Grocery day

In to town to collect an order from Aldi, just a small top up. I have decided to have fresh milk delivered in glass bottles from next week. Its more expensive than the supermarket, but it saves 2 heavy containers in my shopping. Also as I have spread the delivery I will not have to freeze it. So I will not have to remember to take it out of the freezer and defrost it. I will keep a couple of cartons in the cupboard, just in case.

Lovely meal with DD2, just sandwiches but so nice to see everyone again. Little Miss had her hair up in bunches, my goodness she is cute. Knows what she wants. Her sandwich was on white bread, like us they do not eat white bread so she took the ham out and left the bread. She also ate half of DGD's donut, after asking nicely for some. DGD has shed 4 stone since she had the gastric band fitted, She has also had her hair cut short, DD2 was complaining that A was wearing her clothes!!! Its a long time since that happened. The band was fitted to cope with a medical condition she has.

I was out for over an hour last night watering the garden. When we were away I saw a miniature campanula planted in a sink, I have managed to source both that and the pyramidalis, which can grow to 6ft. so I have ordered them. Garden purse is now padlocked until the bulb catalogues come out. I am not mad keen on tulips, but have seen some really nice ones on our garden visits, so I am going to order enough to do 4 large pots of tulips with primulas for the spring. I still have some plants to put in. There is plenty for the gardener to do tomorrow.

Supper tonight will be pork casserole I think unless it turns really hot again in which case I will do something else. It will be strawberries for dessert.

In the few days we have been away the garden has gone mad.

Need to take the seed heads off the lupin so the other flowers can come through, The white carpet rose is going up rather than across.

The rose on the obelisk, a lovey pale pink cannot remember what its called.

The clematis on the fence with the compassion rose coming through, one the clematis has finished flowering it will have to be cut back, then I can also prune the rose.

Something has eaten the leaves of the solomons seal, they will be cut off tomorrow when the gardener comes.

Campanula carpatica, spreading under the black grass, I need to divide the grass and possibly the campanula, will plant it up higher up in the bed.