Gosh I can't believe it is April already! All the seemingly endless weeks that have dragged by so slowly and Edward-less-ly and suddenly here we are at April...which is a very exciting month!
Having spent a long while making sure I didn't get excited too early in advance, I suddenly realised that I depart for distant shores in only a week and was alarmingly un-prepared for it all. (cue frantic packing and list writing gaah) My very exciting month involves one of these:
one of these:
hopefully lots of this:
and most importantly, a lovely one of these (status of beard currently unknown):
Needless to say I'm very excited; five year olds on Christmas eve, eat your heart out.
So the past week has been very busy with all sorts of before-I-go-away sorts of jobs. I made a Simnel cake which I hope will be robust enough to cope with a very long journey squashed in my suitcase.
I used Gertie and Honoria's eggs which made the cake mixture a fabulous golden colour.
(A whole cake is rather unreasonable suitcase-space-wise so I am taking half to Edward and half to my in-laws who I am visiting en route.)
I also built the chickens a new run, so that they have lots of space to ramble about without fear from the local cats. It's secondary purpose is to stop them making dust baths in my newly dug vegetable plot (and scoffing my seedlings) and from pooping all over the lawn. Success!
It is quite bidgy and bodgy, but at least it matches the bidgy bodgy house.
And bidgy bodgy nest box...hmm, I may need to get some carpentry lessons from my brother at some point.
I whizzed out to get some more chickenfeed yesterday and got terribly distracted in the garden centre, which was selling trays of sweet pea seedlings for 50p. Couldn't turn that offer down of course, so I found myself planting sweet peas at about seven o'clock this evening. Not very sensible.
Anyway, now I have packed, gardened, sorted the hens with my very kind and lovely hen-sittery neighbours emptied the fridge of all the weird bendy things hiding at the back and made the millionth list of things to do before I go tomorrow morning.
Oooooo exciting!
Well, I can't believe your trip has finally got here, either... I am in the midst of mine - how extraordinary is it, to have BOTH of us the same country on the other sides of the Earth at the very same time (and no, we won't be meeting up, that was a definite from the very first conversation about the possibility of the conicidences!) But you will so enjoy it, Olivia, never mind the meeting-up with Edward part; South Africa is a very beautiful country, the weather fantastic, the wildlife amazing and the people friendly: make the most of every minute!! (and just see what you can make of the different languages - there are 11 to juggle with!! I can't make head nor tail of the Afrikaans...) xxx
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