First workout of the day

or 'Morning Routine'.

Walk downstairs.

Put the kettle on.

Let cat out of back room and feed and water.

Put the toast on and Weetabix in bowl.

Brew tea.

Pour tea.

Take breakfast tray upstairs

 to bedroom and have breakfast in bed.

Bring breakfast tray down and empty/load dishwasher.

Wipe down all surfaces. 

Sort cat tray.

Sweep and mop floor.

Take out recycling and rubbish.

Walk down to garage and open up bringing back food I want from the freezer.

Do chores for the day - see here.

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PS I know when the sheets need doing as the bed rapidly gets filled up with crumbs! No matter how many times I brush out the crumbs there's always one tiny one to be found when I roll over. :)

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Normal Routine

I'm back into normal routine mode after an extended festive time which included 2 Christmases, the second of which was a White Christmas on the 29th December. No need to dream anymore until next year then. 

Normal routine for me is to sort all my everlasting cards and match them up with envelopes. Cards which are full of greetings are 'retired' and new cards made. Funny how just making small cards takes up such a large space. All done now and everything is packed away until November when I sign and address the cards again.

Just type 'everlasting cards' in the search box for more explanations of my Christmas greetings for friends and family.

Normal for me is 'work' in the mornings and 'play' in the afternoons so today was cleaning tiles in the newly decorated bathroom and washing and ironing plus card making and walking. It was a busy and productive day.

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Morning Routine

As part of my Morning Routine I take a tour around the garden while the cat goes for a walk-around. All is growing well and we will soon be eating the potatoes as these flowers have been on for a while. The Mange Tout are waving about in the background. Hi there. They have featured in our meals for the last week plus have been given away to friends as there are so many of them. Over to the left are broad beans and in the middle are sweetcorn which are just getting going.

The dingily dangly mange tout grow from a flower in about a day! I don't need to string them and they take very little cooking - just steamed, stir fried, boiled for a while or eaten raw.

A mountain of strawberries await us.

The chive flowers make a wonderful show with the foxgloves opposite them.

A very important part of my Morning Routine is picking off the side shoots of the tomato plants. In the past I have been very lax and they have grown all over the place in the greenhouse. No more - it's in the routine and off they come. I thought every other day would do for an inspection but no, daily vigilance is required to eliminate these little blighters.

I thought I was doing well until I spotted this one sprouting from the base of the plant.

Oh no! And this one is nearly another large plant.

Most of the other plants are growing straight upwards, if a little wonky!

Now they are receiving maximum light from the side windows. (The grape vine shades the roof windows.)

Here's my creative piece on the plot. It's a shame to pick the lettuce as it spoils the symmetry.

Happy planting!

xx

PS Not many people have commented on yesterday's post but I'll not send the parcel anywhere until next week, so if you would like to join in the blog giveaway game there will still be time. Sorry I can't mail to the rest of the world but postage would be too expensive.