A Funny Week

It's been a funny week in the garden, this week.   Every day I've got up and over breakfast thought about what I would do today, but then, at the end of each day I seem to have done a lot of other things but not the job I actually assigned myself.

We had some visitors here at the beginning of the week and they were keen gardeners so  they set to potting on some of the seedlings I had, cutting back geraniums so  that I could save them for next year, repotting some flowers and generally tidying up.  They pruned several large shrubs and did copious amounts of weeding.  This was on Monday. ...   I had intended to sow some peas.  I have prepared a bed for peas and beans and sown 1/3 of it with broad beans as I talked about the other day.  The next section was to be sown with the peas.... but at the end of the day I seemed to have just collected together all the various prunings that they had generated etc and made a big pile ready to burn... but not actually burnt it....

Tuesday came and it was celebration day so over breakfast I planned my day.... go to the fish market and buy some fish which I would cook for dinner, then , during the afternoon get rid of the pile of weeds and prunings with a bonfire and then in the evening prepare a special supper.... Simple.  After breakfast we went shopping and selected some lovely salmon from the fish market.  I decided to grill the salmon with a red cabbage and peppercorn crust and serve it with some roast vegetables.  I had the vegetables... and for the starter I had decided to prepare endive grilled with blue cheese.   As it happened, we got back from market, and I laid down for ten minutes.   When I woke again, about 30 minutes later it was raining heavily... so the garden work was put on hold and I simply got on with preparing our supper...

Wednesday morning came, I would try and burn all the rubbish if it hadn't got too wet in the rain, and, hopefully, before it rained again....Once that was done I could get on with quickly preparing the ground and sowing the peas....

The prunings etc had got wet but not too badly and I eventually got them burning.... I also decided to burn some other stuff from around the garden whilst I had a fire going....I stopped for lunch, but carried on shortly afterwards and by the time it went dark, I felt I was starting to make some inroads into all the stuff around but had not finished!!!!!  Still no peas sown....

Thursday morning I had lots of paperwork to sort out so decided to have a morning clearing all that and then sow the peas in the afternoon.   When I stopped for lunch Sylvia asked me if I'd run her over to her French lesson and pick up a few bits and pieces from the store whilst she was there....  I went and did that and by the time we got back it was time to prepare dinner, roast chicken with carrots in yogurt and cream.

Friday over breakfast I decided to finish some outstanding work on the pool deck..  It would only take an hour at the most and I wanted to get it done before winter really sets in.... after that I could look at the peas....  I went straight out after breakfast and got on with finishing the fence around the deck which was the major part of the job.... It should have been easy but there were one or two problems and eventually I finished one section (there are two that need doing) as the light failed at the end of the day.....

It's Saturday today, so this morning we had for our weekly visit to Villereal Market.  The market has been quite quiet for the past couple of weeks but today it was back to normal.  I took coffee at our usual bar where we were joined by a couple of friends, but apart from that I remained fairly focused and picked up everything I needed and was back home well before lunch...  I decided to write this blog piece, which is drawing to a conclusion now, then get some lunch and then , this afternoon, I think I'll sow those peas.....

Saturday evening follow up:  I have sown the peas!!!!!