Hats off to you @Pat E for enduring Eurovision. We decided not to do our usual dipping in and out but instead watched all of the episodes of a thriller currently showing on BBC (The Pact). But friends who do watch it all reported great disappointment with this year's offering. We got 0 points apparently. Not surprised - Brexit and all that. George looks gorgeous @Dovefromabove! I'm surprised Southwold was packed today but I suppose now that lockdown has eased all of the 2nd homers are there now. I don't eat fish but OH loves it so we generally lunch at the Harbour Inn when we go. We had a lovely morning yesterday. We went to a little local plant fair and I bought a few bits and pieces, including some Ophiopogon which I've wanted for a while but is out of stock in my usual online haunts. But the plant that excites me most is a lunaria with pinky variagated leaves which I've not seen before. Joe from Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery says that's because only he and the nursery which raised it are selling it. I was going to take pics of the 3 little plants I bought but its raining now - so there is just this: I think it will have pink flowers and will brighten up a dull corner near the pond. Got a variagated soloman's seal too for the same area. We then went on to a local herb nursery that was having an open day. Now I just want some sunshine to get things planted, the pots sorted and the tomato bags put in situ. I suspect I am not alone in this.
Yes I often notice we have similar weather @Lizzie27. The hospital situation is strange - no COVID (not much anyway) but I have noticed it is extremely busy - so many very unwell people. Where were they last year?? We get our government ‘COVID pay’ tomorrow- it will about £500 after tax. Rough maths… that’s an extra £10 per week for a years worth of looking after COVID patients.
Doing a rhubarb crumble tonight, and before you all ask, it will be served with vanilla ice cream 😋
Auntie Rach,I also made rhubarb crumble,I put ginger in mine,that's gone in the freezer but yes hot crumble And ice cream,. I've made a chocolate cake single layer, chocolate cream icing topped with fresh strawberries,but everyone is full
Son 2 rang and asked me to lunch. We had duck breast, salad, fried potatoes and he'd made garlic bread, then strawberries, blueberries and ice cream. His wife was looking well, 5th baby due very soon.
I popped in to a GC on the way home but hardly any clematis, no delivery since I last went in March. They were selling big foxglove plants almost over flowering for £20 each! I wonder if the French know they are biennial. I suppose you get the seeds, but cheaper to buy a packet.
I really hope I can join OH in South Norfolk for his hip replacement in early July. I want to leave France mid June. I look forward to having lunch and going to that fish shop on Southwold Harbour @Dovefromabove. @didyw my mother's family was from Norfolk and Suffolk and we used to stay with our grandmother in Southwold, where she lived, when I was a child.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hello Forkers. Busy day today and an early start to get to a garden club committee meeting - outside in a barn - followed by a plant swap with all the members who felt able to come. 40 or so all masked for the main announcements then suitably distanced for the apéro and nibbles then sit down picnic lunches in small groups and finally the plant swap.
The weather was maddening - an on off sort of day – padded jacket on, padded jacket off; light
jacket buttoned, unbuttoned, on, off as the sun went in, came out.
Feeling weary now as I’ve been outside all day and was up at 7:30 to prepare our belly pork for automatic roasting for
dinner, make some Yorkshire pud batter, pack a lunch, load the car, pick up
Virginie and then drive 45 mins to the 10am meeting.
At 11:45, people started arriving for the outdoor garden meeting with apéro (I
made Parmesan biscuits and a Wisley banana cake) followed by picnic lunch and
then the plant swap. I managed to offload 1 morus nigra (Mulberry)
and 3 fagopyrum-dibotrys (Beth Chatto garden website) plus 3 hosta Gold Edger
and a vitex agnus caster. People seem to be suspicious of plants
they don’t know so I’ll just have to grow them on and then, in the not too near
future, organise a visit here so they lust after them too.
I have come home with the unwanted plants plus several roses from cuttings,
some Madonna lilies, saxifrage, a buddleia globosa, a toonia, a clematis
cirrhosa and some saffron crocus bulbs. All free. All now
watered and in shade till I can get them planted out or potted on.
I think you should be OK for the trip to the UK @Busy-Lizzie - major op for OH is grounds enough and you'll have had your jabs by then won't you?
I haven't watched Eurovision since 1974 @P@"Pat E" and then it was cos I was in Belgium, babysitting and no UK TV there then. Life really is too short for a lot of TV offerings.
Speaking of which, watching a recording of Garden Revolution and I really cannot fathom what it is about Poppy that @punkdoc finds so attractive. Vacuous comes to mind. Happy birthday for tomorrow anyway and I hope you enjoy the visit to Bridgewater.
@AuntyRach you're busy with all the people who were either too afraid of Covid to go to hospital with serious problems or who couldn't get an appointment to be seen because all the doctors, nurses, beds were busy with Covid. It's not just the people who caught Covid who have died too early in the last year and there's such a backlog there will be many more who will die, or have their quality of life adversely affected by Covid.
You're right tho. £10 a week seems insulting after all that those staff have seen and done.
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)."
I really didn't like the winning Italian song, watched it on YouTube. I didn't watch the Song Contest. They said it was Rock and Roll, sounded more like Heavy Metal. The French were a bit miffed that their girl didn't win, was 2nd. I don't blame them, thought she was a lot better.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Early start - too early and finally got up at 6.30am. Overcast here but not cold.
