Saturday 17th January 2026 - Short Update, Garden Centre, Passing Tankers and in the Garden

A short update; the new Freesat box arrived.  Peter has set it up and all is working well.  Also, he now has my old earbuds (so much easier than earphones, if you want to get up and move around).  Once the cooker was cleaned, I washed down the kitchen walls (tiled from floor to ceiling) and afterwards applied grout cleaner.  Everything is looking fresh and bright.

I follow the Facebook page for JD Planting (the relatively new garden centre at Groveland’s in Roughton).   I spotted, on their page, they have seed potatoes in stock.  I knew Peter would be interested so, on Friday after shopping in Mundesley, we took a detour home, to encompass Roughton.  As well as seed potatoes, I bought some primroses to replace the sad looking cyclamens, in pots,  whose roots have been attacked by vine weevils.

Mentioning Mundesley, reminded me, we have seen tankers heading in this direction and then back again.  On Friday we found out there is a break in a sewage pipe in the cliff, near Mundesley’s lifeboat station/ramp.  This has necessitated twenty tankers each day to take away the village’s sewage.   As it is not safe or practical to mend the pipe, we heard, there is a plan to re-route the piping.

Although very damp in the garden, today I sat in the greenhouse and pricked out eighteen tomato seedlings in pots and fifty onions into seed trays.  After this, I raked up some leaves and twigs, at the bottom of the garden, which came down in the recent winds before trimming some of the small branches on our Portugal laurel, to try to reduce some of the weight in one of the low hanging main branches.

Today’s photo was taken earlier this month on a typical grey January morning.