That’s a bit grim Hosta. I hope you can stir them up for a deliver soon.
Some of the suppliers are on a "10 working day" delivery schedule . Maybe if they delivered at the weekends they'd get through the backlog? Just a thought.
Great pictures folks, I had an Aunt who lived in Bournemouth, so I spent a couple of summers there with my cousin. Dry but cloudy start here, might try to get to plots today. We went to a couple of GC for some plant therapy yesterday afternoon. I needed more compost, but I also got some potting base fertiliser, as I am trying to re-use some of the old compost. I opened a new bag of JI 3 at the weekend and it looked like a blend of raw wood fibre mixed with sand!
The last time I was on the beach at Bournemouth was the day of Live Aid. I remember listening to it on the way there, via a transistor radio on the beach and in the car on the way home to Gosport.
Good morning all, cold and wet here today, OH has said I may need gloves on with my thick coat if I go outside!! yes it's really that cold. Love the pictures of the beach and the sheep We are waiting for the electrician to discuss what we need in our extension, still can't get my head round some of these technical words in French!
Those sheep sound as bad as the deer at my last house. The deer didn't eat peonies, salvias, lavender, dahlias or abelia. I wonder if sheep have the same tastes? You could try some of those @Biglad.
It has rained but sun is trying to come out now. I'm going to Leclerc and to take the bin bags to the public bins up the road.
OH is getting into gardening. He bought a tray of 20 Lobelia a couple of weeks ago and he's been putting them out in the day and in the kitchen at night, then out all night. He planted them along the front of the laurel bed yesterday. He's bought himself a kneeler with sides so he can push himself up. A few days ago he planted 12 osteospermum along the front of the long border where I had violas last spring.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lovely beach picture @chicky and @Biglad, shame those sheep don't mow the grass for you.
How sweet of OH to be looking after the garden for you @Busy-Lizzie, you've obviously trained him well.
I have interviewed a lady this morning, everything crossed she seems perfect and starts on Sunday for the big clean up. Her daughter used to work here before she graduated and was good so I hope it runs in the genes. She had been working as a carer for 11 years for a disabled chap but he suddenly died last Sunday. Obviously she is very upset, but sometimes the fates do align. I have another lady coming on Thursday too, on the face of ot seems nice, but we'll see. Certainly in a better position this morning than yesterday.
Beer and wine delvery has arrived and the teacakes I have a local boulangerie make for me specially, they're going in the freezer. Cah & Carry to do yet and the garden, bags of compost and plants at the ready but it keeps raining. Plenty more jobs on the list to get though and errands to run.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Hello Forkers. It is chilly and windy here and we seem to have had a wet night but the big, dark grey clouds have broken up to lighter grey with fluffy silver edges so no more rain today. OH and I have been cleaning and I shall be wielding the steam cleaner on the floors once I've had my coffee and been to see the chooks.
Lovely to have some roos about @Pat E but I hope they don't eat your treasures. Are you not allowed some sheep fencing @Biglad or maybe a gentle word with the farmer about securing his field boundaries before one or more of his sheep get run over or ends up on a BBQ?
Glad you had a good day @chicky and hope the new staff workout @D0rdogne_Damsel. Wouldn't be any use my OH planting anything @Busy-Lizzie as he has black thumbs but he's fine at grass cutting and edging and obvious weeds.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have sunshine. Hopefully it'll warm the house up a bit.
Still no oil delivery so saving oil for just hot water.
Love the pictures of the beach and the sheep
Those sheep sound as bad as the deer at my last house. The deer didn't eat peonies, salvias, lavender, dahlias or abelia. I wonder if sheep have the same tastes? You could try some of those @Biglad.
It has rained but sun is trying to come out now. I'm going to Leclerc and to take the bin bags to the public bins up the road.
OH is getting into gardening. He bought a tray of 20 Lobelia a couple of weeks ago and he's been putting them out in the day and in the kitchen at night, then out all night. He planted them along the front of the laurel bed yesterday. He's bought himself a kneeler with sides so he can push himself up. A few days ago he planted 12 osteospermum along the front of the long border where I had violas last spring.
Lovely beach picture @chicky and @Biglad, shame those sheep don't mow the grass for you.
How sweet of OH to be looking after the garden for you @Busy-Lizzie, you've obviously trained him well.
I have interviewed a lady this morning, everything crossed she seems perfect and starts on Sunday for the big clean up. Her daughter used to work here before she graduated and was good so I hope it runs in the genes. She had been working as a carer for 11 years for a disabled chap but he suddenly died last Sunday. Obviously she is very upset, but sometimes the fates do align. I have another lady coming on Thursday too, on the face of ot seems nice, but we'll see. Certainly in a better position this morning than yesterday.
Beer and wine delvery has arrived and the teacakes I have a local boulangerie make for me specially, they're going in the freezer. Cah & Carry to do yet and the garden, bags of compost and plants at the ready but it keeps raining. Plenty more jobs on the list to get though and errands to run.
Lovely to have some roos about @Pat E but I hope they don't eat your treasures. Are you not allowed some sheep fencing @Biglad or maybe a gentle word with the farmer about securing his field boundaries before one or more of his sheep get run over or ends up on a BBQ?
Glad you had a good day @chicky and hope the new staff workout @D0rdogne_Damsel. Wouldn't be any use my OH planting anything @Busy-Lizzie as he has black thumbs but he's fine at grass cutting and edging and obvious weeds.