Sweet Pepper "Snack Bite" 🌱continued

                              Seed watching continues !  

    And I can report that all 7 seeds have germinated !  🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱  Phew !   

(number seven is just breaking the surface in the left hand corner )   

Sweet Peppers "Snack Bite Red" germinating ! 🌱🌱

                                       Now you really can see them !  🌱🌱 

Sweet Pepper "Snack Bite Red " Germinating !

 

                            The sun is up there somewhere !

                            Squally showers and sunny interludes .

       I keep going to check on my seeds !

                         I'm growing Sweet Pepper "Snack Bite Red ".

 

                         Yes ! ..Can you see ?   

                                    Just starting to hatch ! 🐣

             Look ! 🌱 Zoom in and you can see one or two are just beginning to germinate .

                                     This makes me SO happy ! 

I will start my Tomato seeds maybe next week or the week after . Towards the end of January works for me .....I'm in the far south west Cornwall .

                                                    🌦️☀️🌦️🌧️🌧️

Moving Swiftly on !

 

Moving swiftly onwards !   My seeds have arrived !  

I got the propagator out , switched on . and after letting the compost and that water squisher warm up overnight , yesterday morning I sowed my Sweet Pepper seeds .

I have to really pace myself this year , after serious back injury . I am having physio and doing the exercises . 

Today the grass is very damp but I managed to do the first cut of the year to the pathways of the labyrinth . I had to keep stopping and starting to clear the grass clippings from the blades with a stick . 

                                Before 

A combination of my really painful back and of having non stop rain has prevented me from cutting the grass . 

I did think that I might have to let the labyrinth go , it was beginning to get lost in the long grass and I knew it was going to be difficult to cut .

                           After        click twice to view

It still looks a bit rough , but in a couple of days I will cut the pathways again on a lower setting and it'll soon look smart again !

      (note - Jess's Giant Echium is still standing ! O.K slightly leaning now maybe !🤣)

I was so pleased with myself that I then made a start weeding the African Keyhole Bed .

It is easier to weed after the rain , I just can't bend down that easily at the moment , so used the rake and throw it into the wheelbarrow method . Rake and throw ! Rake and throw ! Rake and throw !

I was then ordered to stop , go in doors , poke the fire in the woodburning stove and make a cup of tea .

                Feeling pleased with myself to have restored the labyrinth a little .

                         So that's all fer now ! 

                                              🌿🌧️🌧️🌧️🌿

 

Storm Goretti

 

                         The Poldhu Nursing Care Home 

You've seen all the news stories and pictures of the damage Storm Goretti wreaked across the far South West of Cornwall . 

Yes , lots of trees , but not only trees , but peoples homes have been badly smashed  .  See the above picture of the Poldhu Nursing Care Home . This must have been very ,very frightening for all the residents , their families and staff ! 

People have been without power, water , internet , and phone connection . So it seems that our new phones can't get a signal to ring for help in an emergency ! 

We had a very nerve wrecking drive to the hospital and then on to a health centre in a hard to find village , driving down narrow country lanes with fallen trees everywhere .

A big thankyou to the teams of men who were out early , clearing the main roads of fallen trees  that enabled folk to get in to work . ..... such as the nurses and doctors at the hospital and health centre .

A big thankyou to the electricity guys also , out fixing and restoring power to our homes . I'm not sure if everybody is back on yet still .

It has been a really miserable time , 

We have been collecting bottled water . A big thankyou to the guys who were putting it into the boots of our cars .

You've seen all the pictures on the news , so I'm not going to post any more . 

A huge thankyou to Kernow Weather Team , who on Facebook ,who were spot on with keeping us all informed with how the storm progressed ,with that really creepy sudden silence and calm before "the eye of the storm" moved on from us and the frightening hurricane force winds started up once again !

       Thankfully ...we didn't have any real damage to our cottage  ...... as far as we can see .

                       Feeling very tired after it all . 

Keeping Warm

 

Twelfth Night

 I took down all the Christmas decorations . 

Just as we are taking ours down ,I know that many of you out there in other parts of the world are just about to celebrate Christmas . I think on the 6th and 7th of January . Happy Christmas to you and your families .  

Look at my sweet little reindeer ! My Granddaughter made this for me at school . It was my favourite Christmas present this year . I will treasure him ! I love the decorative stitching around the edge . 

Such a precious and heartwarming gift !  I love him !

The weather at the moment is like this .  Hit and miss showers of sometimes rain , sometimes sleet , sometimes graupel , and sometimes but not for us yet, snow .

I know that children everywhere are hoping for a good lot of snow to play in 🌨️☃️❄️

However this is just not enough to make a snowball let alone a snowman !

                                     ❄️☃️🌨️❄️❄️❄️      

It is very cold though , especially in our cottage at the moment .

Our new boiler has broken down  , so the central heating and hot water is not coming on .

Making the best of things !  I've lit the fire , filled hot-water bottles and I'm wearing my hat and scarf .

In fact I went to bed with my wooly hat on ! 

Our central heating chap is on his way . 

                                             ❄️❄️❄️