Productive Weekend!

 

So Friday saw me and Dad head out on the hunt for some tools for me and my upcoming attempt to replace a small brick wall with a moulded edging made from recycled tyres. I needed a mallet rather than use a hammer to bash in the pegs and although the garden slopes slightly I thought a slightly longer spirit level than I have already may well come in handy.

B&Q were the source of the tools and then we headed over to Dobbies for a mosey around. Apart from a stash of dental treats for Annie, the vet said she's got plaque on her teeth that needs removing, I also bought a pot of daffs to put by Mum's sewing machine. Although I have subsequently also got the Pinks back out of the garage as they are starting to sprout new shoots which look a little yellow as the garage has no natural light in it when the door is closed.

So the above image is of the new daffs pot alongside the sewing machine and before the Pinks emerged. I love daffodils, my happy flowers I call them. These are a mix of yellow petals and orange trumpets, about the best I felt of the various varieties they had for sale. Mainly because I didn't want to stray too far away from the traditional colours.

And Saturday I took a wander up to Homebase in search if these Lavender topiary balls having seen something similar in Dobbies for £25 a ball. I want them to replace those already outside the backdoor which have probably (?) been there for a couple of years now, pretty sure I bought them during the first Lockdown in 2020, and despite the UV resistance they are starting to shed.

These are the same 30cm diameter size but a tad less pricey at £22 each. First of all I was worried that they only had one left despite the online stock check saying they had eight which is why I didn't bother to do the Click and Collect. Anyhoo a member of staff, one of the very few available yesterday on a busy Saturday morning, managed to find a box out the back with another four in it. So I got my two leaving three on the shelf. Which means they never had eight in the first place. Apparently, according to him, the stock checker is only updated once a week post the store stock take - how crap is that? And there's me assuming that it would be a live feed from the till sales for goodness sake. 

Anyway, they are hanging up in the garage for now, awaiting the reopening of the yard a bit later on once it starts to warm up and I make a start on the garden for the first time this year. 

Apart from this, work is still nauseatingly busy trying to finish off the next phase planning, not made any easier by crap management decisions which has made more work for us. No doubt we'll get there but it's been a long road which is draining all of us, plan blind, number blind it's been a tough few months. Roll on getting back to our normal routine.