Expecting a scorcher here today ....not sure what the SW have done to miss out on the sunshine.
More swotting and past papers here for me today. With a brief interlude to go to the GC to get compost ready for the toms and cukes to go in their final pots.
Chicklet is coming home this evening to get her first vaccine shot 🥳🥳🥳. She’s 24 and got an invite on Monday, so we are slightly ahead of the curve here. Good news.
Happy and safe travels tomorrow @Obelixx and Possum - hope the isolating, clearing, sorting and winding up go without too many dramas. Bittersweet in parts I would imagine.
Lovely to hear how wide your fame has spread @D0rdogne_Damsel you are obviously doing something very right ☕️🍰🍩🥐🥓🍭🍳
Sorry you had to have the heating on yesterday @Hostafan1. I used to love visiting Devon and Cornwall in the winter, so only really know it as cold. When I was a very young mum my then husband and I took a winter let at Portreath on the North Cornwall coast. It was fantastic but we were on the top of the cliff and the village was at the bottom. Pushing the pram up that very steep slope was no joke! But I was so very much younger then. The baby is now going through menopause! And we are meeting to visit an art gallery in Norwich today (exhibition of local artists) with sister and her OH who are visiting. He has many physical (and mental if you ask me) problems so we are expecting grumbles and groans but he really wants to come. Sadly there will be no lovely strolling around the lanes of Norwich afterwards. Have a great day everyone - lovely view @Pat E!
Yes, @Hostafan1 Summer is here, but Macron probably thought he was "hot" as he got a smack!
@Biglad - I have just finished restoring an old garden bench - it's looking rather spruce under this midday sun!!
@D0rdogne_Damsel Your "little" venture is growing so fast and obviously word is getting around. What an achievement and how satisfied you must feel. I hope you can get the staff to keep it on track.
@Busy-Lizzie Nice bookshelves. We have been to the library this morning, so summer reading organised; the Chinese Market because I like coriander and mine germinates, gets planted, grows really tall and bolts. I'm staying out of town for as long as I can as the roads are so busy and the heat (even with aircon) doesn't help.
Someone released ladybirds on Thursday and the little darlings are finding their way to my garden (and everyone else's around here)!! Hooray - I hope they can get the job done. They are released to clean up the wheat fields every year. It is a bit late this year.
Sorry about the references to heat @Hostafan1 - I think there will be a few of us lining up for a smack. Oooh, I say!!
Restful afternoon under the olive tree with a good book. I have the last peppers to plant this evening and that will be that. (hopefully) - except for the brassicas next month.
Yes @floralies. Possum is coming to live here as it isn't going to work in Belgium. Can't finish her masters with all the restrictions there have been this year and can't see friends - all deeply depressing - so we're going up to close up her apartment which has been empty since mis September when she moved in. Frustrating.
Thanks @chicky - I'm hoping we can see one or two other people before we leave Namur and maybe spend one day doing seeing favourite places. Who knows when we'll get there again?
I have been busy in the garden clearing up the silk tree bed yesterday pm and this morning. Hot and sweaty and drippy in 32C!
Before That tall grass is wild oats. I will not be planting stipa gigantea in my "prairie" garden!
After Lost quite a few plants this winter including a purple flowered hebe, 3 purple sages and 2 red bumble sages. The centre is left bare so the tree gets less some of the rain but we still got weeds in the chipped bark.
Next job is weeding and planting along the ruin (shaded this pm) and then potting up babies so they can cope with OH's water rations while I'm away. No doubt the chooks will want to help with all that too.
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)."
I think that is the best thing for her at the moment @Obelixx while all this shananigans is going on. Have a safe journey tomorrow, I hope you have good AC in the car!
