Afternoon folks. It's still very blustery here and not warm enough to entice me out. Just wished my son a happy birthday, they had been hoping for a picnic on the beach but it's too windy. My DIL has organised an English Afternoon Tea instead with lots of sweet goodies. Wish I was there! I've blitzed the kitchen and must do the rest of the h/w. I've had some lovely fuchsia pink slippers just delivered , my 4the pair I think from this particular company and they are very hard wearing with solid soles so you can nip outside. Need to put them away till my present ones wear out. It was on a special offer so I jumped at the chance. Hope your son is doing okay Dove, he's lucky to have such a good sister to look after him.
I've been cleaning out the old chicken shed. It is built of rendered breeze blocks with a tiled roof, 3m x 1.5m so OK or a garden tool shed. It was filthy, made me cough, full of old straw, loads of chicken poo, dust and cobwebs. There are two decent shelves in it for my small tools and garden products. There is a grass and nettle run in front which I've mown, surrounded by tennis court netting. I've put the tools in it, now for the fertilisers etc.
Any advance on your barn rooves @Obelixx? Thanks for the congratulations for my son, you did mean him, not someone else's?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've gone mad @Hostafan1 !! Sown too many different seeds and now wondering where I am going to put them all. My neighbours and friends will be happy this year!!
Yes @Busy-Lizzie. I did mean your son that has been in the papers. Well done on teh shed clearing. Emptying the donkey shed to make a hen house was a similar filthy job and some eejit had put chipboard down on the bare floor. Lovely.
Far too cold and windy and wet too when we got back with the compost - and a lovely white rhododendron - so I've been pottering upstairs sorting out photos and pictures to be framed, frames to put them in and reorganising other bits of the study and storage upstairs.
Now to cook some dinner I think. Not sowing seeds just yet but it'll have to be soon. Tomorrow is set to be wet and showery all day so more indoor pottering and maybe some priority seed sorting.
Have a lovely evening everyone.
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)."
My garden products were under the sink in the garage, they are now in the ex-chicken shed, now the garden shed, on a shelf. The plumber is coming next week and I would like him to improve the tap situation of the garage sink, which will be the utility room sink.
Chicken and vegetable casserole, with bay leaves from the tree in the vegetable garden, is now in the wood burning stove. It will last me 2 or 3 days. I like the back to basics, old fashionedness of the stove, even if it means feeding it with a barrowload of logs every day. It keeps this cottage nice and cosy, the heat even goes up the stairs to the bedrooms and the landing is just right for drying washing. Haven't needed the tumble dryer.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I gave away the tumble dryer we inherited when we bough our Harrow house in 1983! Used the top half of the freed space for a wine rack and the space below for feeding the cats. We still use an airer to dry washing if it can't go out on the whirlygig thingy.
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)."
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I've blitzed the kitchen and must do the rest of the h/w. I've had some lovely fuchsia pink slippers just delivered , my 4the pair I think from this particular company and they are very hard wearing with solid soles so you can nip outside. Need to put them away till my present ones wear out. It was on a special offer so I jumped at the chance.
Hope your son is doing okay Dove, he's lucky to have such a good sister to look after him.
Any advance on your barn rooves @Obelixx? Thanks for the congratulations for my son, you did mean him, not someone else's?
Sweet peas, cosmos and tomatoes all sown. More compost bought.
Note to self : DON@T go mad and sow every packet in the garage.
Far too cold and windy and wet too when we got back with the compost - and a lovely white rhododendron - so I've been pottering upstairs sorting out photos and pictures to be framed, frames to put them in and reorganising other bits of the study and storage upstairs.
Now to cook some dinner I think. Not sowing seeds just yet but it'll have to be soon. Tomorrow is set to be wet and showery all day so more indoor pottering and maybe some priority seed sorting.
Have a lovely evening everyone.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Chicken and vegetable casserole, with bay leaves from the tree in the vegetable garden, is now in the wood burning stove. It will last me 2 or 3 days. I like the back to basics, old fashionedness of the stove, even if it means feeding it with a barrowload of logs every day. It keeps this cottage nice and cosy, the heat even goes up the stairs to the bedrooms and the landing is just right for drying washing. Haven't needed the tumble dryer.