Be careful what you ask for

It has been a very busy week. I have been out every evening for one reason or another as well having to work. I looked in on the greenhouse. I had given it a good soaking the previous weekend. With the weather being cooler than of late the plants were just damp and they had also come on a lot.

Friday's outing was a bit good. H got a couple of tickets for Derby Assembly rooms to see John Cooper Clark supported by Frank Sidebottom [put your speakers on]. Cooper Clark is also called "the Bard of Salford". He is a punk poet and has a particular style of delivery. There are video clips on his website. His language can be a bit.........fruity. No such worries with Frank. We even had a sing-a-long with Frank, yes we did...you know we did. Thank you.
It is a Bank Holiday this weekend which is just as well as Saturday turned out to be a wash out. I woke to the rain slashing down. I have been saying that the lottie needs some rain. I might be being fussy but why can't it rain during the week. I did the trailer run in spite of the rain. I had a look round the lottie whilst I was there. I cut some Asparagus and Rhubarb. Everything else is coming on including the weeds. I yanked out the ones that were in flower. When I took the trailer back to the stables I went up to see the bees. They were buzzing in the hives but few were flying. Not surprising really. It is cool and still raining. H and Miss L are away tonight so with luck I should be able to the lottie tomorrow until such time as they get back and maybe open the hives. The rain eased off about lunch so I did a long overdue job.

I set about re-hanging the gate to the side if the house. I had to fit some pads to space the gate off the wall. It all went very well. I gave the hinges a dollop of grease which they might not have seen for the first twenty years of their life. I even fitted the loop for the hook onto the wall so I can have the gate held open. It is still raining a bit so what else is there to do?

There is always something to do. H and Miss L bought me a trip computer for my push bike for my birthday. I spent an hour fitting it, calibrating it and setting the base data. Now only if it were dry enough to go for spin. And that was pretty much it. An early Tea and a sit back to watch the early evening sun.