Monday 30th March
Eight o'clock start and I really didn't want to wake up this morning. I'd been in and out of sleep from seven but eventually the call of the coffee took over. The fire was out but hadn't burnt through so that was going to be my starter for tonight. The sun was up, morning had definitely broken so after my coffee I settled for toast and cheese triangles again, I'm saving the remaining egg and I'll look out for my neighbour to see if the chicks have been laying and she has some to spare.
I read for a while and made a couple of phone calls and I was called an angel by my long time friend int he UK. I phoned up to see how she was and she was grateful for the call and wanted to vent I think. Her boiler had packed up and this is the friend that will not use technology and her second problem was that her garage was supposed to pick up her car this morning for a service and MOT so I updated her that the UK had extended MOT's for six months, according to the internet. She asked me if it was true and I said that as far as I knew it was...and that's when she called me an angel and I made her promise yet again to get the internet going. So with her waiting on for two calls, one from the gas man and the second from the non-active garage, I made the call brief.
I headed out and my mission was to get the lawn mower out and see if it would fire...and it did...first time and then petered out. I left if for ten minutes, tried it again and that was it, it was running...well. I checked out the strimmers while I was waiting for the mower and the new one didn't need the chord changing and the old one turned on and I had to bang it to turn off. So now the mower was going I got it down to the garden and managed to cut the grass down to the mulberry tree. It was hard going, it was very damp still so I was emptying the catcher fairly frequently and then, the clouds rolled over and it started to rain so I had every excuse to pack my toys away for another day. It stopped again so I managed to do another job, the old tree trunk nest that the tits had used last year I moved on top of the little terrace wall but put on old stainless dish on the bottom of it and another enamel dish on the top to stop the rain. Let's see if we attract anything. I took one of the benches from the little house, put it on the terrace and gave it a clean. I've had quite an active day but it soon came to a halt, there was a squall, lashing rain and horrendous wind so I locked up outside and lit the fire and it's doing what it should...warming up the house.
I didn't make Djebel today, I only needed eggs since I didn't see my lady so it will be saved for another day. LN....An angel...that's a first....LN
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