Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Grumpy and spuds

Today we cleaned. A lot. Almost all morning.

Fionn's room and the end of the hallway are clean. Don't go imagining that just involved picking up a couple of books and dusting off the surfaces. We are properly messy people here.

Do I have a feeling of zen, of shiny spic and span pleasedness?

No I do not. Grumpy as. Had to go to the pub. That was the good bit.

In between, I did some more organising for the growing spuds in buckets competition which I am organising for every child in Fionn's school. The idea is that this will kick off the beginning of our school garden. We are going to use swift potatoes as they will grow fast enough for the weigh in mid December. Not buckets after today's research though. PB28s. Which are black plastic planting bags. Much cheaper. They also don't require me and some other mugs which i hadn't yet found to drill holes in 185 plastic buckets either.

3 comments:

Sharonnz said...

We had terrible luck doing spuds in those black bags last year...not sure what we did wrong. All learning though!

Nova said...

sounds like a great idea though!

and congrats for conquering a little bit of the house! i feel your pain too, it's *not* a fun process..

Sandra said...

Thanks Nova. 'Conquering', that's a good word for it.

Sharon, we did the tyre stack thing last year with little success. Hopefully this is better.