Good morning everyone. Bright and sunny here but fresh and only getting to 21C today. Patchwork moon piece cutting this morning and gardening this pm then. OH will be glued to golf and ironing. He did think of going to Paris for the Cup but then he saw the prices and decided he'd get a better view from the telly. I've been good and put another wash on for him.
Still no hedgepigs visible here but Minstrel has left us a mole in the potager. Fine by me. I don't see that they serve any useful purpose alive and they taste bad dead cos even the crows and buzzards don't scavenge them.
We moved here because a Belgian winter can be 6 months of dark, grey, wet weather and if the sun shines for any length of time it's a beast from the east bringing winds and/or temperatures from Siberia. Lovely to be out in with the dogs but then you have to wash all the salt off their paws and it's devastating for far too many otherwise hardy plants.
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)."
OH has found digging by wild boar in the lower part of the garden, it had been a mass of mole hills, now it's more ploughed field. They have never been in the garden before, only the paddocks, boar that is, moles are regular pests.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon folks, haven't read back been doing supermarket shop! Now sat in garden with well earned coffee and sat next to as Dove informs me, a humming bird hawk moth! 😀
Hiya Wonky, my new belt has been ordered and will be with me on Tuesday. 2 loads of washing done and almost dry already in the conservatory. Glorious sunny day with hardly any wind . Another layer of chippings in the 19 dumpy sacks I started this week. They're almost full but will settle a bit so I'll keep adding to them and they should make usable mulch by next spring. Cuppa and some toast and roasted red pepper houmous. "use by Aug 22nd" pah, stuff and nonsense.
You may live in 'inner Ipswich' @WonkyWomble but with your lovely garden you certainly attract some wonderful wildlife ... you've asked me to post the photo for you ... here goes
Great photo
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No winter sun for me again this year, already dreading winter.
On the plus side, glorious sun here today, but their has been a frost.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Still no hedgepigs visible here but Minstrel has left us a mole in the potager. Fine by me. I don't see that they serve any useful purpose alive and they taste bad dead cos even the crows and buzzards don't scavenge them.
We moved here because a Belgian winter can be 6 months of dark, grey, wet weather and if the sun shines for any length of time it's a beast from the east bringing winds and/or temperatures from Siberia. Lovely to be out in with the dogs but then you have to wash all the salt off their paws and it's devastating for far too many otherwise hardy plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now sat in garden with well earned coffee and sat next to as Dove informs me, a humming bird hawk moth! 😀
2 loads of washing done and almost dry already in the conservatory.
Glorious sunny day with hardly any wind .
Another layer of chippings in the 19 dumpy sacks I started this week. They're almost full but will settle a bit so I'll keep adding to them and they should make usable mulch by next spring.
Cuppa and some toast and roasted red pepper houmous. "use by Aug 22nd" pah, stuff and nonsense.
Great photo
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Moira back to health this morning, had no luck bringing appointment forward.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.