Just primed a new canvas 1mx1m ... it'll need another coat so I'll have to wait a couple of days until I can get started ... looks like more knitting will be done Wonky ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good that Bow is off OK. How was their joint concert? Shame you have to wait so long for exam results. A new gardening friend here makes pigeon proof cloches for his salads from chicken wire. Would they be good against squirrels if you pegged them down? Cheap, simple, movable.
WW - not me getting haircut. Not for a long time now. I shall do my own fringe for a while and get the long stuff trimmed when it won't stay up in a butterfly clasp for gardening purposes. I hope your hands are feeling better for their rest and that the turmeric helps.
No lime green anything here but we do have a lilac guest room with dressing gowns. I either have a fuchsia pink kaftan for summer or brown wool twill kaftan for winter - made for OH but he found it too warm. It's over 20 years old now and still going strong but I feel the need for a change just as soon as I see some nice purple stuff. Or maybe burgundy.
Hosta - hope you got some more sleep and hubby found his way OK.
Pdoc - any chances of photos of Chatsworth grounds? Never been and unlikely to in near future - but make sure you tidy first and have enough energy for walkies afterwards? It can wait another day.
Pat - sounds like an exhausting day out. I hope it was appreciated by the Joey banger.
Sunny here but still very cold. OH has cut down every single stem of Provençal cane. Anyone want any bamboo canes? 3 to 4m........ I'm still hibernating but will go out for doggy walkies later.
I hope you're not all iced in or snowed in or rained in.
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 would love some bamboo canes. The bamboo I planted years ago turned out to be a dwarf one, had the wrong label on it.
I have never wandered around the garden in pyjamas. I prefer nighties, but only for reading in bed or when it's cold, I don't go outside in them. When I'm up I like to be dressed. My dressing gown is dark blue with flowers on it, about 25 years old, rarely wear it. (See previous page)
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Well Busy, if you're ever over this way, bring a roof rack! We have loads stashed in the barn now. Turns out this cane is deciduous so my lovely bare patch will just grow again as soon as the weather warms a bit. I hope it doesn't get as tall again tho and the new growth looks a bit better than when left a few years. Otherwise I'll be at it with the brushwood killer and then plant some clems and roses up a trellis if I still need a screen.
Only have nighties for hospital visits and not planning any of those. Kaftan for wandering around feeding cats, letting out dogs fetching early coffee, sometimes feeding birds but yes, I like to be dressed too whether scruffy or for going out.
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)."
This is a very revealing topic .....so we only wear comfortable house clothes in the summer and winter.......so here is my favorite ......
Also Russian homes are very rarely carpeted , all wooden floors. Nobody would dream of walking into a Russian home in their street shoes....you would be shot !So there is always a container with slippers close to the front door . I don't bother , I love walking barefoot , keeps our visiting nail and foot lady busy
I don't generally go outside in my dressing gown either - too overlooked, and I don't wake up until I'm dressed, really. But the occasional birdfeeder top-up or fox chasing outburst does call for purple-dressing-gowned activity .
Thwarted by Screwfix - the rods I was going to use for the structures have to be ordered in, so I can't get started today . Your friend's chickenwire cloches are pretty much what I'm going for, Obelixx, but mine will be longer. This sort of thing https://www.crocus.co.uk/product/_/long-rabbit-proof-cloche/classid.2000022640/ though mine are likely to be a little more... 'homemade' looking!
Bow has long since landed. I'd forgotten about the time difference so thought she would be in the air an hour longer. I haven't heard from her yet - they've got a busy day lined up even though they were all up before 5am. And the recent concert was lovely, thanks Ob. It was great to see them both doing their thing at the same event . There were classical pieces from Baroque, Romantic and Modern periods (we were informed), some jazz, a brilliant version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Spanish guitar, pop, Trill sang some Bach and it all finished up with their award-winning steel pan band. Love that school.
Am having guilt about not revising - can't seem to register that the exams are over.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Sounds wonderful LG. There's someone asking about RHS exams on a new thread, if you're interested.
Can you not just get some rusty rods form a builders' merchants and bend them to your will?
Glad you enjoyed your walk Pdoc. Cloded over, getting colder and trying to snow here so I might just wimp out of doggy walkies and take to the exercise machine. Keeps Minstrel entertained as she sits boggled eyed, watching.
DL - previous owners painted an oak staircase white and then banned all shoes from using it. I am not so precious and not too keen on grbby white either so need to decide whether to let it quietly strip back to the oak or paint it again to make it smart and then ban shoes.
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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)."
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Glad Bow is off OK for her trip! Looking forward o seeing these squirrel proof closh designs of yours, best of luck!
