Hi all. Thunder storms predicted for today. If I may offer a little advice @Hostafan1, don't clench your buttocks, if you are having a sigmoidoscopy Wonderful year for Song Thrushes in our garden, seem to see several every day. Love watching them bash snails against various bits of paving.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
We had 3mm of rain forecast this morning. 2mm fell. No more now for the next 10 days. Grump. However, no more of the silly temps either so we can function.
Planning to clean up the potager today and bung all damaged and over-ripe toms on the compost heap. Plenty of good ones left for eating and processing. All the sweetcorn needs to come out too and we'll put the cobs with no gall out for the birds altho one OH left out was covered in baby Gendarme beetles last night.
Hope your week isn't too interesting Clari. Sounds exhausting on many levels.
Have a great start to the week everyone.
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)."
Hi all. Thunder storms predicted for today. If I may offer a little advice @Hostafan1, don't clench your buttocks, if you are having a sigmoidoscopy Wonderful year for Song Thrushes in our garden, seem to see several every day. Love watching them bash snails against various bits of paving.
@punkdoc, the phone call this morning said there would be " sedation" so Hubby has to come and drive me home. I love to hear that little " click, click" of the snail bashing.
We’re home 😀. Arrived at 2am last night, which was 4am in the time we were used to, so long lie-ins all round this morning. Luckily not due back to work til tomorrow.
Had a wonderful time - lots of sun and swimming, lots of reading books, snorkelling with turtles (my new favourite creature 🐢), great food, lovely people, and (best of all) all of my favourite peeps in one place with me 😀😀😀.
Come back to find that the deer have acquired a taste for agapanthus flowers 😡
But toms galore in the greenhouse (just had fried tomatoes on toast for breakfast - yummy, but something I never do with shop bought tomatoes for some reason), raspberries starting to fruit, and plenty of colour still in the borders.
And now .....washing to be done 👚👗👙👕
Good luck with the move Lizzie, the procedure Hosta, and the PT taming Obxx. Lots else going on too, but my grey cells have failed me......so hope everyone else is keeping happy and well 🤞🏻
Glad you had a good time Chicky and that the garden is OK, despite the deer.
I have spent my morning reducing passata slowly enough to do it without burning. Takes flipping ages and the hob is bottled gas so I may try pre-drying the next batch of toms in the oven which has free leccy by day. The two trays of drying toms turned into one teeny jar of "sun-dried" toms in olive oil.
Meanwhile, I made panzanella for lunch with home grown yellow pear toms, cucumber, yellow pepper, red onion and herbs plus a bought red chili and bought ciabatta style baguette. Absolutely yummy.
Had a short, unscheduled downpour that brings our total today to 2.5mm. Just enough to upset Minstrel who doesn't approve of rain stopping play.
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)."
I'll be thinking of you Hosta ... the 'prep' is by far and away the worst bit of the whole thing
Welcome home Chicky ... holiday sounds lovely ... glad the garden's survived, even if not quite intact ...
We've got some sunny spells here and it's quite pleasant ... but apparently we're on a Met Office warning for torrential rain, hail, lightning and the four horsemen of the apocalypse before bedtime ...
The first sweetcorn of the season was wonderful last night ... straight from the garden into the pot and eaten smothered with butter and black pepper soooooooooooooooo sweet and tender variety Swift if anyone wants to know
A ginormous moussaka has been made ... it'll be enough for large portions tonight and on Thursday when we may well be out most of the day. Now I'm going to get the knitting out ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our sweet corn is not ready yet. I am betting on it being perfect the week we are away.Supposed to be raining all day here, but no sign yet. I have taken the bottom leaves off of the toms and summer pruned the dwarf apples. Apple crop looks to be poor, it started so well. The stray pumpkin plant growing up the sweet pea canes appear to be the dwarf tennis ball size things, rather then the crown prince I was hoping for.
Bit of excitement here, just had an email saying I've won a £50 Farmer Gracy voucher in one of GW's competitions. That's the spring bulbs sorted then
Had to burgle my own greenhouse by removing panes of glass to get at some aubergines in the back corner. Serves me right for keeping too many plants in there. Aubergine pickle now made and cucumber soup next on the list.
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Thunder storms predicted for today.
If I may offer a little advice @Hostafan1, don't clench your buttocks, if you are having a sigmoidoscopy
Wonderful year for Song Thrushes in our garden, seem to see several every day. Love watching them bash snails against various bits of paving.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We had 3mm of rain forecast this morning. 2mm fell. No more now for the next 10 days. Grump. However, no more of the silly temps either so we can function.
Planning to clean up the potager today and bung all damaged and over-ripe toms on the compost heap. Plenty of good ones left for eating and processing. All the sweetcorn needs to come out too and we'll put the cobs with no gall out for the birds altho one OH left out was covered in baby Gendarme beetles last night.
Hope your week isn't too interesting Clari. Sounds exhausting on many levels.
Have a great start to the week everyone.
@punkdoc, the phone call this morning said there would be " sedation" so Hubby has to come and drive me home.
I love to hear that little " click, click" of the snail bashing.
Had a wonderful time - lots of sun and swimming, lots of reading books, snorkelling with turtles (my new favourite creature 🐢), great food, lovely people, and (best of all) all of my favourite peeps in one place with me 😀😀😀.
Come back to find that the deer have acquired a taste for agapanthus flowers 😡
But toms galore in the greenhouse (just had fried tomatoes on toast for breakfast - yummy, but something I never do with shop bought tomatoes for some reason), raspberries starting to fruit, and plenty of colour still in the borders.
And now .....washing to be done 👚👗👙👕
Good luck with the move Lizzie, the procedure Hosta, and the PT taming Obxx. Lots else going on too, but my grey cells have failed me......so hope everyone else is keeping happy and well 🤞🏻
I have spent my morning reducing passata slowly enough to do it without burning. Takes flipping ages and the hob is bottled gas so I may try pre-drying the next batch of toms in the oven which has free leccy by day. The two trays of drying toms turned into one teeny jar of "sun-dried" toms in olive oil.
Meanwhile, I made panzanella for lunch with home grown yellow pear toms, cucumber, yellow pepper, red onion and herbs plus a bought red chili and bought ciabatta style baguette. Absolutely yummy.
Had a short, unscheduled downpour that brings our total today to 2.5mm. Just enough to upset Minstrel who doesn't approve of rain stopping play.
Welcome home Chicky
We've got some sunny spells here and it's quite pleasant ... but apparently we're on a Met Office warning for torrential rain, hail, lightning and the four horsemen of the apocalypse before bedtime ...
The first sweetcorn of the season was wonderful last night ... straight from the garden into the pot and eaten smothered with butter and black pepper
A ginormous moussaka has been made ... it'll be enough for large portions tonight and on Thursday when we may well be out most of the day. Now I'm going to get the knitting out ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.