I agree with you , Pat, about Steve Irwin. He was a good presenter, but I always thought he would get bit by a croc or a snake. We arrived into Cairns on the way back from PNG on the day he died. Queensland had it's Princess Diana moment. 24 hour TV repeating it over and over. Anyone with any empathy at all for wild animals should know that they should always be given adequate room to escape any situation they don't like. If they feel trapped they become dangerous. Lying on top of a Stingray with a camera crew, safety divers and the rest in its face was always going to be a recipe for disaster. No way to go, so it lashes out.
Obelixx, I had not thought about green manure. It isn't very common around here. Shouldn't it be ploughed in while soft though? It would be nice if there is an organic farm , and possibly a good farm shop close by.
Fidgetbones I agree with you, he liked taking risks, but this was his last fatal risk 🙁sad for the family and friends, his son is spitting image of him.
Oilseed Rape was early to flower and the seed to ripen this year. What you're seeing may be self-sown rape which has enjoyed the long warm damp autumn ... it may either be ploughed in at some stage or even anothr crop direct sown into the field without ploughing ... depending on which crop is planned to be there next.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Flumpy - you can only make one fatal mistake I think. Before that you're just a plonker taking stupid risks and getting away with it.
Pat - glad you've had some rain. We had 2cm yesterday, unscheduled. Hope it doesn't mean we lose the downpours forecast for midnight tomorrow. Really need a good soak.
Dove - glad all is OK. The worst bit for me of being in hospital was the constant sirens, all through day and night. Surely don't need them at 3am even in a busy Brussels suburb?
Busy - hope the new window has gone in well. More decorating now?
Have been at machine patch all afternoon. Fabulous colours in the trees along the way in both town and countryside. Might just get a liquidambar after all. Kind of went off them when I saw them all over the place here as public planting. There are maples along a boulevard in La Roche which are pollarded every year and grow enormous, bigger than dinner plate, leaves as a result and all now in tones of gold and russet. Fabulous.
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)."
OH has re-attached the phone line. There is a huge hole in the wall covered by a tarpaulin. Didn't go as smoothly as predicted as the wall isn't clay lump as we had been told, it's very old wattle and daub with beams and much later someone has built an inner wall of breezeblock which is very hard. A machine is coming tomorrow to cut out the breezeblock. I'm glad it was a mild sunny day.
I had my haircut this morning and went to Sainsburys. Bought a load of veggie food as my veggie brother is coming to stay. What a huge choice compared with France!
I've nearly finished making the second dining room curtain. Will need 7 in all.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pat - glad you've had some rain. We had 2cm yesterday, unscheduled. Hope it doesn't mean we lose the downpours forecast for midnight tomorrow. Really need a good soak.
Dove - glad all is OK. The worst bit for me of being in hospital was the constant sirens, all through day and night. Surely don't need them at 3am even in a busy Brussels suburb?
Busy - hope the new window has gone in well. More decorating now?
Have been at machine patch all afternoon. Fabulous colours in the trees along the way in both town and countryside. Might just get a liquidambar after all. Kind of went off them when I saw them all over the place here as public planting. There are maples along a boulevard in La Roche which are pollarded every year and grow enormous, bigger than dinner plate, leaves as a result and all now in tones of gold and russet. Fabulous.
OH has re-attached the phone line. There is a huge hole in the wall covered by a tarpaulin. Didn't go as smoothly as predicted as the wall isn't clay lump as we had been told, it's very old wattle and daub with beams and much later someone has built an inner wall of breezeblock which is very hard. A machine is coming tomorrow to cut out the breezeblock. I'm glad it was a mild sunny day.
I had my haircut this morning and went to Sainsburys. Bought a load of veggie food as my veggie brother is coming to stay. What a huge choice compared with France!
I've nearly finished making the second dining room curtain. Will need 7 in all.