Good morning Marion : ), just reading your messages from yesterday, people don't realise how hard it was to live in them days, my mum was born 1936 so she tells me how bad it was, people are spoilt these days and don't know how lucky they are, hope your ok Marion it my be very immotional big hugs from me : )
A lady at my works told me her neighbour Jack is doing a speech today at west Minster Abbey, he wrote a book on VE Day last year, he's a lovely man who loves gardening too : )
Good morning flumpy. Good gardening weather here as I thought so first big load of weeds now in the green wheeliebin. The clocks appeared on a load of dandelions overnight! I will catch up on the service when it is too dark to work outside and look out for your colleague' neighbour. It is a very small world since the internet arrived! TY for the hugs but nostalgia even if sad is good for you when you are my age. We did manage to have a good time in the thirties despite the poverty. Disease was the great killer then. In Scotland where I grew up it was TB, typhoid and diphtheria which decimated my friends and family. After the war the NHS was a great life-saver. My father got TB and was cured and lived on to be 91.
Hi Marion, what's the white flower with the pink edge called ? You've got some lovely pictures Marion, my sweet peas are doing ok getting taller now and my Curley Kale that I grew from seed are quite big now, I've cut the flowers off as advices
Flumpy, do you mean the two tulips? sorry I do not know their name as they were on their second year from my friend's planting last year. The big pale pink flower is a tree peony which is supposed to have red and white striped flowers but i am still waiting for that to happen. i have had all white, all pink like this one, all red all on the same plant but no stripey ones!
I love both of them Marion, I can't wait to see your flowers in summer, I've been hard at work clearing brambles, digging soil and planting my lupins which have been growing nicely in my green house looking forward to seeing what colours come out this year .
i hope the message Kef sent didn't alarm you Marion, I didn't want to bother you with my troubles at work, but all will be sorted out this week
I do hope so flumpy Oh those brambles! I do love their fruit but i had to cut my long hair last week as I kept being caught up in mine! Still short hair dries quicker. Looks like a dry day here, sunnier in the afternoon.
Oh my goodness is it a case of "Warm May showers bring June flowers"? I have rosebuds showing their colour which is just as well as the labels seem to have all disappeared. The bindweed in the spinney is miles long it seems. Still all my paths should be cleared before my open day and as I go I am clearing anything prickly away from them. Great strawberry crop for Wimbledon it looks like too. I love to sit watching it on telly with a bowl of my own strawberries and icecream.
Lovely sunshine now. The hawthorn blossom is out so I could garden without my coat as I could "cast a clout". I do love those classy tulips with painted rims. The black centaurea "Jordy" is blooming and the peony
Lovely lovely pictures Marion I just love them tulips it's the coloured edge that sets them off well done Marion, I can't wait for the strawberries to grow they where deliciouse last year and will have sweet peas to go in my salads mmmmm : )
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A lady at my works told me her neighbour Jack is doing a speech today at west Minster Abbey, he wrote a book on VE Day last year, he's a lovely man who loves gardening too : )
Good morning flumpy. Good gardening weather here as I thought so first big load of weeds now in the green wheeliebin. The clocks appeared on a load of dandelions overnight! I will catch up on the service when it is too dark to work outside and look out for your colleague' neighbour. It is a very small world since the internet arrived! TY for the hugs but nostalgia even if sad is good for you when you are my age. We did manage to have a good time in the thirties despite the poverty. Disease was the great killer then. In Scotland where I grew up it was TB, typhoid and diphtheria which decimated my friends and family. After the war the NHS was a great life-saver. My father got TB and was cured and lived on to be 91.
Such pretty things up my garden to photograph today.
Hi Marion, what's the white flower with the pink edge called ? You've got some lovely pictures Marion, my sweet peas are doing ok getting taller now and my Curley Kale that I grew from seed are quite big now, I've cut the flowers off as advices
Flumpy, do you mean the two tulips? sorry I do not know their name as they were on their second year from my friend's planting last year. The big pale pink flower is a tree peony which is supposed to have red and white striped flowers but i am still waiting for that to happen. i have had all white, all pink like this one, all red all on the same plant but no stripey ones!
I love both of them Marion, I can't wait to see your flowers in summer, I've been hard at work clearing brambles, digging soil and planting my lupins which have been growing nicely in my green house looking forward to seeing what colours come out this year
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i hope the message Kef sent didn't alarm you Marion, I didn't want to bother you with my troubles at work, but all will be sorted out this week
I do hope so flumpy Oh those brambles! I do love their fruit but i had to cut my long hair last week as I kept being caught up in mine! Still short hair dries quicker. Looks like a dry day here, sunnier in the afternoon.
Oh my goodness is it a case of "Warm May showers bring June flowers"? I have rosebuds showing their colour which is just as well as the labels seem to have all disappeared. The bindweed in the spinney is miles long it seems. Still all my paths should be cleared before my open day and as I go I am clearing anything prickly away from them. Great strawberry crop for Wimbledon it looks like too. I love to sit watching it on telly with a bowl of my own strawberries and icecream.
Lovely sunshine now. The hawthorn blossom is out so I could garden without my coat as I could "cast a clout". I do love those classy tulips with painted rims. The black centaurea "Jordy" is blooming and the peony
flower is now quite white and huge.