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Hello Forkers - October '21

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Ps. Sorry!  I meant to thank everyone for their lovely wishes for our anniversary yesterday.  It was a good day for us. We are very lucky that we have lots of space to move around in safety with our 100 acres of native bush land and no one wandering around back there. 😁

    Our neighbours on each side keep to themselves and the woman on the north side rings us now and then for a chat to ask if we are ok. 
    Couldn’t ask for more I suppose.

    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 
    Sounds ideal if you ask me @Pat E 😊 
    we like to check the webcams at St Ives every now and then … I thought this morning’s scene of the moon over a stormy Porthmeor beach is worth sharing 




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





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Lovely Dove. Thanks for putting it on for us to see.
    S. E. NSW
  • Morning everyone,  lots of rain here last night,  ground looks very wet. Not sure what I will get done today,  need to get to plots but it might be too wet to do much. 
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning Forkers.  Helluva hoolie blowing last night and very noisy with it but no damage other than 3 pots on their sides in the potager.  Everything has had a bit pf a soaking too which has  to be good.

    Our guests are not early risers but we did, eventually, get out to have lunch in a seaside restaurant and then a walk along the beach which was surprisingly busy with loads of grown men from a wind and kite surfing club very busy doing what they do in the wind and waves.   They surely can't all be teachers with Wednesday pm off?

    Lovely and sunny so a good walk with lots of lovely sea air and warm too.  More of that this pm but dull this morning.

    Hope all are well - or as well as can be expected - and you have a safe and peaceful day.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.

    You did quite a bit of thanking yesterday @Pat E:)

    It poured last night, water butts are much fuller. Sunny now.

    Today is a housework day.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Very cold today, but bright and sunny.
    None of our Beech trees are showing any Autumn colour yet, nor the Acers.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Leaf colour seems very late this year @punkdoc ... I heard someone on the radio the other day say that it was because of the low light levels this year.  I think they also said that there'll be more yellow than orange/red colour ... something to do with with sunlight and sugars.  Can't remember the details.  Our amelanchier is only just beginning to colour up ... however the blueberries had amazing red leaves ast week. 

    It's turned cold here .... my first day of 'woolly jumper and cardi' rather than shirt and cardi'.  Niece (temporarily in Loughbrough) says it's freezing cold where she is ... but she's used to sunny Portsmouth  ;)

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, I think I heard something about that as well, @Dovefromabove.

    I have several layers on and am about to start tackling the Cannas.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2021
    Our huge canna (a gift some years ago from @Hostafan1) now has to take it's chances outside @punkdoc ... it's planted in an old plastic dustbin with a huge crack in the side and a load of polystyrene chunks in the bottom and lives in the most sunny and sheltered corner of the terrace.  We have no where inside to put it ... it came through last winter and flowered its socks off this summer despite not even having fresh compost ... just a few dollops of tomato food.  

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





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