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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I got too hot in the garden today,  had to come in. 
    Was cold in bed last night,   May have to wear something a bit more substantial,   like long flannel nightdress suitable for my age or even pyjamas! 😱
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know the family that is looking after the baby that survived the Syrian earthquake is doing its best but they definitely need some advice on nutrition.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I smashed my favourite bone china mug today.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lizzie27 said:
    I smashed my favourite bone china mug today.
    I'm so sorry about that, @Lizzie27
    A favourite mug can be so special, and nearly always irreplaceable.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited August 2023
    Thanks @rowlandscastle444, that's my second smash in 12 months. The first was a very bling one which had 'Gorgeous Grandma' in gold on it. I quite liked that one as well.
    Oh well, another buying opportunity!

    Meant to add I'm also peeved because the bottle of non-alcoholic wine I bought tastes just like fruit juice, nothing like wine.  Any recommendations for white/blush please? Rather have a thimble full of the proper stuff, not that I'm an alcoholic you understand. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • @Lizzie27 I'm learning to buy things in twos, if I can. 
    How often I have bought something breakable - and broken it.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Now that's a very good idea!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited August 2023
    I had a set of 6 bone china mugs from the RHS shop with botanical drawings of assorted fruits on them.  Bought about 10 years ago.   Only 2 left now as 4 have succumbed to being on the coffee table at Bonzo tail wagging height.  The RHS has discontinued them and I don't like aniy of the newer models.
    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
    Have you tried this and similar companies?
    https://www.chinamatchers.co.uk/

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





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @obelixx, - oops, an accident waiting to happen that. I remember those mugs, rather nice as I recall.

    @Dovefromabove, thanks for that link, I could see my mum's Old English Roses set in the pic, she had oodles of it but thankfully my brother got it not me!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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