Sunday morning looked like this.
It made me very, very happy! This and the predicted temps for this week not going above 30 degrees mean that I won’t be watering every day and/or feeling guilty for the days that I don’t water!
It’s been quite a productive weekend, I’ve bought a dress that I intend to wear to Christina’s wedding, footwear is (as always an issue!) can I wear converse to a wedding? Maybe I need to ask the bride and groom, although honestly I really need to get myself together as I am making cake for the wedding. Fortunately, they aren’t having a ‘wedding cake’ but big plies of cake, which is fab because we all know I suck at cake decoration! It will look more like this, which is the original cake pile that Tina asked me to bake for her, this is from 2006 and I did it again in 2009. Christina clearly remembers it and thus, I’m making cake for her wedding to the lovely Fred (Christina is also lovely and it is a measure of my love for her that I’m going to spend the August bank holiday baking said cake!). Now I have a dress to wear to the wedding too…
It’s ridiculously early but Ma and I went blackberrying this weekend and collected over two kilos of blackberries. 
There has been jam made and gin started.
Actually, all round it’s been a busy weekend but it hasn’t felt busy. I had a haircut, picked fruit, read a book, bought some more gin (I know it’s a sickness!), started blackberry and plum gin, spent some time on the allotment, made jam, and ate a lot of courgettes. Ma and I also spent some time talking about our various home improvement plans. It’s been good.
This week is all about crossing things off the list so I can go on holiday next week and enjoy my birthday week. I also need to prep my flat for the invasion of Joe, who is delightful but inclined to wrecking his aunty’s flat though good at feeding sheep!
I’m counting down the days until I have a whole week off, but I have a ton of things to do at work before that.
They were at Junipalooza but I didn’t get around to visiting them, so I don’t really know much about this, except that you can buy it in Sainsburys.
Other than harvest, water and feed which takes forever, we did other things. We pulled up the sweet peas, they had aphids on them, and the California poppies that were taking over the rhubarb and also beginning to look a bit messy and thus were offending Ma’s sensibilities…
I also planted out some more mint in the bath and trimmed the tomatoes some more, tomatoes are a labour intensive crop but they do reward the effort.
I’m impatient for the cucumbers and tomatoes to really start coming in but the work list for next week is pretty light (for a change)
However, life, with work, the flat, the allotment, having friends and a life generally, I don’t get to spend all that much time doing what I love. Also that life has been pretty busy, it’s summer and I seem to spend all of my time watering and socialising and not much time at home. All of this is good, I wouldn’t want anyone to thing that my life is no fun but last week, I hit a wall. I felt like my house and my life needed a tidy. So I took Friday and Monday off to sort it out (and spend some time lounging about with a book!)
And you get to see the wobbly bridge full of people, like a traffic jam…
Also notable this week, Christelle’s amazing orchid, it’s so perfect it looks fake.
And Gabi the wonder dog. She is a boxer, but given that she’s only little (nine months) and a boxer, she’s actually very chilled, once she gets over her initial bouncing. Also Mike and Christelle have the most realistic fake grass, I’ve ever seen…
It’s been a very social week for me, I was at Mike and Christelle’s on Saturday night and at Kathy and Adam’s on Sunday (where I also got to see some other friends), so I’m a tiny bit peopled out and looking forward to a day of sorting out and straightening out the flat.
