Feb 29th and I never found my spare minutes

I'd already written in a previous post that the 29th Feb was the day where all the spare minutes that I lose go to hide!!! Today was going to be my day to catch up on whatever needed doing .... one whole extra day to just take off and do as I wanted! I'd also planned a night out tonight ... But it seems that the gods have once again ruined all my plans! I went into work to get orders sent out and the day just got away with me :-( I ended up just completely knackered by the end of the afternoon!

My night out tonight ended up getting cancelled too - not a bad thing in the end because I've got this little local show tomorrow ... and it would have been a logistical nightmare as I would have to leave my friend's house early in the morning after a hefty night ... or not stayed over and driven back home late tonight. Plus see above, I've been knackered all day ... hardly conducive to a good night out! LOL

So anyway, I got home after picking the kids up from school (Megan has gone over to Zara's house) and I remember looking at the clock just after 4pm ... then feeling like just having a little lay down on the sofa .... well ooops two hours later I woke up just before 6pm!

Nope, I don't think Dee is doing anything tonight other than maybe drinking some hot chocolate and going to bed! Hahaha

I found where the spare minutes hide!!!

Okay so anyone who reads my blog often enough will know that I often complain about how I am convinced there is some kind of time pixie out there that pinches minutes out of my day, because somehow I never seem to have enough time for everything!!



Well .... It SUDDENLY occurred to me that it's a leap year this year and it all made sense! There are 29 days in February this year which means there are a whole extra 1440 minutes at the end of this month that we wouldn't normally get if it wasn't a leap year! Feb 29th is a Friday this year too - soooo that's gonna be Dee's catch up day!! Whatever it is that REALLY needs to be done on Friday 29th Feb is what I will do! Whether it's catching up on things I am behind with at work, or doing the things around the house that really need doing (like re-painting EVERY single damned room in the house!) or clearing out the garden ... both of which NEED to be done soon!

Spring is coming so EARLY this year! The weather has been (dare I say it ...?) warm recently! Okay maybe WARM is an exaggeration, but it's definitely been open windows and not necessarily wear a coat type weather. You'd normally expect it to still be really cold at this time in February... yet there are already daffs and tulips out and they've been out a while already!

It's REALLY made me want to get out there and start doing something with the garden too. Last year was a bit of an experiment in the garden ... I grew herbs, red chillis, jalepeno chillis, cherry tomatoes and a few other bits, but it really was just an experiment. I know what I can be like and I'll throw myself into something then lose interest after a couple of weeks!! Soooo I hadn't wanted to spend too much money.

Also part of it is that I am GOOOOOOD at everything I do ... purely because I don't do things I am not good at!! Soooo I hadn't wanted to invest a lot of money into it ... but this year I am seeing TONS of cherry tomatoes, runner beans, aubergines and hopefully some soft fruits too!!!

I WANT a polytunnel!!

Ok I've been drinking while I've been writing the last part of this and now can;'t concentrate on the screen, so err time for bed said Zebedee!!!