They said that due to the wildfire situation the camps would not have real camp fires but cooking would be done on camping gas cookers. When they were in the helicopters the views of the horizon showed thick smoke.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good for you @Liriodendron - volunteering will be fun, and different from your own garden. Hope you meet lots of gardening friends. Did you tell the head gardener that you have a tulip tree named after you 😉.
Expedition to Guildford today to sign on for the RHS Level 2 course starting in September 2020 - missed the start of this years one. Followed by a touch of painting .....getting there 😀👩🏼🎨
We noticed the smoke on the horizon too @Dovefromabove. Very scary. Littlest Chicklet says the air in Sydney has improved since early last week - which is useful as it means she can breathe again 🙄. Sounds like a long season of worry ahead though. Horrible for those who live in the danger zones 😱
Morning all/afties Pat. It doesn't seem to be getting any better does it? Worrying for you @chicky, but at least chicklet is in regular contact, and I'm sure she's smart enough to do whatever she's told if there's any danger. You're really settling in already @Liriodendron. I think you'll have no trouble getting to grips with the garden The gritting boys have been busy this last week. Minus 4 here, so everything is a bit frozen. I think I need something sturdier than plastic clogs to break the ice on all the watering holes. The cheese has gone down well with the magpie though, while I wait for 'mealwormsgate' to be sorted out.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sparkling and bright again though we had some mist to go with the frost this morning. Temp in the utility was 3.9 first thing... bit parky, to be honest! Hopefully the central heating engineer will get us sorted with a heat pump soon; in the meantime I'll be looking for some "arctic" underwear when we go to the nearest "big" town (Ennis) tomorrow. Which will be the signal for the cold snap to end, of course...
Thanks, @chicky and @Fairygirl. To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work required at present - it doesn't help that it's too cold for extended gardening, either! I need to divide it into bite-sized chunks and tackle a bit at a time. I've allocated an area for veg and a strawberry bed, and getting that prepared would be a good place to start - plus buying and planting some fruit trees, I think. I'm still intending to ask for ideas for the front garden, when I've had time to measure it and draw a plan...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We went to the Doc this morning about OH's hip and hearing. He is being referred to the orthopaedic surgeon, Doc thinks it will be a hip replacement but there is a waiting list, first to see the surgeon then for the op. He's also being referred to the ENT specialist as he will need that to be able to get hearing aids on the NHS.
I planted my two bare root roses and some peony flowered tulips in the early afternoon. Was going to rake leaves off the lawn but it rained so I didn't do much. OH did a bit later with the lawn mower.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie, I've got NHS hearing aids and was quite impressed with them - so much smaller and neater than they used to be. ENT specialist told me they would have been £500 each if I'd gone privately. @Liriodendron, you've got plenty of time to work your way round your new garden so don't be daunted, a little bit at a time is fine and you can spend the winter happily making plans.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope my mention of the smoke above didn’t freak you out ((hugs))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Worrying for you @chicky, but at least chicklet is in regular contact, and I'm sure she's smart enough to do whatever she's told if there's any danger.
You're really settling in already @Liriodendron. I think you'll have no trouble getting to grips with the garden
The gritting boys have been busy this last week. Minus 4 here, so everything is a bit frozen. I think I need something sturdier than plastic clogs to break the ice on all the watering holes. The cheese has gone down well with the magpie though, while I wait for 'mealwormsgate' to be sorted out.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sparkling and bright again though we had some mist to go with the frost this morning. Temp in the utility was 3.9 first thing... bit parky, to be honest! Hopefully the central heating engineer will get us sorted with a heat pump soon; in the meantime I'll be looking for some "arctic" underwear when we go to the nearest "big" town (Ennis) tomorrow. Which will be the signal for the cold snap to end, of course...
Thanks, @chicky and @Fairygirl. To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work required at present - it doesn't help that it's too cold for extended gardening, either! I need to divide it into bite-sized chunks and tackle a bit at a time. I've allocated an area for veg and a strawberry bed, and getting that prepared would be a good place to start - plus buying and planting some fruit trees, I think. I'm still intending to ask for ideas for the front garden, when I've had time to measure it and draw a plan...
I planted my two bare root roses and some peony flowered tulips in the early afternoon. Was going to rake leaves off the lawn but it rained so I didn't do much. OH did a bit later with the lawn mower.
@Liriodendron, you've got plenty of time to work your way round your new garden so don't be daunted, a little bit at a time is fine and you can spend the winter happily making plans.