Good to see you @Liriodendron and hope things are settling now. Your namesake is doing well but is slow after all the cold and now the drought.
Possum ventured outside just now then came back in running and huffing and puffing so I thought she'd been out for a jog. Wrong. Having a drama queen panic after seeing a snake slithering from our fruit trees to the paddock. Have had the chat about being rational and it being more frightened and less dangerous than she is but she's not having it. Just wait till she finds out tonight's curry is fish. That'll really make her day.
There are studies which show gardening and being out in greenery are calming and restorative, particularly for the depressed, anxious, lonely. Gardening is now a prescribed therapy on trial in some areas and I believe it's an important aspect of managing the new RHS Bridgewater garden and community relations with local groups. In Japan they call it forest bathing - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/08/forest-bathing-japanese-practice-in-west-wellbeing
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Thanks for dropping in @Liriodendron, I had been wondering how you were doing, hope your family problems get sorted soon. Thanks also for describing your new air to water heat pump system - very interesting. I didn't know they could be installed outside, that could make them more viable.
Good to see you @Liriodendron. My daughter has a heat pump that sounds like that. They have underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs. Friends who built their house, well builders did to their spec. had an underground, heat from the earth, system. It cost them 70,000€!
I planted my new honeysuckle, heavy going, clay, I mixed in a lot of compost. This afternoon I painted the sink area in the new utility room. The electrician had moved the freezer and the washing machine for me so I could squeeze in behind them. Nothing is in the right place yet as still waiting for the floor tiles.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thank you for all the kind comments about the tearoom, just needs customers now. 🙄😏🤔🙂
Been busy juggling gardening and takeaways, and squeezed a bike ride in too. After getting really mucky in the garden I had a shower, dried my hair with the hairdryer and put on a nice dress, then popped over to my friend/colleague's house for an apéro - just needed a change of scenery and to actually talk to someone. Makes such a difference. 😊
Sadly, the lady I take the fish & Chips to every Friday was very confused and disheveled again, she'd been fine for a couple of weeks. She kept talking to me in French, despite the fact we're both English, in the end I just had to talk French to her. Her husband was also very agitated, he can't speak French and was complaining he couldn't understand us. It's very upsetting to see. My friend says people do have good days and bad days.
Now, I've just got to water the plants and cover them up from the mice, then I'm going to have a glass of wine, I don't care that it's not Saturday yet. 😱
Nice to 'see' you @Liriodendron, lovely tulips @Lizzie27, and also was very impressed with progress of chooks @Obelixx, I hope Possum enjoys the curry too. 😅
Have a nice evening all. 🙂
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Possum ventured outside just now then came back in running and huffing and puffing so I thought she'd been out for a jog. Wrong. Having a drama queen panic after seeing a snake slithering from our fruit trees to the paddock. Have had the chat about being rational and it being more frightened and less dangerous than she is but she's not having it. Just wait till she finds out tonight's curry is fish. That'll really make her day.
There are studies which show gardening and being out in greenery are calming and restorative, particularly for the depressed, anxious, lonely. Gardening is now a prescribed therapy on trial in some areas and I believe it's an important aspect of managing the new RHS Bridgewater garden and community relations with local groups. In Japan they call it forest bathing - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/08/forest-bathing-japanese-practice-in-west-wellbeing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good to see you @Liriodendron. My daughter has a heat pump that sounds like that. They have underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs. Friends who built their house, well builders did to their spec. had an underground, heat from the earth, system. It cost them 70,000€!
I planted my new honeysuckle, heavy going, clay, I mixed in a lot of compost. This afternoon I painted the sink area in the new utility room. The electrician had moved the freezer and the washing machine for me so I could squeeze in behind them. Nothing is in the right place yet as still waiting for the floor tiles.
Thank you for all the kind comments about the tearoom, just needs customers now. 🙄😏🤔🙂
Been busy juggling gardening and takeaways, and squeezed a bike ride in too. After getting really mucky in the garden I had a shower, dried my hair with the hairdryer and put on a nice dress, then popped over to my friend/colleague's house for an apéro - just needed a change of scenery and to actually talk to someone. Makes such a difference. 😊
Sadly, the lady I take the fish & Chips to every Friday was very confused and disheveled again, she'd been fine for a couple of weeks. She kept talking to me in French, despite the fact we're both English, in the end I just had to talk French to her. Her husband was also very agitated, he can't speak French and was complaining he couldn't understand us. It's very upsetting to see. My friend says people do have good days and bad days.
Now, I've just got to water the plants and cover them up from the mice, then I'm going to have a glass of wine, I don't care that it's not Saturday yet. 😱
Nice to 'see' you @Liriodendron, lovely tulips @Lizzie27, and also was very impressed with progress of chooks @Obelixx, I hope Possum enjoys the curry too. 😅
Have a nice evening all. 🙂