Meanwhile

 I think ive near gardened myself to death in the last week...lol  but theres a method in my madness , food production must be improved , still loads of stuff still to go in 'my jewel corn has generated a treat , squash is all peeking,  a way to go with my miscellaneous tomatoes that have barely grown but what the hell ,need to source some cucumber plans as mine all just upped and died the other day  , which is a bit weird .  Though i wonder why im bothering with our daft arsed government wanting  to practice shading the sun , thats going to be good for the endless solar farms isnt it? 

In the real world however we have to elect a new Mayor on Thursday, 80 thousand pounds to do exactly what ? totally baffling i cant see why we need one they serve no purpose just another imaginary job dreamed up by the government . As for the candidates a more dubious scrofulous bunch ive never seen , i will vote , Labour seem to have the biggest budget theyre all over Facebook singing the praises of their candidate, all i will say is that i wont be voting Reform ye gods im not that desperate   

Easter

 Well i cant say weve done anything exciting , merely cleaned out a couple of sheds that himself had filled with mountains of crap , real crap not even useful crap , daughter came to lend a hand on her new scooter . Himself is so proud one of them is on 2 wheels . I know i hoard stuff but why would you fill a shed with packaging and boxes?  broken chairs and weird mechanical stuff you have no idea what it is . We found a pile of stuff belonging to useful son , he left over 5 years ago !!  Himself was trying to weasel it back into another shed but he was hounded into  taking it to his sons garage . Daughter was none to pleased when i pointed out she needed to take her fish tank home , shes been left 5 years as well .

Went to a Metheringham car boot but didnt buy much , at all , a pyrex bowl that doesnt fit in the microwave , so it can go back to the boot sale and a Beatrix Potter ornament that i have no idea why i bought it ? Dont know anybody who likes them either..lol Today i went to a secret jumble at Holland Fen its really the bog end of nowhere but we saw a sign last week , it was very cheap and i came home with a plush Gruffalo, 4 books and a tiny ornament for the dolls house . I spent £2 , the Gruffalo is smiling at me from the shelf . So apart from endless garden pottering thats my very boring holiday weekend , just the way i like it 

Rainy Day Chores

 I do love a rainy day and i can put my feet up and visit my filthy shit pit of a house , sort the dry washing yurt out , put all the houseplants and seeds out in the rain , fetch them in again, realise the windows are filthy , need to clean  the filth from where all the houseplants lurk in fact vanish up my own bottom while listening to my backlog of you tube prepper videos , catching up on days of emails . Oh im also making pizza breads for the freezer with dried up sourdough french sticks and weird cheese portions from army ration packs i happen to have a carrier bag full of them from the tin factory , as you do . The sourdough breadsticks were from the community larder , i came home with a load because nobody else takes them the lovely lady also gave me a bag full of beef dried rice in  packets  because they are out of date and they cant sell them or pop them in foodbank parcels , go figure they are good for at least 2 years after the sell buy date. this is becoming a feature of life anything they cant get rid of seems to end up with me ..lol  though himself did say hes starting to look like a cabbage i ended up with a fridge full last week .

The jumbles and carboots are proving excellent at the moment , i only bought 20 books this week..lol well the Salman favourite  recipe booklets , which ive flicked through and could always ebay . Got the unicorn of my dolly family a Teeny Weeny Tiny Tears  shes currently awaiting a spa day if you want to shock yourself look on ebay at what they are fetching these days !!  Still on my unicorn list is a ginger beardy Action Man and a stripy jumpered Jacko the Monkey ...one day maybe , I picked up loads of garden stuff i needed as well and im still spending my xmas money .

