I met a friend for coffee on Wednesday morning at our village garden centre where we had a good catch up. I've known K since I moved to the village 17 years ago and two of our Daughters have been good friends since pre-school. She also worked at the village pre-school with me but has handed in her notice and leaves at the end of this term. They have converted a barn in their garden and she is going to do holiday lets as a new venture. After school L had a friend back for tea, the first time since February last year!
On Thursday I worked in the morning and then after lunch Hubby and I went over to Morrisons and I bought 16 plants for the garden and got another couple that were free as they were past their best! They had a really lovely selection especially of cottage garden plants. After dinner S set off up to her house in Bath for an overnight stop as Friday she was driving to Snowdon. She was meeting up with a facebook walking group to camp there and climb Snowdon on Saturday. It was a group of thirty, none of whom she had met before, but things like that don't bother her.
Obviously, as a consequence of L having to isolate our weekend has been quiet. On Saturday Hubby and I spent a lot of time in the garden tidying and finding homes for our new plants. Heard from S that it had taken them just over 3 hours to reach the top of Snowdon and they were lucky that it stayed dry as we've had yet more rain here most of the weekend.
Well I am off to make a fish pie for dinner and then it will be the serious business of football. Fingers crossed for a good result.
That does look like a good haul of plants. Aren't Mozzas generous with their freebies? We've got a huge black Phormium a lady gave to Jon last year, all it needed was a bit of water!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pain about the isolation, I bet you'll be relieved when all that is phased out.
My Dad's ashes are scattered on Snowdon! He was a mountaineer and loved the place! xxx
We got a great selection of plants and like you say the free ones just needed some water.
DeleteThe isolation is really tedious, I thought I was done with all the home learning!
How lovely about your Dad - S had a great time and took some amazing photos. Somewhere else added to my list of places to visit in the UK.
I hope L will be okay. We've recently had two separate bubbles having to isolate here, so I'm just hoping Lily's class can make it until the end of this week. X
ReplyDeleteThis is the first case the primary school has had and hopefully, as no-one has messaged me to say otherwise, I am assuming no one else has come down with it over the weekend. I stupidly thought I was done with the home learning!
DeleteWhat great plants you bought in Morrisons, Emma, and the damp soil will help them settle in nicely.
ReplyDeleteHow awful that one of the pupils has tested positive for Covid. The virus is still among us, we're still taking things very slowly and we've not been in a cafe or supermarket or restaurant since before March last year. Well, if we don't need to, why do it? I feel sorry for the hospitality industry, but I'm not going to go into crowded places and risk our health, not at our age.
Hope you and your family will all remain safe.
Margaret P
Yes, I was really pleased with all the plants we got.
DeleteLuckily, so far no other child has been affected, so hopefully it will just be the one positive case. I thought I was finished with the home learning but also it's hard for L having to stay at home for all these days.