Sunday 26th January - one thing leads to another

 This morning I braved the cold to sort out three potted plants; some parsley from the supermarket, a miniature rose, and a tiny ponsettia. I reckoned this would be a messy job and I was right.

The poor rose was bone dry; it appears to have been grown in a cube of some artificial medium which was then pushed into a flowerpot and packed with a small amount of soil. So when I checked the surface to see if it needed watering I couldn't tell that the water hadn't penetrator the growing medium. I potted two stems in each of two pots with plenty of room using fresh wet soil, and soaked them. Let's hope that will work.

The parsley was also divided between two pots, and the poinsettia is now in A larger pot.

Then I needed more saucers; could we find them? I have a number of odd saucers I used to use for feeding the cats and now for pot plants, but most of them have disappeared  - where? 

However, turning out the cupboards has resulted in a great stack of dishes for the charity shop;

The sort of cooking we do now doesn't need all those dishes any more, and I'm sure someone else will be pleased to have them. I reckon that will count as January and February's decluttering, fulfilling two month's of the New Year's Resolution to send 2 bags of stuff to the charity shop every month.

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I'm glad I didn't decide to do the RSPB Birdwatch today. (It's an annual national survey, where you sit somewhere like your garden for an hour and record all the birds that land on your patch. This year it was over 24th-26th January)

It rained for most of today, so I wouldn't have seen many. We can have quite a squabble of little birds round the bird feeder, or none at all. The birds I have seen, that I recognise, are magpie, pigeon, blackbird, wren, robin, thrush, sparrow and blue tit. Once there was a woodpecker. That was very exciting!

I've filled the feeders with nigella seeds (completely ignored), peanuts (definitely second choice, apart from the woodpecker) and sunflower seed hearts (most popular).

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Ecc 3; Sunday's verse was verse 4. On Monday I'll be thinking about verse 5. This is from the New International Version.