I’ve got a wash on too @Busy-Lizzie ... even if it is Sunday ... we have so many socks to wash if looks as if we live with a tribe of octopi 🐙 🐙 🐙
ive got some sourdough proving I made the leaven with an apple and honey ... no added yeast ... last night I removed half and ‘fed’ it with flour ...(the discard we had as pancakes for breakfast just now with apple and cinammon compote ... very yummy)
It’s the first time I’ve done it this way ... a painter friend in Gloucestershire is teaching me and we’re doing it together ... well I’m a day behind her so she already has her bread, but you know what I mean.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And what a glorious morning it is. We sat out on the patio earlier this morning with a brew and listened to the birds. Their song seems so much more lively since the lockdown. He went to drop some keys off at work as it is his day off and said he would combine it with a bike ride, coming back home the long way round to get some exercise in.
Looking outside, I cannot believe we have rain forecast. We need it as we have not had any rain now for maybe just over a month.
Like you @Dovefromabove and @Busy-Lizzie I need to get a wash on. The wash basket soon fills up. I am sure we have someone else living here that I do not know about 🤣🤣
Sunny here and already 21C at 10am. OH has been clearing a rasied, walled bed at the edge of the terrace. It's chock full of orange hemerocallis and arum italicum and some very fat snails but will become my kitchen herbery with thymes, rosemary, sage, oregano and savoury which will all enjoy good drainage. All my tarragon died this winter so the new stuff is going in a pot I can move to the PT for winter and parsley, tarragon and basil will be in window boxes on the wall.
One of the great things about lockdown is I only wear "proper" clothes once a week to raid the SM. I can happily wear gardening shorts and strappy tops for a few days and then change into trousers or baggies and a long sleeved top after my shower as evenings are still cool and the bloody biting insects have started looking for Obxx feasts. They don't go for OH.
Was up in the middle of the night with leg cramps so went to make some magnesium. Stuck my head out of the bathroom window to get a better view of the stars and it was incredibly noisy out there - frogs in the pond, owl and 3 different bird songs so the nightingales are back but I have no idea who the others are.
I hope those of you need it get some rain but that those who want it get some sunshine.
Stay safe and well everyone.
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)."
I'm with you on the gardening clothes joy @Obelixx (although I did change for a Zoom family meeting last night). It's very noisy with bird song here, we think there are lots of babies hidden away somewhere. How is Possum doing?
Morning all. Waiting for rain here too... the farmers are complaining the grass isn't growing as fast as it should in April.
Lovely to find treasures in your "old" garden, @D0rdogne_Damsel - glad you're able to find solace in the wildlife. It's amazingly calming to spend so much time in the natural world.
I think the neighbours must imagine I'm a bag lady, and only own jeans with patched knees. It's bliss not to have to think about what clothes to wear - I'm either gardening, or, in less clement weather, scrabbling about in the shed or loft, sorting things out.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I have had a weeks holiday this week. Back at work tomorrow. I could not have asked for a better week weather wise. I always like it though when it has been sunny when I am off and when I return to work the weather is bad. Had too many times when it has been the other way around.
Anyway, I have been exactly the same this week, clothing wise @Obelixx@Liriodendron and I have enjoyed it. I think it is going to be an effort digging my work stuff out in the morning and facing the world smart 🤣🤣
Hi folks, Yes it's been lovely being able to slob about without having to worry about what to wear. It must be lovely going back to see your old garden @D0rdogne_Damsel but a bit sad to see it going to rack and ruin. I've only once checked back on an old garden via google earth and I was so upset at what had happened to it I vowed never to do it again.
I've been out in the garden and have started to plant up a few
pots, it's early for me but I've only risked plants that I have lots of
and no frosts forecast for the next couple of weeks which almost takes
me up to my usual planting out time. It's really hot out there so I've
popped inside for a cool down.
The area I cleared when the
last of the conifers went is looking good and I'm only waiting for some
hardy geraniums and a clematis to finish it off. Will post some before
and after photos when I can sort them out. When we removed the trees
we had to cut down a huge montana clematis with a trunk that was about 5
inches across. Lord knows how long it has been there but it reached
the top of a very tall fir tree. I left the trunk because I liked the
knarled shape and low and behold it has started to sprout. I'm so
chuffed it has survived.
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ive got some sourdough proving I made the leaven
with an apple and honey ... no added yeast ... last night I removed half and ‘fed’ it with flour ...(the discard we had as pancakes for breakfast just now with apple and cinammon compote ... very yummy)
It’s the first time I’ve done it this way ... a painter friend in Gloucestershire is teaching me and we’re doing it together ... well I’m a day behind her so she already has her bread, but you know what I mean.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And what a glorious morning it is. We sat out on the patio earlier this morning with a brew and listened to the birds. Their song seems so much more lively since the lockdown. He went to drop some keys off at work as it is his day off and said he would combine it with a bike ride, coming back home the long way round to get some exercise in.
Looking outside, I cannot believe we have rain forecast. We need it as we have not had any rain now for maybe just over a month.
Like you @Dovefromabove and @Busy-Lizzie I need to get a wash on. The wash basket soon fills up. I am sure we have someone else living here that I do not know about 🤣🤣
Its sunny here too, think rain due tomorrow evening so no watering for a while maybe.
One of the great things about lockdown is I only wear "proper" clothes once a week to raid the SM. I can happily wear gardening shorts and strappy tops for a few days and then change into trousers or baggies and a long sleeved top after my shower as evenings are still cool and the bloody biting insects have started looking for Obxx feasts. They don't go for OH.
Was up in the middle of the night with leg cramps so went to make some magnesium. Stuck my head out of the bathroom window to get a better view of the stars and it was incredibly noisy out there - frogs in the pond, owl and 3 different bird songs so the nightingales are back but I have no idea who the others are.
I hope those of you need it get some rain but that those who want it get some sunshine.
Stay safe and well everyone.
Lovely to find treasures in your "old" garden, @D0rdogne_Damsel - glad you're able to find solace in the wildlife. It's amazingly calming to spend so much time in the natural world.
I think the neighbours must imagine I'm a bag lady, and only own jeans with patched knees. It's bliss not to have to think about what clothes to wear - I'm either gardening, or, in less clement weather, scrabbling about in the shed or loft, sorting things out.
Anyway, I have been exactly the same this week, clothing wise @Obelixx @Liriodendron and I have enjoyed it. I think it is going to be an effort digging my work stuff out in the morning and facing the world smart 🤣🤣