Yes BusyL, we have very large water tanks.As it happens we do buy bottled water for drinking, but we only started that after last summer’s bushfires because there was so much ash spread around that we didn’t feel comfortable drinking what was in our tanks. I even had to wash down the clothes lines because they were covered in ash. 😡
we do have enough water for clothes washing. We are careful to limit time in the shower but have to remind visitors to limit themselves. Especially those from cities where everything is laid on. 😃
Livng in the old water mill must have been interesting.
Does anyone else think that Dominic Cummings lecturing others on 'honesty' and 'integrity' rather smacks of the eager and self-righteous convert who has just discovered a new concept? How come he worked so hard to get Boffle elected when he apparently knew that he was totally unsuited for the job ... they'd worked together for years ... it's not a new revelation to DC, he relied on his boss's lack of integrity to back him up when he lied about getting his eyes tested.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree @Dovefromabove. He's behaving like a rather unpleasant child. He's trying to lash back for losing his job, which was his own fault. Boris stuck up for him, probably a mistake, and he is now kicking Boris in the back. I don't like Cummings, he was all for Brexit too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, just back from the lake where Charlie has been wild swimming again. 15 minutes in the water this week. Bravo to him, but actually, the lady he swims with is well in her 70s, so I'm in awe of her. I'm so not tempted. 😅
All my complaining about mice lately must have been heard by the cat, he brought two in this morning, one at 6am one at 7am. As much as I appreciate his plant guarding skills having them dropped next to my bed is not appreciated, especially when he makes such a racket about it. He even tossed the last one up onto the bed trying to get my attention and/or it to play with him. 😱 so, an early start here today. So much for a lazy Sunday. 😅
Right more gardening jobs to get done, a bit cloudy today, but still warm, perfect gardening weather.
Have a good day all. 🙂
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Never liked Cummings and have never trusted Bojo. A well matched pair. Beggars belief that they achieved such positions of power and not at all surprsied by playground behaviour now.
Another very dry and windy day with some clouds but no rain now before the 3rd. I have, at long last, signs of the fiery nasturtiums germinating so I hope the BC dahlias and fiery cosmos won't be far behind.
Later on I shall try and get Possum to help me move citrus pots out of the polytunnel in a bid to get her down the garden before snake phobia sets in hard but first terrace sweeping and rinsing for me. I found some patio cleaner stuff in our shed and tried it a few days ago but am not impressed with the results and I'm keen to get the table, chairs and fuchsias out there again, not to mention the houseplants needing their summer hols.
Love your budgie/parrot @Pat E. Always loved the idea of a water mill @Busy-Lizzie but so much upkeep!
OK, one more coffee then wellies on.
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)."
Cummings is a snake 🐍. But Boris knew that, and chose to work with him, so deserves everything he gets. Whole thing is very unsavoury.
Glad your germination fiesta is underway @oblelixx. I’m also on the sidelines looking on where the wild swimming is concerned. Mr C is quite keen, so I just take a good book, a deck chair and many blankets.
The mulching is complete for another year 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Got some nettle weeding, some potting on and some planting out to do today. Think the hosepipe will be in use too ☹️
Morning all, sunny but breezy here today. Been pondering the water question and think we could possibly put two more water butts up, one on the newish garage so I can collect rain water for the potted camellia and the two sleeper beds down there and possibly attach the second to another butt already outside the bedroom window - not ideal but only place left. That would make 12 butts in all. They're nearly all the slimline ones because of space issues on paths. I'm keeping clean this morning as we're off to lunch with friends and then a drive in our old Austins for 'Drive It' Day - usually the first of the year.
First I've got to wish my daughter and my brother happy birthday - they share the same date. She's bought a bench with her birthday money so she can sit in the sunshine with a coffee in her new garden. I'm wondering what she thinks of her brother's presie though - a mad cat lady gnome with swivelling eyes!!!! I'd love to have seen her face!
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we do have enough water for clothes washing. We are careful to limit time in the shower but have to remind visitors to limit themselves. Especially those from cities where everything is laid on. 😃
Livng in the old water mill must have been interesting.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
All my complaining about mice lately must have been heard by the cat, he brought two in this morning, one at 6am one at 7am. As much as I appreciate his plant guarding skills having them dropped next to my bed is not appreciated, especially when he makes such a racket about it. He even tossed the last one up onto the bed trying to get my attention and/or it to play with him. 😱 so, an early start here today. So much for a lazy Sunday. 😅
Right more gardening jobs to get done, a bit cloudy today, but still warm, perfect gardening weather.
Have a good day all. 🙂
Another very dry and windy day with some clouds but no rain now before the 3rd. I have, at long last, signs of the fiery nasturtiums germinating so I hope the BC dahlias and fiery cosmos won't be far behind.
Later on I shall try and get Possum to help me move citrus pots out of the polytunnel in a bid to get her down the garden before snake phobia sets in hard but first terrace sweeping and rinsing for me. I found some patio cleaner stuff in our shed and tried it a few days ago but am not impressed with the results and I'm keen to get the table, chairs and fuchsias out there again, not to mention the houseplants needing their summer hols.
Love your budgie/parrot @Pat E. Always loved the idea of a water mill @Busy-Lizzie but so much upkeep!
OK, one more coffee then wellies on.
Glad your germination fiesta is underway @oblelixx. I’m also on the sidelines looking on where the wild swimming is concerned. Mr C is quite keen, so I just take a good book, a deck chair and many blankets.
The mulching is complete for another year 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Got some nettle weeding, some potting on and some planting out to do today. Think the hosepipe will be in use too ☹️
Been pondering the water question and think we could possibly put two more water butts up, one on the newish garage so I can collect rain water for the potted camellia and the two sleeper beds down there and possibly attach the second to another butt already outside the bedroom window - not ideal but only place left. That would make 12 butts in all. They're nearly all the slimline ones because of space issues on paths.
I'm keeping clean this morning as we're off to lunch with friends and then a drive in our old Austins for 'Drive It' Day - usually the first of the year.
First I've got to wish my daughter and my brother happy birthday - they share the same date. She's bought a bench with her birthday money so she can sit in the sunshine with a coffee in her new garden. I'm wondering what she thinks of her brother's presie though - a mad cat lady gnome with swivelling eyes!!!! I'd love to have seen her face!