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Hello Forkers! October 2018

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Have a good day @Hostafan1 :)

    They’ve promised is a dry day here @Pat ... I’ve got some pairs of jeans ready for the wash ... I’ll do them this morning.

    Supper will be a butternut squash and sage risotto so no need to go shopping ... OH is going to work and I’ll spend some time in the studio  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • So I'll try posting again. This time in 2018, thanks to @Dovefromabove for signposting me here.

    So it's October again! Thought this October group might like my October post. I'm new to YouTubeing, but love gardening.

    October is so full of colour don't you think? 

    https://youtu.be/IOBBTM4npfM
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hi Leigh :) This October is certainly colourful. Lots of recent photos on the Garden Gallery thread. I’m on my phone at the moment and it’ll grind to a halt if I look at your video, so I’ll check it out later when I’m on my laptop  :)
    Whereabouts is your garden and what are you growing?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Leigh GreensladeLeigh Greenslade Posts: 43
    edited October 2018
    Hi Leigh :) This October is certainly colourful. Lots of recent photos on the Garden Gallery thread. I’m on my phone at the moment and it’ll grind to a halt if I look at your video, so I’ll check it out later when I’m on my laptop  :)
    Whereabouts is your garden and what are you growing?
    @dovefromabove I'm in sunny Essex, east of London. Such a warm October.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Morning all/afties Pat. SOmeof our days have been the  'wrong way round' too   :)
    Hosta - you're probably away now, but the bikes with engines seemed a cop out to me until I met two nice blokes at the top of a hill in the Cairngorms. Because there's a reasonable enough path for bikes, and it's an area for lots of outdoor sports, it means folk can mountain bike and access lots of lovely areas. One of them was slightly 'portly' though, and he had a bike with an engine. He freely admitted that without it, he'd never have got up there, so it allowed him to have the views, especially over the loch down below, and a great day out with his friend. Horses and courses and all that  :)
    chicky - you and Mr C will have Chris Hoy thighs when you get home... :D
    Wee bit chilly here this morning, about 7 just now, but nice and dry and calm. I'm off next week again - came out of the  blue - so hopefully it'll be dry enough to do more outside. 
    Saw your lovely pix Dove but didn't have time to comment. We have a real mix here - some trees completley bare, yet some only just turning, which is very odd. 
    Good to 'meet' you Leigh - join in with evrything on the forum and enjoy.
    Better shift and get to work. Catch you all later  :)  
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Morning all, first frost out there!

    Chicky your  holiday sounds just the way I could do a cycle ride, but I would need the car behind me to pick me up for wee rests

    Hosta, time will fly by.

    Hello Leigh!

    Fairy glad to hear the driving is all coming on, i found it a difficult time. You got no frost?

    So, today is the day.  We start our adventure this afternoon, admit I am very excited. The Arabian part of the world has always fascinated me. There will be so much to see 
    380 eye drops packed, two rounds of emergency medication, two epipens and lots else but they are letting me go. I would have been really miffed to cancel this one.

    Will try and pop in and post some pics
    Stay well., safe  and happy and if anyone has time my garden is waaaaay behind!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hope your holiday turns out to be all you hope for Lilyp.

    So, Lilyp, the day you got your first frost, we have the doors open for the first time and spent a lot of time on the front verandah. No wonder we feel upside down.

    Hosta, glad you enjoyed seeing the Kimberley.  It’s very interesting up there. 
    S. E. NSW
  • Morning all sorry late on parade not a good night.

    @Leigh Greenslade great video keep up the good work.

    @Lily Pilly Have a great holiday, I was luckily enough to work in that part of the world for a few years it is a fascinating and beautiful place (most of it)

    I gave up on two wheels a few years ago and brought myself a tricycle with all the shopping bags front and back, works well around here not to many hills !! We have good cycle paths around and along the sea front.

    Nice sunny morning here with a good day forecast so after a few errands to run and flu jab this morning I hope to get some time in the garden this afternoon.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.
    Happy holidays @Lily Pilly.
    Bare root Wallflowers arriving today, so will need to get busy.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Going to a WWW1 concert in Lincoln tonight , something different 
    Hope everybody’s weather is good 
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