Hello all. Another wet and miserable day. I'll have to make myself go out between downpours and move some pots into GH. Sweetpeas looking very sad but the Cosmos Purity has grown into them and is still okay so they'll have to stay a bit longer.
Russian history I remember turning my A level paper over and seeing a question about Catherine the Great's foreign policy, great I thought. Then I went braindead and could only remember that she's given the Russian nobility a monopoly on the distillation of vodka and her husband Peter hung dead rats on their bedhead. Maybe the teacher made up the last bit to get our attention.
Good Morning all, Dove you must enjoy your last week, so much to look forward to, when every day is a weekend. When you plan your Russia trip , St. P. is a must, especially the Hermitage and Peter and Catherine's summer palaces. Did them on a cruise a few years ago . Putin comes from there so he has spent oodles of Russian money on restoration so that he can show it off to other heads of government. Everything looks as if it was decorated yesterday. It's like the National Trust on speed!
Off to buy b'day prezzies for 2 great nieces, party on Saturday, so no gardening here... bit damp anyway
David K that beauty was on another thread, but I can't remember where, read so many posts recently!
Stopped raining, sun with white clouds. Want to plant the rest of the daffodils in the grass, but have to find the fault in the electric fence and mend it before the horses go back in that field. It always takes ages and involves lots of walking. They are eating their winter hay at the moment. Don't want them getting out again.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, Back to work after a dry and bright weekend
Project greenhouse (2) under way with the removal of a concrete post and re-aligning the starwberry patch. The work was sielined slightly when I realised there were 100+ straw runners needing sorted.
Greenhouse ordered and hope to have it this week. Also sorted my hydrangea cuttings (100% success) and bellis pomponette plants which have multiplied incredibly from the original 12 to well over 100.
A satisfying weekends work now disrupted by my other job!
Happy bday for tomorrow fg [ 27 I presume ] and to you chicky whenever yours is. I would bake a cake, but I cant. However I am very good at eating them!
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Thankx pd- 28 tomorrow - can't get away with it any longer I suppose!
Was going to do some scones if daughter doesn't do me a cake. Going to get some bulbs planted in the cheapo pots I got yesterday. They'll be great for putting in amongst other plants.
When did you take the hydrangea cuttings AJK? I bought some oak leaf ones a month or so ago and I'd quite like to propagate them.
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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Hello all. Another wet and miserable day. I'll have to make myself go out between downpours and move some pots into GH. Sweetpeas looking very sad but the Cosmos Purity has grown into them and is still okay so they'll have to stay a bit longer.
Russian history
I remember turning my A level paper over and seeing a question about Catherine the Great's foreign policy, great I thought. Then I went braindead and could only remember that she's given the Russian nobility a monopoly on the distillation of vodka and her husband Peter hung dead rats on their bedhead. Maybe the teacher made up the last bit to get our attention. 
Hope the day goes quickly for folks at work.
Morning all. Late for me - but - I'm off all week so I had a lie in!!
Well, kind of. Chilly here but bright so might actually do something productive.
Birthday soon for me too chicky - sooner than you though unless yours is today....
I may have to make my own cake unless daughter does one before she goes to Uni tomorrow.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have a great day fellow libran !
Good Morning all, Dove you must enjoy your last week, so much to look forward to, when every day is a weekend. When you plan your Russia trip , St. P. is a must, especially the Hermitage and Peter and Catherine's summer palaces. Did them on a cruise a few years ago . Putin comes from there so he has spent oodles of Russian money on restoration so that he can show it off to other heads of government. Everything looks as if it was decorated yesterday. It's like the National Trust on speed!
Off to buy b'day prezzies for 2 great nieces, party on Saturday, so no gardening here... bit damp anyway
have a good one whatever you are doing
Morning all.
David K that beauty was on another thread, but I can't remember where, read so many posts recently!
Stopped raining, sun with white clouds. Want to plant the rest of the daffodils in the grass, but have to find the fault in the electric fence and mend it before the horses go back in that field. It always takes ages and involves lots of walking. They are eating their winter hay at the moment. Don't want them getting out again.
chick- I meant it was tomorrow!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all, Back to work after a dry and bright weekend
Project greenhouse (2) under way with the removal of a concrete post and re-aligning the starwberry patch. The work was sielined slightly when I realised there were 100+ straw runners needing sorted.
Greenhouse ordered and hope to have it this week. Also sorted my hydrangea cuttings (100% success) and bellis pomponette plants which have multiplied incredibly from the original 12 to well over 100.
A satisfying weekends work now disrupted by my other job!
Happy bday for tomorrow fg [ 27 I presume ] and to you chicky whenever yours is. I would bake a cake, but I cant. However I am very good at eating them!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Thankx pd- 28 tomorrow - can't get away with it any longer I suppose!
Was going to do some scones if daughter doesn't do me a cake. Going to get some bulbs planted in the cheapo pots I got yesterday. They'll be great for putting in amongst other plants.
When did you take the hydrangea cuttings AJK? I bought some oak leaf ones a month or so ago and I'd quite like to propagate them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...