Morning all/afties Pat if you're there. I've not really read back, but I hope your family can get some resolution @floralies, and some much needed help and support. I still can't believe how some people still think there is no problem. The total denial is quite frightening. Hope all goes well with the sale @Busy-Lizzie. It'll be a big relief for you. That doesn't seem like four years @Obelixx. my sister phoned yesterday, and she couldn't believe we had been here 7 years. A nice looking day here. Yesterday wasn't bad - a bit of everything, and a good breeze. I thought my 'squatter' bees had moved on, so I decided to move the hog house to do a bit of rearranging. Lifted the lid off...no, they haven't moved. There was a good twenty or so in residence, so I put the lid back down, and 'bee-t' a hasty retreat. Little devils were trying to fool me! They're clearly enjoying the spot, so I'll leave them 'bee' again for a little while, and check again in a few weeks.There had been no activity last week, and no sign of any inside, but they must have been on their hols...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Beautiful day for a change. We are going out!!! Off to visit a local garden, not sure what to expect.
If anyone doubts the power of large corporations, I recommend a film we watched last night, Dark Waters. It is about Dupont poisoning the waste in West Virginia and getting away with it for many years. Very disturbing.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good morning @Fairygirl@punkdoc and everyone else ... we were later than usual sowing sweet peas so we’ve just picked our first blooms the waters making a terrible mess on the windowsill ... I can’t straighten them up 😆
Weve just been sitting under the big ash tree with a juvenile green woodpecker calling for his parents directly above our heads. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. glad to see you arrived home safely @Busy-Lizzie, air travel can be scary at the best of times without worrying now about the virus. DIL posted some lovely pictures of my son and her parents out on the Solent yesterday, her parents have a boat which is moored where they live, they were all looking relaxed and happy which cheered me up no end. Must find tomato feed in shed today for toms and tubs, all in need I think. I will take a few lower leaves off the toms but not too many as the hot sun scorches them. Have a good day everyone.
Sometimes it feels like a lifetime @Fairygirl as the pattern of our lives here is completely different from our life in Belgium. We didn't actually move in till October 1st so we have 2 celebrations but we stay home for this one. Too near July 14th/Bastille Day and the place is heaving with tourists in July and August so busy roads and busy restaurants and Covid on top this year.
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 off garden visiting today too @punkdoc .....hope you have a good time 👍🏻
Even later sowing my sweetpea seeds than you @Dovefromabove ......but noticed my first bud this morning, so not long now. I also have trouble straightening pics when I have resized them.
Glad you are back safely @Busy-Lizzie. Busy times ahead.
Great news about your antibodies @AuntyRach. Would be interested to know if your OH has them too 🤔
@Fairygirl maybee your 🐝🐝🐝’s took advantage of easing restrictions and went off to an Air-Bee’n’Bee ......I’ll get my coat .....
Lovely morning here. I'm really surprised I slept soundly right through the night and didn't wake till 7. Must have been all the giddy excitement of going out yesterday. Glad you're safely back in France @Busy-Lizzie but the flight doesn't sound nice. Enjoy your garden visit @Punkdoc, I hear they are very well organised. I haven't seen any advertised around here yet. That's good news @floralies, everything seems a bit better after a nice day out. @Obelixx, our 13 yrs in this house completely passed me by this year. We bought it the end of February, I broke my back a fortnight later which delayed things a bit and the renovation took 3 months so didn't move in till early May - the windows were still being installed the day we moved in, we had packing cases all around us, bare floorboards everywhere and only half a kitchen - but we were happy! Right, got a front door trough to paint so better get out there.
I hope @chicky and @punkdoc enjoy their garden visits and that the gardens are beautiful.
