Another hot day so no gardening. I'll have to play being on holiday, but the pool went green and I just can't get it clean. Is now grey with scum on top. Don't anyone be jealous of those with a swimming pool, more bother and expense than they are worth IMHO. Would prefer to live in a cooler country (England).
Just having a rant, don't listen, not a hot weather person.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Funny you say that Buzy. We had a pool in Canberra when the 3 kids were still at home. Hubby often complained about the cleaning and no help from those that spent so much time in it.
We sold that house some years ago and it's since been removed by the govt because there was asbestos in the ceiling and all of those houses with that complication are being demolished. We drov past it recently to have a look and not only is the house gpne, but all my garden as well. Mature Eureka Lemon that was a prolific fruiter plus lots of other precious plants that I nurturedall gone.
Pat - sometimes a mistake to go back to look at an old property. I have sold at least 2 where the people buying went on and on about how much they loved the garden - beautiful planting etc etc. All nice to hear but the more they spoke the more I realised neither knew anything about gardening or had any idea of the work involved keeping a garden looking nice.
Suffice to say that both those gardens became overgrown and unkempt - much to the distress of the old neighbours who are still friends and are keen gardeners themselves.
Why oh why do people with no interest in gardening / land management buy properties with big gardens? I get being a beginner and willing to learn - but no interest? why?
SGL - the thread Fairy and others are talking about is about the TV prog Garden Rescue. Someone who had a bit of a try to wind up Verdun & then started on Fairy. Very tetchy - maybe it's the heat
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
My Mum always said that the first thing anyone would do when they moved into their house was rip out the kitchen. My Dad spent years making it...
Always a mistake to go back...
My old garden round the corner looks awful now. A woman along the road was talking to me one day and said she'd told the new owners that it used to be beautiful and they'd made it a mess. Wonder what they thought of her!
T'bird - don't know what his excuse was the last time he was rude then!
I've been cleaning everything that hadn't been moved from the lounge while the building was being done, and using the hoover now that I have a new belt for it and there's no excuse.
Blimey - the dust!
It was heaving down outside so I had no choice..
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A few years ago I took OH to see our old house in Kent. It had 3 acres of garden, I opened it for leukaemia research and entered the local gardening show. The garden has gone, it's more like parkland, grass and a few trees and there is a tennis court where the rose garden was.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
My friend and I reckon that our gardens are now worth more than what we paid for our houses over 40 years ago as we both started off with unkempt wilderness.
Now I feel bad that I showed you the buldozed block. At least you all understand. We were in that house from 1975 to 1998. The kids grew up there and the two remaining kids have both driven around to have a look and were shocked. enough misery. Time to move on. At least I learned to garden in a cold climate when I lived there whereas my previous garden had been in the tropics.
Did you all have a good day? We are winding down now and not long for bed.
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Another hot day so no gardening. I'll have to play being on holiday, but the pool went green and I just can't get it clean. Is now grey with scum on top. Don't anyone be jealous of those with a swimming pool, more bother and expense than they are worth IMHO. Would prefer to live in a cooler country (England).
Just having a rant, don't listen, not a hot weather person.
Funny you say that Buzy. We had a pool in Canberra when the 3 kids were still at home. Hubby often complained about the cleaning and no help from those that spent so much time in it.
We sold that house some years ago and it's since been removed by the govt because there was asbestos in the ceiling and all of those houses with that complication are being demolished. We drov past it recently to have a look and not only is the house gpne, but all my garden as well. Mature Eureka Lemon that was a prolific fruiter plus lots of other precious plants that I nurturedall gone.
Pat - sometimes a mistake to go back to look at an old property. I have sold at least 2 where the people buying went on and on about how much they loved the garden - beautiful planting etc etc. All nice to hear but the more they spoke the more I realised neither knew anything about gardening or had any idea of the work involved keeping a garden looking nice.
Suffice to say that both those gardens became overgrown and unkempt - much to the distress of the old neighbours who are still friends and are keen gardeners themselves.
Why oh why do people with no interest in gardening / land management buy properties with big gardens? I get being a beginner and willing to learn - but no interest? why?
SGL - the thread Fairy and others are talking about is about the TV prog Garden Rescue. Someone who had a bit of a try to wind up Verdun & then started on Fairy. Very tetchy - maybe it's the heat
I worked with a chap who went back to visit his old neighbours after he'd moved and saw his lovingly designed, handcrafted kitchen...in a skip.
TB SGL that isn't the first incident. There's previous.
My Mum always said that the first thing anyone would do when they moved into their house was rip out the kitchen. My Dad spent years making it...
Always a mistake to go back...
My old garden round the corner looks awful now. A woman along the road was talking to me one day and said she'd told the new owners that it used to be beautiful and they'd made it a mess. Wonder what they thought of her!
T'bird - don't know what his excuse was the last time he was rude then!
I've been cleaning everything that hadn't been moved from the lounge while the building was being done, and using the hoover now that I have a new belt for it and there's no excuse.
Blimey - the dust!
It was heaving down outside so I had no choice..
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A few years ago I took OH to see our old house in Kent. It had 3 acres of garden, I opened it for leukaemia research and entered the local gardening show. The garden has gone, it's more like parkland, grass and a few trees and there is a tennis court where the rose garden was.
My friend and I reckon that our gardens are now worth more than what we paid for our houses over 40 years ago as we both started off with unkempt wilderness.
Now I feel bad that I showed you the buldozed block. At least you all understand. We were in that house from 1975 to 1998. The kids grew up there and the two remaining kids have both driven around to have a look and were shocked. enough misery. Time to move on. At least I learned to garden in a cold climate when I lived there whereas my previous garden had been in the tropics.
Did you all have a good day? We are winding down now and not long for bed.
The rubbish has started making its way to the tip. My hips are hurting, and I seem to be getting in the way, so I'm having a break until I'm needed!
Very much looking forward to seeing how this project goes, husband built the deck all by himself a couple of years ago, so he is pretty handy.