I know this shouldn't make me cheerful, but it does: I squished my first lot of greenfly on my roses. I find it therapeutic - a bit like popping bubble wrap. Weird or what??
proper bluebells here Lizzie. The grow in woods near where we lived in Belgium and, famously, at Bois de Halle - /www.hallerbos.be - and along the northern and western French coasts where the terrain is suitable. My own aren't out yet either but the sunnier laneside ones are looking glorious.
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)."
We are finally getting a new carpet laid tomorrow after weeks of preparation and work😁 Also bluebells are beginning to open...proper bluebells😁
I hope your carpet fitting goes well Hazel. Some years ago we had a new carpet in our living room, room 13' wide and 13' wide carpet was ordered. We got out of the way while the carpet was being laid and got back just as the carpet layer was finishing. We could immediately see a line about a foot from the edge and queried it. Fitter said he was supplied with 12' and told to put the strip in. Not impressed but thankfully with the style of carpet, and the location, is wasn't obvious once the pile had been brushed up. We did at least get a partial refund.
Also had problem with a carpet for the hall, stairs and landing, but in this instance the fitter refused to even attempt to lay it. When he arrived he showed me the hall carpet in the back of his van. I had a cut about 3 feet long in the centre of it where the people in-store had made a cut in the wrong place. Management at the store told him just to glue it in place and in his words 'Keep your mouth shut'. He had for more integrity than they did. Had a hell of a battle to get my money back and had about a month with no stair carpet.
Reason to be happy. Last year I found this delightful tiny alpine which I had thought I had lost completly in the hot weather. Today I was poking about in that flower bed and I saw a new seedlings I found that really something to really feel happy about.
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I squished my first lot of greenfly on my roses. I find it therapeutic - a bit like popping bubble wrap. Weird or what??
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