joless

from holiday – that’s 23, over halfway there!

Pulled a sack of weeds out of the front garden
Weedkillered the front garden, back patio and pathway
Mowed the lawn

but today I maxed out my ISA which I’ve been meaning to open and fill for a very long time. Finally I’m making use of that allowance. One more thing off that list!

and the money should transfer to max this out in a few days. One more thing off the list!

I finally went through the pile of clothes that I had earlier earmarked for getting rid of. I kept a few pieces and the rest is now in bags to go either to the recycling or to the charity shop! I can now see what I have in my wardrobe and I’ve got rid of a lot of dross that I never wear. So, now the challenge is…not to buy new stuff I won’t wear to replace the old stuff! :-)

so I shall have to make more effort to use it and take photos of stuff, day to day. I want to take more of the dog, and I have some other ideas I want to play with too.

At the moment, as work is very quiet, we are getting up later and later and I’m starting to feel like I’m running late before the day even really gets going. It’s hard to get up early (on time) when there seems no need, but I hate that feeling of playing catch-up all day.

We seem to have developed a good routine of taking the dog out for a walk every morning together which is excellent.

We spent hours and hours at the weekend building a raised bed – had to dig out the current bed down to about three feet deep first and then add edging. Then we filled it in with lots of soil and compost and stuff.

Yesterday I planted some climbing beans in the bed, and two troughs of dwarf beans. I also repotted some of the sprouting broccoli seedlings into larger pots.

I still need to transplant more of the chilli plants, and some of the peppers.

It’s so exciting to see things grow and start to florish, and all from seed this year so far.

in the front wall, and also in pots in the porch. We have also grown beans and peppers and lettuces from seed so they will need planting out very soon.

Two more written today – so that’s 22. These were to Martin and to Emma. Am running out of nice ones in my collection, but at least I should be able to throw most of the rest away without feeling too sad.

I kind of have a mental list but I’m working my way through some of them and finding some real gems.

...we trimmed the rose and the lilac and did a bit of weeding.

On Sunday we changed some of the lightbulbs which had been blown out for months.
Yesterday I moved some photo albums so we had room on the shelf for the rest of the filing.
This morning I booked my car in for it’s MOT and booked a hair appt for P.

I read at least 54 books this year (forgot to write down the last few weeks). I’m hoping this will continue for many years! I recieved quite a few books (and book tokens) for Christmas so I’m looking forward to starting my 2008 list (which I already have two titles for)!

I need to get round to doing all those little tasks which just never get done like changing the light bulb in the bedroom which has been burnt out for about nine months now! Maybe if I can get in the habit of doing just one a day…by the end of the year I will have done over 300 of them and that surely will make things feel better!

Hmm, tried this last night and regretted it somewhat this morning :-) Think this should maybe read ‘drink BETTER wine’...

Mowing again :-) Plus I strimmed the edges this time and we had the trees thinned out to let a lot more light in. It’s looking good!

This week I planted the pepper and chilli plants into larger pots, mowed the grass and tidied up the leaves. It all looks a lot better now. Oh, and we cut the front hedge too.

I tried it and I hate it :-) Maybe I’ll try again one day and it will be better….

Needs doing again soon though, before we go on holiday otherwise we will return to a jungle!