We’ve invested (heavily) in new garden furniture this week. We’ve bought a really swanky teak table, chairs and parasol for the patio and it’s all set up and raring to go. It’s so swanky that there is a granite ‘lazy susan’ in the middle of the table so we don’t even have to lift up the Apple Mac to pass it to the other person, just swivel the ‘lazy susan’ and she does the rest. It’s funny how such a simple design can give such a huge amount of pleasure. We’ve both been playing with it since David set it all up while I was at work on Wednesday, when it was delivered. This photo is of a gorgeous hanging candle lamp set that my little sister, Jan bought me for Christmas and it goes on the new table a treat. Thanks Jan.
Our problem?
It’s unseasonably cold here, in fact, we may even have frost tonight. The forecast is 3º c (wahay, for anyone who’s seen my earlier struggles with degree signs that’s a first….I’ve discovered it only works with the dedicated numerical pad not the numbers on the top of the qwerty bit) and of course that’s cold enough for frost. I’m sitting here freezing despite the sun being out. That’s also very unusual because I’m so hot-blooded that I am almost never cold. David says sleeping with me is like sleeping with a furnace…..and that’s not a reference to our hot sex life either!
We forced ourselves to sit out and have a cup of coffee at the table earlier but it wasn’t really much of a pleasure because the cold is biting.
The courgette (zucchini) plants and beans were nearly planted out today before I saw the forecast for tonight, - I’m glad I didn’t get to them because if I had done, I would be charging round like a mad thing now, fleecing them over, trying to protect them. I’d been planning to do some planting but got up late and had run out of day before I knew it!
Where is the mild weather so we can make use of this new stuff? It seems to have been cold and wet here for ever. I want to be able to eat breakfast outside, as well as lunch and supper. By this time last year we were enjoying hot weather in abundance. Before David’s trip to Le Mans we’d spent weeks eating in the garden, mind you that could have had something to do with the state of the kitchen. The rest of the house too was filled with rubble and brick dust as it was this time last year that we were living in a building site while walls were being knocked down and the kitchen was being gutted.
I have visions of us laying back in our new chairs (with cushions) and watching the bats and stars while Otis Redding croons away in the background but to do that tonight we’d need our thermal knickers on so I think instead we’ll set the fire for its last blaze of the winter and curl up on the sofa with a glass or three of the red stuff.
One day we’ll see some warmth, I’m sure! (Possibly not till 2005 though at this rate.)