Many happy returns of the day to @punkdoc I hope the weather is clement for your visit.
@Obelixx I don't think I have watched the Eurovision since Abba won - was it 1974? Golly!
@Busy-Lizzie I bought foxgloves at Jardiland in the autumn, but they aren't doing that well, lupins too - a bit of a poor show! I wish you well for your trip to the UK in June.
Happy birthday to Punkdoc 🎂 hope you both enjoy my Cake! Morning to everyone, been up hour,had my mosey round the plot,put re cycling bin out. Had my usual cold cuppa,cleaned top oven,left it "soaking" overnight. Debated washing situation, had the grandkids for the weekend,so double the usual amount. Forecast heavy showers later, so dogs on the beach after breakfast
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George looks gorgeous @Dovefromabove! I'm surprised Southwold was packed today but I suppose now that lockdown has eased all of the 2nd homers are there now. I don't eat fish but OH loves it so we generally lunch at the Harbour Inn when we go.
We had a lovely morning yesterday. We went to a little local plant fair and I bought a few bits and pieces, including some Ophiopogon which I've wanted for a while but is out of stock in my usual online haunts. But the plant that excites me most is a lunaria with pinky variagated leaves which I've not seen before. Joe from Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery says that's because only he and the nursery which raised it are selling it. I was going to take pics of the 3 little plants I bought but its raining now - so there is just this:
I think it will have pink flowers and will brighten up a dull corner near the pond. Got a variagated soloman's seal too for the same area.
We then went on to a local herb nursery that was having an open day. Now I just want some sunshine to get things planted, the pots sorted and the tomato bags put in situ. I suspect I am not alone in this.
I popped in to a GC on the way home but hardly any clematis, no delivery since I last went in March. They were selling big foxglove plants almost over flowering for £20 each! I wonder if the French know they are biennial. I suppose you get the seeds, but cheaper to buy a packet.
I really hope I can join OH in South Norfolk for his hip replacement in early July. I want to leave France mid June. I look forward to having lunch and going to that fish shop on Southwold Harbour @Dovefromabove. @didyw my mother's family was from Norfolk and Suffolk and we used to stay with our grandmother in Southwold, where she lived, when I was a child.
The weather was maddening - an on off sort of day – padded jacket on, padded jacket off; light jacket buttoned, unbuttoned, on, off as the sun went in, came out. Feeling weary now as I’ve been outside all day and was up at 7:30 to prepare our belly pork for automatic roasting for dinner, make some Yorkshire pud batter, pack a lunch, load the car, pick up Virginie and then drive 45 mins to the 10am meeting.
At 11:45, people started arriving for the outdoor garden meeting with apéro (I made Parmesan biscuits and a Wisley banana cake) followed by picnic lunch and then the plant swap. I managed to offload 1 morus nigra (Mulberry) and 3 fagopyrum-dibotrys (Beth Chatto garden website) plus 3 hosta Gold Edger and a vitex agnus caster. People seem to be suspicious of plants they don’t know so I’ll just have to grow them on and then, in the not too near future, organise a visit here so they lust after them too.
I have come home with the unwanted plants plus several roses from cuttings, some Madonna lilies, saxifrage, a buddleia globosa, a toonia, a clematis cirrhosa and some saffron crocus bulbs. All free. All now watered and in shade till I can get them planted out or potted on.
I think you should be OK for the trip to the UK @Busy-Lizzie - major op for OH is grounds enough and you'll have had your jabs by then won't you?
I haven't watched Eurovision since 1974 @P@"Pat E" and then it was cos I was in Belgium, babysitting and no UK TV there then. Life really is too short for a lot of TV offerings.
Speaking of which, watching a recording of Garden Revolution and I really cannot fathom what it is about Poppy that @punkdoc finds so attractive. Vacuous comes to mind. Happy birthday for tomorrow anyway and I hope you enjoy the visit to Bridgewater.
@AuntyRach you're busy with all the people who were either too afraid of Covid to go to hospital with serious problems or who couldn't get an appointment to be seen because all the doctors, nurses, beds were busy with Covid. It's not just the people who caught Covid who have died too early in the last year and there's such a backlog there will be many more who will die, or have their quality of life adversely affected by Covid.
You're right tho. £10 a week seems insulting after all that those staff have seen and done.
@Obelixx I've had both Covid vaccinations.
I really didn't like the winning Italian song, watched it on YouTube. I didn't watch the Song Contest. They said it was Rock and Roll, sounded more like Heavy Metal. The French were a bit miffed that their girl didn't win, was 2nd. I don't blame them, thought she was a lot better.
Early start - too early and finally got up at 6.30am. Overcast here but not cold.
@Obelixx I don't think I have watched the Eurovision since Abba won - was it 1974? Golly!
@Busy-Lizzie I bought foxgloves at Jardiland in the autumn, but they aren't doing that well, lupins too - a bit of a poor show! I wish you well for your trip to the UK in June.
Have a good day everyone.
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We have sunshine at the moment ... maybe I’ll be able to pot on some tomatoes on the terrace ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.