I'm going to see son 2 this afternoon. The garden tractor has a puncture and neither OH nor a younger friend can get the wheel off and I think the tractor place is shut on Mondays.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Just had a VIP Open Gardens tour... by my niece! She showed me round ‘her’ garden; proudly showing off her veg area, a wildlife section, fruit trees and new pond (made in a metal trough). They ordered a solar-powered fountain (like the one seen on GW on Friday) and it arrived yesterday - it’s fab! Unsurprisingly, it only works in direct sun; as our experiment showed.
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I've not really read back, but I hope your family can get some resolution @floralies, and some much needed help and support.
I still can't believe how some people still think there is no problem. The total denial is quite frightening.
Hope all goes well with the sale @Busy-Lizzie. It'll be a big relief for you.
That doesn't seem like four years @Obelixx. my sister phoned yesterday, and she couldn't believe we had been here 7 years.
A nice looking day here. Yesterday wasn't bad - a bit of everything, and a good breeze.
I thought my 'squatter' bees had moved on, so I decided to move the hog house to do a bit of rearranging. Lifted the lid off...no, they haven't moved. There was a good twenty or so in residence, so I put the lid back down, and 'bee-t' a hasty retreat. Little devils were trying to fool me!
They're clearly enjoying the spot, so I'll leave them 'bee' again for a little while, and check again in a few weeks.There had been no activity last week, and no sign of any inside, but they must have been on their hols...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Beautiful day for a change.
We are going out!!! Off to visit a local garden, not sure what to expect.
If anyone doubts the power of large corporations, I recommend a film we watched last night, Dark Waters. It is about Dupont poisoning the waste in West Virginia and getting away with it for many years. Very disturbing.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
the waters making a terrible mess on the windowsill ... I can’t straighten them up 😆
Weve just been sitting under the big ash tree with a juvenile green woodpecker calling for his parents directly above our heads. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
DIL posted some lovely pictures of my son and her parents out on the Solent yesterday, her parents have a boat which is moored where they live, they were all looking relaxed and happy which cheered me up no end.
Must find tomato feed in shed today for toms and tubs, all in need I think. I will take a few lower leaves off the toms but not too many as the hot sun scorches them.
Have a good day everyone.
Sometimes it feels like a lifetime @Fairygirl as the pattern of our lives here is completely different from our life in Belgium. We didn't actually move in till October 1st so we have 2 celebrations but we stay home for this one. Too near July 14th/Bastille Day and the place is heaving with tourists in July and August so busy roads and busy restaurants and Covid on top this year.
Great news about your antibodies @AuntyRach. Would be interested to know if your OH has them too 🤔
@Fairygirl maybee your 🐝🐝🐝’s took advantage of easing restrictions and went off to an Air-Bee’n’Bee ......I’ll get my coat .....
Get your coat..and a hat....
Enjoy your day everyone, whether it contains buds, bees, bountiful blooms or beautiful gardens.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Glad you're safely back in France @Busy-Lizzie but the flight doesn't sound nice.
Enjoy your garden visit @Punkdoc, I hear they are very well organised. I haven't seen any advertised around here yet.
That's good news @floralies, everything seems a bit better after a nice day out. @Obelixx, our 13 yrs in this house completely passed me by this year. We bought it the end of February, I broke my back a fortnight later which delayed things a bit and the renovation took 3 months so didn't move in till early May - the windows were still being installed the day we moved in, we had packing cases all around us, bare floorboards
everywhere and only half a kitchen - but we were happy!
Right, got a front door trough to paint so better get out there.
I hope @chicky and @punkdoc enjoy their garden visits and that the gardens are beautiful.
I'm going to see son 2 this afternoon.
The garden tractor has a puncture and neither OH nor a younger friend can get the wheel off and I think the tractor place is shut on Mondays.
Sunny here - delightful.
Just had a VIP Open Gardens tour...
by my niece! She showed me round ‘her’ garden; proudly showing off her veg area, a wildlife section, fruit trees and new pond (made in a metal trough). They ordered a solar-powered fountain (like the one seen on GW on Friday) and it arrived yesterday - it’s fab! Unsurprisingly, it only works in direct sun; as our experiment showed.