Mighty storm during the night with a good downfall - again. Temperature dropped drastically so the air is breathable. I sowed some cabbage and parsnip seeds yesterday evening - directly, so I hope this rain will encourage germination.
Glad to read that you haven't suffered too much damage from the storm last week @Busy-Lizzie and @D0rdogne_Damsel
Glass is a good idea on the veranda for winter heat @Pat E How will you fare in summer?
Weeding, weeding, picking up leaves and deadheading seem to be on the agenda recently - strike while the iron is hot - or rather the air is cool!!
Morning all, a bit wet and murky here, I've been messing about on the computer this morning when I should have been making cakes, so sorry, just a quick hello and I am off.
Hope you are all well.
Happy Sunday.
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Morning all. Great excitement in our little village. We are finally 'on the map' as a 'hairy' bumble bee has been found here for the first time in 50 years - not sure if it is 50 years in the whole of Carmarthenshire or 50 years in the whole of Wales - but we (or rather the bumble bee) have even made it into the newspapers and our little village of Brechfa is now famous! We live some 800ft above the village in the massive Brechfa forest and last week in all the hot weather our garden was a mass of busy bumble bees, pity I didn't know about this then coz I could have checked them all out. Now the weather has turned they have all disappeared!
Does it burn well @Pat E, no spluttering and sparking?
I feel better today, not right yet but every little helps.
Cool and grey outside, better from tomorrow so I hope I will be better enough to make a start on the garden. Looking forward to sweeping the terrace and getting out the garden sofa and table chairs. I'm sure that will make OH happier. He's itching to go to the SM but I told him it's too soon. I'll do a test first, but I only have 3 and don't want to waste them.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning everyone, cool and wet today, what a change in the temperature! Just the weather for causing blight on the tomatoes. We have been busy in the garden catching up after the high temperatures, why is the b****y bindweed so bad this year? Good to hear you are on the mend @Busy-Lizzie, take it easy though. My son is having a double hernia op on Tuesday, they now feel he is well enough to have an op two years after his Covid ventilation, he is rather fearful of it as it reminds him of all that has gone before, plenty of re-assurance given from this end! Have a good day all.
Congratulations on your hairy bumblebee @AnnaB! Stunning photograph @Pat E - does the eucalyptus wood emit a nice scent as it burns? Glad you are feeling better @Busy-Lizzie Good luck to your son with his double-hernia op @floralies. My husband had that but his was more complicated as he'd previously had an op to repair an aneurysm and they had to open him up in the same area. Right - off to tackle the green alkanet that should have been tackled weeks ago and to plant some nicotianas I picked up at our plant stall the other day.
I've just been outside to see what the temperature is - it's only 12 deg! This is crazy weather as we were touching 40 deg ten days ago, I think I'll hae to find some socks!
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Mighty storm during the night with a good downfall - again. Temperature dropped drastically so the air is breathable. I sowed some cabbage and parsnip seeds yesterday evening - directly, so I hope this rain will encourage germination.
Glad to read that you haven't suffered too much damage from the storm last week @Busy-Lizzie and @D0rdogne_Damsel
Glass is a good idea on the veranda for winter heat @Pat E How will you fare in summer?
Weeding, weeding, picking up leaves and deadheading seem to be on the agenda recently - strike while the iron is hot - or rather the air is cool!!
Enjoy your Sunday!
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Hope you are all well.
Happy Sunday.
Does it burn well @Pat E, no spluttering and sparking?
I feel better today, not right yet but every little helps.
Cool and grey outside, better from tomorrow so I hope I will be better enough to make a start on the garden. Looking forward to sweeping the terrace and getting out the garden sofa and table chairs. I'm sure that will make OH happier. He's itching to go to the SM but I told him it's too soon. I'll do a test first, but I only have 3 and don't want to waste them.
Good to hear you are on the mend @Busy-Lizzie, take it easy though.
My son is having a double hernia op on Tuesday, they now feel he is well enough to have an op two years after his Covid ventilation, he is rather fearful of it as it reminds him of all that has gone before, plenty of re-assurance given from this end!
Have a good day all.
Stunning photograph @Pat E - does the eucalyptus wood emit a nice scent as it burns?
Glad you are feeling better @Busy-Lizzie
Good luck to your son with his double-hernia op @floralies. My husband had that but his was more complicated as he'd previously had an op to repair an aneurysm and they had to open him up in the same area.
Right - off to tackle the green alkanet that should have been tackled weeks ago and to plant some nicotianas I picked up at our plant stall the other day.