It's dangerous being stuck indoors too wet to garden @Allotment Boy, I have so many things in 'baskets' ready to click - resisting so far, but only just. I am sure this little image below applies to most of us. ....
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Nice one @D0rdogne_Damsel I love white ones @Allotment Boy, but I also lost one that I had in a border. I think they may be a little more 'susceptable', like many white plants. The new one I have is in a basket on the back fence, so it might be more sheltered for it there. Fingers crossed.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Snowing all morning to follow the deluge of the last few days. My garden is certainly looking a bit Marti Pellow
Just remembered it was bin day so broke off from the tedium to then get side-tracked by a little shufty on here.
@Liriodendron Many moons ago, if the kids had to look at the book I was reading to them, they got Daddy's version if I couldn't get a view. That could be abbreviated or go on weird tangents, depending on how much I wanted to get to 'blowing the lights out' time Always with accents though. The BFG was played by Sean Connery in our house
I like to think that there are folk everywhere who only realise when they have kids of their own @Liriodendron. It suddenly dawns on them that their childhood reader was making it up as they went along and the story they remember is nothing like the one in the book
Afternoon everyone! About story reading to children: never skip a line or a page - there's hell to pay!! I planted some foxgloves in Autumn. They seem to have disappeared back into the ground - I hope they come out in the Spring. Very windy here (95kmph) sunny/cloudy but a balmy 14°C. 10 days ago it was -7°C morning and 5°C in the afternoon.
@D0rdogne_Damsel I shall check out The Forbidden Garden as I too, am depleting the stock and need something "light" as a bedtime story. I suppose you have demolished Patricia Cornwell's books.
Have a good rest of the day and stay in and warm. Tui
@D0rdogne_Damsel absolutely, I normally resit too but I have succumbed this week. I get emails from the secret garden people all the time mostly I delete without even looking as we don't really need any more herbaceous perennials, but a couple of weeks ago when I finally got to taking out a Hydrangea that had died, I did some other clearing so with a bit of moving things around .....
Hello Forkers - grotty, grey and wet here this morning for the weekly SM run but clearing up now so OH is taking the dogs out while I get to grips with making a removable tiled top for a table which will eventually go out in the garden. Bought a chunk of ply this am but it needs sealing before I can tile it and finish the edges.
Feeling mild at 10C but everything is so wet and soggy in the garden I'll leave it a few days to dry out a bit, assuming the weather cooperates.
I have a Kindle Unlimited subscription now and have been reading detective/crime thriller series by the virtual truckload for the last few weeks.
That's a bit soon @Busy-Lizzie! We had our first visitors 3 weeks after we moved here - our horsey farm neighbours from Belgium who came for a few days after staying with other friends up near Saumur for a horse show.
Being very good and not buying any new seeds as I have a large pile already, including, I believe, some seeds from plants in the Belgian garden. Hope they're still viable. I need a good sort out but I'm waiting for a day when OH is out at golf for a few hours so he doesn't see the extent of my "embarrassment" of seeds.
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I love white ones @Allotment Boy, but I also lost one that I had in a border. I think they may be a little more 'susceptable', like many white plants. The new one I have is in a basket on the back fence, so it might be more sheltered for it there. Fingers crossed.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Snowing all morning to follow the deluge of the last few days. My garden is certainly looking a bit Marti Pellow
Just remembered it was bin day so broke off from the tedium to then get side-tracked by a little shufty on here.
@Liriodendron Many moons ago, if the kids had to look at the book I was reading to them, they got Daddy's version if I couldn't get a view. That could be abbreviated or go on weird tangents, depending on how much I wanted to get to 'blowing the lights out' time
@D0rdogne_Damsel I shall check out The Forbidden Garden as I too, am depleting the stock and need something "light" as a bedtime story. I suppose you have demolished Patricia Cornwell's books.
Have a good rest of the day and stay in and warm.
Tui
Feeling mild at 10C but everything is so wet and soggy in the garden I'll leave it a few days to dry out a bit, assuming the weather cooperates.
I have a Kindle Unlimited subscription now and have been reading detective/crime thriller series by the virtual truckload for the last few weeks.
That's a bit soon @Busy-Lizzie! We had our first visitors 3 weeks after we moved here - our horsey farm neighbours from Belgium who came for a few days after staying with other friends up near Saumur for a horse show.
Being very good and not buying any new seeds as I have a large pile already, including, I believe, some seeds from plants in the Belgian garden. Hope they're still viable. I need a good sort out but I'm waiting for a day when OH is out at golf for a few hours so he doesn't see the extent of my "embarrassment" of seeds.