Hope you get some sleep tonight Clari. Me too. 10pm last night much squealing the garden. Went out to find Rasta doggy trembling all over and apparently paralysed in her back legs. Got her in and had a feel but found nothing so phoned vet. Told to leave it an hour and see how she was and then either come in as an emergency or this morning. Gave her a pain killer/anti inflammatory for dogs and I slept on the sofa to keep her company and check on her. All very well but Bonzo dog snores and dreams in full cinemascope and thinks he's small enough to share a sofa with me.
Took her in this morning, hobbling and with back right leg clearly not right. Imagining all sorts of X-rays, scans, ops and so on. She has twisted the second toe on her back right paw! 2 jabs for pain and inflammation later and she's fine thank you but still can't get on the sofa unaided. Talk about drama queen. Give that dog an Oscar!
33rd anniversary today so a great start. Belgium is closed on Mondays so we were planning to celebrate tomorrow anyway by taking a day off to see an exhibition at Liège and have a good lunch.
Still windy here but fairly sunny and definitely warmer than yesterday. I hope you've all survived the winds OK.
Hosta - how do your polytunnels cope with strong gusts?
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)."
I had a lovely birthday weekend. Mum spoiled me with lots of lovely new plants including 2 new hydrangeas and some white french lavender.
Spent yesterday planting them all and fixing the arbor then tying the new honeysuckle to it. And then my aunt came round and dropped off some beautiful sunflowers (my second favourite flower)
Meant to be doing some customer orders today but I'm tempted to order some climbers for my fences.
HF if you're cauldrife anyway you'll feel it a whole lot worse now that you've shed a few jumpers worth! I certainly felt it when I went the other way and there're only so many clothes you can take off before someone harpoons you!
Are your polytunnels a particular design? I'm thinking of getting one but the only experience I have is with those small plastic greenhouses and, no matter how well I tied them down, they only lasted 5 minutes in autumn gales here.
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)."
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Hope you get some sleep tonight Clari. Me too. 10pm last night much squealing the garden. Went out to find Rasta doggy trembling all over and apparently paralysed in her back legs. Got her in and had a feel but found nothing so phoned vet. Told to leave it an hour and see how she was and then either come in as an emergency or this morning. Gave her a pain killer/anti inflammatory for dogs and I slept on the sofa to keep her company and check on her. All very well but Bonzo dog snores and dreams in full cinemascope and thinks he's small enough to share a sofa with me.
Took her in this morning, hobbling and with back right leg clearly not right. Imagining all sorts of X-rays, scans, ops and so on. She has twisted the second toe on her back right paw! 2 jabs for pain and inflammation later and she's fine thank you but still can't get on the sofa unaided. Talk about drama queen. Give that dog an Oscar!
33rd anniversary today so a great start. Belgium is closed on Mondays so we were planning to celebrate tomorrow anyway by taking a day off to see an exhibition at Liège and have a good lunch.
Still windy here but fairly sunny and definitely warmer than yesterday. I hope you've all survived the winds OK.
Hosta - how do your polytunnels cope with strong gusts?
Congratulations obelixx
Enjoy lunch tomorrow and have a well deserved relaxing day.
I had a lovely birthday weekend. Mum spoiled me with lots of lovely new plants including 2 new hydrangeas
and some white french lavender.
Spent yesterday planting them all and fixing the arbor then tying the new honeysuckle to it. And then my aunt came round and dropped off some beautiful sunflowers (my second favourite flower)
Meant to be doing some customer orders today but I'm tempted to order some climbers for my fences.
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HF if you're cauldrife anyway you'll feel it a whole lot worse now that you've shed a few jumpers worth! I certainly felt it when I went the other way and there're only so many clothes you can take off before someone harpoons you!
You may get down to the thermals shop!
Lovely pressies HKate.
pp OH is cauldrife too and wears layers even in the summer and has his side of the electric blanket on on warm summer nights
So is my mum Joyce. I'm always grabbing her hands to check because she wouldn't say and I don't want her turning to stone while she's staying with me!
I'm like my dad and my granny. Windows wide to the wall and curtains out straight!
I used to work with a chap who said "if you're cold you're not moving fast enough!"
pattypan and basil soup for lunch anyone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Please Dove and a large helping of your sunshine. . . . .
Sub titles on BBC Tv lunchtime forecast ;-
"bu##er downpours" and so say the rest of us!!!!
Obelixx , congratulations on No 33.
Polytunnel laughs off strong winds. 92mph recorded along the road and they're fine.
I don't even go to the window during / after gales any more. They're great.
Hubby just called to get me to check traffic warnings for journey home. All clear.
Right, best get back to weeding. My nephew and family are dropping in on their way to Cornwall on Friday, so need to tidy up a bit.
Thanks Joyce and HF.
Are your polytunnels a particular design? I'm thinking of getting one but the only experience I have is with those small plastic greenhouses and, no matter how well I tied them down, they only lasted 5 minutes in autumn gales here.