Hello all. No snow here, proper or otherwise... but another frost last night. The birds are getting through sunflower hearts like there's no tomorrow.
Glad to hear you're getting sorted, @Busy-Lizzie, but you're very sensible to get the young folk to help with beds etc, with or without the sprained wrist. Nice to have moved in the winter so you've got a complete growing season in your new garden.
Yesterday afternoon was lovely here, sunny and still, so I got some pruning done on the enormous neglected apple trees and started to reveal the trunks of the beech "hedge". I'll have an extra 4m of planting space in front of them, facing SE - probably crammed full of roots, but I shall try mahonia and epimediums, plus some cyclamen once I've grown on the babies from the ones in the front garden. Today I've got some more marmalade to boil up and pot.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
A bit like us yesterday Dove. Started snowing about 8 am and didn't stop until about 6ish. I left my car at work and OH came to fetch me at 2pm in his car, (his is better in snow than mine) and the usual 15 minute drive took just over 2 and a half hours
No snow here thank goodness. We've been out to the beach again for walkies and now have two crashed doggies after lots or romping and sniffing and play.
Set to get cold at night again and soggy by day but not too bad. I have plenty to get on with indoors so that's OK.
Did you manage to order all the seeds you wanted/need @Liriodendron? I'm resisting - so far - the urge to sow before mid Feb when light levels and temperatures will be better for germination and pricking out, potting on etc.
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)."
Want and need are a bit different when it comes to seeds, @Obelixx... I think I'll have as many as I can cope with! I'm only sowing the ones which need cold treatment at the moment. At least with Covid I'm likely to have time to look after them properly, instead of gadding to UK every month. Oxlip and lady's bedstraw have already germinated, and survived the cold so far...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
It's below freezing here but I don't think we are forecast snow tomorrow. Hope not. @Busy-Lizzie, you should be able to go to Settings, then Display, I think, then Languages and choose English. Good luck.
Now I'm in bed with my faithful laptop perched on my thighs.
We went to the big SM this morning, bought food for the weekend, includes leek and potato soup, fish pie and roast chicken. The Orange (France Telecom) phone company shop is there. Collected the Internet and TV boxes and got an appointment for a technician to install everything on 1st February. Took ages.
The dining room now looks nice and is suitable for eating in with the family.
I cooked lemon sole, fennel and mange tout peas on the woodburner stove this evening, bit like the Aga I had in Kent, liked it. Maybe I won't bother with the complicated modern electric oven and the gas hob that heats too high for simmering. Only complication is that the stove is in the breakfast room, not the kitchen.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Glad to hear you're getting sorted, @Busy-Lizzie, but you're very sensible to get the young folk to help with beds etc, with or without the sprained wrist. Nice to have moved in the winter so you've got a complete growing season in your new garden.
Yesterday afternoon was lovely here, sunny and still, so I got some pruning done on the enormous neglected apple trees and started to reveal the trunks of the beech "hedge". I'll have an extra 4m of planting space in front of them, facing SE - probably crammed full of roots, but I shall try mahonia and epimediums, plus some cyclamen once I've grown on the babies from the ones in the front garden. Today I've got some more marmalade to boil up and pot.
Set to get cold at night again and soggy by day but not too bad. I have plenty to get on with indoors so that's OK.
Did you manage to order all the seeds you wanted/need @Liriodendron? I'm resisting - so far - the urge to sow before mid Feb when light levels and temperatures will be better for germination and pricking out, potting on etc.
We went to the big SM triste moraine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Busy-Lizzie, you should be able to go to Settings, then Display, I think, then Languages and choose English. Good luck.
We went to the big SM this morning, bought food for the weekend, includes leek and potato soup, fish pie and roast chicken. The Orange (France Telecom) phone company shop is there. Collected the Internet and TV boxes and got an appointment for a technician to install everything on 1st February. Took ages.
The dining room now looks nice and is suitable for eating in with the family.
I cooked lemon sole, fennel and mange tout peas on the woodburner stove this evening, bit like the Aga I had in Kent, liked it. Maybe I won't bother with the complicated modern electric oven and the gas hob that heats too high for simmering. Only complication is that the stove is in the breakfast room, not the kitchen.