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Hello Forkers - October '21

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Finally stating to see some Autumnal colour here, first of the Beech trees has turned its lovely butter yellow colour and the largest of the Acers has gone from muddy brown to an eye searing red.
    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
    Good morning @punkdoc ... Interesting that I noted only yesterday that at last the Amelanchier is colouring up.  

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Somebody wants shooting for that street name @Dovefromabove!

    Sunny here and not too chilly.  I have a friend coming round this morning so I can show her how to restore/renovate a piece of furniture her OH inherited from his mum.  Nothing special but sentimental value so he refuses to chuck it but doesn't want it in the house looking dull and old either.

    Scruffy is much better and eating well.   Set to be very wet for a few hours tomorrow around midday so I hope I can out the others in the polytunnel with her or they'll be miserable.   They're on preventive meds so it should be OK by tomorrow if I scrub down the central path first.  Saturday and Sunday are set to be fine.

    I sowed some tree and shrub seeds in there yesterday but then had to move the acer seeds and compost to the fridge for a week.  35C in there yesterday so plenty warm.  I had to strip off my tops to sow and then have a shower afterwards.  Perennial sowing this afternoon.

    Glad you're having a good time @Busy-Lizzie and you get your eye sorted quickly.

    No apples here @tui34 but I'm working on it with a visit planned to the fruit conservation centre the other side of Luçon from us.

    Stay safe everyone, especially in the heavy rain.  Hope there's no flooding.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2021
    We have so many names around here from the textile and leather crafts that it may not have dawned on anyone @Obelixx ... unusually for me I'd not 'cottoned on' until you just pointed it out, and it's a road I know quite well because a former senior social services manager I worked for lived there at the time, and as he had a back condition he sometimes couldn't drive so I would run him home after we'd done joint visits etc.  
    Glad Scruffy is on the mend  :)

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I might take the bean canes down … 
    I have been over-ruled ... apparently it's scheduled for later when he's finished the cupboard ... it's not urgent  :)

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





  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Awful goings on not that far from us … but I’m amazed at the resourcefulness of our Norfolk police … I know they’re short of manpower these days but who’s idea was it to recruit wildlife to help?  https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/multiple-stabbing-at-a-house-in-norwich-8445904  


    Is that known as the Fat Grey Line? At least they won’t be harbouring any criminals. Anyone getting on the wrong side of them must be barking.
    Sorry....
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hi all.
    I drive past a beautiful Liquidambar each day and the colour change has been stunning.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Ergates 😂😂😂

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just found this in the cupboard, and NO, I'm NOT going to eat it. 


    Yup 2016
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I'd eat it ... it's sealed ... you're going to boil it.  Absolutely no problem ... and to be honest I'm sure most of the folk on my Foodie Forum would do the same. 

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





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