Glad you like our steps - thanks for all the lovely comments. The dry stone wall that we are going to put on either side will just be a facing to the bank that is already there (and has been there since the house was built 70 years ago - so not moving anywhere). Thats why we feel we can tackle it ourselves. It will sort of match the one that is already there on the terrace above (which definitely does some retaining). Everything in this garden slopes. Happily its south facing. Maybe we should plant a vineyard 🍇🍇🍇
Its going to take several tonnes of stone .....so any you can catapult this way will be gratefully received thanks @Obelixx 🤣
Off to Bournemouth with Chicklet today to look at some rooms/flats and to have a bit of an explore of the town she will be moving to next month. Exciting times 🤪. And littlest chicklet has a trial shift today at a local pub/restaurant, so she might be gainfully employed soon too 🤞🏻. Keep her busy til she goes back to Uni in September.
@Liriodendron I contacted the RHS and they tell me that their overseas mail handler asked them not to ship in the lockdown as they were having too many problems with subsidiary service companies and staffing. It seems we should get the missing issues some time this month. As for mail to Ireland, Brittany ferries have only just started up and flights have been few and far between so maybe your seeds are just sat in a sorting office or handling depot waiting for the next phase of delivery. If not, there's always next year.
@Hostafan1 out of curiosity I looked at American style fridge freezers in the SM yesterday and there are several widths - 83cms, 88 and 93 - so use your google power to find one.
I'm off out this pm so have been staying clean this morning. trouble is that lets my mind wander on things like "do I really need a single bed in my sewing room?". No, so I can feel a furniture shuffle coming on when we get a rainy day and I finally finish Possum's bedroom.
Meanwhile OH has been tidying up the mimosa on the boundary with Bruno so he has easier access to his horrid conifer hedge - planted as a barrier a metre inside the boundary when the previous owners planned to turn our ruin into gîtes. I want him to be able to keep it trimmed now he's cut it down to 2m.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Lovely sunny day, am in the middle of watering and feeding the pots, 2 hours so far. Didn't have time to plant a lot of the Cannas this year, so they are mostly in pots, well hidden in the borders.
Chateau Chicky
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@Hostafan1 out of curiosity I looked at American style fridge freezers in the SM yesterday and there are several widths - 83cms, 88 and 93 - so use your google power to find one.
Thanks Obs, I've been looking around and most seem to be 91cm, but the aperture in kitchen is only big enough for 90cm. Anything much narrower will leave stupid, ugly gaps down each side. Not big enough for anything but collecting dust. Hopefully the nice man coming on Wednesday will be able to fix it.
Hi all just catching up again. @Hostafan1 you have my sympathy regarding the fridge, we had a similar problem with our old microwave, the replacement model for our exact one was lower & wider than the old one & so would not fit in the space we had. We ended up with a vastly more expensive multi-function oven as it was the only thing that would fit & not look ridiculous. We had an odd experience yesterday, an on line funeral. Very few actually able to attend with all separate chairs even for members of the same households. Service was good but the camera angle meant we could only see the back of peoples heads, so my wife was struggling to work out who was actually able to go. The deceased did not have the virus but from the message we had from his daughter it seems he struggled with lock down went into a decline & would not eat. He was 94 & a contemporary of Bruce Forsyth & Billy Dainty, not nearly so well known as those two but in the business for many years. I wonder how many more "indirect" deaths there will be in this whole wretched business.
Thank you folks, YES, he did forget! (He comes from Sarf London, works in a garage, every other word is "sweary") If he had just said "Oh, ***k, I forgot", that would have been it, but he went into lengthy explainations, of how he had been ill (???) stressed at work, (new boss, nasty bit of work) hot, tired, sounded like a kid making excuses. |Packed him off to Lidl for a couple of bits, he also went to Sainsbury, (He knew I wanted "stuff" from there, nope, he didnt get that,) he bought a double stemmed orchid, in a very expensive fancy pot, bottle of (expensive) vintage Cava, and very large fancy (expensive!!) bounch of flowers. I had gone to Tesco (local Express) for papers and a tiger baguette for the grandkids, they were late and hadnt baked, HE came back from Sainsbury with a large cut Tiger, I had already bought bread. Hummm
Evening all, Tired this evening but I had a lovely day with Merri and Mabel after an early start. They are flying off to their villa in Menorca tomorrow so I wont see them for nearly 4 weeks. Tomorrow I'm seeing the boys before they isolate prior to going to see Grandma in the lakes and then I have four weeks of being idle until they all come back.
If the weathers good I'll have lots of time for the garden.
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Its going to take several tonnes of stone .....so any you can catapult this way will be gratefully received thanks @Obelixx 🤣
Off to Bournemouth with Chicklet today to look at some rooms/flats and to have a bit of an explore of the town she will be moving to next month. Exciting times 🤪. And littlest chicklet has a trial shift today at a local pub/restaurant, so she might be gainfully employed soon too 🤞🏻. Keep her busy til she goes back to Uni in September.
@Hostafan1 out of curiosity I looked at American style fridge freezers in the SM yesterday and there are several widths - 83cms, 88 and 93 - so use your google power to find one.
I'm off out this pm so have been staying clean this morning. trouble is that lets my mind wander on things like "do I really need a single bed in my sewing room?". No, so I can feel a furniture shuffle coming on when we get a rainy day and I finally finish Possum's bedroom.
Meanwhile OH has been tidying up the mimosa on the boundary with Bruno so he has easier access to his horrid conifer hedge - planted as a barrier a metre inside the boundary when the previous owners planned to turn our ruin into gîtes. I want him to be able to keep it trimmed now he's cut it down to 2m.
Lovely sunny day, am in the middle of watering and feeding the pots, 2 hours so far. Didn't have time to plant a lot of the Cannas this year, so they are mostly in pots, well hidden in the borders.
Chateau Chicky
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Looks like someone has beaten me to it .....
Hopefully the nice man coming on Wednesday will be able to fix it.
We had an odd experience yesterday, an on line funeral. Very few actually able to attend with all separate chairs even for members of the same households. Service was good but the camera angle meant we could only see the back of peoples heads, so my wife was struggling to work out who was actually able to go. The deceased did not have the virus but from the message we had from his daughter it seems he struggled with lock down went into a decline & would not eat. He was 94 & a contemporary of Bruce Forsyth & Billy Dainty, not nearly so well known as those two but in the business for many years. I wonder how many more "indirect" deaths there will be in this whole wretched business.
Couldn't get onto the site earlier, computer said I hadn't got Internet but I got onto emails and Google.
The buyers arrived at 11.30 and left at 4.30pm.
Need to go to bed, nighties.