Saturday

It was a mixed sort of day yesterday, a couple of disappointments but compensated by lots of progress in the garden.

The first disappointment was that the fruit tree didn't arrive as promised. I contacted the company and they phoned back to say that a replacement will be sent out straight away. Being cynical, I don't think the original tree was actually despatched but at least the replacement will be here within a couple of days. I'll just have to keep it alive until M's next visit.

The Hello Fresh delivery didn't arrive either. They emailed to say that the parcel had been misdirected by the courier and so I wouldn't receive the meals I had ordered. The email assured me that they had reset my account and all I needed to do was choose what I wanted for next week but, on checking, I seem to have lost the discount which meant that the first order was free of charge. As it stands I will have to pay for the next box of meals which I'm not going to do. I have emailed for clarification but if I don't get a satisfactory answer I will just cancel my account. I was only trying it because Joy was able to offer the discount so I thought it would be a chance to try out some different meals - I intended to cancel pretty quickly anyway because it's too expensive for me to do regularly. It wasn't meant to be!

On the plus side, M worked in the garden for a couple of hours. She weeded along one side of the garden where bindweed is peeping through from next door, then planted the nerine bulbs and the geranium and vinca plants I'd bought, and she also brought some sedums from her garden for me. A few petunias have been planted in pots but we ran out of soil so there's still a fair bit of planting to do. 

So some time in the next two weeks I need to visit a garden centre or two and choose a couple of climbing roses, a good supply of decent sized pots, and I have to order another ton of topsoil. We're hoping that the rest of the petunias, freesias, veggies, cosmos, sweet peas and angel's fishing rods can go out next time. Hopefully the fruit trees will be here and a couple of shrubs from an earlier order, so by the end of her next visit everything should be planted, which is exciting.

I have no plans for today but the weather forecast isn't good so I won't be going out. I think I have a a lazy day ahead of me!