We have sun and a mild breeze here but I did check the rain radar map and see it's not so good for other Forkers in France. We are due a downpour early tomorrow.
I've been fiddling this morning. Clearing drawer space in case we do get Ukrainian guests, insulating round the new kitchen door, bit of painting, bit of clearing away, baking a loaf of bread and then a cooked breakfast for lunch. OH has been marking out more raised beds in the potager using old beams from the barn roofs that were blown off then laying down cardboard. The chooks have been helping.
Enjoy the rugby, those of you who are watching. Love coffee and walnut cake @D0rdogne_Damsel and now I can make it with our own walnuts. Hope the In Bloom thing goes well @didyw.
Enjoy your afternoon everyone. Mixed feelings about Paris @chicky. Hope you get some sun. When I went in Jan '17 with Possum it was very grey - skies, buildings, shutters, roads and pavements and the Seine was up so high only inflatable police dinghies could get under the arches.
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)."
@didyw Yes. Today's one was some remote island stuck right down near the Roaring Forties!!! Pretty impossible to guess unless you've done the round the world yacht race at least half a dozen times!!
Afternoon everyone, we spent most of the morning in the garden. When the wind dropped & the sun was out it was very pleasant. Still haven't put the Acer back in its proper pot, don't have the strength in my hands to lift it at the moment. (Well I do but I know it's going to hurt). So weeding top dressing and general tinkering, we love all our pots but they are a lot of work. Every once in a while we make efforts to reduce the numbers but we just seem to let them build up again.
Could never see what all the fuss is about with Paris - didn't like it much. But then I was there to work and have never done the sights, so may have a rather odd perspective. I've never really done the sights of London or Stockholm either, have only been to them to work, and much prefer either to Paris. Each to their own - hopefully @chicky will find something to admire in it that I couldn't see.
Sunny this morning but the sky is getting quite dark now - it'll soon be raining, I think. I've been doing h***w**k today. Visitor arriving tomorrow for a week
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That is such good news at last @Busy-Lizzie, hope you had a good journey and will be safely home in your own house shortly. Another lover of coffee and walnut cake here DD - but we don't have any, sigh. Happy Belated birthday to @Liriodendron, I'm sorry I forgot to add you to the list yesterday I believe. Hope you get the community planter done and the weather's not bad @didyw.
Enjoy your trip in Paris @chicky, I've never been, only driven around it.
It was rather pleasant with sunshine most of the morning here so I've started planting up my new bed and will treat myself to some new plants, probably alpines to go in the gaps. After lunch I tried levering agapanthus out of two big terracotta pots, big mistake, they were absolutely solid. Tried the old bread knife and the pruning saw but had to give up, my hands were hurting so much - rather like yours @Allotment Boy. I've poured buckets of water in the pots and will leave them overnight to see if that helps. I think when I repot them (presuming I can do that) I'll use big plastic pots inside the terracotta ones, hoping that might make the job easier in the future. I don't want to break the pots if I can help it, they were expensive frost proof ones. Next on the list is a similar job on the big hosta!
It's clouding over now and looks stormy, gale force winds are forecast for late evening.
I arrived home late afternoon having dropped off on route for supplies. The key opened the shutter, thank goodness. The car started first go, having sat at the airport.
Things needed doing like looking through the post, checking house and garden and starting up my Laptop. Laptop isn't working. Its desktop picture comes up but it won't do anything 😭
I need to take it to a computer place but I can't because I have to babysit for the week. I will need it to book the ferry ticket back so I hope I can get it sorted before then, even if it means buying a new one.
The garden is sodden, must have rained a lot.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning everyone. Fogged in this morning, so can’t see anything except Pixel sitting on the veranda railing. She apparently went for a walk early with our son all the was down to the river. He was hoping to get some photos of sunrise over the mountain from the perspective of being right down there, but the fog spoiled that.
Evening all, Been looking after the boys today as Secondborn had to go to a work seminar. Visiting Firstborn and the girls tomorrow so wont get any gardening done until Monday. I haven't sowed a single seed yet. Been to Paris a couple of times but my favourite city is New York. Although I have high hopes of Istanbul if I ever get there. Hope you have a good time Chicky. Had a load of logs delivered today, we are using the burner more this year to try and keep fuel costs down. Shell have put our monthly energy DD up by £80.
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I've been fiddling this morning. Clearing drawer space in case we do get Ukrainian guests, insulating round the new kitchen door, bit of painting, bit of clearing away, baking a loaf of bread and then a cooked breakfast for lunch. OH has been marking out more raised beds in the potager using old beams from the barn roofs that were blown off then laying down cardboard. The chooks have been helping.
Enjoy the rugby, those of you who are watching. Love coffee and walnut cake @D0rdogne_Damsel and now I can make it with our own walnuts. Hope the In Bloom thing goes well @didyw.
Enjoy your afternoon everyone. Mixed feelings about Paris @chicky. Hope you get some sun. When I went in Jan '17 with Possum it was very grey - skies, buildings, shutters, roads and pavements and the Seine was up so high only inflatable police dinghies could get under the arches.
Sunny this morning but the sky is getting quite dark now - it'll soon be raining, I think. I've been doing h***w**k today. Visitor arriving tomorrow for a week
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That is such good news at last @Busy-Lizzie, hope you had a good journey and will be safely home in your own house shortly.
Another lover of coffee and walnut cake here DD - but we don't have any, sigh.
Happy Belated birthday to @Liriodendron, I'm sorry I forgot to add you to the list yesterday I believe.
Hope you get the community planter done and the weather's not bad @didyw.
Enjoy your trip in Paris @chicky, I've never been, only driven around it.
It was rather pleasant with sunshine most of the morning here so I've started planting up my new bed and will treat myself to some new plants, probably alpines to go in the gaps. After lunch I tried levering agapanthus out of two big terracotta pots, big mistake, they were absolutely solid. Tried the old bread knife and the pruning saw but had to give up, my hands were hurting so much - rather like yours @Allotment Boy. I've poured buckets of water in the pots and will leave them overnight to see if that helps. I think when I repot them (presuming I can do that) I'll use big plastic pots inside the terracotta ones, hoping that might make the job easier in the future. I don't want to break the pots if I can help it, they were expensive frost proof ones. Next on the list is a similar job on the big hosta!
It's clouding over now and looks stormy, gale force winds are forecast for late evening.
Things needed doing like looking through the post, checking house and garden and starting up my Laptop. Laptop isn't working. Its desktop picture comes up but it won't do anything 😭
I need to take it to a computer place but I can't because I have to babysit for the week. I will need it to book the ferry ticket back so I hope I can get it sorted before then, even if it means buying a new one.
The garden is sodden, must have rained a lot.
Been to Paris a couple of times but my favourite city is New York. Although I have high hopes of Istanbul if I ever get there. Hope you have a good time Chicky.
Had a load of logs delivered today, we are using the burner more this year to try and keep fuel costs down. Shell have put our monthly energy DD up by £80.