Monring all/afties Pat. You'll be glad when hubby's home. Hope it's gone well today.Love to you both - nearly there now x Lovely pic Wonks. Gorgeous when they're so tiny. I nearly stood on one last week on the hill. Nearly @ 3,000 feet. I often wonder how they survive at all. Good to see you LP - I was beginning to think you were away somewhere on hols. Thought I'd missed you saying. Fingers crossed for you that you continue to improve x Is that chicky off gallivanting again! While we're here slaving away working....well, not quiteĀ Not heard much about those fires either. Scotland has had it's worst season of fires this year as it was so dry earlier, farther north. Nothing to stop them once they get going.Ā
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Giblets!Ā Haven't seen a chuck with giblets for decades, not even the organic ones have them anymore.
Probably a bit late but have a great day Chicky and anyone else gallivanting off to Hampton Court.
Love the froglet Wonky.Ā Ā We have big, fat, mottled greeny brown speciens in our pond - very noisy - but I find teeny emerald green ones hopping about in the shadiest bed along the ruin.
Ā I deserve a medal ... a modicum of ir*ning had been doneĀ andĀ Iāve been to Ā Wārose and done a quick milk, cereals, flour, sausage type of shop and itās all put away ... not a lot else to do ... Iāll be able to watch the tennis ...
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all!Ā Hi @Pat E - best wishes to OH, on the home straight now...Ā Ā
@Lily Pilly - so sorry you've been in hospital.Ā Hope you get your health and strength back quickly now.Ā xx
Lovely "guard frog", @WonkyWomble!Ā Hope it keeps the slugs off the hostas...
I'm busy looking at garden design ideas.Ā We had a bit of a hiatus with the house purchase while the solicitors, vendor and neighbouring farmer sorted out where the boundaries actually were for the Irish bungalow's garden.Ā The Land Registry plan said one thing, but the boundaries on the ground were quite different - to the extent that the septic tank wasn't on land officially owned by the vendors... all now sorted amicably, and we have an extra tenth of an acre of land...Ā Ā Ā Contracts should be exchanged within the next week, though completion may not be for a few weeks, since the vendors are still renovating the house they are moving to (and we're not in a hurry).
So in time I'll be posting lots of questions, pictures etc.Ā Wonky's froglet makes me wonder about a pond...Ā we'll already have an area of "wild" woodland, and a massive native hedge with elder, hawthorn, dog rose, brambles and nettles, under which is a gently decaying dry stone limestone wall.Ā Plus 3 mature rowan trees in the front garden - but approaching half an acre in total area, currently mostly roughish grass, so a wonderfully blank canvas.Ā Ā It'll be interesting to go from a steeply sloping, small, north-facing garden with acid soil, to a largish, flattish south-facing one with mainly alkaline soil (though pockets which are neutral or slightly acid)...
I wonder if we'll get hedgehogs...Ā Ā
Anyway, back to the here and now.Ā Going out shortly to Art, followed by Old Codgers' Brass Band - then I'll be making more strawberry jam, I think.Ā Ā
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Our local butcher's free range chickens all come with giblets. And their bacon has rind on it - another thing that's vanishingly rare these days.
Exciting times, LiriĀ Having started here with just under 2 acres of rough grass and one mahoosive mature tree, I advise starting in one place and working out, rather than trying to have a grand plan for the whole area.
Cute guard frogĀ
Enjoy the tennis, Dove. Think I'd rather eat my own legs than watch a whole tennis match but each to their own.
Healing thoughts to Lily P and Mr Pat.
Lovely day here.Ā
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Just about recovered from Glastonbury [ and i wasn't even there ] Highlights for me: The Cure, Christene and the Queens, Foals and Stormzy. Nice to see you back @Lily Pilly, sorry if my PM's have been less than helpful. Off to Beth Chatto's tomorrow and maybe Hyde Hall, plus a few historical bits and bobs for Moira.
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Lovely pic Wonks. Gorgeous when they're so tiny. I nearly stood on one last week on the hill. Nearly @ 3,000 feet. I often wonder how they survive at all.
Good to see you LP - I was beginning to think you were away somewhere on hols. Thought I'd missed you saying. Fingers crossed for you that you continue to improve x
Is that chicky off gallivanting again! While we're here slaving away working....well, not quiteĀ
Not heard much about those fires either. Scotland has had it's worst season of fires this year as it was so dry earlier, farther north. Nothing to stop them once they get going.Ā
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
not much happening here. I Made Chicken broth tonight for him (with giblets). It was surprisingly tasty. š
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Probably a bit late but have a great day Chicky and anyone else gallivanting off to Hampton Court.
Love the froglet Wonky.Ā Ā We have big, fat, mottled greeny brown speciens in our pond - very noisy - but I find teeny emerald green ones hopping about in the shadiest bed along the ruin.
Ā I deserve a medal ... a modicum of ir*ning had been doneĀ andĀ Iāve been to Ā Wārose and done a quick milk, cereals, flour, sausage type of shop and itās all put away ... not a lot else to do ... Iāll be able to watch the tennis ...
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Lily Pilly - so sorry you've been in hospital.Ā Hope you get your health and strength back quickly now.Ā xx
Lovely "guard frog", @WonkyWomble!Ā Hope it keeps the slugs off the hostas...
I'm busy looking at garden design ideas.Ā We had a bit of a hiatus with the house purchase while the solicitors, vendor and neighbouring farmer sorted out where the boundaries actually were for the Irish bungalow's garden.Ā The Land Registry plan said one thing, but the boundaries on the ground were quite different - to the extent that the septic tank wasn't on land officially owned by the vendors... all now sorted amicably, and we have an extra tenth of an acre of land...Ā Ā
So in time I'll be posting lots of questions, pictures etc.Ā Wonky's froglet makes me wonder about a pond...Ā we'll already have an area of "wild" woodland, and a massive native hedge with elder, hawthorn, dog rose, brambles and nettles, under which is a gently decaying dry stone limestone wall.Ā Plus 3 mature rowan trees in the front garden - but approaching half an acre in total area, currently mostly roughish grass, so a wonderfully blank canvas.Ā Ā It'll be interesting to go from a steeply sloping, small, north-facing garden with acid soil, to a largish, flattish south-facing one with mainly alkaline soil (though pockets which are neutral or slightly acid)...
I wonder if we'll get hedgehogs...Ā Ā
Anyway, back to the here and now.Ā Going out shortly to Art, followed by Old Codgers' Brass Band - then I'll be making more strawberry jam, I think.Ā Ā
Exciting times, LiriĀ
Cute guard frogĀ
Enjoy the tennis, Dove. Think I'd rather eat my own legs than watch a whole tennis match but each to their own.
Healing thoughts to Lily P and Mr Pat.
Lovely day here.Ā
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Just about recovered from Glastonbury [ and i wasn't even there ] Highlights for me: The Cure, Christene and the Queens, Foals and Stormzy.
Nice to see you back @Lily Pilly, sorry if my PM's have been less than helpful.
Off to Beth Chatto's tomorrow and maybe Hyde Hall, plus a few historical bits and bobs for Moira.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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