Pottering about

I've been concentrating on my garden for a bit, planting seeds and repotting things.  I took the overgrown aloe vera which was becoming very overcrowded in the kitchen and found that I actually had nine aloe vera plants!  I repotted these and have spread them around the house, although I plan to give some of them away.  My daughter has already swapped one with someone locally who gave us two pumpkin plants and a cucumber in return. 

I hastily planted my strawberry plants out and protected them from birds and cats with netting and spiky things.  Then found my dog sitting on three of the plants.  I hope they recover!

I have a lot of tomato plants on the kitchen windowsill, and my lean-to tiny conservatory is full of pots of seeds and seedling spring onions. I paiud a bally fortune for delivery of five bags of compost last week, and now find there is a local supplier selling at less than a quarter of the price.  My daughter is going to go and fetch me some today, as I want to fill the raised beds in preparation for my onions and courgettes being ready to plant out. 

I'm worrying about the tall wall between me and my neighbour, as she tells me that some bricks have fallen off into her garden.  She told me I could come and fetch the bricks any time, but I am reluctant to just barge into her garden.  I do need to check on the wall though, in case it is dangerous.

I have been experimenting with making facemasks.  My initial experiment was really bad, as I sewed the elastic the wrong way round, which meant that when I turned the mask the right way out it had the elastic on the inside.  I was including loops of elastic but I notice that the N95 respirators have bands of elastic which go around the head, and I think this might be more efficient and more practical.

I bought myself a month's access to Find My Past but haven't had the time to use it, which is stupid. I seem to have a lot to occupy me with housework, gardening, sewing and gradually scanning in the photographs I took when the children were younger, which have negatives and aren't digital.