The weather has turned and someone somewhere is trying to tell me to slow down, stop digging and weeding and stay inside and watch the rugby!! It is wild, rainy and very windy out there today!! @floralies !! - Same! We have had 9 visits from various technicians to connect our road to the Fibre. But that's in the "too hard basket" so we are still without.
I hope you have thrown caution to the wind today @punkdoc and said "to hell" with physio - today is rugby day!!
You too, @Dovefromabove stay in, stay warm and look after that neck. Lots of good advice to keep you safe. Have you got a neck brace to stop you from moving it around?
Goodness! @Busy-Lizzie I hope you get the visa in time. I know that Brexit has made it difficult for second home owners here including bank transfers and time limits for visits.
I bid you all well for an enjoyable Saturday afternoon!
I have washing blowing on the line and secateurs in hand! Just a few weeks ago, that situation seemed forever away.
I have Chinese ingredients for tonight’s ‘fake-away’ to have after the Rugby. There’s Chinese Lunar New Year ‘activities’ in town today - year of the Dragon. Does that bode well for Welsh rugby??…
Bit disappointing that SM has prioritised Pancakes and Valentine’s specials (aka overpriced food in a heart shape) over Chinese New Year celebrations- they’ve missed a trick there imo. Probably not as popular or lucrative suppose. Who doesn’t love a prawn toast though?!
I was born in the Year of the Dragon … in fact I’m a ‘Water Dragon’ (just snuck in by one day) which is a most auspicious kind apparently … I’m looking forward to a considerable improvement in my fortunes 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It started off sunny and warm ( 10C) here. Breakfast at the Donkeys, basking in the sun with a view of the sea. Lovely! Our happy place! Then a decent walk round the fields, there are snowdrops and daffodils in flower, saw a bunch of crocuses, and several trees with early blossom opening. Dropped into Waitrose on the way home, and picked up some Chinese ready meals in their special offers. Just had an early dinner / late lunch of chow mien with rice and cashews, which OH has eaten in front of the rugby. Started raining as we got home, so not tempted out to the garden. I did a lot of pruning yesterday, a holly tree and some unidentified stuff along the fence. I’ve left it where I cut it, so I will drag it down to the shredder at some stage in the next fortnight, before the next green bin collection is due. If I run out of energy, OH is happy to help with the shredding. That suits me, I do like a free hand in what I am cutting down! I’m getting better at being ruthless! Just because a self seeded cherry laurel is healthy, if it’s right in the middle of the path, it will have to go. ( Hard work for me, I do hate disposing of a healthy plant) That said, I was about to dig out some self seeded hellebores from another path, when I noticed the flower buds that haven’t opened yet! I’ve left them to see what they look like, before I either remove or try transplanting them. Hope all the aches and pains continue to improve. I certainly found the heated wheat pad on my sore neck very helpful recently.
I've had a lovely day in the garden working on my new project. It had warmed up and the sun came out, made such a difference. The paracetamol helped me ignore my shoulder and it isn't too bad at the moment. Thanks for all the good wishes. I started by dismantling the old Log Store, which had previously been a paving stone pallet, turned on its side with a roof added by OH. Most of it had rotted so I was able to remove about half of it, then OH came back from his usual walk and dismantled the rest with a crowbar and chisel. After lunch and a rest, I moved some paving slabs in place for the legs of the potting table, didn't like them so removed them somewhere else and lifted my very lightweight and somewhat flimsy potting table into place where the log store had been. The ground levels are all over the place so I think I'll just put gravel underneath to level the area. Stopped for tea and biccies so I'll finish off tomorrow, weather permitting.
Enjoy your dinner with your friends @Busy-Lizzie. Our go to on a Saturday when I've been gardening is egg, chips and beans so looking forward to that. Nice and easy!
in fact I’m a ‘Water Dragon’ (just snuck in by one day)
I'm an Earth Monkey which sounds a lot less glamorous. I also only got in by one day
Hope you're all doing OK. Sore necks, disrupted sleep patterns, tricky neighbours, coughs and colds and vaccinations notwithstanding. I'm silly busy at work just now but have managed to order some seeds today for this year's veg, have planted the garlic and am going to sort out my seed potatoes tomorrow, so some progress.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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The weather has turned and someone somewhere is trying to tell me to slow down, stop digging and weeding and stay inside and watch the rugby!! It is wild, rainy and very windy out there today!! @floralies !! - Same! We have had 9 visits from various technicians to connect our road to the Fibre. But that's in the "too hard basket" so we are still without.
I hope you have thrown caution to the wind today @punkdoc and said "to hell" with physio - today is rugby day!!
You too, @Dovefromabove stay in, stay warm and look after that neck. Lots of good advice to keep you safe. Have you got a neck brace to stop you from moving it around?
Goodness! @Busy-Lizzie I hope you get the visa in time. I know that Brexit has made it difficult for second home owners here including bank transfers and time limits for visits.
I bid you all well for an enjoyable Saturday afternoon!
Does that bode well for Welsh rugby??…
Bit disappointing that SM has prioritised Pancakes and Valentine’s specials (aka overpriced food in a heart shape) over Chinese New Year celebrations- they’ve missed a trick there imo. Probably not as popular or lucrative suppose. Who doesn’t love a prawn toast though?!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dropped into Waitrose on the way home, and picked up some Chinese ready meals in their special offers. Just had an early dinner / late lunch of chow mien with rice and cashews, which OH has eaten in front of the rugby.
Started raining as we got home, so not tempted out to the garden. I did a lot of pruning yesterday, a holly tree and some unidentified stuff along the fence. I’ve left it where I cut it, so I will drag it down to the shredder at some stage in the next fortnight, before the next green bin collection is due. If I run out of energy, OH is happy to help with the shredding. That suits me, I do like a free hand in what I am cutting down! I’m getting better at being ruthless! Just because a self seeded cherry laurel is healthy, if it’s right in the middle of the path, it will have to go. ( Hard work for me, I do hate disposing of a healthy plant) That said, I was about to dig out some self seeded hellebores from another path, when I noticed the flower buds that haven’t opened yet! I’ve left them to see what they look like, before I either remove or try transplanting them.
Hope all the aches and pains continue to improve. I certainly found the heated wheat pad on my sore neck very helpful recently.
I started by dismantling the old Log Store, which had previously been a paving stone pallet, turned on its side with a roof added by OH. Most of it had rotted so I was able to remove about half of it, then OH came back from his usual walk and dismantled the rest with a crowbar and chisel. After lunch and a rest, I moved some paving slabs in place for the legs of the potting table, didn't like them so removed them somewhere else and lifted my very lightweight and somewhat flimsy potting table into place where the log store had been. The ground levels are all over the place so I think I'll just put gravel underneath to level the area. Stopped for tea and biccies so I'll finish off tomorrow, weather permitting.
Enjoy your dinner with your friends @Busy-Lizzie. Our go to on a Saturday when I've been gardening is egg, chips and beans so looking forward to that. Nice and easy!
Hope your hellebores prove good ones @didyw.
Enjoy the rugby all you fans out there.
Hope you're all doing OK. Sore necks, disrupted sleep patterns, tricky neighbours, coughs and colds and vaccinations notwithstanding. I'm silly busy at work just now but have managed to order some seeds today for this year's veg, have planted the garlic and am going to sort out my seed potatoes tomorrow, so some progress.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
First spawn of the year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.