Its himselfs birthday today and daughter has taken him out somewhere , i do think its more of a treat for me than anything , the silence is wonderful 

I Have A Problem

 My name is Kate and i have an addiction , yep i admit it im a feral book buyer and a hoarder , i did two jumbles and a car boot sale this week .  The first jumble i bought a whole dustbin bag of posh fabric , a couple of books a big vase for daughter more crystal knobs that once again dont fit what i wanted them for, brackets for another little job and a stack of docraft paper pads for crafting  all with change for £5 . But then we tracked down to Branston Booths one of the best jumbles in our little universe. I admit it i went a little mad you see all books were 10p  , so i could hardly walk they had so many ,  i have a mountain of crime thrillers , more cookbooks and a gorgeous 1850 wildflower book should keep me going till next Spring..lol  also got a couple of plants and a few practical bits and bobs . Himself was feeling a bit unwell so i didnt stay for the auction , which looked rather good . But to make matters worse i went to Metheringham Car boot and struck it lucky there was a gentleman flogging loads of 1930s books and among them was a stack of cookbooks and a book on the buildings destroyed in the London Blitz  which im currently reading. 

This week im only going to a secret Jumble at Billinghay Church Hall 9am ,  it usually has schizophrenic pricing  and the weirdest things, there is a cat one in Lincoln as well but im going to be good and only go to one. I promise to try and not buy any more books .

Neighbours

 So we had a bit of an incident yesterday with himself , lovely sunny day but hes been doing an awful lot of painkillers of late hes not sleeping and to say hes on full on grouch mode is an understatement . Anyway the new mcmansion over the road is sort of furnished now, we think its going to be the showhouse and theres been folks there all weekend , apart from the floodlights on all night , no problems other than vehicles being parked in dumb places . Anyway yesterday was a glorious sunny afternoon and id parked himself in his van on the grass with a trail of plastic garden chairs towards the house . im pottering around in the garden and i noticed what appeared to be someone hiding behind the front hedge , didnt think much about it , i thought it was someone waiting for their dog to have a crap , next thing theres a drone buzzing our houses over and over , which because we have a military air exclusion zone is a no no. so i went in .  Next thing i hear himself shouting , hed used a plastic chair as a walker and collared the bloke behind the hedge . Now he shouts because of his hearing , but Essex boy with the turkey teeth was right in his face . Hed asked Mr hide in the hedge if he had a drone licence and got the yeah of course i have and himself was informing him he will be reporting him to the Civil Aviation Authority because this is an area where drones are banned. hed asked Mr Turkey Teeth for his name and licence number and got told to fuck off . I thought it was going quite well as himself hadnt head butted him.  In potters himself and hes promptly on the phone to the police , giving the vehicle registration number and a description , its an answer phone so they wont do a lot . Then he dropped the bombshell that i hadnt considered , this creepy so and so was filming kids and teenagers sunbathing going over those gardens over and over again ....im just hoping he isnt the new neighbour and was just someone from the estate agents . Because later we had a visit from a neighbour asking about what was going on , who promptly said he wont have that drone very long if hes living here  

Fire

 Well thats the annual fire down on the veg patch over and done with , just the ashes to spread and a full box of chicken manure fertilizer to throw around then its full on planting time , im always later than some people getting stuff in , but its open and very windy here so it makes sense . going to pop my sweetcorn and squash in today in pots because joys of the countryside the mice eat everything you direct sow ..lol ive cauliflower and loads of broadbeans awaiting planting and the spuds are waiting patiently . Thats this weeks garden plans 

Anyway what else is going on in the world , it would seem the farmers are planning a grain movement strike ?  could be interesting or maybe not , will all the old grannies be out scooping up all the bread just in case , I shouldnt think the supermarkets will miss a chance to ram their prices up yet again and we can live without bread also i can always hope theres a shortage of Mr Kipling products , another branded product that seems to have become inedible even for himself . On the subject of brands whats going on with Heinz , did they finally realise that they had priced themselves out of most folks shopping baskets? I had got to where the only Heinz product i wasted my money on was salad cream , everything else there were equally as good own label products , now they seem to be on offer everywhere B&N has been doing the curry beans at two for £1.50 so I have a great load stocked up , the big kids love them , they also had cheap HP sauce which is himselfs favourite. 

This week we have to start the application process for Universal Credit wish us luck im really hoping its as seamless as they claim , but if not i can manage on what we have in stock and whats a few threatening letters after all these years , just have to remember to order a few more cases of cat food , then im done, the end of an era i will not have another penny from anywhere till i collect my pension in five years. Under universal credit everything goes to the male head of the household ...joy