Hi @Pat E second coffee in the garden on a beautiful morning here thanks 😊 how is the face colouring in going with the early birthday pencils? Here's my view for coffee Rather you than me @punkdoc! I'll find any excuse I can not to go in to town, pandemic has made me normal in that behaviour!
Beautiful garden view @WonkyWomble. Hate the idea of people shooting kangaroos @Pat E. I suppose there are yobbos everywhere. We hear people shooting rabbits late at night sometimes. My late FIL used to shoot (pheasant). The first time I met him was at their house, not far from where we live now. A wood pigeon landed in their tree, he went and got his gun and shot it out of the tree! I think perhaps to impress me. OH and I (this was before we were married) were living in London at the time so I just thought - oh, this is how country folk behave. On a lighter note - I saw a couple of bees bonking this morning.
I feel I must point out that when @WonkyWomble took on that garden just a few years ago, it was nothing but an overgrown rubbish tip ... I really doubt if it had ever been a proper garden. What she has done and continues to do never ceases to amaze me ... I'm so proud of her
And I believe her landlord really can't believe his eyes ! ! !
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, I've not long been up! OH went off about 5.30 am, I went back to sleep and slept round to 10 am. Must have been really tired. We've had rain overnight and it's still looking overcast. Lots of jobs to do in the garden but I'm with Chicky, I'm giving a lot of my pots to my daughter so I don't have to water them.
It's panic stations here, the carpet fitters want to come in the next two weeks so we've to do massive lots of packing/clearing etc. I don't know where to start first and where to put everything, especially 1000 books! Fortunately they are happy to do it in two stages as I'm hoping that will be easier.
Your demolition job sounds interesting @Obelixx, are you going to keep some of the old oak beams for future projects? I find it very hard to get rid of old bits of wood. DD, I know you want/need customers but don't wear yourself out to a frazzle. Book buying is good Punkdoc, enjoy your visit. Do you have a favourite bookshop in Sheffield? I must stock up for holidays as well. Your garden looks lovely @WonkyWomble. I don't envy you all that ironing though. I'd better get on and do something.
Lovely @WonkyWomble Is that a scape on the garlic already? Mine aren't even thinking about it yet.
Just planted out the last of the beans - all in now. Need to get some parsnip sown later and then the main crops of veg for the year will all be on their way. the brassicas are only just sprouting, but they have at least started. I'm so late with everything but then so is the garden.
We had the same soft rain as Hosta overnight. Cloudy but humid today. OH is feeling rough - his second jab on Friday, like the first, gave him a migraine. He seems to be better now but very tired and dopey. I've got mine this evening - hoping I shake it off a bit better than he has.
Busy week at work coming up because next weekend my niece is coming to visit for a few days so I've taken that week off AND the following week. That'll be the longest I've stopped working since the first lockdown began. I love my work and, being self-employed, have found it hard to step back in case it all evaporates. But I am feeling like I need a break now. Hopefully I'll get a bit of a handle on the overgrown garden in that second week - weather permitting
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
You have done wonders with that garden @WonkyWomble I would certainly sit and admire it whilst drinking another coffee! We sat on the terrace this morning with a coffee, it was lovely and peaceful until a noisy tractor turned up to cut the neighbouring field, but at least we were able to watch the antics of the buzzards and kites following it looking for the field voles. We have an abundance of hover flies this year, is it the same in the UK?
Definitely a bit Winkleman today but no rain forecast so it should be a good afternoon in the garden.
Went for a run through a park this morning (rather than a parkrun). Haven't done that run for ages and was a lot slower this time A lot of room for improvement over the course of the summer.
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Here's my view for coffee
Rather you than me @punkdoc! I'll find any excuse I can not to go in to town, pandemic has made me normal in that behaviour!
Heading out there to do some planting as the weather is a bit cooler today. The more I plant the less pots I have to water 🤣
On a lighter note - I saw a couple of bees bonking this morning.
And I believe her landlord really can't believe his eyes ! ! !
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's panic stations here, the carpet fitters want to come in the next two weeks so we've to do massive lots of packing/clearing etc. I don't know where to start first and where to put everything, especially 1000 books! Fortunately they are happy to do it in two stages as I'm hoping that will be easier.
Your demolition job sounds interesting @Obelixx, are you going to keep some of the old oak beams for future projects? I find it very hard to get rid of old bits of wood.
DD, I know you want/need customers but don't wear yourself out to a frazzle.
Book buying is good Punkdoc, enjoy your visit. Do you have a favourite bookshop in Sheffield? I must stock up for holidays as well.
Your garden looks lovely @WonkyWomble. I don't envy you all that ironing though.
I'd better get on and do something.
Just planted out the last of the beans - all in now. Need to get some parsnip sown later and then the main crops of veg for the year will all be on their way. the brassicas are only just sprouting, but they have at least started. I'm so late with everything but then so is the garden.
We had the same soft rain as Hosta overnight. Cloudy but humid today. OH is feeling rough - his second jab on Friday, like the first, gave him a migraine. He seems to be better now but very tired and dopey. I've got mine this evening - hoping I shake it off a bit better than he has.
Busy week at work coming up because next weekend my niece is coming to visit for a few days so I've taken that week off AND the following week. That'll be the longest I've stopped working since the first lockdown began. I love my work and, being self-employed, have found it hard to step back in case it all evaporates. But I am feeling like I need a break now. Hopefully I'll get a bit of a handle on the overgrown garden in that second week - weather permitting
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We have an abundance of hover flies this year, is it the same in the UK?
Definitely a bit Winkleman today but no rain forecast so it should be a good afternoon in the garden.
Went for a run through a park this morning (rather than a parkrun). Haven't done that run for ages and was a lot slower this time