Thursday 21st July 11

A bit of a lie in for me today, and then a day writing and dealing with phone enquiries.  I finished writing up my blog posts for my weekend in Hampshire.  I chatted to an organiser from the Sheffield Green Party Conference, where I've been booked to do some entertainment, but it looks like there might not be many (or any!) children to entertain, and a chap from Basingstoke about a possible gig in September.  I spoke to an agent who'd booked me last year but not paid me what was agreed.

Gill spent a long time doing the accounts, and going through things with me to check she was writing them up correctly.

I went out in the garden quite late on and did some weeding in the pond-to-be area and got my fix of outdoors.

I made my own tea, some broad beans and onion, pepper and mushroom, with a salad made of home grown cucumber, tomato and some waste olives.  It was lovely!

In the evening I had some lovely chats with assorted friends.  I feel very lucky to have my friends.

Wednesday 28th July 10

Spent nearly all of the day looking through this blog from July to April working out how much compost has been sold down at Country Fresh, to visitors to the house and stuff I've delivered. This works out at just under £200, my best year ever for compost sales. It's not much, but I don't do it for the money, that's just a nice extra.

So, Gill did paperwork all day and I did computery stuff all day... until 6 when I finished, jumped up and down (gently, my ankle is still delicate) and went to do some work in the garden.

We are now in a position to do our tax returns, which is really good as most years we leave it to the last minute. This year will be less stressful.

The highlights of the day were a nice chat with my Aunty Lizzy on the phone in the evening and a chat with a local person who'd got my details from Country Fresh, and wanted to get some advice about composting. I spent about 20 minutes on the phone with her and she was very happy with the outcome. I also enjoyed my tea, which was noodles, beans and nuts, with veg of course, sounds like a weird combination, well it was and it was delicious!