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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Morning everyone!  Sun and showers here, so lawn mowing may have to wait.

    Yes, Dove, can't understand anyone wanting that sort of car... cars are for getting from A to B, with room to carry the odd plant, in my opinion.  image

    PD, glad you're feeling a bit better.  Hope the blood test problem is easily solved.

    That's an impressive temperature graph, Pat!  Hopefully we won't get any frost for a few months yet...

    More good news, Hosta!

    Oops.  Luckily I discovered my natural history society walk is tomorrow, not today, before I set off for the rendezvous!  image

    Hope those of you not yet 27 have a good day at work.

    Thinking of you, Joyce xx

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Dove, I looked after a garden for a guy once who had 3 McLaren F1 cars. They were £230K when new. Rowan Atkinson recently sold his for £8 million.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11660024/Rowan-Atkinson-sells-McLaren-F1.html

    "something is worth what someone else is prepared to pay for it"

    Popped in for a cuppa. All tomatoes have been tied up and "armpits shaved" I'll water and feed them when I go back up.

    By the way, is anyone shocked by this news?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40479053

    Has anyone heard from Joyce this morning?

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    I like cars ... at one stage in my varied career I worked for a Hot Rod driver ... he let me drive his TVR Tuscan road car ... it was gorgeous  .... I was only seventeen image 

    but, a road car that can do 0 - 60 mph in 3 seconds ....... WHY???  Whatever is the point?  

    Hopefully Joyce's daughter is with her ... so sad image  Thinking of them all. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Rebecca110Rebecca110 Posts: 1,485

    Just arrived back from sm.  Very quiet, just topping up.  Hosta interesting article about Malta.   You can forget some people are kept in the dark ages.

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Hostafan1 says:

    By the way, is anyone shocked by this news?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40479053

    See original post

    Not shocked, no, but definitely not happy about it. On so many levels.

    Just read back a little - Joyce, I'm so sad to read your post. Still hoping for better news.

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    Morning all, Was up at 5 today wondering around the garden with a cuppa.image  Lovely and peaceful but then I did go back to bed until 10.00image.

    Nothing planned today just pottering in the garden. Been to see mum, she's fine just a few aches and pains (know how she feels) not bad for 95.

    Thoughts are with Joyce, hope she is OK.

    Agree about the car Dove, just can't see the point. Never even bought a new car, can't stand the smell of the interior  for one thing it's awful. 

    We'll  get there one day Hosta and everyone will wonder what the fuss was about. Gay partnerships/marriages will just become the norm.

    Not envious of those temps Pat, I'm definitely a spring/summer person, hat the cold and damp.

    Off for a browse before heading back out in the garden.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    Have I now dismissed the image of the sunny Aussie climate? I've heard all sorts of misconceptions over the years and am always surprised. And, by the way, we don't share our main streets with Crocodiles and kangaroos. image

    Yvie, I'm amazed at your Mother's age. Well done her. My sister had her 82nd  birthday last week.  We had a long telephone conversation for her special day.shes got several great grandchildren.

    S. E. NSW
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Just back from visiting. Talla getting the hang of it very well now She worked really hard today so,

    as a treat, afterwards we bought an ice lolly and took it to the walled garden. What a surprise that was!

    one of the loveliest gardens I have seen.  So peaceful. 

    still no baby from the London family, poor girl 5 days over with No2. She is getting fed up. As they live close to Wimbledon I came home for a couple of weeks. The hotel prices rocketed! 

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719

    Very good wishes for the best outcome,for Joyce, your "gardening family" is with you in spirit.  The news, well OH is sure he could do the build for about £20!, but of course we need "cean" re-newable energy from some source.  these ugly expensive to build and run, wind turbines are hardly ecological are they,? we have some we can see from the next road, the latest block fire in the capital is "believed" to have started at the solar panels.

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719

    PS, I HATE tennis, bores me silly, watching 2 people bash a ball back and forth, often accompanied by very strange noises, feel the same about football, motor racing cars going round a track!!!! I do play badminton,squash, but that different being active, and cycling, but dont want to watch it, someone friend says to me what does Wimbledon mean to you, me: strawberries,cream and champers, now you are talking.

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