Lovely garden photos. I’ve only been able to grow C montana alba here. I think it’s too dry and cold for the other beauties. I’ve lost the ones I tried to grow. Hubby thinks there might be some snow on top if the range across the valley, but waiting for the foggy cloud to lift for us to see properly. The ski slopes in Vic and NSW are having a good season. Sorry to hear about your hubby Glenys. Very painful. Our friend here who got knocked off his motor bike by a kangaroo several months ago is still having some trouble with his broken ribs. I remember that he couldn’t sleep in bed, had to spend his time in a recliner.
Good morning. Up early again, even before the alarm went off. Don't usually set it but Rasta has a haircut today. It's sunny with wispy white bits here and there and warm already. The garden looks lovely in this light, even in its current undeveloped state.
I hope your OH has had some sleep Glenys. Not easy. Pat - lots of clems are hardy to -25C and more but they don't do thirsty. Makes them crispy.
Hope you get some rain soon Fidget. i'm moving all my smaller pots round to the north side today to reduce their need for watering during this coming heatwave. It will be so much easier once we can get them in the ground.
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Good morning all just waking up here ... not the best nights sleep ... very warm and humid ... but however much we like being at MILs it is good to be back in our own bed.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning, hope all those feeling sick/sore have a better day and those post exams beginning to chill lovely combination Dove, I look at the garden photos thread which has such inspiring photos I am growing lots of clematis this year to try and cover up my rose debacle! its been really really wet here overnight. Peonies will have suffered I fear. Joyce, Fairy have you got any sweet peas flowering yet? have a good day everyone
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Morning all. Added hugs for Gleny's Hub. Ouchity. @Dovefromabove and @Lyn, FAB. More drizzle here this morning. I watched Bazeeeeel munching on rat poison yesterday afternoon but there's on there this morning. I've topped up the dish. How long does it take poison to kill a rat? Does anyone know? Hubby home for 10 days before heading back "up country" so he's planning to finish painting the outside of the house. The forecast looks good.
Slightly disconcerting start to the day here - found a spider doing the backstroke in my muesli. I like spiders, don't get me wrong. But there are limits
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Oh, how did I forget???? I slept for 8 , unbroken hours last night. I'm having real tea until 11am and decaf thereafter. A fluke or signs of things to come? Fingers crossed and watch this space.
Morning all. I have emerged from revision / exam world, still a bit disorientated! Thanks for your good luck wishes, everyone. The exams went... OK. Nothing disastrous, some odd questions where I still have no idea whether I got the right answer, and a better than feared veg & fruit paper. I found this course much harder than the previous one and where the previous exams were adrenaline-fueled, these were just exhausting. Glad they're over, but very sad that the course is over.
Sorry to hear about your OH's ribs, Glenys. Hope he's not in too much pain. Really well done to Possum and Chicklet. Enjoy having her home, Chicky - when does her sister join you? Hosta, stick with it on the caffeine front. Hugs to punkdoc - keep posting.
Am going to write myself a long list of all the things I've been neglecting for the past couple of weeks. Not least in the garden, which is desperately dry and the foxes have been causing havoc. And there are lots of forms to fill in for the kids. And a bit of general house sorting - not on your level though, Obxx!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Yuk, Raisingirl, sometimes spiders get above their station.
Should be hot here today.
A photographer is coming on Saturday to take photos of the house, different estate agent, so I suppose I had better tidy up before then.
Yesterday I found 2 wheelbarrows, a sun lounger, a child's ride on truck, a load of baling twine, a bucket and a rake in the shrubbery part of the garden. Also 2 rickety swings attached to branches and a tree house with shelf platforms made from the thinnest logs in the log pile. I think the grandchildren had fun last weekend.
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Hubby thinks there might be some snow on top if the range across the valley, but waiting for the foggy cloud to lift for us to see properly. The ski slopes in Vic and NSW are having a good season.
Sorry to hear about your hubby Glenys. Very painful. Our friend here who got knocked off his motor bike by a kangaroo several months ago is still having some trouble with his broken ribs. I remember that he couldn’t sleep in bed, had to spend his time in a recliner.
I hope your OH has had some sleep Glenys. Not easy. Pat - lots of clems are hardy to -25C and more but they don't do thirsty. Makes them crispy.
Hope you get some rain soon Fidget. i'm moving all my smaller pots round to the north side today to reduce their need for watering during this coming heatwave. It will be so much easier once we can get them in the ground.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
lovely combination Dove, I look at the garden photos thread which has such inspiring photos
I am growing lots of clematis this year to try and cover up my rose debacle!
its been really really wet here overnight. Peonies will have suffered I fear.
Joyce, Fairy have you got any sweet peas flowering yet?
have a good day everyone
A A Milne
Added hugs for Gleny's Hub. Ouchity.
@Dovefromabove and @Lyn, FAB.
More drizzle here this morning.
I watched Bazeeeeel munching on rat poison yesterday afternoon but there's on there this morning. I've topped up the dish. How long does it take poison to kill a rat? Does anyone know?
Hubby home for 10 days before heading back "up country" so he's planning to finish painting the outside of the house. The forecast looks good.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I slept for 8 , unbroken hours last night.
I'm having real tea until 11am and decaf thereafter.
A fluke or signs of things to come? Fingers crossed and watch this space.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear about your OH's ribs, Glenys. Hope he's not in too much pain.
Really well done to Possum and Chicklet. Enjoy having her home, Chicky - when does her sister join you?
Hosta, stick with it on the caffeine front.
Hugs to punkdoc - keep posting.
Am going to write myself a long list of all the things I've been neglecting for the past couple of weeks. Not least in the garden, which is desperately dry and the foxes have been causing havoc. And there are lots of forms to fill in for the kids. And a bit of general house sorting - not on your level though, Obxx!
Morning all.
Yuk, Raisingirl, sometimes spiders get above their station.
Should be hot here today.
A photographer is coming on Saturday to take photos of the house, different estate agent, so I suppose I had better tidy up before then.
Yesterday I found 2 wheelbarrows, a sun lounger, a child's ride on truck, a load of baling twine, a bucket and a rake in the shrubbery part of the garden. Also 2 rickety swings attached to branches and a tree house with shelf platforms made from the thinnest logs in the log pile. I think the grandchildren had fun last weekend.