Off to town this morning so no time to check in. Went to Omagh (of the Omagh bomb. Dreadful atrocity a few years back). It's a brilliant wee place...until you try to find your way out. No roads lead here.
It's mizzly between heavy showers here so nothing doing outside as yet. I'll be looking for tips re expanding flowerbeds later so put your thinking caps on. (Slopey lawn, stupid shape, turned over turves, that kind of thing.
Dyson:- my mum has one...hates it. It's heavier than she is!
My Bosch pet thing:- spinning brush picks up dogs hairs. Lush. The cable retractor ceased so I left it in to "the man". A bit had broken off and it wasn't worth fixing. He did, however, clean and service it and change the filters etc. It would suck the floorboards up through the carpet now!!! It's like magic. (I keep my feet well out of the way!)
No cheap plants anywhere this morning so that was a bit disappointing. Got some grit for planting as my pots are waterlogged.
BL. Years that end with a two are disastrous for me. I thought 2002 would never end and 2012 wasn't much better. You're having a terrible run at the moment. Hugs.
Persisting down all day here so Marie-Christine who comes for 5 hours every other Tuesday has been stuck indoors cleaning windows and their woodwork and mirrors and glass fronted cupboards. This has only happened twice since she started here 3.5 years ago. We'd both rather play outside than in, whatever the time of year, but no seeds to sow or babies to pot on in the shed so indoors it was.
Busy - you do seem to have good funerals to say goodbye to your friends. I hope you and OH are OK and can enjoy tonight's distractions at the garden club.
Dove - smart bench. Lovely corner.
Dysons! OH chose ours in January and loves it. I loathe it with a passion. Light enough but bad design. Stupid handle shape and length; stupid shape to store; stupid system for holding heads on the handle; stupid collection system - gets blocked by tissues when I have a cold and they inevitably drop out of my sleeves whereas the Miele just sucked them up; stupid bagless cylinder dooberry impossible to empty without getting dust everywhere and then it needs cleaning! How stupid can a machine design be?
I've repaired the broken Miele which has sensible bags and great suction and a cat and dog head and use that in my sewing attic. OH gets to do the rest of the house with his bloody Dyson. When we move I'm having a robot that can trundle around doing downstairs all by itself cos the doors will be open far more and the dogs will be in and out all day bringing in bits. We have streams and bogs and soggy paddocks here and they frequently come home looking and smelling like Clari's hound but all the way up to their armpits. Hosepipe and shampoo time.
I hope we get some sun tomorrow. Bit fed up with all the sorting and packing and cleaning. Need a garden break. I've seen to all the houseplants this pm but it's not quite the same as outside gardening.
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)."
Mizzling down here, a local speciality. Many very small drops of rain per square inch, so light that the breeze blows them under your umbrella. Needed full waterproofs to pick the raspberries this afternoon...
You can tell OH and I have been together a long time. Neither realised today was our 41st wedding anniversary until breakfast, when I looked at the calendar... but we went out for lunch at a nice pub with a gorgeous view, then came home and ate raspberry ice cream.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I'm going back to a dyson. I have a bosch bagless. It's practically silent, weighs a ton, would suck the nails out of the floorboards but won't pick up a thread
I'm going to give it away with a health and sanity warning.
Hello , going to a proper nursery in Collingham tomrrow , no clothes etc etc just plants and a nice small cafe , with real home made cakes to go with your tea/coffee
Will also going to B&Q for gravel and Asda for compost - both cheapest
Dyson , you love or hate them
Spent day at allotment , just having a beer before dinner , hope you have all had a good day
I've recorded that Joyce - not seen it yet. The one last week ( he was walking The Scottish National Trail that he created) was excellent. I always find it a bit odd watching him - he's my BIL's double - also called Cameron
Damp and dreich here but good for the plants.
Never fancied a Dyson. Always found it slightly disturbing when I saw how much carpet ended up inside them. Wasn't spending hundreds of pounds on wool carpets and watching them disappear up a nozzle and get thrown out...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Afternoon all.
Off to town this morning so no time to check in. Went to Omagh (of the Omagh bomb. Dreadful atrocity a few years back). It's a brilliant wee place...until you try to find your way out. No roads lead here.
