Beautiful days

Spring is well and truly here, isn't the weather just fab? We had such a lovely weekend just pottering around in the garden, life is good. I spent a good part of the weekend tidying in the garden, the greenhouse got blitzed, it still had the remains of christmas wreath making lying around in it! I had so many pots with lilies and dahlias from last summer starting to show signs of life so I repotted them in fresh compost, fingers crossed they bloom this year.

Gregg was getting on with the edging down the drive so hopefully we will soon be able to get some gravel delivered and get sowing some grass seed, at last we will have a presentable front garden instead of a mud bath!

We also headed up to Glenshee Pottery, Diana was opening on Sunday for the season. As usual the place was looking lovely, full of all her gorgeous pottery and lots of other finds. Hopefully the good weather will be bringing the tourists north and she'll have a busy start to the season. If you are up this way do pop in, you'll get a cuppa and some home made shortbread, they are open 7 days a week from 10am - 5pm, just off the A93.
Today, I popped down to the village to post a couple of parcels, I enjoy going to the post office as I generally always bump into someone I know. The service is dreadfully slow but I would be really sad if it was one of the rural post offices that is likely to be shut down. It is always busy, has a great selection of cards and has recently opened up a small gallery through the back. I presume this is another way for the post master to make a living from it so lets hope it works. Is this happening to your rural post office - is it likely to be closed?

I also popped into our fab hardware store, they have everything and anything, a real Aladins cave of goodies, shops like these are sadly few and far between nowadays so we are very lucky still to have one in the village. I went in looking for seed potatoes, red onion sets and a little tin of red paint. They didn't have any red onion sets but had the other two things I was looking for - I'll show you what the red paint was for in my next post hopefully!

I came home all excited and desperate to know what to do with the seed potatoes, I bought early Duke of Yorks I think, I should have paid more attention! So, I made myself a big mug of coffee, took myself out onto the bench in the sun and read my two favourite books at the moment, Sarah Ravens "The Great Vegetable Plot" and "A Greener Life" by Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott. I think between the two books I should be well prepared for what lies ahead in the veggie plot over the next few months. I really am looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into it all and writing about our progress.
Well it's far too nice a day to be stuck inside on the computer so I'm off outside to sit and do some work - hope you are all enjoying the great weather too.

L x