Marley Vs compost

Gardening

Today I had planned to go national trusting, but I felt bad that Marley would be stuck at home and miss out on the sunshine.
She was waiting to go out when I got up and spent most of the day sunbathing on the roof.

I did get a bit of an outing. I went to the works for some index cards to make a matching game for my newest violin tutee and for some new work trousers (mine fell to bits on Friday after losing a fight with some sharp thing in my bike... Then the split entirely from my left knee most of the way to my right... It's a good thing I have a long coat!).
I also had coffee and cake at heelis, so it's national trust coffee and cake!
No complaints.

When I got back I thought it would be a shame to stay indoors so I did some work in the garden.
I cut the trees back (I know it's the wrong time of year, but I desperately want to discourage birds from nesting in the garden. Marley is an awful hunter, but I don't want to hand her baby birds on a plate).
I cut the trees with a saw! It was such hard work.
I dug the compost out of the bin and put it in the flower beds.
Fingers crossed itlli kick start our plants growing back!
Marley was not a fan of the compost.

Work adventure!

Tyntesfield house

On our way home we went to Tyntesfield house too.
It was interesting, and more of the rooms are open now too!
We didn't quite outrun the rain though.

Welsh castles

Tats and I went on a road trip over the weekend!
On Saturday we visited Tredegar house, castel coch and Caerphilly castle.

Castell coch is my favourite place to visit! It's so crazy and I love the birds and stars ceiling.

After adventures we went to stay with Jay. We had the 'barry special' from the Chinese which was..  interesting..
And we watched the live action jungle book film (which apparently came out ages ago??) And the new Jurassic park.

Twigs snowdrop festival

Spring is coming!
We had been meaning to visit twigs for ages as it's a really great initiative. We got our chance at the weekend when they opened to the public to show their impressive snowdrop collection.

New running shoes

Tracey and I have raised to maxx again.  So I now have new running shoes. They are obviously the reason for my best time yet for 4k. And my blisters.
But, in seriousness they're much better than my old trainers.

Glastonbury

Tats has come to stay! So today has been the first day of adventure, and we went to Glastonbury- in the town, abbey and tor, and to the tiny village of Nun

ney which has a huge castle.

Life update? I guess?

So, I've been more hopeless than usual at maintaining any social media presence this week.
The knock on effect of this is that I can't update my blog with photos unless they're on Instagram. Long story short, I was using an app to update my blog. Then I updated my phone and now I can only update my blog through the official blogger website. Definitely not so great on my phone!
😭
It's so frustrating I genuinely am only bothering to update it because it's been going soooo long.
Ok, grumpy moment over.

On Monday I went to Oxford for an appointment and to visit sta travel to try and make a bit if progress with mine and Emma's NZ trip for Becca's wedding.
Exciting times!
I discovered a new Korean cafe on ST Clements too called Rachel's. Very yummy.
On Tuesday I was working in Oxford again too.

Wednesday was an early start and working in London. I had hoped for an early night on Wednesday night and a lie in on Thursday.
Sadly Marley had other ideas.
She really gets spooked by windy weather and won't go outside if it's a bit breezy. Last night we caught the tail end of a hurricane. Marley was inconsolable from 1am until about 4.30am.
She kept crying and fussing and trying to keep an eye on the weather. In the end traffs went to sleep in the spare room as he was working and I built marley a Duvet nest and tried to cheer her up. Today I have baggy eyes and a headache for my troubles!

Sledding

Snow!

Not so much a 'snow day' because I still had to go to work, but definitely a

snowy day!
My walk to work was freezing!