Operation and Preperations

Op was last Monday and has so far proved to be very successful. Totally different to last time, when my knee was double its current size and I needed 2 sticks to get about plus 12 sessions of physio! This time it is only slightly swollen, and I can do everything without any sticks and the physio reckons we will only need 3 sessions!



On the downside, because everything is so good I am having to be doubly careful not to overdo it!!

The house is more or less organised for hubsters party at the end of the month, I have stripped all the wood up the stairs, the front door and architrave and also the original exterior door frame of the front door. In particular, this wood, bearing in mind it must be about 150+ years old, has now been oiled and looks amazing, I am thrilled.

A new floor covering in both the downstairs loo and bathroom. Monday all the carpets get cleaned and also sometime in the next 2 weeks the oven will get done, (conveniently) I am not allowed to kneel!!!!

The garden is also coming on a pace this was it a month ago.



We have had very little rain till this week, when it has poured. Now as you can, see the plants growing!



I have planted the jungle area totally differently to how I have done it in the past and at first I wondered whether it was going to look as good, but since the rain, I think it will be fine!





My little friend has been rather poorly recently, he picked up kennel cough from somewhere, poor chap has been feeling sad for himself. He takes his tablets as if they where sweeties!! He is also currently not eating properly and is eating only half (if that) of what he is supposed to be having. The vets is having an open day tomorrow, where you can go along and talk to the specialists, etc. so we are going as they also have a photographer there and I would really like a super pic of him!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Sorry for the lack of posts, life has been exceedingly hectic.

Hubby is being made redundant, which he is thrilled about and has decided to throw a party at the end of the month, which requires an awful lot of work on my part to get the house and garden up to scratch all before Monday as I have to go into hospital for a second op on my knee, as it appears I now have a cyst, plus the specialist reckons the cartiledge has deteriorated further and he does not understand why so wants to take a look.

On the plus side T has passed her Art Foundation Degree, which we are all thrilled to bits about. Now begins the hard slog of finding some work as she does not want to go to Uni!

Hope you are all ok, will try and catch up next week when I am 'resting' lol!!!!!

On a hot day!

The jungle part is now more or less planted. I have changed the way I do it as well.



As you know I love the big leaved effect, well we still have that with the bananas but there are more flowers this year.











The Elephants ears I normally put in aren't here, because I found out they where poisonous to dogs, and the little darling does like to prune, he walks along and just nips the tops off plants! So they will be in a pot and probably go on top of the coal bunkers.



This is the most beautiful Ensete Tandarra Red it is so enormous now.



and of course my brugmansias are all beginning to flower, there scent in the evening is amazing and can be occasionally overpowering, but who cares with such beautiful flowers as these!



The veg beds are doing well, but for some unknown reason to me I can't seem to grow lettuce this year, I have tried new packets of seed and everything!!



Other than that, we have beetroot, spring onion, radish, French Beans, Broad Beans, Kale, Sprouts which are a cross with Kale, onions, peas, sweetcorn, gem squash, courgette, petite pain, strawberries, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumber,aubergine, peppers and chilli's. Not bad for a small plot huh!!



Then at the bottom , my lush green lawn and the pond which is swarming with dragonflies today. The gunnera is not what it was last year.



And finally the greenhouses, at least 4 different types of tomatoes, about 6 different chillis and lots of other bits and pieces!







not forgetting of course one hot dog!!