progress

Made big progress on a long standing issue yesterday, quite excited.

Where is Spring

Well thursday was officially the first day of Spring but somebody forgot to tell the weather, its freezing and snow is causing avoc around the country.
Still it got to get better soon, hasn't it ?.

Got to be up at 4am to drive to the airport, reckon it'll be cold then.

Dates of Destiny

Busy couple of days ahead on the sporting front that can be described "Dates of Destiny".

Tomorrow I'll be playing in the local table tennis championships and aiming to win the Open singles for the 11th time (first time in 1984). Didn't play in them last year so be nice to get the title back. Sure I'm not getting any younger but its only a small league and not the highest level I play so have got every chance of victory.
To be honest the local league is possibly as weak as its been certainly I can't remember it been weaker but maybe some young pretender can give me a run for my money, who knows.
Also it would be good to take the veterans and the doubles aswell.

Monday we've got our last Pool match and have a real shot of winning the league, we are top by a narrow margin but 3 other teams are still in with a shout. We have a hard match compared with our rivals and I feel we need a 8-2 win to be sure but 7-3 would probably do.
Going to be a nervy night for all the teams, could be a matter of which team deals with the pressure best.
Its great it been so competitive and going to the wire, could finish anywhere from 1st to 4th.

We didn't own a Ipad

Feeling a bit nostalgic today (well it is my birthday) and thinking back to my youth, probably the best time of my life. I wish I could turn the clock back to a time before technology took over our lives, had more fun then

Great Video to remind those who had their youth in the 70's & 80's, brings back the memories.

My Garden

As I was asked on my last post about the colours of the flowers in my garden thought i'd do a post about it.

Currently through winter I've just got a few Primroses in pots around the front of the house, bit of a variation of colours but just brightens the place up a bit.

 

I put a lot of spring flowering bulbs in my borders last year and they are now coming through nicely, mainly purple and white flowers (crocus) but there will be some red and yellow when the tulips and daffodils flower.

 

But lets face it summer is the main time, I have bulbs in for Dalia, Gladioli and a few others that will look nice.

I've also around 12 rose bushes (various colours) around the garden which i've just pruned. I've ordered 5 more which have arrived today, would plant them but its snowing (yes winer as returned) but should do them tomorrow.

The 5 new colours are as the photo below :-

 



As I mentioned in my previous post I've ordered a lot of plug plants (100 of each that are about 9mm at this stage) which I pot and grow on then transfer into the garden around May time to give me a good display until late september.
So far the the Petunia (Bolero) and Red Geranium (Fire Queen) have come and are now in pots in my backplace growing nicely. I'll lift them outside on nice sunny days and in on a night as the frost would kill them.
You can see the colours in the photos :-

I'm awaiting delivery of 100 Begonia (destiny) which again i'll transfer into pots, you can see the colours below :-

Yes 300 plants are a lot, a few may die off but i'll use what fills my garden and give the remaining to friend/neighbours, keeps me out of misschief lol.

Flowers, Cars and the Blues

Yes strange title to a blog post but they are the three subjects on my mind.

Flowers - Well really looking forward to see how my garden looks this year, I've ordered a lot of plug plants (petunias, begonias and geraniums) which i've been seperating into pots and will then grow on before transferring into the garden after the last frost. Already got daffodils, tulips, iris's, fresias coming through for spring to keep plenty of colour for now.
Also got a few roses along with hygdrangers, gladdioli and a few others i've forgot the names, yes the plan is a sea of clolour this year, will post photos.

Car - Been giving it lots of thought whether to change my car this year, not that it isn't running ok but its now 8 years old and sometimes you just fancy a newer model (bit like women I suppose, lol). I've got a investment due to mature in May so that will do nicely to pay for it.


Blues - As a fan of Blues music there are another of artists i've got on my must see list, and sadly i found out yesterday than one of my favorites Magic Slim had passed away in February. Got a couple of his albums and really wanted to catch him on one of my trips to the States but its not to be.
He was still touring and playing the Clubs and still a excellent guitarist even at 75 years old so I'll finish with a tribute video.