12th April 2021
The delivery of my plum trees and gooseberry bushes arrived today. I had ordered them just before autumn, and had tracked their progress since then. I had all the compost ready, and dug all the holes and carefully planted everything.
I’m used to planting a stick, for that’s all the trees were, it is a matter of blind faith than anything will happen. At least I planted them the right way round, the hairy end went in the dirt.
On the literature is said to expect them to fruit between three and five years, now I’m sure there would be those who might be sceptical having to wait that long at my time of life, but being an optimist, I look forward to tasting at least one apple, one cherry and one plum, and a gooseberry crumble before I pop my clogs.
I had to run some errands, including paying in a cheque into Kelli’s bank account. I had never done it before, so was not used to these tube sucking devices. With a bit of good fortune I managed to work it, putting the cheque into the clear acrylic capsule, inserting it into the holder, and watching it disappear. The only confusion came when I requested some paying in slips, the poor attendant didn’t understand me at all, until I remembered to use the term deposit slips, then everything went swimmingly.
Another Lifetime to go 