I love Newdog and the poppies, Raisingirl. Newdog looks like a Pharaoh Hound. I looked it up to make sure and the site said it was the national dog of Malta. Was he rescued from abroad? I missed where he came from.
Evening. Cloudy but warm here. Oo ‘ek Punk - hope not too many casualties? Lovely dog! Is he called NewDog?? Been oiling my newly sanded chest of drawers so will do a couple more times over the next few days, followed by a beeswax polish, then it can go in it’s new spot. Hope everyone doing ok.
Oh @AuntyRach you’re making me feel guilty ... I was looking at our chests of drawers the other day and thinking that the tops could do with rubbing back and re-doing ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love Newdog and the poppies, Raisingirl. Newdog looks like a Pharaoh Hound. I looked it up to make sure and the site said it was the national dog of Malta. Was he rescued from abroad? I missed where he came from.
He's all British. It is possible that he has some podenco/pharoah hound - they are sometimes bred into lurchers. It's not common though. They may be saluki ears with a collie cross gene making them stand up. He can fold them down when he wants to
He's lovely RG and looks full of fun and energy. Amazingly neat feet! Ours are always legs akimbo.
Pdoc - the rhodos might recover. If not, planting opportunity! Good that you were safely somewhere else.
AR - do we get a pic when it's done?
Hope you've recovered from all the gadding about Pat.
Chicky - very envious. Photos please.
I am a shattered Obxx. Up early to get ready and drive to Olonne for all day patch workshop with yours truly teaching 22 ladies how to do a "disappearing 4 patch" so on my feet all day as I had a good sort in our store room once they were all underway, so to speak.
Apéro and lunch involved too then, at the end, loaded up my car with 4 sewing machines to service and other stuff to sort out. Home via mosaic class in La Roche. Rasta haircut in the morning and bank tomorrow, in Olonne again, to sign for access to the patch accounts......... I need sleep.
Cool here but expecting it to get seriously hot as the week goes on. I'd rather enjoy a good thunderstorm.
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)."
I think I may have found a new hobby @Dovefromabove! Oiling the newly sanded wood is soooo satisfying! Even better that could do outside today. Ah Jet! He looks great fun. I love lurches/greyhounds and similar.
We’ve been sitting out in the garden watching the twilight fade ... the scent from the honeysuckle was magical ... there were bats chasing the chafers around the big ash tree, blackbirds singing from every vantage point, bright greeny-yellow froglets crossing the grass next to the pond and heading into the flower beds and ...
Mrs Tiggywinkle seems to have taken up residence in one of the hedgehog houses in the Wilderness 😀 and she’s been coming and going around the garden finding stuff to eat all evening ... the food in the feeding station is always gone in the morning but she hadn’t got around to it before we came in ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For the next couple of nights we have the longest twilight sunsets of the year. It was fantastic here, Roland thought something was happening tonight as the sky was a most fantastic colour.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oo ‘ek Punk - hope not too many casualties?
Lovely dog! Is he called NewDog??
Been oiling my newly sanded chest of drawers so will do a couple more times over the next few days, followed by a beeswax polish, then it can go in it’s new spot.
Hope everyone doing ok.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@AuntyRach His name's Jet
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Pdoc - the rhodos might recover. If not, planting opportunity! Good that you were safely somewhere else.
AR - do we get a pic when it's done?
Hope you've recovered from all the gadding about Pat.
Chicky - very envious. Photos please.
I am a shattered Obxx. Up early to get ready and drive to Olonne for all day patch workshop with yours truly teaching 22 ladies how to do a "disappearing 4 patch" so on my feet all day as I had a good sort in our store room once they were all underway, so to speak.
Apéro and lunch involved too then, at the end, loaded up my car with 4 sewing machines to service and other stuff to sort out. Home via mosaic class in La Roche. Rasta haircut in the morning and bank tomorrow, in Olonne again, to sign for access to the patch accounts......... I need sleep.
Cool here but expecting it to get seriously hot as the week goes on. I'd rather enjoy a good thunderstorm.
Ah Jet! He looks great fun. I love lurches/greyhounds and similar.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.