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HELLO FORKERS 🍎🌽🍇 Sept ‘21

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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    punkdoc said:
    Ooh, I had TR6 many years ago, great memories.
    Ours needed a lot of work which we didn’t have time to do. I also remember us taking a journey with our two dogs in the back, and one or both being sick on the back shelf. That was a right b....r to clean up. However, it did go like a rocket, and I enjoyed driving it. Incensed to read on, I think, Topgear, that it was a blokes car, and Clarkson or one of his team saying that he’d never seen a woman driving one! Why?
    We didn’t keep it for more than a few years though,  and moved on to a VW camper which was better suited for our life style.
  • Ergates said:
    punkdoc said:
    Ooh, I had TR6 many years ago, great memories.
    Ours needed a lot of work which we didn’t have time to do. I also remember us taking a journey with our two dogs in the back, and one or both being sick on the back shelf. That was a right b....r to clean up. However, it did go like a rocket, and I enjoyed driving it. Incensed to read on, I think, Topgear, that it was a blokes car, and Clarkson or one of his team saying that he’d never seen a woman driving one! Why?
    ...
    That's 'cos we were whizzing past him ... just a blur .... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Home again,  home again,  jigidy jig.
    Good journey back in spite of driving through some rain,  nothing too heavy or persistent.  We had a pit stop at Van Hague,  and somehow 3 nice Echinacea ( 3 for price of 2 special) made it  into our car can't think how that happened 😉
    All a bit damp here, so there must have been rain here earlier.  The squirrels look like they have been having fun while we were away.  A broken down sunflower and stuff scattered all over the greenhouse 😠
    AB Still learning

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Ergates said:
    punkdoc said:
    Ooh, I had TR6 many years ago, great memories.
    Ours needed a lot of work which we didn’t have time to do. I also remember us taking a journey with our two dogs in the back, and one or both being sick on the back shelf. That was a right b....r to clean up. However, it did go like a rocket, and I enjoyed driving it. Incensed to read on, I think, Topgear, that it was a blokes car, and Clarkson or one of his team saying that he’d never seen a woman driving one! Why?
    ...
    That's 'cos we were whizzing past him ... just a blur .... 
    haha! That’s probably why!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Evening all. 
    My best plans for getting into the garden fell by the wayside and a siesta won hands down
    Devon.
  • Sounds as if that siesta was needed @Hostafan1 ... nothing's that urgent in the garden at this time of year.   :)

    @Allotment Boy ... flamin' wildlife eh? 😬

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Good (early) evening all,

    After an awful wet Saturday today has been ok and now turned into a lovely evening. I've even managed to get the evening off work too, so enjoying an apéro before a late roast pork Sunday dinner. 

    Glad you have had a nice weekend @Busy-Lizzie, good to have someone else doing the cooking for a change. 

    Loving all your nostalgia too, 
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Oops, potatoes needed turning. 

    Back to my pre dinner drink and enjoying  a calm serene view from from my back terrace. Autumn's coming....

    Cheers all, have a good evening. 🍷




    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I hope you enjoy your stay and meal with your daughter, @Lizzie27, as much as I enjoyed mine. Daughter is now making soup with veg from her garden. I'm going home tomorrow morning.

    Gosh, @D0rdogne_Damsel starting to look autumnal, those leaves are almost golden.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

  • I'm wrestling with this area in our plot; this was where our chickens/ducks used to live before they were all taken by predators (we will have more in a safer environment with a roof as they were killed from above). The plan is to have a seating area, wildlife pond with waterfall- the  majority of the ground will be grassed but I have the opportunity to create several borders. We've made a straight path with borders either side that can be as wide as we want, I've started to plant them up with shrubs and trees,  symmetrical  so far:
    Box cones and balls
    Robinia Lace Lady Twisty Babe
    Artemesia Nana Attraction
    Erigeron
    Hostas,Ferns, Delphiniums and Foxgloves 

    Today purchased: Verbinums, Angels Wings, Azaleas, Loropetalum, Santolina and Euphobia Silver Swan

    Question is, you wise owls, I've got 300 spring bulbs to dob in - do you do the bulbs first or the perennials/shrubs? What's a good plan to indicate there's bulbs under there, so don't dig them up as I have in the past 😏😜


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