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HELLO FORKERS 🌻 July ‘20

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  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    Afternoon all.

    Day started off with rather heavy rain and stopped about 11.30 but it still have that very damp feeling in the air. We were supposed to have a drive through to Middlesbrough to have a look around the shops but decided against it as didn't want to be wandering around all damp. We will go another day when we are off together.

    I am currently sat  in my conservatory with thr radio on and my book but have a pause to see what the birds are upto. Just heard a load of squeaking but cannot figure out where its coming from 😂😂

    Got a garden day planned for tomorrow. If the forecast is correct it is going to be very hot and sunny 😎

    @Obelixx it is good getting GC bargain. I always head for the nearly dead shelf to see what I can rescue.


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Everything seemed nearly dead or worse @PurpleRose which I don't like to see in a DIY or SM where they are just another product but is disgraceful in a GC which is supposed to be about plants and gardening.
    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)."
    Plato
  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    I agree @Obelixx it takes nothing for any seller to give the plants a good water and I feel it is worse in a gc or nursery as it is what they specialise in. It's like shop selling frozen stuff and not keeping them in a freezer.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hi everyone. I haven’t been on today - lots of tidying and sorting in the garden while the weather is fine again.  Not happy though. Hubby just read on a local site that there’s Covid in Perisher - that probably means that they’ll come back through Cooma and visit our shops and cafes. 😡.  I’ll need to be extra careful.  Which reminds me - I went food shopping in Woolworths yesterday and I was the only one wearing a mask, I got some funny looks from the brave ones. 

    Night all. 
    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sleep tight @Pat E 🤗 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410


    First post-lockdown pub visit ......loved this magestic tree 🌳....the wine is good too 😉
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    A beautiful night for ballooning. Four appeared tonight.




    The last one above landed in the village last week. He is heading for the recreation ground visible in the bottom left.


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    LOvely view @chicky.   I bet that got all the local dogs barking @steephill!   Ours used to go spare when we had balloons approaching our last house.   Don't get them here.
    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)."
    Plato
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Yes, dogs barking is our usual signal to look skywards. I wonder what it is about balloons that sets them off?
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We've just started to get balloons over here too. Not sure if they are just practising or have paying customers again.
    Been very hot today (although not as hot where Obelixx or DD are, thank goodness).
    Retreated for a snooze on the north side of the house. We had cakes delivered by SM (as well as a dozen wines!) they were on special offer so felt we just had to indulge. I have been good though, because I ate a cake at lunchtime, I told myself I couldn't have some wine as well tonight o:) 
    I've just been out watering the roses in pots and other potted plants as it's forecast to be hot again tomorrow.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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