Chills and Winter Breaks

Hello everyone,

I wasn`t going to do an entry today but changed my mind. It`s so cold today, don`t you think? At least you should be if you live in southern England...I know Sara is cold because I just read her journal entry so I know I`m not quite alone. It`s been so mild of late that the cold wind really hit the spot today. I was lucky to be working inside today out of the cold wind, not that it will be very much warmer once we start getting frosts seeing as though we have no heating in the shop.  It`ll be thermal underwear again for me this winter...lol!

One of the comments on my entry of yesterday suggested that I`m an expert gardener...I`m not, just a better one because of my time at the garden centre. I`m quite lucky as I have the type of memory that can soak up lots of small details; like what plant is what and what type of compost is for what and what chemicals to use and when. At the time of my interview just one year ago I was told that there was so much I could learn and how right that was. I am so grateful that I got this job because I`ve learnt so much and it is helping me at home as well as in work. I`ve been interested in gardening for a lot of years but I wasn`t especially green-fingered. I find it amazing that with some things my memory is terrible but with others it`s as sharp as a tack. I suppose it`s a bit like an old computer, one minute it works and the next it doesn`t...lol!

I bought some winter pansies today for a hanging basket that I`m going to put outside the front door. I also bought some basket liner, some winter fleece, some fence paint, bell cloches to protect my geraniums and a tin of sour cherry drops...well I like to keep some sweeties in the car. Staff discount is a wonderful thing you know! Tomorrow Jim is going to mow the lawn and do some weeding and I`m going to do a bit more tidying in readiness for winter. I know it`s only autumn but I must prepare. I might even paint the front fence if it stays fine, it needs doing and it`s not a huge job and it`ll be one thing less for Jim to do. I have a list for him but he doesn`t know yet...lol!

I`ll have to ask Jim to reset the timer on the central heating. At the moment I have to use it manually which is a bit of a pain. Danny shorted the electric once when he was here and it caused the settings on the time to clear.....Jim reset it and it was fine...then Danny shorted it again with his iron..sigh.

Forgot to mention....we are definitely going to Prague in November. Today I had my days off confirmed and Jim has already found a hotel and and flights. All he has to do is book it and we will have our long weekend. I am really looking forward to it even though it will be very cold. I know the old city of Prague is exceptionally beautiful and you can be sure my trusty camera will be coming with me....I can`t wait!

I`ll say goodbye now; I don`t have any journals left to read so I`ll go and play some Bookworm until I sign off at 9pm.  Have a nice evening and take care. :o)