The stiff Easterly breeze which has been blowing all week continues.Ā Grey skies now and rain forecast later.Ā Ā
I should already have completed sowing my hardy annual seeds, but the days with the most benign weather invariably seem to be the days when something else crops up.Ā My Virginia stocks and what I suspect to be poppies seem to have self-seeded all over the place - which I am very pleased about.Ā Out of the three patio roses I planted last Spring, two are showing signs of life, and one doesn't seem to have survived (it never really recovered from a greenfly infestation last Summer).
My eyes are now 100% OK again due to the ointment.Ā Taking my Mother for her (pre-planned) x-ray yesterday was the first time I had driven through the centre of that town since the floods there last year (usually I skirt round the edge of the town on the backroads to reach the M .I. U.).Ā About 40% of the shops in the town centre are closed; some are being refitted, but sadly some don't seem to be.
Good morning, we're up and dressed and having a coffee. Unfortunately it's drizzly here with quite a cold wind but hoping it might clear up later. I had covered over the fresh mortaring I did yesterday with plastic just in case it rained so glad I did that.
Thanks for your good wishes @Badly_Maintained. Hope your mother's X-ray was ok.
Enjoy the rugby @punkdoc, I expect my son will be riveted especially as his wife and daughter are away. My granddaughter is competing in an athletic race for her county at Nottingham today, she's very excited.
Glad your back is feeling better @Busy-Lizzie. Posies sound nice, will you have to make many? My hyacinths all seem to be out now and the magnolia is starting to look fantastic. All we need now is more sunshine and sllghtly warmer weather.
Iāve been out hanging the washing out and getting shouted at by an angry robin ā¦ weāve had a pair nest in our garden for several years now ā¦ not sure which spot theyāve chosen this year but it seems that he thought I was much too close ā¦Ā
Iāve taken the cloche off the broad beans ā¦ theyāre looking promising ā¦ and it looks as if the spring weedlings are appearing ā¦ a couple of days of sunshineĀ š¤Ā Ā and Iāll be able to start with some regular hoeing ā¦ itās still a bit too soggy to start now.Ā
Iām in the middle of making a Boiled Fruit Cake ā¦ the boiled mixture is nearly cool enough to add the floors and eggs and the oven is heating up ā¦ just time to have a coffee and watch five mins of James Martin ā¦
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm glad your eye ointment worked @Badly_Maintained. My eyes run a lot when the weather is cold.
G has removed the old path. The crumbling bricks were just laid on earth, but the earth is only about 6" deep. There is a hard surface below and under the lawn. Must once have been a driveway. No wonder most of the lawn died in the drought of 2022.
I've been chatting to the nice neighbours next door. No wonder I haven't heard the cockerel recently, he died. He was a few years old.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Thanks for your good wishes @Badly_Maintained. Hope your mother's X-ray was ok.
Enjoy the rugby @punkdoc, I expect my son will be riveted especially as his wife and daughter are away. My granddaughter is competing in an athletic race for her county at Nottingham today, she's very excited.
Glad your back is feeling better @Busy-Lizzie. Posies sound nice, will you have to make many? My hyacinths all seem to be out now and the magnolia is starting to look fantastic. All we need now is more sunshine and sllghtly warmer weather.
Best wishes to all for a nice weekend.
Iāve been out hanging the washing out and getting shouted at by an angry robin ā¦ weāve had a pair nest in our garden for several years now ā¦ not sure which spot theyāve chosen this year but it seems that he thought I was much too close ā¦Ā
Iāve taken the cloche off the broad beans ā¦ theyāre looking promising ā¦ and it looks as if the spring weedlings are appearing ā¦ a couple of days of sunshineĀ š¤Ā Ā and Iāll be able to start with some regular hoeing ā¦ itās still a bit too soggy to start now.Ā
Iām in the middle of making a Boiled Fruit Cake ā¦ the boiled mixture is nearly cool enough to add the floors and eggs and the oven is heating up ā¦ just time to have a coffee and watch five mins of James Martin ā¦
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad your eyes are now OK @Badly_Maintained.Ā Ā
Lovely and sunny outside, if a bit cold.Ā Might tackle getting the big grass that's taking all the nutrients from my little apple tree out today.
G has removed the old path. The crumbling bricks were just laid on earth, but the earth is only about 6" deep. There is a hard surface below and under the lawn. Must once have been a driveway. No wonder most of the lawn died in the drought of 2022.
I've been chatting to the nice neighbours next door. No wonder I haven't heard the cockerel recently, he died. He was a few years old.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.