Wonky... I've just weighed the wool ... you'll be relieved to know that there should be enough for slightly longer sleeves. Hope you're having a lovely day xx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi folks, back from secondborn's and it's thundering and lightening. Popped to tesco this morning for a few bits and pieces for secondborn and all the easter eggs were half price. Well it would be rund not to so a rather large Thornton's egg has found it's way home with me.
Having a curry for dinner and just chillin for the rest of the day.
Hosta if you could just tell me how you split them, I don't want to kill them. How big is the piece you repot? What compost do you use when you repot. Hope that's OK
Nice looking pattern. I need sleeves to roll up and stay up for a lot of my activities so generally like 3/4 sleeves for all except the warmest jumpers and fleeces. Saves a lot of faffing when cleaning, cooking, sewing and gardening.
The sun has finally come out here and Minstrel is a happy pussycat. OH has taken the dogs out leaving me to finish the last bits on his new shirt which is one I found tucked in a box - cut up in Belgium and then stashed.
After yesterday's big clean I spent this morning taking internal pics to add to our dossier for the house sitters site. This involved moving a small mountain of fabrics and boxes and stacks of pictures, mirrors and so on we haven't got round to hanging yet as I'm waiting for our new shower room to be completed so I can get all the bedrooms sorted at last. Both kitties and one dog helped. Lovely.
That meant we didn't get lunch till 3pm so now I need to think of a light supper to have instead of shepherd's pie with sweet potato mash...........
Gardening tomorrow then.
Enjoy your choc egg Yvie.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I've got some sort of lurgy (aches & pains, perpetually sleepy) so it hasn't mattered that it's still damp - though nothing like yesterday's conditions. Hopefully the thunderstorm we've just had, won't have made the river overflow again... though yesterday's floods were limited to gardens and cellars, thankfully. (Thanks, Obelixx.)
Lovely woolly pattern, Dove (& Wonky!). I'm plugging away at a pair of socks at the moment - knitting is good when you don't really feel like doing a lot else.
Mr & Mrs Woodpecker are permanent fixtures on the fat cake at the moment. Hopefully they'll bring their babies to the feeder later in the year - they're very entertaining!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hi all. Snow gone, but I am not sure i remember the garden ever being so boggy at this time of year. Might not be able to do any real gardening, but the greenhouse is heaving with cuttings and seedlings, just hope I will be up to doing something with them. Yvie, if I am splitting Cannas, I just break them apart, ensuring each piece has at least 1 growing point, always seems to work.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Mr & Mrs Woodpecker are permanent fixtures on the fat cake at the moment. Hopefully they'll bring their babies to the feeder later in the year - they're very entertaining!
Same here Liri. They and the long tailed tits consume one fat block daily. The blue tits occasionally get a chance. Hope you feel better soon. Like the colours of the wool on the pattern Dove.
I have two fat cake feeders, Joyce. Because of the squirrels I bought one which has a cage around it, with a big gap between the fat cake and the cage - popular with the long-tailed tits because they can feed without folding up their tails, but impossible for the woodpecker. So I bought another squirrel-proof one where the outer cage is very close to the inner one - no squirrels, but accessible for the woodpeckers.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hello everyone nice to see you! hopefully I am back. We have had a rather cloudy period but there are rays of sunshine now. Wish I could say the same about the weather!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can't see the point of a warm woolly unless it has long sleeves! Sensible Wonky. That's a pretty one.
Been to the SM, still haven't had the hailstorm they predicted and it's 20°. Better go outside and do something useful.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having a curry for dinner and just chillin for the rest of the day.
Hosta if you could just tell me how you split them, I don't want to kill them. How big is the piece you repot? What compost do you use when you repot. Hope that's OK
The sun has finally come out here and Minstrel is a happy pussycat. OH has taken the dogs out leaving me to finish the last bits on his new shirt which is one I found tucked in a box - cut up in Belgium and then stashed.
After yesterday's big clean I spent this morning taking internal pics to add to our dossier for the house sitters site. This involved moving a small mountain of fabrics and boxes and stacks of pictures, mirrors and so on we haven't got round to hanging yet as I'm waiting for our new shower room to be completed so I can get all the bedrooms sorted at last. Both kitties and one dog helped. Lovely.
That meant we didn't get lunch till 3pm so now I need to think of a light supper to have instead of shepherd's pie with sweet potato mash...........
Gardening tomorrow then.
Enjoy your choc egg Yvie.
I've got some sort of lurgy (aches & pains, perpetually sleepy) so it hasn't mattered that it's still damp - though nothing like yesterday's conditions. Hopefully the thunderstorm we've just had, won't have made the river overflow again... though yesterday's floods were limited to gardens and cellars, thankfully. (Thanks, Obelixx.)
Lovely woolly pattern, Dove (& Wonky!). I'm plugging away at a pair of socks at the moment - knitting is good when you don't really feel like doing a lot else.
Mr & Mrs Woodpecker are permanent fixtures on the fat cake at the moment. Hopefully they'll bring their babies to the feeder later in the year - they're very entertaining!
Snow gone, but I am not sure i remember the garden ever being so boggy at this time of year.
Might not be able to do any real gardening, but the greenhouse is heaving with cuttings and seedlings, just hope I will be up to doing something with them.
Yvie, if I am splitting Cannas, I just break them apart, ensuring each piece has at least 1 growing point, always seems to work.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hope you feel better soon.
Like the colours of the wool on the pattern Dove.
hopefully I am back. We have had a rather cloudy period but there are rays of sunshine now. Wish I could say the same about the weather!
A A Milne