What made you happy today?

this is a long one, apologies in advance.

So sometime late on Friday evening, someone apparently phoned the police on my neighbour J. The security guard for the building went and knocked on J's door to say he needed to turn the music off and keep it down because someone had phoned the police on him because J's shenanigans had kept them awake for 3 days. According to said security guard, that someone was me.

Now, I didn't make any phonecalls after 4pm on Friday. I didn't make that call. I don't know who did. J did ask me on Friday night but I hadn't long woken up so I decided to play it safe and basically said "I'm not saying I did, and I'm not saying I didn't" because tbh I didn't know what was even going on. But then I bumped into J this morning and he asked if I'd grassed him and I said no. That's when he mentioned what the security guy said. And I realised I heard him say my flat number on Friday night but I had no context to it then, I did now.

So why does this make me happy? Well, I phoned the police about it. Told them I didn't care who made the call, just that it wasn't me and mentioning my name to my neighbour like that could've had some serious repercussions. I'm still not convinced J believes it wasn't me, so I've said if it happens again to ask what accent I have. I'm pretty distinctive, you'd not miss it. And I'm happy because the police actually agreed with me. So I now have an incident number to go back to the landlord about the security guy with.

He's going to regret saying that on Friday and he's going to deserve regretting it. Police said it was probably him made the call himself. Cheeky sod.
 
This morning when I came down to do the piggies’ breakfast I found one empty house in the newlyweds cage. Evie was in the 2nd. And in the 3rd I found these 2 contentedly chilling together. Looks like Iris and Boris are getting on well together. Not the best photo, but if you look hard you can see them both. So happy that they actually like each other.
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The garden backs onto woods. He must have come over the fence. We’ve lived here for 15 years and it’s the first time I have found one in the back garden. I have no idea if he has a hen nearby. I hope so. He flew off once he realised I was following him round trying to get a photo.
 
VickiA said:
This magnificent fellow was strutting round my garden this morning. Very handsome he was, too.View attachment 140129
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We have occasional visits from a pheasant too. Here's a pic of him near our dining room doors from a couple of months back.
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Yesterday a pair of ducks who have been seen on our pond a few times were wandering around our lawn and flowerbeds. :)) I don't really want them to nest on the pond though as they would eat the frogs.:no:
 
I ran out of tomato seeds last year. I’ll have to buy some as we prefer to use fresh ones when cooking. I planted more grass outside as well as onions, lettuce, carrots and celery... The potatoes I planted last year didn’t really grow, but I found a few shells (skin) of some!
 
Siikibam said:
I ran out of tomato seeds last year. I’ll have to buy some as we prefer to use fresh ones when cooking. I planted more grass outside as well as onions, lettuce, carrots and celery... The potatoes I planted last year didn’t really grow, but I found a few shells (skin) of some!
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Shame I can't post tomato plants to you! I found 2 old packets of seeds in the greenhouse, they have been there at least 3 years I didn't expect many to germinate (if any), there are so many plants I think every seed must have germinated.
 
@piggieminder did you plant them before? And did they ripen? The ones I planted last year didn’t ripen on the plant 😬
 
Siikibam said:
@piggieminder did you plant them before? And did they ripen? The ones I planted last year didn’t ripen on the plant 😬
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They are types I've planted before but these packets were unopened. They are Money Maker and Alicante, both good types for growing outside. I have some in the greenhouse and some on the patio. They do need full sun to ripen though. I find I have a lot of green ones at the end of the season on the outside ones but we get lots of ripe ones too. I make green tomato chutney. I also put some green ones in a bowl on the kitchen window sill (south facing) and they ripen. The Tumbling Tom cherry tomato seeds I planted have not germinated though, I'm hoping they are just a bit slow.
 
Can you use green tomatoes the same way as the red? Though they’d just be unripened. I may try again and see.

Funnily enough the cabbage I planted last year came back again! I saw some leaves in the pot. I don’t remember if I planted any more.
 
I've not made chutney with red but I guess it's the same. Cooked with sugar, onion and vinegar, I sometimes add a little dried fruit. I've got a recipe my Mum used for years.
I have potatoes every year all over the veg patch, I've planted some this year for the first time! Funny how things just turn up.
 
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