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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Three drops of rain at midday ish while we we’re visiting @nutcutlet but that’s the lot so far ... Hoping for more ... the butts are nearly used up 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    At this time of year the sun arc swings to the west and starts to come in through my north-west facing windows. The sunset shines in the kitchen and bedroom window for May, June and July.

    It feels like a miracle in a north facing house. Sun on my bedroom wall for three months of the year.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That sounds so nice Fire. Although our bedroom also faces north it is double aspect so we get morning sunshine - so good to wake up to.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    When I was a kid my bedroom was on the north end of the house but it had a window/skylight facing east, another window facing north and a 3rd one facing west. I grew so many plants in that room because it always had a perfect window for something. Good times.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Did you live in a lighthouse?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    I am one of those who makes chutney from the previously  gin soaked damsons.


    Waste not want not. 



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    An interesting change to the law on shooting 'pest' species of birds. If anyone was considering shooting a bird for some reason then be aware it's currently illegal (at least in England) until licences have been re-issued. Good news in some ways and bad in others but the whole system has been a bit dodgy for a long time.



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You can be pretty sure the toffs will be able to continue their 'sport'.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I cleared out the tool shed and found a random bag of hort. grit and all sorts of other things I didn't know I had.  Is it a sure sign of middle age that sudden grit makes you cheer?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The good news was that I’ve planted out about 12 plants, the bad news was that I had to dig out a lorry load of weeds to find the spaces.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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