Afternoon folks, Had a tiresome few days trying to sort out my laptop. Gave up in the end and bought a new one with bigger memory. Hubby is OK reading lots of children's books to help with his speech. I've been booking tickets for Lost Gardens of Heligan and Trebah this morning ready for our trip to Cornwall at the end of the month. Got quite a bit of gardening done. Removed ivy that was strangling a holly tree, dug up some woody wallflowers that were past their best, tied in Wollerton Old Hall and removed lots of dead bulb foliage. The front garden looks a lot better. I watered early this morning so might not need to do that this evening but I have some sprouts to plant this afternoon. Sorry to here that Possum is having to come back home, hope she isn't too disappointed. @Hostafan it's boiling here but I'm not moaning so don't smack me. When I think of the poor specimens those chooks were when you got them it's just amazing how happy and healthy they look now @Obelixx Lovely reading area @Busy-Lizzie you have managed to do so much since moving. Enjoy your weekend folks.
I think it's a pretty decent bench but can only claim credit for delivery Youngest's boyfriend made it and I will be going round to paint it for the MIL during the week.
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Expecting a scorcher here today ....not sure what the SW have done to miss out on the sunshine.
More swotting and past papers here for me today. With a brief interlude to go to the GC to get compost ready for the toms and cukes to go in their final pots.
Chicklet is coming home this evening to get her first vaccine shot 🥳🥳🥳. She’s 24 and got an invite on Monday, so we are slightly ahead of the curve here. Good news.
Lovely to hear how wide your fame has spread @D0rdogne_Damsel you are obviously doing something very right ☕️🍰🍩🥐🥓🍭🍳
Have a great day everyone - lovely view @Pat E!
Yes, @Hostafan1 Summer is here, but Macron probably thought he was "hot" as he got a smack!
@Biglad - I have just finished restoring an old garden bench - it's looking rather spruce under this midday sun!!
@D0rdogne_Damsel Your "little" venture is growing so fast and obviously word is getting around. What an achievement and how satisfied you must feel. I hope you can get the staff to keep it on track.
@Busy-Lizzie Nice bookshelves. We have been to the library this morning, so summer reading organised; the Chinese Market because I like coriander and mine germinates, gets planted, grows really tall and bolts. I'm staying out of town for as long as I can as the roads are so busy and the heat (even with aircon) doesn't help.
Someone released ladybirds on Thursday and the little darlings are finding their way to my garden (and everyone else's around here)!! Hooray - I hope they can get the job done. They are released to clean up the wheat fields every year. It is a bit late this year.
Sorry about the references to heat @Hostafan1 - I think there will be a few of us lining up for a smack. Oooh, I say!!
Restful afternoon under the olive tree with a good book. I have the last peppers to plant this evening and that will be that. (hopefully) - except for the brassicas next month.
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Thanks @chicky - I'm hoping we can see one or two other people before we leave Namur and maybe spend one day doing seeing favourite places. Who knows when we'll get there again?
I have been busy in the garden clearing up the silk tree bed yesterday pm and this morning. Hot and sweaty and drippy in 32C!
Before
That tall grass is wild oats. I will not be planting stipa gigantea in my "prairie" garden!
After
Lost quite a few plants this winter including a purple flowered hebe, 3 purple sages and 2 red bumble sages. The centre is left bare so the tree gets less some of the rain but we still got weeds in the chipped bark.
Next job is weeding and planting along the ruin (shaded this pm) and then potting up babies so they can cope with OH's water rations while I'm away. No doubt the chooks will want to help with all that too.
Got quite a bit of gardening done. Removed ivy that was strangling a holly tree, dug up some woody wallflowers that were past their best, tied in Wollerton Old Hall and removed lots of dead bulb foliage. The front garden looks a lot better. I watered early this morning so might not need to do that this evening but I have some sprouts to plant this afternoon.
Sorry to here that Possum is having to come back home, hope she isn't too disappointed.
@Hostafan it's boiling here but I'm not moaning so don't smack me.
When I think of the poor specimens those chooks were when you got them it's just amazing how happy and healthy they look now @Obelixx
Lovely reading area @Busy-Lizzie you have managed to do so much since moving.
Enjoy your weekend folks.
I think it's a pretty decent bench but can only claim credit for delivery
Love the bench? Looks sturdy and comfy too but have you thought of teak oil instead of paint? Then it won't need doing again and again and again.