Roundup 29/07/07
Mon, 30 July, 2007 – 2:58 pm
I didn't really do a roundup yesterday after my post on our trip to Scotland on Saturday, not much extra to say really. Whilst we were away my Dad heard back about his car that'd got caught in the floods last week. 10 week old car and it needs a new engine plus a few other bits at £7,000! That's more than I paid for my car! Of course the insurance covers it but of course it's an annoyance. We've been pretty lucky with floods where we are, as in not having any.
Once we got back from Scotland the sun truely came out on Saturday. After a morning of catching up on websites, feeds and forums, I decided it was finally time to put our new shed together, a cheapie job from B & Q for £25. It's not massive, just 5ft high and 3.5ft wide but it means we can keep the garden tools, mower etc. in there and make the place look a bit more tider. So Dave and I set to work and spent the afternoon putting this together, arguing over what was what, what went where etc. We finally got it finished and just need to put some stuff on it to stop it from rotting, just need to wait for a day and night when it isn't going to rain.
The garden's been suffering a little with all the rain and no sun. The chilli plants are still fighting and seem to be doing okay, but a lot of the salad plants have suffered and we've lost lettuces through the weather. However, as always, there are more seedlings growing so hopefully we can get these in the ground soon and growing. We've still got some, stronger, lettuces growing and haven't actually bought lettuce from the shop now since May time which is pretty good. The tomatoes are doing well too, 5 out of the 6 plants have survived the bad weather and they'd all starting to show tomatoes, one even has a tomato turning colour already.
That's about it really. I'm intending to join up with a local gym this week, maybe shell out for a personal trainer for a while to get me back on the fitness trail and hopefully getting fit and losing weight. Plus the weather is meant to be better this week so we may finally dust the bikes off and get out and about on them. I certainly need to stretch my legs somehow!
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