Hi all. It is persisting down here, much needed. Bought a copy of Beth Chatto's The Dry Garden yesterday, so I think I shall spend the day reading, maybe do a little potting on later. Not going to Chelsea this year, can't manage the long periods of standing up. Hopefully the TV coverage will be good.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I might need to borrow that book @punkdoc We have drizzle ... enough to lay the dust but it's not going to soak in and reach any roots ... except perhaps the little yellow oxalis grrr
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Well it rained quite heavily yesterday... for about 5 minutes. We have dust here too, Dove .
Glad you survived your epic drive, Obxx! Enjoy your reading, punkdoc. That's a garden I'd love to visit. I read Beth Chatto's garden diary last year, and this year they've been posting extracts from it most days on Instagram, along with then & now photos of the things mentioned. It's a delight .
Hope you have a good trip, BL. It's to get cold over the weekend so bring your woolies.
Both kids are having a hair cut later. I need one too, but it's too bloomin' expensive for us all to go at one time so I'll have to stay shaggy for a bit longer. Luckily they both have long hair so can go quite a while between cuts - ideally mine would be cut at least every 6 weeks as it's very short, but I stretch it out a LOT longer than that! When they're old enough to pay for their own haircuts, regular trims will be my treat to myself
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Two councillors round last night. They were horrified, as before they only peered through from the road. I have a much better view. RSPB has been mentioned. Of course it is all too late.The police were called out over the weekend by someone else because they
ruined everyones bank holiday by chainsawing from 8.30 am Friday to
late on Monday. The old quarry at the front of the property to the main road is fully TPO listed, and stops anyone seeing what is going on. If you Google earth satellite map for NG10 5LT You see the area bounded by Sandringham road, Princess drive and Longmoor Lane. Apart from a few trees at the front, that has all gone
William May Developments Ltd of Beeston, your Eco credentials are Shite.
Don't complain on facebook that a few plants got nicked from one of your showhomes, when you have just destroyed that lot at nesting time.
Me too. Maybe we should all go to their FB page and holler.
Very lively night here. Huge storm broke as we were going to bed with one clap of thunder right overhead and so loud I felt it shake the air. Followed by serious rain and hail but, in the end, only 20mm. The two wisterias are looking very bedraggled today but are still buzzing with bees.
Late on parade today after a disturbed night but aiming to plant the rest of the potatoes and start on the onion sets this pm - assuming the rain stays off. Oh has just come in to shelter. Warming Thai spiced pumpkin soup for lunch.
LG - OH nearly fainted when I told him how much it cost for Possum and me to have a haircut at Xmas. I reminded him it was now just about the same price each as the last time I had a "serious" haircut in Ealing in the late 80s and I only do it once a year whereas he goes 5 or 6 times a year and that's add up.
Hope you have a good trip BL.
Dove - we have amphibians who make a fair bit of noise but when I apporach to see they all hide and shut up. Not the kind of pond I can lie down next to and peer in either. I saw my first hoopoe of the season yesterday. OH says they've been around a couple of weeks but I have neither seen nor heard them when out gardening. One usually sits on the wires near the telegraph pole on the roadside but hasn't sat and sung yet. Very mournful.
Enjoy your read Pdoc. I need to re-read mine.
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)."
They haven't even applied for planning permission yet. Guaranteed there will be opposition, so unlikely to be able to start building until the end of the year, at which point all the birds would have fledged.
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It is persisting down here, much needed.
Bought a copy of Beth Chatto's The Dry Garden yesterday, so I think I shall spend the day reading, maybe do a little potting on later.
Not going to Chelsea this year, can't manage the long periods of standing up. Hopefully the TV coverage will be good.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad you survived your epic drive, Obxx! Enjoy your reading, punkdoc. That's a garden I'd love to visit. I read Beth Chatto's garden diary last year, and this year they've been posting extracts from it most days on Instagram, along with then & now photos of the things mentioned. It's a delight
Hope you have a good trip, BL. It's to get cold over the weekend so bring your woolies.
Both kids are having a hair cut later. I need one too, but it's too bloomin' expensive for us all to go at one time so I'll have to stay shaggy for a bit longer. Luckily they both have long hair so can go quite a while between cuts - ideally mine would be cut at least every 6 weeks as it's very short, but I stretch it out a LOT longer than that! When they're old enough to pay for their own haircuts, regular trims will be my treat to myself
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Very lively night here. Huge storm broke as we were going to bed with one clap of thunder right overhead and so loud I felt it shake the air. Followed by serious rain and hail but, in the end, only 20mm. The two wisterias are looking very bedraggled today but are still buzzing with bees.
Late on parade today after a disturbed night but aiming to plant the rest of the potatoes and start on the onion sets this pm - assuming the rain stays off. Oh has just come in to shelter. Warming Thai spiced pumpkin soup for lunch.
LG - OH nearly fainted when I told him how much it cost for Possum and me to have a haircut at Xmas. I reminded him it was now just about the same price each as the last time I had a "serious" haircut in Ealing in the late 80s and I only do it once a year whereas he goes 5 or 6 times a year and that's add up.
Hope you have a good trip BL.
Dove - we have amphibians who make a fair bit of noise but when I apporach to see they all hide and shut up. Not the kind of pond I can lie down next to and peer in either. I saw my first hoopoe of the season yesterday. OH says they've been around a couple of weeks but I have neither seen nor heard them when out gardening. One usually sits on the wires near the telegraph pole on the roadside but hasn't sat and sung yet. Very mournful.
Enjoy your read Pdoc. I need to re-read mine.