It's 22C and feels muggy here ... the back grass must be cut ... but first we must pop up to the farm shop to pick up some bottles of wine we ordered and paid for before I broke my foot ...
Good to hear your eye's improving LilyP
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all. Sunny, clear skies, slight breeze - lovely but I'd really like a few days or nights of proper rain. Supposed to start the day with a bike ride to get Possum and me fitter and trimmer but she's grumpy and argumentative today. No idea why.
I shall go and check which treasures are the most thirsty. Water butts empty now so metered tap it is. Then some sewing till later on when I can get some weeding done without burning. I last cut the grass in mid June, just before that heatwave and it has been brown since then - except for the weeds that make bits look green and the apple mint in some areas.
Good news with the eye LP. Hosta and Lyn - pics please when you go to Rosemoor. Hope you get your walk FG. What wine Dove?
Clari - hide your car keys and give him the duster and vaccuum cleaner for housework!
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Wine sounds good. I love wine but it doesn't love me - I become very flushed after just half a glass which is a bit embarrassing. I struggle through though!
I have a water meter, Obelixx, and need to use the hose once the two butts are empty - which is often as I use the rain water for the pond. Even with the meter, I save at least half on what the non-metered bill would be so chuffed with that saving - it's hundreds of pounds!
Wine sounds good. I love wine but it doesn't love me - I become very flushed after just half a glass which is a bit embarrassing. I struggle through though!
My Aunty Rach met that struggle head on for years.. and my uncle helped her ... they were determined to get the hang of it ... they moved to the South of France in an effort to increase their opportunities ... they moved back here eventually ... think the French locals were worried that there'd be none left for them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Home for a bite of lunch a cuppa with Hubby before he heads "up country".
Deliveries went well until some daft old biddy decided to park her car on the other side of the single track road to everyone else. By the time she'd been fetched out of church there were 4 of us waiting to get past.
Beautiful day here, just been for walk round Sheffield Botanical Gardens, they are looking wonderful. A National Lottery grant 10 years ago, has made such a difference. It was lovely to see lots of kids running around, whilst their parents caught up on their sleep.
Now time for a spot of gardening.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
On my way Aunty Rach my aunty is no more ... I'll adopt you
The lamb shoulder has been marinated and is now wrapped, with some halved potatoes lemon, garlic and herbs, in layers of baking paper and foil and is in the oven ready to chunter slowly to be eaten this evening with Greek Green Beans (Fasolakia Giaxni) ........... nothing much else to do other than knit and watch tennis
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear your Aunty has passed, Dove - hope she had a good life - wine and all. I have three 'real' nieces and scores of adopted ones, so happy to have more ?
Wimbledon feast has started - smoked salmon bagels then scones bit later. Haven't been organised enough to do a lamb though - yum ?
Sheffield trip sounds good, Punkdoc. Hope everyone else making the most of the day - in or out.
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It's 22C and feels muggy here ... the back grass must be cut ... but first we must pop up to the farm shop to pick up some bottles of wine we ordered and paid for before I broke my foot ...
Good to hear your eye's improving LilyP
Last edited: 16 July 2017 09:55:48
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all. Sunny, clear skies, slight breeze - lovely but I'd really like a few days or nights of proper rain. Supposed to start the day with a bike ride to get Possum and me fitter and trimmer but she's grumpy and argumentative today. No idea why.
I shall go and check which treasures are the most thirsty. Water butts empty now so metered tap it is. Then some sewing till later on when I can get some weeding done without burning. I last cut the grass in mid June, just before that heatwave and it has been brown since then - except for the weeds that make bits look green and the apple mint in some areas.
Good news with the eye LP. Hosta and Lyn - pics please when you go to Rosemoor. Hope you get your walk FG. What wine Dove?
Clari - hide your car keys and give him the duster and vaccuum cleaner for housework!
Last edited: 16 July 2017 10:39:00
This one Obelixx http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/wine/worlds-best-wine-1395-a-bottle-dry-white-norfolk/ ......... really delicious and sold at the farm shop
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wine sounds good. I love wine but it doesn't love me - I become very flushed after just half a glass which is a bit embarrassing. I struggle through though!
I have a water meter, Obelixx, and need to use the hose once the two butts are empty - which is often as I use the rain water for the pond. Even with the meter, I save at least half on what the non-metered bill would be so chuffed with that saving - it's hundreds of pounds!
My Aunty Rach met that struggle head on for years.. and my uncle helped her ... they were determined to get the hang of it ... they moved to the South of France in an effort to increase their opportunities ... they moved back here eventually ... think the French locals were worried that there'd be none left for them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
afternoon all.
Home for a bite of lunch a cuppa with Hubby before he heads "up country".
Deliveries went well until some daft old biddy decided to park her car on the other side of the single track road to everyone else. By the time she'd been fetched out of church there were 4 of us waiting to get past.
Dove - that is dedication from your Aunty!
I have two spaces left in my wine rack...
Settling down for the tennis now - I have strawberries, scones and clotted cream if anyone passing.
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Hi all.
Beautiful day here, just been for walk round Sheffield Botanical Gardens, they are looking wonderful. A National Lottery grant 10 years ago, has made such a difference. It was lovely to see lots of kids running around, whilst their parents caught up on their sleep.
Now time for a spot of gardening.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
On my way Aunty Rach
my aunty is no more 
... I'll adopt you 
The lamb shoulder has been marinated and is now wrapped, with some halved potatoes lemon, garlic and herbs, in layers of baking paper and foil and is in the oven ready to chunter slowly to be eaten this evening with Greek Green Beans (Fasolakia Giaxni) ........... nothing much else to do other than knit and watch tennis
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear your Aunty has passed, Dove - hope she had a good life - wine and all. I have three 'real' nieces and scores of adopted ones, so happy to have more ?
Wimbledon feast has started - smoked salmon bagels then scones bit later. Haven't been organised enough to do a lamb though - yum ?
Sheffield trip sounds good, Punkdoc. Hope everyone else making the most of the day - in or out.