Sowing seeds, portable plants, moveable meadow, creating crocus!

Hello again 

Thank you so much for your kind comments - I do not know how anyone finds the time to visit I really, really don't.  I  finish work  late and then I am too tired to keep my eyes open yet I still only manage 5-6 hours of sleep (what the heck am I doing with all that time!): I am in a constant whir of things that need to be done for work and finding it very tricky to keep everything else going (those who I have met up with recently will know that only too well.....).   I also thought that children needed less support as they grew older but in fact they need us more.....tricky times those teenage years. 

I am grabbing moments of time when and where I can and find it increasingly difficult.  I take my hats off to you making, baking, blogging, working, working, working, making, baking.....I always thought that I worked quite hard and used time well but at the moment there is just not enough of it.

I realise that this blog is on its last legs and in a state of neglect so the fact that anyone visits at all is ruddy marvellous and I thank you very much for keeping it and myself buoyed up!.  This blog has always been a bit of escapement - a refuge from real life and real problems and real worries (I have plenty of those but tend not to burden this blog with them just because here I like to keep it 'worry free' and more of a tra la la)  and I will be sorry  to give it up altogether to be honest.  

Anway for a moment let us forget the weather, world politics, social difficulties and who might win The Voice (I have no idea....)

Instead let us make something that it is cheery and cheerful.

Step One: Plan ahead....this was started in November (in retrospect it would have been easier to dig out a piece of the lawn...)

Step Two: Source your tin (30p last summer's car boot - very rusty which of course  is fine)

Step Three: Fill base with gravel (gathered from the beach if need be) - no holes needed in base of tin (so can be used afterwards for something else)

Step Four: Go to Wilkinson and buy the 'end of season' sale bulbs (I bought LOADS of them in November - still not too late to be planted AND very cheap)

 Step Five: Hope that you didn't get rid of those last few grass seeds hidden in the back of the shed.....

 Step Six: Sow accordingly - TRY and spread evenly..........

 Step Seven: Use lolly sticks to prop up lid

Step Eight: Sprinkle a bit of water and add TIME

 Step Nine: As time elapses the grass begins to grow

Step Ten: After a while you may need to snip grass with scissors....it is worth it .......and you get to smell freshly cut grass in the depths of winter!

I had to snip the grass many times over the past few months.

 Step Eleven: Eventually weeds bulbs begin to peep through  and that makes you very happy because you know that Spring and light is on its way

 Step Twelve: Eventually bulbs flower and you get so excited you take photographs before they have all come out......

 

Step Thirteen - move moveable meadow around to different rooms BECAUSE YOU CAN

Step Fourteen - put your feet up and flick through the latest gardening magazines - moveable meadow to hand.

PS: Painted inside lid black so that I could emulate an auricula theatre - those Victorians knew what they were doing - it makes a difference to the 'showing off'ness'

Take good care and thank you again