Rained off

Even though it’s too cold to plant or sow anything in the allotment, there is plenty of preparation work to be done. I had some Italian seeds a friend from TRHA gave me, giant onion ones in fact. I had moderate success last year, when he gave me some seedlings. This year, I am following his instructions and sowing them on kitchen roll that has to be kept damp. When they start shooting, they can be put into pots and grown on. My friend says you are meant to sow them on Boxing Day, but that wasn’t possible of course, as I was in Greece.

The puzzle hasn’t seen a lot of activity recently, but since I have been back, I am keen to finish it and possibly start another. 

This morning we had a lovely sunrise, but in an hour we had rain. It soon stopped, and a check on the weather forecast had me going to the allotment to try and squeeze in some work before the rain really started. The fruit trees in the caged plot, they haven’t been pruned for a few years. You are meant to gradually bring them back to shape, else it can over stress the tree. A couple looked beyond pruning, so I took them out. The rest look better now, any that don’t fruit, I will probably remove at the end of the year. The trimmings, will go to my friend for her log burner, if she can use them, or the recycling centre. The next job will be to fork over the ground and get as much of the bindweed out as I can and repair the raised beds. There is an area where there are raspberries which are of an unknown quality, and more bindweed which will be hard to get rid of if I leave the raspberries in situ. There is a lot to do!

Meanwhile and no photos but I am going to a weekly Pilates class. I have been seeing my physio while waiting for a vacancy to appear for her class she runs on the Wednesday evening.  I still have two more individual sessions with my physio, where we have been concentrating on specific Pilates movements to try and make my overall body more flexible, but also my ankle which still gets very stiff. But the funny thing was, while we were waiting to go into the room, one of my fellow participants said “Hello Mr Humphreys!”. It’s been a long time since I worked in the same building as her, in different roles. It’s a smallworld. 

Looking forward I have a weekend dog sit for a friend, when I came back I was saddened to hear about a couple of friends who have medical problems that they did not have when I left for Greece. I wish them both well.  There had been some work for TRHA, we have had two deliveries for this years Store sales. It has been nice to go back to the Cosy Nook, open again after their winter holiday. Oh and a special event this Sunday lunchtime as well..