Morning all. Nice day, so far. Going to help on a stall in a local village brocante fair, bit like a boot fair, bric a brac. For the C of E here, vicar is salaried by the C of E members in Aquitaine.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning everyone had a bit of a lie in, oops! Feel like half the day has gone already. Wet here again, I'm hoping to have a couple of drier days before I have to go back to work next week I envy all of you who have a greenhouse to play in, I'm saving up for mine. I can hear loads of birds but there are only pigeons in my garden, sadly. I might get some stuff done if the rain holds off.
No, OL, my computer is from the stone age, auto correct not invented. I just thought playing was probably what I will be doing, at least until I hit my head on something. I find it hard to move around in there. I would love a bigger greenhouse.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Oh Panda! Get yourself a hot water bottle and keep moving GENTLY!! That means no climbing ladders or moving the wheelbarrow around or any other silly ideas you get til it settles properly (trust me I've done them all - it doesn't help matters!)
I've been a bit of a grump recently but have decided, one way or another to do something about it. First on the list is a trip to a toy shop for some Lego. It gets (much) more expensive from there on!
Hoping the rain might hold off on Saturday as I've two dead patches of earth on the lawn from where the ton sandbags sat for months while the shed was being prepared. I'm going to transplant the lush green grass from where the chickens run is going to be (I'm going to sink a sand pit in for them so loosing the grass wont matter). I'd best start another thread really and ask for advice - I've never done a grass transplant before!
Also as well as my snow drops I've realised that all the rhubarb is within the chicken coop construction zone which I assume will be promptly destroyed by curious chucks. *agh*. When is the earliest I can dig this up to move it to a well prepared area (read - plenty of horse poo dug in). I've not been harvesting from it as I knew I was going to move it - but had intended that to be this autumn!
Amazing how quickly a "neglected" area of the garden suddenly is full of stuff when you come to use it.
morning (or is it afternoon - its taken that long to read all the goings on!)
Tired last night and somehow had logged out of forum so just was a bit too much effort to log back in.
So... Bills slug (!) looks just like one I tried to photo yesteday but there was no card in the camera so it didn't take , oh also no battery, anyway no picture!
Panda - one of your posts, have to say " too much info"!!! But hope your backs better soon.
OL - glad you had sweet dreams, hope all is well with mum and work behaves itself. I dreamed that I found a patch of nettles at the bottom of the garden and had to dig them up to 'display' them in the beds!
Lily, go get em gal! Been there at work, 2 colleagues left but still took a while to get back to semi normal.
OL didn't you change your big GH to a smaller version? Of do I need to generate some more memory cells?
Fairy - in my head the rhyme starts : one for Jayne...
She was a friend who succumbed to cancer. When I found out about her passing I sat in the garden (where else) to think. I was 'talking' to her and said (daft but its what I said), "give me a sign youre ok now" - immediately, and I do mean immediately, a very noisy magpie spluttered,flapped and cried its way into the garden. Even without my musings, it would have been a significant entry! So I now always say 'one for Jayne' when I see a magpie.
Hello folks - back from the surgery - BP greatly improved that's what retirement and gardening does for you, as opposed to social work!!! We shall wait to see if the cholesterol tests instigates an invitation to see the GP
No gardening this morning - heavy drizzle here in Norfolk if you get the picture
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On 40 years til I get to try it myself Dove! (The retirement, not the social work - alas as much as I'd find it interesting I fear the paperwork chains and inability to bang heads together would prove the final straw with my sanity).
Just found out that rhubarb leaves are a natural wormer for chickens. Amazing what you learn on the internet when you should be working!!
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Lily, just for you . . .
You're right Lesley
I know they can't do anything 
Morning all. Nice day, so far. Going to help on a stall in a local village brocante fair, bit like a boot fair, bric a brac. For the C of E here, vicar is salaried by the C of E members in Aquitaine.
Morning everyone
had a bit of a lie in, oops! Feel like half the day has gone already. Wet here again, I'm hoping to have a couple of drier days before I have to go back to work next week 
I envy all of you who have a greenhouse to play in, I'm saving up for mine. I can hear loads of birds but there are only pigeons in my garden, sadly. I might get some stuff done if the rain holds off.
Have a good day all.
No, OL, my computer is from the stone age, auto correct not invented. I just thought playing was probably what I will be doing, at least until I hit my head on something. I find it hard to move around in there. I would love a bigger greenhouse.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Me too Punk, but don't tell my OH, I've only just got this one
Oh Panda! Get yourself a hot water bottle and keep moving GENTLY!! That means no climbing ladders or moving the wheelbarrow around or any other silly ideas you get til it settles properly (trust me I've done them all - it doesn't help matters!)
I've been a bit of a grump recently but have decided, one way or another to do something about it. First on the list is a trip to a toy shop for some Lego. It gets (much) more expensive from there on!
Hoping the rain might hold off on Saturday as I've two dead patches of earth on the lawn from where the ton sandbags sat for months while the shed was being prepared. I'm going to transplant the lush green grass from where the chickens run is going to be (I'm going to sink a sand pit in for them so loosing the grass wont matter). I'd best start another thread really and ask for advice - I've never done a grass transplant before!
Also as well as my snow drops I've realised that all the rhubarb is within the chicken coop construction zone which I assume will be promptly destroyed by curious chucks. *agh*. When is the earliest I can dig this up to move it to a well prepared area (read - plenty of horse poo dug in). I've not been harvesting from it as I knew I was going to move it - but had intended that to be this autumn!
Amazing how quickly a "neglected" area of the garden suddenly is full of stuff when you come to use it.
Tired last night and somehow had logged out of forum so just was a bit too much effort to log back in.
So... Bills slug (!) looks just like one I tried to photo yesteday but there was no card in the camera so it didn't take , oh also no battery, anyway no picture!
Panda - one of your posts, have to say " too much info"!!! But hope your backs better soon.
OL - glad you had sweet dreams, hope all is well with mum and work behaves itself. I dreamed that I found a patch of nettles at the bottom of the garden and had to dig them up to 'display' them in the beds!
Lily, go get em gal! Been there at work, 2 colleagues left but still took a while to get back to semi normal.
OL didn't you change your big GH to a smaller version? Of do I need to generate some more memory cells?
Fairy - in my head the rhyme starts : one for Jayne...
She was a friend who succumbed to cancer. When I found out about her passing I sat in the garden (where else) to think. I was 'talking' to her and said (daft but its what I said), "give me a sign youre ok now" - immediately, and I do mean immediately, a very noisy magpie spluttered,flapped and cried its way into the garden. Even without my musings, it would have been a significant entry! So I now always say 'one for Jayne' when I see a magpie.
Hello folks - back from the surgery - BP greatly improved
that's what retirement and gardening does for you, as opposed to social work!!! We shall wait to see if the cholesterol tests instigates an invitation to see the GP 
No gardening this morning - heavy drizzle here in Norfolk if you get the picture
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On 40 years til I get to try it myself Dove! (The retirement, not the social work - alas as much as I'd find it interesting I fear the paperwork chains and inability to bang heads together would prove the final straw with my sanity).
Just found out that rhubarb leaves are a natural wormer for chickens. Amazing what you learn on the internet when you should be working!!
http://www.rivercottage.net/forum/ask/poultry/12379rhubarb-leaves-amp-chickens/
Just had to tell son to come and get me BEFORE opening door to anyone , this time the postman.