Evening all. Busy day here doing patchwork homework this morning then machine patchwork class this pm then home for dinner and off out again for dance class - jive, tango and cha-cha so very warming. Lovely, noisy downpour during patchwork class but, of course, not a drop at home. Steam in the fields as we drove back up for dace class and now we have clear skies.
Busy - that's a cracking photo. Love going to Italy - food, wine, scenery, beautiful buildings, lovely people.
FG, Joyce and LP - that all sounds far too exciting and that detour is horrendous. Hope it gets cleared up soon.
Pat - can you just keep the sheep? Finders Keepers sort of thing? Knit the wool, compost the droppings, even eat the meat?
I don't give a fig for Andrew, his wife or his daughters but I don't see why the queen can't indulge her grand-daughter - we all would too, just not on the same scale - and Busy's right, it will generate revenue and more than pay for itself in other ways.
Fidget, I have seaweed envy. Never see any on our nearest beaches but lots of oyster and mussel shells and the occasional crab carcase and dead shark egg.
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)."
There are three thoughts about taking seaweed. Purist marine biologists will say that it is needed for the sandhoppers that live on decaying seaweed, but I only took freshly washed up stuff at the lowest (nearest the sea) tide line. Plenty of decaying stuff left at the high tide mark.
Holidaymakers generally like a clean seaweed free beach, as it smells when it is rotting.
Certain places like Jersey, and I have seen it used on the Isle of Mull, regard it as a free natural resource, like blackberries in the hedgerow.
I try and get as much free stuff as I can that will help my garden grow. I also collect comfrey from a water madow near the Trent. As everyone will know, it grows back pretty rapidly.
Every time I go to the local coast the Atlantic is in mill pond mode but I suspect, in general, there is too much water movement and not enough rocks for seaweed to grow. I shall have to explore further afield or maybe ask some gardening friends.
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)."
@Pat E you should bring some of your knitting or a book, in case there are no visitors. It's blowing a right gale out there.........hope everyone keeps safe as it's heading ye're way
Gee that storm looks worrying. Thanks for showing us Lilyp. There’s been nothing on our TV except Florida.🤬
Fidget, that’s interesting about the seaweed. Makes you think.
I don’t want to know about Fergie’s daughter, but I’m sure the news will be full of it tonight.😏
weve still got drizzle here, not enough to influence the count in the rain gauge, but anything is better than drying sun. It’s a bit cool without sunlight, but I’m staying indoors with the wood fire still doing its thing.
I meant to continue commenting on earlier posts. Obelixx, its a bit inconvenient to keep the sheep, firstly they would be able to see them from the road, him next door is a very agro so and so, we’d need to get someone to do the shearing, I’d have to get the spinning wheel out again, and I could never eat something that had been walking around my paddock.😳 - that’s why we had Angora Goats (for their mohair) but not for eating. Nice idea though.😏
re being bored at the gallery, I do take knitting or a colouring book and pencils when I’m there. If I took a book to read I’d definitely nod off 😁.
Good morning all G’day Pat Keep your heads down and hatches battened over there in the West now id better read back and find out what you were all up to yesterday ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Busy - that's a cracking photo. Love going to Italy - food, wine, scenery, beautiful buildings, lovely people.
FG, Joyce and LP - that all sounds far too exciting and that detour is horrendous. Hope it gets cleared up soon.
Pat - can you just keep the sheep? Finders Keepers sort of thing? Knit the wool, compost the droppings, even eat the meat?
I don't give a fig for Andrew, his wife or his daughters but I don't see why the queen can't indulge her grand-daughter - we all would too, just not on the same scale - and Busy's right, it will generate revenue and more than pay for itself in other ways.
Fidget, I have seaweed envy. Never see any on our nearest beaches but lots of oyster and mussel shells and the occasional crab carcase and dead shark egg.
A A Milne
It's blowing a right gale out there.........hope everyone keeps safe as it's heading ye're way
Fidget, that’s interesting about the seaweed. Makes you think.
I don’t want to know about Fergie’s daughter, but I’m sure the news will be full of it tonight.😏
weve still got drizzle here, not enough to influence the count in the rain gauge, but anything is better than drying sun. It’s a bit cool without sunlight, but I’m staying indoors with the wood fire still doing its thing.
stay safe all.
Obelixx, its a bit inconvenient to keep the sheep, firstly they would be able to see them from the road, him next door is a very agro so and so, we’d need to get someone to do the shearing, I’d have to get the spinning wheel out again, and I could never eat something that had been walking around my paddock.😳 - that’s why we had Angora Goats (for their mohair) but not for eating. Nice idea though.😏
re being bored at the gallery, I do take knitting or a colouring book and pencils when I’m there. If I took a book to read I’d definitely nod off 😁.
night all.
Keep your heads down and hatches battened over there in the West
now id better read back and find out what you were all up to yesterday ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.