Your greenhouse saga just gets better andbetter @chicky. I hope today provides fruitful contemplation. That walk looks like a good one @steephill. Never heard of it before.
Hope you've slept well @Liriodendron and anyone else with pains or illness.
We're off down the potager in a mo to erect a serious butterfly net over the new brassicas bed. OH didn't with the last lot and we had more hole than cabbage so I've bought proper netting and proper tubes and some bolt cutters to make rods for it all. Then I'll happily sow some winter cabbages once the rain starts.
Expecting 25C today and maybe a shower but 19C and big black thngs tomorrow. Whether or not they deliver rain is another matter. Looking serious down on the Med end of the Pyrenees today.
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)."
Got back from London on Thursday, but totally k########d, so have been recuperating since. Been a few years since I worked like that, but interesting and maybe, just maybe I may have had some influence. Moira got a job whilst I was away, only for 6 months and a bit of a poisoned chalice. She will be working for Defra, helping to write their BREXIT strategy. [ yes really ] !!!!!!! She is thrilled, as she was starting to wonder whether she would ever get another job.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Hi @punkdoc. Good to know you've coped and let's hope they listened. Well done Moira. It may lead to connections and future employment or it may not but it will be good for her morale to be working and earning.
We have made our butterfly protection for the brassicas. Why do men complicate things? All we had to do was cut some 5mm rods to length, use them as anchors for the hoops and then strecth the netting over and pin it down. Simples. Well no.
Then he asked me to make up a backpack of weedkiller so he could spray the drive and gravel. Grumped when I told him it's too windy. Just wait till he tries again and I tell him they have to be green and growing and not brown and crispy.
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)."
Hey everyone. Sounds like a productive week Punk - and congrats to Moira, fab news. You’ll be having a late supper tomorrow then Hosta! I hope you managed to find some quiet time today Chicky - always a day when the heart aches just a bit more. Hug (if that’s not imposing). Hope your leg is behaving Fairygirl? Obellix - I am revising for a work exam (Advanced Life Support). Hi and hope you ok, to all and everyone else.
I have made the most of the last sunny day - re-grouted/pointed part of the patio but aching now! Chippy tea tonight I think.
Evening all, Had a couple of nanna duty days (Thurs/Fri). Gabriel has been poorly again and was taken into hospital earlier today with breathing difficulties. He has been on the nebuliser and they have prescribed antibiotics and steroids. He was much better by the afternoon and they have allowed him home. Fingers crossed. I've been busy in the garden planted pots up with bulbs and violas and have also planted lots of daffs (Avalon and Ice Wings). I'll keep the tulips until November.
Good to see you @punkdoc. I was thinking of you yesterday and wondering how it was going. Brilliant for Moira too, even if it's not the ideal scenario Glad the obly under gardener here is me @Obelixx Leg is fine @AuntyRach. Thank you for asking. I'm trying not to be frustrated and angry about not getting a walk though. Not sure your pointing was a relaxing escape from studying! A chippy is a just reward. @Hostafan1 - I'm the same when I get back late. A cup of tea is what I relish What would they do if you just said 'sod off, I've done a long enough day'? Been beautiful today with a guid breeze. The little goldies are getting the hang of the new feeding cage too. I startled one earlier and he took to the fence to sit among the clematis seedheads
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Yviestevie I'm sorry about poor little Gabriel but it's good that they let him go home.
We've finished stacking logs, half this morning and half this afternoon. Wanted to get it done as rain is forecast tomorrow.
We ate dinner outside under the pergola. I expect it will be our last evening meal outside this year. Off to Norfolk on Monday and it will be dark an hour earlier there. That is a nice thing about France being an hour ahead.
I enjoyed Strictly as usual.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Hope you've slept well @Liriodendron and anyone else with pains or illness.
We're off down the potager in a mo to erect a serious butterfly net over the new brassicas bed. OH didn't with the last lot and we had more hole than cabbage so I've bought proper netting and proper tubes and some bolt cutters to make rods for it all. Then I'll happily sow some winter cabbages once the rain starts.
Expecting 25C today and maybe a shower but 19C and big black thngs tomorrow. Whether or not they deliver rain is another matter. Looking serious down on the Med end of the Pyrenees today.
Got back from London on Thursday, but totally k########d, so have been recuperating since.
Been a few years since I worked like that, but interesting and maybe, just maybe I may have had some influence.
Moira got a job whilst I was away, only for 6 months and a bit of a poisoned chalice. She will be working for Defra, helping to write their BREXIT strategy. [ yes really ] !!!!!!!
She is thrilled, as she was starting to wonder whether she would ever get another job.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We have made our butterfly protection for the brassicas. Why do men complicate things? All we had to do was cut some 5mm rods to length, use them as anchors for the hoops and then strecth the netting over and pin it down. Simples. Well no.
Then he asked me to make up a backpack of weedkiller so he could spray the drive and gravel. Grumped when I told him it's too windy. Just wait till he tries again and I tell him they have to be green and growing and not brown and crispy.
Sounds like a productive week Punk - and congrats to Moira, fab news.
You’ll be having a late supper tomorrow then Hosta!
I hope you managed to find some quiet time today Chicky - always a day when the heart aches just a bit more. Hug (if that’s not imposing).
Hope your leg is behaving Fairygirl?
Obellix - I am revising for a work exam (Advanced Life Support).
Hi and hope you ok, to all and everyone else.
I have made the most of the last sunny day - re-grouted/pointed part of the patio but aching now! Chippy tea tonight I think.
Glad the obly under gardener here is me @Obelixx
Leg is fine @AuntyRach. Thank you for asking. I'm trying not to be frustrated and angry about not getting a walk though. Not sure your pointing was a relaxing escape from studying! A chippy is a just reward.
@Hostafan1 - I'm the same when I get back late. A cup of tea is what I relish
What would they do if you just said 'sod off, I've done a long enough day'?
Been beautiful today with a guid breeze. The little goldies are getting the hang of the new feeding cage too. I startled one earlier and he took to the fence to sit among the clematis seedheads
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Yviestevie I'm sorry about poor little Gabriel but it's good that they let him go home.
We've finished stacking logs, half this morning and half this afternoon. Wanted to get it done as rain is forecast tomorrow.
We ate dinner outside under the pergola. I expect it will be our last evening meal outside this year. Off to Norfolk on Monday and it will be dark an hour earlier there. That is a nice thing about France being an hour ahead.
I enjoyed Strictly as usual.