Wet, windy and chilly

It's been raining all week. And by rain I mean record amounts of water, flooding, eroded roads (and not only country gravel roads but big tarmac roads have been eaten away by rain).  So, no mowing, no sowing, no weeding. Nights have been chilly, a bit confusing as it is raining all night. And Thunderbird. 'Suma hears thunder and thinks someone's coming by car! We haven't actually haven't any visitors since Number Two's name revealing party/sys's and d's combined bitrhdayparties. Oh well.

It's been Eurovision Song Contest week. I quite like Ukrainan song  Shum. Last year Russian had that bonkers Uno, this year their piece is much more boring. Finland's Dark Side is good, but I don't really  get Italian Måneskin's Zitti e buoni. I know their name means moonshine, but for me it doesn't have the right kick!  And they can't pronounce their own name with å. Icelandic Ten years is ok, but their last year's song Thinking about things was perfect! But it is sweet on it's own.

Aching

 Ouch.

I'be been gardening. Yesterday I finally got all potatoes planted. I thought I had enough seedlings fo two long rows. I made four.

As you can see, we have hardly any leaves yet.

Hb got the plot tilled on wednesday evening, and it's perfect for planting now. Not too dry and luckily not too wet. This is still mostly clay. I had to left a small triangle untouched because one of my black currants has decided to go wild.  It produces most sweet berries AND I got it from my grandmother, who had planted it just for me. So if someomr's got to giveroom, it's the plot.

I'm really behind on everything, we had snow just two weeks ago! Well, now, potatoes took a huce chunk of my plot  so I don't have to plant too much other stuff. Broad beans, beets, pumpkins or courgettes, chard and peas. My frames will be filled with corn, beans, carrots and pickling cucumbers. Last year I got one corn cob! But was suprinsingly lucky with cucumbers. Oh, I have to remember spinach!

I hope I'll get tomato plants from Old man, I have my own chillies. 

And I have three more black currants to plant and two frames of strawberries to weed.

Ouch.

And here we go again

D and sys are home schooling again, there's been cases at both schools (or more likely same people who teach in both schools). Ys can go to school, his school is a smaller one and they don't have same teachers. I was waiting for this because they have keep telling there's no way home schooling will be back, because there's no covid anymore. Funny thing there's been cases - if not daily but several every week.

What?! It's May?

 Oh dear.

It's been a.... spring. End of winter and then spring. We've had birthdays (d is now "adult" which she has found very difficult to digest). Ys is a teen, which is a bit sad.

Baby kitten got stuck in a tree. Well, not stuck, but too afraid to climb down. I had to call a tree climber (arborist) to fetch him down after three days. Very embarrassing for a countrywoman like me. Baby brother has lost his nuts since. And no more kitten pee on beds.

I got polytunnel up, and right after that we've had three weeks of snow and frosts. Great. I have sown some chillies, they're doing fine on top of my freezer, I have two growing lights for them.

We had a kind of lockdown, but numbers went down before lockdown was on, so we are basically in slow limbo. Covid19 cases are low, but not low enought. I've worked long hours and I do hope after summer this will be mostly gone. I would love to work with something nice for a change, like waste water Managementin plants of farms with million tons of manure stinking to high heavens. My Covid19 tracing education has proven to be beneficial even I dont't do actual tracing.

We have one meat free day per week. Hb hasn't noticed and sys wants me to cook (why autofill wants me to "cook reindeer"?) soy strips.

This weeks meatless meal was cream of spinach soup made fron last of last summer spinach from freezer. Milk was out of date more than a week, byt it didn't split. So, I managed to reduce food waste and use odds and ends. Win win and the soup was nice with boiled eggs and sourdough rye bread.

I've been watching the Crown, and then Duke of Edinburgh passed away. It was sad, as always, but I think it wasn't unexpected. He was 99, and after watching the Crown, endless documentaries and reading all kinds of orbituaries I think he lived his life content and with meaning. Can't ask much more?