Breakthrough

Last week was annual leave for the Unicorn, I managed to take half the week and enormous successes occurred.
Much of the rubbish to be recycled was cleared out of the garage which uncovered some more bulbs. A couple of patches of mixed crocus and one of chrysanthus zwanenburg bronze (yellow) are in the front lawn across the trench in front of the fuschia.
Around the holly went another hundred crocuses and 25 allium (drumsticks, sphaerocephalon) (purple).
Then we went to the garden centre, just to look.
On our return I said I had wished to buy some more pots for the last of the bulbs.
What's wrong with the cauldron was the response.
Next morning I inspected it. Its plastic and full of very old bulbs. Who cares! Cut holes in the bottom for drainage, found some gravel for the bottom, supplemented the bulb mix provided with compost and soil. Its now planted with everything supplied (10 allium moly, 5 anemone de caen, 15 mixed crocus, 10 Brodiaea and 10 allium ostrowskianum) and a few crocus biflorus Miss Vain (white). The balance of the 25 went in another pot I had found and both containers are on the front drive apart from one night when everything was moved to the garage because of a predicted frost. Must have worked because the fuschias are still flowering.
We went to the wetlands wildlife trust at Arundel and on the way back stopped off at the garden centre again to buy a stand, bird-feeders and bird-food, the purpose of the window-shopping the day before. This is now in place a metre and a half onto the back lawn and already visited by blue tits, greenfinches and a robin.
The chat about these feeders led to a breakthrough. It's the fish element of a pond that the Unicorn doesn't like, so a wildlife pond has got the thumbs up, now all I have to do is dig it!
The seed bank spreadsheet is created and the data entered.
New project: install router and laptop!
New technique to reduce procrastination; just say "Stop!"
Resolve to reduce use of exclamation marks but this is a very up-beat post.
This weekend, prepare to take some leave and decorate.