Goodness me, March. You really were quite the rollercoaster. I'm not really quite sure what got done in March. No big DIY jobs, that's for certain. But then we were rather at the mercy of the whims of the weather. Let's have a look. The weather March didn't start off too badly, and I even spent an afternoon tidying up the front garden in a t-shirt! A few days later, though, it was quite a different story. I went to work one Wednesday, and didn't get home until Saturday. So many roads were closed with drifts of snow and fallen trees, that there just wasn't a route I could take. Fortunately, I was holed up all cosy at my very accommodating friend's house. Eventually enough roads were opened, and the snowplough came down our drive, and I finally got home to this. It melted quickly, and then snowed again, but gentle, pretty snow this time. Pretty, but cold, and we're very glad that the boiler has at least waited until April to break... Preserving and batch cooking I spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen in March, stocking up the freezer with meals and pressing the dehydrator into service. It always feels good to have a few meals ready and waiting in the freezer. It's so tempting to just eat toast or porridge when I get in from work, and that doesn't help me feel good longer term, so having meals on hand is really important. I don't always manage it, mind you, and I'm down to my last two, so best get cooking again. Other inside sorting I also took advantage of the cold weather to do some sorting - in this case of clothes and shoes. Honestly, who needs this many pairs of shoes?! Good grief. It's not like they're all fancy-pants designer showing-off shoes either. Many of them are charity shop finds - and if you find a decent pair of walking boots in a charity shop for £8, you buy them, even if your old ones aren't quite worn out yet. But then you start wearing the new ones, because they're new and exciting, and don't throw away the old ones, because there's still some life in them... and multiply that by many years of walking boots, work boots, sandals etc, and you end up with a pile like this. I'm pleased to say some of them have actually gone in the bin, and some back to the charity shop, and the pile is looking somewhat more respectable now. All this sorting was because we're finally in a position to turn the spare bedroom into my craft room, which is very exciting. I decided to paint it before we put any more furniture in, and I did that in March, although I don't seem to have taken any pictures. Proper pictures in April's post! Adventuring March wasn't really much of a month for adventures, unless you count getting snowed in (or rather out in my case), but we have done a little bit of pottering, and I spent a weekend attending an event and staying with a friend. Obviously, there were the usual round of cafe trips, and looking at these pictures, it's no wonder I can't fit into many of my clothes. The chickens The chickens are doing nicely, and we were delighted to spot the new ones having their first dust baths. Needless to say, we still haven't finished the extension to the chicken run, but we have at least got the posts into the ground and some of them cut to the right length. Getting there (very slowly). Towards the end of the month, Sunshine's comb started looking a bit off colour, so she had her first ever trip to the vets. Fortunately she's looking a fair bit better now, thank goodness.
Overall, there's been quite a bit of upheaval in March. I've been on strike for some of it, the weather has been all over the place, and things have generally felt quite unsettled. But we've got some painting and some sorting and some pottering done, and now the weather has (mostly) started turning, it does feel like we're finally heading towards summer.
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