Muffins for Mum

Miss L made breakfast for H and brought it up to bed for her. I did not even get a brew. Miss L made some Strawberry muffins to go with breakfast and by all accounts they where lovely. We had a nice time together. H wanted to go to Lichfield to see the Cathedral and Darwin's garden. The sun was warm but he wind cold. We wrapped up warm and walked about the town looking at the building. The Cathedral is being restored. The stone masons had set up their workshops so as folks can see them at work. However Sunday is a day of rest. There are finished blocks of stone round the yard. They are really smart, some in red sandstone and some in what looks like Portland stone which is white. H got her sit down down in Erasmus's garden and took in the vista. Click HERE for the Erasmus Darwin House website. We got peckish and found somewhere to get a bite. H wanted to go to a particular garden centre near Lichfield which we did. It is an independent. They had the back of the place set up as different areas as veg plots. They even had a couple of chicken runs set up with few chooks scratching about. H and Miss L cooed or should that be clucked over the chooks. Meanwhile I bought a bag of wild bird seed and a Rhubarb plant. H was given the offer of a Primula in a pot which she took up.

When we got home I had a few little jobs to do. I potted up the Rhubarb, watered it in and set it one side on the shelf in the greenhouse. I had bought a four breeze blocks and a paving slab the previous day. I set up two blocks, one above the other and set the paving slab on top to make a platform. This I set up in the space between the shed and the greenhouse. I put the water butt, which I rescued from the lottie, on the platform and redirected the rainwater downspout from the shed roof into the water butt. To finish it off I put the lid on. The water butt, when full, will feed the Tomatoes in the greenhouse. It only took half an hour but it is another job done and another step along the way.

Some day soon I must start planting seeds in earnest but I have no where warm to put the seed trays.