Good morning all 😊 ☕️ glad you’ve found us again @Pat E 😊 lovely tomatoes 👍
We've both woken feeling ‘normal’ so, so far so good. We spoke to MIL last night and she said she felt the same … no better but no worse. Hopefully, if she only has a mild dose it means that she wasn’t breathing out a high enough concentration of the virus for us to get it.
I used to get styes when I was in my early teens @Nanny Beach … Golden EyeOintment is what the chemist used to give us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're off on a little getaway today (nowhere exciting, just down to the coast) so hopefully no random freezes over the weekend.
I was listening to an interesting podcast yesterday, all about how gardening is a therapy tool. As an occupational therapist therapeutic horticulture is something I was aware of and the podcast was a very simple overview that really missed the OT side of things (hosted by a Psychiatrist... so of course) but it's incredible how green spaces can make us feel better. The lady was talking about it linking to our evolution from the plains of Africa as to why it makes us feels more at ease - green spaces mean water, life, fruit and safety.
In slightly less philosophical news, our neighbours massive fir tree is dropping it's pine cones again all over our garden, I'm petrified one is going to land on the greenhouse and shatter it as they come down with such force!
Dove,that reminds me of some rude joke about a cats rear end! You recovered from my news then. I've been doing the warm water flannel thing. I'm very careful (aseptic technique and all that) I have sensitive eyes..blephisol solution and hyperamelose eye drops. I look disgusting,and of course can't wear makeup 😒
Morning everyone, well our big news is we have a milkman, not had one for over 20 years.we were cold called, by a chap, talking about the "modern Milkman " all managed on line. He wasn't pushy, I was just coming back from the plots, & he was talking to OH, so he said he would come back when we had a chance to discuss it. We looked them up on line, seems they were featured on countryfile. They are working directly with the farmers, giving them a better price. Glass bottles of course, more expensive than SM price but we thought we would give it a go.
@Allotment Boy is it Milk&More you're using, or another one. We use them ... we started using them in the first lockdown, and although there were a few hiccups to start with (think it was to do with lockdown and Covid etc) things seem to be going well now. What I like is that it's so easy to cancel if we're going away at short notice (as last week). It is a bit pricier, but given that we'd have to get the car out to go to the shops ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear about your styes @Nanny Beach - hope you find the right solution for them (see what I did there?). I like to wear cotton nighties in bed. Good luck with making yours @Obelixx. Those ranunculas look amazing @chicky. Not something I've ever grown. Enjoy your getaway @takhana. We grew some toms last year similar looking to those @Pat E. Delicious. They were sown late @Hostafan1 and I don't know if that contributed to the fact that they (and the other varieties we grew) didn't succumb to blight, or whether we were just lucky. Sowed earlier this year and the pricked out seedlings are now in the zip-up GH. Fingers crossed for this year. My morning visit to the turk's cap lilies showed them to be lily beetle free at the moment. The leaves are full of holes as they seem to have attracted all the lily beetles in the neighbourhood thus far. I've killed a good couple of dozen since I first spotted them a few days ago. Got two who were actually bonking yesterday.
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glad you’ve found us again @Pat E 😊 lovely tomatoes 👍
We've both woken feeling ‘normal’ so, so far so good. We spoke to MIL last night and she said she felt the same … no better but no worse. Hopefully, if she only has a mild dose it means that she wasn’t breathing out a high enough concentration of the virus for us to get it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was listening to an interesting podcast yesterday, all about how gardening is a therapy tool. As an occupational therapist therapeutic horticulture is something I was aware of and the podcast was a very simple overview that really missed the OT side of things (hosted by a Psychiatrist... so of course) but it's incredible how green spaces can make us feel better. The lady was talking about it linking to our evolution from the plains of Africa as to why it makes us feels more at ease - green spaces mean water, life, fruit and safety.
In slightly less philosophical news, our neighbours massive fir tree is dropping it's pine cones again all over our garden, I'm petrified one is going to land on the greenhouse and shatter it as they come down with such force!
Off to the tulip festival at Arundel Castle this morning…..did I mention I love tulips 🌷 🌷🌷🌷🌷
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Enjoy your getaway @takhana.
We grew some toms last year similar looking to those @Pat E. Delicious. They were sown late @Hostafan1 and I don't know if that contributed to the fact that they (and the other varieties we grew) didn't succumb to blight, or whether we were just lucky. Sowed earlier this year and the pricked out seedlings are now in the zip-up GH. Fingers crossed for this year.
My morning visit to the turk's cap lilies showed them to be lily beetle free at the moment. The leaves are full of holes as they seem to have attracted all the lily beetles in the neighbourhood thus far. I've killed a good couple of dozen since I first spotted them a few days ago. Got two who were actually bonking yesterday.