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  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    As you can guess I'm on iPad in the garden today! It's horrid! Didn't realise I was so ugly! It's like typing in a mirror image

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    It's ok LP. I'm not terribly sure what grass is meant to look like. Your's looks fine to me! Mine is mostly dandelions and buttercups. image That's a fine edge you have there. What keeps the gravel back though. Have you edger of some sort?

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    And it was Pansyface who was oggling the men in lycra. Honestly. Some people have no shame. Where's SGL??????? image

  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Yes Fairy, it's a terribly old fashioned way of keep edges. 

    We edge the grass every spring, pull away the gravel then paint, well when I say we.......................image

    My dad passed away 15 years ago, he and mum wanted their ashes scattered together so 11 years later (he thought she would last 6 months without himimage) we took them up Ballageich hill  and did the deed, we didn't know about the  windfarm!

    in from the garden due to wind and horrid drizzle, kettle on.

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Meant to add      drive carefull Fairy, mist coming down 

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    I'm in now too lily, did you make a pot? image

    you made me smile with what you said about your mum and dad.  

    Ditto to lily p fairy, drive careful x

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    I'm in now, lots done out there  image  still lots to do but we're getting there.  When I was up at the GC I picked up three Nicotiana Sylvestris and I've popped them in the new Sunny Bed, they'll  give it some height image

    As well as doing lots of gardening, there was also lots of sitting and looking and smelling the roses - OH has discovered that despite him 'not liking scented flowers 'cos they smell of talcum powder and air freshener' he likes the smell of our David Austin Rose 'Mayflower' -  he says it smells of Turkish Delight maybe that's because it's made with rose-water?image

    We also spent quite a while laying on our tums and watching the frogs and snails in the pond - the snails are doing a brilliant job of keeping the pondwater clear - no sign of any blanket-weed - well, not yet anyway, and there was plenty by this time last year.  image

    Shoulder of lamb has been roasted and is resting, local new potatoes are cooking and we'll also be having roasted new carrots (roasted around the lamb) and buttered spring cabbage with mint sauce from the garden and gravy.  

    You've got fifteen minutes to get here ................ image


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





  • Evening all!

    I'm back from my conference in London, with the first hangover I've had in about ten years. I did have a great time though. 

    The peonies bloomed while I was away, which was nice to come back to. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    Evening all. 

    Rained all day but I was at the coal face so not really bothered by it. 

    Customer: " I've forgotten my glasses, is this toilet tissue 2 ply , or 3ply? "

    Me " it's 2 ply madam"

    Customer: " Oh I find 2ply isn't absorbent enough, I have to use lots of it. I'll just leave it" 

    Is it just me , or was that just Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much info??

    Devon.
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,708

    Here I am! image PP. image

    No lycra watching for me lol..........it's been hissing down anyway image

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