Morning all, what a lovely day out there today! Shame I'm stuck in the study on the shady side of the house! I'm taking every opportunity of stepping away from the computer to go for a walk in the garden - just to stand in the sunshine at least!!
Seed growth is coming on nicely with a second set of dahlias popping up through, the sunflowers are poking their tips out the top of the loo rolls and I have some borage flourishing. The herbs are also doing well - apart from the basil, that has been restarted as I think the conservatory was too cold for it and it damped off.
Only a 3 day week for me this week which is nice. Dump run booked on Thursday on my day off (oh the joys!) with all the rubbish from the garage we cleared this weekend. That will then make way for all of the stuff in the shed as we temp move it in there so the new shed / greenhouse can be built. Not long now!! Hard to think that in a couple of weeks it will be done!!
Good Friday I am going over to my friends garden YAY!! as she has just moved into her first house and has never had a garden before. Will be taking my tools and helping her discover what she has which will be great fun - its like I have 2 gardens!! I am growing her a dwarf sunspot and a chilli plant to get her going and will help grow some annuals for her pots.
Gosh I love this time of year!! April just around the corner when the serious seed sowing starts!!!
I love this time of year too @rholden_82. The blossom is all coming out. Enjoy Friday.
My Dad's first car was a blue Reliant Robin, that was my first car too but not the same one! Then he needed a bigger one. I remember Pierre the Peugeot, then Vincent the Vauxhall, an estate car. Sometimes I sat in the boot in Vincent, no seat belts in those days. Then their last 2 children were born, my twin brothers, making that 6 children so he bought Bernard the Bedford, a people carrier. It was grey and maroon, my school colours.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Our first car was a 2Nd hand Ford Popular bought in 1961 or 62. Reg 1021 ND. No idea why i remember that cos I've forgotten all the others. BY the time we moved from Manchester to Grappenhall we had a green Ford Cortina and then my dad got a blue MG Midget. Certainly not a family car and no "go faster" stripe that I could see. It was sold when he scarpered to Zambia in 1969 and for some reason I still don't understand, Mum switched to a Morris. Ghastly car, soon got rid of. She stuck with Capris for years after that.
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)."
I was just looking through my camera roll and on this date last year we had a massive hail storm and some snow and then 2 weeks later on that gloriously hot Easter weekend we had a BBQ outside with the pear tree all in full blossom!!! It's so hard to imagine isn't it but that light is there at the end of the tunnel!!
The first family 'car' I can remember was a little dark green Commer van MMJ 965 ... we moved from Bedfordshire to mid Suffolk in it when I was four years old. In the front were Ma and Pa, on a bench seat behind them were Granny, my little brother and myself ... behind us were crammed the golden retriever, the cat and the budgerigar and some suitcases. When we arrived at our new home it was so wet and muddy the van got stuck in the muddy drive and a man who lived opposite the farm and saw us came over to help Pa push the laden van onto firm ground.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Posts
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Seed growth is coming on nicely with a second set of dahlias popping up through, the sunflowers are poking their tips out the top of the loo rolls and I have some borage flourishing. The herbs are also doing well - apart from the basil, that has been restarted as I think the conservatory was too cold for it and it damped off.
Only a 3 day week for me this week which is nice. Dump run booked on Thursday on my day off (oh the joys!) with all the rubbish from the garage we cleared this weekend. That will then make way for all of the stuff in the shed as we temp move it in there so the new shed / greenhouse can be built. Not long now!! Hard to think that in a couple of weeks it will be done!!
Good Friday I am going over to my friends garden YAY!! as she has just moved into her first house and has never had a garden before. Will be taking my tools and helping her discover what she has which will be great fun - its like I have 2 gardens!! I am growing her a dwarf sunspot and a chilli plant to get her going and will help grow some annuals for her pots.
Gosh I love this time of year!! April just around the corner when the serious seed sowing starts!!!
My Dad's first car was a blue Reliant Robin, that was my first car too but not the same one! Then he needed a bigger one. I remember Pierre the Peugeot, then Vincent the Vauxhall, an estate car. Sometimes I sat in the boot in Vincent, no seat belts in those days. Then their last 2 children were born, my twin brothers, making that 6 children so he bought Bernard the Bedford, a people carrier. It was grey and maroon, my school colours.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.