KEF . Who are you saving the nuts for? Bread and gruel meals start here on Monday. Also looking forward to pictures of your willy's in the window later in the year.
Decided to get outside of dig over one of the beds: its either going to be a herb area or I'm not sure what! (its underneath the pear tree so I am wary of it becoming a bird poop central)
Regardless I can't plant it up until the greenhouses are installed correctly (one is in the wrong place, the other in many bits). Just hope the weeds and bits get the memo and don't try to grow under the matting like they did elsewhere in the garden. Lifted the matting to find a blanket of green: I guess they didn't get the memo about needing light to survive.
Rest of the garden is far too damp to potter around, and back is aching too much to want to do anything other than hibernate. Oh well: work tomorrow agh!!
KEF: I've still got a chocolate orange left from my Christmas stocking. How do I go about sucking the orange goodness without gaining the chocolate calories?
Got GBGR on record thanks Panda - there is an Alan T one on back gardens the same evening a bit later I think. Also Allotment Challenge starts tonight ....so much gardening TV
Just been out there weeding and clearing leaves - all my snowdrops are showing and all my hellebores have big fat buds......oh, the anticipation. OH helped me plant two grasses that Santa brought me, and I planted the last of the yellow rattle seed using the new rake (Santa too ).
And we moved Mr Chicky's christmas pressie into place by the GH, ready for lettuce growing:
So all in all a good days work (and I have just written all about it in my diary - see NY resolution thread)
Been a horrid, cold, grey, bleak day. I've been hibernating, ironing and searching Google for B&Bs in Suffolk in July.
Also found my plug plant catalogue on line and there was a note in it to say they aren't doing classic Busy-Lizzies anymore as the fungal disease has now hit France. I grew mine from seed and they were fine. BUT - should I now change my name? I'm not a fungus, but it seemed to fit so well as I am a Liz.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Back from visiting Aged Ps - both quite well, Ma not too muddled, Pa just old and tired. I left them to get on with their Shepherd's Pie and trifle and visited son - think he had a housework blitz when I phoned and said I was coming - everything very clean and shiny and a smell of polish! LOL
Pdoc, sorry your greenhouse wasn't insured When we moved here I was determined to have one, but there's nowhere to put one really - can't go under the ash trees as they drop twigs, and anyway it'd go all green, and anywhere else would just be all wrong - so now I've just got a little wooden mini-greenhouse. It does mean that I can't go and potter in it when the weather's bad and I don't have a potting bench etc, but I do my potting up on sunny days on the table on the terrace - OH can have his studio doors slid back and bring the coffee or Sauv. blanc out to me while I'm potting - every cloud has a silver lining
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely pic chicky though it does make me long for summer and we haven't even got to spring yet. I have a few pots of rooted cuttings of them on my windowsill - I've just got to keep them alive for a few months. Santa was very good to you this year
Glad your Ma and Pa were ok Dove and it was nice that you were able to visit your son too. The reference to polish made me smile - it's a good job you let him know you were coming
We haven't got weather as cold as yours Lizzie but it has been another horrible day and if it wasn't for the dog I wouldn't have ventured outside at all. Please don't change your name as I'm easily confused and it suits you
Clari if you eat your chocolate orange quickly I don't think the calories count till Monday.
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KEF
. Who are you saving the nuts for? Bread and gruel meals start here on Monday
. Also looking forward to pictures of your willy's in the window later in the year
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Didn't want the nuts Lesley just wanted the last of the chocolate ..maybe I can grate then into a no mayo coleslaw
Decided to get outside of dig over one of the beds: its either going to be a herb area or I'm not sure what! (its underneath the pear tree so I am wary of it becoming a bird poop central)
Regardless I can't plant it up until the greenhouses are installed correctly (one is in the wrong place, the other in many bits). Just hope the weeds and bits get the memo and don't try to grow under the matting like they did elsewhere in the garden. Lifted the matting to find a blanket of green: I guess they didn't get the memo about needing light to survive.
Rest of the garden is far too damp to potter around, and back is aching too much to want to do anything other than hibernate. Oh well: work tomorrow agh!!
KEF: I've still got a chocolate orange left from my Christmas stocking. How do I go about sucking the orange goodness without gaining the chocolate calories?
Lyn
Kef.........you bought a Rhino
.......and willies in the window 
Went for a walk this afternoon, lovely blue sky but very chilly brrrrrrr.
Good idea with the brazils KEF - it's the only way I'd even pop them in my mouth
Keep meaning to let you all know that the Great Garden Revival is coming back
6th Jan, BBC2, 7pm 
Got GBGR on record thanks Panda - there is an Alan T one on back gardens the same evening a bit later I think. Also Allotment Challenge starts tonight ....so much gardening TV
Just been out there weeding and clearing leaves - all my snowdrops are showing and all my hellebores have big fat buds......oh, the anticipation
. OH helped me plant two grasses that Santa brought me, and I planted the last of the yellow rattle seed using the new rake (Santa too 
).
And we moved Mr Chicky's christmas pressie into place by the GH, ready for lettuce growing:
So all in all a good days work (and I have just written all about it in my diary - see NY resolution thread
)
Been a horrid, cold, grey, bleak day. I've been hibernating, ironing and searching Google for B&Bs in Suffolk in July.
Also found my plug plant catalogue on line and there was a note in it to say they aren't doing classic Busy-Lizzies anymore as the fungal disease has now hit France. I grew mine from seed and they were fine. BUT - should I now change my name? I'm not a fungus, but it seemed to fit so well as I am a Liz.
You could be Lizzie's Busy Lizzie
Back from visiting Aged Ps - both quite well, Ma not too muddled, Pa just old and tired. I left them to get on with their Shepherd's Pie and trifle and visited son - think he had a housework blitz when I phoned and said I was coming - everything very clean and shiny and a smell of polish! LOL
Pdoc, sorry your greenhouse wasn't insured
When we moved here I was determined to have one, but there's nowhere to put one really - can't go under the ash trees as they drop twigs, and anyway it'd go all green, and anywhere else would just be all wrong - so now I've just got a little wooden mini-greenhouse. It does mean that I can't go and potter in it when the weather's bad and I don't have a potting bench etc, but I do my potting up on sunny days on the table on the terrace - OH can have his studio doors slid back and bring the coffee or Sauv. blanc out to me while I'm potting - every cloud has a silver lining 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lizzie - the new guinea BL's are still fungus free (and v beautiful) so its fine for you to keep your name just as it is
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Lovely pic chicky though it does make me long for summer and we haven't even got to spring yet. I have a few pots of rooted cuttings of them on my windowsill - I've just got to keep them alive for a few months. Santa was very good to you this year
Glad your Ma and Pa were ok Dove and it was nice that you were able to visit your son too
. The reference to polish made me smile - it's a good job you let him know you were coming
We haven't got weather as cold as yours Lizzie but it has been another horrible day and if it wasn't for the dog I wouldn't have ventured outside at all. Please don't change your name as I'm easily confused and it suits you
Clari if you eat your chocolate orange quickly I don't think the calories count till Monday
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