What an amazing day.
April 25, 2020Today has been a bit slow but we have achieved things. Let’s start at the end. Tet and I are both out at concerts. Well OK in at concerts. The band he was due to see live tonight are playing online, and upstairs. I am watching Sabaton downstairs. That’s a proper Saturday night. Very reasonable bar prices at this venue and a great selection. I think I may be seeing another band here tomorrow night. The people sitting in front of me are a bit annoying at times, but that happens everywhere, and I can at least try moving either me of the cats. Yes my cats like Sabaton too.
We started the day with a cooked breakfast, the meat subscription I found does really nice bacon, not too salty, not bad for pot luck. Their sausages are good too. It’s not something we can do often but that just makes it nicer when we can. We then just sat for a while, it’s not something we do often and again, it was fun and I progressed my knitting. When I saw that we were going to get stuck at home I decided to knit a scarf hood cape thing. It’s a large conical tube all simple knitting but on small needles and in a fine wool. I am a very slow knitter but I am hoping I may get to wear it this winter.
Having rested we then had another look at the utility room light. It turned out the fitting itself had failed so we have now replaced the florescent tube with an LED one. Now we can see when we take Fenrir outnst night. I have good night vision so it wasn’t too bad for me but Tet does the last toilet break at night and has poor night vision, so it was actually pretty dangerous. Even using some of our camping lanterns.
After that we moved on to the garden. Earlier in the year a friend came and helped me plant 70 trees. They will form abother section of hedge along the side of the orchard. They are all traditional English hedgerow trees, and several also provide foraging which I like a lot. As they are small and this has been the driest April we need to water them. As you can imagine that is quite a task, but with two of us it isn’t too bad and I can get the raised beds watered at the same time.
Our rhubarb is going crazy, so tomorrow and for the next few days there will be rhubarb crumble. I would have made more fool but I can’t get cream atm. So the next batch I harvest will become a rhubarb cake. We also have lots of spinach and radishes. I love fresh radishes, so no hardship dealing with those.
I did miss my exercise group because of all this, I hope they will forgive me. All in all I think today was a win. There are things I wanted to do that didn’t happen, but that’s pretty normal, maybe I will get to them tomorrow.