That Friday feeling.

Whilst many people were stuck in traffic, dying to get home for the start of their weekend I was having the best hour of my week. Having worked long hours throughout the week meant I finished work today at 4.30 so I nipped through the ever building traffic and parked up in the garden centre car park. I went straight past the full price plants and nipped over to the seasonal reductions because I was feeling in the mood for a bargain. Straight away I found lots of tobacco plants in lime and blue for a pound apiece and several Nigella (Love in a mist) which is worth getting for the name itself. But the jewels in the crown were two dwarf fruit trees. For ten pound (50% off original price) I bought a morello cherry tree and then found a Braeburn apple tree for the same price. I always wanted to make a wall of fruit and up to now we've got our bank of raspberries, our alpine strawberries interspersed with the normal sized strawberries and encircling the old chimney pot which sits just in front of the blackberries and to the side of the red currants. Once we plant up our cherry and apple we should be looking forward to making our own Summer Pudding in a few years. Is it too much to suggest Luke will make the bread for the pudding too?
A joyous half an hour was spent browsing all the sale items and I came away with £50's worth of plants which took up half my boot space in the car. It didn't help that I came straight from work and was wearing a silk dress. I should have got changed first but I wanted to get it all around the side of the  house and into the garden. This weekend we have full sun forecast so I shall enjoy getting everything planted and watered.
I should be working on paint stripping the stairway but the thought of sunshine after so much rain is too good to miss.