Our weather is cold and misty, GWRS - but the sun is breaking through and we're promised a nice day. That's good because I'm clearing ash saplings in the park this morning... it's currently 2C, so I think a second sweatshirt is in order...
Your biking holiday sounds good, Chicky. Interesting and not too irksome, since someone else is carrying your bags... hope you get some good weather and come back fit and happy.
The same goes for you, LilyP - the "fit and happy after hols" bit, I mean. I guess you can take the weather as read in that part of the world.
Ooh, it's gone beautiful... the mist was an inversion layer in the valley bottom (hard to tell when you're in it!). There's just a little strip of mist part way up the valley side...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Good morning. Sunny again and no rain on the forecast for the next 10 days. There is rain about but it's coming up from the south east and sliding off the coast just below the Ile de Ré. Glad you've had a drop Pat but clearly you need more.
Chicky - did a cycling holiday in my teens in North Wales but haven't been tempted since. Too many other temptations really but I'm told that Moselle trip is very lovely. Enjoy.
You too LP. Hope it all goes well and you have a great time.
Greetings to all. Will have a proper read back later.
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 saw Obelixx's post about heating oil. I wonder why it is so much more expensive in France than England. We were pleasantly surprised when OH had the tank in Norfolk filled. Petrol here is now more expensive too, used to be cheaper.
I hope you have a lovely cycling holiday, Chicky, with beautiful scenery and not many hills. I did a riding holiday like that once, in Ireland with my daughter. Chap used to pick us up at the end of the day and take us back to our holiday cottage, then pick us up in the morning.
I actually did some gardening yesterday. Dug up pelargoniums to take indoors and planted violas. A yucca has produced a flower spike, still in bud, seems a bit late. Wonder if it's frost proof.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Petrol has always been cheaper in Belgium and France than in the UK and diesel has been cheaper because of differet tax levels but that's changing now. I suspect it's all about tax levels for home fuel in the UK too but oil prices in general are rising because of world politics and there'll be the usual winter price rise too.
No idea about your yucca flowers Busy but a neighbour in Harrow had one and it seemed to survive winters OK.
Warm here tho breezy. I'm leaving my pelargoniums alone for another day and carrying on with patchwork homework as we have dancing this evening and I'd best stay clean. I'll enjoy a mucky day tomorrow messing with pots and flower borders and then on Saturday I can get on with planting out leafy winter veg.
Time for coffee for me too Dove.
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)."
Turned out to be a beautiful day here, so managed to get the bare root Wallflowers planted. Time to start taking the Cannas up soon, a rather bigger job, so it might be spread over a long time.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good evening all. A beautiful Autumn day here. Went for a woodland walk with my Sis and neice - we collected leaves, chestnuts, lichen etc and did some craft pictures when we came home (posted on Jam Jar Posies too). Very therapeutic. Hope you all ok.
Turned out nice here again - I sound like George Formby... Have a lovely hol LP. I think we did have a bit of air frost - already a had a couple of those. The little sensor is protected by pots so it was reading a bit higher than it really was When I got in the car, it was 4 and stayed at that all the way to work. I find it most accurate when it's just overcast/cloudy etc. Been a nice day though I'd think they'd be ok Diana, but doc or Hosta will advise. Do you have nowhere in the house you can put it? Or a porch, or similar? It's easier to see when they come back into growth then. I've had them in the house, in a coolish room and in a cold conservatory in previous houses, but they don't survive here outside in a cold frame or similar. Not enough protection for them. BL - I think the yukka might take a slight frost or two. It's one of those awkward judgement calls. I love an inversion Liri. Two sweatshirts sounds about right for your temp. I've needed fleece and padded waistcoat on many occasions recently. Nice when it's dry and you're busy though I'm awaiting some bulbs from Peter Nyssen. Went to the little GC after work and got some varied size terracotta pots for my newest project, which the bulbs are part of. Took fairylet for another practice, and she managed a 3 point turn and a bit of parallel parking. She gets frustrated when she can't park my car easily in a bay, but it's a much bigger car than the instructor's and she's actually pretty good at it!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ah - I forgot you were selling. They'll be ok in the house as houseplants just now, or alternatively, can you tuck them against the house wall outside? They should be fine for a while yet, and grouped together with some other plants, it would make a nice feature and help protect them
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Two sweatshirts and waterproof top and trousers, plus leather gloves, and I was very comfortable yanking out/cutting down ash seedlings in the park this morning. Anyone on the heritage trail can now see what they're looking at - the remains of an ancient farmhouse. The ash seedlings were showing signs of dieback disease too, so they're better removed.
