Nice thought @Busy-Lizzie but it's heading north-east and we're north west of you - https://www.meteo60.fr/radars-precipitations-pluie-france.php High 20s now but still feeling fresh. Tend not to get muggy heat here which is another reason for choosing this spot for retirement. Our bit of Belgium was always humid and heavy when hot. Hoping for more storms and rain on Wednesday and/or Thursday now, by day I hope so I can watch the show and cuddle Bonzo dog cos he gets frighted.
Hi everyone another "stinking hot" one here today after a bit of respite Saturday night last night was bad again but not as bad as Friday. On the subject of hoses I have noticed several of the outlets we go to have stopped doing Hoselock, when I asked one of them about it (I wanted some spares for a drip irrigation system) they said the quality had gone down & they were getting too many complaints. I replaced my Allotment one with a super long G**dena, I got a bargain as the GC were re-developing their sales area and had a clearance sale. It's heavy duty (and heavy) but it's great, my Hoselock one at home is developing "bubbles" where the inner and outer sleeves are separating. Hoping it will get me through to Autumn/ Winter when there might be some more bargains about.
Not sure about hoses, but we stopped using hozelock fittings about 5 years ago, because they failed very quickly. We now use brass ones that we get from garden access products. Never had one fail yet - no plastic to degrade in them 😀
Hiya and welcome aboard @roisin897 😊 ... I’m from Suffolk but transplanted up in Norfolk ... my daughter @WonkyWomble is down in Suffolk ... so plenty of drought-struck East Anglians here 🌞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Rain check!!!! Our Polyanthus are flowering for the third time this year. The Rodgersia has copped it, I have been watering it lots, but its in what is normally a damp boggy,shady area, suspecting next doors blooming great fir trees are sucking everything up
Abandoned the sheet patching, not worth the effort, after inspecting the whole sheet closely. OH's thrilled with a supply of clean cotton rags for his beloved Austin.
Just waiting for a storm to hit us any moment now, looking very murky. I hate driving in thunderstorms @Busy-Lizzie, you must be braver than me.
I bought a new Hozelock pipe on a reel last year for the front garden, it's only a 25 m one so a bit lighter for me, so far, so good. Interesting comments on the auto-reel ones, I've always wanted one as I find the reeling back in quite hard work but will reconsider now.
OH's ancestors were Suffolk folk, near Sudbury. We loved it when we stayed up there a few years back, really felt at home, beautiful county.
I don't like driving in storms either @Lizzie27, it was a case of having to. My mother's mother was from Suffolk, I was born in Ipswich, and my mother's father was from Norfolk. OH now has a house in Norfolk and I have a home in France. Just to let new people know why I live in France and Norfolk.
35° at the moment. I've been sitting in the kitchen with the fan on doing admin. Had an ice cream in front of Escape to the Country earlier.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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High 20s now but still feeling fresh. Tend not to get muggy heat here which is another reason for choosing this spot for retirement. Our bit of Belgium was always humid and heavy when hot. Hoping for more storms and rain on Wednesday and/or Thursday now, by day I hope so I can watch the show and cuddle Bonzo dog cos he gets frighted.
Hope you get some rain too @roisin897
On the subject of hoses I have noticed several of the outlets we go to have stopped doing Hoselock, when I asked one of them about it (I wanted some spares for a drip irrigation system) they said the quality had gone down & they were getting too many complaints. I replaced my Allotment one with a super long G**dena, I got a bargain as the GC were re-developing their sales area and had a clearance sale. It's heavy duty (and heavy) but it's great, my Hoselock one at home is developing "bubbles" where the inner and outer sleeves are separating. Hoping it will get me through to Autumn/ Winter when there might be some more bargains about.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just waiting for a storm to hit us any moment now, looking very murky. I hate driving in thunderstorms @Busy-Lizzie, you must be braver than me.
I bought a new Hozelock pipe on a reel last year for the front garden, it's only a 25 m one so a bit lighter for me, so far, so good. Interesting comments on the auto-reel ones, I've always wanted one as I find the reeling back in quite hard work but will reconsider now.
OH's ancestors were Suffolk folk, near Sudbury. We loved it when we stayed up there a few years back, really felt at home, beautiful county.
I don't like driving in storms either @Lizzie27, it was a case of having to. My mother's mother was from Suffolk, I was born in Ipswich, and my mother's father was from Norfolk. OH now has a house in Norfolk and I have a home in France. Just to let new people know why I live in France and Norfolk.
35° at the moment. I've been sitting in the kitchen with the fan on doing admin. Had an ice cream in front of Escape to the Country earlier.