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Friday, 27 June 2025

Cloudy.

Whilst some parts of the UK have been under an official heatwave warning here it has been warm but cloudy with steady rain by the end of the afternoon.
I've got so fed up with not doing much outside that today I just got on with things the first being shield painting using one of the paint tins rescued from the dump. There was about a third of a tin of a light sage green paint. The colour that seems to be still very popular for window frames and doors though being a traditionalist I prefer white. I used it to paint one of the large shields and eight of the smaller ones. Being water based it dried quickly and I got three coats done over the afternoon.
I did also finish taking up my study curtains so that's another job done.
 
The other thing I got on with was cutting back in the front garden. Even though it hadn't quite lost all its lavender coloured flowers I cut down the large geranium and discovered it is in fact three plants. I shall dig up at least one when the ground is less dry and relocate it at the zoo. 
I will also make sure to put in more supports next year so that it doesn't flop over everything else. I find the metal bow supports work well and have ordered more of the 100cm ones which should arrive any day. I was able to find a UK firm rather than going through Amzn which I would rather not shop with. And it was a few pounds cheaper even with a the delivery charge.

Below is half-way through the job though in the end I decided to take the whole lot down. There is a lot of bare earth now in that bed but at least I have a better view of the blue hydrangea.

Peter was out manning the RNLI shop this morning and afterwards he met up with Dave to discuss rowing club stuff. As I had run out of frozen cauliflower one of my daily vegetables, I walked down to the shop to see what they had. No frozen cauli which I had expected but I got a fresh one instead and possibly some ice-cream. I also wanted to see how my foot felt after walking all that way and so far so good.

1 comment:

WendyAnn said...

Possibly ?!! Hope your foot feels better.
Wendy (Wales)