Fully expecting thunderous downpours tomorrow - we're meeting with a group of foodie friends from across the UK, for fish & chips on the beach at Cromer .................. what's the betting we'd be wise to book a table at the restaurant?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ah yes Liri. Erin's Green Isle. Nine months of the year it rains and the other three, the trees drip!
Morning all.
Was hoping to get the grass cut for the first ime in weeks but no go! Raining again. The problem this year has been that it has rained so much that it hasn't dreid under foot. Last time I had to do an emergency cut and there were parts where I was up to my ankles in bog water. On the up side...it's good for frogs!
Happy Gardening.
ps stop encouraging RB! Did you see that joke????? Goodness sake!
Gorgeous here, but rain to come (it said so on GW). Spending today being builder's mate (spirit level, holding nails and stuff and murmuring encouraging words). The garden seems to be looking after itself ok at the moment - so long as I only wander in it before I put my contact lenses in.
Got a day with my sister in Brighton tomorrow - so hoping for sunshine by then
Dry again here and set to get sunny once the clouds are burned off. Looks like you lot are mostly in for wet weekend which will reach us late tomorrow but we're all supposed to be warm and dry next week. Good. I have garden group on Tuesday and it may be my last before moving. My group but I hope they'll carry on as there are some good friendships there now.
Pot sorting today - moving the big ones - clems, hostas, roses, acers, hydrangeas - to the terrace so I can see which of the smaller ones are coming too and which can be given to good homes on Tuesday. Off to Malvern to see family for 5 days on Wednesday - excellent timing but planned since Feb and not changeable - so have to get lots of sorting crammed in to the next 3 days.
Hosta - 11 hours! Yikes! Used to live near Pinner and do some shopping there but traffic volumes have increased exponentially since we left. Fingers crossed for our trip from Folkestone to Malvern and back - M20, M25, M4 horrors.
RB - great to see you popping in but won't be "with you" at 9pm tomorrow. Don't get Poldark.
Have a great day everyone. Looking forward to Busy's photos.
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)."
Pp - and then you send the r***y wet stuff over here for us! Gie's a brekk....
I couldn't cope with that sort of traffic on a regular basis obelixx. I don't know how people do that commuting lark every day around London. It would make me ill.
Hope your move isn't too stressful and you get a chance to breathe once it's all done!
I have some spirit levelling to do today as well chicky. I should really get a shift on. I bought some wall baskets yesterday - not something I normally use, but my bedroom window is quite high because of the slope of the ground, and it's a large expanse of wall. I got three - the hayrack type - and they'll be filled with clashing annuals for summer, and perhaps a few little evergreens ( emerald globe Hebes?) for some greenery through winter to break it all up. Just ordered some seeds for the hot border underneath it too, and loads of bulbs for various areas. We'll just have to live on toast for a week or two...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Going to a craft fair in the village today and probably out for a walk. Drove a lot yesterday.
Have a good day in Brighton, Chicky. Just missed you, we were there last Sunday and Monday.
Enjoy Malvern Obelixx, hope the motorways will be kind to you. We were stuck near the M20 (that we would have taken but couldn't) because a lorry had driven into a bridge and the bridge fell down.
Will be watching Poldark on Catch up, have an aerial here but can't seem to get a signal.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
HI Busy. We have an aerial and an old satellite dish on teh new house? Chappy came to sort them out so OH could get his Olympic fix while I painted walls and says we need French TV to get a signal from the French aerial. Did you take a French TV to Norfolk or get a new one locally?
Heard about that lorry and the footbridge and just hope it is well and truly sorted now. The dogs and cat don't understand traffic queues but prefer them to kennels. Cheaper too.
Hard sorting plants. So many treasured babies! An so many huge fat slugs lurking! Much splatting on the road today.
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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)."
