Just a normal Tuesday. Shopping and photos, but not at the same time. Oh yes, and a little bit of gentle gardening.
Shopping was just a bit of wandering around Tesco with a shopping list while Scamp blethered with a woman she used to work with, but hadn’t seen for ages. I didn’t mind at all. It gave me a chance to wander round the isles playing “Where have they put the peanut butter this week”. I got most of the things on the list although I’m sure Scamp would have done it in half the time.
Lunch was beans on toast. A bit of a come-down from yesterday’s Japanese extravaganza. ‘Auld claes and purrich’ as my dad used to say, but it was fine.
Scamp wanted to do a deep clean of the fridge after lunch. I started planting some seeds. So now we have two pots of Sweet Basil (do you think they have Sour Basil?), two pots of Sunflowers (two different kinds) and three pots of chilli peppers. The chilli seeds came from a chilli we’d brought from Portree of all places, two years ago. It grew well for two years, then died away. I harvested the pods and dried them. Today I cut one open and out came about fifteen chilli seeds. They’ve now been planted and I’m hoping I’ll get at least one plant from each pot. We’ll have to wait and see. I’d like to say that all the planting was done outside, but it wasn’t because the rain was pelting down, so it was all done in the back bedroom on my dad’s old card table with an IKEA bag on top to easily remove any mess. All the pots are now on window sills in the bedrooms and all are labelled. I’m going to restart my planting spreadsheet tomorrow, hopefully.
By the time I was finished, Scamp was too and the rain was getting lighter until eventually it stopped. I took the opportunity to go for a walk over to St Mo’s and got today’s PoD which is a fern crozier just unrolling. It’s called a crozier because it looks like a bishop’s crook.
Dinner was an old favourite we got from Jamie. Bacon & Borlotti Beans. Oops, I just realised, beans for lunch and beans for dinner. Hope the methane levels aren’t too high tomorrow.
And as far as tomorrow goes, we have no plans, I’m led to believe.