Lovely black cap film @Dovefromabove, we have them here in Dordogne, blackbirds too.
We had a good day today. Son 1 was at Son 2's and OH is going to Norfolk tomorrow for 2 weeks, so we decided to have a day out. We went for an exploratory drive, dropped into Aubeterre but didn't stop as it's on a hill, parking is difficult and OH is so lame. So we changed our minds about lunching there and had lunch in a restaurant by a bathing lake, La Jemaye, instead. It wasn't overcrowded as I expect it would normally have been at this time of year. Mostly French families. Lovely day in the early 20s.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good morning. Slept right thru till 8 am so feeling bright eyed and bushy tailed. All pots and new plantings on the terrace and in the silk tree bed have been watered with swifts and swallows and house-martins all swooping. Never seen this before so it looks like leaving the "grass" uncut this year has paid dividends in insect power.
@chicky - it's more a case of needing to help with her move and bringing back what she won't need or can't fit into her new studio.
@Busy-Lizzie - sounds like a good day out. Hope OH gets back to Norfolk OK and gets his op soon.
Have a lovely day everyone.
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)."
Just watered all the pots here too @Obelixx ......seems to reduce the slug damage if I do it in the morning rather than the evening. Never used to have time in the mornings - but thats not a problem now 👍🏻
Off for Pilates in the Park this morning, followed by lunch in a friend’s garden. Not looking like a sunny day, but hoping it will stay dry. Bracing ourselves for the mini heatwave due soon 🥵
Good morning all ☕ Late on parade as I've been out watering and phoning the tree man. Suddenly realised that the chap I was going to get another price from is someone I've come across previously ... have decided not to bother with him and have accepted the first chap's price ... I've asked him to book us in for November. Hopefully before the winter storms!
Horrendous @Pat E ... my heart goes out to the people of Beirut ... as if they’ve not suffered enough. And while we wait for confirmation as to its cause, that meglomaniac in the White House does his best to foment yet more trouble in that fragile region.😡 A friend in Cyprus says they felt the blast ... doors rattled!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afties all/evening @Pat E. Got on with some things this morning too as the rain was due back in the afternoon, which it is. Just had enough time for my walk and some deadheading etc. The perennials under my bedroom window have been well and truly battered and bruised with yesterday's weather...and people wonder why we can't grow tomatoes outside here Very difficult for you all @Obelixx. Hopefully, things might ease a bit and you can get something reasonable sorted with the move. Hard enough at the best of times. Don't think we get blackcaps here, or maybe we do and I just haven't seen any. The little bullfinch seems to be a regular visitor now, but only him, so the missus must be otherwise engaged. He's a fine looking fellow, and doesn't seem to be bothered by me bumbling around Rest and be Thankful closed again. What a surprise. I don't know why they keep throwing money at these stupid 'catch pits' at the foot of B. Luibhean. They were never going to work and everyone knows it. The people who live and work there must be sick to death of it. Lots of areas up here still flooded too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's all a bit of a pain in the posterior @Fairygirl.
I had to look up the Rest and be Thankful. I take it the name is ironic? Looks to me like they'd be better off planting some trees and scrub on those slopes to help hold the soil rather than spending gazillions trying to catch it when it slides.
Checked my seed trays this morning. 5 weedlings (compost doesn't seem to be sterilised here) and one seedling from an annual with purpley blue flowers and purpley grey foliage whose name I forget but is very popular with flower arrangers. Humph!
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)."
The R and be T is actually just along the road @Obelixx where there's a car park and they bring the tourists in coaches to look at the scenery. The old Military road runs just below the 'new' road, which they sometimes use when there's landslip, but it's often too dangerous, and involves traffic lights at each end. Not really suitable for planting on the hill. Very little would grow there that would be effective, and it's fairly vertical there. It's getting near to the tree line height there. There was always talk of a tunnel, and that's the only thing that would work. They've already spent upwards of 70 million on various compromises, which simply aren't appropriate long term.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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We had a good day today. Son 1 was at Son 2's and OH is going to Norfolk tomorrow for 2 weeks, so we decided to have a day out. We went for an exploratory drive, dropped into Aubeterre but didn't stop as it's on a hill, parking is difficult and OH is so lame. So we changed our minds about lunching there and had lunch in a restaurant by a bathing lake, La Jemaye, instead. It wasn't overcrowded as I expect it would normally have been at this time of year. Mostly French families. Lovely day in the early 20s.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@chicky - it's more a case of needing to help with her move and bringing back what she won't need or can't fit into her new studio.
@Busy-Lizzie - sounds like a good day out. Hope OH gets back to Norfolk OK and gets his op soon.
Have a lovely day everyone.
Son and family are going to an adventure park.
I'll be taking OH to the airport at lunchtime.
Late on parade as I've been out watering and phoning the tree man. Suddenly realised that the chap I was going to get another price from is someone I've come across previously ... have decided not to bother with him and have accepted the first chap's price ... I've asked him to book us in for November. Hopefully before the winter storms!
Horrendous @Pat E ... my heart goes out to the people of Beirut ... as if they’ve not suffered enough. And while we wait for confirmation as to its cause, that meglomaniac in the White House does his best to foment yet more trouble in that fragile region.😡
A friend in Cyprus says they felt the blast ... doors rattled!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Got on with some things this morning too as the rain was due back in the afternoon, which it is. Just had enough time for my walk and some deadheading etc. The perennials under my bedroom window have been well and truly battered and bruised with yesterday's weather...and people wonder why we can't grow tomatoes outside here
Very difficult for you all @Obelixx. Hopefully, things might ease a bit and you can get something reasonable sorted with the move. Hard enough at the best of times.
Don't think we get blackcaps here, or maybe we do and I just haven't seen any. The little bullfinch seems to be a regular visitor now, but only him, so the missus must be otherwise engaged. He's a fine looking fellow, and doesn't seem to be bothered by me bumbling around
Rest and be Thankful closed again. What a surprise. I don't know why they keep throwing money at these stupid 'catch pits' at the foot of B. Luibhean. They were never going to work and everyone knows it. The people who live and work there must be sick to death of it. Lots of areas up here still flooded too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had to look up the Rest and be Thankful. I take it the name is ironic? Looks to me like they'd be better off planting some trees and scrub on those slopes to help hold the soil rather than spending gazillions trying to catch it when it slides.
Checked my seed trays this morning. 5 weedlings (compost doesn't seem to be sterilised here) and one seedling from an annual with purpley blue flowers and purpley grey foliage whose name I forget but is very popular with flower arrangers. Humph!
The old Military road runs just below the 'new' road, which they sometimes use when there's landslip, but it's often too dangerous, and involves traffic lights at each end.
Not really suitable for planting on the hill. Very little would grow there that would be effective, and it's fairly vertical there. It's getting near to the tree line height there. There was always talk of a tunnel, and that's the only thing that would work. They've already spent upwards of 70 million on various compromises, which simply aren't appropriate long term.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...