2022 - What's made you happy today

Enjoy PP!

The fact that I've not been coughing my guts up has made me smile today. I've also not had to take any pain killers, so that's a vast improvement. I'm not comfortable, but at least not at the point of having to take pills.

And my step daughter offered to help her dad dig the foundations for the greenhouse tomorrow

We're going to a restaurant for dinner - the first trip to a restaurant since before the pandemic!
Nervous and excited in equal meaure - we're meeting the owners of one of the gites we look after who we've only ever video-called before. We took the place on in spring 2020 and this is the first time they've made it out here.

Well, the company was great - it was the owners (two brothers) and seven of one of their university friends rather than their famillies which we had been expecting.
The food however, was dire! We were one of only two tables in the place, the table had been booked in advance and we were the first to be served, the place serves the same potatoes with all three dishes they offer, so there is no excuse for them to be reheated and still stone cold in the middle, however much garlic you put on them   Interestingly all the English language reviews rave about the place - it serves very classic robust local mountain food - and many of the French language reviews are pretty average!!
But it was a great to be out  so who cares!

Aww what a shame PP!

My smiles today came from potting up two climbing roses I bought a while ago for next to nothing. One is pink called Parade and a yellow called 'Golden rain'. Well what a hideous name haha

The double-digit temperature this afternoon began with a 2.

I’ve started building the gate for my cottage garden. I got all the timbers ready before Christmas. It’s quite a unique look. There’s definitely nothing else like it.

Finally got some self saved Gentian seeds to germinate!

1. That people are still growing buffalo horn tomatos - just lovely to see that peeps like them that they are still going and being shared.

2. That I feel behind on sowing after catching up on posts - it must mean I am actually close to the sowing dates

It's raining so I'm forced to stay inside and start on decorations for a cake....I absolutely love doing it but always find excuses to start. Rain not only will fill my empty water butts - using them to water the greenhouses at the moment and we haven't had much rain...but has forced me to stay inside

I may post my "sugar sweet peas" later.

Saw and heard a black redstart for the first time this spring. What a fine fellow!

Sunshine, frog spawn, ladybird in the apple tree, Peacock butterfly sunning itself, really feels like Spring has arrived.