Morning all. What dreadful news about the Budgens fire in Holt.
Raining here, but gently.
@Obelixx I'm hoping the quarantining will be over by the time we fly in July.
@Dovefromabove the front garden is east of the end of the cottage and the cottage is end on to the street, but the fence the new rose is in front of faces south.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The BBC Food and Good Food websites have thousands of recipes that can be searched by ingredient so loads of inspiration. In fact, the internet is full of recipes but I do now avoid USA websites as they are often too heavy on sugar and fats.
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)."
My OH loves that soup ... he takes it to work in his flask and now we’re between lettuce gluts he buys lettuce just so he can have the soup. It works perfectly with lettuces that are beginning to bolt too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Then there's rain that is so pathetic that even the acers have a rain shadow under them though the rest of the patio is damp. That's the kind we have been having most of the year so far until last Thursday when we finally had a proper soaking. We had it again yesterday mid morning, enough to stop you working but not to do any real good. Wet start this morning though. Off to the Allotment to pick fruit & veg for dinner as soon as it stops.
Morning all. I like the sound of the soup recipe @Dovefromabove. My Little Gems are looking a bit battered so I might use them for soup and sow some new ones.
Have a good day all and Happy Father’s Day to all in that category.
Despite my best endeavours, it looks as if we'll have a glut of Little Gem lettuce too - so thanks for the recipe, Dove.
We've also had real rain, at last. Such a relief not to have to spend hours each day watering baby plants! And I'm sure they'll prefer rain water to our rather limey municipal supply (not got water butts set up yet). I'll have to collect the twigs etc from the borders in between showers today - yesterday was amazingly windy - but otherwise it'll be a cleaning and sorting day, I think; as we decorate each room, we have to sand the new plaster patches where old light switches etc were, which makes more fine dust, of course. We're now planning to try to sand all the remaining patches around the house in one go, and apply a mist coat of paint to them, which ought to kill the plaster dust, with luck.
Yesterday the electrician came back and finished the bits and pieces he had to leave because of the lockdown. (He said it was a relief to be back at work, not having to do decorating jobs for his wife...) So we now have an outside socket, wall lights in the living room, and lights in the utility and loft. Just the plumber and tiler to come now, and some snagging to get done.
Hope you all have a good day.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Sounds like light at the end of the tunnel @Liriodendron - yay 🥳. Then you can settle back and enjoy it all 👍🏻
Off to see Dad today,deck chair and flask of tea in hand. A bit windy, but never mind. He is anxiously awaiting the Liverpool game tonight. A life long Liverpool fan, he is desperate to see them win the league. At Christmas they told him that was very unlikely. Then Covid intervened to delay it all. But he’s still here, and doing well, so fingers crossed for something that would make him very, very happy 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻.
I should have known better than to buy separate tomato and rose feeds, I picked up the rose feed instead of tomato feed this morning, after doing all the feeding and put the container away I realised what I had done, checked the back of the packets and the ingredients were the same for both, talk about a marketing ploy. NPK the same for both.
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It looks as if you might need my OH’s favourite soup recipe for using up a glut, or even a load of the outside leaves https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/view/recipe/lettuce-pea-and-mint-soup
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What dreadful news about the Budgens fire in Holt.
Raining here, but gently.
@Obelixx I'm hoping the quarantining will be over by the time we fly in July.
@Dovefromabove the front garden is east of the end of the cottage and the cottage is end on to the street, but the fence the new rose is in front of faces south.
The BBC Food and Good Food websites have thousands of recipes that can be searched by ingredient so loads of inspiration. In fact, the internet is full of recipes but I do now avoid USA websites as they are often too heavy on sugar and fats.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Despite my best endeavours, it looks as if we'll have a glut of Little Gem lettuce too - so thanks for the recipe, Dove.
We've also had real rain, at last. Such a relief not to have to spend hours each day watering baby plants! And I'm sure they'll prefer rain water to our rather limey municipal supply (not got water butts set up yet). I'll have to collect the twigs etc from the borders in between showers today - yesterday was amazingly windy - but otherwise it'll be a cleaning and sorting day, I think; as we decorate each room, we have to sand the new plaster patches where old light switches etc were, which makes more fine dust, of course. We're now planning to try to sand all the remaining patches around the house in one go, and apply a mist coat of paint to them, which ought to kill the plaster dust, with luck.
Yesterday the electrician came back and finished the bits and pieces he had to leave because of the lockdown. (He said it was a relief to be back at work, not having to do decorating jobs for his wife...) So we now have an outside socket, wall lights in the living room, and lights in the utility and loft. Just the plumber and tiler to come now, and some snagging to get done.
Hope you all have a good day.