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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lovely @Dovefromabove. I'm looking forward to mine flowering. They're all poking through well.
    I walked past a house near me yesterday though, and he has loads coming through and a couple had buds showing. I think mine are slightly later than the bog standard ones. No idea what they are - a gift from my sister when I moved in here almost 10 years ago.

    My RTBC is that I ordered raspberries a week or so ago, after s chat on the forum. They arrived on Friday and I managed to get them heeled into a trough during a brief dry-ish spell. Now I just have to work out where I'm actually putting them.... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My snowdrops were a birthday present from OH some years ago now ... he ordered a load of them from Broadleigh, several different types then but they've been pretty promiscuous since then  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My snowdrops were a birthday present from OH some years ago now ... he ordered a load of them from Broadleigh, several different types then but they've been pretty promiscuous since then  :D
    oh err missus.... :*  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I was watching a programme about conservation/restoration work at Lincoln Cathedral.  They were talking to a young lady who was coming to the end of her apprenticeship as a stonemason.  She said "Before I started the apprenticeship I'd been to university studying art.  I now have a degree in 'Colouring In'.  Love her sense of humour, and she needs it as works predominantly with a load of men.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    When l was told this news this morning, l was sorry to hear it, but then...
    https://radiotoday.co.uk/2023/01/17/ken-bruce-to-leave-bbc-radio-2-for-greatest-hits-radio/

    He's off to Greatest Hits Radio, still doing Popmaster 😁.

    What with him and Simon Mayo on the same station, l'm a happy bunny. No more Radio 2 for me, so they've achieved what they set out to do.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    From various articles I've read, BBC Radio is losing listeners by the million on all stations.  Perfect excuse for them to cut back even more and reduce the number of stations in use.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well, R3 will stay on here for an extra half hour … and then we’ll find our way up Ken’s new home …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @herbaceous, Good for you, a nice variety of bargains there and lovely for you to be able to start gardening again - and to have a helper! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    You have no idea @Lizzie27 just so happy today.

    Good news about your boiler chappie too maybe Mars is no longer in conjunction with Saturn and good things are on the way, hope so.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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