Kettle's on ... I'll have one with you @Hostafan1 ☕ then I must get on and peel the last of the old potatoes in the garage and pop the lamb shanks in the slow cooker with a glug of something or other ... then I must get on in the studio ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Kettle's on ... I'll have one with you @Hostafan1 ☕ then I must get on and peel the last of the old potatoes in the garage and pop the lamb shanks in the slow cooker with a glug of something or other ... then I must get on in the studio ...
@Hostafan1 OH is doing some sculpture (he has phases of painting then sculpting). My current project is a little painting for my brother ... I've not been able to do big oils since my shoulders and elbows became painful and I struggled to find a way forward, but about a year ago I started on some small gouache pieces (triggered by doing birthday cards rather than sending money to Moonpig or whatever during lockdown) and these have taken off for me ... small studies and landscapes ... a very different field for me (see what I did there? 🤣) ... I've not shown them yet ... I'm still very much feeling my way but it's good to be painting again
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH is doing some sculpture (he has phases of painting then sculpting). My current project is a little painting for my brother ... I've not been able to do big oils since my shoulders and elbows became painful and I struggled to find a way forward, but about a year ago I started on some small gouache pieces (triggered by doing birthday cards rather than sending money to Moonpig or whatever during lockdown) and these have taken off for me ... small studies and landscapes ... a very different field for me (see what I did there? 🤣) ... I've not shown them yet ... I'm still very much feeling my way but it's good to be painting again
Well, more power to your elbow I'd love to see both projects one day.
Morning everyone, we have woken to steady rain. Another poor night, no idea why. Maybe sitting watching tennis, meant we weren't tired enough, though I felt like I had played most of it (not) 😆.
Morning folks. A teasing sort of morning - could go either way but I think it will go the wrong way. I didn't mention the excitement of yesterday - we had the air ambulance helicopter land in a small field diagonally opposite my house. I heard, then saw it circling looking for somewhere to land then it landed in the little field on the edge of the marshes very near me. Lots of people milling about gawping, including me. (I don't usually, I don't like to think of myself as one of those but this was so close). I took photos but came back indoors before whoever was injured arrived at the helicopter - that would have been too intrusive I thought. Then after a while it took off again, turning around in a small space near the trees and then straight up. Wow. So impressed was I that I made a donation because, like the lifeboat crews, they operate as a charity.
Slow steady rain this morning after a hot day yesterday and a steamy sleepless night. Rushed out and sprinkled fertiliser on my veggie garden, then snail bait around my newly planted brassicas - even collected the braver ones to give to the hen!!
There was a massive fire just behind Narbonne on the hills yesterday - 100 hectares went up quickly fanned by the breeze despite the efforts of the Canadair and red helicopters. This rain should see the last of the embers extinguished.
So "inside games" today. Moroccan couscous with grilled salmon for lunch, cut mesclun from the garden under a light rain. Good book and a lazy Sunday afternoon. Temperatures dropping next week - a good 8° to 10°.(That was for @Hostafan1 so I don't type 8° - 10° !!) Funny spring. Funny summer.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was sun and now there isn't.
We are going to visit an NGS garden this afternoon, I hope it doesn't rain. The garden isn't far from here.
Fingers crosse for you and the garden owners.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'd love to see both projects one day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't mention the excitement of yesterday - we had the air ambulance helicopter land in a small field diagonally opposite my house. I heard, then saw it circling looking for somewhere to land then it landed in the little field on the edge of the marshes very near me. Lots of people milling about gawping, including me. (I don't usually, I don't like to think of myself as one of those but this was so close). I took photos but came back indoors before whoever was injured arrived at the helicopter - that would have been too intrusive I thought. Then after a while it took off again, turning around in a small space near the trees and then straight up. Wow. So impressed was I that I made a donation because, like the lifeboat crews, they operate as a charity.
Slow steady rain this morning after a hot day yesterday and a steamy sleepless night. Rushed out and sprinkled fertiliser on my veggie garden, then snail bait around my newly planted brassicas - even collected the braver ones to give to the hen!!
There was a massive fire just behind Narbonne on the hills yesterday - 100 hectares went up quickly fanned by the breeze despite the efforts of the Canadair and red helicopters. This rain should see the last of the embers extinguished.
So "inside games" today. Moroccan couscous with grilled salmon for lunch, cut mesclun from the garden under a light rain. Good book and a lazy Sunday afternoon. Temperatures dropping next week - a good 8° to 10°.(That was for @Hostafan1 so I don't type 8° - 10° !!) Funny spring. Funny summer.
Happy Sundaying.