Hi, very wet here - rained most ofd the night but ust light drizzle this morning/earlt afternoon so got one of the tonne bags of topsoil decanted into the new raised beds before it started raining again - chucking it down now and not forecast to stop until Monday evening! I'll just have to get my coat and hat on tomorrow and shift the other tonne! The cosmos has collapsed under the weight of the wet foliage so will cut that all back tomorrow and have a few vases full of flowers. Here's a radar pic from metcheck of the band of rain I'm under:
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I regularly see red squirrels, no greys in Dordogne.
About 3 years ago the French government actually supplied wild flower seeds to the farmers as part of the incentive to be more green. Don't know if they still do or if the farmers just do it themselves now. Wish I'd taken photos, they are all over now.
Got quite excited 2 years ago, found several red helleborine in the woods round here. They are almost extinct in the UK, some were found in gloucestershire.
Hi, I'm back from the fungi foray - great day but very soggy! Just going to take a hot shower - having recently recovered from a bug don't want to sit around being damp See you all later
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear that some of you had rain to-day. Saturday is the only day to get something done this time of year. Evenings too short do much. No rain here TG. Chilly. Cleaned cooker, mowed lawns, forked over some potatoe ground and made ridges of more, weeded around cabbage carrots and parsnips. It's days like this that shorten the winter, gardening is wonderful.
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Hi, very wet here - rained most ofd the night but ust light drizzle this morning/earlt afternoon so got one of the tonne bags of topsoil decanted into the new raised beds before it started raining again - chucking it down now and not forecast to stop until Monday evening! I'll just have to get my coat and hat on tomorrow and shift the other tonne! The cosmos has collapsed under the weight of the wet foliage so will cut that all back tomorrow and have a few vases full of flowers.
Here's a radar pic from metcheck of the band of rain I'm under:
I'll be sharing that rain with you any minute now Bob
In the sticks near Peterborough
I regularly see red squirrels, no greys in Dordogne.
About 3 years ago the French government actually supplied wild flower seeds to the farmers as part of the incentive to be more green. Don't know if they still do or if the farmers just do it themselves now. Wish I'd taken photos, they are all over now.
Got quite excited 2 years ago, found several red helleborine in the woods round here. They are almost extinct in the UK, some were found in gloucestershire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-18678758
Got my washing in Brumbull. Don't know why I put it out. It was so still and damp nothing dried
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lovely day here in sussex. The suns gone now but still dry, getting a bit chilly now
Hope all youpoorly people are feeling better and you've all had a good day
Busy-Lizzie you're not Noreen Green are you? I know it's a long shot, but our
neighbours (of that name) moved to the Dordogne a few years back and we
still get emails telling us how lovely and rural it is! You sound very like
Noreen the way you love the countrside!!
No, I'm not Noreen, but I am Liz. And I'm often Busy!
Hi, I'm back from the fungi foray - great day but very soggy! Just going to take a hot shower - having recently recovered from a bug don't want to sit around being damp
See you all later 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear that some of you had rain to-day. Saturday is the only day to get something done this time of year. Evenings too short do much. No rain here TG. Chilly. Cleaned cooker, mowed lawns, forked over some potatoe ground and made ridges of more, weeded around cabbage carrots and parsnips. It's days like this that shorten the winter, gardening is wonderful.