I know we needed the rain, I don't know about you - but I am getting a little fed up of it now! Typically I have 2 weeks off work and it looks like it will be raining virtually every one of those days.
I have managed sometime at the Lottie this week, dodged the showers sometimes, been caught in down pours often and sat in the shed with a mug of coffee during some thunder storms - which was a tad scary! Mr Milly is fed up now with all the muddy washing this week as I seem to have brought home a good part of the Lottie clinging to my clothes everyday!
Anyway - I had a plan of what I wanted to achieve and have worked hard this week, by Friday though the new Plot 96 was looking a complete bomb site and I had to keep reminding myself that it is often this way to achieve the end result.
This week I have taken down the tatty pallet compost bins, cleared a corner of the plot, removing brambles along the way, laid weed membrane and wood chips, constructed a new compost bin with the best of the pallets and then dug all of the partially composted material from the old bins and moved it into the new bin. Finally a cage to protect the peas has been made and what a difference this has made to Plot 96 - which is now looking heaps better!
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| Plot 96 In February 2012 |
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| Tatty compost bins |
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| New tidy Compost area |
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| Plot 96 in April 2012 |
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| Pea Cage with little pea plants starting to appear |
On Saturday I had a Lottie free day and we travelled to Kent to spend the day with My Girl. It was lovely to see her and apart from her recently broken rib (as I have said often, she is the most accident prone creature!) she is looking healthy, well and happy - which is all you can wish for really.
We went into Canterbury for a little retail therapy and our lovely daughter cost me a fortune! We did have fun though. We haven't been into Canterbury before and what a lovely town it is, next time we visit we are going to do the Cathedral tour. I was a little shocked at the price of tickets for the Cathedral - £9.50 for an adult, I hope it is worth that amount of money!
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| Cathedral Gate |
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| A glimpse of the Cathedral |
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| Mr Milly and My Girl |
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| Look at that - our 2 favourite shops right next to each other! How handy :) |
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| My Girl and Me |
I hope you had a good weekend and haven't been washed away!
Alison x
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