@Biglad: sayings in our family - it's been t-shirt weather in February before now. And, it has snowed on my birthday (end of March) before now. No spring in the air until we've got at least another 5 weeks of January out of the way! Edited to add: didn't go in the garden. Got some content to sort for a new booklet. Edited again to add: that's why I'm on here!
I think I’ve mentioned before my late Ma’s oft-repeated warning that, if it doesn’t snow at Christmas it will snow for Dove’s birthday … (almost at the end of Jan) … apparently I was born in a snowstorm and the ambulance spun around twice on the road between Flitwick and the maternity hospital … we shall see if she’s right again this year … ⛄️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Got a surprising amount of gardening done for the first time this year. Potted up some sprouted garlic I had forgotten about, pruned and weeded the grapevines, planted out a potted rhubarb and harvested one lost carrot. I also potted up some hardy fuschia cuttings which have been sitting in jars for months. The list of things to do still stretches to infinity though.
This part of France is shut down on Sundays, no hope of a plumber today. Leclerc was open so I nipped out and bought some microwave ready meals, so no washing up.
Then I went to Son 2, to have a shower, hair wash and lunch. The shower was bliss. It's new and has a choice of heads and sprays. The overhead one is huge. I'll change my bedding this afternoon.
Hope a plumber turns up tomorrow, I rang so many maybe more than one will turn up!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hope you've managed to enjoy your Sunday. I've had a lovely day, it was warmish and sunny, very spring like so managed 3 hours of gardening. I part weeded the main flower bed alongside the drive and weeded the drive edge. After lunch I brushed all the debris off the drive and then did the same on the other side. Nothing spectacular but very satisfying. Got caught in a quick shower by 3 pm so gave up for the day. Shoulder is protesting loudly so just taken some painkillers.
Good you were able to have a shower etc at son 2 @Busy-Lizzie. Some of the modern showers are fantastic. We're thinking of having an electric one put in our en-suite as it's too far from the boiler to be very powerful. I'd like one that you operate from outside the cubicle, like the one in the posh B&B we stayed out last year. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the model.
Pleased you feel a bit better DD but don't overdo it.
We think we've solved the mystery of why only half of our wooden bridge was replaced. We now think the boundary between Bath & NorthEast Somerset and South Gloucestershire runs down the middle of the stream, so Bath only did their half! It beggars belief if that is true, I'm going to try finding out next week.
I really, really don't want any snow at all, thank you Dove. I have known it to snow as late as the end of April as it did one year on my daughter's birthday.
Time for another cuppa I think. The Green Planet is on again tonight so we're looking forward to that.
After I'd finished faffing with the camera and taking god knows how many pictures I got round to putting the bolt on the new gate and tidied the shed up a bit. That's me done now, I came in frozen to the core.
Managed to do a bit of garden work today - not actually gardening. Sorted out my seed garlic and potatoes to store for a few weeks, started my chillis in the propagator and had a long discussion with OH about planning work for this year, building paths and fences, etc. He's now shopping for some materials, so he can do a few things in between the 'real' building work and maybe make a bit of progress - it's been very slow the last couple of years because I've been working flat out with no time for the garden work.
I went for a walk this morning for the first time in a week - I'm used to walking every day with the dogs, but I've been staying with the sick one since she came home on Monday. She seems settled though, so we left her alone for an hour or so (she was fine) and I got a bit of sunshine. It clouded over in the afternoon though, so the fire's lit now and OH is roasting a chicken
I really, really don't want any snow at all, thank you Dove. I have known it to snow as late as the end of April as it did one year on my daughter's birthday.
It usually snows at Easter. Statistically in the UK we have more white Easters than white Christmases, apparently. It's a late one this year though, so perhaps it won't but you're right, Lizzie - snow in April is pretty common. It doesn't usually stay long though. Once we get though February, we are much less likely to get the sort of snow that lasts for days. My birthday is very close to Dove's. I can only remember two occasions when it snowed on my Birthday, but that may be something to do with growing up in Cornwall rather than East Anglia
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Beautiful day here today but stayed cold all day. Roast Beef went very well and two tables have booked straight away for next week. All good.
