I'm waiting to see how things pan out for going to Belgium too once I've had my 2nd jab as, at the mo, we have to have clean tests and isolate for 7 days. Her freezer only has salmon steaks, Findus peas and some Irish black and white puddings so we'll need careful planning and shopping.
Cold again here and we've had showers thru the night and the wind just a bit to exciting.  My knee is being stupid again so I've asked OH to fork our more of my new bed to get out weeds so I can carry on planting. I shall go and rake the compost and manure on the new dahlia bed and lay the seep hose.  Thinking of planting another clematis in there too to wind along the fence round the veg plot. Â
@Hostafan1 our albizzia is only just showing leaf buds unfurling so it too is late.
The French have these Ice Saints from 11 to 13 of May and normally things improve after those but it seems there's a lesser known one on the 25th. Maybe things will warm up after that.
gardening is proving tricky this year: no rain and frosts every day in April, continuous rain in May, g/h and window ledges stuffed full of plants, no likelihood of moving them.
We have a week away booked at the end of June, 2 nights hotel, followed by a cottage, no longer sure that it will happen.
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Hello folks, We've also got a week in a hotel booked for early July in Suffolk so hope that will be okay. The news this morning is that the AZ vaccine protects very well against the Indian variant so that's good. Also good news is that people from amber list countries (France) can travel to the UK as long as they isolate at home for 7 days when they get here and take tests. Hopefully that means Busy-Lizzie will be allowed to travel as long as France says yes but of course not until no. 14 has arrived! I can't find anything about masks, are they still required from today?Â
Our rain risk for today has diminished according to the forecast so I'd better drink my coffee up and get out there. I've got a lot of wild flower seedlings to plant out soon, does anybody know if they're likely to be snail/slug proof?
Forgot to mention that the cow parsley is in full bloom this morning in the community orchard we walk through every day - looked fantastic in a magical shaft of sunshine.
I'm even more pleased that a big clump has grown on the big grass verge outside our house - the Council men haven't strimmed it much over the last year and when they did, went round it very carefully. We have buttercups and daisies as well.Â
Hi folks, just popped on to say that I'm OK. Have not been feeling great and got sick of moaning so I've been lurking in the quiet corner. Hope everyone is OK
I'm behind the curve - have been getting on with other adminy type things the past few days. @Dovefromabove - how exciting to be getting a new car. I had an Alfa Romeo as a company car for a short while. I drove it to my parents and took them for lunch to a lovely country pub in the village where my dad grew up in an orphanage there (now luxury flats). He never resented that - his experience was a good one. But I think he was proud that he had made it to the point where his daughter was driving an Alfa Romeo! I hate my current car - its a huge Honda that I bought from my SIL to help him out. There are more gears than I am used to, all very close together so I keep going into 5th when I want to be in 3rd and 6th when I should be in I don't know what. It's too big for me and I have to keep driving it for a few miles as the battery gets used all the time by its security system. Pah. @Nanny Beach - supper for us growing up was the same as you, hot chocolate (which we called cocoa) and biscuits shortly before bed. Now we have dinner in the early evening but if we have it later, after we have been out say, it's supper. @Busy-Lizzie - 14 grandchildren! That's an expensive Christmas!  @Lizzie27 - you should be fine for July in Suffolk. I hope it is lovely and sunny for you - and there is so much to see and do here. Like everyone else, seedlings in pots waiting to show a bit more growth and get planted out, but not yet...
@Lizzie27 the advice is caution in all things so yes, face, space and hands - same measures as usual.
When we were small, we had "tea" as both parents were of NE/Geordie origins.  Supper was only had on Sundays when we'd had a big Sunday roast dinner around midday. OH and I have lunch and dinner.
My seeds are very slow to germinate. No idea why. I've started off the toms and chillies on heat mats and had roughly 50% germination.  Those have been potted on and placed in the polytunnel and are growing well but not fast. I've sowed lots of different flower plant seeds and had very poor germination.  Never had a year like it.
Sorry you've been feeling down @Yviestevie and hope things perk up for you soon.
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I'm waiting to see how things pan out for going to Belgium too once I've had my 2nd jab as, at the mo, we have to have clean tests and isolate for 7 days. Her freezer only has salmon steaks, Findus peas and some Irish black and white puddings so we'll need careful planning and shopping.
Cold again here and we've had showers thru the night and the wind just a bit to exciting.  My knee is being stupid again so I've asked OH to fork our more of my new bed to get out weeds so I can carry on planting. I shall go and rake the compost and manure on the new dahlia bed and lay the seep hose.  Thinking of planting another clematis in there too to wind along the fence round the veg plot. Â
@Hostafan1 our albizzia is only just showing leaf buds unfurling so it too is late.
The French have these Ice Saints from 11 to 13 of May and normally things improve after those but it seems there's a lesser known one on the 25th. Maybe things will warm up after that.
gardening is proving tricky this year: no rain and frosts every day in April, continuous rain in May, g/h and window ledges stuffed full of plants, no likelihood of moving them.
We have a week away booked at the end of June, 2 nights hotel, followed by a cottage, no longer sure that it will happen.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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We've also got a week in a hotel booked for early July in Suffolk so hope that will be okay. The news this morning is that the AZ vaccine protects very well against the Indian variant so that's good.
Also good news is that people from amber list countries (France) can travel to the UK as long as they isolate at home for 7 days when they get here and take tests. Hopefully that means Busy-Lizzie will be allowed to travel as long as France says yes but of course not until no. 14 has arrived!
I can't find anything about masks, are they still required from today?Â
Our rain risk for today has diminished according to the forecast so I'd better drink my coffee up and get out there.
I've got a lot of wild flower seedlings to plant out soon, does anybody know if they're likely to be snail/slug proof?
I'm even more pleased that a big clump has grown on the big grass verge outside our house - the Council men haven't strimmed it much over the last year and when they did, went round it very carefully. We have buttercups and daisies as well.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Lizzie27 - you should be fine for July in Suffolk. I hope it is lovely and sunny for you - and there is so much to see and do here.Â
Like everyone else, seedlings in pots waiting to show a bit more growth and get planted out, but not yet...
When we were small, we had "tea" as both parents were of NE/Geordie origins.  Supper was only had on Sundays when we'd had a big Sunday roast dinner around midday. OH and I have lunch and dinner.
French has similar variations in terms depending on where you are. Belgians have their "diner" at lunchtime and "souper" in the evening.  When I entered a famous French brasserie in Paris with OH at 1pm and asked for a table for 2 for "diner" the maître D replied haughtily "Oh, you wish to "déjeuner" madame".  Well no, strictly translated dé-jeuner means break fast and we'd done that in the morning at the hotel. Bloody Parisians!
My seeds are very slow to germinate. No idea why. I've started off the toms and chillies on heat mats and had roughly 50% germination.  Those have been potted on and placed in the polytunnel and are growing well but not fast. I've sowed lots of different flower plant seeds and had very poor germination.  Never had a year like it.
Sorry you've been feeling down @Yviestevie and hope things perk up for you soon.