Feeling a little left out!

I was feeling pretty clever when I pre-ordered it on Amazon. Afterall, that's what I did for the previous book in the series. Of course, I forgot that when you live in England you get post on Saturday mornings, so you have your much-awaited book to read over the weekend.

I live in Ireland now. We don't get post on Saturday. Not only that, but it seems I didn't pre-order early enough since my copy was only dispatched yesterday!!! Come on people!

It was all made worse by walking into eason's yesterday where there are endless copies piled high. Taunting me.

Friends who relied on local bookstores for their copy have not only got it but finished reading it and I haven't even received my very own copy! I feel silly and left out now.

Being optimistic the earliest I can expect my copy would be tomorrow - that's being optimistic!!! And I work from home. How will I control myself? How will I focus on my job, when the book is sitting on the hall table, calling to me.

I should have bought it in easons on Saturday. would it really have been that silly - at least I'd know what happens and wouldn't feel so tortured.

Lovely evening

Yesterday was a lovely sunny evening, and Jay and I maximised it.

After work I went for a swim at Castlepark beach. To say it was refreshing would be an understatement; that water was cold, but I'm still glad I went for the swim. After sitting on the beach for a while, we got freshly picked gooseberries from Jay's Mum. Then we went home and had a BBQ.

After the BBQ I staked my sunflowers. They have all now been replanted; some to a bed in the garden, others to various boxes and pots. They are doing really well after early wories that I may have killed tham following weeks of torture in pots far too small. I think I even spotted a flower bud on one this morning! I have also replanted the redcurrant plant which is thriving in its new home.
I do feel that my mini trailing petunias are suffering in their pot - they just don't look as healthy as they used to and the leaves look all bitten but I can't find what's eating them. To give everything a boost I sprayed them all with Miracle grow last night. Let's see what happens.

I definitely think we need a few more sunny days and sunny evenings!

Update: It is with some embarrassment that I admit that the 'flower bud' I saw this morning on one of my sunflowers, was in fact a spider, making a little nest for herself. I sorted her out, though.
I also sorted out that giant bloody slug that thought he was moving into my window box of sunflowers too - over the wall with him!

Well done!

Congratulations to Jamie, who's entry to the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind Calendar Competition has been selected for the 2008 calendar.
This will be Jamie's first published photograph and it is well deserved. Well done, babe!