Donāt think so @punkdoc ... if telling porkies caused a deluge thereād be politicians drowning everywhere we look and theyād probably spend a lot more of our money on flood defences etc instead of on fast new railways. š£āāļøĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi folks,Ā It's throwing it down here and blowing a gale.Ā Off to Secondborn's in half an hour for an afternoon with Jonah and Gabriel.Ā Had a couple of grow lights delivered yesterday so I'm going to sow some more seeds hopefully tomorrow if I get the time.Ā I'm with you Dove I just don't understand why it's more important to get to London half an hour earlier than it is to sort out the current rail/bus system and keep everyone's feet dry. Ā Ā
Iām back from Wrose laden with Guinness, cream, cream cheese and chocolate ... I will be making the cake tomorrow.Ā
Why is it I manage to avoid shopping more than absolutely necessary most of the time, but this being halfterm week Iāve already had a trip into the city and two missions to the Ā supermarket (full of harassed grandparents and āhelpfulā children) and itās only Thursday!!!?
And now the windās got up again and is howling down the chimney. šØĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's got quite windy here too now and we have rainn neither of which was in the forecast.
I have been a busy Obxx - finally hanging bits and bobs in the annex: old photos of Savoy rural folk in their farmhouse from when we used to ski there, some decorative tiles and some kitchen molds by the cooker.Ā Ā Beech worktops sanded and oiled.Ā Need a few more goes and then I can fix them in place.Ā Starting to feel like a room now and not a dumping ground.Ā
We had torrential rain this morning just as we were setting out for the SM, not nice at all but Bath isn't being flooded as far as we know although the Avon is very high. Just seen the first photo of the new arrivals - they're gorgeous, not red and wrinkled like most newborns.Ā
The gardener was great! As well as being tall, strong and handsome! He's pruned Mme Alfred Carriere, New Dawn, Meg, 2 huge climbing Cecile Brunners full of dead wood and other shrub roses, dug out nettles, dug out 3 horrid prickly Yuccas and a rampant artemisia that I was fed up with and helped me dig holes in the long border, but had to give up on two of them as the back of the border is so full of clay, rocks and roots that we couldn't dig a hole big enough for a climbing rose. But weĀ he planted clematis Betty Corning. I really struggled to get her out of her pot, loads of roots, don't know if I'll manage the others. If the roses in pots are as hard as that I'll just have to leave them.
I was thinking of giving roses and clematis in pots to my daughters and planting some in the garden to make things easier when I'm away but now I'm not sure I'll be able to get them out of the pots.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Ahh we are warm again they still have to come tomorrow to remove the old boiler, and balance the system, it's so quiet we don't even know it's on, not like the old system.Ā Ā Re: the rain & floods my OH has been pointing out a lot of this rain would have fallen as snow in the past, that would have melted slowly over the coming weeks & not caused the problems we have now.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And now the windās got up again and is howling down the chimney. šØĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have been a busy Obxx - finally hanging bits and bobs in the annex: old photos of Savoy rural folk in their farmhouse from when we used to ski there, some decorative tiles and some kitchen molds by the cooker.Ā Ā Beech worktops sanded and oiled.Ā Need a few more goes and then I can fix them in place.Ā Starting to feel like a room now and not a dumping ground.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just seen the first photo of the new arrivals - they're gorgeous, not red and wrinkled like most newborns.Ā
I was thinking of giving roses and clematis in pots to my daughters and planting some in the garden to make things easier when I'm away but now I'm not sure I'll be able to get them out of the pots.
Re: the rain & floods my OH has been pointing out a lot of this rain would have fallen as snow in the past, that would have melted slowly over the coming weeks & not caused the problems we have now.