Evening everyone. Thank you to @Dovefromabove for starting us off for June.
Busy work diary this week and next but then a week off, so no need to check the forecast as that will guarantee rain. My garden and water butts need it, but I would really appreciate at least a few days in the garden.
I’ll take a cupcake too! Fingers crossed all goes smoothly @D0rdogne_Damsel - you deserve some luck.
I finished weeding the veg garden. The beans, dwarf and runners still showed no sign. I had a dig about and found stems but no seed or leaves of the dwarf beans and nothing at all of the runners. I sowed more seeds, having soaked them in meths first and put down some ferrous slug pellets.
We went to the SM this afternoon. Bought some Prosecco for my sister's 70th birthday party on the 10th June.
I was deadheading roses and saw a bright green lizard, quite big, in the border. I rushed off to get my camera and when I came back it was still there! When I tried a closer photo it shot off.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We’ve had a very busy day in the garden, cutting back the hedge which forms our front boundary, so acts as security for us. It’s a combination of typical English hedgerow, so we need to protect ourselves from sharp thorns when cutting it back. (Hawthorne, briar, ivy, etc). It’s put on a huge growth spurt and thickened out again (I estimate almost 5 feet deep and 6 feet high) so required a lot of work. However, it looks much tidier now. Not sure how much longer OH and I will be able to tackle it by ourselves, it’s exhausting and we’re no longer spring chickens. I think before too long, we’ll have to pay someone to do the heavy work of it, and we’ll just trim it as and when. I suppose we could have it taken out and just make do with the fence (which we have in front of it, garden side), but as I say, it’s security, plus (and importantly), a haven for wildlife, and it deadens road noise. We’ll keep plodding on for now. I really do like it, but perhaps we should consider getting someone in to lower and thin it a bit more.
Love the lizard, @Busy-Lizzie . He really blends in, doesn’t he?
Was just shutting down my laptop after a tiring day when I realised I hadn't done Wordle or popped by here to wish everyone a great June and to thank Dove for starting us off!
Tiring because I took OH to the hospital after his visit to the doctor. He has been diagnosed with angina and is being treated with medication to start with. He'll be called back for an angiogram in a few weeks and, depending on the results of that, may have to have a stent.
We were at the hospital for a few hours, but only because things take as long as they take - no unnecessary waiting. Everyone was very pleasant, the doctor really listened to what my OH had to say and explained his diagnosis and the treatment really clearly and was a thoroughly nice chap. A positive experience but, being nearly an hour's drive away, quite exhausting. We just flopped in front of the tv this evening - even though we had tickets for a show at our local theatre this evening.
And I really should be in bed by now! Night night all.
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I finished weeding the veg garden. The beans, dwarf and runners still showed no sign. I had a dig about and found stems but no seed or leaves of the dwarf beans and nothing at all of the runners. I sowed more seeds, having soaked them in meths first and put down some ferrous slug pellets.
We went to the SM this afternoon. Bought some Prosecco for my sister's 70th birthday party on the 10th June.
I was deadheading roses and saw a bright green lizard, quite big, in the border. I rushed off to get my camera and when I came back it was still there! When I tried a closer photo it shot off.
We’ve had a very busy day in the garden, cutting back the hedge which forms our front boundary, so acts as security for us. It’s a combination of typical English hedgerow, so we need to protect ourselves from sharp thorns when cutting it back. (Hawthorne, briar, ivy, etc). It’s put on a huge growth spurt and thickened out again (I estimate almost 5 feet deep and 6 feet high) so required a lot of work. However, it looks much tidier now. Not sure how much longer OH and I will be able to tackle it by ourselves, it’s exhausting and we’re no longer spring chickens. I think before too long, we’ll have to pay someone to do the heavy work of it, and we’ll just trim it as and when. I suppose we could have it taken out and just make do with the fence (which we have in front of it, garden side), but as I say, it’s security, plus (and importantly), a haven for wildlife, and it deadens road noise.
We’ll keep plodding on for now. I really do like it, but perhaps we should consider getting someone in to lower and thin it a bit more.
Was just shutting down my laptop after a tiring day when I realised I hadn't done Wordle or popped by here to wish everyone a great June and to thank Dove for starting us off!
Tiring because I took OH to the hospital after his visit to the doctor. He has been diagnosed with angina and is being treated with medication to start with. He'll be called back for an angiogram in a few weeks and, depending on the results of that, may have to have a stent.
We were at the hospital for a few hours, but only because things take as long as they take - no unnecessary waiting. Everyone was very pleasant, the doctor really listened to what my OH had to say and explained his diagnosis and the treatment really clearly and was a thoroughly nice chap. A positive experience but, being nearly an hour's drive away, quite exhausting. We just flopped in front of the tv this evening - even though we had tickets for a show at our local theatre this evening.
And I really should be in bed by now! Night night all.
Lunch with a friend today.
Hope you had a good night's sleep @didyw.
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Hope the @didyw household has had a restful night now that there’s a plan of action.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Anyone else awake?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
See you later …
Remind me I have a message for you about irises.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.