We hung around all day yesterday, waiting for our garden shed to be delivered. They had helpfully specified a time slot of 09:00-18:00. At 17:40 someone rang to say that the carrier had assigned the job to a van in which the pallet would not fit: would today be OK? This morning the phone rang at 07:20 (just as I’d managed to get back to sleep after a poorish night): the delivery driver, saying he’d be here in 20 minutes. That’s slightly longer than it normally takes me to get washed, dressed and into my right mind. Fortunately, the package was rather better arranged than our last outbuilding (it took three deliveries to get a serviceable kit of parts that time). The quality is a bit depressing: we’d to do some running repairs as we unpacked it, but it seems generally OK. Building it up will test us somewhat, but it does come with very clear instructions. We’d just finished schlepping the kit round the back when the groceries arrived, so that was another spot of exercise.
We’d just sat down after that job when our local Hermes courier arrived with the box of primula auricula plug plants that I’d ordered on line. Lovely& little plants, some of them already in flower. They are now potted up and in the greenhouse to grow on a bit until they are ready to plant out. That gives us a bit of time to weed and improve the bed they’re going into. This is something of a sentimental purchase: we had a row of auriculas in the front garden at home in Scotland, and I’ve rarely seen the variety since then. Just have to remember to water them for the next few weeks.
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