Good morning. Bright and sunny again and warming p nicely. OH is out there strimming ready for the masons who are due to start on the foundations for our new shower room this week. I'm on boring old h*work and changing bed linen before carrying on with sorting pots and re-potting what I can.
I need it dry for the masons but wet to get the perennials in at last and sort out the shade bed which needs a serious rescue job - parched treasures and rampant weeds. Typical. We have 10 fat bags of multi-purpose compost to pour on it when I've got the weeds out and rescued the hostas and all sorts of bulbs to plant. It's about 3 Zafiras long and 1 wide so no small task.
Pat - I hope by now OH is home safe and enjoying his dinner and then a good sleep. Surely there are laws about setting fires now given what Oz knows about destruction?
Liri - it's like exercise isn't it? Best to work thru and keep the muscles and joints loose. Easy does it tho.
FG - sorry you're not out on the hills. Maybe next weekend.
We're off to an autumn show of craftsmen and women this pm - carpenters, stone masons, forgers and blacksmiths, sculptors and so on. Should be interesting and I'm told it's set in the grounds of an old manoir with a good garden.
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)."
That was my thought Dove - surely if there isn't a hard and fast rule or law regarding responsibility for fires (difficult to monitor and enforce) people would have the decency to offer? Or am I too optimistic about human nature?
Glad you're feeling chipper doc. Or as near as you can get to it
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We get buzzards over here occasionally ... never used to ... there are a lot more about now, thank goodness
We've had wall to wall sunshine here and OH has been marvellous, deonstructing all the tomatoes/cukes/canes/pots etc, sorting out the compost heaps and mowing the back lawn (having first checked the longer bits etc for frogs and toads etc) ... now he's hosing and sweeping the terrace. I've been doing cooking etc and trying not to get in his way when I've been picking beans, herbs, tomatoes etc.
We have an early start tomorrow ... I have an appointment at Orthopaedic Triage at 8am
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Been to lunch with son 2, DIL and 3 adorable small grandsons. Had a good cuddle with the 4 month old one. He's very smiley and has curls on top of his head, like I did when I was a baby. Been a lovely sunny day, lunch in the garden.
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Good morning. Bright and sunny again and warming p nicely. OH is out there strimming ready for the masons who are due to start on the foundations for our new shower room this week. I'm on boring old h*work and changing bed linen before carrying on with sorting pots and re-potting what I can.
I need it dry for the masons but wet to get the perennials in at last and sort out the shade bed which needs a serious rescue job - parched treasures and rampant weeds. Typical. We have 10 fat bags of multi-purpose compost to pour on it when I've got the weeds out and rescued the hostas and all sorts of bulbs to plant. It's about 3 Zafiras long and 1 wide so no small task.
Pat - I hope by now OH is home safe and enjoying his dinner and then a good sleep. Surely there are laws about setting fires now given what Oz knows about destruction?
Liri - it's like exercise isn't it? Best to work thru and keep the muscles and joints loose. Easy does it tho.
FG - sorry you're not out on the hills. Maybe next weekend.
We're off to an autumn show of craftsmen and women this pm - carpenters, stone masons, forgers and blacksmiths, sculptors and so on. Should be interesting and I'm told it's set in the grounds of an old manoir with a good garden.
That was my thought Dove - surely if there isn't a hard and fast rule or law regarding responsibility for fires (difficult to monitor and enforce) people would have the decency to offer? Or am I too optimistic about human nature?
Glad you're feeling chipper doc. Or as near as you can get to it
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Home at 7.55. They have lost control of the fire - it’s heading down to the coast. Hubby is having a day off tomorrow.
Oh Pat ... how awful ... he must be shattered ((hugs))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes Dove. I’m shutting down for the night.
Catch up tomorrow.
I hope you both get a good night's sleep Pat ((hugs))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
god day so far, splitting Geums and making a ribbon through some S. arundicea [ can't spell its new name ] Have been helped by a friendly Robin.
Also had 2 Buzzards circling over the house, they used to be infrequent visitors, but now see them a lot.
Pleased your OH is ok Pat, he is a brave man.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Glad you've had a good day in the garden Pdoc
We get buzzards over here occasionally ... never used to ... there are a lot more about now, thank goodness
We've had wall to wall sunshine here and OH has been marvellous, deonstructing all the tomatoes/cukes/canes/pots etc, sorting out the compost heaps and mowing the back lawn (having first checked the longer bits etc for frogs and toads etc) ... now he's hosing and sweeping the terrace. I've been doing cooking etc and trying not to get in his way when I've been picking beans, herbs, tomatoes etc.
We have an early start tomorrow ... I have an appointment at Orthopaedic Triage at 8am
Last edited: 24 September 2017 15:24:21
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Been to lunch with son 2, DIL and 3 adorable small grandsons. Had a good cuddle with the 4 month old one. He's very smiley and has curls on top of his head, like I did when I was a baby. Been a lovely sunny day, lunch in the garden.
Crikey Busy, it doesn't seem like 4 months since he was born.