Thank goodness you had someone to let you in Fairy! I have a huge fear of not locking the door when I am last to leave. I've been known to drive back home (half an hour drive each way) because I can't convince myself that I've done it.
Trouble is I don't trust myself enough with keys to have a yale lock fitted that can just slam shut!
Day off today! Yay! Think of all the wonderful places we can go now its cooler so I don't need to worry about the hound ... What's that? Will you wait in potentially all day for a parcel with no specified delivery time?
Oh.
I'll just stay at home and wash the curtains and the such like( mind you if you saw the state of the bedroom curtains when I removed them and realised the dust on the top of them you'd all be very disgusted at me!). I can't even go into the garden as I can't hear the door bell and delivery drivers around here are shockingly bad at doing the ring and run approach (or as I have seen at my neighbours walk up the drive with the "sorry we tried to deliver but you weren't in" form already filled out. I leapt the fence and took delivery much to his disgust!!)
Still the family freezer has been sorted and organised. I might leave the other one for this afternoon.... can you handle the excitement? New project at work starting in September means even more work load so I need to learn how to manage my time better. I've tried trying to split myself but there was a problem with that. I've gained the extra me I require (especially around the belly) but can't work out how to do cell division. DOH!
Now. Do I have enough ingredients to make some kind of sweet treat that ISN'T FOR THE DOG THIS TIME ?
Morning everyone, I've not just got up, honestly. The tree sugeon woke me at 7.45. No nest in conifers so he's busy cutting them down. Only hope I can cope with being overlooked. Will have to start researching plants for the borders. Think I will probably end up planting a new hedge but will be able to keep it to a reasonable height and width.
It's a bit grey here this morning but not cold.
Is that more work you are taking on Clari, you really must be bonkers, are they paying you extra?
Someone won some money I think, can't remember who, but congratulations and enjoy the new plants.
Watched Tatton too last night, couldn't agree more GWRS, the wheat garden was weird and not in a nice way. Quite fancy going to Tatton, might have to put it on the visiting list for next year.
Must go and check those tree surgeons are not making too much of a hash of my garden.
I didn't realise Tatton was on last night. Bother - must find it on I-player (or whatever that's called...). Would be interested to see what Monty has to say about the wheat (barley?) garden - I liked it as a "picture", and the colour scheme of his planted "gardeny" bit was gorgeous, but I couldn't imagine anyone actually planting barley in a garden... you could get a similar effect, though - the "hot summer, ripe fields, waving grass" look - with Stipa tenuissima, maybe with a splash of orange geum in it for extra "oomph", if you wanted that. I posted a couple of photos of that one (with the other 2 "young designers" gardens) on the Tatton thread. I'll bump it up for you, GWRS.
Can thoroughly recommend the show...
Met Office says there's no more than a 10% chance of rain this morning. However, there's a wet black cloud over the valley so no mowing of the meadow yet...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Funny how we all like different things - the "wheat" garden at Tatton was my fave - not so much the wheat, but all the purpley planting that went with it
Hope the tree felling goes off without incident Yvie - to start with it will feel like you are Chicken Licken (the sky is falling in).....but you will soon adjust, and will revel in all that extra light. Been there, got the T-shirt
Morning - come in for a breather - It's bloomin' hot for working out there again.
Trying to get some stuff out of the nursery border and into the proper borders - but it's all very dry. The intensity and likelihood of rain over the next couple of days keeps reducing which is not helping - getting a bit desperate for some now. At least the breeze has dropped so I was able to put some weedkileer on the drive which was nearly green with weeds in places.
How does that work? - Desired plants going brown, droopy and crispy - weeds popping up green and fresh as you like??
More depressing news from France I see...
Hope the hump gets better soon PP.
Happy birthday Joyce
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Thank goodness you had someone to let you in Fairy! I have a huge fear of not locking the door when I am last to leave. I've been known to drive back home (half an hour drive each way) because I can't convince myself that I've done it.
