Grass all cut and edged Ash seedlings pulled up, containers given a good soaking and some deadheading done ... There's more to be done but heyho ... I'm putting my feet up for a bit ... got to leave some jobs for later in the week.
For those of you who may be wondering about the progress of the pergola ... OH has decided to await the arrival sometime of our friend Alex who will be coming to stay for a few days after our holiday ... he is tall, good at holding things while chatting about their teenage years to OH and as our niece said, "He was very good at Lego when I was small, so he has transferable skills." She'll go far, that one
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Perfect Vendée day here - blue skies, odd bits of cotton wool floating about, gentle breeze and temps creeping slowly up to 25C. We have been out to Fontenay-le-Comte for a vide greniers and then on to Vouvant for a picnic lunch and a stroll with the dogs. Possum has been on Bonzo training all day practising his walk to heel and not being nervous of people and situations so we can have more days out with the dogs..
OH thinks he's fine but I need him not to lunge if I have him or both of them on walkies and we meet people. OH also has difficulty grasping the correct sequence of commands and accompanying hand actions, or not. I got really cross with him once and said if he couldn't master 8 simple words how did he expect Bonzo to do it?
Flopsy now then dead heading pelargoniums and then more flopsy no doubt.
RG - were they using satnav or just being lazy? Liri - roses sound effective. We find having the two dogs loose stops everyone at the gate!
FG - hope you get to do a hill, and see it!
Pat - good to get out of the house but do take it easy. You need to be fit for your coming summer with no relapses.
Hosta - Ho ho ho.
Dacha - lovely bag of goodies.
Chicky - Adelaide's cricket ground is lovely. How was Wisley?
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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)."
The greengrocer knows what they're called, but says his customers tend to ask for "those pointy green things", so he labels them accordingly...
OH and son are playing trains this afternoon - operating a signal box and crossing gates on the local steam railway - so I've had a bit of time to myself. Just been assembling a pork and bean casserole for tea, and the grass is now cut, so I'll be under the cat, trying to knit my sock without her grabbing the wool.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Liri....while you are looking at pointy green things.....I saw this little beauty flitting about ....sorry about the out of focus but I just could not snap it ......
OH is back, been mowing the lawns. I've been deadheading and tying up plants.
Been trying to lose weight while OH was away. No potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or sauce. Not much wine. Main meal at mid day (OH likes it in the evening), just half a usual helping of meat and some veg from the garden and just a glass of gazpacho in the evening. No result at all
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
To be fair to them, they were going the way they used to go before the farmer sold half his field (and an old barn) to us. We deliberately set the boundary when we decided how much of the field to buy so none of the power lines cross our land and none of the poles are on our land - they can get to all of them from the field but they have to use the new gate. The fact they turned up didn't upset me, it was their attitude (bullying the woman who doesn't understand about big man's stuff like cables and 4x4 trucks) and their complete refusal to acknowledge what they could plainly see that made me go puce.
And no we didn't get any compensation. Nor did we get any from the delivery driver who flattened 6 trees when he tried to turn where I had told him he wouldn't be able to (nor any payment for the farmer who pulled him out of the ditch).
Meh
Piddling down with rain now. Again.
Liri - thank you for that small guffaw I like your greengrocer's style
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Popped home for lunch.
2 deliveries this afternoon, in the rain.
A taxi turned up in our warehouse yard. The driver got out and said to me ..
" I'm from Birmingham"
I put my hand on his shoulder and said ..
" we all have our cross to bear, but you're in Devon how. How can I help you?"
At least he laughed.
Uber grumpy customers. I think they've got nowhere else to go in the rain.
Have been in garden all morning and was so fed up with plants battered and bedraggled after all the wind and rain that I have cut them down
Grass all cut and edged
Ash seedlings pulled up, containers given a good soaking and some deadheading done ... There's more to be done but heyho ... I'm putting my feet up for a bit ... got to leave some jobs for later in the week.
For those of you who may be wondering about the progress of the pergola ... OH has decided to await the arrival sometime of our friend Alex who will be coming to stay for a few days after our holiday ... he is tall, good at holding things while chatting about their teenage years to OH and as our niece said, "He was very good at Lego when I was small, so he has transferable skills." She'll go far, that one
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hosta .....that's a cracker
Perfect Vendée day here - blue skies, odd bits of cotton wool floating about, gentle breeze and temps creeping slowly up to 25C. We have been out to Fontenay-le-Comte for a vide greniers and then on to Vouvant for a picnic lunch and a stroll with the dogs. Possum has been on Bonzo training all day practising his walk to heel and not being nervous of people and situations so we can have more days out with the dogs..
OH thinks he's fine but I need him not to lunge if I have him or both of them on walkies and we meet people. OH also has difficulty grasping the correct sequence of commands and accompanying hand actions, or not. I got really cross with him once and said if he couldn't master 8 simple words how did he expect Bonzo to do it?
Flopsy now then dead heading pelargoniums and then more flopsy no doubt.
RG - were they using satnav or just being lazy? Liri - roses sound effective. We find having the two dogs loose stops everyone at the gate!
FG - hope you get to do a hill, and see it!
Pat - good to get out of the house but do take it easy. You need to be fit for your coming summer with no relapses.
Hosta - Ho ho ho.
Dacha - lovely bag of goodies.
Chicky - Adelaide's cricket ground is lovely. How was Wisley?
Last edited: 20 August 2017 14:47:39
I spotted this in the market yesterday:
The greengrocer knows what they're called, but says his customers tend to ask for "those pointy green things", so he labels them accordingly...
OH and son are playing trains this afternoon - operating a signal box and crossing gates on the local steam railway - so I've had a bit of time to myself. Just been assembling a pork and bean casserole for tea, and the grass is now cut, so I'll be under the cat, trying to knit my sock without her grabbing the wool.
Liri....while you are looking at pointy green things.....I saw this little beauty flitting about ....sorry about the out of focus but I just could not snap it ......
What is it please ?
Suppose it's something if the customers are buying and eating the "pointy green things"
Liri
That one isn't even very pointy!
OH is back, been mowing the lawns. I've been deadheading and tying up plants.
Been trying to lose weight while OH was away. No potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or sauce. Not much wine. Main meal at mid day (OH likes it in the evening), just half a usual helping of meat and some veg from the garden and just a glass of gazpacho in the evening. No result at all
To be fair to them, they were going the way they used to go before the farmer sold half his field (and an old barn) to us. We deliberately set the boundary when we decided how much of the field to buy so none of the power lines cross our land and none of the poles are on our land - they can get to all of them from the field but they have to use the new gate. The fact they turned up didn't upset me, it was their attitude (bullying the woman who doesn't understand about big man's stuff like cables and 4x4 trucks) and their complete refusal to acknowledge what they could plainly see that made me go puce.
And no we didn't get any compensation. Nor did we get any from the delivery driver who flattened 6 trees when he tried to turn where I had told him he wouldn't be able to (nor any payment for the farmer who pulled him out of the ditch).
Meh
Piddling down with rain now. Again.
Liri - thank you for that small guffaw
I like your greengrocer's style
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”