Morning
According to the forecast we had light rain overnight, but from the look of the ground this morning we didn’t. It was certainly a warm humid day yesterday, with the sun not really making an appearance till late afternoon. Temperatures reached 29 with more of the same today.
We had a lovely evening with our friends, its nice to chat as they say. We spent the heat of the afternoon inside preparing the meal, setting the table etc and putting the dishwasher on to give us an empty one to start with. This gave us the opportunity to clear things away between courses so only took a few minutes to finish tidying up after they left. We hate to get up to dirty dishes. Bob is emptying the dishwasher whilst he makes a cuppa , and I will put it all away after breakfast. We have some nice plates etc all bought from local car boot sales, and I like to use them when we have guests. Our every day stuff is from the local supermarket, or in fact our Julias university pots and pans. All well past their ‘use date’ as they say. They have served us well but we are desperately short of egg cups which no one seems to sell here. We have asked our friends to bring so e over when they come .
Its been a warm night and a very noisy morning. The cockerel has been at it for hours, the pigeons also being extremely noisy and the stone martens in the roof have been very active. Someone locally went off to work early on a motor bike. Its a very noisy bedroom but is the coolest in the summer.We normally hear nothing from the stone martens except the odd scrapings but it sounded like a stampede up there today. I have just googled and it seems mating season is June to July.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_marten
Today I want to wash and change our bedding, wash the floors downstairs and apparently there is another good market locally that we have not been to before. We also want to make a trip to the tip to get rid of some tree cuttings from a dying heat damaged fir tree, an old plastic water butt, and my melted strawberry trough which I managed to replace yesterday morning . At 4.00 pm we are going to see Nicole and then go to see Roland. She hasn’t told him so it will be a surprise. With so much to do we have opted to leave trying the market till next week . Bob wants to try and cut some more of the fir tree down this morning. Its going to be a busy day I think.
And here are my rescued strawberry plants, before and after. I think about 6 plants recovered.
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Have a good day all
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