Day 53 - Warmer, warmer, nearly there.

Patience is a virtue they say and having just tried to google how many virtues and what were the other virtues it seems there is as many answers about virtue/virtues as there is when you want to know how to plant something down the allotment. But our patience may soon be rewarded if todays sunshine is anything to go by, in between the occasional cloud we were bathed in warming rays of sun.

Our lass is busy with the seedlings, lots more to be sown but the first lettuces have been potted on as you will see below. It is a blessing to have the room to prick on unlike last year when our lass just did one long row in the ground. I am sure we will run out of room soon enough but it will be good fun filling the spaces with all the flowers and vegetables. We also have more seed trays washed and ready to be used.

Today was a watering day in my green house and after a bit of pottering made a table for our lass, lessons learnt from the bench, the legs didn't fall off this time when lifted and although not rock steady it did take our lass sitting on it. It was considered unwise for me to stress test the table.

The lettuces final home, I would say they were socially distanced enough to grow well.

Just one side of our lasses busy seedling production line

T'other side starting to fill up as well

A table to go with our bench

Day 46 - A chill wind is the benchmark

 Today down the allotment we barely got past four degrees but it felt so much colder, now having been up their in the snow, it seemed strange that today should affect us so much. Maybe it was the contrast of the warm sun of Sunday that hit us for six today.

We are also struggling with wanting to crack on and get planting yet this just seems another delay. I feel very much like a young child looking at all the presents under the Christmas tree with a week still to go and feeling as though it is an eternity away.

Our lass, I think judging my mood better than I judge my own let me do a folly of putting the scaffolding planks out on the potato bed, my autistic side wants order and it is a perfect way of dividing the six varieties we will have whilst hopefully ensuring I only walk on one particular part of the bed when hoeing. I had hoped the soil would be nearly ready, but it is at least one full dig over away.

So whilst our lass set away some more seeds, I got onto building a bench/table, having just come from one disappointment I seemed to rattle into another which climaxed with the leg falling off. Team work though meant we got this sorted and as you will see in the final photograph we have an end product sturdy enough to take my mighty frame. Then we will see in the future if that created any cracks.

Perspective doesn't help but they are equally spaced, but this is the general idea.

The chairs make a great work bench

We have all the parts cut roughly to size

Our finished bench, with a big thank you to our lass.