Morning everyone. DD, I echo everyone’s thoughts about the lovely example you have given Charlie. He won’t forget. 👏👏
It was minus 8C in Cooma (our local town) this morning according to the weather channel and when I peeped out through the curtains, the leafless shrubs had white spider webs all over the branches. Brr! I haven’t been outside. I laughed when I let Pixel out for her morning walkies and checked through the window shortly after and she was curled into a ball near the door. She didn’t hesitate to come back inside. She curled up in front of the fire for the next half hour or so. 😁 I don’t think she’ll ask to go out again for a while.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 19C here at the moment … and heading upwards … the sky is hazy at the moment and the forecast predicts a cloudy day … but temps in the low 30s …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have the same temperatures here in Dordogne, except we have sunshine. I'm a bit worried about our Norfolk garden. The kind lady next door has been watering the herb pots and the lady gardener waters from the butts, but I expect the butts will run dry soon. We leave the water turned off but that means the outside tap is off too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, Thank you for the kind words and advice about Charlie. I know all will be fine, it is just going to take a bit of time to adjust. Someone said that children being horrible teenagers is so that when they leave home you are relieved not bereft, Fortunately/unfortunately Charlie hasn't been a horrible teenager, more like a best friend to me, so I suppose that is what is making it more difficult. Anyway, it's all good for him.
I do have new excitement in my life, the bird box next to my breakfast table is a hive of activity, the parents are flitting in and out with mouths full of caterpillars feeding the very noisy babies, I even seen a tiny mouth at the hole, absolutely fascinating.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Great pic @D0rdogne_Damsel. Only just catching up here, but know how you feel about Charlie. I know it seems daunting, but I’m sure you’ll soon adjust to the next steps in your relationship - and that will be just as good. You’ve given him such a great start. Also agree that showing him how to work hard to achieve your CdeG dreams is a very valuable life lesson for him - more so than devoting all your waking minutes to him alone. So don’t beat yourself up 😀. When the Chicklets left for Uni I was bereft for weeks, but it gets easier, and the new normal turned out to be good fun too.
Tomatoes and squashes etc fed and watered, and the sprinkler is on the runner beans for a few minutes (I put the sprinkler in beaneath/between the two sides of the canes) ... we were going to have gammon steaks with jacket potatoes (done in the slow cooker) and tinned sweetcorn ... change of menu ... we need to eat more runner beans ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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It was minus 8C in Cooma (our local town) this morning according to the weather channel and when I peeped out through the curtains, the leafless shrubs had white spider webs all over the branches. Brr! I haven’t been outside. I laughed when I let Pixel out for her morning walkies and checked through the window shortly after and she was curled into a ball near the door. She didn’t hesitate to come back inside. She curled up in front of the fire for the next half hour or so. 😁 I don’t think she’ll ask to go out again for a while.
19C here at the moment … and heading upwards … the sky is hazy at the moment and the forecast predicts a cloudy day … but temps in the low 30s …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have the same temperatures here in Dordogne, except we have sunshine. I'm a bit worried about our Norfolk garden. The kind lady next door has been watering the herb pots and the lady gardener waters from the butts, but I expect the butts will run dry soon. We leave the water turned off but that means the outside tap is off too.
I do have new excitement in my life, the bird box next to my breakfast table is a hive of activity, the parents are flitting in and out with mouths full of caterpillars feeding the very noisy babies, I even seen a tiny mouth at the hole, absolutely fascinating.
don't tell pritti patel , she'll have 'im on the one way trip to Rwanda
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.