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🐞HELLO FORKERS 🌷May ‘23 🌷🌷🌷

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh dear looks like you’re best off staying where you are @Ergates! Your OH too. 

    Fine and sunny here, although DS who was sitting on the shady terrace came in to say it had just started raining so I got the washing in and draped it on a rack upstairs … then the rain stopped. 😝 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Heavy rain here, but no thunder 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    Now I’m in the GC car park waiting to pick OH up from work … the sky to the southwest is black and very threatening… 

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Thunder has been rumbling around us all afternoon but not too close so far. Torrential downpours though. Not a day to be out, for sure
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Afternoon all, looks like the bad weather's just about to hit us, it's gone awfully dark.
    Hope my daughter's okay @Ergates, she lives not far from Exeter, fortunately at the top of a hill! Sounds like you're in the right place today.
    Went into town for a much needed haircut this morning, couldn't believe it took an hour to travel just three miles. Moved bus stops, errant buses, long queues etc, etc. That shortened my shopping time considerably so did some more after the haircut. Bought some summer pyjamas and nightdresses. M & S was full of what I call girly 'peasant' style floral dresses and tops - not my style and so long! I'd have to shorten them by yards.

    Whoops, two 12ft high birch trees have just marched past my side window as I type!
    The NDN's are having their front garden redone again, after spending a fortune on it just 3 or 4 years ago when they moved in. I saw 3 enormous  7ft high standard 'Red Robins' had been delivered when I got back home earlier. Somehow didn't spot the birch trees. If they stay where they are, they are going to partly block my view of the hills and woods opposite which will be a shame. The NDN's are not gardeners at all and I somehow doubt that the trees will survive, they'll require massive lots of watering. It can also be very windy here which I hope they've taken into account.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Now the heavens have opened … and we can hear the gods moving the furniture around again … ⛈ 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Two 6 inch pipes discharging the overflow from the lake 
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Good evening everyone,  it looks as though we escaped the worst of the rain here.  Most of today was dry if very humid and the occasional sharp shower. 
    Making slow progress on plots and in garden,  spending a lot of time shuffling things around,  trying to make space in the greenhouse.  We go away at the end of the month so we really need to get things out soon.
    AB Still learning

  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    I wonder who's awake. A lot of rain yesterday and throughout the night. Raining now. 
    Those overflow pipes are working hard @Hostafan1
    @Lizzie27 you couldn't have a more sterile garden than the new house next door to us, but I  hope those birches go where they don't bother you. 

    Well let's see if I can go back to 😴 

    Luxembourg
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 
    Hope you got back to sleep @coccinella 🛌 and that everyone else is well rested. 
    Weve had more rain but not in the amounts you in the west seem to have had. Think we’ve got more coming later in the day. 
    OH is still sound asleep 🤫  …. no coffee yet …. 

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





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