Mothers can be a nightmare Clari. Mine is to the extent that she managed to miss out on Possum completely - her loss - so you have my sympathy. When we did meet 3 years ago for an afternoon at Possum's request she behaved as though she'd never said or done anything dreadful and would be guest of honour at Possum's future wedding...... What? And the things she said then! Fairy land!
The pear should be fine in a 20" pot if it's on a dwarfing rootstock. Alpine strawberries are great in pots but will escape. Ours did and are now coming up between the cobbles so we leave them be and scoff as we go past.
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)."
Some mothers eh? Mine wasn't too bad all things considered I suppose - however I hope I'm managing even better - speaking of which, hope Wonky had a better day at work today ((hugs))
But therapeutic plant buying is just fine ... it's what GC's are for
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Both twigs say they're a maximum of 3 metre (10ft) after ten years so I don't think them dwarf stock. They'll be in the ground when the vegetable garden is finished. For now I've put them both in some potato growing type sacks for ease of being dragged around (& to see if they survive).
Strawberries are potted up and drying out (stagnant water anyone?)
S*d her - treat yourself. You thoroughly deserve it. x
I once told my ex partner (who had very serious issues with his mother) that, just because she was his mother, it didn't mean he had to love her. I told him he had permission to feel that way, because some women just don't know how to do it. It's so ingrained in us that we should love our mothers, so he felt guilty that he couldn't.
Lousy for you too obelixx - and your daughter. How does it happen? I don't understand why some mothers are like that.
Older fairylet ate the pie when I was at work T'bird...
I've just looked online to see how the girl got on who was running the Ramsay Round marathon when I was on the hill on Saturday. I mentioned here that I spoke to the lovely chap doing a checkpoint for her. Jasmin Paris not only smashed the women's record - she thrashed THE record by about 45 minutes. She completed the 24 Munros in 16 hours 13 minutes. Utterly extraordinary!
I now need to lie down in a darkened room just to take that in.....
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It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have thought of plant buying as HRT for years - horticultural retail therapy!
I am so fed up - chestikoff still here and it is persisting down. I have potted up the 6 treasures I bought at Beth Chatto's garden and some perfumed dwarf pinks I found this afternoon when I went to buy potting compost and peanuts and that's it. Too wet to do owt else.
Garden group at my house in 8 days' time and there's more rain forecast all day tomorrow when I have a garden helper all day and OH isn't playing golf so is, in theory, available for labouring.
Humph!
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)."
Clari, I'm afraid I would have given as good as I'd got re mother's comments! You are welcome to recycle your mother and borrow mine if you like, she's lovely! Isn't that right Dove?
Hubby just told me he needs a good come back for a mean spirited witch where he works, he walked in whistling today as he was happy, and she told him " your a child that needs to he told to shut up!" so underhanded! She deems herself judge but not big enough to actually TELL him to! so as she's the same age as him but looks twenty years older....I told him he should say " I'm sorry, we can't all grow old as quickly as you!" .....miserable @#&£@#! I'm looking forward to meeting her at the next works do!
Fairy, wow I remember you mentioning her! Good for her! She smashed it! Exhausting just thinking about it!
Panda, LOVE the hair! Great colour for you! And buttonholes complement beautifully!
Still feeling quite tired from the weekend, work has been an uphill battle today. Nevemind, I'm home now. First job when I got back was to remove a dead rat from the middle of the lawn it has got rather soggy in the rain, and the snails seemed to be enjoying it too. It wasn't a huge surprise to see it though, the council put bait down last week after we had spotted a rat eating the organic snail pellets I'd put down in the back flower bed. It's the first sign of a rat in the eight years we've lived here, but apparently they really like those pellets, and the man identified a little run the rat had made across several gardens to get to them. Thankfully no sign of a nest in our garden though.
Dinner in the oven now ratty has been disposed of, and time for a look over my little parcel of goodies that has just arrived:
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Oh Clari, how hurtful. Sending hugs x
Mothers can be a nightmare Clari. Mine is to the extent that she managed to miss out on Possum completely - her loss - so you have my sympathy. When we did meet 3 years ago for an afternoon at Possum's request she behaved as though she'd never said or done anything dreadful and would be guest of honour at Possum's future wedding...... What? And the things she said then! Fairy land!
