BL ... if you've got time on this trip Raveningham Hall Snowdrops are well worth seeing ... the home of Sir Nicholas Bacon ... my former boss and President of the RHS ... near to Beccles
Good to see you Dacha Hope the little one is feeling better soon. Don't talk to Wonky about chickenpox ... I sent her to school with them, thinking it was just that the cat had fleas again ... I had a phone call and had to fetch her a couple of hours later. She's never let me forget it and calls me a cruel neglectful mother
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Labs are such 'people dogs' ....... they can get very anxious when left on their own ... we got another dog to keep ours company because he was so miserable when we had to leave him for just a couple of hours.
Perhaps his people don't know that he gets upset for so long, because he probably stops crying as soon as he hears their car.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds like you're enjoying yourselves Busy. Shame about the dog. Maybe worth having a word with the neighbours as they won't know otherwise. There was a dog, just a mongrel, next door to us in Harrow that howled all day tho chappy did come home at lunchtime and let him out. Made being home off sick a real trial for us. They finally accepted their was a problem when his separation anxiety increased with age and he started wetting their bed in the daytime.
When we leave ours they are together and each have a marrow bone or other chewy thingy to keep them busy.
Is it tomorrow for OH's op? Hope it goes well. I use fuchsias for colour in pots in shady spots.
Glad you've had a good time DL. Back to proper winter now then.
Cold here so both fires lit for a cosy evening.
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)."
I keep meaning to say, a year or so ago we rescued an aloe vera from OH's mum who kills houseplants on a regular basis. Since we've had it it's been sitting (in new compost) on the shady east facing kitchen windowsill, more ignored than cossetted, watered occasionally and taken notice of only when I've burnt my hand on the oven.
This morning we noticed a tall flower spike has emerged overnight. According to the websites they need lots of bright sunlight to persuade an aloe vera to flower, and apparently it's unlikely to happen in the UK 'cos we don't have enough sunshine.
Have other people got aloe veras who haven't read the books?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes we did drive. Luckily it was my SIL car. Mabel went down first and pulled Merri down with her. What you couldn't see was that their wellies were full of water.
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BL ... if you've got time on this trip Raveningham Hall Snowdrops are well worth seeing ... the home of Sir Nicholas Bacon ... my former boss and President of the RHS ... near to Beccles
http://raveningham.com/gardens/raveningham-garden-opening-times/ His wife's sculptures are in the grounds and worth seeing too.
Good to see you Dacha
Hope the little one is feeling better soon. Don't talk to Wonky about chickenpox ... I sent her to school with them, thinking it was just that the cat had fleas again ... I had a phone call and had to fetch her a couple of hours later. She's never let me forget it and calls me a cruel neglectful mother 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Labs are such 'people dogs' ....... they can get very anxious when left on their own ... we got another dog to keep ours company because he was so miserable when we had to leave him for just a couple of hours.
Perhaps his people don't know that he gets upset for so long, because he probably stops crying as soon as he hears their car.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds like you're enjoying yourselves Busy. Shame about the dog. Maybe worth having a word with the neighbours as they won't know otherwise. There was a dog, just a mongrel, next door to us in Harrow that howled all day tho chappy did come home at lunchtime and let him out. Made being home off sick a real trial for us. They finally accepted their was a problem when his separation anxiety increased with age and he started wetting their bed in the daytime.
When we leave ours they are together and each have a marrow bone or other chewy thingy to keep them busy.
Is it tomorrow for OH's op? Hope it goes well. I use fuchsias for colour in pots in shady spots.
Glad you've had a good time DL. Back to proper winter now then.
Cold here so both fires lit for a cosy evening.
This is what you get when you take two grandaughters out for a walk in a muddy wood
Lovely Yvie. Great fun getting mucky but I hope you didn't drive there.
That looks like proper fun Yvie ... the number of times Wonky has looked just like that ... and worse !!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can’t beat a bit of Mud
Looks great larks Yvie!
Dove, I look like that most days!
I keep meaning to say, a year or so ago we rescued an aloe vera from OH's mum who kills houseplants on a regular basis. Since we've had it it's been sitting (in new compost) on the shady east facing kitchen windowsill, more ignored than cossetted, watered occasionally and taken notice of only when I've burnt my hand on the oven.
This morning we noticed a tall flower spike has emerged overnight. According to the websites they need lots of bright sunlight to persuade an aloe vera to flower, and apparently it's unlikely to happen in the UK 'cos we don't have enough sunshine.
Have other people got aloe veras who haven't read the books?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes we did drive. Luckily it was my SIL car. Mabel went down first and pulled Merri down with her. What you couldn't see was that their wellies were full of water.