Morning all, afternoon Pat, it's a lovely sunny day here 😊 Welcome back Dove! X all your plants are being well looked after 😁 Was laid up with suspected food poisoning yesterday, was supposed to be at a family wedding but not an option considering how I was feeling! Completely better today after laying in bed yesterday watching Chelsea flower show, perfect cure! BusyL, looking forward to hearing about your new Norfolk cottage and seeing what ideas you develop for the garden, do you have much space? Have a lovely climb Fairy, very sensible to reschedule when you realized you were with out fluids!! Joyce, I'm like you, I like to get things done early when no one else is on the road, then it's not a chore and you have all of the rest of the day! Enjoy yours! Chicky, hope your having a lovely time 😊 I'm off in the garden after second cup 😊
Good morning Wonky glad you're feeling better ... shame about missing the wedding but better than throwing up over the bridesmaids and there's another one in a few weeks' time
Don't overdo things today and keep your fluid levels up.
We'd better come to visit you next weekend and pick up the plants ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning. Broken night with cramps so up late today. It's Mothers' Day in France so Possum is making a chocolate cake to have with cream and strawberries later on. Himself is out "shaving the meadow" before the midday outdoor machines curfew and I am about to tidy up the pots and mess I made yesterday sorting out roses and clems and shrubs. Hands very sore today after messing with roses. Malvern Hills tried to rip off half my thumb but is nowhere near as prickly or vicious as Traviata! With any luck he'll tackle more of that bed full of stones this pm so I can plant treasures.
Have just been called to rescue a huge, slightly hairy caterpillar that was crawling up the inside annex wall. Brown head, greeny grey and black striped body. 5cms long unstretched. Now in the wisteria so I hope it finds a safe place to pupate.
Good luck identifying the kestrel type FG. We get them here in 2 sizes but too fast to identify. Buzzards too. Love their mewing as they hover on up draughts.
Hope OH gets home safe and sound and soon Pat. The dogs drink our bird bath water despite having water bowls dotted about.
I might just sow some more seeds before doing some patchwork homework. Have a lovely day everyone and drive safely amongst the grockles.
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)."
Lots of kestrels in East Anglia nowadays, following a few lean years as for buzzards, we must've seen at least a couple of dozen on the journeys to and from Cornwall.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes Flumpy ... I think we've been everywhere there is to go in Cornwall ... I've been kept awake through the night by nightingales on Bodmin, explored the geology of The Lizard and visited every beach and garden there is to visit ... I've been going there since I was expecting my first baby and he'll be 46 this year! .
Over recent years St Ives has become our regular haunt ... it has everything we need ... wonderful light and scenery for drawing and photography, bathing/sunbathing beaches, the beautiful harbour, fascinating architecture, lots of places to sit and look (with or without a drink or a meal) the wonderful Tate and Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden, we never tire of any of them. We can go out on a boat trip, walk along the Coastal Path or take the coastal train to visit friends nearby or other spots if we get the urge so we park the car up for the week and hardly use it ... in fact we didn't use the car at all last week except to get to Cornwall and then to come home again ... as OH doesn't drive it's a real rest for me as well as there being plenty to see and do when we feel like it. Love it
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Dove you took me right back to our holidays then, I never want to come home from there, I feel I'm home when I go there, everyone is so friendly in the shops and locals. Your son is exactly the same age as me, was he born in March too? 🙂
Those were the days when you spent ten days in hospital getting to know your baby and how to look after him ... we arrived home early New Year ... his Papa had been invited to parties all over Christmas and New Year to wet the baby's head
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Welcome back Dove! X all your plants are being well looked after 😁
Was laid up with suspected food poisoning yesterday, was supposed to be at a family wedding but not an option considering how I was feeling! Completely better today after laying in bed yesterday watching Chelsea flower show, perfect cure!
BusyL, looking forward to hearing about your new Norfolk cottage and seeing what ideas you develop for the garden, do you have much space?
Have a lovely climb Fairy, very sensible to reschedule when you realized you were with out fluids!!
Joyce, I'm like you, I like to get things done early when no one else is on the road, then it's not a chore and you have all of the rest of the day! Enjoy yours!
Chicky, hope your having a lovely time 😊
I'm off in the garden after second cup 😊
Don't overdo things today and keep your fluid levels up.
We'd better come to visit you next weekend and pick up the plants ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have just been called to rescue a huge, slightly hairy caterpillar that was crawling up the inside annex wall. Brown head, greeny grey and black striped body. 5cms long unstretched. Now in the wisteria so I hope it finds a safe place to pupate.
Good luck identifying the kestrel type FG. We get them here in 2 sizes but too fast to identify. Buzzards too. Love their mewing as they hover on up draughts.
Hope OH gets home safe and sound and soon Pat. The dogs drink our bird bath water despite having water bowls dotted about.
I might just sow some more seeds before doing some patchwork homework. Have a lovely day everyone and drive safely amongst the grockles.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Over recent years St Ives has become our regular haunt ... it has everything we need ... wonderful light and scenery for drawing and photography, bathing/sunbathing beaches, the beautiful harbour, fascinating architecture, lots of places to sit and look (with or without a drink or a meal) the wonderful Tate and Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden, we never tire of any of them. We can go out on a boat trip, walk along the Coastal Path or take the coastal train to visit friends nearby or other spots if we get the urge so we park the car up for the week and hardly use it ... in fact we didn't use the car at all last week except to get to Cornwall and then to come home again ... as OH doesn't drive it's a real rest for me as well as there being plenty to see and do when we feel like it. Love it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.