Morning from sunny Snetchum, (that's how the locals say it). We went to Blickling Estate NT, yesterday, well we found it eventually as the sat nav struggled, our friends were driving. It kept clouding over and getting dark, so we concentrated on the house. The predicted rain never came, but when we got back it obviously had rained at theirs. Felbrigg sounds good might have to put it on the list for another time tho, as we have to go home tomorrow.
I hope you enjoyed Blickling once you got there @Allotment Boy. The house is my favourite of the Norfolk stately homes. I like the gardens of Houghton and Felbrigg. Now I'm in France Forkers are going to Norfolk!
My Covid test is negative so we will go to the SM. Nearly out of coffee and need fresh veg, though we had curly kale from the garden yesterday. It must be tough as it was still standing after the hail storm.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have a particular affection for Blickling Hall ... my Gt Aunt C was the housekeeper at the Marquis of Lothian's London House ... when he went to Blickling in the summer and for the shooting she would go too, just to ensure that things were done properly ... but she didn't have to do any actual 'work'. Apparently she loved it there ... she had a sad life, having lost her fiancé in WW1, and as her parents had no sons almost all the family property went to cousins, and she had to work which had not been her expectation ... she had a dodgy heart and a weak chest and died when I was a child ... I like to think of her having lovely summers at Blickling.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad you are enjoying your time in Snettisham @Allotment Boy. The weather in these parts can be very local, pouring in one town, sunny in the next one.
Didn't get as much done in the garden yesterday as I hoped - started off with potting things on (including some echium pininana seedlings pulled out of the gravel from a place where I recently attended a festival planning meeting and whose own specimens looked magnificent against the ruined castle walls in the grounds of his house!), but had to stop when the man finally, finally, came to measure up the gap to build us a plate rack in the kitchen. Then it rained so it was just a case of rescuing the basil before it got drowned.
I wonder how long before I get the drawing and quote - and then how much longer after that before I finally get the plate rack? He's very good; they build beautiful bespoke kitchens but he is very busy - and very chatty!
Glad you are now negative @Busy-Lizzie! And lovely photographs again @Pat E - your landscape is so very different from ours in Suffolk!
Hello all, much improved weather here today, The tomatoes are a jungle and the cucumbers are making a bid for freedom from the trellis, this is the trouble when you take your eye off them for five minutes. Glad you have a negative result @Busy-Lizzie, but don't over do it! We have our boosters to look foreward to next week. Son has his hernia op this afternoon and DIL is staying at the hospital until he is awake and ok, she says she doesn't want to lose sight of him again after his two months on the ventilator wth Covid, they have been very understanding at the hospital.
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Cool mornings and evenings still with warm days. The warm weather is imminent, so I am led to believe by the nice weather girl on the telly.
So, making the most of the cooler weather and weeding, deadheading and tying up tomatoes.
Expression: For all the Irenes on this site.... Le jour de Saint-Irène, C'est l'un des plus beaux jours de l'année.
Have a pleasant day.
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I hope you enjoyed Blickling once you got there @Allotment Boy. The house is my favourite of the Norfolk stately homes. I like the gardens of Houghton and Felbrigg. Now I'm in France Forkers are going to Norfolk!
My Covid test is negative
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm feeling slightly giddy
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Didn't get as much done in the garden yesterday as I hoped - started off with potting things on (including some echium pininana seedlings pulled out of the gravel from a place where I recently attended a festival planning meeting and whose own specimens looked magnificent against the ruined castle walls in the grounds of his house!), but had to stop when the man finally, finally, came to measure up the gap to build us a plate rack in the kitchen. Then it rained so it was just a case of rescuing the basil before it got drowned.
I wonder how long before I get the drawing and quote - and then how much longer after that before I finally get the plate rack? He's very good; they build beautiful bespoke kitchens but he is very busy - and very chatty!
Glad you are now negative @Busy-Lizzie! And lovely photographs again @Pat E - your landscape is so very different from ours in Suffolk!
OH has returned home ... his specs will be ready for him on 8/7. Now he is mending a small split in the timber of a door (wood glue and clamps).
BG man has been, serviced the boiler and pronounced it a big improvement on the old one which, to be fair, was a PITA for him to service and maintain.
Cucumbers have also been potted on into their final big/huge pots.
At the moment I'm waiting for paint to dry ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad you have a negative result @Busy-Lizzie, but don't over do it! We have our boosters to look foreward to next week.
Son has his hernia op this afternoon and DIL is staying at the hospital until he is awake and ok, she says she doesn't want to lose sight of him again after his two months on the ventilator wth Covid, they have been very understanding at the hospital.