Just primed a new canvas 1mx1m ... it'll need another coat so I'll have to wait a couple of days until I can get started ... looks like more knitting will be done Wonky ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good that Bow is off OK. How was their joint concert? Shame you have to wait so long for exam results. A new gardening friend here makes pigeon proof cloches for his salads from chicken wire. Would they be good against squirrels if you pegged them down? Cheap, simple, movable.
WW - not me getting haircut. Not for a long time now. I shall do my own fringe for a while and get the long stuff trimmed when it won't stay up in a butterfly clasp for gardening purposes. I hope your hands are feeling better for their rest and that the turmeric helps.
No lime green anything here but we do have a lilac guest room with dressing gowns. I either have a fuchsia pink kaftan for summer or brown wool twill kaftan for winter - made for OH but he found it too warm. It's over 20 years old now and still going strong but I feel the need for a change just as soon as I see some nice purple stuff. Or maybe burgundy.
Hosta - hope you got some more sleep and hubby found his way OK.
Pdoc - any chances of photos of Chatsworth grounds? Never been and unlikely to in near future - but make sure you tidy first and have enough energy for walkies afterwards? It can wait another day.
Pat - sounds like an exhausting day out. I hope it was appreciated by the Joey banger.
Sunny here but still very cold. OH has cut down every single stem of Provençal cane. Anyone want any bamboo canes? 3 to 4m........ I'm still hibernating but will go out for doggy walkies later.
I hope you're not all iced in or snowed in or rained in.
Hope Bow has a great trip
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would love some bamboo canes. The bamboo I planted years ago turned out to be a dwarf one, had the wrong label on it.
I have never wandered around the garden in pyjamas. I prefer nighties, but only for reading in bed or when it's cold, I don't go outside in them. When I'm up I like to be dressed. My dressing gown is dark blue with flowers on it, about 25 years old, rarely wear it. (See previous page)
Well Busy, if you're ever over this way, bring a roof rack! We have loads stashed in the barn now. Turns out this cane is deciduous so my lovely bare patch will just grow again as soon as the weather warms a bit. I hope it doesn't get as tall again tho and the new growth looks a bit better than when left a few years. Otherwise I'll be at it with the brushwood killer and then plant some clems and roses up a trellis if I still need a screen.
Only have nighties for hospital visits and not planning any of those. Kaftan for wandering around feeding cats, letting out dogs fetching early coffee, sometimes feeding birds but yes, I like to be dressed too whether scruffy or for going out.
This is a very revealing topic
.....so we only wear comfortable house clothes in the summer and winter.......so here is my favorite ......
Also Russian homes are very rarely carpeted , all wooden floors. Nobody would dream of walking into a Russian home in their street shoes....you would be shot !So there is always a container with slippers close to the front door . I don't bother , I love walking barefoot , keeps our visiting nail and foot lady busy
Well, just come home to be greeted by......... a pair of men's pants, how unseemly
Lovely walk, bitterly cold, but very sunny, should have boosted the Serotonin levels.
Sorry Obelixx, didn't see your note until i returned, but I am only 8 miles away, so am sure I will be back soon.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I don't generally go outside in my dressing gown either - too overlooked, and I don't wake up until I'm dressed, really. But the occasional birdfeeder top-up or fox chasing outburst does call for purple-dressing-gowned activity
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Thwarted by Screwfix - the rods I was going to use for the structures have to be ordered in, so I can't get started today
. Your friend's chickenwire cloches are pretty much what I'm going for, Obelixx, but mine will be longer. This sort of thing https://www.crocus.co.uk/product/_/long-rabbit-proof-cloche/classid.2000022640/ though mine are likely to be a little more... 'homemade' looking!
Bow has long since landed. I'd forgotten about the time difference so thought she would be in the air an hour longer. I haven't heard from her yet - they've got a busy day lined up even though they were all up before 5am. And the recent concert was lovely, thanks Ob. It was great to see them both doing their thing at the same event
. There were classical pieces from Baroque, Romantic and Modern periods (we were informed), some jazz, a brilliant version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Spanish guitar, pop, Trill sang some Bach and it all finished up with their award-winning steel pan band. Love that school.
Am having guilt about not revising - can't seem to register that the exams are over.
Sounds wonderful LG. There's someone asking about RHS exams on a new thread, if you're interested.
Can you not just get some rusty rods form a builders' merchants and bend them to your will?
Glad you enjoyed your walk Pdoc. Cloded over, getting colder and trying to snow here so I might just wimp out of doggy walkies and take to the exercise machine. Keeps Minstrel entertained as she sits boggled eyed, watching.
DL - previous owners painted an oak staircase white and then banned all shoes from using it. I am not so precious and not too keen on grbby white either so need to decide whether to let it quietly strip back to the oak or paint it again to make it smart and then ban shoes.
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