I blame the secret midnight freezer raid, and the eating of "crispy" caramel beurre salé ice cream, found at the bottom, who knows how long it's been there. 😱
Charlie blames the mashed swede we all ate, too lumpy apparently. 🤔
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Afternoon all, I sympathize with Charlie, been feeling under the weather all day, and headachey, probably following the 2nd jab I had yesterday. Hopefully I will be fine tomorrow.
Bizarre phenomenon here at the moment, I'm sat in full sun messing with seedlings but there's a bit of a breeze and the white blossom is falling so hard it looks like it's snowing. Très bizarre. 😱
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
You have my sympathy @Lizzie27, I wasn't well with the 1st jab, my 2nd is a couple of weeks away yet but I will have the duvet and the paracetamol at the ready.
Charlie has managed to keep a glass of water down and says he'll never eat swede again!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Turns out it can be a bit too happy and has spread and had babies. However, its fresh spring foliage has lovely red markings and stems and the very tall flower stems are lovely and frothy so I'm busy shuffling it about a bit. Can't do any more today the till the next bit of bed is watered and ready to give up its weeds to make space at the back.
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I hope Charlie feels better tomorrow @D0rdogne_Damsel, I bet it wasn't the swede, bacteria don't like swedes! Wild swimming and ice cream are far more likely. Two of my children were very sick years ago when they drank from a mountain stream in the Pyrenees. They said it looked so clean and fresh.
I mowed the grass today and sowed radishes. They may be the only thing I can harvest before going to the UK in June for OH's op, if I'm allowed. Maybe lettuces.
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Glad Charlie’s on the mend 👍 I’m wondering where you got swede from @D0rdogne_Damsel ... a foody friend who lives in Corrèze maintains that one of the plus points about living in France is that he knows he will never be offered swede to eat 😉
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Haha, @Dovefromabove, actually I picked it up in oyr local Intermarche, although by UK standards it was pretty small. I must be odd but I love it, mashed with loads of butter and black pepper.
Charlie is adament he didn't drink the lake water, he has been going every week since January and has never been ill before. He has a very bad habit of getting stuff out of the freezer though, (ice pops and ice cubes etc.) and leaving the door open, I think that old tub of ice cream has probably been defrosted more than once and the fact he said it was all crystal like doesn't sound good. He has managed some scrambled egg now so I am sure he will be fine tomorrow.
Grass seed has germinated, at last, so I am happy about that, finally!
Last few seedlings in seed tray got thrown in a corner of the flowerbed, After 60 plus plants had been potted on I lost the will to live. I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that were unceremoniously dumped fair better than the ones I lovingly nurtured.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
He might be just a little bit too foody to use supermarkets if you get me ... he is also a chef/sommelier and a member of some special French fraternity of wine buffs or somesuch
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Charlie blames the mashed swede we all ate, too lumpy apparently. 🤔
Charlie has managed to keep a glass of water down and says he'll never eat swede again!
I have been watering and weeding and transplanting. In 2016 on a visit to Beth Chatto's garden I bought a plant which struggled along in its pot being a discreet, foliage plant till I planted it out last spring. Perennial buckwheat. https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/conditions/plants-for-general-conditions/fagopyrum-dibotrys.htm
Turns out it can be a bit too happy and has spread and had babies. However, its fresh spring foliage has lovely red markings and stems and the very tall flower stems are lovely and frothy so I'm busy shuffling it about a bit. Can't do any more today the till the next bit of bed is watered and ready to give up its weeds to make space at the back.
I hope you feel better tomorrow too @Lizzie27.
I mowed the grass today and sowed radishes. They may be the only thing I can harvest before going to the UK in June for OH's op, if I'm allowed. Maybe lettuces.
I’m wondering where you got swede from @D0rdogne_Damsel ... a foody friend who lives in Corrèze maintains that one of the plus points about living in France is that he knows he will never be offered swede to eat 😉
i love Clapshot 😋
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Charlie is adament he didn't drink the lake water, he has been going every week since January and has never been ill before. He has a very bad habit of getting stuff out of the freezer though, (ice pops and ice cubes etc.) and leaving the door open, I think that old tub of ice cream has probably been defrosted more than once and the fact he said it was all crystal like doesn't sound good. He has managed some scrambled egg now so I am sure he will be fine tomorrow.
Grass seed has germinated, at last, so I am happy about that, finally!
Last few seedlings in seed tray got thrown in a corner of the flowerbed, After 60 plus plants had been potted on I lost the will to live. I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that were unceremoniously dumped fair better than the ones I lovingly nurtured.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.