This week so far

Yesterday, we started to count the Morrisons Let's Grow vouchers that we have been collecting for the last few weeks.  I had been peeking in the box, thinking we hadn't got many, until I started to pull them out and it seemed endless!  There were zillions!

So I went off and got some help.  Lucy and Noah spent the afternoon counting them into piles of 50 vouchers with me and the tally came to 2927! Wow!

The next job was to choose some gardening equipment from the catalogue, which seems easy enough.  Lucy and Noah made some executive decisions and I went off to work out how many vouchers it came too.  About an hour later, after a lot of crossings out, adding items, a couple of cups of tea and a two ginger biscuits and a calculator as my brain was fizzing, I finally had a shopping list which left us with 5 vouchers left!  I went on the computer to order and to my surprise, that all went smoothly!  I was quite chuffed with myself.  All sorted and I could cross that off my never ending list!

So when I arrived at school this morning, I found more Morrison vouchers!  Aaargh!  Very kindly, people were still offering me vouchers (the more the merrier), but I had it all sorted!!!  Thankfully, Morrisons give you 48 hours to amend your order, so I've got a definite deadline now and this time tomorrow, I can forget about it again!

Thank you to everyone who collected all those vouchers for us!  It all helps.

Today, my small band of merry men and ladies, helped us clear one of the school paths.  Our school is used as a polling station and the main pathway to the voting room, is adjacent to our garden. It's also where all our compost bins are and where a large heap of manure slowly rots.  Over the months, both compost bins and manure have been overflowing and encroaching the path, as well as several bags of earth left by contractors.  It had been on my list for weeks to tackle, but now we had purpose!  Armed with spades, the kids moved the offending soil back onto the heaps from whence it came, emptied the bags of earth and swept the pathway clear.  We unhooked the hose and put that away and cut back the lavender.  Edie decided to make a posy for her mum with the last of the lavender flower, but she was soon back with Mrs Green in tow to make another posy for Miss Golia for her birthday. What a lovely thought!