Oh yes @Obelixx I’m smothered in antihistamine cream alternating with Witch Doctor Gel to cool them ... I react soooo badly 😢 but I’ve not been badly bitten for years ... until the past couple of weeks .... but the b*$$*rs have found me again 😡
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all, afternoon Pat 😊 Thank you for the well wishes for mil Obelixx 😊 she's in her mid eighties and has always been such a strong lady, think this fall is the first thing that has happened to make her realise she's getting on! We have commissioned a Dove special cardi which is being incredibly quickly knitted, to cheer her up. Thank you very much Dove! X
It's our 7th wedding anniversary today and once again we were woken by the neighbours children running above our heads before 8am. 9 people living in a two bedroom flat, after 4 years it's beginning to get me down so we are going out somewhere....anywhere....away from them. I'll check on our thread Dove and add any pictures I may have buy I don't think they are as good as yours....I was too busy looking up oriental grass lables! 😉
Islington was great @Obelixx. Incredibly gentrified in most parts - lots of squares and houses with victorian ironwork. A real surprise, because in my mind I always thought Islington was “edgy” like Camden ......how wrong I was. Always good to correct your mental map 🗺
I think it was about 40 or 50 years or so ago, before the do-er uppers bought up the old houses and renovated them. It's the borough that nurtured people like Tony Blair and his New Labour dream but now it's got that nice Jeremy Corbyn. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/09/blair-corbyn-islington-north-london-labour Gentrification has had to move further out as prices have gone thru the roof.
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)."
Great article Obxx - recognised a few of those streets, and the theme echoes the conversation Mr C and I were having yesterday as we wandered .....thanks
It seems to me that there are two types of gentrification, one where areas of originally lower quality housing stock see an influx of more affluent owners who price out original communities and the other a process of re-gentrification where areas originally built for a richer middle class market suffer decades of decline before becoming fashionable again. I would guess than areas with squares and ornate railings fall into the second set, not that the distinction matters to those who get pushed out though.
London house prices are a mystery to me. We lived in Chiswick 25 years ago and baulked at buying there because of how little we would have got for our money, basically a tiny 2 up 2 down terrace house. Probably worth over a million now.
And the rest! Friends of ours have a 2 up 2 down Victorian terrace in West Ealing with a back portion they have extended to increase their kitchen and a loft conversion to make a 3rd en suite bedroom. It's worth over a million despite being just behind the main road and its shops, traffic, sirens, pollution plus being under the Heathrow flight path and a back yard smaller than our living room.
Does have a couple of good curry houses nearby tho........ but I can cook those myself.
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)."
Morning all. Grey and threatening here ......think we are due some rain.
Had a lovely day yesterday with littlest chicklet, doing Jane Austen things and visiting a lovely NGS garden. The latter was a bit spoilt by being so crowded - we counted 150 cars in the field they had commandeered for a carpark ......thats a lot of people in a 2 acre garden 😱. However, much money will have been raised, which I suppose is the point.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Slept much better thanks to the Piriton ... Off to MILs today for a couple of days ... she has a new garden shed in need of a painter 👨🎨 😂 NDNs are in charge of hedgehog feeding etc. We’ll give all new plants and containers a good soak before we go and that should be fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. @chicky, Chawton was my old stomping ground. I looked after 4 gardens in the village so drove past Jane's house 10 times a week, but never went inside. Which garden was it you visited?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you for the well wishes for mil Obelixx 😊 she's in her mid eighties and has always been such a strong lady, think this fall is the first thing that has happened to make her realise she's getting on! We have commissioned a Dove special cardi which is being incredibly quickly knitted, to cheer her up. Thank you very much Dove! X
It's our 7th wedding anniversary today and once again we were woken by the neighbours children running above our heads before 8am. 9 people living in a two bedroom flat, after 4 years it's beginning to get me down so we are going out somewhere....anywhere....away from them.
I'll check on our thread Dove and add any pictures I may have buy I don't think they are as good as yours....I was too busy looking up oriental grass lables! 😉
Have a lovely Sunday everybody 😀
London house prices are a mystery to me. We lived in Chiswick 25 years ago and baulked at buying there because of how little we would have got for our money, basically a tiny 2 up 2 down terrace house. Probably worth over a million now.
Does have a couple of good curry houses nearby tho........ but I can cook those myself.
Had a lovely day yesterday with littlest chicklet, doing Jane Austen things and visiting a lovely NGS garden. The latter was a bit spoilt by being so crowded - we counted 150 cars in the field they had commandeered for a carpark ......thats a lot of people in a 2 acre garden 😱. However, much money will have been raised, which I suppose is the point.
Day in the office today 🚗🚙🚗
Slept much better thanks to the Piriton ...
Off to MILs today for a couple of days ... she has a new garden shed in need of a painter 👨🎨 😂
NDNs are in charge of hedgehog feeding etc. We’ll give all new plants and containers a good soak before we go and that should be fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@chicky, Chawton was my old stomping ground. I looked after 4 gardens in the village so drove past Jane's house 10 times a week, but never went inside.
Which garden was it you visited?