Glue and I

Tuesday, April 14

Feeling very guilty, we spent two hours touring very local woods' car parks this morning. Bacton, Pigney and then, Walcott front, whilst Sam cleaned the house. It seems like the safest thing to do. So many cars parked there. One young man drove up with a bike atop his car, stopped, strolled off to relieve himself, freed the bike and rode off into the woods. How many regulations was he breaking?

We did see our first Swallow at last, flying away from us off a roadside wire perch. 

Pam received this as a Christmas present, producing it late last week, requesting that it be assembled.

Glue and I are not easy companions. I keep looking at the kit. I even unpacked the pieces once. I hastily add that I have put together numerous flat packs in the past, including the sun lounge's sofa and two chairs. No glue involved in those though. 

Sellotape and Clingfilm are not my friends either.

Maybe to-morrow?

Manana.

The wind shifting to a northerly direction has meant cold nights and fewer moths. This morning was particularly poor, a few Orthosias and an Early Grey.

Yesterday was pleasing in that the catch was only 18 of 7 species, but one of them was a Dark Swordgrass, an Immigrant. 

We also added Double-striped Pug to the previous weekend's Brindled Pug. 

My garden plants photo folder is increasing. 

 

Alpine Tulips and Daphne

Name label has disappeared - bought from a specialist nursery near Inverness. Uncommon.

Cowslips

It's well time that my tomato plants were planted out into the soil floor of the lean-to greenhouse. Some have flowers coming and I had to side shoot them yesterday. The lean-to started life as next door's sunroom, taken down when they had an extension built. That was at least thirty years ago and it's on its third door. One side has also been re-built as the wood had rotted. I'd done my best with filler and pieces of wood but we had to call an expert in. I use canes to support the plants and can no longer get on a step to tie them up to the roof wires. Adrian did that this morning.

I used to renew the soil every three years or so, sterilise with Jeyes Fluid and insect bomb the house. I still do the bombing but Jeyes is no longer available nor desirable.

The back wall is painted white, has a trellis fitted and the cucumber plants grow up that. They don't seem to mind being in close proximity to tomatoes, although the books say that they are uneasy companions. 

One of our coffee morning group friends sent me photos of all the seed trays + plants that she is growing for the first time ever. All vegetables. And thoroughly enjoying it. I'd read that there has been an enormous increase in veg seed sales and in flour too. Enforced staying at home has brought back once common place activities such as baking. I wonder if it will continue beyond Covid19 isolation.

Meales, the Stalham garden centre/produce shop, have just phoned to confirm the order I made online and will deliver this afternoon.  They will also deliver bird food, Pam's ordered some sunflower hearts.

Justine shopped for us yesterday and Sam and Mark are going to Waitrose this afternoon. S and M are strict vegans who produce our weekly multi-seed brown loaf.