Yes it is very soggy underfoot isn't it, I've just refilled the bird feeding station and definitely experience a ' sinking' feeling as I trundled down the garden! I am amazed at how much the lawn has grown since hubs mowed it just before Christmas.
I do actually like dusting - it brings back happy memories when you get to my age and the house is full of knick-knacks given as birthday and Xmas presents or because a friend knows I would appreciate some antique or quirky ornament they had acquired or saw on an outing. My kitchen dresser is laden with such things and i can spend a happy hour just washing little pieces of pottery and polishing the shelves. The sun has come out briefly and I did an hour's pruning and marvelled at how many flowers are blooming.
I managed to get to both allotments today and bring home some cabbage and sprouts, so definitely my first pickings of the year I'm hoping it stays dry tomorrow too so I can go to my allotment proper armed with secateurs and wellies there is so much there I can be doing while I have the time off but the weather has been so prohibitive
i was up with the chickens at lunchtime, the sun was out and my coat was in the shed
Likewise Marion, I like dusting, cleaning and at the moment I am halfway through spring cleaning the kitchen. Clearing out all the units and rearranging things, I keep finding things that I had forgotten about - a clay model of a penguin that I made at school when I was 12, for some strange reason it was painted green!!
Aah perhaps you had decided to go green very early in life,flowers! It is a bit brighter this morning and dry at the moment. Rain is not forecast in any amount till 9 tonight so may be able to get out in the garden for longer today. It is quite calm and still mild for time of year so should be pleasant outside.
Hello Marion, just on my dinner hour, the sun as just popped out with nice blue sky's , let's hope the weekend is like this too, hope your having a nice day too TTFN : )
Beautiful weather here in Bristol for gardening,flumpy, so sunny I could smell the scent of my huge snowdrops called "Colossus" which are just opening their flowerbuds. I have worked so hard today without the encumbrance of my raincoat. I staked an osteospermum up which is laden with flowers I would no twant to see lying on the ground as well as nearly finished the buddlea pruning, pruned some of the roses, and cut some huge brambles down to the ground ready to be dug out as soon as I can get near them. Thousands of daffs up and a few buds. Potato plants growing from ones that got left behind in the harvest so may put a cloche over them tomorrow and hope to get early potatoes. I have worked nonstop for a good few hours so ready for a break now and "Escape to the Country" where I now say to the participants - don't buy that one as it has a stream in the garden whereas I used to say - buy that one with the pretty stream. These floods this winter and last will be making us all wary of water.
I watched "Escape" too, Cotswolds, gosh it's expensive.
No sun here, just showers. Sounds so warm at your place Marion. You have so much energy, working for a good few hours. I feel like a limp rag with my cold and I'm over 20 years younger than you! You are amazing.
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Good morning , love snow picture , much prefer snow to rain
off to Lincoln , just had breakfast
have a good day
Yes it is very soggy underfoot isn't it, I've just refilled the bird feeding station and definitely experience a ' sinking' feeling as I trundled down the garden! I am amazed at how much the lawn has grown since hubs mowed it just before Christmas.
Happy dusting!
I do actually like dusting - it brings back happy memories when you get to my age and the house is full of knick-knacks given as birthday and Xmas presents or because a friend knows I would appreciate some antique or quirky ornament they had acquired or saw on an outing. My kitchen dresser is laden with such things and i can spend a happy hour just washing little pieces of pottery and polishing the shelves. The sun has come out briefly and I did an hour's pruning and marvelled at how many flowers are blooming.
I managed to get to both allotments today and bring home some cabbage and sprouts, so definitely my first pickings of the year
I'm hoping it stays dry tomorrow too so I can go to my allotment proper armed with secateurs and wellies 
there is so much there I can be doing while I have the time off but the weather has been so prohibitive 
i was up with the chickens at lunchtime, the sun was out and my coat was in the shed
Likewise Marion, I like dusting, cleaning and at the moment I am halfway through spring cleaning the kitchen. Clearing out all the units and rearranging things, I keep finding things that I had forgotten about - a clay model of a penguin that I made at school when I was 12, for some strange reason it was painted green!!
Aah perhaps you had decided to go green very early in life,flowers! It is a bit brighter this morning and dry at the moment. Rain is not forecast in any amount till 9 tonight so may be able to get out in the garden for longer today. It is quite calm and still mild for time of year so should be pleasant outside.
Good morning all , hoping to go to allottment today but heavy rain at moment !
never mind lots to do in house
have a good day
Beautiful weather here in Bristol for gardening,flumpy, so sunny I could smell the scent of my huge snowdrops called "Colossus" which are just opening their flowerbuds. I have worked so hard today without the encumbrance of my raincoat. I staked an osteospermum up which is laden with flowers I would no twant to see lying on the ground as well as nearly finished the buddlea pruning, pruned some of the roses, and cut some huge brambles down to the ground ready to be dug out as soon as I can get near them. Thousands of daffs up and a few buds. Potato plants growing from ones that got left behind in the harvest so may put a cloche over them tomorrow and hope to get early potatoes. I have worked nonstop for a good few hours so ready for a break now and "Escape to the Country" where I now say to the participants - don't buy that one as it has a stream in the garden whereas I used to say - buy that one with the pretty stream. These floods this winter and last will be making us all wary of water.
I watched "Escape" too, Cotswolds, gosh it's expensive.
No sun here, just showers. Sounds so warm at your place Marion. You have so much energy, working for a good few hours. I feel like a limp rag with my cold and I'm over 20 years younger than you! You are amazing.