Revolutionary Rants

Maybe it is me, but the weekends seem to be flying passed these last couple. Mr C says the same, so it must be a household thing if it is only us. Friday afternoons are usually busy, Saturday shoots by and then it is Sunday, and with a lie-in it is gone! Not that we even lie-in much anymore, not like in our student days, when 9:00am (when we got up this Sunday) would have been early. I do prefer the system we’ve had since Chicken started at work in 2006, of getting up at 7:00am, because I feel like I have more of a day, but hey…

Last Friday was no exception to the busy thing. I got the bus to St. John’s where I went in the garden centre and brought seed potatoes, onions (red and white), spinach, lettuce and beetroot. I was then met by the loved one and we went for a dental check-up. We hadn’t been since 2003, but our new dentist - Alex - nearly wept at the sight of our ‘exceptional’ teeth and told Mr C is was wonderful to ’see two such remarkable sets in a row’. Nice. Then we had a quick evil capitalist food shop and went home.

On Saturday we were woken at 7:30am by Ferris, who has a intermittent thing with the stairs at the moment. I had to work for a couple of hours, so Chicken and Bueller came in with me. Mr C went off in to town. After work, we drove out to Instow, which was surprisingly quiet for the beginning of half term; maybe due to the biting wind.

When we got home Dad came and helped me start off the allotment. We tilled the soil for the potatoes and planted three rows, and did the first row of onions (I shall shortly head down to do row number two). It is funny how you change, I used to wonder at gardening; I could see why people liked it, but it ‘wasn’t for me’. Then, on Saturday I headed down to the allotment in a right old mood and came back an hour or two later relaxed and happy. It was great. I just hope something will grow! Well, even if nothing does, I suppose it is the gardening that is the point anyway. We’ve split the patch in to quarters and my Nan is bringing on some beans for me and we will also plant some rhubarb in September. My brother has also put in some raspberry bushes.

The rest of Saturday was taken up by eating the meal Chicken prepared and watching telly (including the disappointing Dr Who - David Tennant may be very gorgeous but he is starting to annoy me as the Doctor, I must admit… Plus it is so kiddie geared now. It used to be for everyone, now it plainly isn’t…)

On Sunday we had our lie-in, thereby missing the only bit of snow that laid. It is shower with snow in the afternoon, but it was gritty, hail-like snow, not thick enough to lay. Yesterday we didn’t do much, walked the dog, tidied the spare room and sitting room and cooked a roast. In the evening we watched the Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which we actually enjoyed more second time out.

Charlton Heston died over the weekend. I await to see if anyone will now prise his gun from his “cold dead hands”…

Now it is Monday again, beginning of another week. It is freezing, but sunny presently and before work I am going to take the dog and do some gardening…