Good afternoon - quite cloudy and a little bit of a breeze, but good gardening weather, so I've been planting out tomatoes in terracotta pots, which I hope will give them a bit more stability than growbags, because it's Windy City down here. Also harvested the garlic and gleaned 12 small bulbs. Not the size you'd find on the supermarket shelves by any stretch of the imagination, but garlic nevertheless, and they will be used to flavour soups. Mrs O was clipping back a few shrubs at the front whilst I was doing that, so all in all a productive hour or so.
Master O made a flying visit at the end of last week, and stayed a couple of nights (which he largely spent playing computer games on my computer when not dismantling his laptop on the dining room table having apparently spilt Coke over it
). We had 24 hours notice of his arrival and decided to take the covid risk because otherwise, well, we'd just be doing nothing and seeing nobody. We were able to assemble a load of stuff for him to take back to Sussex, including his gaming computer, which he gave to us to look after "temporarily" about 4 years ago, various toys for G/S (before he gets too old for them), and certain family "heirlooms" which we felt right to pass on. They included my model railway, which he's had designs on for a number of years ...
Just as he was leaving us, next door neighbour appeared walking her tortoise down the front drive (as you do round here). It's a feisty beggar, is reputedly older than she is (she's in her early 80's I think) and takes great exception to her purple slippers which it attempts to bite (or do other nefarious things to - who knows what goes on in a tortoise's mind). Master O was fascinated and now wants one (to add to the collection of hedgehogs and slowworms in his somewhat overgrown garden), although he missed the best bit when NDN picked it up and the wretched reptile promptly widdled all over her .....
Never a dull moment in Dorset. Have a good day, all.