Hosta ... we're coming to see you and Lovely Hub ((hugs)), the garden is secondary and will be beautiful anyway ... you should see the mess here we're blaming the birds and the hedgehogs (and probably the newts and frogs as well) ... they wreck the garden by throwing wild parties as soon as we turn our backs
OH's face brightened and he loves Adnams bitter or Broadside or Badger Champion ale or similar ... I too like a glass of Adnams bitter, but please don't put yourself out about it ... I'm also perfectly happy with a glass of water, and I will be driving next day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove have visions of you laying on a floor under the tap of a barrel! Humm, but NO cold drinks COLD, I am happy with water but it HAS to be out of the fridge and really cold.
Pat, my cat is called Vera (after Vera Lynn, because she "sings"). Never happier than when upside down, and loves tummy rubs.
LilyP, thanks so much for ordering nice weather for us while you're on holiday. Have a lovely time - hoping for photos from you too!
Dove, drive carefully and enjoy your break. I'm sure those blinkers will be completely unnecessary when looking at Hosta's beautiful garden.
Fairy, hope the week's holiday has set you up for a bit... and you get some of LilyP's fine weather at the weekends; and Chicky, the forecast suggests it could well be fine for your walk. Fingers crossed!
Joyce, the seat is still in bits, though all ready for assembly. It'll need both of us though because the metal ends are heavy, and need holding vertical while the bolts are tightened through the slats, so it might have to wait until tomorrow morning before OH is free to help.
I'm off out to U3A art class in a bit. I'm beginning to think it's a lost cause - sometimes I think I'm getting better at it, then... not. Maybe I'll switch to the photography group, where I feel I may have more hope of success.
PUNKDOC - WHERE ARE YOU???
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Good morning. I've been out dong taxi duty taking t'other pair to play golf. Possum is having driving lessons then a few short holes on the beginners' course and then we're all meeting up for lunch. While the OH "cat" is away, I have the sprinkler on teh shade bed. The buddleia at the sunnier end is wilting!! They grow out of brick walls for heaven's sake. How dry can it be?
I cut our grass in the second week of June. No more cuts till I did it again last week just to stop weed flowers seeding but decided to leave the clumps of volunteer eryngium maritinum (sand dunes?) and some mallow and achillea for the insects. Covered in them.
Now to sand down the teak table, oil it and then varnish it when dry. Used a new product on it in May and it's gone black in the sun and spots of rain we've had. Under a canopy now so should be OK. 35C here already but clouding over with odd gusts of wind. Feels like it should get stormy but I bet we just get furniture moving at the most.
Love the cuddly cat Liri. I would find photography much more satisfying than art. No hand eye coordination except when painting walls and skirtings and furniture or catching balls.
I hope everyone has a good day and that all injuries or sickies make good progress, whether human or other.
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)."
No chance of feeling faint with heat here. It was 11 when I went to work, and it's got to the dizzy heights of 13
A work colleague informed me that she read it had been the coldest, wettest summer here in the last fifty years or summat. I don't think July was wetter, although it was certainly colder, but I think it was Scotland in general, so the averages can make it skewed. I know we joke about weather here, but I couldn't live in the south of England, let alone where BL and Obelixx are. It rarely gets above twenty round here, and not for any length of time if it does, and that's fine by me!
I still have another week to take Dove, so I'll be looking at end of September. Good time for walking usually - long enough daylight for bigger ones, and usually better weather
Ppauper - the only problem is - the rain would wash it off
Do we think doc has gone 'over there somewhere' ?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Hosta ... we're coming to see you and Lovely Hub ((hugs)), the garden is secondary and will be beautiful anyway ... you should see the mess here
we're blaming the birds and the hedgehogs (and probably the newts and frogs as well) ... they wreck the garden by throwing wild parties as soon as we turn our backs 
OH's face brightened and he loves Adnams bitter or Broadside or Badger Champion ale or similar ... I too like a glass of Adnams bitter, but please don't put yourself out about it ... I'm also perfectly happy with a glass of water, and I will be driving next day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
noted Dove.
Do you prefer it room temperature or chilled?
He likes it chilled ... I prefer it room temp
(I'm used to having straight from the barrel in an old tap room)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I like it room temperature too, it was great from the barrel in that old tap room. Hope we can do it again one day
About daughter's horse, still waiting for daughter to decide.
Dove have visions of you laying on a floor under the tap of a barrel! Humm, but NO cold drinks COLD, I am happy with water but it HAS to be out of the fridge and really cold.
Morning all.
Pat, my cat is called Vera (after Vera Lynn, because she "sings"). Never happier than when upside down, and loves tummy rubs.
LilyP, thanks so much for ordering nice weather for us while you're on holiday. Have a lovely time - hoping for photos from you too!
Dove, drive carefully and enjoy your break. I'm sure those blinkers will be completely unnecessary when looking at Hosta's beautiful garden.
Fairy, hope the week's holiday has set you up for a bit... and you get some of LilyP's fine weather at the weekends; and Chicky, the forecast suggests it could well be fine for your walk. Fingers crossed!
Joyce, the seat is still in bits, though all ready for assembly. It'll need both of us though because the metal ends are heavy, and need holding vertical while the bolts are tightened through the slats, so it might have to wait until tomorrow morning before OH is free to help.
I'm off out to U3A art class in a bit. I'm beginning to think it's a lost cause - sometimes I think I'm getting better at it, then... not. Maybe I'll switch to the photography group, where I feel I may have more hope of success.
PUNKDOC - WHERE ARE YOU???
Give Vera a cuddle and tummy rub for me Liri.
Good morning. I've been out dong taxi duty taking t'other pair to play golf. Possum is having driving lessons then a few short holes on the beginners' course and then we're all meeting up for lunch. While the OH "cat" is away, I have the sprinkler on teh shade bed. The buddleia at the sunnier end is wilting!! They grow out of brick walls for heaven's sake. How dry can it be?
I cut our grass in the second week of June. No more cuts till I did it again last week just to stop weed flowers seeding but decided to leave the clumps of volunteer eryngium maritinum (sand dunes?) and some mallow and achillea for the insects. Covered in them.
Now to sand down the teak table, oil it and then varnish it when dry. Used a new product on it in May and it's gone black in the sun and spots of rain we've had. Under a canopy now so should be OK. 35C here already but clouding over with odd gusts of wind. Feels like it should get stormy but I bet we just get furniture moving at the most.
Love the cuddly cat Liri. I would find photography much more satisfying than art. No hand eye coordination except when painting walls and skirtings and furniture or catching balls.
I hope everyone has a good day and that all injuries or sickies make good progress, whether human or other.
OMG, I know this isnt the whats your weather like, but it as 27d in the shade y 10 0 clock this morning, not a puff of wind.
No chance of feeling faint with heat here. It was 11 when I went to work, and it's got to the dizzy heights of 13
A work colleague informed me that she read it had been the coldest, wettest summer here in the last fifty years or summat. I don't think July was wetter, although it was certainly colder, but I think it was Scotland in general, so the averages can make it skewed. I know we joke about weather here, but I couldn't live in the south of England, let alone where BL and Obelixx are. It rarely gets above twenty round here, and not for any length of time if it does, and that's fine by me!
I still have another week to take Dove, so I'll be looking at end of September. Good time for walking usually - long enough daylight for bigger ones, and usually better weather
Ppauper - the only problem is - the rain would wash it off
Do we think doc has gone 'over there somewhere' ?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...