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HELLO FORKERS! ... JUNE 2019

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2019
    Not a lot @Pat E 😊. Son has just had a bath and left again ... think he’s picking up some instruments and heading for London ... or not ... 
    I’ve dug some potatoes, picked some peas and the chicken is resting in its coat of yoghurt ginger saffron cumin coriander lemon etc etc    
    I’m just finishing a ☕️ and I’ll go and change the bed linen in the spare room ... 

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Raining here, so I've had to come indoors again. Walking the dogs earlier, it was very warm and humid - felt like rain was not so much falling on me as precipitating out of the air all around me. 

    I looked out of my bedroom window earlier and found myself eye to eye with a little kestrel. The way the land lies here (literally) my bedroom is effectively 3 storeys above the next door neighbours' garden. I am generally looking down on the swallows and martins swooping between the houses. The kestrel was 'wind hovering' over their pond. Wish I had a decent camera  :)

    Dog roses are all out in the hedges now and a few wild strawberries ripening - both rather late this year, it's been so cold and wet. Ho hum 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Nice view indeed, r'girl. As you say - pity you didn't have the camera
    Warm and humid here too, but I should get a few more things done outside before the rain arrives tonight. 
    Walk was quite pleasant, but nothing spectacular. Certainly not too testing for the thighs. Sunny at times and a nice breeze so it didn't get too hot. It's mostly along an old railway line, and nature has taken over in a very impressive way, so nettle dodging was necessary. A few little orchids just at one point along the route too  :)

    Chicken looks good Dove. I could be tempted, but I'll probably just take a look at what's hanging around in the freezer, as the girls often don't want much when they come back from their Dad's.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Lovely orchids FG.  There are some very similar but a deeper magenta colour in the lanes around here along with yellow toadflax in the drier parts.

    Warm here - 32C and breezy so very comfortable.   We've had friends here for lunch, passing thru on their way from their home near Biarritz to Brittany to go and see puffins.   Now I have to go to the patch exhibition again to help clear it all away and take back my goodies.   So much to learn and experiment with when I look at what the more advanced groups are doing.   Fabulous.

    Chicken looks good Dove.  I tend to spatchcock mine and sometimes skin it before smothering with the yogurt mix.   Love it.    

    RG - how's the new boy on walkies?   Sorry you got so wet.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751
    Pat E said:
    What’s going on here? 
    What, exactly, is puzzling you??
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Artemis3 - Pat lives in Oz so doesn't get UK TV or all of the news and politics it covers.  Anyone would find it puzzling.
    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Artemis3 said:
    Pat E said:
    What’s going on here? 
    What, exactly, is puzzling you??
    I think Pat was making a rhetorical remark ... at least that’s how I took it 😊 

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





  • Artemis3Artemis3 Posts: 751
    Artemis3 said:
    Pat E said:
    What’s going on here? 
    What, exactly, is puzzling you??
    I think Pat was making a rhetorical remark ... at least that’s how I took it 😊 
    Dove-the-peace-maker!  <3

    Alas, some people do object to even the virtual presence of black people.  Professor Olusoga is a highly regarded academic and a person for whom I have utter respect.  Moreover, this particular Potting Shed thread has no specific theme and Sam used it quite correctly for those who could, possibly, find it of interest. 
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Spent a happy day in the garden weeding, planting and judiciously snipping ✂️.  All done to the delicious scent of my philadelphus, which is in full swing and really pumping out the fragrance 💟.  Time to relax now and catchup with Carol Klein and her gardens
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2019
    @Artemis3 😊 I’m not peacemaking and see no need of it here ... thank goodness. Pat’s broadband can be very slow ... not only does she live in Oz but she lives out in the bush ... she quite often doesn’t see recent posts until a while after they’ve been posted and her own posts often take sometime to upload.  I took her post as a way of saying “Hello how’s things?”... as I said, a sort of rhetorical greeting rather than a response to Sam’s post which is very welcome  😊 

    I’ve never ever had any reason to think that Pat or any other regular on this thread is anything other than totally accepting of all races, creeds, sexualities etc ... after all, they know that my family includes all sorts 💕 including members of a Windrush family. You might have seen my post yesterday marking the Windrush Commemorations. 

    Was anyone watching the tennis today?  Two phenomenal matches  and amazing results ... who’da thunk it? 🎾🏆🏆 😆 

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





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