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HELLO FORKERS 🌷 April ‘22 🐣🐣🐣

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I thought they were Emmets.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    I thought they were Emmets.
    In Cornwall they're Emmets  ;)
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    They were always grockles in Hampshire too 😎
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    chicky said:
    They were always grockles in Hampshire too 😎
    passing through en route from Surrey to Devon?
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Hostafan1 said:
    chicky said:
    They were always grockles in Hampshire too 😎
    passing through en route from Surrey to Devon?
    …..with a short pit stop to admire the vintage cars 🚗 

    However, can’t complain - they kept me gainfully employed during all my Uni holidays 💰
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Lovely photo @Pat E - it would make a great painting.  

    We don't disparage Emmets or Grockles here in East Suffolk - we welcome visitors as they are so important to our local economy.  But the second-homers - not so keen on them, pushing up house prices and leaving our towns and villages empty in the winter.

    Not getting much gardening done at the moment, even though the weather is so lovely. But yesterday managed to pot up the 8 delospermas I bought as a job lot (all different varieties) so am looking forward to some jewel-like colours later on.  Watered in but won't water again and they are in the really sunny bit outside the kitchen.  The tomatoes will be going in, in pots, behind them once they've grown on a bit.

    Off to see the garden visits page now to check out @chicky's Sarah Raven pics.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Tackling the veg plot this weekend. It's a mess of broken fences and net frames from the storms in February, and consequently very weedy. I've looked at it a few times in the last month but there's so much to do, I couldn't get motivated. But with 4 days of usable weather, time to deal with it, get seeds started and hopefully then feel a bit more in control
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    One for @Obelixx
    Time to think about getting the bananas out

    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    didyw said:

    We don't disparage Emmets or Grockles here in East Suffolk - we welcome visitors as they are so important to our local economy.  But the second-homers - not so keen on them, pushing up house prices and leaving our towns and villages empty in the winter.

    Sadly we were less righteous in the New Forest 😈.  But then we also had a massive oil refinery that provided employment for thousands - including both my parents, and those of 75% of my classmates.  Didn’t stop us moaning about the blot on the landscape though, or the smells, or the occasional showering of ashy powder 😵‍💫……


  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Devon.
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