Feeling weary and bonsai potting

 I have felt weary and achey today but I think that I probably overdid the walking yesterday as I haven’t been doing so much lately. I needed to sort the cat area and the plastic container that had the sack of cat litter broke when I moved it. I had a hamper basket in the wardrobe but it was full of pictures. The sack fits in it fine but now I have nowhere for the surplus pictures. I have found gaps for three and some of the others are photos so o can take them out and the frames can go to the charity shop.

The jigsaw is progressing, albeit slowly, we have most of the captions done so I placed them on the puzzle. Pandora came to see that I had done it properly!

She never plays with the pieces but catches them with her tail or when she jumps off!

After lunch I went of to do some tree potting. I bought a lovely ceramic pot for the oak tree yesterday, and some strong plastic pots arrived today for the others.

I potted the beech and the Rowan that I pulled up on our walk a couple of days ago first. I realise that I forgot to take a photo of them so will do that tomorrow. Then I got the descendant of the Birnam oak out of the pot that it has obviously been in for some time. It was a tall pot and the trunk had developed inside the pot as well as on the top. There were roots on the lower part so I have planted it with a lot of roots exposed. Cutting a chunk of trunk off was a step too far for me, so hopefully it will be okay. O stood the pot by it when it was done for the photo.

Fingers firmly crossed now!

I have been reading a book that I got at the book stall on Saturday, it is really interesting and it is a Scottish charity.

Hopefully I will feel a bit more lively tomorrow as I am intending going into Edinburgh in the morning with Tina. She has a course to attend and I went to familiarise myself with the train station before I travel south in three weeks time.

Busy Sunday part two

 The walk up to the garden was short but quite steep in parts, as was the garden, which was more like a park and quite amazing. So lots more photos which speak for themselves.

We went and had tea and cake and then to look at the plants on sale. I bought a fabulous oak tree to bonsai, although when I was leaving a lady at the gate said she had gifted the tree to the owner and that she had been given it by a man that had grown it from a Birnam oak acorn! I will now be a nervous wreck in case I kill it!

We walked home and then went to the garden centre where I got a new ceramic pot for the tree.

I will finish with a photo of Darren who won this rather splendid sword in an archery competition. It is held for a year but he will have to return it when he moves up here permanently.

Busy Sunday part one

 I am going to make two blog entries today as I have too many photos for one! The other day a couple asked me where the Birnam path led to in the direction away from the town, I didn’t know, so thought I would take a walk in that direction. I went about a mile along, it was getting narrower and I turned back when I got to a fenced off industrial site. In a couple of the pics you can see the the tall mast I walked up to on a mad day!

Called in at the shop on my way back then had a nice cuppa with my feet up when I got in. After lunch Tina and I walked up to see a local garden that opens one day a year and raises money for a children’s

Cancer charity. More pictures in part two!