Still pouring down here too, so I've spent a fruitful few hours this morning doing some h****w**k, since there's nothing doing in the garden. Very little wind here though - we're amazingly sheltered in our steep-sided valley, except for the rare occasions when there's a NE gale. Hope it quietens down for all you wind-blown folk!
Love your photo, BM! My cat specialises in sending personal emails when my back is turned.
Yvie, hope you manage to calm your mum down. I find it touching but scary that the mum I always turned to for comfort and advice, now relies on me for comfort when she's upset. I guess yours is the same...
Right. Better answer some emails, if the cat will let me.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hope there is some concrete news today LilyP. Fingers crossed all is well for tomorrow.
Philip, yes, he did play and I'm still trying to dry the waterproofs and shoes. His team won too so yet another game next week. Good luck to your wife for this afternoon. I used to play a little but have a bad shoulder plus I'm not competitive enough.
Clari it's a treat for you to be in the warm and dry and not be in a smoke filled area. Enjoy you birthday whenever you decide to have it.
Hope you can calm your Mum Vyie - what a shame she has to worry about such things.
Beaus - was it really wise to buy a house so near to a GC.
Hello all....I'm back. Most 'umble apologies for being AWOL for so long!
Thanks to all who were concerned that I'd popped my clogs
No chance of catching up with what you've all been up to so I'm not going to try. I hope everyone is well but hugs to all who are not or who've been coping with illness and sad times.
I've not done much in the garden because I've been out doing a bit of this...
and this is what May bank holidays look like in Scotland ....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Morning all!
(Well, it still is morning - just)
Still pouring down here too, so I've spent a fruitful few hours this morning doing some h****w**k, since there's nothing doing in the garden. Very little wind here though - we're amazingly sheltered in our steep-sided valley, except for the rare occasions when there's a NE gale.
Hope it quietens down for all you wind-blown folk!
Love your photo, BM! My cat specialises in sending personal emails when my back is turned.
Yvie, hope you manage to calm your mum down. I find it touching but scary that the mum I always turned to for comfort and advice, now relies on me for comfort when she's upset. I guess yours is the same...
Right. Better answer some emails, if the cat will let me.
Hope there is some concrete news today LilyP. Fingers crossed all is well for tomorrow.
Philip, yes, he did play and I'm still trying to dry the waterproofs and shoes
. His team won too so yet another game next week. Good luck to your wife for this afternoon. I used to play a little but have a bad shoulder plus I'm not competitive enough
.
Clari it's a treat for you to be in the warm and dry and not be in a smoke filled area
. Enjoy you birthday whenever you decide to have it
.
Hope you can calm your Mum Vyie - what a shame she has to worry about such things.
Beaus - was it really wise to buy a house so near to a GC
.
Well, it was morning when I started my post, honest...
Was wondering round GC minding my own business.... Massive rainstorm kept me stuck in there!.....well what else could I do?...
Now I've become infected with sticky label syndrome! I'm not blaming anyone but....
2 gooseberry
1 president clematis
1 black knight buddleia
A load of trellis
And stacks of bird seed
Oh yes SP
I've really got the gardening bug now!
Bedtime Monty and rise with a bit of Titchmarsh!
Afternoon
These plants in GCs have all the tricks
First they used to leap into our trolleys/baskets and when we got wise to that they developed sticky labels 
Yup Panda! And then getting the weather on side and getting you stuck in the shop! That's a low blow! You're powerless against them!
Hello all....I'm back. Most 'umble apologies for being AWOL for so long!
Thanks to all who were concerned that I'd popped my clogs
No chance of catching up with what you've all been up to so I'm not going to try. I hope everyone is well but hugs to all who are not or who've been coping with illness and sad times.
I've not done much in the garden because I've been out doing a bit of this...
and this is what May bank holidays look like in Scotland ....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...