Help! Made redundant from senior FM role. Went to work for local family business 3 weeks ago...nightmare! Have interview with Wolves Uni tomorrow. Access tax free pension pot next month? Work or stay in the garden, 28k tax free.?
Thanks @Busy-Lizzie. Looks very similar to our local Pépinières Boutin in size and layout but Boutin is very much bog standard varieties and not brilliant service. I met my first salade de gésiers in the restaurant of the Hotel de la Poste in Riberac. OH ordered it, not me. We'd arrived very late to stay in a gîte in a nearby village so too late for shopping/cooking and too late for the village café too. Only just in time to get dinner in Riberac. It was very good.
Well done with all that planting. No gardening here as I'm feeling bleugh after a bad night but I have been to have a chat with some of the bubs coming thru and the snowdrops I'm planning to move when their new home has been weeded and an exuberant group of perennial buckwheat has been moved too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Help! Made redundant from senior FM role. Went to work for local family business 3 weeks ago...nightmare! Have interview with Wolves Uni tomorrow. Access tax free pension pot next month? Work or stay in the garden, 28k tax free.?
I think I've worked out why you call yourself @Busy-Lizzie
Darned predictive text @punkdoc! What could possibly go wrong with Kane and Abel up front together?
Just in case you were wondering, the light in East Lancashire at 6.30pm in early March is not particularly suited to digging out dark roots buried in dark earth in a dark corner of my back garden Blindly scrabbling under the surface and snipping randomly finally proved an excellent method for extracting the final stump of the 'didn't-do-enough-to-warrant-maintaining-its-place' bush triumvirate
First seeds of the year to germinate - 13 of 15 of those strange feather-tipped marigolds (this clearly demonstrates my complete lack of gardening knowledge!) have already surfaced. I did put a couple in that didn't have the 'feather' so maybe they were duds.
Morning all. Still a bit cool this morning, but the sun is shining, and we are expecting 27c according to the weather channel. 🙄
Pixel asked to go out at the front door (east sunny side) so I thought about it and decided that the cool temp would probably mean any reptiles would be snuggled down in burrows or whatever. So, I let her out and walked to the end of the veranda with her. She dutifully sniffed my herbs and cuttings, and I went back inside and crossed my fingers while I made my breakfast. After about 5 minutes I checked to see if she had wandered off the veranda and to wherever and she was waiting at the door. 😁👏👏 So, I gave her a few crunchy things to eat and left her to it. Wonderful!
We have pussy cat duties across the valley for the next few days at our friends place. They have gone away for a visit somewhere, and Venus needs feeding. 😁 Lucky we love cats.
I miss having a pet, but between family and friends we don’t seem to miss out on snuggles much.
On Monday we are taking Pixel to the Vet for teeth cleaning etc. General anaesthetic so she’ll be a bit groggy when we collect her. At least she knows her way around our place so she’ll probably flop when we get home. Ho hum! Life’s good.
I hope you are all well and not too worn out with your spring gardening.
I fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow 😴 but the best laid plans etc ... I must’ve inadvertently touched the alarm settings ... at five minutes to midnight it woke me 😮
I did get back to sleep ... after a little while ... 🥱 now my body clock thinks it’s time to get up ...
This may not mean much too most of you, but I am hoping a front 4 of Kane, Son, Bale and Alli, is going to cheer me up tonight.
Well, you got your wish @punkdoc - just a shame that the ability to play football has been coached out of the team so you didn't see the benefit.... I'm losing count of the teams that have outplayed us this season.
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Well done with all that planting. No gardening here as I'm feeling bleugh after a bad night but I have been to have a chat with some of the bubs coming thru and the snowdrops I'm planning to move when their new home has been weeded and an exuberant group of perennial buckwheat has been moved too.
I think I've worked out why you call yourself @Busy-Lizzie
Darned predictive text @punkdoc! What could possibly go wrong with Kane and Abel up front together?
Just in case you were wondering, the light in East Lancashire at 6.30pm in early March is not particularly suited to digging out dark roots buried in dark earth in a dark corner of my back garden
First seeds of the year to germinate - 13 of 15 of those strange feather-tipped marigolds (this clearly demonstrates my complete lack of gardening knowledge!) have already surfaced. I did put a couple in that didn't have the 'feather' so maybe they were duds.
I’m getting an early night after last night's wakefulness. 🥱 Hope @B3 has a restful night too
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night night all 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pixel asked to go out at the front door (east sunny side) so I thought about it and decided that the cool temp would probably mean any reptiles would be snuggled down in burrows or whatever. So, I let her out and walked to the end of the veranda with her. She dutifully sniffed my herbs and cuttings, and I went back inside and crossed my fingers while I made my breakfast. After about 5 minutes I checked to see if she had wandered off the veranda and to wherever and she was waiting at the door. 😁👏👏 So, I gave her a few crunchy things to eat and left her to it. Wonderful!
On Monday we are taking Pixel to the Vet for teeth cleaning etc. General anaesthetic so she’ll be a bit groggy when we collect her. At least she knows her way around our place so she’ll probably flop when we get home. Ho hum! Life’s good.
Pixel sounds very much at home with you @Pat E 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, you got your wish @punkdoc - just a shame that the ability to play football has been coached out of the team so you didn't see the benefit.... I'm losing count of the teams that have outplayed us this season.