It's mizzly between heavy showers here so nothing doing outside as yet. I'll be looking for tips re expanding flowerbeds later so put your thinking caps on. (Slopey lawn, stupid shape, turned over turves, that kind of thing.
Dyson:- my mum has one...hates it. It's heavier than she is!
My Bosch pet thing:- spinning brush picks up dogs hairs. Lush. The cable retractor ceased so I left it in to "the man". A bit had broken off and it wasn't worth fixing. He did, however, clean and service it and change the filters etc. It would suck the floorboards up through the carpet now!!! It's like magic.
(I keep my feet well out of the way!)
No cheap plants anywhere this morning so that was a bit disappointing.
Got some grit for planting as my pots are waterlogged.
BL. Years that end with a two are disastrous for me. I thought 2002 would never end and 2012 wasn't much better. You're having a terrible run at the moment. Hugs.
doh!!
I've decided to give the pond a light clean up now it's cooler. Bleugh! Decomposing sludge smell!
He's very dainty Clari. Only ankle deep???
Fairy, it's a while since I've been to McLaren's but bought some good quality shrubs there in the 80s.
Re Ben More. . BBC2 last night Part 1 The Pilgrim's Trail with Cameron McNish was from Iona to Glen Affric.
It has remained dry so got a bit more pruning done but it seems never-ending this year
Persisting down all day here so Marie-Christine who comes for 5 hours every other Tuesday has been stuck indoors cleaning windows and their woodwork and mirrors and glass fronted cupboards. This has only happened twice since she started here 3.5 years ago. We'd both rather play outside than in, whatever the time of year, but no seeds to sow or babies to pot on in the shed so indoors it was.
Busy - you do seem to have good funerals to say goodbye to your friends. I hope you and OH are OK and can enjoy tonight's distractions at the garden club.
Dove - smart bench. Lovely corner.
Dysons! OH chose ours in January and loves it. I loathe it with a passion. Light enough but bad design. Stupid handle shape and length; stupid shape to store; stupid system for holding heads on the handle; stupid collection system - gets blocked by tissues when I have a cold and they inevitably drop out of my sleeves whereas the Miele just sucked them up; stupid bagless cylinder dooberry impossible to empty without getting dust everywhere and then it needs cleaning! How stupid can a machine design be?
I've repaired the broken Miele which has sensible bags and great suction and a cat and dog head and use that in my sewing attic. OH gets to do the rest of the house with his bloody Dyson. When we move I'm having a robot that can trundle around doing downstairs all by itself cos the doors will be open far more and the dogs will be in and out all day bringing in bits. We have streams and bogs and soggy paddocks here and they frequently come home looking and smelling like Clari's hound but all the way up to their armpits. Hosepipe and shampoo time.
I hope we get some sun tomorrow. Bit fed up with all the sorting and packing and cleaning. Need a garden break. I've seen to all the houseplants this pm but it's not quite the same as outside gardening.
Mizzling down here, a local speciality. Many very small drops of rain per square inch, so light that the breeze blows them under your umbrella. Needed full waterproofs to pick the raspberries this afternoon...
You can tell OH and I have been together a long time. Neither realised today was our 41st wedding anniversary until breakfast, when I looked at the calendar...
but we went out for lunch at a nice pub with a gorgeous view, then came home and ate raspberry ice cream. 
I'm going back to a dyson. I have a bosch bagless. It's practically silent, weighs a ton, would suck the nails out of the floorboards but won't pick up a thread
I'm going to give it away with a health and sanity warning.
Thanks, MU...
Hello , going to a proper nursery in Collingham tomrrow , no clothes etc etc just plants and a nice small cafe , with real home made cakes to go with your tea/coffee
Will also going to B&Q for gravel and Asda for compost - both cheapest
Dyson , you love or hate them
Spent day at allotment , just having a beer before dinner , hope you have all had a good day
I've recorded that Joyce - not seen it yet. The one last week ( he was walking The Scottish National Trail that he created) was excellent. I always find it a bit odd watching him - he's my BIL's double - also called Cameron
Damp and dreich here but good for the plants.
Never fancied a Dyson. Always found it slightly disturbing when I saw how much carpet ended up inside them. Wasn't spending hundreds of pounds on wool carpets and watching them disappear up a nozzle and get thrown out...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...