Well, so far our "growing season" has been terrible. High winds blew the greenhouse over just when my seedlings had started to grow all lovely and healthy and killed them all. D kindly filled it back up with a variety of plants from his giant greenhouse and even gave us some lettuce from P's farm and those plants all died because we went away for the weekend and they didn't get watered. So, I attempted to grow some more lettuce, spring onions and herbs and so far we've got some spring onions and two tiny tiny little seedlings of lettuce appearing. Everything else has FAILED. Oh, and outside, we bought a raspberry tree from Wilkos and that's done NOTHING, I planted some carrots and they are looking healthy and we got a strawberry plant and potted it in a hanging basket. Now this is probably going to be our biggest success as there looks to be a lot of fruit getting ready to ripen, one has started to turn red and His Lordship keeps saying he's got his eye on it. Oh how I will laugh when a bird or a slug eats it just before he gets round to harvesting it!
Today I got up at 7am (this is a lie in for me!) and decided it was time to thoroughly clean the house. I started this at 8:30am and finally finished at 12pm. I'm exhausted, and it wasn't even that dirty! I've bought a brush designed to help comb some of Poppy's winter coat away because she's really moulting at the moment. We didn't have this problem with her last year because this time last year she was still a baby, in fact I think she's probably about a year old now because we got her when she was about 7 weeks.
Look how tiny she was!
