So pleased to hear your good news @chicky. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Thanks @Obelixx, some good advice there. Especially like the birdfeeder idea. @Hostafan1, cheeky beggers! You sound like you're doing a grand job in the face of every adversity!
Just had a quick walk around the garden before it went dark - spotted this Geum - I bought it from @Busy-Lizzie at an Open Garden event a long while ago as a little cutting....:) It's come along way!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
@AuntyRach - I have heard Hotel Chocolat are offering 50% discount to NHS workers might be worth treating yourself next time you have a day off
Oo - thanks for for the tip-off. Today we had donuts at break time and an ice cream after the shift! I’ll need a bigger uniform soon! Our first patient, from many weeks ago, walked today!!! So amazing 💙
Evening all. So pleased to hear you have Chicklet back in the nest, @chicky, as well as progress with the greenhouse.
Is that Viburnum rhytidophyllum, @D0rdogne_Damsel? Good luck with your veg growing - it looks as if young Charlie is taking after his mum and has caught the gardening bug!
Had to move the bird feeder today. It's filled with sunflower hearts, and has a squirrel-proof cage - not that we are troubled with squirrels here, but it keeps the jackdaws off. However, an enterprising (and, to be honest, rather cute) baby rat discovered it could squeeze through the bars by climbing up the hedge behind. When I found it, it was absolutely stuffed... not the least afraid of me, unfortunately, and I had to shake the feeder to encourage it to leave. Now the feeder is a couple of feet from the hedge, and Ratty keeps sticking his head out to see if a bird has dropped anything tasty... I've read that rats hate peppermint, and you can use peppermint oil to keep them out of lofts etc. I don't have any. Maybe I should hang Polo mints from the hedge...
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I wonder if that could be Geum Totally Tangerine @D0rdogne_Damsel. The parent plant died 2 or 3 years ago. I have 2 here in Norfolk but they aren't quite out yet.
I cleaned the windows and frames of the summer house then went for a walk this afternoon.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I’ve been into town shopping again. It’s amazing that after all these weeks both Aldi and Coles have toilet rolls and tissues. Not that I need any at this time. I’m impressed about how good people are about social distancing in the aisles, except of course the usual odd one who parks in the middle of the aisle and then blocks one side while they study what’s on the shelf. 🤬.
Lovely sunny day again but would really like some rain.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ hello @Pat E 👋. Glad your shopping trip went well ... yesterday we drove down to the farm shop a couple of villages away to pick up an order we’d emailed to them.
We pulled into the car park and rang them and they thought the boxes out and out them in the car boot.
They had everything on the list except plain flour ... but they did have wholemeal bread flour. We’ve got some meat for the freezer, shin of beef, a chicken, minced beef and pork chops, and some Barnsley lamb chops for our Sunday meal ... looking forward to having those with roast potatoes spring cabbage and the last of the homemade mint and apple jelly. We’ve got enough for two or three weeks again.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Thanks @Obelixx, some good advice there. Especially like the birdfeeder idea.
@Hostafan1, cheeky beggers! You sound like you're doing a grand job in the face of every adversity!
Can anyone name this shrub please, I think it needs some tlc and I don't know what it is to sort it out, thanks in advance: https://photos.app.goo.gl/C2cka6e6142cyi3n6
Off to eat Strawberry cheesecake now that Charlie made, hopefully before too long we will be eating our own strawberries!
Have a good evening all.
Our first patient, from many weeks ago, walked today!!! So amazing 💙
Hope you are all doing ok.
Is that Viburnum rhytidophyllum, @D0rdogne_Damsel? Good luck with your veg growing - it looks as if young Charlie is taking after his mum and has caught the gardening bug!
Had to move the bird feeder today. It's filled with sunflower hearts, and has a squirrel-proof cage - not that we are troubled with squirrels here, but it keeps the jackdaws off. However, an enterprising (and, to be honest, rather cute) baby rat discovered it could squeeze through the bars by climbing up the hedge behind. When I found it, it was absolutely stuffed... not the least afraid of me, unfortunately, and I had to shake the feeder to encourage it to leave. Now the feeder is a couple of feet from the hedge, and Ratty keeps sticking his head out to see if a bird has dropped anything tasty... I've read that rats hate peppermint, and you can use peppermint oil to keep them out of lofts etc. I don't have any. Maybe I should hang Polo mints from the hedge...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I cleaned the windows and frames of the summer house then went for a walk this afternoon.
hello @Pat E 👋. Glad your shopping trip went well ... yesterday we drove down to the farm shop a couple of villages away to pick up an order we’d emailed to them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You just couldn't make this stuff up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52407177
I suppose we should be thankful he went into business and politics and not public health and medicine ... 🙏
Morning @Hostafan1 😊 ☕️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.