35 Deg here today, just been making soup! Lovely neighbour has just been round with eggs and told us there are four Covid cases in one of our nearest towns. Glad you are feeling better @WonkyWomble. Hope you are all coping with the wind and rain, we just seem to be getting the very tail end of it tomorrow night, not much rain I don't think if any.
Not as hot as forecast here so high 20s instead of mid 30s and a fresh breeze. Apart from a possible dribble tonight it should be dry for the foreseeable. OH is off to Belgium next Wednesday to do his part of Possum sorting and thinks he'll need woollies and long trousers! Low 20s and wet bits and cooler at night.
Have survived OH's second trip with me to the SM since lockdown eased.
No soup but I do now have 15 jars of passata made from our tomatoes so far and more ripening. OH can take the cucumbers up north with him but I shall make cucumber, pea and lettuce soup with at least one.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Hi all. We finally have electricity and Internet after Storm Ellen decided we needed cobwebs blown away last night. The noise was incredible... the cat stayed buried under the duvet, next to my tum, and wouldn't move. When it got light we found Ellen had decided we had too many trees along the front boundary - this is the smallest of the 3 mature rowans. Under it are my sweet peas, runner beans, sugar peas and courgettes...
...and we have a large bowl of windfall apples waiting for attention.
However, there's no damage to the house, and the tree didn't fall across the road, so it's not all bad. Plus, once we've found someone to deal with the rowan, I have a new planting opportunity.
Glad you're feeling better, @WonkyWomble . Fingers crossed for Flatters. x
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Bummer @Liriodendron. Another rowan could be planted though.... More 'stuff' in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow here - not sure if you're getting more though? At least anything likely to come down on your plot, or get flattened, would probably have happened last night. It's been dry here most of the day, and at least the washing dried quickly. I didn't have to run down the road to rescue any smalls
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all, I'm relaxing now after a busy few days. Looked after Jonah and Gabriel at Secondborn's hourse today. Got a little awkward this afternoon when her Mother and Father in Law arrived but I survived. Think she may sleep here tonight, otherwise one of them will have to sleep on the sofa. Her department did well with their GCSE results so that, at least, is a bit of light for her at the end of a very dark tunnel. Hoping to get some time in the garden over the next few days.
Sorry to hear about Flatters @WonkyWomble keeping my fingers crossed.
Glad that Rowan was nowhere near the house @Liriodendron
I don't envy you @Busy-Lizzie I find moving house extremely stressful, I hope you sleep better tonight.
Thank you @Yviestevie @Liriodendron, must be heartbreaking to lose all those veggies as well as that Rowan tree. The tree can be replaced but it will be several years smaller, but it sounds as though all your hard work growing those plants has collapsed underneath it. Hugs and sympathy.
It's been a hot afternoon. Now 25° so I've opened the bedroom windows as it's 27° in there.
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((Hugs)) for those having difficult times ... family relationships, weather, loved pets et al. Hopefully a restful night will bring a brighter morning ((hugs)).
Somehow I’ve had a busy day and am shattered now so am snuggling down under the crisp fresh bedding. It’s so lovely when it’s been dried out in the breezy sunshine.
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Have survived OH's second trip with me to the SM since lockdown eased.
No soup but I do now have 15 jars of passata made from our tomatoes so far and more ripening. OH can take the cucumbers up north with him but I shall make cucumber, pea and lettuce soup with at least one.
...and we have a large bowl of windfall apples waiting for attention.
However, there's no damage to the house, and the tree didn't fall across the road, so it's not all bad. Plus, once we've found someone to deal with the rowan, I have a new planting opportunity.
Glad you're feeling better, @WonkyWomble . Fingers crossed for Flatters. x
More 'stuff' in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow here - not sure if you're getting more though? At least anything likely to come down on your plot, or get flattened, would probably have happened last night.
It's been dry here most of the day, and at least the washing dried quickly. I didn't have to run down the road to rescue any smalls
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Liriodendron, must be heartbreaking to lose all those veggies as well as that Rowan tree. The tree can be replaced but it will be several years smaller, but it sounds as though all your hard work growing those plants has collapsed underneath it. Hugs and sympathy.
It's been a hot afternoon. Now 25° so I've opened the bedroom windows as it's 27° in there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.