Sizzler!

Oh when you edit a photo and then the date goes wrong and then you write a long entry and then it won't upload because it thinks it's a duplicate!  The joys.

Another joy was waking up about 4 and realising that no bedside lights meant the RCD had tripped, again.  So nothing for it but to get up, dressing gowned and up the step ladder to re-set.  I phoned the sparkie yesterday so hopefully it will be fixed soon.  Later I dozed listening to 'Today', woke with a start at 7.20 and then relaxed as I remembered it was Saturday.  Bliss!

Once up completed quite a few tasks: usual Saturday domestics, Margiotta, strained and bottled my rhubarb and ginger gin, researched Waverley excursions, chatted to a couple of neighbours, dead headed roses (my brown bin smells amazing), picked sweet peas, set up my new Garmin, killed slugs, shredded last year's sticks  (till the shredder jammed) and put the bark on the front, earthed up tatties, fed roses, cut the grass.  

And then I sat in the garden as though I was self isolating - I'm not.  The blue skies of Thursday had returned but it was a tad breezy, well quite strong gusts actually which tore at my sewing. I'm not good at doing nothing so I sewed, walked round the garden, sewed, dead headed a few flowers, sewed.  My new, young (younger than my sons) neighbour as well as being a master brewer is also a DIY person and he was replacing their bathroom.  Much banging and sawing and clanging but not unpleasant. And perhaps in days to come he might prove useful!! I kept R4 on low and then later returned to Stuart Macbride. 

I'd decided I was going to something I've never done all the time I've been here - a BBQ for once, hence the rip to Margiotta. The strong breeze made it a tad smoky but mid afternoon I cooked chicken and sausages and prawn skewers and went the whole hog with banana and chocolate and marshmallows. the latter was perhaps a step too far.  More lying down was required.  That did me for the day.  It was very enjoyable.  I may repeat the process.

By 7.30 it was getting almost chilly out the back so I repaired to front to watch 'Beck'.  K had surprised me by going out, though she did leave the front doors open. 

The extra is my new rose Eustacia Vye which I bought to replace the dead, as I thought, Cocker's Northern Lights.  Both are now flowering!

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