Don't like beer except Guinness in a chocolate cake tho it's not as good as chocolate and beetroot or chocolate and carrot. Don't even like it in Belgian carbonnade - beef and beer stew.
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)."
You've all been busy - gardening....and eating and drinking by the sound of it Looking good steephill. Great they've got decent weather for it too. Must be miserable doing that in a normal February. Hope that puncture wound is ok LG. I'm sure it will be. I've given indoor painting a miss today Obelixx. I wasn't wasting the beautiful day. Mid to high teens I think. I had short sleeves too doc. Unheard of at this time of year. Better weather than we get in summer, half the time! I've varnished the greenhouse timber as it was very bedraggled after all the weather scouring it. Moved it back to where it should be too. Took ages, but it's all safe and secure. Put old compost and some new, down around plants, and tidied up the border where the scaffolding was. The plants have actually survived very well. Lots of little jobs done too, but still time to sit and watch the female blackie. She's very unaffected by me fannying around near her with a paintbrush. Could have done with some pie for dinner too. Think it'll be something quick and simple. Bit like myself.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sounds good FG. I'm working on the basis that I need to get it done before things really heat up. Want to get it all done and dusted before Possum arrives at Easter and that includes time to go and buy and install a new bed and a radiator cover which I have yet to build. Rellies coming for the first week of May too.
Well done with the greenhouse.
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)."
Yes - best to do jobs when the conditions and priorites suit. The kind of heat you get would finish me. Last summer was hideous for me, and it was nothing like the temps in many areas. I thoroughly enjoyed being outdoors today, and there'll be plenty of wet, cold days soon to get on with the painting inside.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We went out into Derbyshire, had a walk along the Derwent in Bakewell, ate Fish and chips outside on a bench overlooking the river. I had to take my coat off it was so warm. The blackheaded gulls were staring me out, but nothing like as aggressive as St Ives trained gulls. We finished off with a visit to the Pudding shoppe, to get a Bakewell pudding to bring home. I'm not sure I am going to want Dinner tonight.
Lovely tree surgeons, I might even have taken them an extra cuppa. Busy day here too. It's hard to hold back doing stuff I know SHOULDN'T be done in February, like cutting back the penstemons etc.
The old stalks of my penstemons were lying horizontal on the ground, I couldn’t see that they were doing any protection so I cut them back yesterday, lots more ready to replace, but I doubt I’ll lose them.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Evening to all you busy bees. A cracking day to be off work today so been outside for most of it. I have two massive Phormiums which need a serious haircut - they are particularly tricky as you need to get right under to pull out the old leaves and then trim unwanted (trip hazard) long leaves with a scissors. I haven’t finished them yet and already have a mountain of prunings. Hope you all ok. Thinking of you Pat and hubby.
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Doom Bar is an ale, named after a place in Cornwall, where the cask version is brewed. A favourite of my OH too.
I have had a brilliant day in the garden.
Don't like beer except Guinness in a chocolate cake tho it's not as good as chocolate and beetroot or chocolate and carrot. Don't even like it in Belgian carbonnade - beef and beer stew.
Looking good steephill. Great they've got decent weather for it too. Must be miserable doing that in a normal February.
Hope that puncture wound is ok LG. I'm sure it will be.
I've given indoor painting a miss today Obelixx. I wasn't wasting the beautiful day. Mid to high teens I think. I had short sleeves too doc. Unheard of at this time of year. Better weather than we get in summer, half the time!
I've varnished the greenhouse timber as it was very bedraggled after all the weather scouring it. Moved it back to where it should be too. Took ages, but it's all safe and secure. Put old compost and some new, down around plants, and tidied up the border where the scaffolding was. The plants have actually survived very well. Lots of little jobs done too, but still time to sit and watch the female blackie. She's very unaffected by me fannying around near her with a paintbrush.
Could have done with some pie for dinner too. Think it'll be something quick and simple.
Bit like myself.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well done with the greenhouse.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Busy day here too. It's hard to hold back doing stuff I know SHOULDN'T be done in February, like cutting back the penstemons etc.
A cracking day to be off work today so been outside for most of it. I have two massive Phormiums which need a serious haircut - they are particularly tricky as you need to get right under to pull out the old leaves and then trim unwanted (trip hazard) long leaves with a scissors. I haven’t finished them yet and already have a mountain of prunings.
Hope you all ok. Thinking of you Pat and hubby.
Sorry it's blurred, but I had to be quick to catch it.