friday at last

Well its Friday. Weekend is nearly here. Loads has happened in the last week. I am very happy. They are going to give me Vegan Society certification for my soaps which will open doors for me I think. That also means when I have the meeting next week to finalise my lablels I will be able to include the sunflower logo. Not really sure it will sell my products better but its worth a try and at least I may get listed on the ethical sites now! hey I am happy and its nearly the weekend since the weather is looking good and we are intending to cut down about 15 trees and reclaim our garden. We have a problem with nosey old bag next door in that we put our fence up on the outside of our trees ( to keep dogs in etc) and she is now gradually nicking our garden so we have to act now and get it back before she plants more of her stuff in it. The original fence is actually still there so we are going to cut the trees to the ground and put our fence up immediately next to hers! Any plants she has put in will either be bent over or she had better move them. In some parts we are currently looking to lose 2ft of garden so we really need to get round to this. There is one bit she nicked the day we moved in and while I am willing to let her get away with that rather than take her to the civil courts ( makes it much harder to sell your house tho she has nicked about 18 inches of our garden and its about 10 ft in length in the dog leg bit) she has planted (non-indigenous) hedging tho so not all bad. But she aint getting any more! She has also which has really infuriated me removed loads of hedging roses which were really ours but are currently behind our hedge. They were still on our land tho. Anyway going to move the fence and plant blackthorn ( sloes in future) hawthorn, hazel, dog roses etc and they are good for wildlife, make a great hedge, we can coppice to keep in check and burn the wood(bonus) and she absolutely hates all those plants so I will get real satisfaction planting them!!!!!!

Trouble is I bet I will be knackered come monday with all the gardening we have to get done. Its one step closer though. I havent looked at weather forcast but its hot today and a few showers wont stop us anyway. WE will just have lots of tea breaks! hopefully we will not have to kill any deciduous trees. There is one that may need to be pruned but I think we can get away with not cutting it down completely. I hate leylandii and they are not only allowing next door to nick our garden they block out most of the sunlight. They will probably stay in the middle garden cos its nice and secluded and shady and where we sit and have BBQs and sometimes if on holiday we have breakfast there, but I think they will all go at the bottom end.

WE are going to get rid of both sheds and put some new ones up so they will mean we can access the sides of the larger shed to take it down. The neighbour who is nicking our garden likes them( leylandii that is) and wants us to keep them but the rest of the street ( who have lived there all their lives!) all hate em and agree with us so it will only annoy the nosey theif woman. She is too...........nosey. We cant even walk up the garden without her coming up to see what we are doing. She has also broken a whole side of the greenhouse where it was one of the few bits that was perfect. Possibly by accident but more than likely to see what we are growing in it ( tomatoes but I have a suspician she thought it was something more subversive! silly woman!).

The glass was all moved inside the green house and stacked against the bit of glass next to the hole - theres no way it was just the wind or something natural! havent accused her cos whats the point. WE are intending to buy a new polycarbonate one next year anyway. It did irritate me tho. We are intending infact to put some natural willow type screens against the fence once we have moved it. I bought 3 large ones last year in winter reduced in Wilkos but decided not to use yet cos the fence was definitely not in final position and we never trusted this neighbour. Did not actually expect her to do what she has done tho. On August 30th assuming all goes to plan and I have a strange feeling it will I will make my/my soaps debut then at this Creative Arts Fayre in Spon End. I will also begin my tax hammering but that is inevitable until i can give up my day job I think. I cannot afford to give up my day job yet so will just have to put up with paying extra tax until I start to have a real turnover with respect to the soap. I have hardly made any this week ( only 3 bars) since ran out of just about everything but its all been re-ordered and is on its way. Getting 80L of olive oil this time next friday since I am on holiday ( to work for myself!!!) over bank holiday but I am so happy. It seems if you follow your dreams they really can come true. Still waiting to find out more about this hotel that is interested in my soap but its all happening for me at last. Only 2 hours left at work.............there I am wishing my life away again! Gotta get out of this rat race and start to really live again. I suspect its bad for the face this self employment but what the hell...........we all have to get old and wrinkled and I rather be happy and over worked than bored and doing what someone else wants me to do. I have to go to a company dinner after work next week. Dont really want to go but really need to make the effort after I upset everyone when I refused to go horse racing. This time its a chinese which I dont particularly enjoy but has to be done. At least it might mean my job still exists for a while longer or at least till I tell em where to stick it and go self employed.