Woke up with a bit of headache but got up as some of the family were going with Simon and Melody to a car boot sale at Murton. Melody arrived and loaded up the few bits and bobs we'd gathered together, and our eldest went in the car with Melody, whilst Gill, Simon and Simon and Melody's son cycled up. I stayed at home with our youngest.
I got my quiet shredder out and mangled-up all the cherry twigs I pruned off yesterday, depositing them into a builder's bag which was easy to haul down the garden. This will make a good few layers of woody, carbon-rich material for my heaps. My headache disappeared.
I came in for 11am and watched Country Tracks whilst preparing apples for drying. I lit the stove and did some washing up. Gill came back and there were tales of assorted sales. One of my parcels of NewScientists had been bought... by Simon and Melody!!!
During the afternoon I got out my Scheppach rotary soil sifter and put several sacks of compost through it, and this made 10 carrier bags of lovely fine riddled compost, a very large sack of medium lumps (maybe 30kg?) and 2 buckets worth of sticks, peach stones, avocado stones and skin, and other bits destined to be a woody layer in a working heap. Oh, and loads of bits of plastic from wrapped cucumbers, fruit labels and glue strips. I worked til 7pm in the garden, loved it, just loved it.
Gill told me to come in then, and sit and have tea whilst watching Countryfile. Later, I researched how I'm going to get to my Uncle's funeral in the depths of Norfolk the week after next. I'll need to make it a day trip... I reckon a train to Peterborough and a bus from there.
I got my quiet shredder out and mangled-up all the cherry twigs I pruned off yesterday, depositing them into a builder's bag which was easy to haul down the garden. This will make a good few layers of woody, carbon-rich material for my heaps. My headache disappeared.
I came in for 11am and watched Country Tracks whilst preparing apples for drying. I lit the stove and did some washing up. Gill came back and there were tales of assorted sales. One of my parcels of NewScientists had been bought... by Simon and Melody!!!
During the afternoon I got out my Scheppach rotary soil sifter and put several sacks of compost through it, and this made 10 carrier bags of lovely fine riddled compost, a very large sack of medium lumps (maybe 30kg?) and 2 buckets worth of sticks, peach stones, avocado stones and skin, and other bits destined to be a woody layer in a working heap. Oh, and loads of bits of plastic from wrapped cucumbers, fruit labels and glue strips. I worked til 7pm in the garden, loved it, just loved it.
Gill told me to come in then, and sit and have tea whilst watching Countryfile. Later, I researched how I'm going to get to my Uncle's funeral in the depths of Norfolk the week after next. I'll need to make it a day trip... I reckon a train to Peterborough and a bus from there.
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