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Hello, "waving madly" I'm over here.............. on the new blog!
And Thanks everyone for making me regret not buying the Ladybird postcards! You are no help at all on the frugal front!!
But I forgive you.
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10 May 2017
09 May 2017
What I Didn't Buy
I decided to go to a car-boot sale on Saturday. It was the first of the season in this venue where they only have them on the first Saturday of the month from May to September
The things I didn't buy were these.......... 100 Postcards of classic Ladybird covers in a box as the woman wouldn't drop her price from £5 ( and what would I do with 100 postcards anyway? although they looked brilliant)
I also didn't buy a big basket for holding kindling wood for the wood-burner. It was priced up at £6 and the wooden trug we are using will do until I find something bigger but cheaper. ( SO cross that we left the perfect kindling basket at the smallholding!)
And I didn't buy a "vintage" wooden box for holding craft stuff as it was also priced at £5.
What I did buy was a Hosta...........Purple flowers (of course - it dawned on me as I looked at them)
for the purple bed and these
the Vtech baby walker toy was a £2 bargain. Waste bin for my craft room 20p. New pack of Christmas Yankee Candles £2 ( will be a Christmas present), 6 small stamps for crafting were 50p the lot and the plastic box to store all my stamps and zig-zag scissors was £1.99 from a trade stand where they sell all sorts of new stuff.
On the way home I called in at the Garden Centre for compost and spotted some dark purple Salvia bedding plants to fill the gaps in my purple bed and also splashed out on a tray of mixed cut and come again salad leaves to get the half water-butt beds off to an quick start.
Plenty of jobs to do in the garden now.......... and as I'm here on my own I'd better get on with it.
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Sue
The things I didn't buy were these.......... 100 Postcards of classic Ladybird covers in a box as the woman wouldn't drop her price from £5 ( and what would I do with 100 postcards anyway? although they looked brilliant)
I also didn't buy a big basket for holding kindling wood for the wood-burner. It was priced up at £6 and the wooden trug we are using will do until I find something bigger but cheaper. ( SO cross that we left the perfect kindling basket at the smallholding!)
And I didn't buy a "vintage" wooden box for holding craft stuff as it was also priced at £5.
What I did buy was a Hosta...........Purple flowers (of course - it dawned on me as I looked at them)
for the purple bed and these
On the way home I called in at the Garden Centre for compost and spotted some dark purple Salvia bedding plants to fill the gaps in my purple bed and also splashed out on a tray of mixed cut and come again salad leaves to get the half water-butt beds off to an quick start.
Plenty of jobs to do in the garden now.......... and as I'm here on my own I'd better get on with it.
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Sue
08 May 2017
The Leaking Water Barrel
A water butt that leaks all down the side where the seam had split is useless for water BUT Col had a brain-wave and with a rest in between each part of the job he cut the barrel in half, found and cut a piece of plywood for each end, bolted the bits on and look what we have now.
Just right for cut and come again lettuce plants and other salad leaves - not far from the back door. Brilliant, and it will free up space for other things in the veg. beds in the garden.
It turns out that "the nasty looking vine" ( mentioned the other day as one of the things on the pergola thingy,) is actually a hop. Mrs F said it should have been a golden leaf variety but wasn't. So it will be kept as I love the smell of dried hops.........there could be a plan for hop pillows and we have an idea for giving it something to climb over that's better than just a post.
During yesterday morning Col turned really cold and shivery, which with him is always a bad sign, and sure enough he was running a high temperature. So a phone call to the oncology ward and he is now in hospital for a few days so they can give intravenous anti-biotics.
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Sue
It turns out that "the nasty looking vine" ( mentioned the other day as one of the things on the pergola thingy,) is actually a hop. Mrs F said it should have been a golden leaf variety but wasn't. So it will be kept as I love the smell of dried hops.........there could be a plan for hop pillows and we have an idea for giving it something to climb over that's better than just a post.
During yesterday morning Col turned really cold and shivery, which with him is always a bad sign, and sure enough he was running a high temperature. So a phone call to the oncology ward and he is now in hospital for a few days so they can give intravenous anti-biotics.
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Sue
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