Grey & wet out there today. Just as well - I have a lot of computer work today and still some pictures to get into their frames. Primrose, snowdrops and aconites out in the garden but I see lots of shoots of the Star of Bethlehem bulbs that were inherited with the house and which I thought I had dug out completely last year, havingĀ filled 2 1lt flower pots with the tiny bulbs of the damn things.Ā Other things are now planted in the areas they are in so I am horrified to see them popping up again as if I had done nothing at all last year.Ā Nothing for it but to get down and try and get as many bulbs as I can out again.Ā I suspect this is going to be an annual job each spring now.
Iām feeling very relieved. I havenāt been feeling up to parĀ lately, so we went to the show Ground this morning and had our covid tests done. Iāve had a response (12.30 pm) to advise that Iām negative. Whee! Ā Thatās a relief. Ā Hubbyāsresults are not through yet, but Iāve my fingers crossed that by morning we will get an other negative response.Ā
I have spent a large part of this morning befuddling myself.Ā Started with being up at 7:30 which is definitely "Yikes!" for me as I usually wake up around then and read a while.Ā Ā Drove Possum to La Roche for a 9am appointment with an employment psychologist - all part of the employment seekers package here and some good advice given.Ā Ā Still waiting for one - in theory - final document from Belgium tho before she can get a proper job.
While she did that I went to Leclerc cos they stock Heinz baked beans and have spring onions and pak choi and then, having picked up Possum again, off to the patchwork fabric shop.Ā I needed a walking foot for my portable machine and raid cos she's got a 50% off sale on all her fabrics so I trotted in with the idea of getting all I need for a Twister, a Convergence, an HST class and a table runner project.Ā Needless to say the colour coordination and matches I needed were not all there so I've had to think laterally which, I find, is not possible for 4 projects at once.
Home to spicy pumpkin soup and home-made bread.Ā Chooks let out to play after givig Greta her medicine and now to sort said fabrics rationally.Ā Well that's the idea.
Sun is just coming out after a wet and grey morning.Ā Ā It is very soggy out there but I have snowdrops peeking thru in two shady north facing beds and little dwarf irises in a sunny bed and one very healthy looking hellebore clump in flower a well as a few shrubs.Ā
@Dovefromabove Can you remind of the plant you gave me when you were last here? The label has faded. Sorry.
Arisaema tortuosum ... Whipcord Cobra Lily ............ at least that's what I was told when I was given the original plant and that's what it looks like.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Primrose, snowdrops and aconites out in the garden but I see lots of shoots of the Star of Bethlehem bulbs that were inherited with the house and which I thought I had dug out completely last year, havingĀ filled 2 1lt flower pots with the tiny bulbs of the damn things.Ā Other things are now planted in the areas they are in so I am horrified to see them popping up again as if I had done nothing at all last year.Ā Nothing for it but to get down and try and get as many bulbs as I can out again.Ā I suspect this is going to be an annual job each spring now.
We have snow and gales here, not nice.
@tui34, a huge relief to sell the house so quickly, Moira will go up to help clear the house, plus me if I am well enough.
I am in trouble today, Moira is annoyed with my face [ understandable ] I am not shaving enough and my face is like sand paper, she says.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@tui34, OH won't come back to France until he's had the op.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can you remind of the plant you gave me when you were last here? The label has faded. Sorry.
While she did that I went to Leclerc cos they stock Heinz baked beans and have spring onions and pak choi and then, having picked up Possum again, off to the patchwork fabric shop.Ā I needed a walking foot for my portable machine and raid cos she's got a 50% off sale on all her fabrics so I trotted in with the idea of getting all I need for a Twister, a Convergence, an HST class and a table runner project.Ā Needless to say the colour coordination and matches I needed were not all there so I've had to think laterally which, I find, is not possible for 4 projects at once.
Home to spicy pumpkin soup and home-made bread.Ā Chooks let out to play after givig Greta her medicine and now to sort said fabrics rationally.Ā Well that's the idea.
Sun is just coming out after a wet and grey morning.Ā Ā It is very soggy out there but I have snowdrops peeking thru in two shady north facing beds and little dwarf irises in a sunny bed and one very healthy looking hellebore clump in flower a well as a few shrubs.Ā
Hope the packing and tidying go well @Busy-Lizzie and you have a good trip.Ā Same to you @D0rdogne_Damsel.
Good news @punkdoc and @Hostafan1.Ā Ā Ā
Have a lovely afternoon everyone whatever you're doing.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.