Driving up to East Kilbride in winter you could tell where the cars coming down into Glasgow came from. If they had an inch of snow on their roof they came from EK, if they came from Strathaven they had a foot of snow on them!
Lovely to hear that you are getting out and about a bit @Lily Pilly. I am so pleased that the sepsis team are helping you - I knew they would. My meeting with the carrot cake was successful. The gin ‘meeting’ is next weekend - I was only practising this week! Have a lovely rest of the day folks - I have outdoor brunch ready now.
@Lily Pilly I think you’re being amazingly brave/stoic and I take my hat off to you. 🤠 I think I’d be in bits 😭 ... you’ve had a simply horrid time, but as Pdoc says, you will get there. 😃
I’ve been out giving the veg and sunny beds a good soaking before the sun gets around to them, and now I’ve got the seeper hose on the west facing front border ... that’ll get the afternoon. heat so a good soak now will help stop the new plants from flagging.
Supper is Toulouse sausages in a tomatoey beany casserole ... that’s in the slow cooker so the kitchen won’t overheat.
All ll I have to do now is hang have bedlinen on the line when the machine has finished and the rest of the day is mine 📖 🍺 ⛱ 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
G'day! Been having a lazy morning reading and then halving tomatoes for drying in the oven. Just thinking about lunch. Heading for 3C this pm so no planting but I can spread compost on a newly bare patch for planting out Savoy and cauli plugs when it's a bit cooler.
No doggy clippers here to lend I'm afraid @Dovefromabove and @Fairygirl. Rasta goes to a doggy hairdresser every 2 months and Bonzo just needs an occasional brushing with a grooming glove. I go once a year to get 5 or 6 inches cut off and do my fringe in between times.
Big, gentle hugs @Lily Pilly. Patience, good food and gentle rehabilitation will get you thru and it's good to have Oz as a target tho I don't envy you the air miles or jet lag. However, change of scene, warm weather and good friends will be worth it and you'll be set with enough sunshine vitamins to cope with winte back home.
Possum is making us a curry for dinner today. Love Toulouse sausages @Dovefromabove but only do the beans in winter. Otherwise I bake them with red onions, sweet peppers, cherry toms, courgette if I have some, garlic, chili and a smidge of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Yum.
Forgot to say, lovely daffs @Pat E. How come youor pond isn't green with duck weed like ours?
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)."
Hi @Lily Pilly - as the others say - you'll get there. You'll soon be skipping around like a little spring lamb! xxx Is the balloon day the same time as the Strathaven Show? It's always early September and they usually get a nice day for it. I'm laughing at @steephill's post. We're just north of EK, and it's where daughter was doing her driving test. There was heavy rain forecast to be coming in for the exact time she was doing it, and I remember thinking, it's fine here now, but I was looking at the skies and thinking, 'bet it's p***ing down there' She only just failed, but the chap was very kind to her and said she'd driven really well. Just a bit hesitant at a narrow bit. Such is life. 3 months to wait for another one though Lovely here today - too cold for @Hostafan1 though Ideal for getting on with all my shifting of plants and digging up stuff etc. Little froggie plopped back into the pond earlier. I think I've disturbed him by faffing around in the big border nearby where he probably spends most of his time. Either that or he's been away his holidays.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good to see you LilyP, and good to hear things are improving, albeit slowly. Lovely to have Australia to look forward to 🇦🇺
Such sweet daffodils Pat - littlest Chicklet flies in two weeks time. She’ll have two summers this year 😎😎
Just been to buy paint as Chicklet has decided to redecorate her room, now that she’s living in it full time for a bit. I think she will inspire me to get on with the rest of the house ......one of my winter projects once I finish work. We’ve lived here 12 years now and it could do with a bit of a refresh 🎨
However, all thats for another day. Today is about holding down a deck chair ☀️
Suncream is a marvellous invention, but the stickiness makes you feel hotter and if you do any gardening then the cream is like a magnet to bits of debris. I don’t speak much Welsh but some phrases are spot on for describing things - for ‘yuk’ we say ‘ych a fi’ - and that’s how I feel now, with tiny sweepings and soil dust on my oily legs.
Use a cream, rather than an oily one, and let it soak in for 10 or 15 minutes before you go out there. Works for us altho it's 35C at the mo so we're all staying in the shade and no cream.
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)."
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My meeting with the carrot cake was successful. The gin ‘meeting’ is next weekend - I was only practising this week!
Have a lovely rest of the day folks - I have outdoor brunch ready now.
I’ve been out giving the veg and sunny beds a good soaking before the sun gets around to them, and now I’ve got the seeper hose on the west facing front border ... that’ll get the afternoon. heat so a good soak now will help stop the new plants from flagging.
Supper is Toulouse sausages in a tomatoey beany casserole ... that’s in the slow cooker so the kitchen won’t overheat.
All ll I have to do now is hang have bedlinen on the line when the machine has finished and the rest of the day is mine 📖 🍺 ⛱ 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No doggy clippers here to lend I'm afraid @Dovefromabove and @Fairygirl. Rasta goes to a doggy hairdresser every 2 months and Bonzo just needs an occasional brushing with a grooming glove. I go once a year to get 5 or 6 inches cut off and do my fringe in between times.
Big, gentle hugs @Lily Pilly. Patience, good food and gentle rehabilitation will get you thru and it's good to have Oz as a target tho I don't envy you the air miles or jet lag. However, change of scene, warm weather and good friends will be worth it and you'll be set with enough sunshine vitamins to cope with winte back home.
Possum is making us a curry for dinner today. Love Toulouse sausages @Dovefromabove but only do the beans in winter. Otherwise I bake them with red onions, sweet peppers, cherry toms, courgette if I have some, garlic, chili and a smidge of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Yum.
Forgot to say, lovely daffs @Pat E. How come youor pond isn't green with duck weed like ours?
Is the balloon day the same time as the Strathaven Show? It's always early September and they usually get a nice day for it.
I'm laughing at @steephill's post. We're just north of EK, and it's where daughter was doing her driving test. There was heavy rain forecast to be coming in for the exact time she was doing it, and I remember thinking, it's fine here now, but I was looking at the skies and thinking, 'bet it's p***ing down there'
She only just failed, but the chap was very kind to her and said she'd driven really well. Just a bit hesitant at a narrow bit. Such is life. 3 months to wait for another one though
Lovely here today - too cold for @Hostafan1 though
Ideal for getting on with all my shifting of plants and digging up stuff etc. Little froggie plopped back into the pond earlier. I think I've disturbed him by faffing around in the big border nearby where he probably spends most of his time. Either that or he's been away his holidays.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
it quite different, national event now
A A Milne
Such sweet daffodils Pat - littlest Chicklet flies in two weeks time. She’ll have two summers this year 😎😎
Just been to buy paint as Chicklet has decided to redecorate her room, now that she’s living in it full time for a bit. I think she will inspire me to get on with the rest of the house ......one of my winter projects once I finish work. We’ve lived here 12 years now and it could do with a bit of a refresh 🎨
However, all thats for another day. Today is about holding down a deck chair ☀️
I don’t speak much Welsh but some phrases are spot on for describing things - for ‘yuk’ we say ‘ych a fi’ - and that’s how I feel now, with tiny sweepings and soil dust on my oily legs.