Trouble is I don't trust myself enough with keys to have a yale lock fitted that can just slam shut!
Day off today! Yay! Think of all the wonderful places we can go now its cooler so I don't need to worry about the hound ... What's that? Will you wait in potentially all day for a parcel with no specified delivery time?
Oh.
I'll just stay at home and wash the curtains and the such like( mind you if you saw the state of the bedroom curtains when I removed them and realised the dust on the top of them you'd all be very disgusted at me!). I can't even go into the garden as I can't hear the door bell and delivery drivers around here are shockingly bad at doing the ring and run approach (or as I have seen at my neighbours walk up the drive with the "sorry we tried to deliver but you weren't in" form already filled out. I leapt the fence and took delivery much to his disgust!!)
Still the family freezer has been sorted and organised. I might leave the other one for this afternoon.... can you handle the excitement? New project at work starting in September means even more work load so I need to learn how to manage my time better. I've tried trying to split myself but there was a problem with that. I've gained the extra me I require (especially around the belly) but can't work out how to do cell division. DOH!
Now. Do I have enough ingredients to make some kind of sweet treat that ISN'T FOR THE DOG THIS TIME ?
Morning all.
Nothing doing here.
I've ruptured my hump doing tree felling yesterday so it's anti-inflammatories and coffee with a pal for me today.
Happy Gardening.
pp
Light work for a few days and some R & R.
We do tend to bash on to get things done.
Morning everyone, I've not just got up, honestly. The tree sugeon woke me at 7.45. No nest in conifers so he's busy cutting them down. Only hope I can cope with being overlooked. Will have to start researching plants for the borders
. Think I will probably end up planting a new hedge but will be able to keep it to a reasonable height and width.
It's a bit grey here this morning but not cold.
Is that more work you are taking on Clari, you really must be bonkers, are they paying you extra?
Someone won some money I think, can't remember who, but congratulations and enjoy the new plants.
Watched Tatton too last night, couldn't agree more GWRS, the wheat garden was weird and not in a nice way. Quite fancy going to Tatton, might have to put it on the visiting list for next year.
Must go and check those tree surgeons are not making too much of a hash of my garden.
Morning all.
I didn't realise Tatton was on last night. Bother - must find it on I-player (or whatever that's called...). Would be interested to see what Monty has to say about the wheat (barley?) garden - I liked it as a "picture", and the colour scheme of his planted "gardeny" bit was gorgeous, but I couldn't imagine anyone actually planting barley in a garden... you could get a similar effect, though - the "hot summer, ripe fields, waving grass" look - with Stipa tenuissima, maybe with a splash of orange geum in it for extra "oomph", if you wanted that. I posted a couple of photos of that one (with the other 2 "young designers" gardens) on the Tatton thread. I'll bump it up for you, GWRS.
Can thoroughly recommend the show...
Met Office says there's no more than a 10% chance of rain this morning. However, there's a wet black cloud over the valley
so no mowing of the meadow yet...
Funny how we all like different things - the "wheat" garden at Tatton was my fave - not so much the wheat, but all the purpley planting that went with it
Hope the tree felling goes off without incident Yvie - to start with it will feel like you are Chicken Licken (the sky is falling in
).....but you will soon adjust, and will revel in all that extra light. Been there, got the T-shirt
Snap Liri
Snap Chicky...
Tatton thread bumped up for GWRS
nowt much worse than a ruptured hump, I'd say.
Morning - come in for a breather - It's bloomin' hot for working out there again.
Trying to get some stuff out of the nursery border and into the proper borders - but it's all very dry. The intensity and likelihood of rain over the next couple of days keeps reducing which is not helping - getting a bit desperate for some now. At least the breeze has dropped so I was able to put some weedkileer on the drive which was nearly green with weeds in places.
How does that work? - Desired plants going brown, droopy and crispy - weeds popping up green and fresh as you like??
More depressing news from France I see...
Hope the hump gets better soon PP.
Happy birthday Joyce