Village life

 Once a month our village has an artisan market, we completely forgot it was on, not so busy here at 9.30am, but very busy through the day. So nice to see so many different stalls, our butcher set up a BBQ and the tap house had seats outside as did the pub at the other end. We did get a few bits, chutney, marmalade and local honey.

My sweet-peas and roses are starting to bloom, along with my fleabane daisies, add a couple acer leaves, it's only a small posy, it's a promise of more to come. I am hoping to have a summer of sweet peas and daises. 

Like alot of husbands mine is a tech geek, he has our washing machine apt on his phone, we have Alexa who turns on plugs, lights and our bedroom fan, at first I was not sure, but it is handy to be able to control things by your voice or phone. We have always had separate calanders, I prefer seeing mine, old fashioned hung on the wall, where I can glance every day, hubby uses the Google calender on his phone. So when he saw this electronic display calendar which links to your phone, he was hooked, to be honest I am happy to use my phone apt, it's handy to have it with me, but I am extremely happy to have a display as well. We each have a diary, as does the house and a separate birthday list all colour coded. 

Last year I subscribed to Kitchen Garden magazine, it's primarily about growing fruit and veg, whilst I did not use all the free seeds, there were so many packs I did use, I passed the rest onto a local school. I enjoyed reading the monthly tips, but decided one year was enough, I received an email with the offer below, which is so good, so from June I will receive my monthly magazine and seeds.

I've not been reading too much, this is a clever book, you know what is happening, you know who did it, until you don't, a great twist at the end. Book 40 read this year.

This weekend was our local gardener plant sale, I got loads of plants from him last year, they are all re-growing again, I did not go, I don't have much space in my flower beds, he raises monies for a local charity. I still have too many plants and will start sharing them locally.

Sunday we had Molly and Will, mummy took George to a party, afterwards George and Molly played outside, I keep suntan lotion here, and they both know they need to wear it. I do love to hear laughter in our home.

It's been a quiet few days, we rarely go anywhere at weekends, hubby was supposed to go to a veterans meeting, but at the last moment decided to stay at home, it was in Windsor, he has changed the hotel booking, now going in June, we will have a couple of days away together. 

We have a busy week ahead, most of the work being done by others, I'm excited to get things done and finished, we have no big plans for the rest of the year.