Thanks Ergates,it did look really nice,but was the end of a very hot sweaty day.just picked the last gladiolus from the cutting bed. He cuts his own with proper cutters, monthly (yesterday) in the hall.....big mirror and plug, leaves the flaming hair on the floor!!!B3, shame you can't just part exchange the annoying bits! On the Mumsnet forum everyone only has or accepts perfect husbands. Makes me die,these folk called "stay at home mum", child at school,and expect husband working long hours to do 50% of childcare and house work....otherwise.....you should divorce them.
I heard rain during the night, about 4am . There was only about 1.5mm in the gauge this morning so not enough to do much good, but better than nowt and everything feels a bit fresher.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I went out to do some watering late yesterday afternoon as some plants really are suffering. I'd just started when it began to rain, so I came back in. By the time I'd turned the hose off it has almost stopped raining. Thankfully it did start back up later and continued raining lightly for some time.
One of our local farms has an honesty box at the gate, and over the years, I’ve enjoyed freshly picked beans, cucumbers, courgettes and soft fruit during the summer. Made up for not having my own vegetable patch. However, we didn’t venture that way during lockdown, then I struggled to get £1 coins for the box. I now have a bag of coins ready for the summer, and a pile of courgettes and French beans in the kitchen! Excellent!
Thanks - it's a lot of travelling with two young children, but I'm sure they'll be back when they can. And we're venturing to the UK in late September so we'll see them again then, which will be great. In the meantime I have an earworm to live with: Julia Donaldson's books are great, and she writes very catchy little songs to go with the stories - this week's favourite was "The ugly five", a moral tale about some animals who consider themselves ugly and horrible, but are described as the "lovely five" by their babies. Anyway, it's going round and round my head at the moment...
I'm so glad I don't know this one . I've just got rid of an earworm that's been driving me nuts for over a week.I daren't speak It's name in case it comes back. It's now been replaced by yellow bird up high in banana tree. It's the fault of the little yellow bird thread which unfortunately was mine😐
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I now have a bag of coins ready for the summer, and a pile of courgettes and French beans in the kitchen! Excellent!
My RTBC - I can walk round the house without a crutch. Still have 18 more anticoagulant jabs to do tho so a bellyful of holes in both senses.
Great news re progress with the knee, @Obelixx.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.