Cool and overcast here and looked like an excellent grass cutting day and then it rained a wee bit. Damp grass v dry grass is the difference between a nice walk behind the mower and a double hernia!
HF I once shovelled three trailer loads of topsoil (thankfully quite dry) and when I went to collect the third load the chap made me a cup of tea! I think he was afraid I was going to drop dead on his premises. My face was the same colour as my T shirt.
I've just ordered another kilo of mealworms. As OH says, the robin has me trained. I was going to leave it now as the fledglings are out and about, but a very insistent robin has started to come and stare at me while I made coffee this morning, and usually turns up for "happy hour" and his bowl of worms around 5 pm. I pressed a wrong button on the order, and they thought I was abandoning the order so gave me a code for 10% discount. Happy days.
LilyP, so sorry about your friend - I can imagine how desperate you feel on her behalf. Hope she's now getting some real help and, as Fidget says, is safe.
Hosta, please don't fade away! Maybe a share of Bushman's full Scottish is in order.
Your robin looks very sleek, Fidget - the mealworms must be keeping him in good shape. I have one with very ruffled feathers on his behind, so I think he must have had a close encounter with a predator, and survived... Just ordered 5 kilos of peanut granules to make into bird cake for the tits; when it's cold and there aren't many greenfly or caterpillars about, it keeps the babies (and their parents) going. Just now I think I should erect a sign directing them to my Rosa rugosa hedge, which is swarming with aphids... I'm sure they'll soon find them, though.
I wish there was something which ate woodworm. We found some in the edges of the ancient parquet floor in the (rather damp) living room, and now today I've been treating the back of my late mother-in-law's favourite little chest of drawers, having just discovered it's full of holes. The beasties love cheap plywood. Now the chest of drawers is outside under a sheet of plastic until the smell of woodworm killer disperses.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
... Hosta, please don't fade away! Maybe a share of Bushman's full Scottish is in order.
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Not my share and besides, his OH does a very excellent Full English - come to think of it, all my second and third helpings when at Hosta's place the other day probably explain why I've not lost 3lbs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The rain has just started so I've had to come in from pruning the grapevine. I was going to do the pear and gooseberries too but they'll have to wait for another day
I'll put the tv on and switch back and forth between the tennis and the football - hope it doesn't get too exciting ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Drizzle halted gardening here too Dove. OH is watching football and I've been watching tennis. I***ing up to date so relaxing There are a number of toads in my damp area of garden. Love seeing them hopping around.
OH, I meant to share my joyous excitement from 2 days ago. I went into the polytunnel and saw a grass snake eyeing up the " beds" with the waterlilies. He saw me and hopped over the edge into the water.
Bushman, I can't get my head around all that food. They'll need new clothes when they get home.
Hosta, the "British" was a slip of the ...? Brain on my part. I really did mean full English.
We got an unexpected visitor this evening, so haven't been able to read posts at leisure as I'd have liked, but got enough peeps snuck in to get the gist while Hubby kept her talking. She didn't leave until midnight, so after a quick shower, am now in bed and getting drowsy.
Lilyp, sorry to hear about friend still having such a horrible problem. I hope she can be helped.
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Good morning all.
Cool and overcast here and looked like an excellent grass cutting day and then it rained a wee bit.
Damp grass v dry grass is the difference between a nice walk behind the mower and a double hernia!
HF I once shovelled three trailer loads of topsoil (thankfully quite dry) and when I went to collect the third load the chap made me a cup of tea! I think he was afraid I was going to drop dead on his premises. My face was the same colour as my T shirt.
I've just ordered another kilo of mealworms. As OH says, the robin has me trained. I was going to leave it now as the fledglings are out and about, but a very insistent robin has started to come and stare at me while I made coffee this morning, and usually turns up for "happy hour" and his bowl of worms around 5 pm. I pressed a wrong button on the order, and they thought I was abandoning the order so gave me a code for 10% discount. Happy days.
Hosta - where's the topsoil going? Is that for between the polytunnels?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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LilyP, so sorry about your friend - I can imagine how desperate you feel on her behalf. Hope she's now getting some real help and, as Fidget says, is safe.
Hosta, please don't fade away! Maybe a share of Bushman's full Scottish is in order.
Your robin looks very sleek, Fidget - the mealworms must be keeping him in good shape. I have one with very ruffled feathers on his behind, so I think he must have had a close encounter with a predator, and survived... Just ordered 5 kilos of peanut granules to make into bird cake for the tits; when it's cold and there aren't many greenfly or caterpillars about, it keeps the babies (and their parents) going. Just now I think I should erect a sign directing them to my Rosa rugosa hedge, which is swarming with aphids... I'm sure they'll soon find them, though.
I wish there was something which ate woodworm.
We found some in the edges of the ancient parquet floor in the (rather damp) living room, and now today I've been treating the back of my late mother-in-law's favourite little chest of drawers, having just discovered it's full of holes. The beasties love cheap plywood. Now the chest of drawers is outside under a sheet of plastic until the smell of woodworm killer disperses. 
Not my share
and besides, his OH does a very excellent Full English - come to think of it, all my second and third helpings when at Hosta's place the other day probably explain why I've not lost 3lbs 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The rain has just started so I've had to come in from pruning the grapevine. I was going to do the pear and gooseberries too but they'll have to wait for another day
I'll put the tv on and switch back and forth between the tennis and the football - hope it doesn't get too exciting ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just stopped for a bit of lunch, honest Dove. OH has just called to say he's " in Devon now" and should be home around 4.30.
I've moved 2 lorry loads of chip and another 6 or so to come.
Dove, I've marked out the new bed and laid a 6" layer of last year's composted chippings and the soil will go on top of that.
I've taken photos, but still can't post due to the update.
Topsoil coming in the morning. It's all go here.
Drizzle halted gardening here too Dove. OH is watching football and I've been watching tennis. I***ing up to date so relaxing
There are a number of toads in my damp area of garden. Love seeing them hopping around.
OH, I meant to share my joyous excitement from 2 days ago. I went into the polytunnel and saw a grass snake eyeing up the " beds" with the waterlilies. He saw me and hopped over the edge into the water.
Bushman, I can't get my head around all that food. They'll need new clothes when they get home.
Hosta, the "British" was a slip of the ...? Brain on my part. I really did mean full English.
We got an unexpected visitor this evening, so haven't been able to read posts at leisure as I'd have liked, but got enough peeps snuck in to get the gist while Hubby kept her talking. She didn't leave until midnight, so after a quick shower, am now in bed and getting drowsy.
Lilyp, sorry to hear about friend still having such a horrible problem. I hope she can be helped.
i forget what else. Sorry. Catch up tomorrow.