I was putting marigolds in a flowerbed until dark last night and woke up dreaming of them all being eaten by slugs, luckily they were still there on my dawn patrol.
It's a Bank Holiday here, but also showery, so I have no idea what to expect, so very difficult to gauge.
I have also got some foxgloves in but they look nothing like I am expecting them to look, very very small. I am even wondering if they were wrongly labelled.
Right off to work, taking some seedlings in to give the staff, I have run out of space here now.
Have a good day all, enjoy your garden visit @punkdoc.
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Morning all. Happy birthday @punkdoc Raining. Bank holiday, think it's the 4th this May, Pentecost. Bank to painting my bedroom. But I need a round tuit.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Happy Birthday again @punkdoc. I hope you have a lovely day at Bridgewater.
Hideous shift yesterday. "Handset" couldn't find 2 customers , neither of whom answered their phones. ( one had left his at the office ) . It took me down a lane to farm where the guy went totally berserk that I'd gone to his house. ( Fed up with folk's sat nav ending up at his house ) It then took me up a lane until I met a bridge with a 6ft6 head clearance. only 3 feet too low to get under in the van. 5.1mile detour.
Happens to me too periodically @Pat E. Password testing? @tui34 - yes, 1974 and I was, coincidentally, living in Waterloo, Belgium at the time. @Busy-Lizzie - yes 4th this month and should have been Mothers' Day yesterday but that gets postponed a week when it clashes with Pentecost. Why not just MD in June? or April?
We've had a wet and windy night and it's still windy tho we now have some sunshine. I'm off to do the final bag of mortar in the Cave and then pottering with plants and weeding are on the menu. I need to find a space for the last of the onion sets too.
Stay warm and dry 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)."
@Hostafan1 that sounds horrid. You should've been with son and me on Saturday ... there was some sort of hiatus on the route across the Fens from Ipswich to the car place in Lincs and we were sent up diversion after diversion ... some of the roads were little more than rutted tracks ... and all this in son's precious high performance car with idiosyncratic suspension ... I had the awful premonition of the wheels dropping off and us being found weeks later, just hollow shells of our former selves.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, that does indeed sound like a workshift from hell @Hostafan1. Hope Punkdoc is able to enjoy Bridgewater today. 4 Bank Holidays sound a lot Obelixx and Busy-Lizzie. We've been sent on diversions like that Dove, last one in the Lake District, my goodness the roads were narrow and we were in OH's precious 1938 Austin 10 - I was praying we weren't going to breakdown, we had a very long queue behind us.
It was an absolutely horrendous day here yesterday, weatherwise, heavy rain for a solid 12 hours ugh.
The landscapers are here, my tall Claire Austin rose has been untied from the arbour, which is now face down on the lawn and they are busy pegging out the new path levels. They were going to try to work round the arbour and rose but after discussion we decided it would be simpler to take it up and lay the new paving underneath it so it all matches and is at the same level. Haven't a clue what it will all cost but I've used him many times before and he's always done a good job at a reasonable cost. I'll try and post some before and after photos when it's finished.
Still sunny here - but for how long? Have had an anxious weekend as attempts to contact my daughter (who lives just a few streets away) continually failed. No answer from the landline, nothing on Facebook, mobile switched off. What has happened to them all? Finally heard today - she was away camping with some friends in memory of a friend of theirs (and her best friend's fella) who died last year and her phone was switched off. The rest of the family were at home, but the girls (teenagers) never answer the landline and their father was probably working. I felt strangely unsettled all weekend but relieved now.
French holidays in May - 1st, no matter which day it falls. If it's a Thursday or a Tuesday people take an extra day to make a 4 day weekend tho not for retail; 8th - end of 2nd world war in Europe and ditto extra day; Ascension Thursday which automatically gets extended to make a 4 day weekend and Pentecost Monday tho that sometimes falls in June.
We have had a mega downpour to add to the overnight sogginess. I have been painting rusty chairs but they need 20 hours to dry before I can move them and start the next 3 so I'm hoping to do some weeding this pm on the grounds the roots should be easy to loosen.
@didyw - maybe ask daughter to let you know when she's going to be incommunicado or, since she's so close, just pop round?
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Happy Birthday @punkdoc.
I was putting marigolds in a flowerbed until dark last night and woke up dreaming of them all being eaten by slugs, luckily they were still there on my dawn patrol.
It's a Bank Holiday here, but also showery, so I have no idea what to expect, so very difficult to gauge.
I have also got some foxgloves in but they look nothing like I am expecting them to look, very very small. I am even wondering if they were wrongly labelled.
Right off to work, taking some seedlings in to give the staff, I have run out of space here now.
Have a good day all, enjoy your garden visit @punkdoc.
Happy birthday @punkdoc
Raining.
Bank holiday, think it's the 4th this May, Pentecost.
Bank to painting my bedroom. But I need a round tuit.
Happy Birthday again @punkdoc.
I hope you have a lovely day at Bridgewater.
Hideous shift yesterday.
"Handset" couldn't find 2 customers , neither of whom answered their phones. ( one had left his at the office ) .
It took me down a lane to farm where the guy went totally berserk that I'd gone to his house. ( Fed up with folk's sat nav ending up at his house )
It then took me up a lane until I met a bridge with a 6ft6 head clearance. only 3 feet too low to get under in the van. 5.1mile detour.
Hello everyone. 😁
Went to Salisbury yesterday-dodged the showers and had a good explore. Went to an NGS garden too - lovely garden.
Second jab for me today- plus a meal out this evening as Chicklet has been home for the weekend. Hope I don’t feel too rough after this one 🤞🏻
Happens to me too periodically @Pat E. Password testing?
@tui34 - yes, 1974 and I was, coincidentally, living in Waterloo, Belgium at the time.
@Busy-Lizzie - yes 4th this month and should have been Mothers' Day yesterday but that gets postponed a week when it clashes with Pentecost. Why not just MD in June? or April?
We've had a wet and windy night and it's still windy tho we now have some sunshine. I'm off to do the final bag of mortar in the Cave and then pottering with plants and weeding are on the menu. I need to find a space for the last of the onion sets too.
Stay warm and dry everyone.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope Punkdoc is able to enjoy Bridgewater today.
4 Bank Holidays sound a lot Obelixx and Busy-Lizzie.
We've been sent on diversions like that Dove, last one in the Lake District, my goodness the roads were narrow and we were in OH's precious 1938 Austin 10 - I was praying we weren't going to breakdown, we had a very long queue behind us.
It was an absolutely horrendous day here yesterday, weatherwise, heavy rain for a solid 12 hours ugh.
The landscapers are here, my tall Claire Austin rose has been untied from the arbour, which is now face down on the lawn and they are busy pegging out the new path levels. They were going to try to work round the arbour and rose but after discussion we decided it would be simpler to take it up and lay the new paving underneath it so it all matches and is at the same level. Haven't a clue what it will all cost but I've used him many times before and he's always done a good job at a reasonable cost. I'll try and post some before and after photos when it's finished.
We have had a mega downpour to add to the overnight sogginess. I have been painting rusty chairs but they need 20 hours to dry before I can move them and start the next 3 so I'm hoping to do some weeding this pm on the grounds the roots should be easy to loosen.
@didyw - maybe ask daughter to let you know when she's going to be incommunicado or, since she's so close, just pop round?