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Fully expecting thunderous downpours tomorrow - we're meeting with a group of foodie friends from across the UK, for fish & chips on the beach at Cromer .................. what's the betting we'd be wise to book a table at the restaurant?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, I've just read it took my nephew and family 11 hours to get from Cornwall to Pinner, Middx yesterday.
Ah yes Liri. Erin's Green Isle. Nine months of the year it rains and the other three, the trees drip!
Morning all.
Was hoping to get the grass cut for the first ime in weeks but no go! Raining again. The problem this year has been that it has rained so much that it hasn't dreid under foot. Last time I had to do an emergency cut and there were parts where I was up to my ankles in bog water. On the up side...it's good for frogs!
Happy Gardening.
ps stop encouraging RB! Did you see that joke?????
Goodness sake!
Gorgeous here, but rain to come (it said so on GW
). Spending today being builder's mate (spirit level, holding nails and stuff and murmuring encouraging words). The garden seems to be looking after itself ok at the moment - so long as I only wander in it before I put my contact lenses in
.
Got a day with my sister in Brighton tomorrow - so hoping for sunshine by then
Dry again here and set to get sunny once the clouds are burned off. Looks like you lot are mostly in for wet weekend which will reach us late tomorrow but we're all supposed to be warm and dry next week. Good. I have garden group on Tuesday and it may be my last before moving. My group but I hope they'll carry on as there are some good friendships there now.
Pot sorting today - moving the big ones - clems, hostas, roses, acers, hydrangeas - to the terrace so I can see which of the smaller ones are coming too and which can be given to good homes on Tuesday. Off to Malvern to see family for 5 days on Wednesday - excellent timing but planned since Feb and not changeable - so have to get lots of sorting crammed in to the next 3 days.
Hosta - 11 hours! Yikes! Used to live near Pinner and do some shopping there but traffic volumes have increased exponentially since we left. Fingers crossed for our trip from Folkestone to Malvern and back - M20, M25, M4 horrors.
RB - great to see you popping in but won't be "with you" at 9pm tomorrow. Don't get Poldark.
Have a great day everyone. Looking forward to Busy's photos.
Pp - and then you send the r***y wet stuff over here for us! Gie's a brekk....
I couldn't cope with that sort of traffic on a regular basis obelixx. I don't know how people do that commuting lark every day around London. It would make me ill.
Hope your move isn't too stressful and you get a chance to breathe once it's all done!
I have some spirit levelling to do today as well chicky. I should really get a shift on. I bought some wall baskets yesterday - not something I normally use, but my bedroom window is quite high because of the slope of the ground, and it's a large expanse of wall. I got three - the hayrack type - and they'll be filled with clashing annuals for summer, and perhaps a few little evergreens ( emerald globe Hebes?) for some greenery through winter to break it all up. Just ordered some seeds for the hot border underneath it too, and loads of bulbs for various areas. We'll just have to live on toast for a week or two...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I never regret what I spend on bulbs Fairy. Even in our skint days I always found a way. . . worth it when spring arrives
Morning all.
Going to a craft fair in the village today and probably out for a walk. Drove a lot yesterday.
Have a good day in Brighton, Chicky. Just missed you, we were there last Sunday and Monday.
Enjoy Malvern Obelixx, hope the motorways will be kind to you. We were stuck near the M20 (that we would have taken but couldn't) because a lorry had driven into a bridge and the bridge fell down.
Will be watching Poldark on Catch up, have an aerial here but can't seem to get a signal.
HI Busy. We have an aerial and an old satellite dish on teh new house? Chappy came to sort them out so OH could get his Olympic fix while I painted walls and says we need French TV to get a signal from the French aerial. Did you take a French TV to Norfolk or get a new one locally?
Heard about that lorry and the footbridge and just hope it is well and truly sorted now. The dogs and cat don't understand traffic queues but prefer them to kennels. Cheaper too.
Hard sorting plants. So many treasured babies! An so many huge fat slugs lurking! Much splatting on the road today.
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Rb. I am not sure I gave you permission to show footage of me dancing.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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