Theft from the Plot and 'Things to Do' List : results

So I did roughly the amount of time on the plot that I thought I might today, although I started very much later due to the hangover, and the rain. I was sad to find that my storage box, which is not locked. or even secure, had been raided for my saw, wrecking bar and some wool slug pellets. None of these items were very expensive, and it sort of reminds me that I suspect all property to be theft but I'm sad all the same. I don't want to carry all the stuff I want to keep up the hill every time. I hope they go to good use anyway, these tools, gardening rather than petty criminality. Those slug pellets in the wrong hands...
On the upside, it totally did mean that I didn't have to make any planters or finish my peacage (stupid peas don't seem to be coming anyway).  This made the rest of my tasks really straightforward.

Must do:

• plant runner bean seedlings
• plant spinach seedlings
• water beds
• thin out beet seedlings
• weed beds
• prepare courgette bed
• plant potatoes

Would also like to:

• finish pea cage (abhorrent nightmare job that has turned into)
• hacksaw blue bin into two strawberry pots
• plant courgette
• make a strawberry planter (this has to wait until last, it could take me days)
• turn wood mountain into discreet wood pile Wood mountain is now more like wood munro
• hack back a bit of couch grass
• plant parsnip/more carrot seeds
• dig out hose from under pile of matting and couch grass
• move waterbutt
• grab couple bagfuls of leaves from leaf bay for covered beds 

Hoeing the weeds back seems to take me longer and longer every time I go down to the plot now. Bindweed has reared its monstrous head, couch grass is like something that drinks turbo cider and amphetamine every day before charging into work, like, " I am UNSTOPPABLE, hit me and SEE, I will just COME BACK TOMORROW!" But I will win, couch grass. If you came up my way, you'd know I have infinite patience for bullshit like this.

Bees or serious crime?

Otherwise, its been fine. Some of my neighbours are bee keepers and this was the first time I saw them dealing with their hive. I was keen to see what they were up to, but you know, given they were all garbed up in that beekeeping/soco/spacewalk stuff, I reckon I might have been somewhat under protected for just sauntering up, I could see they had honey anyway, so maybe if my flowers grow, they might give me some one day,
Thinning out my beet seedlings was a bit nervewracking, but I think they're alright. The trenches I had dug out for my spuds had hardened over into moon rock again, with hard clods that you could build houses with. I've had to give up the dream of a fine tilth for that bed (treated with soil softener, too) but I think potatoes should cope, just.

As well as parsnip and more carrot seeds, I planted scorzonera seeds and chive seeds, a couple more sweet peas to go with my runner bean seedlings. I put more spinach and a courgette plant in the ground and I cut up the blue bin. It will make great strawberry planters. Had I given it any more thought, I could have got three out of it. Just got to work out how to plant my strawbs now.
I've decided that I had better build a secure, lockable box. I've looked online, but even the plastic ones are expensive, and I do need to do something with this wood. Feels like it will be a bit of a stretch for me but my bench has given me confidence, and apart from hinges and a hasp(?) it'll cost me nothing but time, and no doubt fury. Yes, it could be broken into, yes, its probably harder than I think, but I have to do something with this bloody wood.
Guess I'm going back tomorrow for the rest of my jobs, but I'll be slipping back tonight to scatter some slug repellent about on my new plants, since the wool pellets are gone. Sluglife.