In between the showers we've been busy in the garden. Our daughter brought several hanging baskets, some plants and a macrame pot holder with her. We fixed up the spider plant in the macrame holder and changed the plants in the hanging baskets. Some of them now have new strawberry plant cuttings. We also cut the lavender that has finished flowering and hung it up in the covered yard to dry.
On rainy days Daughter D and I have been sitting with our crafting hobbies. I've done some more of my embroidery and D made two Big Knit bags from an Ingrid Wagner kit.
On Sunday we enjoyed a retro style lunch, each of us making a course. I made prawn cocktail. The salad base was home grown tomatoes, cucumber and salad leaves. (In fact we've been eating salad for lunch each day and every day we've shared the cooking with a different menu for our main evening meal every time). Mr P cooked roast lamb with vegetables from the garden. Daughter D made a blackberry and apple crumble.
Our local library librarian who leads our reading group sent an email to say that it was now possible to order a selection of books to collect, which is what I did and then I received another email to collect them this morning. The usual procedure is in place - face covering, sanitiser at the door, one person at a time at a special table just beyond the entrance door etc. My glasses steamed up probably because it was pouring with rain outside and warm in the library so it wasn't the joyous experience I'd been hoping for after so many weeks not being able to walk in the park to the library and then browse the bookshelves, which is still not possible. However, the random selection of books provided from the genre of crime fiction I had asked for include a couple I have read, but the majority I haven't. A new publication The Book of Sheffield - short stories and articles about Sheffield written by authors who know the city, sponsored by the University and Sheffield Libraries was included in my bag of books as a free gift. 2020 is Sheffield's Year of Reading when the enjoyment and benefits of reading are being promoted. It's such a shame that libraries have had to be closed for months and now that their services are happening again in a limited way I shall use the order and collect books facility as often as I can. The librarian has arranged for our reading group to meet up in the open air in the walled garden next to the library on a date in September. Even if the weather isn't good I'm looking forward to seeing the other members of the group.
Once again thank you for stopping by. Have a good weekend everyone.
