Had a lovely weekend well worth the wait! Lots of car boots, well two places but on two days so made me happy, I'll have to show you pictures of my purchases another time. As well as lots of time in the garden, and a wee lunch and wander in Cambridge stopping to buy cakes from Fitzbillies to take home.
I took these pictures of our unkept forsythia with it's pretty yellow flowers inspired by Jen (little birdie). I decided to join her challenge as we've got a couple of big unkept bushes of the stuff - big tufts sticking up at jaunty angles, they annoy me most of the year and I'm sure would look much better with a haircut (but thats another thing to do). For now I'm enjoying the abundance of yellow flowers before they fade.
Some days are just boring. I'm bored at the moment - work is annoying me, it's taking all the daylight hours from me, stealing them away and leaving no time for the fun stuff, or even the regular stuff - stuff that needs to be done. I know I have to work, it taxes my brain, allows me to hang out in London, and most importantly provides an income. But I'm just not enjoying it much at the moment. I'm working on a great project but it's still not making me happy, I long for the weekends and the weeks are frankly getting in the way. I go through these feelings every year, probably more to do with the change in seasons than my work. Life, especially work just feels monotonous - it isn't actually, but the routine of five days a week is. Five long days of work and just two tiny weeny fun days at the end to make up for it! So many things I want to do and not enough time, I want to finish decorating our hallway and hang our pictures, I want to plant new trees, I want to make another three raised veg beds, I want to tackle the last of the overgrown and neglected flower beds, I want to reupholster a piano stall, I want to go for long walks, I want to go for bike rides, I want to sort out the patio area so we can spend our summer evenings eating alfresco as the sun slips away. I want a lot, I know I need to be patient and enjoy everyday, make the most of them, and things will get better - I know.
We spent a bit of time in the garden yesterday, we had a few plants to put in the ground, things we'd bought, mostly from little stalls - plants people have grown in their gardens. These are our favourite plants to buy. We love driving through local villages eyes peeled for a little table and honesty box. Still not many around, it's still early in the year but they are starting to appear. Yesterday we found sweet peas, wallflowers, euphorbia and a variety of daisy. We pottered around tidying dead stems and leaves, and weeding out the endless supply of weeds, to make room for our purchases. The garden is starting to look good again now and I just long for sunny days like today to get out there, unfortunately I've work today, but from home so I can eat my lunch in the garden at least.
