Evil weevils

The rotters

Today was lovely and sunny but instead of sitting back and admiring the Springtime flowers I had to pick loads of nasty vine weevil grubs out of all my plant pots. It was disgusting. They had to be squished. I soon discovered that they are full of milky liquid that is quite likely to splat all over you. The weevils revenge!

Other bad things that happened today:
*Realised loads of my daffs and tulips are blind (won't produce any flowers).
*Emptied a stinking vase of old water out and managed to splash my jumper. Dirty pond smell all over me.
*Discovered the black cat has been in and sprayed all over the spare room and my paper lantern - so no chance of being able to save that from the bin.

The trouble with balls

An annoying suitor

This sneaky cat has been coming in, making a nuisance of himself and spraying EVERYWHERE! Poor Abs even gets woken up at 4am every night as he yeowls outside her bedroom window. We think he is courting Miss Marple. I need to find his owners and get them to snip his balls off.

A pain in the pittosporum

The beast...

...is tamed

Today I tackled this shrub. It'd been taking over the garden for far too long. It was bothering me so it was time to dig it up. But the bugger did not want to budge. It took two hours - and four people to get rid of it. Now I just need to re-turf and and plant some stuff in the gap.

In all, I spent seven hours working out in the garden. Loved it. Saw lots of worms too, so that's good.

A visual assault

Argh! This is a carpet!

Bridport bargains

A good haul

Honestly, you just couldn't get this kind of value in Homebase. I went to the stall of the slightly mad woman at Bridport Market and got these twenty-four beautiful plants for only £9.50. I wanted more but we couldn't fit them in the car.

Nice one Gordon!

1950's Russell

Finally got to the Gordon Russell Museum in Broadway and saw loads of lovely things designed by the man who was determined to make stylish furniture affordable to all. I think he would have liked the fact that I got one of his sideboards for £35 off Ebay. He wanted to make good quality items that could be passed down through families. Most mass produced things nowadays aren't beautifully crafted like Russell's furniture is. I can't see any of our Ikea stuff being coveted by future generations. It's definitely not well-crafted because I put it together myself. Badly.

Lucy

Fell in love in the Cotswolds.