@chicky - that made me laugh. Well done girl!Ā Me and Hostie will get you a few more words to use. I promise they'll be polite. Reasonably polite.Ā Lovely pic. Glad you had a good time.Ā One of our favourite expressions comes from an episode of Chewin' the Fat, when they had a sketch with a travelling art gallery. The 'locals' queued up, the wifey's there with the 'weans', and says 'Gie's a swatch at the Rubens'. 'Swatch' - pronounced as in catch, not as in the sample of material, meaning 'look'. We used to say it at work all the time.Ā
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nothing serious then @punkdoc!Ā Ā What are you like?Ā Go easy on the "medicinal" whisky!
It is hot here.Ā Started off the day but hoeing and raking the rose beds and placing some stepping stones so, as it fills, we can get to the back path for access to the hedge and also back of the beds.Ā By which time I was dripping so headed for the shade to plant a pulmonaria or two.Ā Ā Ended up quarrying half a wheelbarrow of stones and small rocks from a very small area and then found one I couldn't shift so stopped for lunch.
OH then took over and shifted 3 more barrow loads and is only half way along.Ā Ā I trundled off with the hose to tend to my nursery of pots.Ā Ā Now it's cooler and shady on the east side I can go and plant the other agapanthus out to make a nice wee cluster in the corner by the orangey roses - Lady Emma Hamilton and Summer Song.
Hope everyone's had a good day, whatever you've been doing.Ā I'm feeling a yen to go and see theĀ sea but will have to talk to OH about a quiet beach away from the Madding Crowds and bampots.
Had a lovely day, a friend phoned and invited me over for coffee in her garden. First time I've driven for 3 weeks, the roads were reasonably quiet. Protocols were duly followed and we had a good long chat. Too hot to do anything back at home bar 2 loads of washing so have just read the newspaper so far and watched 'Escape to the Country'. The tent is still up but we'll have another attempt to collapse this later tonight. Had another attempted parcel delivery but he didn't bother to knock on the door so OH didn't hear anything. Supposed to be coming back tomorrow. I went mad and ordered 12 plant supports with coloured safety globes on top at half price. I'm hoping they are glass ones but we'll see.
Well, the tent is down and back in its case after two of us wrestling with it on hands and knees on the lawn - I'm not sure I fancy trying to do that in a potholed lay-by in the pouring rain somehow!
We had a super day at Hyde Hall. The mobility scooter was brilliant! It carried the picnic bag, my handbag and OH's jacket and it had no problem up the steep grass slopes or the gravel paths. We had smoked salmon and salad sandwiches, pork pie, cherry tomatoes washed down with ginger beer (OH) and cloudy lemonade (me), sitting at a picnic table under a tree.
The garden looked great except there had been a lot of digging up and re-planting so some beds had quite a lot of earth showing. It was all a bit more advanced than my garden in Norfolk but the site is more exposed and sunny. The roses were beautiful. It was warm and sunny. The rose "Olivia Rose Austin" looked and smelt so beautiful that OH bought me one. I can squeeze it into the Laurel Bed if I move an aster.
Olivia Rose Austin
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Me and Hostie will get you a few more words to use. I promise they'll be polite. Reasonably polite.Ā
Lovely pic. Glad you had a good time.Ā
One of our favourite expressions comes from an episode of Chewin' the Fat, when they had a sketch with a travelling art gallery. The 'locals' queued up, the wifey's there with the 'weans', and says 'Gie's a swatch at the Rubens'.
'Swatch' - pronounced as in catch, not as in the sample of material, meaning 'look'.
We used to say it at work all the time.Ā
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nothing serious then @punkdoc!Ā Ā What are you like?Ā Go easy on the "medicinal" whisky!
It is hot here.Ā Started off the day but hoeing and raking the rose beds and placing some stepping stones so, as it fills, we can get to the back path for access to the hedge and also back of the beds.Ā By which time I was dripping so headed for the shade to plant a pulmonaria or two.Ā Ā Ended up quarrying half a wheelbarrow of stones and small rocks from a very small area and then found one I couldn't shift so stopped for lunch.
OH then took over and shifted 3 more barrow loads and is only half way along.Ā Ā I trundled off with the hose to tend to my nursery of pots.Ā Ā Now it's cooler and shady on the east side I can go and plant the other agapanthus out to make a nice wee cluster in the corner by the orangey roses - Lady Emma Hamilton and Summer Song.
Hope everyone's had a good day, whatever you've been doing.Ā I'm feeling a yen to go and see theĀ sea but will have to talk to OH about a quiet beach away from the Madding Crowds and bampots.
The garden looked great except there had been a lot of digging up and re-planting so some beds had quite a lot of earth showing. It was all a bit more advanced than my garden in Norfolk but the site is more exposed and sunny. The roses were beautiful. It was warm and sunny. The rose "Olivia Rose Austin" looked and smelt so beautiful that OH bought me one. I can squeeze it into the Laurel Bed if I move an aster.
Olivia Rose Austin
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.