A month. It’s the longest I’ve not blogged since I started this site in January 2007. But don’t think I’ve been doing nothing. Life has gotten very busy the last four weeks, and I’ll admit, it’s been hard to log on and update happenings, as life has been, well, happening.
Since the middle of August, I’ve been busier than ever working, and trying to get a new online project off the ground. That’s taken more time than I’d envisaged, but thankfully, while it will be an ongoing project, the first stage is almost complete.
Nik has been just as busy, tidying up the garden and emptying the vegetable plot. He’s been harvesting sunflowers, making crab apple jelly, taking out the onions, making fig jam, planting cauliflowers and cabbage, and trimming the tomatoes, to try and spook them into actually ripening.
We’ve both been picking apples for our first foray into cider-making, taking plums off the trees near the nature reserve to make plum wine and collecting both blackberries and sloes, the latter to make this year’s stash of sloe gin or vodka.
Fun has been on the agenda, too, though. We’ve been watching the contenders sing their hearts out in the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, catching up with ‘Allo ‘Allo, Fawlty Towers, Howard’s Way and Stephen Fry in America, visiting family and friends, and enjoying the odd meal in the garden, although I suspect that’s soon to stop.
So, busy, busy, busy. It’s better than bored, bored, bored, and I’ve certainly not been doing nothing. Hopefully the merry-go-round to Busyville should start to slow a little now, which is good. If it doesn’t, there’ll be no time to get off…
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