Sunday 28th June

Week Fourteen

Well the Corona-virus News has stopped but no means mean the virus has left us.  

I'm in no hurry to eat out yet, I just want to see my family.  

Again not much done this week.  I pulled weeds after the rain.  I find it easier to pull the long rooted weeds from the damp soil.  I have been sorting rubbish out.  A friend has been coming a few times to help me with my husbands stuff.  Neil runs the vintage radio museum my husband repaired and bought the radios up to date with today's safety standards.

I been making a quilt, I will hopefully be able to show soon, it is a commission so I would  like to show the lady who is paying for it first.

*******************************************

#30dayswild

Sunday 21st June

Week Thirteen

Well shops are slowly opening again........ 

I did go into town Thursday because I had banking to do.  I know I can do that on line I'd rather not.

This morning I got up early in hope to catch the sunrise but the sky was far too cloudy, precisely at 5.02am sunrise though the birds started singing, it was amazing!  

This week Summer Solstice this morning, the Longest Day yesterday and 24th Mid-Summer's day.

21st June is Father Day in the UK

This photo is thirty-nine years old 

The man on the right is my maternal grandfather, he is the Father-in-Law of the man of the left.

The man on the left is my dad the Father-in-Law of the man in the centre.

The man in the centre is my late husband the baby is our eldest son.  

Today not only Father's Day but would have been our fortieth wedding anniversary

************************************

# 30 days wild

Sunday 14th June

Week Twelve

Well what has happened to the weather?

It can stop now.  

I am able to dig the sun baked soil to plant more plants.

I see the "non-essential" shops are opening Monday not sure I'll be hurrying into town soon though.  I have to go to do essential things like banking, I don't like banking on line, suppose I will have to one day......... Not everyone has a computer and for banking I do not have a computer and to pick up prescriptions.

I haven't done much for show and tell in patchwork or anything else for that matter, I am trying to get my head round as to whatever blogger has done to the blogs.  I am finding it quite difficult to edit. I have had to start my post again, I couldn't even copy and paste. 

#30days photos

Sunday 7th June

Week Eleven

What a week! 
Hot sunshine, had tea on the lawn with friends Monday and Tuesday.  then the weather changed!  Rain wind, had to find a jumper I put then away a few weeks back.  I haven't got much to show and I haven't done much only pulling up the the bindweed before it notices what I'm doing.....

Thank you for the lovely comments about my garden.  It is hard-work but we all know gardening is hard-work. 
Simone - I got fed-up with the hanging baskets dying on me.  I'd water them twice a-day and even bought special plant food but all to no avail the wind and sun got the better of me.  This year the idea struck I am growing seeds that hang and Val gave me the nasturtium so I though I would just put the pots in the hanging baskets and knew if they didn't like it in the hanging basket I could plant them in the garden without too much disturbance to the other plants.

Julie - my friend's garden is far nicer than mine.  Mind you she bought her house for the garden because the previous owners were gardeners and they also employed a gardener.  Val kept the gardener on if he wanted to stay but he only goes in once a week just the tidy round and and mow the grass.  Well that was up until earlier this year.  Val spent every all day in the garden since lockdown I can only manage an hour in mine!  BUT I do have a garden to aspire to and she kindly gives me plants from her garden.  I have a saying in my garden - the plants are only allowed in only if they can look after themselves!  In other words the plants have to be hardy.  But, yes, it may well turn into a new hobby!

Aril - thank you for the lovely comments.  As I previously said it is hard work and I can only manage an hour out there.

Here I mentioned about this

This is the rose I have for the memory of my husband who passed away last year.

Click to enlarge

This is my son's memory rose. 
Not too bad for living on neglect - don't ask......
Five children!  
He watered it with grey-water after he mopped the floor from the twin babies meals from around their high-chairs and a few prompts from me on exceptionally hot days
This one is called Remember Me.

I joined #30dayswild

My first weeks pictures

Sunday 31st May

Week Ten

Hello......  
What has everyone been up to?

The weeks and days pass........ to me they are normal except I have have more hours in each day, that's because I don't have to go anywhere.  No appointments, no meeting with friends for coffee in town.  I do meet with friends but they live five minutes away.  I've had picnics and just cuppas in the garden either at friends or they come to me.  Being on my own  if I don't see another human I will go crazy!

I'm sure Boris and friends have not really thought out what they say.  

We can visit in personal gardens but we cannot drink much because what goes in has to come out........ I'm desperate to see my grandchildren but cannot because I would have to spend the day without a drink and I do like a cuppa when I arrive after a long journey, but saying that I think we can use the bathroom as long as we wash our hand thoroughly and clean the facilities after use.

I live in a seaside town, we also have one of those large holiday camps too which isn't open but when it does I dread to think what may happen. Our public loos are not open and quite honestly you only use those in a dyer emergency!

I have been gardening but not much making indoors.  Yesterday I mowed the lawns.  I did it quite early, well early-ish before the the day got too hot.  I garden early too I don't do the heat very well.

I neglected my gardens for two years so a restoration is needed.  

I am amazed that things are flowering

I put this rose in the garden thirty years ago.  Every year it gets pruned to virtual ground level and every year it flowers!  I thought it was called Handel but not so so sure? 
If anyone can help please say.

I got fed up with the hanging basket.  Well I like hanging baskets but things never survive in mine despite of the twice a day watering.  So this year I decided to just put pots in and as the flowers die off I can just replace them.

This is my Christmas tree which seems to have growth.  
It came from here last year.

I will tell more about this rose another day........

Sunday 24th May

Week Nine

Well another week has passed with this lockdown.  Monday I had lunch with my friend Sue.  She brought her lunch with her and we sat together in the garden.  She lives in a flat.  Tuesday afternoon had a cuppa with Janice and Thursday elevenses with Denise all in the front garden but now avoiding the Laburnum Tree as the petals are shedding and the tree is turning green............

click on picture to enlarge

This week I have done other things as well as the usual gardening.  Decided the only way to keep the weeds at bay was to go out most days.  Yesterday morning I was out in the garden at 7am.  I even held a conversation to a friend who was going for a walk.  She wanted to see if her friend was OK.  When she got back we had coffee in the front garden.

On Tuesday was my friend Jane's birthday.  I made her a cake and made a shopping bag.  I forgot to photo the bag because of my eager to wrap the present.  The cake part is vegan.  

Recipe

I also gave another friend one of my Lap Quilts.

click on picture to enlarge

I was inspired by Helen Philips' quilts.  

There are thirty six different coloured fabric in the quilt.

I made cheesy chips with some left-over fish and chip supper I had.   I was inspired by this recipe but I only used cheese and ground pepper but I made a small amount of the sauce mix.  The cheesy chips were quite delicious and lovely for a treat!

This picture was emailed to me by a friend.  

I thought is quite funny!

click on picture to enlarge