Good morning. Cloudy start and lots of dew but sunning up again and warming up too. 18C expected today and 24C tomorrow. Been pottering with house plants and am aoff for a shower next. SM raid later at a new one cos we need to go to the nearby outlet store to get walking boots for OH whose toes are flapping.
Well done Chicky. Good to get a thank you. Pat, I love your avenue. If the frosts don't get the blossoms before the bees get to them you should have some fruits. Glad your caffeine curfew is working and you're sleeping better Hosta. I gave it up after 2pm some years ago and now I notice the difference when I have caffeine after midday.
Anyone else worried about rising oil prices? I've told OH we need to top up the CH tank before it gets to 100$ a barrel but he's resisting. Why? Going to make cars more expensive 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)."
Thanks for your comments about my little avenue of crab apples trees. We’ve got lots of bees here. They make hives in hollow Eucalypts . So with a bit of luck we might get fruit. I’ll be sure to get some photos if they set fruit.
That's really interesting, Pat. Hope you get some fruit - though keeping those parrots off them might be a problem.
Great to be appreciated, Chicky!
Also great that the "powers that be" sometimes show their appreciation to the right people, Punkdoc. Hope you soon get over the exhaustion.
We used to have an oil-fired boiler, Obelixx, when we lived in rural Northumberland. Now we're in a town we're on mains gas, which is very much cheaper - but I'm sure you won't have that option where you are. Predicting price rises is a bit of a lottery, I think.
Better go shopping, I think... have a good day, folks.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Gorgeous autumn colours. Stuff here is mostly still green with odd buttery yellows apart form the liquidambars in town which are stunning and red.
Liri - oil prices are already at their highest since 2014 and set to rise further. Lots of chat about it on news and political programmes - when they're not banging on about Brexit.
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)."
Trees are lovely Pat - but I get the feeling you were hoping to have them all the same as it's an avenue Great when you've grown them yourself though. Never watch Autumn [or Spring ]watch - couldn't stand the presenters! I dare say they're different now, but I'm not of a mind to start watching anyway. Might be able to do my own soon anyway, as I've bought one of those wildlife cameras to see if I can catch the visiting hogs. I have a horrible feeling it might be like that KitKat advert, with the chap trying to catch the pandas on camera, to no effect, until he turns away to have his KitKat.... Pretty Dove. Tried ot turn it for you, but I seem to have lost the facility to do it. Or maybe I've just lost the ability Bright now after some early smirr/rain. Might even get something done after work before I take daughter for a drive.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We've no mains gas here and it drives me mad. We're a mile and a half from the town centre but lots of houses in between. We're hardly in the middle of nowhere.
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Well done Chicky. Good to get a thank you. Pat, I love your avenue. If the frosts don't get the blossoms before the bees get to them you should have some fruits. Glad your caffeine curfew is working and you're sleeping better Hosta. I gave it up after 2pm some years ago and now I notice the difference when I have caffeine after midday.
Anyone else worried about rising oil prices? I've told OH we need to top up the CH tank before it gets to 100$ a barrel but he's resisting. Why? Going to make cars more expensive too.
That's really interesting, Pat. Hope you get some fruit - though keeping those parrots off them might be a problem.
Great to be appreciated, Chicky!
Also great that the "powers that be" sometimes show their appreciation to the right people, Punkdoc. Hope you soon get over the exhaustion.
We used to have an oil-fired boiler, Obelixx, when we lived in rural Northumberland. Now we're in a town we're on mains gas, which is very much cheaper - but I'm sure you won't have that option where you are. Predicting price rises is a bit of a lottery, I think.
Better go shopping, I think... have a good day, folks.
@B3 ... you'll see that your Gardener's Garters has made itself at home too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Liri - oil prices are already at their highest since 2014 and set to rise further. Lots of chat about it on news and political programmes - when they're not banging on about Brexit.
Great when you've grown them yourself though.
Never watch Autumn [or Spring ]watch - couldn't stand the presenters! I dare say they're different now, but I'm not of a mind to start watching anyway.
Might be able to do my own soon anyway, as I've bought one of those wildlife cameras to see if I can catch the visiting hogs. I have a horrible feeling it might be like that KitKat advert, with the chap trying to catch the pandas on camera, to no effect, until he turns away to have his KitKat....
Pretty Dove. Tried ot turn it for you, but I seem to have lost the facility to do it. Or maybe I've just lost the ability
Bright now after some early smirr/rain. Might even get something done after work before I take daughter for a drive.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...