Yay 🥳🥳🥳. The greenhouse people have just been and approved our brick base (dimension tolerance is very tight) as we used our own builder. So thats that stress over. Just needs to settle for 6 weeks now and then the top can go on ......soooooooo exciting 😀😀😀
Yay 🥳🥳🥳. The greenhouse people have just been and approved our brick base (dimension tolerance is very tight) as we used our own builder. So thats that stress over. Just needs to settle for 6 weeks now and then the top can go on ......soooooooo exciting 😀😀😀
I can see from the base that it's going to be big, but how big?
It's going to be fab @Chicky. our Belgian friends who bought a proper UK greenhouse also had to have their brickwork checked before delivery. It passed muster. Photo from 2010 when it was brand new.
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)."
That looks amazing and expensive @Obelixx, jealous. I, too, find the French lunch 2 or 3 hours in the day very frustrating.
I've spent ages on the phone and computer this morning looking for a solution about what to do with the horses when OH goes for his hip replacement. Hard when I don't know the date yet but I want to be prepared. Think there is a solution, going to see someone next week.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Its about 3m x5m - with a porch and coldframes ....in fact it looks very much like @Obelixx ’s picture....but may be slightly shorter. Its actually not that different in size from our original greenhouse, but it won’t leak (hopefully) and will look much more lovely 😍
I hope you find a solution @Busy-Lizzie so you have one less thing to worry about.
The owners of the fancy job both worked for a big American oil company and he ended up as a with huge responsibilities so has always had a huge income and a commensurate retirement bonus and pension. His stress breaker was always his garden so as retirement approached they went looking for a big plot with neutral to acid soil and set about making a garden even before planning permission for the house was approved.
It has since been featured on Belgium's GW several times, loads of Homes and Gardens magazines in Belgium, France and the UK and even Paris Match. They are in the Belgian Yellow Book too and raise loads for charity.
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)."
It looks amazing @Obelixx and so will Chicky's when it's finished. Funny though, it's one thing I don't hanker after. I did have a greenhouse in the past, a traditional lovely cedar wood one but the whole thing went sailing over the boundary wall during the Bath version of the Great Storm of 1987! I'm pleased to say that the grapevine survived. I'm quite happy with my current much smaller lean-to effort as I'm not into seed sowing much.
Hope your first day back is not too much of a shock to the system @Hostafan1 😧
Down to Southampton to visit Dad today. Will dig out some good podcasts for the journey.
Littlest Chicklet keeps sending amazing pictures of Thailand .....looks very warm 🥵. Not long now before we see her again.....21st birthday celebrations planned in Sydney 🙃🥳🙃
Morning all. Raining. We will be taking my car to the garage this morning to show them what needs to be done and for photos to send to the insurance. Then on to Leclerc for milk, bread, butter etc.
Going to tea with friends this afternoon, taking F, friend from the village.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I, too, find the French lunch 2 or 3 hours in the day very frustrating.
I've spent ages on the phone and computer this morning looking for a solution about what to do with the horses when OH goes for his hip replacement. Hard when I don't know the date yet but I want to be prepared. Think there is a solution, going to see someone next week.
The owners of the fancy job both worked for a big American oil company and he ended up as a with huge responsibilities so has always had a huge income and a commensurate retirement bonus and pension. His stress breaker was always his garden so as retirement approached they went looking for a big plot with neutral to acid soil and set about making a garden even before planning permission for the house was approved.
It has since been featured on Belgium's GW several times, loads of Homes and Gardens magazines in Belgium, France and the UK and even Paris Match. They are in the Belgian Yellow Book too and raise loads for charity.
Guess who forgot his alarm clock was still set for 5.15am and didn't change it to 6.30????
Down to Southampton to visit Dad today. Will dig out some good podcasts for the journey.
Littlest Chicklet keeps sending amazing pictures of Thailand .....looks very warm 🥵. Not long now before we see her again.....21st birthday celebrations planned in Sydney 🙃🥳🙃
Raining.
We will be taking my car to the garage this morning to show them what needs to be done and for photos to send to the insurance. Then on to Leclerc for milk, bread, butter etc.
Going to tea with friends this afternoon, taking F, friend from the village.