Greenhouse now in regular production but whose bright idea was it to leave 8 tomato plants, 8 aubergines and 4 cucumbers in an 8x8 greenhouse? Doh! Harvesting made more difficult by trying to balance on a dodgy leg, now diagnosed as a DVT.
Went lame climbing around on Greek temples in Sicily at the end of June and it waxed and wained since then. Checked out symptoms and it came up with "potentially fatal -pulmonary embollism" so threw myself on the tender mercies of the NHS after nagging from OH.
Conversation with A&E doctor got round to alcohol consumption. I thought I was going to be told it was incompatible with the anticoagulant medication but it turns out the biggest risk is internal bleeding if I fall and bang my head. I haven't fallen over due to drink for several decades!
Heard a noise (didn't feel any shaking) and said to OH 'what was that?' we decided it must've been a lorry making a late delivery (some building work going on at a house up the road) but it was probably a tremor ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Minor earthquake here too Dove but metaphorical. OH is in the kitchen making gazpacho again. I hope he leaves me some tomatoes and cucs for lunchtime salad or there'll be a volcanic eruption too.
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)."
It can be irritating when they have ideas of their own can't it @Obelixx
Mine has printed out scorecards for PopMaster ... one each ... I'm rubbish at it ... unless the answer is The Kinks, Manfred Mann, Dusty Springfield, REM or Crosby Stills Nash and Young I'm unlikely to know anything .... Oh, it's starting ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gorgeous bike @Hostafan1 and no crash helmets needed, OH will be the bees knees turning up in the square on that😀. I doubt many people there would have seen one before. Earthquakes are a strange feeling, we had one here not long ago, Roland felt it, I didn’t, just thought it was a lorry.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Well, I doubled my score ... the answers I knew were Paper Lace and Suzanne Vega's Marlene on the Wall ... I think I can hold my head up as I didn't know any of the Eurovision winners or songs of the Noughties OH trounced me, of course
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all. Late on parade as usual... though I have been out to do some shopping, so not lying in bed doing nowt.
@Pat E - gunnera is a big problem in western Ireland, as well as some of the Scottish islands (as Fairy pointed out, I think), because it loves wet conditions as well as poor soil. They have council eradication programmes in County Mayo (and undoubtedly other areas too), spraying huge stands of it with herbicide. It shades out the native flora, and de-stabilises river banks too. Not sure if Cornwall has a similar problem? Around here, we can only grow it in a very sheltered spot so there's no chance of an invasion... well, not until global warming has a greater effect...
I'm supposed to be summer pruning the community espalier apples this morning, but it's raining. Better do some HW instead, I suppose...
Congrats Dove - you know 100% more answers than I would, to those questions!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Morning all. I actually slept well to my surprise as bedroom was 27°. 37 forecast for today.
Plumbers have turned up! They are removing the old boiler so I'll be able to put stuff back and get at the fans in the tool room.
I'm getting bedrooms ready for family visit. Son 2, who lives in local town, rang this morning to say he will be staying a couple of nights too. Last time its was a bit of a squash and 2 babies have been born since then. 8 adults, 9 children, 2 babies.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sounds hectic but fun Busy. Enjoy. Won't be able to do it once you sell up and downsize.
Our forecast says 42C for the next 3 days and no rain anywhere in sight. I shall stay cool in the shade and re-think my shade bed for plants that like dry shade. At the mo even geranium macrorhizum is wilting.
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)."
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Went lame climbing around on Greek temples in Sicily at the end of June and it waxed and wained since then. Checked out symptoms and it came up with "potentially fatal -pulmonary embollism" so threw myself on the tender mercies of the NHS after nagging from OH.
Conversation with A&E doctor got round to alcohol consumption. I thought I was going to be told it was incompatible with the anticoagulant medication but it turns out the biggest risk is internal bleeding if I fall and bang my head. I haven't fallen over due to drink for several decades!
Heard a noise (didn't feel any shaking) and said to OH 'what was that?' we decided it must've been a lorry making a late delivery (some building work going on at a house up the road) but it was probably a tremor ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine has printed out scorecards for PopMaster ... one each ... I'm rubbish at it ... unless the answer is The Kinks, Manfred Mann, Dusty Springfield, REM or Crosby Stills Nash and Young I'm unlikely to know anything .... Oh, it's starting ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Earthquakes are a strange feeling, we had one here not long ago, Roland felt it, I didn’t, just thought it was a lorry.
let's see how I do in the next round ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pat E - gunnera is a big problem in western Ireland, as well as some of the Scottish islands (as Fairy pointed out, I think), because it loves wet conditions as well as poor soil. They have council eradication programmes in County Mayo (and undoubtedly other areas too), spraying huge stands of it with herbicide. It shades out the native flora, and de-stabilises river banks too. Not sure if Cornwall has a similar problem? Around here, we can only grow it in a very sheltered spot so there's no chance of an invasion... well, not until global warming has a greater effect...
I'm supposed to be summer pruning the community espalier apples this morning, but it's raining. Better do some HW instead, I suppose...
Congrats Dove - you know 100% more answers than I would, to those questions!
I actually slept well to my surprise as bedroom was 27°. 37 forecast for today.
Plumbers have turned up! They are removing the old boiler so I'll be able to put stuff back and get at the fans in the tool room.
I'm getting bedrooms ready for family visit. Son 2, who lives in local town, rang this morning to say he will be staying a couple of nights too. Last time its was a bit of a squash and 2 babies have been born since then. 8 adults, 9 children, 2 babies.
Our forecast says 42C for the next 3 days and no rain anywhere in sight. I shall stay cool in the shade and re-think my shade bed for plants that like dry shade. At the mo even geranium macrorhizum is wilting.