OK – this is what I’ve done today……

1. washed, hung out, gathered in, folded, matched socks, sorted and put away two loads of washing
2. scooped poop
3. filled all hanging bird feeders and bird tables
4. filled hens food hopper
5. fed and watered Professor Bunstable
6. shovelled, wheelbarrowed and sorted three loads of builders rubble (finishing off job started on Friday), with the dubious help of three hens and two dogs
7. emptied two huge compost bins into many, many wheelbarrow loads and put into new herb garden, with positive hindrance of three hens and two dogs
8. cooked three meals (porridge, home made pittas with curried mince and peas, roasted tomato and olive sauce and home made pasta)
9. set fire
10. picked all of the ripe tomatoes, chillis and sweet peppers
11. went shopping for paint & decorating sundries
12. vacuumed up all of the dust and rubble from sitting room where DM has been sanding and filling wood ready for me to paint (next weekend)
13. baked a loaf of bread
14. set a load more slug pub traps
15. …..actually – I think that’s enough…..

I’m as dazed and confused as this little dunnock, which I found on the path in front of the greenhouse while I was on a chilli raid earlier. DM’s got him in his hand because Mo, who is the blood-thirstiest chicken I’ve ever met, was just about to cart him off and eat him so I fended her off while DM grabbed the little ‘un, he held on while I shot his photo then he was put out of harm’s way until he was well enough to fly off. I hope the little soul is now perfectly well after his experience, snuggled up somewhere warm and dry.

I’m stiff, sore and tired but as DM said – we’ve ‘ticked loads of boxes this weekend’ – that’s what I like to hear.

NOTE for my Mum and any other non-pbase friends - the red crosses that have been appearing instead of my photos are a pbase fault. I'm sure that the owners of the site know about the problem and are doing their best to sort it out so 'hang on in there' sooner or later, the photos will appear out of the red cross fugg.

Last year, I was in the woods, shooting fungi.