Until Christmas there was a regular gaggle of 20 or more mallards as well, but recently there have been very few. I wonder how many people had duck for Christmas dinner...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Nick Webborn is on Desert Island Discs. Not that that is something to be cheerful about in itself, but it was because of him and his team that I can walk semi normally on my left leg. If anyone around Eastbourne has a physical 'sporting' injury, I can recommend his clinic (other injury clinics are available). And the work he does with the UK paralympic team is to be lauded.
I'm waiting for my friends to pick me up for a trip to RHS Harlow Carr . It looks like we're going to get rained on, but there'll be lunch in Betty's, lots of chat, lovely garden to look at, retire back to Betty's for tea and cake and a warm up, more chat, finishing off with a mooch round the garden centre trying and probably failing to resist the temptation of impulse-buying.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We're planning to be in York for a few days in mid May and hadn't thought of visiting Harlow Carr so thanks for mentioning it. Admission cost for non-RHS members is a bit 'ouch'.
Decided to climb out of my recent pit of impending doom by splashing out on some plants, and bugger the cost. Found a grass I've been after for a while at Knoll Gardens. So what if I've had to get it mail order and paid ten quid for the privilege. Tomorrow I'm going to several local GC's and I'm getting me an Anna's Red Hellebore, if I can find one.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Had a parcel delivery scheduled for yesterday .... was in all morning. Went to my laptop to track the package, and allegedly it had been delivered to me half an hour before. The photo is of the package on the floor with what looks like UPVC frame in the foreground (ie like in a porch). I check all around the outside of my house anyway (and next door). Nothing. The tracking page has a live chat option, so I nip on there and ask the chat person to contact the driver ASAP to find out where he's put the thing. About half an hour later, they call back and say he left it two doors down. I pop round and lo and behold they have a porch on their front door - and there's my package. I ring. No answer. I ring again...knock on the porch door...knock on their window...try the porch door (and it's open) and knock on the front door... They're not in. Do I take my own package? Moral dilemma for me. Anyway, they come back a few hours later and I get the package. I contact the delivery company and let them know I now have the package.
Now the RTBC.A couple of hours later - a ring on the doorbell and it's the delivery driver. He had felt bad after his company had contacted him to ask where he left it - and realised his mistake - and had popped round just to make sure I knew where the package was (his company hadn't got back to him to let him know I had retrieved it). What a good bloke eh?
Most of our delivery folk are conscientious too @steveTu … and often with a smile and a cheery word too … and since I’ve had white hair there’s often an offer to put the parcel inside or instructions to ‘be careful love, it’s a bit heavy’ …. 😊
I suspect the few who are not are often given too much to do in too little time and are treated like rubbish.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.