everything in the garden is rosy.

Julie and myself walked across to the allotment site on Thursday, it's the first time we've been there for a couple of weeks. What a surprise, it actually looks like a vegetable garden, the kidney beans sticks are in waiting for the plants, onions, potatoes and aparagus are growing well. I can't believe how the area has changed since we began the work, I finally believe the dream will be realised.

Busy doing nothing

It's Sunday, the sun is shining, so although I should be studying I'm going to potter around in my garden. I've promised a friend some lily of the valley for their garden, so that will be my first job, then I'm going to plant some lettuce and peppers that my dad has given me. My dad supplies us with tomato plants every year and it's my husband's responsibility to grow them and mow the lawn, I look after the flowers and shrubs and weed the beds. I don't know if I've got the better deal, the weeding seems to take a lot longer than the mowing! My dad tries to get us to grow runner beans, but I've told him I'll just come and pick his when they are ready. It's not easy maintaining a vegetable plot when you are working full time, so we stick to simple things that don't need much attention, but when we retire we'll expand, perhaps?

They seek him here, they seek him there...

We've just had a new telephone system installed and it's chaotic, I don't know how many have been lost in transition (not to be confused with lost in translation). So if anyone reading this has failed to get through, I apologise, but the lack of calls is quite restful.

Did I say I wanted water?

Isn't the saying, be careful what you wish for. I asked for water and for three days now it's rained. Tonight, we have a presentation evening in the centre and I was hoping to show off the garden in all it's glory. Well it looks like we'll just have to look out through the window. We even bought some solar powered lights for the night, but without the sun to power them up, we'll have to resort to the plug in variety. Anyway, this is a lovely picture of the garden that is for the use of our day nursery.

Summer's on it's way, I can tell by the amount of bedding plants being delivered to the centre on a daily basis. Sue, our garden worker, used to get excited when she saw the new plants, now she let's out a little groan. This is because we haven't errected the poytunnel over on the allotment site yet, and the little greenhouse is fit to burst with tomato, lettuce and cucumber plants. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel (excuse the pun), the base for the polytunnel is near completion and the company that will construct it has been booked to carry out the work, and we are having a plant sale at the end of the month, after which we'll have more space, for, guess what, more plants!