Thanks Dove we can’t wait. Hosta I’m sure I will write to you before I go but hope you have a lovely holiday too 🏖p.s I’m sure you them 9 weeks will go fast 💨
Morning all morning all really slow start with coffee, juice and croissants and the papers in bed. We have watched the weather change from sunny and cheerful to heavy blustery squalls , sorry it’s so wet with you Fairy.☹️ happy holidays Flumpy😎 Hosta, I know how you feel,⏱ six weeks till we go and I am counting every second!🏖
Pat thinking of you lots as I have the drier in full use, experimenting with autumn rasps as they really hold flavour when dried and crumbly, all herbs done. I didn’t find the Apple rings very successful but the kids adore the banana chips!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Hello everyone. Have had a lovely lie-in today catching up on missed sleep whilst in Namur which was not restful. Spent 3 busy days hanging curtains, fixing shelves and hooks, hanging light fittings, fixing loose bits of parquet floors and so on. Left Namur at 11am and 17C and rolled up at home at 8pm and 28C. Lovely. No traffic all the way except round Rouen so a lovely clear run.
Floppy day today, sunbathing and reading and maybe checking calendar for what I'm up to in the coming weeks. Need to gird my loins and paint the new shower room walls ready for tiler and leccy and plumbing in the fittings.
Watched Strictly last night. Interesting line-up in the end tho I don't know half of them. GW next then a proper English breakfast for lunch and some sun. OH is sorting out tomatoes. Still cropping heavily so lots more luscious dried ones and passata coming up.
Hope all are well. Too much to remember when I read back.............
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)."
Back from my Granny stint in York, where I had lots of fun and cuddles. Grandson kindly shared his cold with me, so I'm nursing a sore ear and runny nose today... Done some washing and am about to feed the birds, but I fancy a bit of a slow day apart from that - there's cricket to follow, snoozing to do and post to read (at least 2 gardening catalogues, by the look of things! )
I managed to keep in touch with Forkers on my phone, though not to post anything. Hope Flumpy has a wonderful holiday, and Mrs Punkdoc's feeling better. And congrats to Hosta on that wonderful new border - that could be really spectacular
Got some emergency weeding and pruning done at son and DIL's. Recognised the thorn apple growing in a trench across the garden (dug to bury an armoured cable), but not this:
- next to it. Turns out to be Solanum rostratum or Buffalo Burr, native of Mexico or somewhere, and a pernicious weed there. Very sharp spines and rather poisonous... could it have got into the bird seed, I wonder? Needless to say, both have been removed to the green bin.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Afternoon folks, Hope everyone is having a good day. It's breezy with sunny intervals here and I should be out in the garden but I'm stilling feeling a bit down, have absolutely no idea why. I'm gonna make myself cut the ivy back so that I get some fresh air and maybe that will be the kick up the backside I need.
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Hosta I’m sure I will write to you before I go but hope you have a lovely holiday too 🏖p.s I’m sure you them 9 weeks will go fast 💨
Best wishes for your holiday Flumpy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
happy holidays Flumpy😎
Hosta, I know how you feel,⏱ six weeks till we go and I am counting every second!🏖
Pat thinking of you lots as I have the drier in full use, experimenting with autumn rasps as they really hold flavour when dried and crumbly, all herbs done. I didn’t find the Apple rings very successful but the kids adore the banana chips!
A A Milne
Floppy day today, sunbathing and reading and maybe checking calendar for what I'm up to in the coming weeks. Need to gird my loins and paint the new shower room walls ready for tiler and leccy and plumbing in the fittings.
Watched Strictly last night. Interesting line-up in the end tho I don't know half of them. GW next then a proper English breakfast for lunch and some sun. OH is sorting out tomatoes. Still cropping heavily so lots more luscious dried ones and passata coming up.
Hope all are well. Too much to remember when I read back.............
Back from my Granny stint in York, where I had lots of fun and cuddles. Grandson kindly shared his cold with me, so I'm nursing a sore ear and runny nose today... Done some washing and am about to feed the birds, but I fancy a bit of a slow day apart from that - there's cricket to follow, snoozing to do and post to read (at least 2 gardening catalogues, by the look of things!
I managed to keep in touch with Forkers on my phone, though not to post anything. Hope Flumpy has a wonderful holiday, and Mrs Punkdoc's feeling better. And congrats to Hosta on that wonderful new border - that could be really spectacular
Got some emergency weeding and pruning done at son and DIL's. Recognised the thorn apple growing in a trench across the garden (dug to bury an armoured cable), but not this:
- next to it. Turns out to be Solanum rostratum or Buffalo Burr, native of Mexico or somewhere, and a pernicious weed there. Very sharp spines and rather poisonous... could it have got into the bird seed, I wonder? Needless to say, both have been removed to the green bin.