Thanks for all the good wishes, folks. I'm ok, just fed up with waiting for some evidence of improvement. It seems as though the head cold is at a standstill, neither worse nor better,. Grrr!!
I'm wondering how many more days we should pretend that we've not noticed the neighbours' boys' best football arrived over the fence (again) a few days ago - don't want to be horrid, they're nice boys, but I'd have thought they were big enough now to go up to the playground a few hundred yards away where there's a proper goal for football.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds like it needs a concerted effort by cleaner, newsletter lady and you to keep pointing out the problem ... nicely ... don't want to get into Pdoc's NDN situation.
Just finishing my coffee and listening to Popmaster, then I shall mix and apply the Nematodes - slugs, they're coming to get you ......................................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
yeah, here, in Hosta Heaven, they've been bad this year, but I think I'd bankrupt myself if I started on nematodes to deal with mine. I'm living with it so far unless there's an all out attack in a particular area, then it's a tiny dose of pellets.
Did you see GW last night Dove? Mini Hosta Heaven.
No - totally forgot it was on - hopefully Virgin has recorded it for me and I'll watch it tonight. Was on phone to sister in law.
I'm going to put nematodes on the veg patch as they've got my beans and I've had to replant, and also along the Shady Bank as they have had a go at the Blue Angel hostas Hopefully one application will cut down the infestation enough to make a difference
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce: come the school holidays I assist with the rest of the museum, prep for next years schools, run workshops throughout the holidays and generally don't sit down any more than I would if it were a school term! Bit of a blow it means there's never any down time so I can go on holiday but at least it keeps me out of trouble.
HF I always have more than one dog, usually three, they're pack animals, and when one of mine died closely followed by another, the old girl was on her own.
She'd always been fine so I thought nothing of it. Off I went to work. After a few days my neighbour came to the door and said the dog had been crying for a couple of hours. I gave her the run of the house but he came in a couple of days later and said she'd been crying again. That dog has never been left on her own since. I have another dog now but I take them to a dog minder every day that I'm at work. It's my responsibility to ensure that my dogs are cared for physically and emotionally so if your neighbour is anything like a dog lover she'll understand that. If she doesn't, report her! Simple. I would.
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Thanks for all the good wishes, folks. I'm ok, just fed up with waiting for some evidence of improvement. It seems as though the head cold is at a standstill, neither worse nor better,. Grrr!!
sorry Pat, I've missed you of late. Best wishes from me too.
Oh dear Hosta
Hope they 'take the hint' soon - at least school holidays should start any minute and they'll be at home more for a while ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm wondering how many more days we should pretend that we've not noticed the neighbours' boys' best football arrived over the fence (again) a few days ago - don't want to be horrid, they're nice boys, but I'd have thought they were big enough now to go up to the playground a few hundred yards away where there's a proper goal for football.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope so Dove.
It's like snoring, you don't know you do it unless someone tells you, so I felt I had to say something. It's been going on for months.
We have the same cleaner and she says it takes about 25minutes before they stop barking when she turns up.
Another neighbour who delivers the parish newsletter says she doesn't deliver theirs until after 10am because of their barking .
Sounds like it needs a concerted effort by cleaner, newsletter lady and you to keep pointing out the problem ... nicely ... don't want to get into Pdoc's NDN situation.
Just finishing my coffee and listening to Popmaster, then I shall mix and apply the Nematodes - slugs, they're coming to get you ......................................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
yeah, here, in Hosta Heaven, they've been bad this year, but I think I'd bankrupt myself if I started on nematodes to deal with mine. I'm living with it so far unless there's an all out attack in a particular area, then it's a tiny dose of pellets.
Did you see GW last night Dove? Mini Hosta Heaven.
No - totally forgot it was on - hopefully Virgin has recorded it for me and I'll watch it tonight. Was on phone to sister in law.
I'm going to put nematodes on the veg patch as they've got my beans and I've had to replant, and also along the Shady Bank as they have had a go at the Blue Angel hostas
Hopefully one application will cut down the infestation enough to make a difference 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce: come the school holidays I assist with the rest of the museum, prep for next years schools, run workshops throughout the holidays and generally don't sit down any more than I would if it were a school term! Bit of a blow it means there's never any down time so I can go on holiday but at least it keeps me out of trouble.
HF I always have more than one dog, usually three, they're pack animals, and when one of mine died closely followed by another, the old girl was on her own.
She'd always been fine so I thought nothing of it. Off I went to work. After a few days my neighbour came to the door and said the dog had been crying for a couple of hours. I gave her the run of the house but he came in a couple of days later and said she'd been crying again. That dog has never been left on her own since. I have another dog now but I take them to a dog minder every day that I'm at work. It's my responsibility to ensure that my dogs are cared for physically and emotionally so if your neighbour is anything like a dog lover she'll understand that. If she doesn't, report her! Simple. I would.