29th January 2021

Sunrise    08:18    Sunset    16:53

It has been very wet overnight. The rain has now stopped and the forecast is a little brighter. The rain has lingered longer than I expected, now 11:00 and still mizzling. Alison has bought some flowers, Tritelia Laxa, we will have to work out where to put these. Alison is going to put them in a pot and move them as she sees fit.


After lunch I went up to Towerview and picked up grandson Jayden. I brought him down to the garden and he cut up the plastic wrapper that our storage box had come in. I intend to use this as a weed barrier in the veg garden, he has done a great job.

When JJ was doing that, I finished off yesterdays job, moving the content of the current compost bin into another bin in the new position. When that was done JJ helped me move the bin into position beside the other two. Great job.
When we finished that job we started on the new greenhouse. This is a greenhouse that started life here in Knockdene many years ago. When I got the 12 X 8 from my parents house I passed it to son Gary and he put it up in Cloughey. After a fire in Cloughey it was moved to storage, eventually come home to Knockdene as a pile of aluminium. JJ and I started trying to make sense of the pile and eventually got it into some recognisable pieces. We got the door and it's runners working and were starting to look for other pieces when the rain came back. We retired inside. Another job for another day.


Considering the wet morning and rain coming on again, we had a good day in the Knockdene garden.



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