BL & Runnybeak - Glad my posts bring back happy memories, all very hectic but all good fun really, do wish cafes were more common here though, or even a coffee machine - been sat in a gym all afternoon without coffee - very trying!
Kef my blackbirds have been fighting over birdfood too while the little finches just got on with eating.
This evening a night on the sofa watching TV (sans un verre de vin ) least it's comfy and orange juice not too bad - I suppose. Long month January isn't it!
Have a nice evening all, keep warm.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Tis a long month DD - but more than halfway thru. Lime juice and fizzy water is my current poison.
no gardening here - ground rock hard - but a nice long walk and a couple of round trips to the dung heap. Our compost piles are filling up nicely. Time to make some more bays. Lots of snowdrops coming through now, flowers as well as leaves, and daphne is pumping out scent that hits you everytime you go out the front door. January has some good bits if you search for them
Got my GW mag today as well - not going for the tomato offer, I do grow them but for the rest of the house as me not like them - garden mags seem to give them away a lot so have a few packs of seeds already
some of Alan bits in mag look good, the 5 steps to the good life looks great
You'll have to take a thermos, DD. That's what I did and "Oasis" for the children.
Back from the "Merry Widow", New York Met, Périgueux cinema. Great fun, we really enjoyed it. Met several people, French and English, who I know as well.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Long day yesterday, coffee with my brother who I haven't actually seen for more years than I care to say
We spoke ALOT about gardens since he's a horticulturalist by trade...haha and I showed him my January plot when I got a lift home. It's not looking much at the moment but January is for planning right?
I'm half-way through my planning...anyone got a height suggestion for north-facing corner, heavy shade, dry soil? Ideally, I'd like a dicksonia Antarctica but you know ow much a big one would cost...
Good morning Wintersong - you're up early - even for you! I slept in a bit for a change
Temp in the back garden dropped to just below freezing overnight but I think it was lower at the front of the house where the road runs down to a frost pocket. The road certainly looks icy.
Height, dry shade, north-facing - I'd go for a holly or a fatsia japonica
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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You're welcome Kef, just relaxing now with a cuppa.
Been cold and windy here all day but at least its stayed dry.
Hello all, has been cold out today even the compost in pots frozen
I watched some birds on the feeders and done some pruning
BL & Runnybeak - Glad my posts bring back happy memories, all very hectic but all good fun really, do wish cafes were more common here though, or even a coffee machine - been sat in a gym all afternoon without coffee - very trying!
Kef my blackbirds have been fighting over birdfood too while the little finches just got on with eating.
This evening a night on the sofa watching TV (sans un verre de vin ) least it's comfy and orange juice not too bad - I suppose. Long month January isn't it!
Have a nice evening all, keep warm.
Tis a long month DD - but more than halfway thru
. Lime juice and fizzy water is my current poison.
no gardening here - ground rock hard - but a nice long walk and a couple of round trips to the dung heap. Our compost piles are filling up nicely. Time to make some more bays
. Lots of snowdrops coming through now, flowers as well as leaves, and daphne is pumping out scent that hits you everytime you go out the front door
. January has some good bits if you search for them
You've all been chatting away on here - and a visit from David K too - and I've been on the sofa with Columbo and my knitting
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove , for a moment I thought you were in Sri Lanka , but you said " Columbo" no Colombo. tsk @ self.
Got my GW mag today as well - not going for the tomato offer, I do grow them but for the rest of the house as me not like them - garden mags seem to give them away a lot so have a few packs of seeds already
some of Alan bits in mag look good, the 5 steps to the good life looks great
You'll have to take a thermos, DD. That's what I did and "Oasis" for the children.
Back from the "Merry Widow", New York Met, Périgueux cinema. Great fun, we really enjoyed it. Met several people, French and English, who I know as well.
Morning all!
Long day yesterday, coffee with my brother who I haven't actually seen for more years than I care to say
We spoke ALOT about gardens since he's a horticulturalist by trade...haha and I showed him my January plot when I got a lift home. It's not looking much at the moment but January is for planning right?
I'm half-way through my planning...anyone got a height suggestion for north-facing corner, heavy shade, dry soil? Ideally, I'd like a dicksonia Antarctica but you know ow much a big one would cost...
Good morning Wintersong - you're up early - even for you! I slept in a bit for a change
Temp in the back garden dropped to just below freezing overnight but I think it was lower at the front of the house where the road runs down to a frost pocket. The road certainly looks icy.
Height, dry shade, north-facing - I'd go for a holly or a fatsia japonica
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.