Morning all 😀. Hope those visiting gardening friends have a good morning ☕️🌸
going to sow some more rocket seeds (first lot have been a hit here) and hoe the little weeds off the veg beds. Then I need to do some Pilates - I have been neglecting it recently and now I have back ache ..... the two might be related 🤔
Still cold and windy here - but the rain has gone. Time for summer to make a reappearance please and thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks, @Obelixx, @floralies and @Fairygirl. Must admit we are very relieved - we've been trying not to communicate our fears across the Irish sea... their first was 8lb and a forceps birth so we were a bit worried she was having no.2 at home. But better perhaps than being separated in hospital...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I can well imagine your relief @Liriodendron especially since you can't be there to help with firstborn.
@Fairygirl that song is an old favourite of mine. I've seen reports of crowds of grockles walking along the seafront at Les Sables d'Olonne yesterday - far too many, far too close and not wearing masks when they go in shops. Clearly left their brains at home. Not going anywhere near till after Bastille Day but then hope to have an open air meet up with patch friends.
@chicky we are in the French equivalent of St Swithin's day wetness here with all sorts of unannounced wet bits and loads of cool and grey but it has suited our garden projects so we don't mind.
Full moon tonight. Our vet, who is a bit of a character, says it's the best time to worm the cats and cdgs so the canines will get their monthly tin of sardines laced with vermifuge and I'll treat the cats to some cheese with theirs. Rasta doggy is healing well now she can't lick and is becoming a dab hand at reversing when she goes exploring and gets stuck. The collar makes her snore too.
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 can understand that @Liriodendron . I had a difficult birth with the first, and would have had the 2nd at home, but decided it wasn't wise just because of that. I love rocket @chicky - I grow the wild one and let some of it flower as the bees love it. No cure for stupid @Obelixx, and folk wonder why I normally go out at 6am. How are your aches and pains today? Heaving down here and 11 degrees, so I don't think I'll be doing anything outside at all. Even the tame peg leg pigeon looks cheesed off now...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I saw that @Obelixx. I like rocket, and I don't mind it when it's flowered and much stronger either. I find it difficult when I have my specs on, as I can't see anything further away than a couple of feet - especially my feet!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just catching up. Lovely news @Liriodendron. Congrats to those concerned. I did wince when I read the weight, I'm only tiny as well and I thought 8lb with my first was big enough! I wonder why babies are so much heavier these days?
Feel better today as woke up to sunshine, makes such a difference. I'm a Leo with a birthday later this month so always maintain I'm a child of the sun and need warmth!
High winds are forecast from early afternoon here so rushed out to double stake my thalictrums, delphiniums and Japanese anemones which are already in bud. I don't like gardening when it's very windy (some big old trees along the boundary) so probably won't do much else today.
Hello again ... we are home 😊 We’ve had a lovely day out with gardening friends smile 😊 ... we had a bit of car trouble but it was sorted out very efficiently by the nice AA man ... you may well find that @Busy-Lizzie ‘s visitors coincidentally also had car troubles which necessitated a longer visit while they waited for the nice man in the yellow van to fix the problem ... don’t ask me how I know 😉 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Congratulations @Liriodendron on the arrival of your new grandson.
Funny that, @Dovefromabove, our visitors also had car trouble but luckily the nice AA man fixed it. But he did have to go and find the spare parts, which took a while, so we had a good natter with our friends.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We had an absolutely lovely visit @Busy-Lizzie despite the car problems, and we were given delicious coffee and scones in a beautiful sunny garden, and with such congenial company, who could want for more 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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going to sow some more rocket seeds (first lot have been a hit here) and hoe the little weeds off the veg beds. Then I need to do some Pilates - I have been neglecting it recently and now I have back ache ..... the two might be related 🤔
Still cold and windy here - but the rain has gone. Time for summer to make a reappearance please and thank you 🙏🏻
Must admit we are very relieved - we've been trying not to communicate our fears across the Irish sea... their first was 8lb and a forceps birth so we were a bit worried she was having no.2 at home. But better perhaps than being separated in hospital...
@Fairygirl that song is an old favourite of mine. I've seen reports of crowds of grockles walking along the seafront at Les Sables d'Olonne yesterday - far too many, far too close and not wearing masks when they go in shops. Clearly left their brains at home. Not going anywhere near till after Bastille Day but then hope to have an open air meet up with patch friends.
@chicky we are in the French equivalent of St Swithin's day wetness here with all sorts of unannounced wet bits and loads of cool and grey but it has suited our garden projects so we don't mind.
Full moon tonight. Our vet, who is a bit of a character, says it's the best time to worm the cats and cdgs so the canines will get their monthly tin of sardines laced with vermifuge and I'll treat the cats to some cheese with theirs. Rasta doggy is healing well now she can't lick and is becoming a dab hand at reversing when she goes exploring and gets stuck. The collar makes her snore too.
I love rocket @chicky - I grow the wild one and let some of it flower as the bees love it.
No cure for stupid @Obelixx, and folk wonder why I normally go out at 6am.
How are your aches and pains today?
Heaving down here and 11 degrees, so I don't think I'll be doing anything outside at all. Even the tame peg leg pigeon looks cheesed off now...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We love rocket too and Carole had a new one with a wasabi kick on Beechgrove this week. Must look out for that.
I find it difficult when I have my specs on, as I can't see anything further away than a couple of feet - especially my feet!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Feel better today as woke up to sunshine, makes such a difference. I'm a Leo with a birthday later this month so always maintain I'm a child of the sun and need warmth!
High winds are forecast from early afternoon here so rushed out to double stake my thalictrums, delphiniums and Japanese anemones which are already in bud. I don't like gardening when it's very windy (some big old trees along the boundary) so probably won't do much else today.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Funny that, @Dovefromabove, our visitors also had car trouble but luckily the nice AA man fixed it. But he did have to go and find the spare parts, which took a while, so we had a good natter with our friends.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.