Everything safe up the back garden but still windy and quite cold so contented myself with bringing an armful of small debris down to the green wheeliebin and admiring the masses of snowdrops and cyclamen in flower. I may pick myself a bunch of flowers later as a reward for vacuming and dusting!
Good morning Marion wet, windy and cold here too so its an indoor day for me. So strange to have been out in warm sunshine yesterday, mostly tidying up and propping up the wobbly fence - hope it survives until spring.
I'm reading Joy Larkcom's book 'Creative Vegetable Growing' to help with planning a kitchen garden in large pots, keeping the allotment beds for the bigger crops. Very interesting and practical.
Good to take on board your tips for a greener lifestyle, there ismore to gardening than one might think
I have Joy Larkcom's book, a Xmas present last year. Lots of good ideas there. Bizzie B. Lyn. my snowdrops were in full bloom Jan.12th last year. Susan I too love the scent of snowdrops Today will be a housework and cooking day as dinner guest tomorrow - both of which keep me warm. Still windy outside and hailstones alternating with bright sunshine! More comfortable inside today..
The council have given the area ward a green grant of £2500 to put towards a community allotment, which is pretty much adjacent to one of my plots. It's for community use but being cleared by professionals as they don't think the community will help to do it. Not very green to me, and I can't see the various community groups doing anything with it if it's not 30 degrees out *sigh*
its very likely that I will be losing my new plot in a few years because they want to put a train station across about 20 metres away
Oh yes the station will certainly be coming and will be so much needed when all the new houses start going up., Fruitcake. Charlotte Leslie, our MP is really interested in the passenger line being reinstated and in outdoor pursuits like gardening so perhaps she would press your case for any allotments that are lost to be replaced? As for the community allotment is it for growing food for anyone to help themselves?
I think the community allotment is for the community groups to use it. Can you imagine if it was a free for all, especially round there? There would be nothing left
I have absolutely zero trust in our local MP.
The passenger line is only likely to go between avonmouth and the new filton station and that's it. No parkway or temple meads. Seems like a bit of a waste to me. They'd get more people using it if they could directly to the centre
Getting started on getting the railway back is something at least. I used to have lots of visitors come from Shirehampton, Lawrence Hill and Redland Station by train rather than bus. As the population in this side of Bristol is set to double at least we will need the railway desperately. And electrification is on the way so pollution will be kept down. I think a lot of businesses will find it cheaper to move out of Bristol centre to Cribbs Causeway where a lot of the workers will be living quite near in the new town.
My son and his partner are in Madeira on holiday and have sent me a picture of the Botanic Garden there. Here it is Click to turn it the right way up!!!
What a lovely morning I had gardening in my butterfly garden this morning. Green wheeliebin full up now ready for emptying tomorrow morning. It was cold as soon as I stopped for a breather but the brilliant sunshine made up for that. Going to freeze tonight though and we may have more snow on the way.
I'm not against the railway, at all, and in fact, having spent the last two years relying on the bus to take me to work in kingsdown, I really wish there already was one. I just don't like the thought of it being so close to my allotment. All those diesel fumes aren't going to make my veg taste very nice!
I am going to contact CL and the councillors to find out what happens to our plot. He wouldn't give me a direct answer last night.
We're forecast snow again tomorrow morning... If I didn't have to work, I'd be at the plots taking pics of them all lovely, crisp and white
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Everything safe up the back garden but still windy and quite cold so contented myself with bringing an armful of small debris down to the green wheeliebin and admiring the masses of snowdrops and cyclamen in flower. I may pick myself a bunch of flowers later as a reward for vacuming and dusting!
Good morning Marion
wet, windy and cold here too so its an indoor day for me. So strange to have been out in warm sunshine yesterday, mostly tidying up and propping up the wobbly fence - hope it survives until spring.
I'm reading Joy Larkcom's book 'Creative Vegetable Growing' to help with planning a kitchen garden in large pots, keeping the allotment beds for the bigger crops. Very interesting and practical.
Good to take on board your tips for a greener lifestyle, there is more to gardening than one might think
Very strong winds through the night, I thought I had lost my green waste bags, but they didnt come to collect them yesterday.
Take care in the garden Marion. Still waiting for my snowdrops, only a tiny few out so far. Last year they were all fully ouf by the 18th.
I have Joy Larkcom's book, a Xmas present last year. Lots of good ideas there. Bizzie B. Lyn. my snowdrops were in full bloom Jan.12th last year. Susan I too love the scent of snowdrops Today will be a housework and cooking day as dinner guest tomorrow - both of which keep me warm. Still windy outside and hailstones alternating with bright sunshine! More comfortable inside today..
The council have given the area ward a green grant of £2500 to put towards a community allotment, which is pretty much adjacent to one of my plots. It's for community use but being cleared by professionals as they don't think the community will help to do it. Not very green to me, and I can't see the various community groups doing anything with it if it's not 30 degrees out *sigh*
its very likely that I will be losing my new plot in a few years because they want to put a train station across about 20 metres away
Oh yes the station will certainly be coming and will be so much needed when all the new houses start going up., Fruitcake. Charlotte Leslie, our MP is really interested in the passenger line being reinstated and in outdoor pursuits like gardening so perhaps she would press your case for any allotments that are lost to be replaced? As for the community allotment is it for growing food for anyone to help themselves?
I have absolutely zero trust in our local MP.
The passenger line is only likely to go between avonmouth and the new filton station and that's it. No parkway or temple meads. Seems like a bit of a waste to me. They'd get more people using it if they could directly to the centre
Getting started on getting the railway back is something at least. I used to have lots of visitors come from Shirehampton, Lawrence Hill and Redland Station by train rather than bus. As the population in this side of Bristol is set to double at least we will need the railway desperately. And electrification is on the way so pollution will be kept down. I think a lot of businesses will find it cheaper to move out of Bristol centre to Cribbs Causeway where a lot of the workers will be living quite near in the new town.
My son and his partner are in Madeira on holiday and have sent me a picture of the Botanic Garden there. Here it is Click to turn it the right way up!!!
What a lovely morning I had gardening in my butterfly garden this morning. Green wheeliebin full up now ready for emptying tomorrow morning. It was cold as soon as I stopped for a breather but the brilliant sunshine made up for that. Going to freeze tonight though and we may have more snow on the way.
I'm not against the railway, at all, and in fact, having spent the last two years relying on the bus to take me to work in kingsdown, I really wish there already was one. I just don't like the thought of it being so close to my allotment. All those diesel fumes aren't going to make my veg taste very nice!
I am going to contact CL and the councillors to find out what happens to our plot. He wouldn't give me a direct answer last night.
We're forecast snow again tomorrow morning... If I didn't have to work, I'd be at the plots taking pics of them all lovely, crisp and white