I don't mind spiders in the house, in fact we have a rather large female who lives under a small bureau so I just let her be,she pops her head out occasionally during the day, I don't really want to evict her! We used to have a good English library but that has now closed so I have also resorted to a Kindle @Obelixx and now I prefer it especially as you can alter the brightness of it.
Night all. We’ve sat through a second episode of Masked Singer. Not very entertaining, but you feel as though you should at least try to support the locals, etc again. Kylie’s sister, Danni Minogue, did her usual screaming and the others made a dumb effort to guess who was behind the mask. I’m glad to get to bed.😡
Eeek @Nanny Beach - what drama! I don't mind spiders - they are our friends after all, but I wouldn't want one on me. Bit different for @Pat E though. When my sister visited our brother in Queensland she refused to go into their garden for the first few days! Yes raining here - and getting harder so hoping for a good drenching for a few hours. More admin to do tomorrow (and I must do a sheets and towels wash) then - Thursday will be gardening day!
Hello all, very dreary, grey and damp outside. Looks like we had heavy rain overnight, although we never heard it and I was awake a lot of the time. We've had a nice morning though, OH took me to a good jewellers who hand craft their stuff on the premises in a nearby town which we'd noticed a week or so ago and we've bought each other presents for our 25th next week. We then had coffee and cake and on the way home stopped at a small independent nursery where I bought a deep pink hydrangea. Ironic really, because it's to go in a spot where I'd previously removed hydrangeas a few years back as I didn't like them much! However now I've removed the box hedging on the top lawn tier, I need something just to peek over the top of the wall and will cope with semi-shade.
Hate spiders in the house, I use an anti-bacterial spray on the skirting boards which does seem to help keep them away.
Just read there's been torrential rain with Tower Bridge flooded in London so hope all our London based posters are all okay.
I'm thinking of planting a row of mulberry trees along our paddock fence. I sowed the seeds a couple of years ago and they all germinated and grew. I've found homes for 2 but that leaves me with another 10.........
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 knew he wasn't your donkey BL but just wondered if you found it quieter now he's gone. What fun planning a rose bed, are you going for same colour roses or a total mix? I've realized I shall have a couple of big terracotta pots going spare soon and so have room for more roses. Undecided yet which ones to get, probably apricot/peach/cream ones.
I'm going to plant 3 yellow climbers, of the smaller sort eg "Happiness" and train them sideways, maybe a lavender hedge in front. The orchard plant of the paddock will be mown from time to time, maybe a mown path through it. The bit that is bare earth around the shelter will have all the droppings scraped off for roses and then wild flowers and hardy annuals, like calendulas and cornflowers sown on it.
The part of the fence which is part shade will be a future project with clematis and honeysuckle and hardy fuchsias.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That sounds a really good mix BL, especially the yellow roses/lavender combo, we shall need pics next year! I didn't have much success with my wild flower patches this year, in fact the best performance came from left-over seed sown in a pot. We've decided not to grow the grass long in the 'orchard' next year, I think it will be easier from a purely practical viewpoint to keep it mown short as long as OH can manage the mowing of course.
Shopping was painless, which is not something I would usually say, probably the torrential rain worked to my advantage. No problem parking, town was empty, the few people in the book shop were all wearing masks and had a nice chat to the girl on the till about recent books we both liked.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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We used to have a good English library but that has now closed so I have also resorted to a Kindle @Obelixx and now I prefer it especially as you can alter the brightness of it.
Yes raining here - and getting harder so hoping for a good drenching for a few hours.
More admin to do tomorrow (and I must do a sheets and towels wash) then - Thursday will be gardening day!
We've had a nice morning though, OH took me to a good jewellers who hand craft their stuff on the premises in a nearby town which we'd noticed a week or so ago and we've bought each other presents for our 25th next week. We then had coffee and cake and on the way home stopped at a small independent nursery where I bought a deep pink hydrangea. Ironic really, because it's to go in a spot where I'd previously removed hydrangeas a few years back as I didn't like them much! However now I've removed the box hedging on the top lawn tier, I need something just to peek over the top of the wall and will cope with semi-shade.
Hate spiders in the house, I use an anti-bacterial spray on the skirting boards which does seem to help keep them away.
Just read there's been torrential rain with Tower Bridge flooded in London so hope all our London based posters are all okay.
Is it very quiet without the Donkey @Busy-Lizzie?
It has been tipping with rain.
I'm thinking of planting a row of mulberry trees along our paddock fence. I sowed the seeds a couple of years ago and they all germinated and grew. I've found homes for 2 but that leaves me with another 10.........
I've realized I shall have a couple of big terracotta pots going spare soon and so have room for more roses. Undecided yet which ones to get, probably apricot/peach/cream ones.
The part of the fence which is part shade will be a future project with clematis and honeysuckle and hardy fuchsias.
I didn't have much success with my wild flower patches this year, in fact the best performance came from left-over seed sown in a pot. We've decided not to grow the grass long in the 'orchard' next year, I think it will be easier from a purely practical viewpoint to keep it mown short as long as OH can manage the mowing of course.
No problem parking, town was empty, the few people in the book shop were all wearing masks and had a nice chat to the girl on the till about recent books we both liked.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border