Gardener's World chez Jennyta

Well, the potatoes have chitted and have now been planted and I have pricked out the carrots but the parsnips are not ready yet. Broad beans, Swiss chard and spinach are doing quite well but the tomatoes are flagging a bit.
Oh, and I mowed the lawn. See, told you I could bore you to death with this gardening lark!

Blues and twos - we're on our way!

Keith has landed himself a real bargain. It's an ambulance, which has now been retired from the NHS but is still in great working order and cost him the princely sum of £100. Inside is a high visibility jacket (with stains on it - could be blood!) and lots of First Aid equipment as well as an impressive range of disposable urine receptacles and a stretcher.
The reason for this purchase is not that he is thinking of going into private healthcare (The very thought sends shivers down my spine!) but he is going to convert it so that, when he is called out to attend to a car, he has all his equipment with him and can work on the spot. So, if you have lost your key or have any car security problems, he's your man.
After waiting patiently (?) for three weeks for the log book to come through, he was finally able to drive it home in triumph yesterday. What amused him was driving back up the road in his own car and spotting a woman standing at her window, phone to her ear, patently recounting to someone how she had seen the ambulance going down the road an hour ago, and no, she didn't know which house it had gone to but it hadn't come back up the road since so it must be something really serious.
He did run the idea past me last night that, today he could maybe drive back up the road with siren and lights on and pause for a moment outside her house. Tempting, but I talked him out of it.

Who'd like to be tagged?

I have been tagged today by Jan who asked me to post six random things about myself, so here goes:

1. I am an arachnophobe.
2. I also have a horror of buttons. They make me feel sick.
3. I have lived in southern Ireland and France.
4. Heidi Range from the Sugarbabes was in my class when she was six.
5. I am left handed and so are two of my four children.
6. Someone who once saw my handwriting thought I was doing shorthand.

I think I'm going to throw this open to anyone who would like to take it on - come one, come all!

So, here's what you do now:

• Link to the person who tagged you.
• Post the rules on your blog.·
• Write six random things about yourself.·
• Tag six random people by linking to their blogs.·
• Let each of the six know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.·
• Let your tagger know when your entry is up

Spring is here!

What a beautiful Spring day it has been here. About time we had a bit of sunshine and warmth and walking into town this morning was very pleasant. So after my counselling, I walked home and sat in the garden for a while, before popping down to Sainsbury's to do a bit of shopping. Then I sat in the garden again.....
Finally I managed to persuade myself to get off the old beam end and re-pot my tiny lettuce seedlings, which didn't take too long, so I was then able to sit in the garden for a while.
You see the pattern here? A regular routine like this and I shall soon be sporting a wonderful tan for the summer. Now, where did I put my shorts last autumn?