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HELLO FORKERS! June 2018

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  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Morning all, Joyce and Fairy hope your water butts have filled up!! We had heavy rain from 1pm yesterday right through till after 3 am. Today the Tree foliage is almost touching the ground
    Pat if we could send some we would, stay warm
    Hosta, lots of coffees today I think, have you had your hospital app yet?
    DD sounds like a good day, enjoy the change of scene
    Obelixx how is your finger today, did you find some mag phos paste?
    Dove, hope the coffee arrived
    Fairy Sorry you won’t get out today but i am sure the garden will appreciate you
    Chicky I missed what little Chicky being doing, whatever I am glad she enjoyed it
    Bald g I think a book sounds good
    Btw. For those who follow the Archers, I read yesterday that the dastardly Rob Titmarsh is to return!
    Punk, why not plan a route up north with lots of stops? There are several new hidden gems out there now. Pm me if you like more info, don’t want to bore everyone



    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    ....For those who follow the Archers, I read yesterday that the dastardly Rob Titmarsh is to return! ...



    scaredtwisted

    Titmarsh???? was that a Freudian slip lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Hostafan1 said:
    Oh, I'm not sure your usual suite will be available in September :'(
    Mine will be,   a whole flat to yourselves.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.
    Very humid here, probability of more storms today. lots of very flat plants after yesterday, but nothing that can't be repaired.
    Sorry you are not walking today, fairy, was looking forward to more pictures/
    OH is going to do some weeding today, so I have to collect a few weeds for her, so she knows what to look for.  :)
    Good idea of yours LP., we have planned an overnight stay in Glasgow, so we can have a steady drive up there and then have a full day, with many stops to get up to Gairloch, via the west coast route.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Pdoc, an ideal to one of your favourite places. I hope that our good weather continues for you.
    Freshly dug new Ayrshire potatoes from the farm for tea tonight.Love the taste.
    SW Scotland
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
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    Hello all.  Another throbby night but on parade now with brds stripped, towels in the machine and frittata in the oven.   Thumb soaking in hot water and iodine then another gunking and a bandage.  Taking its own sweet time this thorn.

    Hope lunch is good DD.   Sorry you're so cold Pat.   Much snail stomping here too FG.   Fab hostas H.  

    Couldn't agree more about the mud pie palaver.   I'm using up plastic cell trays till they die and then I'll switch to coir cells.   For bigger seeds  I already use medium coir pots and loo roll tubes.   Bought compost as no leaf mold or sieved compost here yet and I have yt to see vermiculite. 
    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)."
    Plato
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Sorry about the finger Obelixx. Maybe time for some professional help?
    Joyce sounds yummy will you have anything with them? 
    Punk if you don’t want to go into Glasgow itself there is a new(ish) hotel 8mins off the motorway  google Crossbasket Hotel High Blantyre, if you are tavelling mid week shouldn’t be a problem. The restruant is a Roux brothers
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Thanks LP.
    We are very lucky in that BIL works for Hilton, so gets us very cheap deals, which in the past, we often used when we went to London. Hopefully he will get us into the Glasgow Hilton, which I have often driven past, so I know it must be close to the motorway.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Right beside it punk.  

    Just been across to our wonderful service service station and stocked up on the last of his bedding plants. Great value and supporting local business😄😄😄
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I think it was Geoff Hamilton who last advocated blocking. It must have been 40 years ago, because I think the blocker is still at mums. You had to buy blocking compost at the time, then play at mud pies. It only lasted one season before we went back to pots.

    Scorchio here. Still no sign of rain. I am going to put the soaker hoses on.

     If I had your view, Hosta, I would never leave the place.
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