Hot, hot, hot here too i am sat on a hill watching the fighter jets from Farnborough Air show - we were too stingy/disorganised to get proper tickets. Its very loud and a bit scary, but Mr C is a very happy boy. I drag him round on enough garden visits Currently sat under an umbrella - brought it for showers, but it works as a parasol
Joyce - thank you. OH is muttering but it's cheaper than an annual gold subscriptions he's after - 3 clubs for the price of 1 - as if he's going to be allowed out to play them one after the other every week!
Chicky - sounds good to me. Even the keenest gardeners need down time sometimes and if you can have flowers too...... icing on cake.
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)."
Good pic Chicky. How many wildflowers and any really good ones? A friend of mine in the Charente has left part of her large lawn to grow long and now has slipper orchids..
We have a Miele Busy but it started to get old and decrepit so I use it in my attic sewing room now. Got so fed up with the bl**dy Dyson I've finally managed to fox the Miele's dodgy closing and bought it a new head and it works fine again. Possum will have it in her new student flatshare.
We can't leave things lying on the floor anyway here as a certain Labrador thinks it's either food or the terrier thinks it's a toy. Good discipline for OH who does leave PCs and their bags and cables lying around......
Verdun has indeed posted some good photos. I don't like knipophia as a rule but he has a few good looking ones.
Meant to ask Busy - do you grow sweet peas? Haven't seen any in the last week in the Vendée but did see some great looking pumpkins in potagers. We have one whole yellow courgette and no potimarrons here. Been too cold and too wet and now probably too late.
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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)."
Lots of wildflowers Obelixx, but all fairly common ones - eggs and bacon, knapweed, tomentil, clover, self heal, some heather, and a little pink jobbie that I had never seen before
No orchids though. We have a solitary marsh orchid growing in our meadow, and one appeared in a weedy patch outside the back door this year too - hoping they multiply
sorry, blurry pic - the leaves are in focus though
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Hot, hot, hot here too
i am sat on a hill watching the fighter jets from Farnborough Air show - we were too stingy/disorganised to get proper tickets. Its very loud and a bit scary, but Mr C is a very happy boy. I drag him round on enough garden visits 
Currently sat under an umbrella - brought it for showers, but it works as a parasol
On the plus side, we are sat in a meadow teeming with wildflowers - think I might count the different sorts
Joyce - thank you. OH is muttering but it's cheaper than an annual gold subscriptions he's after - 3 clubs for the price of 1 - as if he's going to be allowed out to play them one after the other every week!
Chicky - sounds good to me. Even the keenest gardeners need down time sometimes and if you can have flowers too...... icing on cake.
Well done to Kyle Edmunds!!
He really put us through it at the end.
Wouldn't you have to be ever so tidy to have a robot vacuum cleaner?
My favourite make for cylinder vacuums is Rowenta, but I've heard Miele are good - expensive though.
Too hot outside, suppose I should have been doing HW but I've been reading and looking things up on my laptop.
BL - it forces you to pick things up off the floor but at least it cleans under low furniture with out you having to move it
Thank you BL. Found him
His garden looks fabulous.
The redarrows were good
Good pic Chicky. How many wildflowers and any really good ones? A friend of mine in the Charente has left part of her large lawn to grow long and now has slipper orchids..
We have a Miele Busy but it started to get old and decrepit so I use it in my attic sewing room now. Got so fed up with the bl**dy Dyson I've finally managed to fox the Miele's dodgy closing and bought it a new head and it works fine again. Possum will have it in her new student flatshare.
We can't leave things lying on the floor anyway here as a certain Labrador thinks it's either food or the terrier thinks it's a toy. Good discipline for OH who does leave PCs and their bags and cables lying around......
Verdun has indeed posted some good photos. I don't like knipophia as a rule but he has a few good looking ones.
Meant to ask Busy - do you grow sweet peas? Haven't seen any in the last week in the Vendée but did see some great looking pumpkins in potagers. We have one whole yellow courgette and no potimarrons here. Been too cold and too wet and now probably too late.
Last edited: 17 July 2016 17:42:03
Lots of wildflowers Obelixx, but all fairly common ones - eggs and bacon, knapweed, tomentil, clover, self heal, some heather, and a little pink jobbie that I had never seen before
No orchids though. We have a solitary marsh orchid growing in our meadow, and one appeared in a weedy patch outside the back door this year too - hoping they multiply
sorry, blurry pic - the leaves are in focus though
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