Clari! Keep your birthday gift, get your chickens, let them run around in his birthday gift of new car until he builds you a chicken run! Don't think that should take long! The blinking cheek of mother in law!
Wonky; I think she's running on a plan that if there's no upfront cost (I.e. husband can't make a financial excuse) she can force the issue as she's been toying with ideas of hens in the fruit cage type set up for a few years now.
It seems the dithering males is a genetic trait in the family (and she didn't even warn me??)
I have spent the day walking around Much Wenlock near Telford.
One of the gardens had the most enormous tree peony. It must be 8 ft. Also a Rosa glauca going up a wall, equally huge, up to 15 ft. There was a shrub that no one seems able to identify, I have asked her to post a photo for us. We went on to Roland Breams new garden for his collection of Roscoeas. Amazing what he has done in 18 months. I came away with a Red Ghurka with green stems (mine has red), a cross of his own, and a small pot of seedlings.
Ice creams followed at the Penny Farthing, followed by a glass of cider near the Ironbridge gorge.
Tomorrow I think I have to pick blackcurrants for the freezer.
Much Wenlock is a lovely village. We had a happy holiday in Shropshire 3 years ago.
Evening all.
The Open Day was a success, 57 people, not counting helpers, think that is the most we've had. Only 3 French but they were very nice and one couple had come from over an hour away. All the homemade cake went, just 3 slices of a bought one someone donated left. People were very complimentary. The day was cloudy, cooler at 24°, a couple of mild showers. Just right for me. We've been out gathering up the signs on the road that OH had put out this morning at some un Godly hour when I was asleep.
Poldark tonight
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Overcast and a comfortable temperature here now ... it might even rain ... cos OH has just popped down to the shops on his bike .......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Clari! Keep your birthday gift, get your chickens, let them run around in his birthday gift of new car until he builds you a chicken run! Don't think that should take long! The blinking cheek of mother in law!
Wonky; I think she's running on a plan that if there's no upfront cost (I.e. husband can't make a financial excuse) she can force the issue as she's been toying with ideas of hens in the fruit cage type set up for a few years now.
It seems the dithering males is a genetic trait in the family (and she didn't even warn me??)
Clari, it's their mothers that make them that way by always doing everything for them!
You know Wonky if I ever find a child in the vegetable patch they are going to feel so hard done too being so independent!
I think if rather grow spinach in my veg patch Clari!
I'm 32 and managed to avoid it so far Wonky! Although since my spinach bolted perhaps I ought pay a bit more attention to my crop
Well done, wonky.
I have spent the day walking around Much Wenlock near Telford.
One of the gardens had the most enormous tree peony. It must be 8 ft. Also a Rosa glauca going up a wall, equally huge, up to 15 ft. There was a shrub that no one seems able to identify, I have asked her to post a photo for us. We went on to Roland Breams new garden for his collection of Roscoeas. Amazing what he has done in 18 months. I came away with a Red Ghurka with green stems (mine has red), a cross of his own, and a small pot of seedlings.
Ice creams followed at the Penny Farthing, followed by a glass of cider near the Ironbridge gorge.
Tomorrow I think I have to pick blackcurrants for the freezer.
Evening all.
The Open Day was a success, 57 people, not counting helpers, think that is the most we've had. Only 3 French but they were very nice and one couple had come from over an hour away. All the homemade cake went, just 3 slices of a bought one someone donated left. People were very complimentary. The day was cloudy, cooler at 24°, a couple of mild showers. Just right for me.
We've been out gathering up the signs on the road that OH had put out this morning at some un Godly hour when I was asleep.
Poldark tonight
Excellent BL
I don't think there's a blade of grass out of place. Garden beautiful as always.