Busy indeed @AuntyRach 😊 sewing up a jumper I’ve just finished for OH, roasting a shoulder of lamb and watching Poldark 😎 now I think I’d better go to bed ... 🛌
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Mixed day at work yesterday. Technology crashing, unable to find ( unmarked ) houses, delivering to a field, (well, campsite) and also to a hedgehog rescue centre as she was feeding little peach sized babies.
Did you get to see the babies 🦔 🍑@Hostafan1 ? Think that might have compensated for the crashing technology 😲🤭😍
She was feeding them via an eye dropper kinda thing. ( I'm sure @punkdoc has a better name for them) Not such silly temperatures heading our way, but I'm going to get the terrace pots watered too
Morning all/afties Pat if you're about. Hope you're both ok today. No need for pot watering here, just rescuing them last night from the wind. No damage apart from that though, and it's a wee bit calmer this morning, and to be drier later. The hogbabies must have been lovely to see Hosta Shenanigans are never good, chicky Did anyone watch the moon landing prog on Saturday? I don't care what anyone says - it was a momentous moment, and still emotional after fifty years. If we never challenge ourselves, we'd never do anything, acheive anything, or discover anything.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
another busy week for me, including a London trip in the worst of the heat on Wednesday, which I'm dreading. Hey ho. We have to work.
Got a bit of gardening done at the weekend - starting seeds for the autumn and winter veg and some biennial flowers, as well as caging the chard - something's been eating it.
Got to run - need to get the SM shop done this morning. BT coming this afternoon to 'fix' the internet. That'll be the third time in 5 days they've repaired it. So far, it's got worse each time, so there's every chance you'll not be seeing me for a while.......
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've been very worried about my old rescue horse. He's very old and now he's losing weight. He always was (since I've had him, 2 years) skinny, I called the vet last year. Vet said it was just because he's old. Teeth are OK. I have plenty of grazing, 8 acres for 2 horses and my mare is always a bit overweight. I think part of the problem is that my mare likes to be in the field shelter when it's hot so he stays with her, so doesn't eat. He gets covered in flies too and is very difficult to catch and hates fly spray. I'm actually rather nervous of him, when I wanted to trim his tail in the winter to stop it touching the mud he tried to kick me. Also he's very tall. But he seems reasonably happy, not lame, in love with my mare. Deaf as a post.
I rang my local farmer to order hay to put in the field shelter so they can help themselves and he said he'd retired and wasn't doing it anymore. In the winter he told me he was going to retire but he would always find me hay. But he wasn't helpful, said all the farmers are feeding hay because of the drought. I rang another farmer, no luck. So I went and knocked on another farmer's door but he was out.
Now found a hay supplier but he can only drop it off his trailer, not load it into the field shelter, but local farmer says he will come with his tractor to do that. Also had a chat with my horse food supplier, they do special food for old horses and sugarbeet pulp so have ordered that. Never had to feed, apart from hay, my horses, they get fat on grass.
Also the cow fly solution from the vet has worked a treat.
Now for HW then Leclerc for supplies as daughter and family are coming tomorrow. Forecast says 41° for 5pm tomorrow
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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now I think I’d better go to bed ... 🛌
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mixed day at work yesterday. Technology crashing, unable to find ( unmarked ) houses, delivering to a field, (well, campsite) and also to a hedgehog rescue centre as she was feeding little peach sized babies.
Back to work today having had most of last week off. Wonder what I’ve missed 🤔🤓🤪. Usual shenanigans I expect.
Slept like a log 🛌.
@Hostafan1 enjoy a simpler day today 😊
Hope not too much shenanigans @chicky 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not such silly temperatures heading our way, but I'm going to get the terrace pots watered too
No need for pot watering here, just rescuing them last night from the wind. No damage apart from that though, and it's a wee bit calmer this morning, and to be drier later.
The hogbabies must have been lovely to see Hosta
Shenanigans are never good, chicky
Did anyone watch the moon landing prog on Saturday? I don't care what anyone says - it was a momentous moment, and still emotional after fifty years. If we never challenge ourselves, we'd never do anything, acheive anything, or discover anything.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
another busy week for me, including a London trip in the worst of the heat on Wednesday, which I'm dreading. Hey ho. We have to work.
Got a bit of gardening done at the weekend - starting seeds for the autumn and winter veg and some biennial flowers, as well as caging the chard - something's been eating it.
Got to run - need to get the SM shop done this morning. BT coming this afternoon to 'fix' the internet. That'll be the third time in 5 days they've repaired it. So far, it's got worse each time, so there's every chance you'll not be seeing me for a while.......
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've been very worried about my old rescue horse. He's very old and now he's losing weight. He always was (since I've had him, 2 years) skinny, I called the vet last year. Vet said it was just because he's old. Teeth are OK. I have plenty of grazing, 8 acres for 2 horses and my mare is always a bit overweight. I think part of the problem is that my mare likes to be in the field shelter when it's hot so he stays with her, so doesn't eat. He gets covered in flies too and is very difficult to catch and hates fly spray. I'm actually rather nervous of him, when I wanted to trim his tail in the winter to stop it touching the mud he tried to kick me. Also he's very tall. But he seems reasonably happy, not lame, in love with my mare. Deaf as a post.
I rang my local farmer to order hay to put in the field shelter so they can help themselves and he said he'd retired and wasn't doing it anymore. In the winter he told me he was going to retire but he would always find me hay. But he wasn't helpful, said all the farmers are feeding hay because of the drought. I rang another farmer, no luck. So I went and knocked on another farmer's door but he was out.
Now found a hay supplier but he can only drop it off his trailer, not load it into the field shelter, but local farmer says he will come with his tractor to do that. Also had a chat with my horse food supplier, they do special food for old horses and sugarbeet pulp so have ordered that. Never had to feed, apart from hay, my horses, they get fat on grass.
Also the cow fly solution from the vet has worked a treat.
Now for HW then Leclerc for supplies as daughter and family are coming tomorrow. Forecast says 41° for 5pm tomorrow