Good to get a view of "your" hills, @Fairygirl, even in the distance. We've had a share of your weather in the last few days - not hot, 18 max, but sunny and breezy. Great gardening / walking / nursery-visiting weather...
We have a specialist plant nursery just 4 miles from here - mostly herbaceous plants, a lot of less common varieties, and all propagated by the owners (who happen to be friends from church) and grown organically, outdoors on a NE slope with plenty of wind. So far I've managed not to buy too many plants, because more planning needs to happen first, but yesterday I succumbed to half a dozen, mostly shrubs to give a bit more "backbone" to the garden. I may also have landed an occasional job, helping out when the owners are away...
Hope Possum is having a good rest, @Obelixx - a bit of TLC from her mother is probably just what she needs at the moment. It must be very tough to be a young woman on her own at present, however capable she is normally.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Glad you got out @Fairygirl ....Whitelee wind farm has a special place in my heart 💓. Good to stretch those limbs.
Careful with that chainsaw @steephill ...hope you have the special trousers 👖
Lovely to hear you might be holiday cover @Liriodendron ..... perfect 👍🏻
Went out for a lovely sunset walk, followed by our amazing Indian restaurant for littlest Chicklet..... all the things she misses most about home. Back to Brum tomorrow to throw herself at her final year. Going to miss her muchly 😮☹️☹️
Hello all, quick check in, ought to be in bed, but too wound up to sleep - trying to find nice teapots on the internet and failing miserably, at least plants are easier to find. Ideal job @Liriodendron, but fear you won't ever see any wages. Empty nest syndrome @chicky, I dread the day....although sometimes.... Sleep well @Dovefromabove Glad you got a view of the hills @Fairygirl, even from a distance. Must sleep, been a long day - lots of stress involved - more staff helps on one level but gosh, what a lot of egos to massage! Good night all.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Lots more chainsaw work to come in the next few weeks - big piles of logs waiting to be turned into woodburner food for the coming winter. It is the ultimate single task though, no letting your mind wander. The next stage is quite theraputic though - sledgehammer and splitting maul or splitting axe to break the rounds into wedges which fit in our little woodburner. Just think of your least favourite politician with each swing. I am not as neat as the Swiss and Scandiwegians though, their wood stacks are verging on OCD in their precision and neatness although they do have considerably better kit than I have. Woodwork envy:-
Made a chicken curry tonight bulked out with garden veg - courgette, runner and climbing green beans all of which look like they are going to keep producing until first frosts. Enough left for another day too
I’ve discovered that my rhubarb has woken from its winter sleep. Might not be long before there are some rhubarb pies in the oven. (Well when the stems get some length anyway.). Hubby is the oven cook here, and I’m a top-of-the-stove cook. 😃
I hope you had some good things to eat from it Biglad. By the way, was it you who posted the chainsawed firewood? Can’t remember. Great photos. Hope you wear chain saw chaps like my Hubby does when he uses the chainsaw. 🙄
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Good to get a view of "your" hills, @Fairygirl, even in the distance. We've had a share of your weather in the last few days - not hot, 18 max, but sunny and breezy. Great gardening / walking / nursery-visiting weather...
We have a specialist plant nursery just 4 miles from here - mostly herbaceous plants, a lot of less common varieties, and all propagated by the owners (who happen to be friends from church) and grown organically, outdoors on a NE slope with plenty of wind. So far I've managed not to buy too many plants, because more planning needs to happen first, but yesterday I succumbed to half a dozen, mostly shrubs to give a bit more "backbone" to the garden. I may also have landed an occasional job, helping out when the owners are away...
Hope Possum is having a good rest, @Obelixx - a bit of TLC from her mother is probably just what she needs at the moment. It must be very tough to be a young woman on her own at present, however capable she is normally.
night night all ... sleep tight everyone 🤗 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Careful with that chainsaw @steephill ...hope you have the special trousers 👖
Lovely to hear you might be holiday cover @Liriodendron ..... perfect 👍🏻
Possum cooked curry for us tonight tho I made the naans. It was very good.
That sounds like a very good nursery to have on your doorstep @Liriodendron and an endless source of prezzies and treats and HRT.
I gave up using y chainsaw about 20 years ago @steephill and have banned OH from buying a new one. Much too frightening now - like my circular saw.
Glad you got your mini hill @Fairygirl and a view of more exciting ones to come.
Bed for me too now. Sweet dreams everyone.
Ideal job @Liriodendron, but fear you won't ever see any wages.
Empty nest syndrome @chicky, I dread the day....although sometimes....
Sleep well @Dovefromabove
Glad you got a view of the hills @Fairygirl, even from a distance.
Must sleep, been a long day - lots of stress involved - more staff helps on one level but gosh, what a lot of egos to massage!
Good night all.
I'm waiting for my rhubarb to go to sleep @Pat E ! When it wakes up, it might find that it has been chopped in to pieces and buried elsewhere