Oo...just looking for the moon and noticed the bats are out! There are plenty of moths about, so the bats should have a feast. Hope Wonky is ok - it must have felt horrible being stuck in the heat. I have an internal temperature gauge in the car, in addition to the outside sensor, so I had noticed recently that if I was parked in the sun and then checked the gauge as I got in, it was often up to 40 degrees! 🤢😓
Evening all. Hot here again but we've been busy playing rather than gardening so not bad. Took our guests to see the automated critters in the Place Napoleon in La Roche-s-Y this morning. Great fun despite two of the animatron thingies not working. There 's a huge hippo and you push buttons and levers to make it come up out of teh water, open and close its jaws, waggle its ears and so on. Then there's a group of 3 frogs and a toad, 2 flamingos, an otter, an owl, a camel, a crocodile............ all i their own basin of water but interlinked so the koi carp and water hens and so on can move about and find shelter and food.
Home for lunch - red onion and goat's cheese tarte tatin - and then off to the beach. heroic stuff from me. I don't like sand in my pants or anywhere else, I don't like salt water drying on my skin and today was the day, of course, when there was loads of wind blowing fine golden sand granules in every pocket and orifice. Fun radio was there doing a summer holiday "animation" which made it all very noisy and not a single decent piece of music. All thump thump. I stayed on our beach rug reading about the Milky Way in a French scientific review while our friends and Possum played, swam, sunbathed.
Got home eventually and made dinner while they all showered. Took me 4 rinses to get all the sand out of my hair! Give me a civilised Italian Bagno any day. Showers, board walks, deck chairs, lounger sand parasol, capuccino on tap...............
While we were out OH trimmed his vines, tied them in, thinned his bunches of grapes, weeded one of my new beds, walked the dogs. Another 38C on the front doorstep kind of day. Peace for me tomorrow. No sand! They and Possum are going to go to O'Gliss which is a huge water park thingy about 10 or 15 mins away. An all day job so I can dead head roses, transplant, pot up and water to my heart's content.
Glad you're not too hot FG. Good news for you Lily P and I hope OH appreciates your domesticity when he gets home Liri. We like to buy local too Dove. Good thing all round. Chicky - you must be getting excited. Pdoc - glad it was good. Scotland is beautiful but too cold and grey for me. Hope Wonky recovers OK.
Greetings to all I've missed. Sorry.
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Evening all. Late to the party - been busy outside splitting and repotting lettuce and hellebores, and feeding the other 'family'. I'm too old for this malarkey Glad you had a lovely break doc. Great pix of one of the greatest areas in the greatest country on earth.... not that I'm biased or anything No wonder my Dad loved going there Obelixx - this last few weeks we've been very much blue sky and no grey. We can't quite believe it either! Were you staying in Achnasheen doc - or Gairloch? I've bitten the bullet and ordered some nematodes for weevils too Dove - hope they work. I'm having a very bad spell of them, which normally doesn't happen.
Better go and get some kip. Catch you all tomorrow. Sleep well
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Had a lovely week in a big house at East Prawle, Devon, last year. Food was mainly local eating out with local caterers doing a big birthday dinner. We did think about getting a delivery from Waitrose but weren't sure if they would do it. Might have met Hostafan if we had! We did bring lots of booze with us though as we were raiding our "cellar" of old English fizz for the birthday celebration which wasn't available locally.
Morning to anyone who's about/afties Pat - if you're around too. hope you're keeping cosy Reading your post steephill, I'm always meaning to ask you if you ever come back north of the border? That would have been funny if Hosta had done your delivery. I work with someone who holidays abroad to the same place every year [more than once a year] and they do that stereotypical Scottish thing of taking food with them - no prizes for guessing the sort of thing they take. No danger of trying the local food etc. Not sure how they've managed to avoid being nabbed at the airport for it. She'd have a meltdown if anyone took her square sausage... Cool and cloudy here - lovely. Can't believe there bringing in a hosepipe ban in the N.West of England. Astonishing!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good morning all I think your colleague may find that bio security will be a lot stricter following Brexit @Fairygirl. Europe won't want anyone from Britain taking meat products into Europe if we're importing meat from elsewhere under non-EU regulations.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove - we're always teasing her about it, but the truth is, we're all horrifiedthat she does it You're right though - things may be slightly different next year - I'll be looking out for her in the news...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Don't think she's breaking the law at the moment ... you can take meat and dairy products for personal consumption from one EU country to another ... things are likely to change.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope Wonky is ok - it must have felt horrible being stuck in the heat. I have an internal temperature gauge in the car, in addition to the outside sensor, so I had noticed recently that if I was parked in the sun and then checked the gauge as I got in, it was often up to 40 degrees! 🤢😓
Home for lunch - red onion and goat's cheese tarte tatin - and then off to the beach. heroic stuff from me. I don't like sand in my pants or anywhere else, I don't like salt water drying on my skin and today was the day, of course, when there was loads of wind blowing fine golden sand granules in every pocket and orifice. Fun radio was there doing a summer holiday "animation" which made it all very noisy and not a single decent piece of music. All thump thump. I stayed on our beach rug reading about the Milky Way in a French scientific review while our friends and Possum played, swam, sunbathed.
Got home eventually and made dinner while they all showered. Took me 4 rinses to get all the sand out of my hair! Give me a civilised Italian Bagno any day. Showers, board walks, deck chairs, lounger sand parasol, capuccino on tap...............
While we were out OH trimmed his vines, tied them in, thinned his bunches of grapes, weeded one of my new beds, walked the dogs. Another 38C on the front doorstep kind of day. Peace for me tomorrow. No sand! They and Possum are going to go to O'Gliss which is a huge water park thingy about 10 or 15 mins away. An all day job so I can dead head roses, transplant, pot up and water to my heart's content.
Glad you're not too hot FG. Good news for you Lily P and I hope OH appreciates your domesticity when he gets home Liri. We like to buy local too Dove. Good thing all round. Chicky - you must be getting excited. Pdoc - glad it was good. Scotland is beautiful but too cold and grey for me. Hope Wonky recovers OK.
Greetings to all I've missed. Sorry.
Glad you had a lovely break doc. Great pix of one of the greatest areas in the greatest country on earth....
not that I'm biased or anything
Obelixx - this last few weeks we've been very much blue sky and no grey. We can't quite believe it either!
Were you staying in Achnasheen doc - or Gairloch?
I've bitten the bullet and ordered some nematodes for weevils too Dove - hope they work. I'm having a very bad spell of them, which normally doesn't happen.
Better go and get some kip. Catch you all tomorrow. Sleep well
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Reading your post steephill, I'm always meaning to ask you if you ever come back north of the border? That would have been funny if Hosta had done your delivery.
I work with someone who holidays abroad to the same place every year [more than once a year] and they do that stereotypical Scottish thing of taking food with them - no prizes for guessing the sort of thing they take. No danger of trying the local food etc. Not sure how they've managed to avoid being nabbed at the airport for it. She'd have a meltdown if anyone took her square sausage...
Cool and cloudy here - lovely. Can't believe there bringing in a hosepipe ban in the N.West of England. Astonishing!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think your colleague may find that bio security will be a lot stricter following Brexit @Fairygirl. Europe won't want anyone from Britain taking meat products into Europe if we're importing meat from elsewhere under non-EU regulations.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You're right though - things may be slightly different next year - I'll be looking out for her in the news...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.