Hiya folks, don't know why I thought that you might be even possibly interested in what I've done today, but here I am writing about a "non-day"!!!

It dawned a reasonably clear day with the odd clumps of clouds floating around and the wind has dropped somewhat.

I did some excavating in my spare room!!! I need a curtain pole put up in my other spare room and I knew I had some new ones that I'd had as bargains about 20 years ago and hadn't put them up yet!!!!! Trouble was they were in my spare room. It's one of those rooms, where everything is put in there because they are not needed at the moment. Hence it's just full of "junk" some would say, but I will find a use for most of the things in there I'm sure!!! Anyway I managed to find it, right at the back of course and I negotiated - rather delicately I must say - my way across the room. Half way along, I did think that maybe I should have waited for my daughter to be here to help me, but it was too late by then!!

I had an early visitor - Fred the Shed and his wife Jenny, who came to see what I needed doing in my garden. For those of you who don't know Fred the Shed, I'll do a quick intro. He's a lovely man, he volunteers with our local bureau and is a gardener. I call him Fred the Shed, cos the first time I met him, he came with another man to erect my shed. The name seemed to fit him!!!! Anyway he's very accommodating by way of doing anything in my garden that needs sorting out. My garden has totally overgrown itself, and Jenny very kindly said she loved the garden cos it looked like a secret garden. Well I bet she wouldn't say that if she had a garden like it, well she wouldn't have a garden like it - Fred would have seen to that!!!!

So I have a flower bed running the length of my house which started off as a reasonably small strip of bedding, but has so many plants/weeds in it, that it's encroaching the lawn. The mombretia has taken over most of it, as well as a rambling rose. I was so pleased to hear Fred say that he would keep the rambling rose and just clear the rest. The forsythia hedges will be trimmed to within an inch of its life and some of the lilac trees will also have their branches lopped, so they won't fall over with the weight. The hedge which has honeysuckle growing in it, will also be clipped, because the honeysuckle has finished for the moment, and will certainly grow back in time for next year.

They mentioned that my apple trees were absolutely laden with fruit and did I want them to pick them for me. I said that I had plenty but they were more than welcome to pick some for themselves. They were very thankful, but hey - they'll use the apples and they are so good to give up their time to help me. Help goes both ways doesn't it?

Anyway after they left, I had a phone call from Ron (another volunteer who's coming to put up the curtain pole up for me) to say that he'll be up on Monday. Great eh?

This afternoon I just did all my ironing and I am sorry that I have bored you with my "non-day" activities.