Those dahlias look gorgeous @Busy-Lizzie. Glad you had a great time at your posh do. After we got back last night from watering the planters we look after in town for our In Bloom group, I gave the garden a good water and this morning it is all looking a bit perkier. Apart from a couple of short showers last week we still haven't had any rain. All the pavements in town are looking very grubby. And still no rain in the forecast. What is the betting that it will all come in October - on the weekend of the Food & Drink Festival I am planning! So pleased that you are able to spend some time with your daughters and grandsons @Hostafan1. We see our eldest granddaughter for her 17th birthday on Wednesday. I remember what I was like then - so sulky! She is much nicer than me than I was at her age.
Morning all from a not so sunny Croydon. I was awake at 1am, got up at 2am. I'd promised "not to arrive before 8am" so I left at 3.30 and arrived at 8.08.
Evening all, been a busy day running around organising medical matters for OH. He needed antibiotics for an infection which our GP organised quickly and we managed to pick them up from the pharmacy just before they closed tonight. We'd got delayed at the private hospital where OH had an appointment for a wound check, fortunately it was all ok. They'll check it again on Thursday after his physio session. They are also short staffed it seemed.
Hope you enjoy your break in Croydon @Hostafan1 and that your little one doesn't give you too much grief early in the morning.
We've had a couple of drizzly showers but not enough to make a difference.
Tomorrow I've got to get my skates on again as I've an early massage booked.
OH and I aren’t sure who will be keeping who up at night, let alone who will be bouncing on whose bed exclaiming ‘wake up! wake up! it’s morning!’ in Croydon.
We think they might both be as bad as each other 🤣 ❤️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oooo Croydon, now that's a memory from the past! I started life in Beckenham but my Mum used to drag me into the 'big town' of Croydon every now and again for the large stores - Kennards and Alders - and I remember the coffee shop opposite where you could get numerous different kinds of coffee ground while you waited - the smell travelled all down the main street. Then there was the old market street round the back full of noise and masses of folks, or it seemed to me to be a lot of people at my young age. Kennards has a lot to be blamed for as it got me into horses. They had a little sawdust ring in the basement with a couple of little ponies on a couple of days each week for the kids to ride. Oh the delight, I never looked back! I went to school in Croydon too @floralies from the age of 7 and when we moved to Purley I went in by train to East Croydon station. Stayed at the same school all my school years until I left after my GCSE's in 1958, by which time we were living on our first small holding in Selsdon and I had my own horse. Great years and many happy memories. Have a lovely time with the family and the little ones @Hostafan1.
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After we got back last night from watering the planters we look after in town for our In Bloom group, I gave the garden a good water and this morning it is all looking a bit perkier. Apart from a couple of short showers last week we still haven't had any rain. All the pavements in town are looking very grubby. And still no rain in the forecast.
What is the betting that it will all come in October - on the weekend of the Food & Drink Festival I am planning!
So pleased that you are able to spend some time with your daughters and grandsons @Hostafan1. We see our eldest granddaughter for her 17th birthday on Wednesday. I remember what I was like then - so sulky! She is much nicer than me than I was at her age.
I was awake at 1am, got up at 2am.
I'd promised "not to arrive before 8am" so I left at 3.30 and arrived at 8.08.
Hope you enjoy your break in Croydon @Hostafan1 and that your little one doesn't give you too much grief early in the morning.
We've had a couple of drizzly showers but not enough to make a difference.
Tomorrow I've got to get my skates on again as I've an early massage booked.
I've been gardening this afternoon, weeding tying up, cutting back, planting some recently bought plants for gaps where plants have died.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have a lovely time with the family and the little ones @Hostafan1.