Oh my life I love coffee and walnut cake. I have just devoured a chocolate bar - we have a tin for charity and colleagues bring in bars of chocolate when they are on offer i.e. 5 bars for a quid. home-made cake sounds megga yummy I love making cakes too, in fact any form of baking sweet or savoury.
I intend to get the house cleaned this evening, then totally flop with a good film.
I think its called Sods Law, never heard the saying "the planets must be out" but I get the meaning though- its a good one and sums up the evening perfectly.
Im sure my evening tonight will be a lot better, enjoy the rest of your day.
Relax tonight-and wish you well. There's an old Scottish phrase which is: 'lang may yer lum reek', which basically means good luck/health and live long.
In view of your power cut prob it's maybe quite apt- lum being chimney!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have to agree with Frank, unless someone high up makes some difficult decisions, power outages will become commonplace. Have been looking at some big generators, that will run on biodiesel, so if everything does go pear-shaped, at least we'll have a little bit of power.
Some days you're the statue, other days you're the pidgeon. I think yesterday was very much a statue day for you, VP.
Have you thought about putting polycarbonate in the greenhouse? Less likely to break when new, but does suffer in the sun and evenutally becomes brittle and will break like glass. Might be something to think about, short term as it should be cheaper than glass.
Sounds like this allotment business can be expensive!
Veggie!..........speak to us.............veg..............let us know you're OK...........what the......can we do? Phone Terry Wogan, someone.............this is awful..........all that broken glass and cake...............for heaven's sake knock three times, Veg, we're all on hold!
LOL! yes Im fine, I didn't over eat cake and explode like a balloon! Thank you for asking after me
Had a busy weekend, potted on loads of veggies: summer cabbage, cauliflowers etc... they should be in the ground by now but I was busy hardening them off when the gales hit and I had to zip up the greenhouse - they didn't like the heat so now starting the hardening off process again, also potted on my tomatoes, put out loads of slug traps with home-made beer that went terribly wrong -hopefully the slugs will love it.
Earthed up the spuds - earlies and mains doing really well, sowed parsnip seeds outside and more leek seeds as well as planting out our leek seedlings. Cleared a lot of weeds from the strawberry bed and dug over one of the raised beds and raked to a fine tilth for the sowing of the said seeds. I also potted on our runner beans and these are being hardened off for planting next weekend.
Ive also created some wigwams and planted out some of our pea plants.
Currently we are harvesting lettuce and rhubarb, our carrots which we sowed in a "hot" bed under glass in very early spring i.e. February are now pencil thin and looking really healthy with healthy growth on top, another month and we will be harvesting those. Also harvesting raddish and pea shoots for salads.
Ive ordered more greenhouse glass and managed to get a 5% discount when I explained my sorry story about the 1st orde, we looked into polycarbonate sheeting but it works out far more expensive than glass (in our area of the country).
Things to do now include:
Finish creating more beds on the fruit plot (we have a double allotment plot), I have a small raised bed I need to weed and one small veg raised bed which needs a light fork - already weeded.
Cumfry is ready for its second harvest - ill pop the leaves on the compost heap to use as an activator. The first harvest of leaves I'd put in the bottom of the runner bean trench - they love the stuff along with some home-made compost and nettles (without roots).
Our allotment site has just let 14 plots to new plotholders so its great to see these plots starting to be attacked with new enthusasam - I just hope these newbies don't run out of steam before they really get going, clearing an allotment plot from scratch when its covered in Dock and every other type of weed imaginable.
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It can only get better now Veg. Take the day off, bottle of wine tonite, all better tomorrow.
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Oh my life I love coffee and walnut cake. I have just devoured a chocolate bar - we have a tin for charity and colleagues bring in bars of chocolate when they are on offer i.e. 5 bars for a quid. home-made cake sounds megga yummy I love making cakes too, in fact any form of baking sweet or savoury.
I intend to get the house cleaned this evening, then totally flop with a good film.
I think its called Sods Law, never heard the saying "the planets must be out" but I get the meaning though- its a good one and sums up the evening perfectly.
Im sure my evening tonight will be a lot better, enjoy the rest of your day.
VP
VP- love coffee and walnut cake too!
Relax tonight-and wish you well. There's an old Scottish phrase which is: 'lang may yer lum reek', which basically means good luck/health and live long.
In view of your power cut prob it's maybe quite apt- lum being chimney!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have to agree with Frank, unless someone high up makes some difficult decisions, power outages will become commonplace. Have been looking at some big generators, that will run on biodiesel, so if everything does go pear-shaped, at least we'll have a little bit of power.
Some days you're the statue, other days you're the pidgeon. I think yesterday was very much a statue day for you, VP.
Have you thought about putting polycarbonate in the greenhouse? Less likely to break when new, but does suffer in the sun and evenutally becomes brittle and will break like glass. Might be something to think about, short term as it should be cheaper than glass.
Sounds like this allotment business can be expensive!
Hope you had a better day today, with cake, Veggie!
Veggie, is everything better today?
Veggie!..........speak to us.............veg..............let us know you're OK...........what the......can we do? Phone Terry Wogan, someone.............this is awful..........all that broken glass and cake...............for heaven's sake knock three times, Veg, we're all on hold!
LOL! yes Im fine, I didn't over eat cake and explode like a balloon! Thank you for asking after me
Had a busy weekend, potted on loads of veggies: summer cabbage, cauliflowers etc... they should be in the ground by now but I was busy hardening them off when the gales hit and I had to zip up the greenhouse - they didn't like the heat so now starting the hardening off process again, also potted on my tomatoes, put out loads of slug traps with home-made beer that went terribly wrong -hopefully the slugs will love it.
Earthed up the spuds - earlies and mains doing really well, sowed parsnip seeds outside and more leek seeds as well as planting out our leek seedlings. Cleared a lot of weeds from the strawberry bed and dug over one of the raised beds and raked to a fine tilth for the sowing of the said seeds. I also potted on our runner beans and these are being hardened off for planting next weekend.
Ive also created some wigwams and planted out some of our pea plants.
Currently we are harvesting lettuce and rhubarb, our carrots which we sowed in a "hot" bed under glass in very early spring i.e. February are now pencil thin and looking really healthy with healthy growth on top, another month and we will be harvesting those. Also harvesting raddish and pea shoots for salads.
Ive ordered more greenhouse glass and managed to get a 5% discount when I explained my sorry story about the 1st orde, we looked into polycarbonate sheeting but it works out far more expensive than glass (in our area of the country).
Things to do now include:
Finish creating more beds on the fruit plot (we have a double allotment plot), I have a small raised bed I need to weed and one small veg raised bed which needs a light fork - already weeded.
Cumfry is ready for its second harvest - ill pop the leaves on the compost heap to use as an activator. The first harvest of leaves I'd put in the bottom of the runner bean trench - they love the stuff along with some home-made compost and nettles (without roots).
Our allotment site has just let 14 plots to new plotholders so its great to see these plots starting to be attacked with new enthusasam - I just hope these newbies don't run out of steam before they really get going, clearing an allotment plot from scratch when its covered in Dock and every other type of weed imaginable.
VP.