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HELLO FORKERS April 2016 Edition

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Afties, Pat.  Happy birthday to your grandson!

    I sure Dove will, although she'll have other things on her mind at the moment.  Hello Dove image  Hope everything is progressing smoothly - you seem to have it under control.

  • Good morning, nice day here hoping to get stuck into the gardening today but for now it's a bit chilly, 2 degrees, bit of tidying up in side first I think. image

    Took Charlie to school this morning and all the kids have be made to go onto the tennis courts and play as there has been a burglary overnight. We are all shocked, it's the tiniest little village school, I wouldn't have thought worth the effort. We did just have Interactive Whiteboards fitted after Christmas so I am wondering if that is what was taken. Horrible. image

    Hope you all have a good day, snow in April, let's hope it means you all get a marvellous summer. image

    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    No frost here. It rained a lot last night. Mrs Mallard was having a good time furtling around the pots with a few side ventures into the wood. I'm assuming she was sorting the slugs out.

    Sweet pea sticks to set up today.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Morning all.  Perishing cold here and very windy so feels Arctic.

    Have taken 9 yr old Rasta doggy to the vet's for X-rays on her occasionally limpy shoulder to see if it's arthritis or something else.  They've decided on a full anaesthetic so they can also remove a ganglion type lump rather than just extract fluid, analyse and risk another tranquiliser/anaesthetic later.   Fingers crossed.

    Busy - I put the charge in the tunnel and the end of the baton at the bottom end of the vertical hole.  It can take 2 or 3 goes to get it right but does work.   

    Happy gardening to those who can today.   Have fun whatever you're doing.

    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)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    G'day.

    Snowing again.

    I can't get out of the drive, as it is blocked by a sand blaster. The noise is terrible, and there is dust everywhere.

    I have to get out, to buy stuff for OH's bday, and then to pick her up to up to N. Yorks.

    Words have been said, but to no effect. I don't suppose the police will help.

    Have a good day.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Probably a good thing that you will be away for the weekend punkdoc. That's when you can get out.

    SW Scotland
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Morning all.  Pennines look like a Christmas card this morning - but the heavy snow is now turning to sleet.

    Punkdoc, the police have powers to remove "vehicles illegally parked" - it would be worth contacting them I think.  Good luck!

    Lizzie, hope you get plenty of gardening time in today & feel happier about your garden.  I'm sure visitors will understand it's a "work in progress"...

    DD - what a horrible thing to happen.  Hope nothing too much was taken.

    Pat, I liked your picture!  In Madeira in February, we saw an old chap tending his field of newly planted cabbages, dressed largely in hessian sacks, chatting on his mobile.  image

    Well - I must brave the weather and buy more sunflower hearts.  Can't let the birds go hungry!

    Hope you all have a good day.  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,036

    I hope Rasta doggy is OK.

    Sent you a PM obelixx, OH having bothers with the détaupeur. It keeps flashing red even when switched off, so he daren't adjust it. Meanwhile mole is merrily digging all around it!

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142
    Yes I was just thinking it'll soon be time for a May thread - doesn't time fly!!!?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lizzie, my dad tried smoke bombs once, they just go in a different direction. You used to be able to get cyanide but that's probably banned now.



    Hope your ok Dove, it's a busy time.image
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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