It's not been the Easter break I had planned, but it's not been a bad 4 days off despite the Coronovirus horrors. I had originally planned on doing a bit of cycle touring until the big lock down put pay to those plans. Instead it's been 4 days of odd jobs, pottering around and trying to get a bit of outdoor exercise whilst working around the restrictions. The outstandingly good weather (we'll pretend Monday didn't happen) has helped make things a bit more bearable. That's 2 years on the trot that Easter has been nice, helped I suppose, by it being towards the end of the window that it can fall in. All a bit different to 2018 when it rained so hard that I spent 2 days cycling in washing up gloves as it was the only way I could keep my hands dry. It seemed a real shame to waste the good weather and miss out on all the camping fun, plus I'd heard that lots of kids were having sleep out's and as they say "If you can't beat them you might as well join them". So, despite some serious mocking from "The Emma" I did have a night in the hammock in the back garden, it might not be proper camping, but it's still more of an adventure than "The Emma" had so mock away I say! In between a bit of gentle running and cycling I've managed to squeeze in a bit of time on the allotment. Apparently it's traditional to plant potatoes on Good Friday. Although I've no idea why as Easter moves around and I've finally managed to get 6 rows of Red Main Crop spuds in. It's surprising how wet the ground still is once you get through the now rock hard, sun baked skin and it took 2 sessions of hard digging to get them all in. It's a shame I'll have forgotten about the backbreaking work by the time their on my plate! All the summer bedding has been pricked out in to individual pots for growing on and is currently being burned to a crisp in the green house and I've potted on the cabbages. Another couple of weeks and they will be ready to go out, so I had better get my finger out and crack on with the remainder of the digging. I've got a few other odd jobs wrapped up around the house too, so hopefully that will give me a bit more time for "playing out" once the lock down finally ends. Other than that, there's not much to report. The rest of the weekend has been taken up with the normal mix of cooking, cleaning, general pottering around and sitting in the sun drinking tea and eating Easter eggs. Not a bad life is it!
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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