Gracie’s Life Experiment

This week we’ve both been off work and it’s been a bit like having a holiday at home.  Only problem was the awful weather.  It’s been cold and rainy all week long.  Today we woke up and there was bright sunshine – hurray!  We decided to do a bit of tidying up of the garden.  Hubby did the weeding and I planted out some flowers.  We got 3 trays for £9 at B&Q (a tad expensive but they’re a good size).  The season has been so strange, we started Spring in late January (all the bulbs came up early) then it got really hot, then cold and snowed in April then rainy.  The seeds I planted out have grown really slowly this year and have only just got to the stage where they’re coming out of the large trays into the individual tray pots.  Looks like it’ll be at least a month before they’re a decent size to plant out.  Hopefully this means we’ll have a nice extended Summer/Autumn.  We got some geraniums and petunias and now about 1/2 the garden beds are looking nice.  We already had a few busy lizzies out from after Easter (even these haven’t bushed out yet).

Summary of the day:  Woke up at 5.30am and did the washing up from last night’s dinner party, Went back to sleep at 10, Woke up a second time at 11.30, Had leftovers for lunch, Enjoyed gardening in the afternoon, Did the crossword/sudoku, Watched Dr Who (aaargh, are you afraid of the dark?)