Indeed they have. They worked until 8.30 pm. Mercifully , they're NOT driving from Birmingham tomorrow so I'm hoping they'll be here nice and early in the morning
Good evening all, another wet start but it dried up, just as well as the window cleaner insisted on coming today. While we were waiting I took the chance to have a bit of a tydy up in the greenhouse. I sorted a lot of spare pots and some empty compost bags from the shed. After lunch we went to our favourite GC. They take pots and compost bags for recycling. We bought some cyclamen and a few bits and pieces, plus another bag of compost to be able to pot up some more of the bulbs we bought a while ago.
Hello @Pat E, I'm awake again as usual on and off through the night. Indeed the weather world wide seems to be causing problems to so many folk just now. But surely by now you should be getting a lot warmer as you head towards mid summer, not 'rugging' yourself up and huddling round the wood heater. I hope things change for you very soon.
Dark mornings and the clocks are going back an hour this weekend which prolongs this darkness.
We had a cold spring down here @Pat E this year. It warmed up a bit in April and then May and the beginning of June was cold then suddenly, the heat came and the vegetable garden went into shock. Low to medium harvest of tomatoes. No courgettes - they grew to finger size, yellowed and dropped. Salad onions, aubergines and peppers were pretty much normal size but less fruit. It was the same last year. Now we have an Indian summer that is longer than usual. The seasons seem to have shifted forward a month.
That's a nuisance about the boar @Busy-Lizzie Shame you didn't get the shotgun out. A leg slowly roasted on a spit would have been nice for Christmas!!
Today is for Emmas or Emmelines: A la Sainte Emmeline, journée de bruine I believe your weather is a little more than spitting - especially northwards. Whatever, enjoy the day!!
Trip to Maastricht went well. OH ordered his glasses which will collect in 2 weeks' time, hopefully combining a trip to see son and dil. Weather wasn't good but it was lovely to get away even fir only a day. The amazing thing is that I slept quite well last night 🤷♀️ Here's some pics of a repurpused church. It's a fantastic bookshop and café.
Morning all, we also had a bit of a lie in as we didn't need to get up early this morning.
That repurposed church looks splendid @coccinella, what a good idea. I knew of a similar one in Oxford which was turned into a bar/cafe. I wasn't quite sure about that conversion, didn't seem quite seemly at the time but it was a long time ago.
Very strange weather for you @Pat E, hope it settles down to the norm soon.
I need to tidy up the house today as OH's friend is coming for the weekend. Question for all you cooks out there please. I cooked a Beef Bourguignon yesterday, how long should I allow for the reheating of it tonight and at what heat? It's for 3 people and I have an electric fan oven. I haven't put the button mushrooms in yet as I was worried about over-cooking them, do I need to cook these first? Grateful thanks for any guidance!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mercifully , they're NOT driving from Birmingham tomorrow so I'm hoping they'll be here nice and early in the morning
Dark mornings and the clocks are going back an hour this weekend which prolongs this darkness.
We had a cold spring down here @Pat E this year. It warmed up a bit in April and then May and the beginning of June was cold then suddenly, the heat came and the vegetable garden went into shock. Low to medium harvest of tomatoes. No courgettes - they grew to finger size, yellowed and dropped. Salad onions, aubergines and peppers were pretty much normal size but less fruit. It was the same last year. Now we have an Indian summer that is longer than usual. The seasons seem to have shifted forward a month.
That's a nuisance about the boar @Busy-Lizzie Shame you didn't get the shotgun out. A leg slowly roasted on a spit would have been nice for Christmas!!
Today is for Emmas or Emmelines:
A la Sainte Emmeline, journée de bruine
I believe your weather is a little more than spitting - especially northwards. Whatever, enjoy the day!!
Trip to Maastricht went well. OH ordered his glasses which will collect in 2 weeks' time, hopefully combining a trip to see son and dil. Weather wasn't good but it was lovely to get away even fir only a day. The amazing thing is that I slept quite well last night 🤷♀️
Here's some pics of a repurpused church. It's a fantastic bookshop and café.
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we’ve had a really good lie in ….
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That repurposed church looks splendid @coccinella, what a good idea. I knew of a similar one in Oxford which was turned into a bar/cafe. I wasn't quite sure about that conversion, didn't seem quite seemly at the time but it was a long time ago.
Very strange weather for you @Pat E, hope it settles down to the norm soon.
I need to tidy up the house today as OH's friend is coming for the weekend. Question for all you cooks out there please. I cooked a Beef Bourguignon yesterday, how long should I allow for the reheating of it tonight and at what heat? It's for 3 people and I have an electric fan oven. I haven't put the button mushrooms in yet as I was worried about over-cooking them, do I need to cook these first? Grateful thanks for any guidance!