Best wishes to DIL and the family, LilyP. Exciting times!
Spent all yesterday afternoon not on HWK but wrestling with my new phone upgrade. I'm just too old for all this stuff... It turned out the operating system on my 3-year-old Samsung handset was incompatible with the system on the new one (also Samsung), and I ended up having to allow a nice lady in India (employed by 3) to have remote access to my computer in order to transfer all the contacts etc across from old to new. I've so far managed to take a photo with it, and send a text message, but it's scarily shiny and complicated... However, my expected delivery came while I was in the middle of sorting things so at least I don't have to stay in this morning too.
Ah well. Against all the odds, the fine weather has persisted until this morning, so I might get something done outside. And this afternoon I'm off with the U3A gardening group to visit Dove Cottage (no, not the Lake District one - this one's near Halifax) where there's a N-facing garden of mainly North American perennials, a bit prairie style I think. Wonder if it'll look out of place in WYorks? I'll report back. I believe there's a nursery selling plants...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
fidgetbones. Weren't the plastic panels on the gable of the garage? I might well be wrong,but I did see the price at the end of the programme: £560 per square metre!!!!!! and the "water feature" was £6,500.
morning all! am exhausted reading yesterday's posts... where do you lot get your energy from?!
just a thought on 'spare' home-made jam: i've been in charity shops where they've been selling home-made jam, fudge, and even local eggs. pretty sure they'd be more than happy to take and sell if donated. (most of my attempts at jam-making end up being pretty inedible so any decent stuff gets scoffed up pretty quickly.)
At 7.30 this morning with a dog racing up and down the kitchen - toss a ball, run fast to other end, skidding halt on newspaper, bang into door, race back to ball, toss ball, run and skid on newspaper etc - all I wanted was my first cup of tea of the day!!!
She is not house trained and I guess because of stress, is very explosive, and it is not pleasant
She has just gone into her crate/bed for the first time, she didn't bark until about 7 which I think was good
Loves tennis balls and with her rushing around garden with one (8 am) i was still thinking but I just want my mug of tea.
i have registered her with vet, only fed her on plain boiled rice and unless it becomes urgent will take her there tomorrow,
She is very nervous and worried by OH so he is working on that and the cats are bemused because she is taking no notice of them!
Don't think there'll be much gardening done today
Hope all goes well Lily, thanks for your interest forkers
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Best wishes to DIL and the family, LilyP. Exciting times!
Spent all yesterday afternoon not on HWK but wrestling with my new phone upgrade. I'm just too old for all this stuff... It turned out the operating system on my 3-year-old Samsung handset was incompatible with the system on the new one (also Samsung), and I ended up having to allow a nice lady in India (employed by 3) to have remote access to my computer in order to transfer all the contacts etc across from old to new.
I've so far managed to take a photo with it, and send a text message, but it's scarily shiny and complicated... However, my expected delivery came while I was in the middle of sorting things so at least I don't have to stay in this morning too. 
Ah well. Against all the odds, the fine weather has persisted until this morning, so I might get something done outside. And this afternoon I'm off with the U3A gardening group to visit Dove Cottage (no, not the Lake District one - this one's near Halifax) where there's a N-facing garden of mainly North American perennials, a bit prairie style I think. Wonder if it'll look out of place in WYorks? I'll report back.
I believe there's a nursery selling plants... 
fidgetbones. Weren't the plastic panels on the gable of the garage? I might well be wrong,but I did see the price at the end of the programme: £560 per square metre!!!!!! and the "water feature" was £6,500.
Thanks Susan. Send him my warmest wishes if you catch him again.
We used the term goosegogs when I was a child in Scotland.
We've always said goosegogs and my family are from Beds/Cambs (with some distant Scottish roots )
Glad Verdun's ok - I was wondering
... he's got a lot on his plate again ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We always called them goosegogs too.
Hope your relative is on the mend Verdun, best wishes x
Yes Dove lets see a pic of the 'new' you
morning all! am exhausted reading yesterday's posts... where do you lot get your energy from?!
just a thought on 'spare' home-made jam: i've been in charity shops where they've been selling home-made jam, fudge, and even local eggs. pretty sure they'd be more than happy to take and sell if donated. (most of my attempts at jam-making end up being pretty inedible so any decent stuff gets scoffed up pretty quickly.)
Hello
Pippin update
At 7.30 this morning with a dog racing up and down the kitchen - toss a ball, run fast to other end, skidding halt on newspaper, bang into door, race back to ball, toss ball, run and skid on newspaper etc - all I wanted was my first cup of tea of the day!!!
She is not house trained and I guess because of stress, is very explosive, and it is not pleasant
She has just gone into her crate/bed for the first time, she didn't bark until about 7 which I think was good
Loves tennis balls and with her rushing around garden with one (8 am) i was still thinking but I just want my mug of tea.
i have registered her with vet, only fed her on plain boiled rice and unless it becomes urgent will take her there tomorrow,
She is very nervous and worried by OH so he is working on that and the cats are bemused because she is taking no notice of them!
Don't think there'll be much gardening done today
Hope all goes well Lily, thanks for your interest forkers
Yes Goosegogs here in Sussex Matty2 what sort6 of dog, and how long have you had her, how old?
There was a young girl called Mary
Sold Goosegogs outside the dairy
When asked what they were
She said "don't know sir
They're like little grapes only hairy"
Bet you're glad I popped in in my lunch break to make that little contribution