Desi, 100 acres of bush land with just a manageable 20 acres near the river. We used to have Angora goats, but no livestock now. We aren’t up to that amount of work now.
I don't think I've been on here recently enough to say Hi! to @Balgay.Hill and @Desi_in_London. Good to "meet" you.
Sorry, not been feeling chatty recently. I try to keep up with what's going on in Forkerland though, and am in awe of @D0rdogne_Damsel's hard work and baking skills... also commiserations to @Busy-Lizzie for the amount of work required in downsizing, and the emotions involved in emptying a home you've lived in for a very long time. And many of you, or your relatives, are clearly going through really tough times at the moment. I'm thinking of you, whether I'm posting or not.
Best wishes to you all from soggy Ireland...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
hi @Liriodendron -- nice to meet you too ! I only joined a few weeks ago for an answer to my bamboo query and thought it was such a knowledgeable community I stayed
@Dovefromabove's freezing fog has arrived here in Dordogne, further south than DD. -3°. Thank you @Liriodendron, all the work is a lot my fault, I never threw stuff away, but nor did 1st OH. As this place is big we just found another place to hide it. But it's harder, when downsizing, dealing with too much furniture in good condition that would be very hard to sell in this time of Covid. I'm glad my children can take some of it. There are things I will be sad to let go. Daughter 2 has always loved a wooden chest that I've used for keeping all the children's paintings, cards and letters to me in so I'm letting her have it. I will have to find another place for my children's writings, not throwing them away.
@D0rdogne_Damsel, when we came to France in 1985 I couldn't find icing bags, nozzles or food colouring anywhere. I had to bring it from England to ice the children's birthday cakes.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That was weird, halfway through my post there was a window that said I didn't have permission. Then I couldn't post, so I left the forum, came back and had to sign in but only half my post was there. The site must have wanted me to sign in again while I was typing. I don't sign out but sometimes the site signs me out, but not in the middle of a post before.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, frosty start here and after a sleepless night (walked too far yesterday so hips ached) decided to stay in the warm and rest today. OH hasn't come back with the paper yet so presumably the queue for the shop/post office is even longer than it was yesterday. Nice to hear from you @Liriodendron, how are the plans for the garden going?
It's one step forward and 2 back at the moment with the garden, @Lizzie27. Losing a tree and discovering we had honey fungus - an unexpected event in the late summer - necessitated a complete change of plan so we can have the susceptible plants in the back garden where hopefully they'll be safe, at least for a while. But the back garden soil is heavy clay, full of couch grass, vetch, ivy, brambles... etc. My attempt at carving out and improving a raspberry bed started too late in the year, so it's currently impossible to dig and weed the patch, even though it's been under cardboard for some time. So plan C has had to be instigated, involving moving recently-planted perennials and bulbs from a section of the front garden so my long-awaited Polka raspberries have somewhere congenial to live. Eventually I might be able to tame the back garden sufficiently to move them... the RHS says Rubus is resistant to honey fungus, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. And the rest of the plan, cutting out beds for pretty things in the front, is on hold now too, until the spring. I've got loads of young plants just waiting for a home, and a lot more seeds coming from Chilterns, so next year will be a busy one.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Another sodden one here. More deadlines to meet. I swear I just saw a groundhog in the back garden
Have a good day all.
I don't think I've been on here recently enough to say Hi! to @Balgay.Hill and @Desi_in_London. Good to "meet" you.
Sorry, not been feeling chatty recently. I try to keep up with what's going on in Forkerland though, and am in awe of @D0rdogne_Damsel's hard work and baking skills... also commiserations to @Busy-Lizzie for the amount of work required in downsizing, and the emotions involved in emptying a home you've lived in for a very long time. And many of you, or your relatives, are clearly going through really tough times at the moment. I'm thinking of you, whether I'm posting or not.
Best wishes to you all from soggy Ireland...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove's freezing fog has arrived here in Dordogne, further south than DD. -3°.
Thank you @Liriodendron, all the work is a lot my fault, I never threw stuff away, but nor did 1st OH. As this place is big we just found another place to hide it. But it's harder, when downsizing, dealing with too much furniture in good condition that would be very hard to sell in this time of Covid. I'm glad my children can take some of it. There are things I will be sad to let go. Daughter 2 has always loved a wooden chest that I've used for keeping all the children's paintings, cards and letters to me in so I'm letting her have it. I will have to find another place for my children's writings, not throwing them away.
@D0rdogne_Damsel, when we came to France in 1985 I couldn't find icing bags, nozzles or food colouring anywhere. I had to bring it from England to ice the children's birthday cakes.
Nice to hear from you @Liriodendron, how are the plans for the garden going?
It's one step forward and 2 back at the moment with the garden, @Lizzie27. Losing a tree and discovering we had honey fungus - an unexpected event in the late summer - necessitated a complete change of plan so we can have the susceptible plants in the back garden where hopefully they'll be safe, at least for a while. But the back garden soil is heavy clay, full of couch grass, vetch, ivy, brambles... etc. My attempt at carving out and improving a raspberry bed started too late in the year, so it's currently impossible to dig and weed the patch, even though it's been under cardboard for some time. So plan C has had to be instigated, involving moving recently-planted perennials and bulbs from a section of the front garden so my long-awaited Polka raspberries have somewhere congenial to live. Eventually I might be able to tame the back garden sufficiently to move them... the RHS says Rubus is resistant to honey fungus, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. And the rest of the plan, cutting out beds for pretty things in the front, is on hold now too, until the spring. I've got loads of young plants just waiting for a home, and a lot more seeds coming from Chilterns, so next year will be a busy one.