Another good day. Got a lot done. Up early and got busy outside the front to tidy up a bit, chainsawing a pallet and some recently acquired branches. Also started stacking a new next-to-the-front door pile.
Gill went to the library with our eldest and I got a message from Nick, who wanted to come and pick up some riddled compost for his gardening work. There was also talk of growing mushrooms on logs.
So he arrived just in time for a hommous sandwich and then we went down the garden and he picked up about 6 carrier bags of riddled compost. He's bought a load of inoculated dowels from Adrian at Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms, of a native Yorkshire Oyster mushroom, so I gave him two recently felled Ash logs which I hope will make a good host. I think he's going to give me one of them back with dowels in it. I will supply him with more logs as and when they become available!
So he left at 2pm and I got on with more work, digging out a compost heap into sacks, and then doing the same with a builder's bag, which I need to have empty as another compost heap needs turning/emptying as there's signs of life in the base, and I want them not to get too settled!
I came in as it got dark and put the tomato soup on the stove. Gill made toasties. This evening this meal tasted just perfect... the boys both enjoyed the soup and complemented me on it. I did a few apples still looking fine from the garden which had just been left in the preserving pan in the conservatory, put them for drying, and then later, got 5 free onions and a large carrier bag full of tomatoes and made a preserving pan nearly full of tomato and onion 'base'... which I think we'll freeze most of. It can be used for soup, pasta sauce, nutloaves, all sorts. This is the first time I've made so much, but it's because of the large number of over-ripe tomatoes thrown out by Freshways.
So, a productive day. But a late finish, just after 3am. This is when I'm at my best, though.
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