Good morning all Forkers. Cool and grey again here but dry so, once second coffee has been imbibed, we'll be off to finish the hen pen that was interrupted by Rasta and card problems yesterday. Poor old Rasta looks like she has a life belt round her neck.
Never had turnip carpacchio @tuikowhai34 but I have some small beetroot almost ready for eating. Choggia look prettier than the red ones but I prefer the flavour of the red.
Gorgeous hydrangeas @D0rdogne_Damsel . We inherited a tatty, overgrown, neglected pair - one a rich pink and one a muddy grey/mauve - so I've pruned, fed, watered and fed the latter with stuff to make it bluer and now have soft pink and mauve but no muddy colours.
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I'm up and dressed ... think the oversleeping was a result of the dream in which I was wearing a bright yellow bra and was looking for a plain blue woollen shawl but all I could find was a silk green and cerise one with flowers and a poem about gardens woven into it and a very heavy knotted silk fringe ... beautiful but not what I was looking for.
Think the dream may have been triggered by a phone call from an old college friend we'd lost touch with ... well, to be honest we thought she might have fallen out with us although we weren't sure why ... she'd just stopped returning emails and calls etc ... then suddenly we get a call after sixteen years ... it seems that she has a new man who has his English home (as opposed to his New Zealand one) near my old stamping ground ... 💡 this may have triggered something
It looks like a dry morning ... I may have to hoe the chickweed in the veg patch ... supper will be grilled halloumi and nectarines with a salad so not a lot of prepping to do. I’ll be able to get into the studio. Hopefully OH will have time to pick some gooseberries ... they’re ripening fast!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for mentioning gooseberries Dove, I need to pick my second lot as well. Think I will have to get sun umbrella out and repot tomatoes under that, it keeps trying to drizzle.
Flippin 'eck! He's picked a huge load of gooseberries ... I shall have to top and tail and freeze them this afternoon ... I may not get back into the studio for some time ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely hydrangeas, @D0rdogne_Damsel. It would have been rude not to stop and admire them... there's so much room in this garden I'm dithering about what to put where at the mo.
Rasta looks resigned to her fate, @Obelixx. Hope the ears are improving too.
How can I disguise gooseberries so hubby will eat them without that look of resignation on his face? Gooseberry fool is among my favourite desserts, and you can't beat a really good gooseberry crumble, but he has yet to be convinced.
Anyway, it's not raining, for a change, so I need to attack some more weeds...
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Never had turnip carpacchio @tuikowhai34 but I have some small beetroot almost ready for eating. Choggia look prettier than the red ones but I prefer the flavour of the red.
Gorgeous hydrangeas @D0rdogne_Damsel . We inherited a tatty, overgrown, neglected pair - one a rich pink and one a muddy grey/mauve - so I've pruned, fed, watered and fed the latter with stuff to make it bluer and now have soft pink and mauve but no muddy colours.
I'm up and dressed ... think the oversleeping was a result of the dream in which I was wearing a bright yellow bra and was looking for a plain blue woollen shawl but all I could find was a silk green and cerise one with flowers and a poem about gardens woven into it and a very heavy knotted silk fringe ... beautiful but not what I was looking for.
Think the dream may have been triggered by a phone call from an old college friend we'd lost touch with ... well, to be honest we thought she might have fallen out with us although we weren't sure why ... she'd just stopped returning emails and calls etc ... then suddenly we get a call after sixteen years ... it seems that she has a new man who has his English home (as opposed to his New Zealand one) near my old stamping ground ... 💡 this may have triggered something
It looks like a dry morning ... I may have to hoe the chickweed in the veg patch ... supper will be grilled halloumi and nectarines with a salad so not a lot of prepping to do. I’ll be able to get into the studio. Hopefully OH will have time to pick some gooseberries ... they’re ripening fast!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Here's Rasta with her 2020 take on an Elizabethan ruff. Makes a reasonable pillow judging by all the snoring from that quarter just now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not going to Tesco after all today, I've been gardening. May go tomorrow or Wednesday.
Lovely hydrangeas, @D0rdogne_Damsel. It would have been rude not to stop and admire them... there's so much room in this garden I'm dithering about what to put where at the mo.
Rasta looks resigned to her fate, @Obelixx. Hope the ears are improving too.
How can I disguise gooseberries so hubby will eat them without that look of resignation on his face? Gooseberry fool is among my favourite desserts, and you can't beat a really good gooseberry crumble, but he has yet to be convinced.
Anyway, it's not raining, for a change, so I need to attack some more weeds...