The tennis was good @Busy-Lizzie … not great but good … it would have been lovely had the other won, but I think the occasion suddenly got to her … whereas the winner really was able to focus on the task in hand. She played really well … I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of both of them.
I’ve a feeling we may be in for a humdinger this afternoon …
That sounds like a lovely evening @D0rdogne_Damsel and that cake looks very good indeed 😊
Another morning of blue sky and birdsong … think I’d better get the watering done nice and early … it’s going to be very warm today.
I’m going to put a chicken in the slow cooker … that’ll avoid having the oven on … and I can cook the potatoes around it too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are going to visit an open garden today about half an hour away. The owners are a lovely French couple who used to visit my old garden when I opened it, even though it was just over an hour's drive away for them. There is another open garden too, very nearby.
I bought a salmon and leek pie, potato, not pastry, in Leclerc from the fish counter which I thought was a bit extravagant for 2 people, but it turned out to be enough for 4. We are having the other half tonight, followed by bread and butter pudding that I made yesterday - enough for 4 as well. Good thing OH doesn't mind having the same meal twice, he liked it. The pie was excellent.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all. Breakfast out this morning, and should get a walk before it’s too hot. Not a cloud in the sky. Turkey steaks for lunch today, perhaps with new potatoes. Would love a slice or three of that apricot cake, Damsel! Still haven’t done the bramble shredding!
@punkdoc ... having been married to a builder for a good many years, can I suggest that you talk to the builders about your garden, show them the plants, especially the 'special ones' and ask them to take as much care as possible. Explain that you know that there may be mishaps and a casualty or two, but that you would appreciate them taking care ... the many builders have homes and gardens, even allotments ... if they don't their parents and grandparents do. Provide them with lots of tea, coffee, Hobnobs and cold drinks ... remember their names and who takes sugar ... things like that really help.
OH has cut a diagonal across the 'lawn and mowed the half nearest the house and the border ... that way the rampaging 'wild flowers and grasses' are a little way away from the flower bed, while leaving the flowers and seeding grasses for the wildlife ... and that's also the area that's alongside the pavement that the children use on their way to school ... and they like the flowers and insect life ... and it looks very good indeed 😎
I am 'nicely chilled'... aka 'drenched' ... you know when you've turned the hose pipe tap right off ... but you've actually turned it the wrong way ... and then you connect it to the sprinkler behind the runner beans? I nearly fell flat on my face behind the beans with surprise ... it would've been ages before he found me there ... I'd have been very muddy 😱🤣
Now the pair of robins who have nestlings in the box behind the clematis in the corner of the front garden are very busy gathering beaks full of insects and grubs from the mowed bit and along the edges ... I'll plug the soaker hose on there in a bit and soften the ground up a bit for them to root around in.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They'll probably be grateful if coffee etc is offered at regular times ... most like to stick to a routine so if you ask when they'd like it ... many will Stop for Popmaster of course
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are going to visit an open garden today about half an hour away. The owners are a lovely French couple who used to visit my old garden when I opened it, even though it was just over an hour's drive away for them. There is another open garden too, very nearby.
I bought a salmon and leek pie, potato, not pastry, in Leclerc from the fish counter which I thought was a bit extravagant for 2 people, but it turned out to be enough for 4. We are having the other half tonight, followed by bread and butter pudding that I made yesterday - enough for 4 as well. Good thing OH doesn't mind having the same meal twice, he liked it. The pie was excellent.
Still haven’t done the bramble shredding!
Another stonking day here.
Still need to move a few more pots before the builders arrive [ hopefully ]. Wondering how much damage they will cause,
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.