The Vultures Swoop...

The last few days has been the Day Of The skip..It has at least given plenty of watching human nature at work. The bike which sat on top of it since the lad brought it back, has disappeared again! That was a bit of a wonder since it wasn't in the best condition to say the least. A few men ccame last night to go over it, and when Vin went down for the paper this morning he said it had all been disturbed. Then at lunchtime three men in a lorry came and started unloading things from it. They were about half an hour and filled their lorry with the contents. Obviously they were after metal, because anything remotely metal was thrown into the back. Then the dentist next door but one from us came out and got them to take two very large pieces of dental equipment away also. His wife followed and took away a couple of things like a model of a roof???? and what looked like an art case. I syuppose it is a case of one mans junk is another mans useful stuff.
Since the skip was by now half empty,over lunch Vin said I think I will go and get rid of that big old plastic pot that had half a Cordyline in it, so he wheeled that round..came in, and lo and behold just ten minutes later the lorry came to take the skip away!! Good timing that was.. he was well chuffed.

We nipped out this morning, because we wanted to get a couple of plants for some pots he had emptied yesterday,had a good look at their plants and decided on another Spirea mainly because they are so hardy, and seem to last for ever in our pots, and a little Acer tree that he said he will nurture, and it will be a project for him. We have one in the garden that he rescued from the sale section of another garden centre ande bought really cheaply, and he nurtured that, and it has grown into the most gorgeous little tree.

We of course had our last free coffees for the month, and he went off to get the shrubsw and I started to have a look round, when I bumped into and ex school colleague..barry. If you can imagine a large Man who looks like father christmas that is barry. In fact he was telling me that he actually does Father Christmas at Dobbies in december..I wonder if I should go and sit on his knee at Christmas?? he brought me up to date with a number of people who were at school with us, and vice versa..Nice catching up.
Went off then to get a few things that I wanted..they had a good offer on Yankee Candles the Baby Powder flavour with 25% off so I got two samplers, and a medium jar for our neighbour as a flat warming present.It's a beautiful smell that one, and one of their top sellers apparently. if you can imagine the scent of baby powder , that is it.
Tonight we are having:Sausage lattices with quorn,
Bubble and Squeak rostis
Carrots and beans
White sauce to go with the veggies.