I couldn't log in from the usual page - it just wouldn't let me - so got in via trying to join again as Dovefromabove and it said I already exist please sign in and gave me a button to click Hurrah! So here I am - I've been away for ages and I made a cake
Anyone for a slice of marmalade cake?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Funny, I stopped getting automatic email notifications for Forkers this morning. I had to get in again via "latest posts", and once I'd submitted a post all was well again.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
son and I made a marmalade cake yesterday ( we call it Paddington cake), doesn't look as good as yours dove!
sticky label syndrome ended in Mrs Bradshaw jumping into my car boot along with salvia nem cardonna.
OH didn't notice 'less grass' syndrome just said his dad had said the grass was looking good ( that was before I dug half of it out) , maybe he needs to go to specsavers!
saw wild swan anemone at GC too, resisted.. no cannas til next week I'm told but a few tempting dahlias...
RB we go further south to a place just outside Fethiye. We normally go in August as our daughters and their family usually come with us and they are both teachers. High 40s and occasionally low 50s are normal. Fortunately the place is a windsurfers paradise so the windy conditions take the edge of it.
Had a successful trip to the garden centre bought Taxus Standishii to replace a euonymus that has been attacked by bugs. Also got a new box cone to balance up the bottom border in the back garden I've just got to get it to match the one that's already there.
Half a dozen perennial violas also found their way into my trolley.
Whilst removing the Euonymus I managed to crack my kneecap on the wall of the house and am currently sitting with an ice pack on it. Back on Nanna duty tomorrow so I hope I can walk by the morning.
Welcome back Runnybeak. Glad you enjoyed Turkey. Was it pretty? Was it by the sea?
Been trying to get everything ready before we go to New York. Must make housesitter's bed tomorrow. Been clearing up and putting away all the china, cutlery etc from the Strawberry Tea and clearing away the plants no one bought in the plant sale.
Re-potted annuals that I want to plant when we get back when the tulip leaves have died. There will be a heatwave while we are away so I don't want anything newly planted in the borders. Housesitter can water them more easily in the cold frames. Have watered veg garden and pots.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Hurrah! I am back! and you didn't even miss me
I couldn't log in from the usual page - it just wouldn't let me - so got in via trying to join again as Dovefromabove and it said I already exist please sign in and gave me a button to click Hurrah! So here I am - I've been away for ages and I made a cake
Anyone for a slice of marmalade cake?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mmmm... yes please, Dove!
Funny, I stopped getting automatic email notifications for Forkers this morning. I had to get in again via "latest posts", and once I'd submitted a post all was well again.
son and I made a marmalade cake yesterday ( we call it Paddington cake), doesn't look as good as yours dove!
sticky label syndrome ended in Mrs Bradshaw jumping into my car boot along with salvia nem cardonna.
OH didn't notice 'less grass' syndrome just said his dad had said the grass was looking good ( that was before I dug half of it out) , maybe he needs to go to specsavers!
saw wild swan anemone at GC too, resisted.. no cannas til next week I'm told but a few tempting dahlias...
Evening all,
RB we go further south to a place just outside Fethiye. We normally go in August as our daughters and their family usually come with us and they are both teachers. High 40s and occasionally low 50s are normal. Fortunately the place is a windsurfers paradise so the windy conditions take the edge of it.
Had a successful trip to the garden centre bought Taxus Standishii to replace a euonymus that has been attacked by bugs. Also got a new box cone to balance up the bottom border in the back garden I've just got to get it to match the one that's already there.
Half a dozen perennial violas also found their way into my trolley.
Whilst removing the Euonymus I managed to crack my kneecap on the wall of the house and am currently sitting with an ice pack on it. Back on Nanna duty tomorrow so I hope I can walk by the morning.
Welcome back Runnybeak. Glad you enjoyed Turkey. Was it pretty? Was it by the sea?
Been trying to get everything ready before we go to New York. Must make housesitter's bed tomorrow. Been clearing up and putting away all the china, cutlery etc from the Strawberry Tea and clearing away the plants no one bought in the plant sale.
Re-potted annuals that I want to plant when we get back when the tulip leaves have died. There will be a heatwave while we are away so I don't want anything newly planted in the borders. Housesitter can water them more easily in the cold frames. Have watered veg garden and pots.
Verdun, I've been at work all day, how did Cornwall get on at the rugby today?
Verdun, were you saying something about Rugby???????
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.