A new lady started on a trial, but tbh, I am not keen, can't put my finger on it, but I don't think she will fit it....another couple of hours tomorrow before I have to make a final decision.
My birthday too next week, we ought to have a virtual party for us all, although I am still on Dry January, so not much fun I suppose....
Hope you get your plumbing sorted tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie , a real nuisance/inconvenience at this time of the year.
Off to sit by the fire and read now I think.... boring without a glass of wine though, nearly February.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
My birthday is today and had lunch with 1st daughter, SIL and both grand daughters but was happily surprised to find 2nd daughter and partner there as well. Didn't leave till 4-30 (with OH of course). My son and his wife are taking me to see the latest Matrix film tomorrow. They picked a film we all will enjoy which is why my OH is staying home. He did come once to a Lord of the Rings once but fell asleep.
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Edited to add: didn't go in the garden. Got some content to sort for a new booklet.
Edited again to add: that's why I'm on here!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sunny, frost, -5° this morning.
This part of France is shut down on Sundays, no hope of a plumber today. Leclerc was open so I nipped out and bought some microwave ready meals, so no washing up.
Then I went to Son 2, to have a shower, hair wash and lunch. The shower was bliss. It's new and has a choice of heads and sprays. The overhead one is huge. I'll change my bedding this afternoon.
Hope a plumber turns up tomorrow, I rang so many maybe more than one will turn up!
Hope you've managed to enjoy your Sunday. I've had a lovely day, it was warmish and sunny, very spring like so managed 3 hours of gardening. I part weeded the main flower bed alongside the drive and weeded the drive edge. After lunch I brushed all the debris off the drive and then did the same on the other side. Nothing spectacular but very satisfying. Got caught in a quick shower by 3 pm so gave up for the day. Shoulder is protesting loudly so just taken some painkillers.
Good you were able to have a shower etc at son 2 @Busy-Lizzie. Some of the modern showers are fantastic. We're thinking of having an electric one put in our en-suite as it's too far from the boiler to be very powerful. I'd like one that you operate from outside the cubicle, like the one in the posh B&B we stayed out last year. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the model.
Pleased you feel a bit better DD but don't overdo it.
We think we've solved the mystery of why only half of our wooden bridge was replaced. We now think the boundary between Bath & NorthEast Somerset and South Gloucestershire runs down the middle of the stream, so Bath only did their half! It beggars belief if that is true, I'm going to try finding out next week.
I really, really don't want any snow at all, thank you Dove. I have known it to snow as late as the end of April as it did one year on my daughter's birthday.
Time for another cuppa I think. The Green Planet is on again tonight so we're looking forward to that.
I went for a walk this morning for the first time in a week - I'm used to walking every day with the dogs, but I've been staying with the sick one since she came home on Monday. She seems settled though, so we left her alone for an hour or so (she was fine) and I got a bit of sunshine. It clouded over in the afternoon though, so the fire's lit now and OH is roasting a chicken
Hope you've all had a peaceful weekend
It usually snows at Easter. Statistically in the UK we have more white Easters than white Christmases, apparently. It's a late one this year though, so perhaps it won't but you're right, Lizzie - snow in April is pretty common. It doesn't usually stay long though. Once we get though February, we are much less likely to get the sort of snow that lasts for days. My birthday is very close to Dove's. I can only remember two occasions when it snowed on my Birthday, but that may be something to do with growing up in Cornwall rather than East Anglia
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Beautiful day here today but stayed cold all day. Roast Beef went very well and two tables have booked straight away for next week. All good.
A new lady started on a trial, but tbh, I am not keen, can't put my finger on it, but I don't think she will fit it....another couple of hours tomorrow before I have to make a final decision.
My birthday too next week, we ought to have a virtual party for us all, although I am still on Dry January, so not much fun I suppose....
Hope you get your plumbing sorted tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie , a real nuisance/inconvenience at this time of the year.
Off to sit by the fire and read now I think.... boring without a glass of wine though, nearly February.