Good morning to the early birds @Dovefromabove and @janetfoss Good afternoon to @Pat E Now you have gone into "real" time. Hope you have a mild winter as we have had here in the northern hemisphere.
No so for spring!!! It's soooo cold. 0.8°C this morning and the wind is still bitter BUT it is sunny - still; I am not venturing outside just yet. OH has already cycled down the road and got croissants and pains au chocolat! Way to go. Would you care for one with your coffee, Dove?
My plants in the conservatory (unheated) are on hold and the few tomatoes that have surfaced are purple. No worries. They will catch up as the seasons progress. Wind due to abate this afternoon.
Cold. Big frost, my poor fruit blossom, -4° earlier, now +4°.
No plans for today, too cold outside, unless it warms up. Maybe I could hem the last pair of curtains in the sitting room, full length, French windows.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Now there's a piece of brisket in the slowcooker; it's sitting on a sliced onion and with an inch or two of red wine lapping around it's nether regions, along with thyme and bay leaves and some crushed juniper berries. Potatoes and parsnips have been peeled and purple sprouting broccoli has been prepped and washed. I'll make Yorkshire pudding batter later ... we're not eating until this evening. While that's been happening on I've been catching up with the goings on in Ambridge ... goodness me!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes @Hostafan1 ... the magnolia across the rise that looked glorious yesterday is a sad picture today ... but it's been out for a week so it's done well really.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, snow showers and sunny intervals here, at least the wind has gone away. I have told the plug plants not to get too cosy indoors as they will be going back in the GH before too long! Cherry and plum blossom had almost finished so hope they will be ok, haven't ventured as far as S Amistads they had leaves on them the other day.
Cold here too with a brisk breeze and sunshine between scudding clouds. OH and I have been to the plant fair and Heritage Man was there so I now have 20 teeny tomato plants. Too small to plant out so they're tucked up in the polytunnel with a good drink and will be potted on in the next few days so they can grow big roots before I plant them out.
I also bought two large heucheras and 5 small aquilegias for less than in GCs and they too are tucked up out of the wind. Going to freeze again tonight so they'll be there a few days.
Too cold to garden and just a bit dry too so I'm off to sew this pm, ready for a full day workshop tomorrow. Skirting boards to take upstairs too, ready for installing on Tuesday. Then I can clear all the plastic sheets off the dining table and fee it up for my cutting mat. Strip piecing project coming up.
Good day for sewing curtain hems @Busy-Lizzie. No croissants here @tui34. We've tried the ones in the village and the next two villages but they're not a patch on the ones in our Belgian village. People came for miles to buy his croissants, pains au chocolate, craquelin and cramique (fancy brioche), pain forestier and his tarts.
No radio 3 or 4 here @Dovefromabove. I'd have to have a PC in the bedroom and that's a no-no, along with a mobile phones and TV.
Forgot to say that on teh way home we pass a place called La Cigogne (stork) and, sure enough, a row of trees between fields had several storks sitting on huge nests. Wonderful.
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)."
Looks as if one of 'our' garden pigeons (after whom I was named 🕊) had a narrow escape early this morning ... there are feathers on the grass ... not a lot so either a marauding cat or a sparrowhawk made a grab and the pigeon escaped. I don't think it could've been carried off without a lot more feathers being shed ... unless it was a local buzzard, and I've never seen one come that close to houses ... or one of the peregrines fro the cathedral, and they usually take their pigeons on the wing ... I did once see one swoop and take a pigeon off the ridge of a neighbouring roof, but I don't think they would venture down into the garden, especially when there are so many town pigeons in the city centre ... they're easy pickings for a peregrine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No so for spring!!! It's soooo cold. 0.8°C this morning and the wind is still bitter BUT it is sunny - still; I am not venturing outside just yet. OH has already cycled down the road and got croissants and pains au chocolat! Way to go. Would you care for one with your coffee, Dove?
My plants in the conservatory (unheated) are on hold and the few tomatoes that have surfaced are purple. No worries. They will catch up as the seasons progress. Wind due to abate this afternoon.
I wish you all a pleasant Sunday.
Admin. today followed by Sunday lunch at daughterperson's. But first - seek out Dove's Daybreak video.
Cold. Big frost, my poor fruit blossom, -4° earlier, now +4°.
No plans for today, too cold outside, unless it warms up. Maybe I could hem the last pair of curtains in the sitting room, full length, French windows.
Now there's a piece of brisket in the slowcooker; it's sitting on a sliced onion and with an inch or two of red wine lapping around it's nether regions, along with thyme and bay leaves and some crushed juniper berries. Potatoes and parsnips have been peeled and purple sprouting broccoli has been prepped and washed. I'll make Yorkshire pudding batter later ... we're not eating until this evening. While that's been happening on I've been catching up with the goings on in Ambridge ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lots of very unhappy Magnolias spotted too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I also bought two large heucheras and 5 small aquilegias for less than in GCs and they too are tucked up out of the wind. Going to freeze again tonight so they'll be there a few days.
Too cold to garden and just a bit dry too so I'm off to sew this pm, ready for a full day workshop tomorrow. Skirting boards to take upstairs too, ready for installing on Tuesday. Then I can clear all the plastic sheets off the dining table and fee it up for my cutting mat. Strip piecing project coming up.
Good day for sewing curtain hems @Busy-Lizzie. No croissants here @tui34. We've tried the ones in the village and the next two villages but they're not a patch on the ones in our Belgian village. People came for miles to buy his croissants, pains au chocolate, craquelin and cramique (fancy brioche), pain forestier and his tarts.
No radio 3 or 4 here @Dovefromabove. I'd have to have a PC in the bedroom and that's a no-no, along with a mobile phones and TV.
Forgot to say that on teh way home we pass a place called La Cigogne (stork) and, sure enough, a row of trees between fields had several storks sitting on huge nests. Wonderful.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.