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HELLO FORKERS 😀 Feb 2020

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  • Goodness me!  It’s jolly windy here! 💨 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Been on the beans @Dovefromabove?
    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)."
    Plato
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Afternoon. We have strong wind here too 😂. Just back from SM - so windy I could hardly load the car! There will be a fair few claims for bumped car doors today as I doubt everyone will be so careful. 

    Settled in for rugby and snacks now. 

    Hope everyone ok. Gorgeous spot there @Obelixx. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2020
    Obelixx said:
    Been on the beans @Dovefromabove?
    Nope ...  that was last week with that pea and bacon soup 🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Rain stopped this afternoon so I spent 45 mins pruning the big grapevine over the garden door. Not quite finished as had to come in, tummy playing up and arthritic hands are sore.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • I live in Norwich ... this tower block is near to where I used to work ... I am horrified and disgusted that this should have happened here 

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/racist-poster-put-up-in-norwich-tower-block-1-6494242
    😭 😡 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited February 2020
    I live in Norwich ... this tower block is near to where I used to work ... I am horrified and disgusted that this should have happened here 

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/racist-poster-put-up-in-norwich-tower-block-1-6494242
    😭 😡 
    I remember someone recently predicting that bigotry and intolerance would be more freely expressed. It hasn't taken long.
    Clearly whoever drafted it doesn't realise that Queen's English should have an apostrophe, nor that we are not an " island" singular, but a group of islands . Hey ho. 
    Devon.
  • And Norwich voted to remain! 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Thanks for those pics @Obelixx - it’s lovely to be able to visualise people’s settings.  Your pergola idea sounds lovely - would it be any more affordable if you did a little retaining wall of some kind and then just gravelled the interior?

    Just in from pruning and weeding - good day’s work if I say so myself 😇
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Back from a lovely night away and a fantastic meal at Tommy Banks Black Swan.
    There was an amuse bouche, which I could happily eat as my only food forever more: a tart made with a Cep powder pastry, a layer of Hen of the Wood mushrooms, covered with Lincolnshire Poacher custard, topped with a layer of smoked Ox heart, that had been dehydrated and then crumbed.
    Also had a trip to Harlow Carr gardens, the winter borders were looking very bonny.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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