Courgette cakes. Strange colour as really yellow eggs and also yellow courgettes.

We often camp in a fenced off part of a local, small field. Arrived here today to find 12 heifers in their part of the field next to the farm house. Told they’re all due to calve for the first time imminently. It could be a noisy night!

Fish Friday fail this week. It has turned into lamb biryani and blueberry cake🙃

Aw. My car went round the clock this evening! Two years ago I thought she was on her way out, but she’s still going.

Brunch in farm shop cafe, and then beer & chips in pub watching the football. A lovely day marking the fact that 10 years ago today I early retired😊

The DIY supervisor. #MaineCoon

Bit fed up with our 3 vehicles, last week mine had new exhaust, today daughter’s in for coolant chamber replacement and suspension noise, OH’s campervan is tyre repair right now, bellows replacement tomorrow & windscreen replacement Friday.

Trying to be in two places at once.

At last. Cat flap fitting day today. Well it’s a pet door actually, we had to go bigger as cat ended up wearing the cat flap when she squeezed through it. We had to pull her out of it🤣

Two owners in the 33 years before us of this house. I don’t think either of them liked gardening as it has no plants at all🤷🏼‍♀️ in the front garden, and 1 honeysuckle, 1 holly bush, and 1 other sorry-looking indeterminate shrub in the back garden. So. Let project gardens commence!

Daughter’s car off road on garage advice until they fix suspension. My car in garage waiting for exhaust parts. Superhero OH has just driven daughter in campervan to work 40 odd miles away, and same again awaits us this evening to get her home. Cars😏

Very fed up with South West Water, every time I contact them they contradict what they told me previously😏

Evri today, your packet is out for delivery at 07:08, but at 10:00 sorry we were unable to deliver your packet today🙄

Scary to see car towing a caravan in outside lane of M5 overtaking 70mph middle lane traffic. Truly they are amongst us😬

One month now in new home and it has seemed odd not having a compost bin. OH, en route to cricket match and keen to redeem himself after yesterday’s house martins’ nest incident, has just rung me to say he’s bought us a bargain one off Facebook Marketplace😊

Yesterday someone, not me, opened🙄 the window we don’t open because of the house martins’ nest. It fell & smashed, luckily it was empty. This morning there are several house martins rebuilding it. I can understand the pair doing it, but so many!

Yikes. Call from vet. Thankfully grey cat is OK👍🏻, but X rays show her teeth absolutely are not👎🏻 So plan B agreed; vet just wakes her up now and refers her to specialist cat dental surgeon.

Tell you what, B&Q car park is like the Wild West👀

A picture rails day today. Fiddly and slow but, I think, worth it.

Gazing at the house martins noisily coming and going. Two more weeks of house arrest until the fitter comes to alter the uPVC back door in this new house of ours and install her pet door in it. #mainecoon

First thing I saw this morning when I opened the curtains was a baby woodpecker hopping along our garden wall. They are such characters.

The bright purple wall we inherited has begun its journey towards a more acceptable colour. My painting style is fast and a tad slapdash so I’m banned from doing any edges. Odd job will have to do those when he’s back from umpiring today’s cricket match.

Getting there with the unpacking. I gave each box a number and kept a list of their main contents. Regrettably I didn’t consider my phone charger, OH’s watch, and all the curtain poles’ rings to be worthy of a mention🙄

Quarter to ten and ‘our’ owl is still hooting. It couldn’t have slept much last night.

Well we moved house 😊 just catching up on all your news sky people.

Removals 08:30 tomorrow. If I ever see another box it will be too soon.

Today is M cricket umpiring & E working long day at hospital so I will be Billy No Mates. I am going to do some yoga, but mainly keep going with the PACKING. Wednesday is removals day.

Eight months ago we viewed a house and liked it. And today we exchanged contracts on it 😊

Wonderful wisteria at Wisley this afternoon. A therapeutic wander with my oldest pal. The scent was glorious - of the wisteria, that is.

The towers of Vauxhall...

SWIFTS 💕💕💕

Warm and breezy day, not an exciting day but washed and dried 3 loads of laundry. Operation empty the freezer continues. Made a chicken pie, and filo apple and walnut pastries. Last year’s runner beans with the pie for supper.

"Really Interesting People who are doing cool stuff on #Dartmoor that you should definitely know about" If you've never watched an episode of the The Dartmoor Podcast (*not a podcast) ... get yourself over to YouTube and sit back and enjoy the dulcet tones of your guide, George.

Well this is a first. Overtaking a lifeboat on the M5.

On almost deserted campsite in New Forest, whilst I like the constant bird song, I don’t like the constant road noise. And no access to Forest except quite a way down said road. Won’t book here again. Never mind, only chose it as it’s close to the birthday celebration we’re going to tomorrow.

Way back when … I had a Renault 5, and I like how the new electric one looks very similar. We never had a Ford Capri, but they’ve also recently brought that back. Just seen one, but disappointed, it doesn’t look like its namesake.

Tulips from Wisley today💕

House move has got to the survey-says-next-house-is-ok-and-so-we-can-sign-the-papers stage.

PLEASE HELP - Objections needed ASAP to two luxury homes proposed close to Auchagallon - a beautiful and mysterious stone circle cairn on the coast of Arran, not far from Machrie Moor. Must be in by Monday 20th April - details below. 1/

Eating the freezer contents. Have made apple strudelly thing. Also saw a bag with the last five sprouts from Xmas in it.

Have just booked to see GP, first available appointment was in four weeks time.

Have swapped a phone contract due to ridiculous, we think, price increase. Now have an e-sim for the first time. All working perfectly, more data and nearly half the monthly cost.

The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear." [A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare, 1596]

Car Play is such a drama queen. It works for days. Stop for 10 minutes, change nothing. It won’t work🙄 *looks for map book*

Just filled up. 205.9 per litre😳

I resigned from a little side-hustle job this week. I’ve done it for them for the past ten years. Not even a thank you or a best wishes for the future, just a ‘I have deactivated your account’🙃

Filled log basket up earlier and think a queen bee may have been asleep on one of the logs. Cue one enormous bee sleepily flying around the room this evening, safely caught and relocated back outside.

Please repost & help me find a home (UK) for Johnny. Needed through absolutely no fault of his own - details in alt text. Scottish Borders but will travel. Many thanks.

I am trying not to listen, but daughter in dining room on an online lecture about human diseases caused by worms🤢

Cooking with the end of last year’s tomatoes from the freezer. Nearly time to grow this year’s!