Save the ironing for this evening @WonkyWomble and play outside while it's daylight.
We've just had a lovely man round to discuss our barn repairs and found, to my dismay, that we've had so much rain lately that my "feature" beam has fallen despite having almost 2' buried in the ground. Never mind, it can join the rest to become the edge of a raised bed in the potager. Should get estimates next week and then the fun will start with the insurance.
Fish for us too @Dovefromabove but hake done with peppers and tomatoes, Spanish style. I have never liked white parsley sauce tho I do like parsley in dressings and salads.
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)."
Wish I could Obelixx! It's the last bit of my housekeeping work I have left, work from home ironing haha! I have to return it this evening unfortunately 😕 Your not wrong Dove! I'm a sucker for punishment!!
I’ve sown the Broad bean seeds 😇 I thought there were at least 15 seeds left in the pack but I was wrong. Half a dozen will have to do. 🙄 Let's hope they all germinate 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Busy morning, ironing before 8am, school run and supermarket done, hopefully enough to last a week or so, wine stocked up at least.
Popped into our local garden centre to get some onions and garlic to plant and possibly a few primulas or pansies - unfortunately they were doing a stock count and all the plant section was taped off out of bounds!
Now off into the garden for the rest of this beautiful day. I keep ending up in areas I am not supposed to be working on, but at the end of the day it all counts I guess.
Good day all wherever you are.
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Hi folks, nice and sunny here too, although it was only 5 deg at 8 a.m. Must remember to bubble wrap the two outside taps later. More leaf clearing I think for us today, they are swamping one of my main borders in the front garden. Delighted to see lots of deep pink blooms on my potted camellia this morning -the best it's been so far. Pic to follow when OH has downloaded it. Lovely to look at from the house windows when the weather's not good enough to go outside.
They're not making it very easy for you @Obelixx. At least the beam can be re purposed, to use the popular term! We often had to spend time digging out the snowdrifts at the doors before we could even get in and feed. Got you warmed up right away I thought that was a euphemism @Biglad, and you'd been wiping a tear away. I missed you joke @Pat E so I'll go back and look. The mist and murk lifted for a while here, so it was pretty much dry when I was out. There was even a tiny bit of watery sun among the heavy clouds, but it's gone now. Your temps are what we would regard as pretty normal here at this time of year @Lizzie27 - lower than that overnight and around 6 or 7 through the day, or maybe a couple of degrees more if there's any sun.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well @Fairygirl at least this chap was excited about what should and shouldn't be done with traditional agricultural buildings and heritage and is prepared to negotiate with the insurers if necessary. Lots of experience apparently and a qualified "expert".
18C out there now. It being clement and all I persuaded OH, who was planning a lazy day, to come and help me plant some shrubs. Two viburnums now in - one sargentii and another anonymous - plus a couple more deciduous shrubs with good leaf colour but whose labels have disappeared since the storm. Whilst checking the rest of the stock which we have now lined up in the potager I found 2 hens fossicking in the PSB and cavolo nero we thought we'd netted off. Much clucking while I got them out and just a bit of panic. Two eggs a day now and one of today's was a whopper. Ouch!
I've also persuaded him I need a new bed to which I can move the dahlias thus leaving their current bed free for broad beans as it's easier for installing a seep hose. He barely batted an eyelid. Can't have been listening properly as he has to get his strimmer out to clear a new bed, cover it with cardboard and so on and so forth but what else has a chap to do to keep him busy during lockdown?
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)."
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We've just had a lovely man round to discuss our barn repairs and found, to my dismay, that we've had so much rain lately that my "feature" beam has fallen despite having almost 2' buried in the ground. Never mind, it can join the rest to become the edge of a raised bed in the potager. Should get estimates next week and then the fun will start with the insurance.
Fish for us too @Dovefromabove but hake done with peppers and tomatoes, Spanish style. I have never liked white parsley sauce tho I do like parsley in dressings and salads.
Your not wrong Dove! I'm a sucker for punishment!!
Let's hope they all germinate 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Busy morning, ironing before 8am, school run and supermarket done, hopefully enough to last a week or so, wine stocked up at least.
Popped into our local garden centre to get some onions and garlic to plant and possibly a few primulas or pansies - unfortunately they were doing a stock count and all the plant section was taped off out of bounds!
Now off into the garden for the rest of this beautiful day. I keep ending up in areas I am not supposed to be working on, but at the end of the day it all counts I guess.
Good day all wherever you are.
We often had to spend time digging out the snowdrifts at the doors before we could even get in and feed. Got you warmed up right away
I thought that was a euphemism @Biglad, and you'd been wiping a tear away.
I missed you joke @Pat E so I'll go back and look.
The mist and murk lifted for a while here, so it was pretty much dry when I was out. There was even a tiny bit of watery sun among the heavy clouds, but it's gone now.
Your temps are what we would regard as pretty normal here at this time of year @Lizzie27 - lower than that overnight and around 6 or 7 through the day, or maybe a couple of degrees more if there's any sun.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
18C out there now. It being clement and all I persuaded OH, who was planning a lazy day, to come and help me plant some shrubs. Two viburnums now in - one sargentii and another anonymous - plus a couple more deciduous shrubs with good leaf colour but whose labels have disappeared since the storm. Whilst checking the rest of the stock which we have now lined up in the potager I found 2 hens fossicking in the PSB and cavolo nero we thought we'd netted off. Much clucking while I got them out and just a bit of panic. Two eggs a day now and one of today's was a whopper. Ouch!
I've also persuaded him I need a new bed to which I can move the dahlias thus leaving their current bed free for broad beans as it's easier for installing a seep hose. He barely batted an eyelid. Can't have been listening properly as he has to get his strimmer out to clear a new bed, cover it with cardboard and so on and so forth but what else has a chap to do to keep him busy during lockdown?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.