If your Bramley twig is on a dwarfing rootstock it may cope well in a pot for a few years but they do want to be big trees really so are best in the ground and also need two pollinators - http://www.orangepippintrees.com/pollinationchecker.aspx?v=1009
The pear should be fine in a 20" pot if it's on a dwarfing rootstock. Alpine strawberries are great in pots but will escape. Ours did and are now coming up between the cobbles so we leave them be and scoff as we go past.
Clari ((hugs))
Some mothers eh? Mine wasn't too bad all things considered I suppose - however I hope I'm managing even better - speaking of which, hope Wonky had a better day at work today ((hugs))
But therapeutic plant buying is just fine ... it's what GC's are for
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Both twigs say they're a maximum of 3 metre (10ft) after ten years so I don't think them dwarf stock. They'll be in the ground when the vegetable garden is finished. For now I've put them both in some potato growing type sacks for ease of being dragged around (& to see if they survive).
Strawberries are potted up and drying out (stagnant water anyone?)
Oh Clari. How horrible for you.
S*d her - treat yourself. You thoroughly deserve it. x
I once told my ex partner (who had very serious issues with his mother) that, just because she was his mother, it didn't mean he had to love her. I told him he had permission to feel that way, because some women just don't know how to do it. It's so ingrained in us that we should love our mothers, so he felt guilty that he couldn't.
Lousy for you too obelixx - and your daughter. How does it happen? I don't understand why some mothers are like that.
Older fairylet ate the pie when I was at work T'bird...
I've just looked online to see how the girl got on who was running the Ramsay Round marathon when I was on the hill on Saturday. I mentioned here that I spoke to the lovely chap doing a checkpoint for her. Jasmin Paris not only smashed the women's record - she thrashed THE record by about 45 minutes. She completed the 24 Munros in 16 hours 13 minutes. Utterly extraordinary!
I now need to lie down in a darkened room just to take that in.....
Last edited: 20 June 2016 17:54:31
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have thought of plant buying as HRT for years - horticultural retail therapy!
I am so fed up - chestikoff still here and it is persisting down. I have potted up the 6 treasures I bought at Beth Chatto's garden and some perfumed dwarf pinks I found this afternoon when I went to buy potting compost and peanuts and that's it. Too wet to do owt else.
Garden group at my house in 8 days' time and there's more rain forecast all day tomorrow when I have a garden helper all day and OH isn't playing golf so is, in theory, available for labouring.
Humph!
I think there will be a few men trying to break that record now RB - you know what some men are like when a wumman shows 'em up...
They'll need some amount of porridge though!
I thought it best to talk to David (the checkpoint chap) for a good while just so she could crack on past me. Didn't want to show her up...
It took me 6 hours of walking ( and 2 hours of breaks) just to do the two hills I did!
Can you send your undergardener here for some slab shifting obelixx? We have dry weather forecast for tomorrow
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry FG - he's on dog walking duty and barn clearing if he can't garden. We need a serious de-clutter.
Evening all, morning Pat,
Clari, I'm afraid I would have given as good as I'd got re mother's comments! You are welcome to recycle your mother and borrow mine if you like, she's lovely! Isn't that right Dove?
Hubby just told me he needs a good come back for a mean spirited witch where he works, he walked in whistling today as he was happy, and she told him " your a child that needs to he told to shut up!"
so underhanded! She deems herself judge but not big enough to actually TELL him to! 
so as she's the same age as him but looks twenty years older....I told him he should say " I'm sorry, we can't all grow old as quickly as you!" 
.....miserable @#&£@#! I'm looking forward to meeting her at the next works do! 
Fairy, wow I remember you mentioning her! Good for her! She smashed it! Exhausting just thinking about it!
Panda, LOVE the hair! Great colour for you! And buttonholes complement beautifully!
Got to read back more but soggy rain here too!
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Evening all.
Still feeling quite tired from the weekend, work has been an uphill battle today. Nevemind, I'm home now. First job when I got back was to remove a dead rat from the middle of the lawn
it has got rather soggy in the rain, and the snails seemed to be enjoying it too. It wasn't a huge surprise to see it though, the council put bait down last week after we had spotted a rat eating the organic snail pellets I'd put down in the back flower bed. It's the first sign of a rat in the eight years we've lived here, but apparently they really like those pellets, and the man identified a little run the rat had made across several gardens to get to them. Thankfully no sign of a nest in our garden though.
Dinner in the oven now ratty has been disposed of, and time for a look over my little parcel of goodies that has just arrived:
Not sure why the photo is upside down- sorry!