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HELLO FORKERS 🌷🌷🌷May ‘21

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Hope your brother is doing a bit better now @Dovefromabove 🤞🏻

    Just had a brief interlude in the garden .....Mer du Sud is looking mighty fine 😌 


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thanks @chicky ... an abdominal CT scan a couple of days ago was encouraging ... more scans needed for the colon area and he's still waiting on the biopsy results for the tumour removed from his eye ... but he's encouraged that he can see shapes and colours using that eye, so hopefully it's not totally lost. As you say 🤞

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Sorry to hear about your brother, Dove.  Hope it settles soon for him.  

    Tui, thankfully, we are far enough from Victoria and not on a main road between Melbourne and Sydney, so we haven’t had any instances of the virus here yet.  No one even wears a mask. With a bit of luck that situation might continue.   We’ve got close friends down there and they’re fed up with the lockdowns. Not much you can do about it though.

    we’re in for another freezing night by all accounts. Looks as though I’ll be inside knitting again tomorrow. 

    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Ps, good luck with your exams Chicky. Love your Iris. Great colour. 
    S. E. NSW
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you everyone.

    I've been out to buy today's newspapers for the baby when he's 18. DIL's idea and usually Son does it, but he can't leave Maternity. They've done that for the other 4 children, to see what happened on the day they were born.

    The builders are finishing the grouting and doing the skirtings. I've been painting more bedroom wall.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Lovely idea @Busy-Lizzie 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thanks @Pat E ((hugs)) He's having a very tough time at the moment. 

    With lots of help from the Under Gardener we've got all the tomatoes planted, Marzona, Sungold and Red Alert this year.  Also three Uchiki kuri squashes, three Baby Bear squashes and three Green Bush courgette plants.  I explained to OH the concept of planting them in a 'saucer shaped hollow' in the soil, to aid watering ... I hadn't expected them to then be planted in the equivalent of Grand Canyon but I'm not going to complain ... they'll do just fine ... it's probably just that old thing about the male and female concept of size being somewhat different🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sitting on a log with a cuppa ... this was my view 


    Clematis alpina

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That is gorgeous @Dovefromabove and I love @chicky's iris too.

    It is jolly hot out there now so I have cleared some babies out of the polytunnel to cool down a bit and set the seep hose on the new dahlia bed in readiness for planting and then I retreated to the shade and hacked a lot of branches off the bigger wisteria.   I'm trying to train it along the wall rather than out and away from the wall so I don't get mugged so often.
    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)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Lovely @Dovefromabove, but I think you mean Aquilegia.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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