The temperature reached the dizzy heights of 7C this afternoon! But what a gorgeous day...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Our weather is cold and misty, GWRS - but the sun is breaking through and we're promised a nice day.
Your biking holiday sounds good, Chicky. Interesting and not too irksome, since someone else is carrying your bags... hope you get some good weather and come back fit and happy.
The same goes for you, LilyP - the "fit and happy after hols" bit, I mean. I guess you can take the weather as read in that part of the world.
Ooh, it's gone beautiful... the mist was an inversion layer in the valley bottom (hard to tell when you're in it!). There's just a little strip of mist part way up the valley side...
Chicky - did a cycling holiday in my teens in North Wales but haven't been tempted since. Too many other temptations really but I'm told that Moselle trip is very lovely. Enjoy.
You too LP. Hope it all goes well and you have a great time.
Greetings to all. Will have a proper read back later.
Good morning to the rest of you who've appeared since I was here earlier .... it's a coffee break
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
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I saw Obelixx's post about heating oil. I wonder why it is so much more expensive in France than England. We were pleasantly surprised when OH had the tank in Norfolk filled. Petrol here is now more expensive too, used to be cheaper.
I hope you have a lovely cycling holiday, Chicky, with beautiful scenery and not many hills. I did a riding holiday like that once, in Ireland with my daughter. Chap used to pick us up at the end of the day and take us back to our holiday cottage, then pick us up in the morning.
I actually did some gardening yesterday. Dug up pelargoniums to take indoors and planted violas. A yucca has produced a flower spike, still in bud, seems a bit late. Wonder if it's frost proof.
No idea about your yucca flowers Busy but a neighbour in Harrow had one and it seemed to survive winters OK.
Warm here tho breezy. I'm leaving my pelargoniums alone for another day and carrying on with patchwork homework as we have dancing this evening and I'd best stay clean. I'll enjoy a mucky day tomorrow messing with pots and flower borders and then on Saturday I can get on with planting out leafy winter veg.
Time for coffee for me too Dove.
Time to start taking the Cannas up soon, a rather bigger job, so it might be spread over a long time.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hope you all ok.
Have a lovely hol LP. I think we did have a bit of air frost - already a had a couple of those. The little sensor is protected by pots so it was reading a bit higher than it really was When I got in the car, it was 4 and stayed at that all the way to work. I find it most accurate when it's just overcast/cloudy etc. Been a nice day though
I'd think they'd be ok Diana, but doc or Hosta will advise. Do you have nowhere in the house you can put it? Or a porch, or similar? It's easier to see when they come back into growth then. I've had them in the house, in a coolish room and in a cold conservatory in previous houses, but they don't survive here outside in a cold frame or similar. Not enough protection for them.
BL - I think the yukka might take a slight frost or two. It's one of those awkward judgement calls.
I love an inversion Liri. Two sweatshirts sounds about right for your temp. I've needed fleece and padded waistcoat on many occasions recently. Nice when it's dry and you're busy though
I'm awaiting some bulbs from Peter Nyssen. Went to the little GC after work and got some varied size terracotta pots for my newest project, which the bulbs are part of. Took fairylet for another practice, and she managed a 3 point turn and a bit of parallel parking. She gets frustrated when she can't park my car easily in a bay, but it's a much bigger car than the instructor's and she's actually pretty good at it!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The temperature reached the dizzy heights of 7C this afternoon! But what a gorgeous day...