Morning all. looks like a better day here today but very fogy cant see the island and the fog horns are sounding all around, but the sun is just trying to push through.
Had a nice day yesterday but very wet did a few local gardens and then some nurseries got some more ideas
Time for a quick coffee and a piece of cake my help is due any moment then out to the jungle and start clearing.
Yesterday's wind has gone but it's dull and damp. I doubt much will get done outside today, unfortunately. What I really feel like doing in this weather is baking, but if I bake I'll eat... Got some mending to do (turning the collar on a shirt, among other things) so maybe I'll be listening to the radio while catching up with that.
Just making plans to visit Mum in her Home in the NE again. Next week I can see a "window" I think, when my sister's around as well.
Pat, your eggplant looks lovely and healthy. I believe flat-leaved parsley is supposed to have the best flavour - and it's certainly easier to wash greenfly off the flat leaves than the frilly ones! (I discovered that in my first year of "proper" gardening, 40-odd years ago.)
SolentWind, hope you manage to make some progress with your jungle clearance today! Exciting times...
BL, I agree that a larger proportion of migrants than the cynics would have us believe, are genuine asylum-seekers. Some of their stories are heart-breaking. And there are lots of us who wouldn't be alive today if our forebears hadn't been accepted into Britain as migrants fleeing persecution - or merely seeking a better life because of famine etc. I'm descended from French Protestant huguenot silk weavers, who escaped persecution in 17th century France & settled in Spitalfields in London.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Op went well, according to surgeon . I have to confess to being in more pain than I was expecting and I'm back on crutches. Well, I would be if I wasn't still in bed.
Hubby has been bringing me tea all morning.
I actually had quite a lot of sleep last night but woke up aching a lot in between.
Thank-you all for such kind wishes ,especially Lyn who , despite everything she's having to deal with, managed to send me a lovely message.
Thank-you all. You're just the best. x
Hubby is in kitchen cooking. He did a big SM shop yesterday but felt he'd better cook the fresh meat he'd bought, even though it had been in cool bags with freezer packs all day.
We didn't get home until 8.30 last night. Someone had to have emergency surgery and I was delayed. I do hope they're ok.
Hope everyone else is well, esp Lyn and Dove and all others who are poorly .
I'm hoping DD manages her visit tomorrow as OH has just been to fetch hot cross buns. He'll be at work all day then has to take me to docs' at 5.40 for dressing change. He's a miserable old poof at times, but he's looking after me well.
Glad all has gone well Hosta. Best wishes for a speedy recovery - I'll have you up here on holiday and up a hill if you don't watch out
Can you bring back spring from the shop please Dove?
Rotten day here. Just as well I'm at work.
Topbird - I forgot to message you to say that they're repeating Paul Murton's second series of his Grand Tour of Scotland every evening this week - BBC2 at half seven. The first one isn't so exciting so you haven't missed much
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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Morning all. looks like a better day here today but very fogy cant see the island and the fog horns are sounding all around, but the sun is just trying to push through.
Had a nice day yesterday but very wet did a few local gardens and then some nurseries got some more ideas
Time for a quick coffee and a piece of cake my help is due any moment then out to the jungle and start clearing.
Good morning all.
Yesterday's wind has gone but it's dull and damp. I doubt much will get done outside today, unfortunately. What I really feel like doing in this weather is baking, but if I bake I'll eat...
Got some mending to do (turning the collar on a shirt, among other things) so maybe I'll be listening to the radio while catching up with that. 
Just making plans to visit Mum in her Home in the NE again. Next week I can see a "window" I think, when my sister's around as well.
Pat, your eggplant looks lovely and healthy. I believe flat-leaved parsley is supposed to have the best flavour - and it's certainly easier to wash greenfly off the flat leaves than the frilly ones! (I discovered that in my first year of "proper" gardening, 40-odd years ago.)
SolentWind, hope you manage to make some progress with your jungle clearance today! Exciting times...
BL, I agree that a larger proportion of migrants than the cynics would have us believe, are genuine asylum-seekers. Some of their stories are heart-breaking. And there are lots of us who wouldn't be alive today if our forebears hadn't been accepted into Britain as migrants fleeing persecution - or merely seeking a better life because of famine etc. I'm descended from French Protestant huguenot silk weavers, who escaped persecution in 17th century France & settled in Spitalfields in London.
Morning all, but only just.
Op went well, according to surgeon . I have to confess to being in more pain than I was expecting and I'm back on crutches. Well, I would be if I wasn't still in bed.
Hubby has been bringing me tea all morning.
I actually had quite a lot of sleep last night but woke up aching a lot in between.
Thank-you all for such kind wishes ,especially Lyn who , despite everything she's having to deal with, managed to send me a lovely message.
Thank-you all. You're just the best. x
Hubby is in kitchen cooking. He did a big SM shop yesterday but felt he'd better cook the fresh meat he'd bought, even though it had been in cool bags with freezer packs all day.
We didn't get home until 8.30 last night. Someone had to have emergency surgery and I was delayed. I do hope they're ok.
Hope everyone else is well, esp Lyn and Dove and all others who are poorly .
I'm hoping DD manages her visit tomorrow as OH has just been to fetch hot cross buns. He'll be at work all day then has to take me to docs' at 5.40 for dressing change. He's a miserable old poof at times, but he's looking after me well.
Hostafan 1. Glad to hear that OH is cooking and looking after you
Cafe Nero overlooking the marketplace and thought I'd check to see if there was a news from you, and there you are! Take care x
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad all has gone well Hosta. Best wishes for a speedy recovery - I'll have you up here on holiday and up a hill if you don't watch out
Can you bring back spring from the shop please Dove?
Rotten day here. Just as well I'm at work.
Topbird - I forgot to message you to say that they're repeating Paul Murton's second series of his Grand Tour of Scotland every evening this week - BBC2 at half seven. The first one isn't so exciting so you haven't missed much
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hosta glad your on the mend take it easy, keep the old man busy
Steve turned up with a few friends this morning as we missed out yesterday they are working like Trojans so I have just made them all lunch.
We found the shed.
And the garden has a bank I did not realise was quite so steep the rubbish and brambles were so thick.
Looks like a few years of work ahead SW. !!