Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "potatoes"
19th August 2011
I was asked to do overtime tomorrow but turned it down as I had already agreed to go into work next Friday. I’ll still be off on the Monday following so I still plan to wipe my drive to get my system back to some sort of normality. Of course that will take a few weeks as I find all those little programmes that we all install to our systems and then forget where we got it. Usually it’s on a USB drive some where in a drawer or on a disk. Sometimes we have to go find it on the web. But these are seldom used programmes I’m talking about so you know that it could be weeks before you realise that you need it again. CPUZ is one I have in mind at the moment. I only ever need it when my system is acting up, as it has recently. I keep it on a USB drive in the bottom of my drawer where it is forever getting lost. This in turn leads to a major rummage through said drawer to find this useful little programme which shows some basic info on my system and how it is performing. Really it will only take me a day to get most of the main this back up and running. The rest of the weekend will be getting my system running as I like it.
Well that is next weekend, this I have some potatoes that need pulling up or should I say emptying from the sacks. I may even pull up my beetroot, they’re just about the right size for pickling. Magz loves pickled beetroot, as does Tammy. I’m sure whiles I’m in the garden I have a nose at my apples and the blueberries. I know the berries won’t be ready yet but the apples were looking good last weekend so need a close eye kept on them. Magz says the tomatoes are looking good but still need to ripen, though the weather is starting to show signs of autumn. I may need to pick them and leave them on the window sill to redden them up.
All of this and still I have to find some time to do the next module in the SVQ. Another busy weekend ahead then, would I have it any other way though. Well maybe sometimes, hehehe.
Well that is next weekend, this I have some potatoes that need pulling up or should I say emptying from the sacks. I may even pull up my beetroot, they’re just about the right size for pickling. Magz loves pickled beetroot, as does Tammy. I’m sure whiles I’m in the garden I have a nose at my apples and the blueberries. I know the berries won’t be ready yet but the apples were looking good last weekend so need a close eye kept on them. Magz says the tomatoes are looking good but still need to ripen, though the weather is starting to show signs of autumn. I may need to pick them and leave them on the window sill to redden them up.
All of this and still I have to find some time to do the next module in the SVQ. Another busy weekend ahead then, would I have it any other way though. Well maybe sometimes, hehehe.
13th September 2013
I got my day off on Tuesday and this weekend is a long one. Yes Today as well as Monday off so it has been a very short week for me at work. Unfortunately My daughter Tammy has share her cold with me. To be truthful though there have been one or two people at work with the sniffles so I may have caught from them. Of course though I'll still windup my daughter. Well you have to don't you? It is one of those things that comes with family life. Tammy for her part joked back that she was only doing what comes naturally to her, sharing. I had to laugh.
I didn't pull the potatoes last week but decided to leave them for a few more weeks as they still looked like they had a bit more time in them yet. I did pick my apples to day as well as more blueberries and tomatoes. I still have a lot more blueberries to pick. The tomatoes though are beginning to die off as autumn has brought cooler weather over the past week or two. Add to that the lengthening nights, you get the picture.
Still it doesn't stop the grass growing does it. Yes I did get the front clipped on Tuesday but Magz had a washing out the back. Tomorrow is to be a good day so it will give me the chance to get the rear grass tidied up before the expected stormy weather arrives Sunday.
I know it makes little sense to get the garden in order just for it to be wrecked by storms we know are coming. Still there is little we can do about the gales that are on there way. I can at least shave the grass so it is easier to re-order once the bad weather has run its course.
I didn't pull the potatoes last week but decided to leave them for a few more weeks as they still looked like they had a bit more time in them yet. I did pick my apples to day as well as more blueberries and tomatoes. I still have a lot more blueberries to pick. The tomatoes though are beginning to die off as autumn has brought cooler weather over the past week or two. Add to that the lengthening nights, you get the picture.
Still it doesn't stop the grass growing does it. Yes I did get the front clipped on Tuesday but Magz had a washing out the back. Tomorrow is to be a good day so it will give me the chance to get the rear grass tidied up before the expected stormy weather arrives Sunday.
I know it makes little sense to get the garden in order just for it to be wrecked by storms we know are coming. Still there is little we can do about the gales that are on there way. I can at least shave the grass so it is easier to re-order once the bad weather has run its course.
22nd August 2015
My daughter and myself have just come in from potato picking. I went out to check on the garden as I haven't had much time this week with me being on the course I told you of last week. Anyways the first thing I noticed was that the tattie shaws had totally died off over the past week. So it was time to retrieve the tubers. Of course I can't do this job without my daughter as she would murder me if I tried. It is one of those daughter-father jobs. We got a good bag full from the two sacks I grow the potatoes in. Better than it has been in the last couple of years. I am looking forward to having some for dinner tomorrow as Magz has already planned tonight's meal.
I completed the SIA course I was on this week yesterday. I felt that the tests went well but I did almost mess up. I skipped a question in the multiple choice and only just caught myself three questions on. Luckily there was plenty of time to correct my mistake. I know I passed the practical section of the course as you find that out after you do that one. It is to do with restraint techniques and breaking away from those who may attack you as well as breaking up fights. Hopefully I don't have to much of that to do if I get a job in the security sector. Really the best job would be a night watchman or control-room staff member. But that is me jumping the gun as any job will do at the moment. I do think I have passed these test though and I am more confident than I was when I did the CCTV ones. Time will tell though.
I completed the SIA course I was on this week yesterday. I felt that the tests went well but I did almost mess up. I skipped a question in the multiple choice and only just caught myself three questions on. Luckily there was plenty of time to correct my mistake. I know I passed the practical section of the course as you find that out after you do that one. It is to do with restraint techniques and breaking away from those who may attack you as well as breaking up fights. Hopefully I don't have to much of that to do if I get a job in the security sector. Really the best job would be a night watchman or control-room staff member. But that is me jumping the gun as any job will do at the moment. I do think I have passed these test though and I am more confident than I was when I did the CCTV ones. Time will tell though.
