All sorts of critters here but then I'm surrounded by arable fields and pasture so moles, ordinary rats, musk rats, assorted mice and voles. Haven't had to concrete them out though.
Figrat - how very rare you are. I've only met one other person who disliked chocolate, a couple who can resist and one who is allergic to it.
Cold and grey here today and OH has indeed gone out to play golf so i'm definitely going to potter and pot in the kitchen.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
An inch of snow over night, still blowing a gale. More snow due for east so that will be us as nearer that way. OH working in workshop probably all weekend so i shall please myself , on the cards today are bread making, cheese & sp onion scones, maybe pizza dough for a pizza tonight , filing in office, cleaning already changed bed so doing well..
We are all fields to Obelixx, have a resisdent pheasant called Phil and this morning Curlews were rumaging for food in the field, the deer, foxes, moles, mice, rat, .
Hi Bunny. It's trying to snow here now but is a bit faint hearted. Bread and scones and home made pizza dough sound lovely but after 7 weeks of blobbing in the sofa while my foot heals I can't afford such goodies for a while.
I have cleared the decks in the kitchen apart from the teenager who has not yet surfaced to have her breakfast. She might have to eat it on the hoof as I'm about to cover the table in a plastic cloth and get down and dirty with my tomato and chilli babies and their new pots.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
um...I had planned to get into the GH to do a bit of pricking out....but the cold seems to have checked the growth on many of the seedlings. Schizanthus, geranium maderense, zinnias and salvias all have true leaves but the rest are sulking. As per usual I have eyes bigger than my border so I've sown far too many varieties...*sigh*
On a night tonight so my biggest problem wll be getting into work if this snow keeps up. I've booked a shedload of annual leave after Tuesday so hopefully I will have lots of time in the garden and GH...if only the weather would cheer up.
Hi all. Is this turning into Saturday Kitchen do you think!! Nice when we can talk about stuff we grow to eat although I'm not sure chocolate comes under that category! I have one daughter who'd live on chocolate and the other one can take it or leave it. I'm sure one of them was swapped in that maternity hospital... I've just shaken the snow off my rosemary and thyme so that I can put a bit in my chicken stock. Glad I got my shopping yesterday as it's not looking too clever here at the moment and I no longer have a 4 wheel drive car. Obelixx- my 2 will be unlikely to stir before midday, and they don't get that from me - maybe both of them were swapped at birth. Youngest washed the dishes last night though - just as well with the amount of debris left by her and her pals!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Two inches of snow here (EM) overnight and still falling (almost horizontally with the wind), so can't chuck the compost from the GH onto the borders now.. I have a tray full of baby aquilegias which were sown last summer though, so shall prick them out into 3 inchers. It's 1.7C outside but the snow doesn't seem to realise it should be melting and not settling! Also had another bare-root magnolia delivered which will have to go into a pot now (if I can find the bag of ericaceous under the white stuff!)
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I'd need to turn the entire garden into a greenhouse to grow enough choc for youngest daughter Chicken and veg soup with all the bits stripped off -yum. My kids don't eat it but it means all the more for me!
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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All sorts of critters here but then I'm surrounded by arable fields and pasture so moles, ordinary rats, musk rats, assorted mice and voles. Haven't had to concrete them out though.
Figrat - how very rare you are. I've only met one other person who disliked chocolate, a couple who can resist and one who is allergic to it.
Cold and grey here today and OH has indeed gone out to play golf so i'm definitely going to potter and pot in the kitchen.
An inch of snow over night, still blowing a gale. More snow due for east so that will be us as nearer that way. OH working in workshop probably all weekend so i shall please myself , on the cards today are bread making, cheese & sp onion scones, maybe pizza dough for a pizza tonight , filing in office, cleaning
already changed bed so doing well
..
We are all fields to Obelixx, have a resisdent pheasant called Phil and this morning Curlews were rumaging for food in the field, the deer, foxes, moles, mice, rat,
.
No sign of spring as yet for this weekend ...
Hi Bunny. It's trying to snow here now but is a bit faint hearted. Bread and scones and home made pizza dough sound lovely but after 7 weeks of blobbing in the sofa while my foot heals I can't afford such goodies for a while.
I have cleared the decks in the kitchen apart from the teenager who has not yet surfaced to have her breakfast. She might have to eat it on the hoof as I'm about to cover the table in a plastic cloth and get down and dirty with my tomato and chilli babies and their new pots.
Enjoy making a mess
um...I had planned to get into the GH to do a bit of pricking out....but the cold seems to have checked the growth on many of the seedlings. Schizanthus, geranium maderense, zinnias and salvias all have true leaves but the rest are sulking. As per usual I have eyes bigger than my border so I've sown far too many varieties...*sigh*
On a night tonight so my biggest problem wll be getting into work if this snow keeps up. I've booked a shedload of annual leave after Tuesday so hopefully I will have lots of time in the garden and GH...if only the weather would cheer up.
Hi all. Is this turning into Saturday Kitchen do you think!! Nice when we can talk about stuff we grow to eat although I'm not sure chocolate comes under that category! I have one daughter who'd live on chocolate and the other one can take it or leave it. I'm sure one of them was swapped in that maternity hospital...
I've just shaken the snow off my rosemary and thyme so that I can put a bit in my chicken stock. Glad I got my shopping yesterday as it's not looking too clever here at the moment and I no longer have a 4 wheel drive car. Obelixx- my 2 will be unlikely to stir before midday, and they don't get that from me - maybe both of them were swapped at birth. Youngest washed the dishes last night though - just as well with the amount of debris left by her and her pals! 
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy girl ...maybe I should grow a chocolate tree
Two inches of snow here (EM) overnight and still falling (almost horizontally with the wind), so can't chuck the compost from the GH onto the borders now.. I have a tray full of baby aquilegias which were sown last summer though, so shall prick them out into 3 inchers. It's 1.7C outside but the snow doesn't seem to realise it should be melting and not settling! Also had another bare-root magnolia delivered which will have to go into a pot now (if I can find the bag of ericaceous under the white stuff!)
I'd need to turn the entire garden into a greenhouse to grow enough choc for youngest daughter
Chicken and veg soup with all the bits stripped off -yum. My kids don't eat it
but it means all the more for me!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Bob- forget the compost and put your feet up with a cup of tea and a bun!!
I've got soup- would you like some? Send a husky team...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...