Morning all/afties, evening Pat. Not looked back properly yet, and not been on for a few days, so hope everyone is doing ok. I'll take a wee look with another cuppa. Lovely lambs chicky. Too early here as LP says, and I'm missing seeing them on the hills, so I'll have to get my **se in gear soon once I've got most of the painting finished. Fingers crossed for little chicklet Gone up to minus 3 here just now and all sparkly. Yesterday turned out nice too after all the 'breezy stuff' on the previous days. I even got outside and did some chopping back of the two grasses at the back door. Unfortunately I also chopped off part of the early clematis which is growing in behind them. D'oh. Ach well - it'll grow back I'll go and see what you've all been doing in my absence now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good morning. Patch this pm so I need to crack on and do the machine part of the binding for my new convergence project so I can sit and natter and hand sew. OH, and make some biscuits too.
It looks like a nice day to be outside at last but it'll have to wait. Decorating looms for the next few mornings at least.
Digits will be suitably crossed and positive waves directed at Chicklet tomorrow.
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)."
Morning all. 11 1/2 hour day yesterday , Not a happy bunny. Sat outside a customer's house yesterday for half an hour. Rung the door bell: dogs went mad inside. Rung the other doorbell: dogs went mad again. Called the land line: dogs went mad. Called the mobile. Voicemail. Called 10 mins later, voicemail. Gave up after half an hour and left a card to say I'd been. An hour later ( 25 miles away ) I got a message from head office asking if I could go back with the delivery " they didn't hear you" . Well, the flippin' dogs did. Turned round, well all the way back he said " I was upstairs" , I asked his wife after he'd gone, " do you think he was asleep?" " erm yes, very probably " Got home to a cold house with no hot water. No heating oil.
Fingers crossed for (bigger?) Chicklet too. Is this a job for after graduation? That went quickly! Sort-of conservatoires for next year, Chicky - they do these Saturday college things for teenagers. But of course it's a good way to get a feel for the places for future reference too, though Bow doesn't know if that's the route she wants to take yet. She might well want to do it at uni. It's been fun and enlightening, though 5 full days of visits so quite time consuming too. Auditions next .
It's sunny out but I won't get into the garden today as I've family birthday presents to buy. Then Trill's on a school trip to the Festival Hall which ends in a concert later, so I'm off there afterwards.
Have a good day, all.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
sunny here, but much too wet under foot to be gardening. Hopefully if the forecast is right, I'll get a chance to get out there later in the week. No lambs here yet, although I think lambing has probably started. The fields by us are a bit remote from the farms so they are only put out here when they are a bit older.
Good luck for Chicklet's interview. Hope you enjoy the talk Chicky - Nick Bailey was speaking at our local gardening club a few weeks ago but I wasn't able to get there, unfortunately.
Enjoy the shopping and the concert, LG
Hope you've got some firewood in Hosta.
Have a good week everyone else with all the painting and general busyness that's going on. You all sound very 'Spring'
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hello all, I've been absent for the weekend, mostly due to very on and off Internet. It seems worse when it's raining.
Congratulations to Chicklet, but I feel for her Mum.
I was babysitting for my son overnight. Three small grandsons, smallest needs a hernia op. and they should have taken him to Bordeaux hospital very early this morning but he had a fever so it's postponed.
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.
Not looked back properly yet, and not been on for a few days, so hope everyone is doing ok. I'll take a wee look with another cuppa.
Lovely lambs chicky. Too early here as LP says, and I'm missing seeing them on the hills, so I'll have to get my **se in gear soon once I've got most of the painting finished. Fingers crossed for little chicklet
Gone up to minus 3 here just now and all sparkly. Yesterday turned out nice too after all the 'breezy stuff' on the previous days. I even got outside and did some chopping back of the two grasses at the back door. Unfortunately I also chopped off part of the early clematis which is growing in behind them. D'oh.
Ach well - it'll grow back
I'll go and see what you've all been doing in my absence now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It looks like a nice day to be outside at last but it'll have to wait. Decorating looms for the next few mornings at least.
Digits will be suitably crossed and positive waves directed at Chicklet tomorrow.
11 1/2 hour day yesterday , Not a happy bunny.
Sat outside a customer's house yesterday for half an hour. Rung the door bell: dogs went mad inside. Rung the other doorbell: dogs went mad again. Called the land line: dogs went mad. Called the mobile. Voicemail. Called 10 mins later, voicemail.
Gave up after half an hour and left a card to say I'd been.
An hour later ( 25 miles away ) I got a message from head office asking if I could go back with the delivery " they didn't hear you" . Well, the flippin' dogs did.
Turned round, well all the way back he said " I was upstairs" , I asked his wife after he'd gone, " do you think he was asleep?" " erm yes, very probably "
Got home to a cold house with no hot water. No heating oil.
Fingers crossed for (bigger?) Chicklet too. Is this a job for after graduation? That went quickly!
Sort-of conservatoires for next year, Chicky - they do these Saturday college things for teenagers. But of course it's a good way to get a feel for the places for future reference too, though Bow doesn't know if that's the route she wants to take yet. She might well want to do it at uni. It's been fun and enlightening, though 5 full days of visits so quite time consuming too. Auditions next
It's sunny out but I won't get into the garden today as I've family birthday presents to buy. Then Trill's on a school trip to the Festival Hall which ends in a concert later, so I'm off there afterwards.
Have a good day, all.
Good luck for Chicklet's interview. Hope you enjoy the talk Chicky - Nick Bailey was speaking at our local gardening club a few weeks ago but I wasn't able to get there, unfortunately.
Enjoy the shopping and the concert, LG
Hope you've got some firewood in Hosta.
Have a good week everyone else with all the painting and general busyness that's going on. You all sound very 'Spring'
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hi RG. Hope the sun dries your ground out a bit this week.
Hello all, I've been absent for the weekend, mostly due to very on and off Internet. It seems worse when it's raining.
Congratulations to Chicklet, but I feel for her Mum.
I was babysitting for my son overnight. Three small grandsons, smallest needs a hernia op. and they should have taken him to Bordeaux hospital very early this morning but he had a fever so it's postponed.
1. Washing on the line!
2. Cherry Plum blossom starting!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.