovely City blue bistro set - listening to the birds. It's always nice to get up early where I live when the weather is good, before the lawn mowers and strimmers start....
I managed to get the majority of my work done before 10am and we headed off to B&Q to buy compost, weed mat, vegetable seeds, and new plants for my pots. I bought some petunia's, sweet peas, trailing lobelia, and something else which I've forgotten the name of - nice little white flowers. We did some digging and tidying but it was pretty hot (I am even sunburnt on my shoulders) so made sure we got some relaxing time in too with the papers and a margarita or two.
The animals seemed to enjoy themselves, with the cats sunbathing all day and Mr Jinks eating his bodyweight in lettuce and dandelions. Sky seems a little bit better today so fingers crossed!
I made BLT's for brunch and Mr W made us a fresh banana milkshake....
We've got a pond full of mating frogs at the moment, plus frog spawn, so should have loads of tadpoles soon :) A particularly randy frog kept us amused with his mating call all day before jumping on a poor unsuspecting female....
For dinner I had bought a huge 5lb chicken but it wasn't roast dinner weather so just roasted the chicken and we had it with salad, sweet potato and potato salad with chives from the garden. Simple.
Had a lovely day today and really not ready for work tomorrow :( Know it's going to be a very hard week so may not be back before weekend. Wish me luck!
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