Morning everyone . It’s toe curlingly cold here . Enjoy your day Debs . Chive take care on the roads . You too LB and enjoy your visit to the garden centre .
Morning. After a cold, misty start the sun has broken through for one of those beautiful sharp autumnal days.
Glad you enjoyed your evening LB.
There are some lovely old barns on a farm estate about 3 miles from us and each year they open them up as a Christmas village. They sell their own Xmas trees and wreaths and have seasonal workshops alongside what seems like room after room of decorations. Everything from 50p felt cut-outs to exquisite £500 German and Austrian wooden ornaments. They also have stalls manned by local artists and crafters at the weekends. It’s a rather nice place to go to get you in a more seasonal frame of mind.
Today I shall endeavour to be more productive than yesterday. Need to make a tagine and hairdresser is coming after lunch so that’s a start...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Chey it's good your blood tests came back okay. LB well done on completing all the leaves for your c mas wreath. Hazel you've had a lovely visit from the little one. Topbird it's it's good you've had a rest day. Chive I think I'll lay off the Bailey's as they were quite large and just a drop left in the bottle, hicc.
I've just dead headed the pelargoniums in the chimney pots outside the front door.
I know it's November. I know I should take them out and put the spring bulbs in - but they're still flowering away, so it seems a shame. It's a sheltered south facing spot and I have known them go right through a mild winter there. They just don't like getting too wet.
Rebecca - keep on taking the Baileys if it helps you sleep. Pour it over ice cream and call it pudding if it makes you feel better😉
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Hazel, there is a wood full of mature trees behind the houses so doing the leaves in one go is a no no. T'bird, I'd leave the pelargoniums to give a nice splash of colour. I haven't got all the tulips in yet.
Afties all. Phew what a morning. The trip to the GC was very nice.My friend just wanted to soak up the seasonal decorations. I did buy things - no plants - some berries and candy canes to complete the wreath, two penguins and a group of snowmen that will go with my C*******s village. We went to visit one of our friends who was supposed to be going to Marrakesh early this morning. She had her second hip replacement in July and has had a few problems with the leg. She and her OH got as far as Manchester Airport and her leg gave out. To cut a long story short they had to cancel trip and return home. Quite shocking really but better that it happened at the airport than 2 hours later. She was in a lot of pain when we visited and is now waiting for a hospital referral.
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Glad you enjoyed your evening LB.
There are some lovely old barns on a farm estate about 3 miles from us and each year they open them up as a Christmas village. They sell their own Xmas trees and wreaths and have seasonal workshops alongside what seems like room after room of decorations. Everything from 50p felt cut-outs to exquisite £500 German and Austrian wooden ornaments. They also have stalls manned by local artists and crafters at the weekends. It’s a rather nice place to go to get you in a more seasonal frame of mind.
Today I shall endeavour to be more productive than yesterday. Need to make a tagine and hairdresser is coming after lunch so that’s a start...
Glad you had an enjoyable evening LB. No doubt money will be spent at the GC.
T'bird, a festive visit to these barns sounds lovely.
More leaves gathered and back steps sprayed with bleachy water to get rid of the algae.
Going to have a shower and get out of the gardening togs.
I know it's November. I know I should take them out and put the spring bulbs in - but they're still flowering away, so it seems a shame. It's a sheltered south facing spot and I have known them go right through a mild winter there. They just don't like getting too wet.
Rebecca - keep on taking the Baileys if it helps you sleep. Pour it over ice cream and call it pudding if it makes you feel better😉
T'bird, I'd leave the pelargoniums to give a nice splash of colour. I haven't got all the tulips in yet.