A Charmed life

I so like getting my hands dirty! I love tinkering in the earth and helping things to grow. Even just touching on the edge of nature can raise my spirits and so it was this morning.

This morning, having dealt with matters financial, I jumped in the car with a tray full of French Bean seedlings, and set off to visit Lottie, our allotment. 

Whilst there I did a bit of weeding and sat under one of the fruit trees to draw a schematic of our plot, which is sitting here on the desk telling me to do something with it.

 Of course I planted the beans:

 And managed to work out how to use the delay button on the camera:

ON the way home I did a bit of shopping. Actually shopping is something I enjoy, even if it is just supermarket shopping. I love hunting out the best prices, finding new products and seeing what English products have made their way across the channel.

On arriving home I threw together a quick soup. Spinach and potato, with broad beans and peas (yes the broad beans and peas were leftover from dinner last night - well waste not want not!). Even if I do say so myself it was delicious, and nourishing.

 And of course with this fine weather we ate lunch in the garden.

After lunch an obligatory Friday siesta. I don't know what it is about Fridays but I do tend to save my weekly siesta until them. 
I then settled down to do a bit of writing on Writey-Ho. And am now going to settle down with a cup of (Vanilla) tea in the garden before preparing tonight's classes.

Hmmm- A charmed life and that's for sure.