Bet you felt like more than a coffee Rb. Could you not find some protected plant or creature that would prevent it? Pie in the sky though. It is a shame that farming land is being sold off in this way.
When we moved here we were told that no building work would get permission because of old mine works at the back. It hasn't stopped them building a football club and ground here. Admittedly small scale but we get weekends of shouting and swearing where before it was lovely and peaceful to relax out there.
LilyP I'm so glad that your Auntie doesn't have a fracture. Very painful for her though and I hope she soon recovers. Saw on another thread that your Dad is/was a printer. So was mine - long retired now though. My 'thing' is the smell of freshly printed paper. Loved stationery shops
Hope you make your way round the back roads Lizzie. Do you know what they are protesting about?
Enjoy your run DD I would rather just have the rice pudding
Got to go and smarten up so that Dove isn't embarrassed when I give her a wave later
Sorry to hear about the planned housing at the bottom of your garden RB. Its awful when you have been used to the open spaces. Firstborn is having a similar problem, she doesnt mind too much but SIL is furious.
Glad your auntie is on the mend LilyP
Congratulations Dove. I finished work about this time last year but I cant remember the date. Haven't been bored for a single minute in fact I don't know how I fitted going to work in.
Survived nanna duty, baby has decided she quite likes throwing her lunch at me instead of eating it. Finds it really funny. The problem is I have a real problem keeping my face straight as I tell her off.
Sun is shinning here and I'm about to pop out and plant a few more tulips and spike a bit more of the lawn before it gets too late.
Planted more tulips and spiked more lawn, not finished yet though.
Yesterday was the last green bin collection day. Unfortunately bin disappeared as well as rubbish. When Hubby phoned up to say it was missing they said not to worry as they occasionally fall off in the lorry and they would send me a new one. Weird or what.
Chilly here - only 4 degrees when I came home about an hour ago so hope nothing dies of frostbite out there - getting clearer and colder by the minute. It never got above 6 degrees today but the sunshine was beautiful
I can sympathise Rbeak. I live not far from where I grew up and the whole area is unrecognisable with the amount of housebuilding. They built a new primary school about ten years ago which is the biggest in Europe...not big enough now for the amount of families. Not enough facilities either. Ridiculous, yet people are desperate to move there because of the schools and the shortish commute to Glasgow. All the greenbelt land across from my parents' house was built on years ago and there is now yet another development on the other side - huge houses with no gardens to speak of. Very sad.
That was a nasty experience for your aunt LP. Glad she's ok.
Verd - very worrying when things like that happen on your doorstep.
I think we need to tow Britain several thousand miles west....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
very cold nights with warm days here. turned the lilies out of there pots yesterday. after 2 years so overgrown that had to break one of the pots to get at them. hundreds of bulbs and bulblets so a couple of unexpected hours spent replanting. the bulblets all into nursery beds resolutely not thinking about whether i really want hundreds of lilies. buddleia santana and salvia clevelandii cuttings rooted and piles and piles of stuff for the compost heap. a very satisfying autumn so far.
Runnybeak, how awful for you. I hope something happens to stop it, but if it goes ahead I hope it is tasteful with nice gardens.
The farmers protest was a bit of a damp squib. Traffic flowed OK, but I took the country route in to town anyway. Babysat for son's baby, came home, cooked very late lunch, cleared away summer planting from sundial bed, dug in compost and slow release fertiliser, planted blue and yellow pansies, had long chat with daughter on telephone and now I'm here. But must go and wash kitchen floor while OH is out of the way at choir practice.
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Bet you felt like more than a coffee Rb
. Could you not find some protected plant or creature that would prevent it? Pie in the sky though. It is a shame that farming land is being sold off in this way.
When we moved here we were told that no building work would get permission because of old mine works at the back. It hasn't stopped them building a football club and ground here. Admittedly small scale but we get weekends of shouting and swearing where before it was lovely and peaceful to relax out there.
LilyP I'm so glad that your Auntie doesn't have a fracture. Very painful for her though and I hope she soon recovers. Saw on another thread that your Dad is/was a printer. So was mine - long retired now though. My 'thing' is the smell of freshly printed paper. Loved stationery shops
Hope you make your way round the back roads Lizzie. Do you know what they are protesting about?
Enjoy your run DD
I would rather just have the rice pudding
Got to go and smarten up so that Dove isn't embarrassed when I give her a wave later
Sorry to hear about the planned housing at the bottom of your garden RB. Its awful when you have been used to the open spaces. Firstborn is having a similar problem, she doesnt mind too much but SIL is furious.
Glad your auntie is on the mend LilyP
Congratulations Dove. I finished work about this time last year but I cant remember the date. Haven't been bored for a single minute in fact I don't know how I fitted going to work in.
Survived nanna duty, baby has decided she quite likes throwing her lunch at me instead of eating it. Finds it really funny. The problem is I have a real problem keeping my face straight as I tell her off.
Sun is shinning here and I'm about to pop out and plant a few more tulips and spike a bit more of the lawn before it gets too late.
My hellebore shooting star already has flower buds. Should I cut off all the leaves now?
Beautiful moon this evening.
Planted more tulips and spiked more lawn, not finished yet though.
Yesterday was the last green bin collection day. Unfortunately bin disappeared as well as rubbish. When Hubby phoned up to say it was missing they said not to worry as they occasionally fall off in the lorry and they would send me a new one. Weird or what.
LesleyK. Yes so many memories, do you remember being taught to look for the water mark? Linen in paper? I wonder if it is made that way today?
A A Milne
Chilly here - only 4 degrees when I came home about an hour ago so hope nothing dies of frostbite out there - getting clearer and colder by the minute. It never got above 6 degrees today but the sunshine was beautiful
I can sympathise Rbeak. I live not far from where I grew up and the whole area is unrecognisable with the amount of housebuilding. They built a new primary school about ten years ago which is the biggest in Europe...not big enough now for the amount of families. Not enough facilities either. Ridiculous, yet people are desperate to move there because of the schools and the shortish commute to Glasgow. All the greenbelt land across from my parents' house was built on years ago and there is now yet another development on the other side - huge houses with no gardens to speak of. Very sad.
That was a nasty experience for your aunt LP. Glad she's ok.
Verd - very worrying when things like that happen on your doorstep.
I think we need to tow Britain several thousand miles west....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
very cold nights with warm days here. turned the lilies out of there pots yesterday. after 2 years so overgrown that had to break one of the pots to get at them. hundreds of bulbs and bulblets so a couple of unexpected hours spent replanting. the bulblets all into nursery beds resolutely not thinking about whether i really want hundreds of lilies. buddleia santana and salvia clevelandii cuttings rooted and piles and piles of stuff for the compost heap. a very satisfying autumn so far.
Runnybeak, how awful for you. I hope something happens to stop it, but if it goes ahead I hope it is tasteful with nice gardens.
The farmers protest was a bit of a damp squib. Traffic flowed OK, but I took the country route in to town anyway. Babysat for son's baby, came home, cooked very late lunch, cleared away summer planting from sundial bed, dug in compost and slow release fertiliser, planted blue and yellow pansies, had long chat with daughter on telephone and now I'm here. But must go and wash kitchen floor while OH is out of the way at choir practice.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, are you missing some text, or am I missing something?