Good morning all. Lovely day in Trentham yesterday off to work today but getting my hair cut first. Cold and frosty here again after some very wet weather.
Good morning Debs and @rowlandscastle444. Definitely a 'wrap up warm' day today. Pleased to read you had a nice day out Debs and @rowlandscastle444 I think you could be very right!
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Morning all. Chilly morning here again and OH has tootled off to sons for, what he hopes, will be the last day of decorating. They made great strides yesterday and son carried on last night and wallpapered a medium sized wall. Today there is just around the door and window to complete. Fiddly places but they should finish this afternoon. The pair of them were shattered last night. I am just watching a blackbird in the garden raking up and throwing the soil about all over the path, ground must be accessible to them after the cold days.Bird bath isn't frozen over so they are making good use of that too. Debs,glad you had a good time yesterday and you, too, Busy, high praise for your food indeed.
LB enjoy your shopping trip. Debs I am pleased that you enjoyed your trip out yesterday . My OH cuts my hair which he did yesterday.rowlandcastle444.I hope you are not working too hard .Don’t forget the tea breaks . Hoping to do a bit of clearing up outside today when the frost has gone .
Our dinner party last night went well. Friends liked the food.
Our church, not the little one in this village, is having a Christmas tree festival. They want to borrow small tables to put trees on so I'll take them one this morning and I can buy some milk in the village shop. Our village shop has closed down.
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Good morning, A keen frost here today, but lovely and bright. I much prefer this weather to the dull, wet, grey weather we so frequently get (and is returning tomorrow for about a week 🙁).
We got up to the cemetery today to take the wreathes. Whatever time of year, it always feels so much colder up there than anywhere else.
Posted off a lot of cards yesterday and hope to finish writing the rest so that they can go, too. Each year, I say I’ll reduce how many I send and then I think well who would I miss out? So, I go through the list as normal (though sadly, there are a few no longer with us).
I've managed to cut down some plants that we'd been leaving on longer than normal. They've finally " had it" after the recent cold temperatures. It was bitter outside so thankfully there wasn't a lot to do.Think we are about donenout there for now. Roll on Spring. We already have daffs and crocus coming through. The rose cuttings have had it too, completely dead.
Red Maple well done for getting the wreaths laid, our cemetery is always a riot of colour , more so these times of the year, be they artificial flowers or real. I just have a few more cards to send and then the neighbours. Window cleaner came yesterday and he dropped a card through the letterbox!
Afternoon all. Been another very cold and frosty day - back lawn is still white and the watering tray / unofficial bird bath is still a solid block of ice. The recent frosts have brought down a load more leaves so been out and had another raking session - soon warms you up and gets the blood circulating.
A few more of the perennials have now turned mushy so more cutting back to do when it's a bit less cold and everything isn't wet through. Must remember to buy some more winter gardening gloves next time I do a Big River order - the current pair now have a couple of tiny holes.
Hazel - are you absolutely certain your rose cuttings are dead? Don't forget that most rose bushes just look like sticks in the ground once they shed their leaves and go dormant. I took a couple of cuttings some years ago (ie cut random bits off and just stuffed them in a pot of soil & shoved them behind the shed). Found the pot in the spring and nearly threw 'the sticks' out. However, come about May time I noticed some little swelling buds... 🙂
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I am just watching a blackbird in the garden raking up and throwing the soil about all over the path, ground must be accessible to them after the cold days.Bird bath isn't frozen over so they are making good use of that too.
Debs,glad you had a good time yesterday and you, too, Busy, high praise for your food indeed.
Frosty but sunny here.
Our dinner party last night went well. Friends liked the food.
Our church, not the little one in this village, is having a Christmas tree festival. They want to borrow small tables to put trees on so I'll take them one this morning and I can buy some milk in the village shop. Our village shop has closed down.
A keen frost here today, but lovely and bright. I much prefer this weather to the dull, wet, grey weather we so frequently get (and is returning tomorrow for about a week 🙁).
We got up to the cemetery today to take the wreathes. Whatever time of year, it always feels so much colder up there than anywhere else.
Posted off a lot of cards yesterday and hope to finish writing the rest so that they can go, too. Each year, I say I’ll reduce how many I send and then I think well who would I miss out? So, I go through the list as normal (though sadly, there are a few no longer with us).
Hope everyone has a good day.
Red Maple well done for getting the wreaths laid, our cemetery is always a riot of colour , more so these times of the year, be they artificial flowers or real. I just have a few more cards to send and then the neighbours. Window cleaner came yesterday and he dropped a card through the letterbox!
A few more of the perennials have now turned mushy so more cutting back to do when it's a bit less cold and everything isn't wet through. Must remember to buy some more winter gardening gloves next time I do a Big River order - the current pair now have a couple of tiny holes.
Hazel - are you absolutely certain your rose cuttings are dead? Don't forget that most rose bushes just look like sticks in the ground once they shed their leaves and go dormant. I took a couple of cuttings some years ago (ie cut random bits off and just stuffed them in a pot of soil & shoved them behind the shed). Found the pot in the spring and nearly threw 'the sticks' out. However, come about May time I noticed some little swelling buds... 🙂