@Obelixx  All good here.  Spitty, calm and muggy today but no real rain forecast.  Strong winds buffeted the garden yesterday but no damage. Â
My veggie garden is planted for the season.  I have promised myself that I will not plant anything else, so that I leave some room for some winter veggies that I will plant end of July.  Brassicas etc.  I already have planted a few leeks and celery for winter.  Monday through 'til Thursday will be cooler - but hey - a high of 17/18°C can't be too painful!
How exciting @Dovefromabove - a new car. I like beautiful cars. I hope we get a photo. I have a Renault Megane Estate, so quite normal, but she's Flame Red so she looks fast and sleek.
You're right @Obelixx, very soggy here, been raining all day so far. Baby leeks are easy to find for sale round here. Mine are planted. Picked the first lettuce today, oak leaf.Â
Son 1 and lovely French wife and 3 small daughters are here. We visited Aubeterre yesterday, classed as a Beaux Village. But son got accidently hit in the eye by smallest daughter and it has been very painful, so much so that they went to A & E in the night. Now they are both exhausted. Nothing is permanently damaged, it just needs time but it's pretty swollen.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We had a short shower just now as a wee spike of rainy bits sailed past. I'm off out to plant some shrubs with OH's help to dig square holes and barrow compost from our lovely mature heap.  leeks will go in later if I have time. I planted some oak leaf lettuce a few weeks ago but forgot about the snails who got the lot in one night.
My first husband and I had an Alfa sud, 2nd hubby was a vehicle tech till last year has nothing polite to say about them. After 40 years of working on different makes the ones he likes or would consider you can count on the fingers of one hand. Don't mention recalls,!!Â
We have just had a dry couple of hours but it's just starting raining again, I am going to plant everything out next week regardless and all tender veg will have to do their own thing as they are all outgrowing their pots. My new phone has arrived, lots of fun to be had Â
I wish joy with that @floralies, I'm still trying to get to grips with mine. Had a mini meltdown last week when it rang (which doesn't happen often) and I'd completely forgotten that to answer it, you have to swipe not tap. Fun, not.
New car sounds exciting @Dovefromabove, what colour is it?
@Busy-Lizzie, oh dear, that sounds very painful. I well remember when my toddler son took a flying leap onto the bed and knocked me straight out with his head. Hope your son gets better soon. Has he got to drive back tomorrow?
I've been pottering in the garden, tying in roses and clematis, supporting asparagus fern with twine (no spears this year unfortunately) but the strawberries have flowers on them. Dwarf French beans have germinated, runners and peas are not far behind. I need to plant out the wild flower plugs I've been nurturing but don't want them trashed by the heavy rain we've been getting so hanging fire a bit. Â
Happy days. 8 shrubs planted in the new bed along with a clump of pink fluffy sanguisorbias I split into 5 and 4 geum TT - not together. More to go in tomorrow.  Can't tell you how many roots of bindweed, nettles and apple mint I dug up as well as buttercup, chickweed and fat hen.
We let the chooks out of the potager and they helped and then went off to explore. Oh the joy when they found OH's bug compost heaps. Then back to helping and eating snails I found in the pots.
All clean and showered now and Possum is cooking Korean spiced pork. I have a rhubarb and strawberry cobbler for pud. Â
No plans to get a smart phone here. Hardly use the idiot phone as it is.
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My veggie garden is planted for the season.  I have promised myself that I will not plant anything else, so that I leave some room for some winter veggies that I will plant end of July.  Brassicas etc.  I already have planted a few leeks and celery for winter.  Monday through 'til Thursday will be cooler - but hey - a high of 17/18°C can't be too painful!
I hope Monday brings some clement weather for @D0rdogne_Damsel.
How exciting @Dovefromabove - a new car. I like beautiful cars. I hope we get a photo. I have a Renault Megane Estate, so quite normal, but she's Flame Red so she looks fast and sleek.
You're right @Obelixx, very soggy here, been raining all day so far. Baby leeks are easy to find for sale round here. Mine are planted. Picked the first lettuce today, oak leaf.Â
Son 1 and lovely French wife and 3 small daughters are here. We visited Aubeterre yesterday, classed as a Beaux Village. But son got accidently hit in the eye by smallest daughter and it has been very painful, so much so that they went to A & E in the night. Now they are both exhausted. Nothing is permanently damaged, it just needs time but it's pretty swollen.
We had a short shower just now as a wee spike of rainy bits sailed past. I'm off out to plant some shrubs with OH's help to dig square holes and barrow compost from our lovely mature heap.  leeks will go in later if I have time. I planted some oak leaf lettuce a few weeks ago but forgot about the snails who got the lot in one night.
My new phone has arrived, lots of fun to be had Â
New car sounds exciting @Dovefromabove, what colour is it?
@Busy-Lizzie, oh dear, that sounds very painful. I well remember when my toddler son took a flying leap onto the bed and knocked me straight out with his head. Hope your son gets better soon. Has he got to drive back tomorrow?
I've been pottering in the garden, tying in roses and clematis, supporting asparagus fern with twine (no spears this year unfortunately) but the strawberries have flowers on them. Dwarf French beans have germinated, runners and peas are not far behind. I need to plant out the wild flower plugs I've been nurturing but don't want them trashed by the heavy rain we've been getting so hanging fire a bit.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We let the chooks out of the potager and they helped and then went off to explore. Oh the joy when they found OH's bug compost heaps. Then back to helping and eating snails I found in the pots.
All clean and showered now and Possum is cooking Korean spiced pork. I have a rhubarb and strawberry cobbler for pud. Â
No plans to get a smart phone here. Hardly use the idiot phone as it is.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.