Oh dear @Hostafan1 - but hopefully the finger is getting better and as @Dovefromabove says , Tuesday is due to be a much worse gardening day . Hello everybody, been a bit absent ( and gardening took a back seat).. some family 'stuff' going on regarding looking after older relatives. I do still read the posts and try and catch up every other day or so ... so not that anyone was wondering but i haven't just dropped in and then chosen to disappear!
Morning everyone, digging and weeding for me today. At least till lunchtime. If it's as hot today as yesterday , I will have to potter in the garden this afternoon.
EDF came here early to cut down branches that touch the electricity wires. One took a ladder into the donkey paddock and got attacked, had to drop the ladder and run for it! The donkey was playing with the ladder, I pulled the ladder to the fence with a curved hay fork and the EDF man got it out. I had to call donkey's owner to remove the donkey while they worked. They have massacred some trees and left the branches by the entrance, not their job they said. Huge pile.
The builders arrived in the middle of it all and the tiles they brought for the floor are not the ones I ordered.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie Years ago I looked after a garden. They were told by electricity board that , due to an extension, a pole with some sort of box ( no idea what it did ) had to be moved. £10,000 to have them move pole and box. 3 years later they came and inspected it and concluded that 4 pretty mature beech trees and numerous others had to be removed as they were too close to the pole. They'd moved the pole, they INSISTED on the location, they took the £10K and they later said it in the wrong place. You can't make this stuff up, can you?
Oh dear @Busy-Lizzie ......not a good morning so far 😳
Hope you get your family stuff sorted out @Desi_in_London ......we’ll still be here whenever.
Waiting for my muck mountain to arrive 🌋. That will keep me busy for a while. Also got to bring some twigs in to decorate the house for Easter .....littlest Chicklet likes to see the full works 🐣
Another lovely day here, before snow arrives over Easter. The garden is very slowly starting to come together, although still spending too much time bemoaning what I can no longer do, rather than doing what I can. From next week at least I will have an under gardener, or slave, as she calls it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Another lovely day here, before snow arrives over Easter. The garden is very slowly starting to come together, although still spending too much time bemoaning what I can no longer do, rather than doing what I can. From next week at least I will have an under gardener, or slave, as she calls it.
You're right to focus on what you CAN do. I'm becoming accustomed to one handed tasks.
Hello @Desi_in_London, sorry to hear 'stuff' has been getting in the way of the more important stuff in life, like gardening, thinking about gardening, looking at books about gardening and reading forum chats, although glad to hear you managed to at least keep that up. Hope you've got things sorted now. 🙂
@Busy-Lizzie , tricky morning so far then, sometimes life is like that isn't it - that poor donkey is turning out to be a real PITA too, bless him. You've more patience than me, I'm afraid I would have evicted him by now. I do understand how difficult it is when you've become friends with the previous owners too. I dont suppose they're too happy with the situation either. It's just unfortunate the saga has gone on so long. 🤔
@Hostafan1 - it's my Empress Wu coming today, they said between 10:25 and 11:25 , obviously going to arrive about 11:24 meaning I daren't have the front door out of my site so I'm twiddling my thumbs at the moment. At least mine are all in tact. 😅
@punkdoc thinking about things is very important too, I've been looking at spring bulbs this morning online, when really my time would have been better spent digging, but it's all to be done. Building up to a task in the right mindset is much more efficient, as is utilising an under-gardener/slave. 😅
Ooh, doorbell......
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello everybody, been a bit absent ( and gardening took a back seat).. some family 'stuff' going on regarding looking after older relatives. I do still read the posts and try and catch up every other day or so ... so not that anyone was wondering but i haven't just dropped in and then chosen to disappear!
That's a nuisance @Hostafan1
EDF came here early to cut down branches that touch the electricity wires. One took a ladder into the donkey paddock and got attacked, had to drop the ladder and run for it! The donkey was playing with the ladder, I pulled the ladder to the fence with a curved hay fork and the EDF man got it out. I had to call donkey's owner to remove the donkey while they worked. They have massacred some trees and left the branches by the entrance, not their job they said. Huge pile.
The builders arrived in the middle of it all and the tiles they brought for the floor are not the ones I ordered.
Years ago I looked after a garden. They were told by electricity board that , due to an extension, a pole with some sort of box ( no idea what it did ) had to be moved. £10,000 to have them move pole and box.
3 years later they came and inspected it and concluded that 4 pretty mature beech trees and numerous others had to be removed as they were too close to the pole.
They'd moved the pole, they INSISTED on the location, they took the £10K and they later said it in the wrong place.
You can't make this stuff up, can you?
Hope you get your family stuff sorted out @Desi_in_London ......we’ll still be here whenever.
Waiting for my muck mountain to arrive 🌋. That will keep me busy for a while. Also got to bring some twigs in to decorate the house for Easter .....littlest Chicklet likes to see the full works 🐣
Another lovely day here, before snow arrives over Easter.
The garden is very slowly starting to come together, although still spending too much time bemoaning what I can no longer do, rather than doing what I can.
From next week at least I will have an under gardener, or slave, as she calls it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@Busy-Lizzie , tricky morning so far then, sometimes life is like that isn't it - that poor donkey is turning out to be a real PITA too, bless him. You've more patience than me, I'm afraid I would have evicted him by now. I do understand how difficult it is when you've become friends with the previous owners too. I dont suppose they're too happy with the situation either. It's just unfortunate the saga has gone on so long. 🤔
@Hostafan1 - it's my Empress Wu coming today, they said between 10:25 and 11:25 , obviously going to arrive about 11:24 meaning I daren't have the front door out of my site so I'm twiddling my thumbs at the moment. At least mine are all in tact. 😅
@punkdoc thinking about things is very important too, I've been looking at spring bulbs this morning online, when really my time would have been better spent digging, but it's all to be done. Building up to a task in the right mindset is much more efficient, as is utilising an under-gardener/slave. 😅
Ooh, doorbell......