Weeded and cut down dead stuff in kitchen terrace bed today. Surprised to fill a whole wheelbarrow! Planted Sundisc daffodils in the bed which I bought when we were in Norfolk. Haven't seen them in France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
hi nanny beach, thank you for your compliment, the stag border in the middle is a burial ground for two dogs and two horses, garden looked lovely after i had collected the leaves. We still have 4 dogs, 3 bitches, so we have tiddle patches on the lawns and i have to keep an eye of my hubby dog as he wee'd up my beautiful, one and only echinacea and it died besides the summer house we have a scrawny old apple tree but the windfalls feed the birds for weeks in winter, so we won't cut it down....so i dug a border around it and planted " rambling rector" and he is rambling well! do you live abroad, we have had so much rain recently?
Hi doghouse, sounds like a good job well done hee hee, your/our little secret, mind you i appreciate her concern, my hubby and son work on ladders all the time as they are reed thatchers, fortunately they have scaffold so that would break their fall, not much consolation...
we have 8 oaks in our back garden, loads of leaves this year, but they are beautiful so we don't mind clearing them up
In the last ten years I've replaced a TV aerial and in 2002, we had a new combi boiler, so I pulled out the corrugated flu for the old central heating back boiler in the lounge and replaced the cowl on the chimney which was necessary for the replacement gas fire. The people who were installing just the gas fire, wanted to charge me for scaffolding etc. to do it. I think they are legally obliged to use it under H & S. I saved a lot of money doing that bit myself.
This is very funny.
Thirty years ago when our daughter aged eighteen was still at home, I re-cemented the ridge tiles and re-pointed the chimneys on our house. It's easy enough to get on the roof. A ladder up to the lounge extension, then another from there to the roof. The tiles are rough concrete, so wearing an old pair of squash shoes it's easy and safe enough to walk all over it. As the tiles are from the mid sixties, they are thick and there's no fear of cracking them.
It was mid-summer so they had the patio doors we had then open but the thermal lined curtains were closed as it was a hot summer day. I'd been up and down the ladders with a bucket of mortar for most of the two days it took. In the afternoon on the second day, they were watching something on the telly. By then I'd finished. The plastic bucket I was using, was encrusted with cement and as I wasn't going to use it again, I lobbed it off the roof to land on the patio. It made quite a bang.
I then started to climb down the ladders. What I didn't know until later was the conversation between them when they heard the crash.
No gardening these days and it's snowing at the moment. Been doing some outside Christmas decorating (lights and decorations and lasers!!) for a couple of my customers.
Just got in from more leaf-raking as it's a beautiful day here in Newark. Has everyone else got the same problem - 5 times more leaves than certainly the last 5 year?. My mesh leaf 'bin' is already full and we're only just half-way through November!! Still, it's not a job that I mind - lots of exercise, good for the waistline and plenty of fresh air.
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Tidying up in the morning then more pond digging this afternoon. Still mild and reasonably dry here.
Weeded and cut down dead stuff in kitchen terrace bed today. Surprised to fill a whole wheelbarrow! Planted Sundisc daffodils in the bed which I bought when we were in Norfolk. Haven't seen them in France.
Pretty garden victoria sponge
hi nanny beach, thank you for your compliment, the stag border in the middle is a burial ground for two dogs and two horses, garden looked lovely after i had collected the leaves. We still have 4 dogs, 3 bitches, so we have tiddle patches on the lawns and i have to keep an eye of my hubby dog as he wee'd up my beautiful, one and only echinacea and it died
besides the summer house we have a scrawny old apple tree but the windfalls feed the birds for weeks in winter, so we won't cut it down....so i dug a border around it and planted " rambling rector" and he is rambling well! do you live abroad, we have had so much rain recently?
Hi doghouse, sounds like a good job well done hee hee, your/our little secret, mind you i appreciate her concern, my hubby and son work on ladders all the time as they are reed thatchers, fortunately they have scaffold so that would break their fall, not much consolation...
we have 8 oaks in our back garden, loads of leaves this year, but they are beautiful so we don't mind clearing them up
have a nice day
Well done Doghouse. Wife should have been pleased you'd saved money and got the job done quicker!
Loana, if you click on Granny Beach's name you will she that she lives near Eastbourne.
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Damp day, so now gardening, but invited friend here to discuss pond building - some useful hints and ideas from him.
LOL!!
No gardening these days and it's snowing at the moment. Been doing some outside Christmas decorating (lights and decorations and lasers!!) for a couple of my customers.
Johnny C , lasers ? Sounds interesting
Just got in from more leaf-raking as it's a beautiful day here in Newark. Has everyone else got the same problem - 5 times more leaves than certainly the last 5 year?. My mesh leaf 'bin' is already full and we're only just half-way through November!! Still, it's not a job that I mind - lots of exercise, good for the waistline and plenty of fresh air.