Compost

The compost dustbin was getting heavy, the advice was no serious lifting and BH was getting restive. She may even have been thinking of availing herself of the council's food waste disposal service. Action of some kind was clearly indicated.

Eventually it dawned on me that the answer was divide and rule. Tip the dustbin over a bit and transfer the contents to a bucket, one bucket at a time. One bucket did not qualify as serious lifting, nor did carrying it up the garden. With the result after the first bucket snapped above. 

A touch of spring along the way.

A possibly inappropriate hat, all things considered. But the sun was low and I needed something. I associate to the piece in today's Guardian at reference 1, brought to me by chance by Microsoft. Hopefully McEwan has more followers than our new Archbishop - who, as a former (senior) nurse, one might have thought would have known better, but who actually swings the other way. Maybe she has the voice of the Lord in both ears.

At the end of the job. An adult version of spot the difference?

Much easier and much quicker than I had thought. This despite the black sludge at the bottom of the dustbin. Council now stood down.

I rounded off the morning by clearing up a few more leaves. I also took the opportunity to tidy away the bricks left over from the brick walking which started up during the recent plague and carried on for some time after that. See, for example, reference 1.

Reward came in the form of two of my favourite dishes for lunch: potato pie followed by bread pie,. this last made with white bread and served hot - a dish we used, when we were younger and I was still eating white bread, to take quite often. And very good it was too.

So it was good to have one on this occasion. Quite different hot than cold, although this last does pretty well and it was all done by close. Didn't do very well with the snap though.

References

Reference 1: Ian McEwan calls for assisted dying rights to extend to dementia sufferers: The author, whose family has been impacted by dementia, says provision in living wills could clarify intentions when a person declines to the point they are ‘alive and dead all at once’ - Ella Creamer, Guardian - 2026.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-year-in-bricks.html.