Easter Weekend

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 I had the whole 4 days of Easter bank holiday off. 

I spent a leisurely hour painting this year's plan for my allotment.  There are two empty areas, I can't decide what to plant yet so will have to come back to it.  

 I had time for early morning cups of tea in the garden enjoying the Spring flowers in my window tubs.   Daffodil, hyacinth and grape hyacinth, so nice to have something to view from indoors too.. 

I did my Tripadvisor review of the last hotel we stayed at on our India trip - I was under pressure as we have kept in touch with some of the staff since 2019 and they were keen to see the review.

I dug the garden borders and laid some woodchip, mowed the lawn and thinned the lavender.  Hubby helped with the mowing and cooked a lovely chicken murgh masala  from this library book.    After being pretty much a lifetime vegetarian I do now occasionally eat a little chicken in a curry as am trying to increases my protien intake, although I don't like the texture.  I think I could replicate this with paneer and cashews though.

I caught up with Gardeners World on tv and was pleased that Adam Frost was planting his potatoes as I had just done mine up on t'allotment.

Saturday was sunny but cold and was spent indoors wading through a big ironing pile then potting cuttings of my tradescantia.  

The evenings was spent binge watching the excellent  Arctic Circle tv police series.   We then started watching Walter Presents Faking Hitler.

Sunday is always swimming day and having had my brown lowlights topped up last week, I was careful to bring my swimming c8ap and hair conditioner to protect it.   After my 30 lengths I had 10 mins in the sauna, shut my eyes and imagined I was back in India!     

I spent the afternoon painting my nails (NX Barbados) and had a snooze in a sun spot.  Oldest son came from his digs in London to stay and brought all his laundry (his machine's broken) and youngest son came back soon after (from his baggage handling shift at the airport, so tired and hungry) and hubby cooked the first bbq of the year!  There was strawberries and cream too.

On Easter Monday I made the men roast turkey dinner with sprouts, yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and gravy.

The rest of the week has been a blur as I was working but my employers have approved a change from some of my late shifts for earlies from next week so going forward will have more time at the end of the day to enjoy the garden and allotment :)