I'm sure your sleep pattern will get steadier Hosta. I've been birdwatching [ why didn't they come on Sunday when I was trying to do the Birdwatch? No chance of anything on the other days ] The lovely thrush was getting a bit braver, but even better was the new arrival.
First time for those in the garden. Making it's presence felt too. That blackie had a face on 'er like a well skelped *rse
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi all have only managed to read back a bit will catch up more later. Glad to hear that many peoples problems seem to have abated. Well we made it back from deepest darkest Wales between Llandeilo & Carmarthen, up towards the Cambrian Mountains, got back yesterday, my OH did something she has never ever done before & "chucked a sikkie" (as I believe the youngsters call it!) for Monday so we could stay a bit longer. She is counting down the days till end April when like most of our friends (many of whom are younger than us) all seem to have retired already. That said the friends we went to see may have "retired" but they sure haven't stopped working. They have taken on a huge project, an old vicarage that was converted to holiday flats in the 1980's plus a converted stone built barn. It all needed/ needs total renovation. My friend D has been working on it for a year now, his wife has just started to join him for longer periods as she just stopped full time work. They have got the Barn/ Lodge liveable for themselves and have finished one flat completely and two more are near completion. Of course they showed us the grounds & I think me & OH may be getting roped in to help with the Gardens. The whole place is huge, I might be posting on the garden design thread to get some ideas in the near future, but stupidly left my phone charger behind so didn't get any pictures yet. I think like D I might be commuting to Wales a few times in the next year or so. Shame the weather wasn't great but you cant expect too much this time of year, even when we went to Rome for my Birthday some years ago it was freezing cold so we weren't expecting wall to wall sunshine.
Afternoon all. Have skimmed back but sorry if I missed anything important.
Happy belated birthday, Dove. And Happy retirement, FG. What do your fairylets think of this development? Hope Moira is recovering, punkdoc.
I'm clearing out the bottom bit of the larder this afternoon - a long overdue job . Being a larder, it's bloomin' cold in there. Sorting the plastic bag mountain, the veg rack and the box of cleaning materials, plus the archive of insulated lunch bags we seem to have accumulated! Not a very fun job, but needs must. It was good to finally locate the two weights from the scales that had been dropped and lost behind it all though. We've been muddling through without them for AGES.
Displacement activity over - best get back to it. Hope everyone with snow is OK.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I'm too impatient to wait - I'll stick with A*sda for my bananas Have you got a lot of different varieties, doc? ie - different coloured foliage? Thought I'd better move my car back onto the drive. Had to scrape it - already below zero. Reminds of the item on the news I saw earlier:
Commercial bananas tend to be clones of just one variety so it's important to have others grown from seed against the day that variety gets some nasty illness or pest and world crops are threatened.
OH has a banana with his lone Weetabix every day - except when I do the whole British breakfast performance - and I occasionally do banana cakes but I won't be trying to grow a banana just yet a while. The ones in the local town look dreadful after being shredded by winter gales and I don't want to be wheeling one in and out of a PT every year.
It's bowing at about 100kph at the mo so they'll all be looking lovely tomorrow.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I've been birdwatching [ why didn't they come on Sunday when I was trying to do the Birdwatch? No chance of anything on the other days
The lovely thrush was getting a bit braver, but even better was the new arrival.
First time for those in the garden. Making it's presence felt too. That blackie had a face on 'er like a well skelped *rse
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well we made it back from deepest darkest Wales between Llandeilo & Carmarthen, up towards the Cambrian Mountains, got back yesterday, my OH did something she has never ever done before & "chucked a sikkie" (as I believe the youngsters call it!) for Monday so we could stay a bit longer. She is counting down the days till end April when like most of our friends (many of whom are younger than us) all seem to have retired already. That said the friends we went to see may have "retired" but they sure haven't stopped working. They have taken on a huge project, an old vicarage that was converted to holiday flats in the 1980's plus a converted stone built barn. It all needed/ needs total renovation. My friend D has been working on it for a year now, his wife has just started to join him for longer periods as she just stopped full time work. They have got the Barn/ Lodge liveable for themselves and have finished one flat completely and two more are near completion. Of course they showed us the grounds & I think me & OH may be getting roped in to help with the Gardens. The whole place is huge, I might be posting on the garden design thread to get some ideas in the near future, but stupidly left my phone charger behind so didn't get any pictures yet. I think like D I might be commuting to Wales a few times in the next year or so.
Shame the weather wasn't great but you cant expect too much this time of year, even when we went to Rome for my Birthday some years ago it was freezing cold so we weren't expecting wall to wall sunshine.
Happy belated birthday, Dove. And Happy retirement, FG. What do your fairylets think of this development? Hope Moira is recovering, punkdoc.
I'm clearing out the bottom bit of the larder this afternoon - a long overdue job
Displacement activity over - best get back to it. Hope everyone with snow is OK.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have you got a lot of different varieties, doc? ie - different coloured foliage?
Thought I'd better move my car back onto the drive. Had to scrape it - already below zero. Reminds of the item on the news I saw earlier:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47040584
Are folk born stupid or do they have to work at it, d'you think?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/25/banana-farming-danger-cavendish-crop-genetics
OH has a banana with his lone Weetabix every day - except when I do the whole British breakfast performance - and I occasionally do banana cakes but I won't be trying to grow a banana just yet a while. The ones in the local town look dreadful after being shredded by winter gales and I don't want to be wheeling one in and out of a PT every year.
It's bowing at about 100kph at the mo so they'll all be looking lovely tomorrow.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...