Happy Sunday, again! This week seems to have flown by for me and a lot of what has taken up my time is admin! Ugh! It was my Word of the Week yesterday and my photos prove it. lol. I don't know why I'm surprised, because it seems to be around this time every year that a lot of admin needs doing. Emails, forms to fill in, printing things, checking things, waiting for replies and chasing up things I sent days ago! Double ugh! At least it's the weekend so I can have a break from it.
Yesterday was a busy day of just pottering around waiting for parcels. As of writing this yesterday morning, I was waiting for parcels from I think every delivery service going: DPD, Royal Mail, Evri, DHL and Amazon. Most of it was just practical things for the house and garden. I have seeds and compost arriving as I’m determined to get a bit more organised with the garden this year. I also ordered some paint for a little project, a new washing basket because the old one has seen better days and a few other bits and bobs that I probably didn’t need but added to the basket anyway,
Hopefully, today stays dry because Stu is wanting to cut the grass in the back garden. It has suddenly started growing again over the last couple of weeks and it’s getting quite long. He will finally get to try out the lawnmower that my dad gave us late last year. It’s one of those that has a box on the back which collects all the cut grass. Our old mower didn’t have that, which meant raking everything up afterwards, so this should make the job a lot quicker.
Now for a photo every day!
60/365 1st March
I love this time of year for sunsets. During the winter they seem to happen in the middle of the afternoon but once we get into March they usually happen when I am in the kitchen making tea so I can run out and snap a photo when I see a pretty sky!
61/365 2nd March
It was a warm but dull day on Monday and no one had their washing out on the line so Stu decided to have an hour of burning cardboard and papers that we really should shred but why go to the effort when the fire does the trick. The fire pit is something he made about four years ago using an old drum from a washing machine. It’s one of those things that turned out to be really useful. It works perfectly for little garden fires and has held up really well over the years.
62/365 3rd March
I have spent a lot of time this week waiting for emails. It reminded me of that old saying: a watched pot never boils. The same applies to email inboxes. The more you stare at them, the longer everything seems to take and the second you stop looking the email turns up.
63/365 4th March
I had a battle with the printer. Stu unplugged it when he painted the dining room and it was a nightmare getting it working again. For some reason printers and I have never really got along.
64/365 5th March
We got the leaflet about the bins! It's all change, with the recycling boxes not being used, we're getting a bigger recycling bin, food waste will go in the garden bin and our collection day has changed too. It felt like a lot of information to take in all at once.
65/365 6th March
I love that all the daffodils are popping up all over the place. They are very impressive on the walk to my dad's. One side of the grass verge is full of them.
66/365 7th March
Lots of parcels arrived, more than I thought because some were for Becky! I can't even complain as I know she ordered my Mother's Day presents and those could be them.
Such a beautiful sunset. Your daffodils are looking lovely. Mine are in full bloom right now too.
ReplyDeleteThe daffodils are so pretty! I hope the mowing went well... how nice to have a feature that collects the grass clippings. I am the same way with printers. I pray ours works anytime I turn ours on to try to print something. Some of us can print to our printer with our phones while some can't- it makes no sense. How fun to receive packages! Better yet if it's something for you inside :). Have a great Sunday!
ReplyDeleteI wish it was common here to have a backyard brick or stone place to burn our trash. Far from it, though, since we've been under a "burn ban" for weeks and weeks due to extreme drought conditions. Burning trash just really gets rid of it, you know?! (We're in a sub-tropical climate, so no fireplace in our home). Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteOoh Simpler Recycling changes. Weird that your food waste collection isn't separate to garden waste as April is the time when councils need to provide a weekly food waste collection (although lots aren't ready for that yet). We've had one for a while, but I've given up putting our kerbside caddy out (and our lodgers/neighbours gave up too), because they were never collected. But we're dreading the day we go down to 3 weekly normal waste collections because this week we've still got 5 days to go and both bins are full (2 bins, 3 households using them is 7 people, plus the farm has 3-4 lodgers during the week who never recycle their rubbish). So we'll never be able to move to 3 weekly even if they start collecting our food waste (my bugbear as I work for a charity in the food waste team!)
ReplyDeleteLove that fire pit idea. That's clever. My FIL has a metal drum thing he uses, but it scares me because sometimes it's too close to the hedge. One time we had to get the buckets and water out because it set light to the hedge and fence!
Hello! I love all the pictures from practical to magical (that clothes line with the sky) all are so meaningful because they tell a story of daily life. I love it. I also love a good fire pit!!! I have asked to see if my hubs will do one this spring
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