Sunday morning and this will be a short entry, the sun is shining at 7.15am and I am keen to get outside. I have made tea and returned to bed. This is the first morning I have been able to open all the doors and let the sun in so early. It is very spring-like here and I just hope it stays that way.
This is the first weekend that we have not had people over or needed to go somewhere and with good weather I have been able to concentrate on the garden/outdoor jobs. I have made a list as long as my arm and spent all of yesterday in the veg plot. Tilled almost all of it. It now looks very bare but has lots of seedlings and seeds in. Planted potatoes, carrots, onions, spring onions and broccoli. The chooks are eating the weeds but have not learnt yet to scratch. Freckles likes watching me in the veg plot when she is in that paddock as the weeds are usually big and I feed them to her but she is missing out now as there are hardly any weeds and I am in planting mode now. She looks most disgruntled! She and Carol are separated from the other cows at the moment as Nelson is still ‘intact’ and it’s that time of year, and of course they are still feeding. It is great working with them around, the calves are so curious and of course they play around and keep me amused. Eric was testing my tiller yesterday (I thought the tines were on the wrong way round) and found the electric 3-phase cables that have been eluding us since we moved in. Ian and Claire told us where they were, roughly, but we have never been able to find them. In theory this means we can now get electricity supplied to the barn. The only problem is the cable is right in the middle of the veg!!! A job for the winter I think.
The best thing about the variety how…. was when it finished!!! However, although it was not very good I have nothing but admiration for the kids getting up there and performing in front of hundreds of parents in a packed hall and would go again and again to support them. The funniest bit was a child doing the hamster dance (some country and western sort of thing) with her mother. Well I say funny, it was incredibly embarrassing. They had to do a series of vigorous jumps from the back to the front of the stage. I will just say that this lady could have done with a better supporting bra, and leave the rest to your imagination!! Alice’s groups performance was quite good and she seemed to stand out because she moved a little (many of the child stood like scared rabbits), was near the middle, smiled and had bright clothes on. There were some displays of superb talent, a piano rendition if Beethovens 5th etc. At the end I saw Di who came and spoke to me very briefly as she was whisked away. I didn’t get much of an update on Rob but I don’t think there is any improvement.
Well the tea is finished and my garden is calling!!
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