Quiet and sunny here with a fresh breeze. Lovely day. Currently doing h****work to clean and tidy for the weekend. Possum is coming for 4 days, arriving by train as there were no flights at short notice. She has to do some video work for her course and wants to go and film Nantes on Saturday. Double yikes! Lots of lovely things in the Vendée and she wants to do a big city on a shopping day.
Other than that a SM run and taking it easy. The arthritic bits in my upper spine are complaining. Humph!
Dove - well done but why do you need mascara to take OH to work?
Busy - lovely find. Unfortunately both our wheelbarrows are metal and still serviceable for many years I hope. I wonder if they'd like an old threshing machine we have discovered, unaccountably, upstairs in the ruin across rotting floorboards.
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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)."
Obelixx - it's routine - if I don't put it on first thing I'll forget - and I've never knowingly been seen in public without it - I'm a 60s girl once said by some fool to look like Twiggy - mind you, that was a very long time ago
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A delivery I was waiting for has just arrived so a quick tidy round then off to SM. When I return I'll have a bit of a clear up outside & make sure there's no damage.
Apparently one of the 2 roads out of the village is still closed. A tree is being held off the road by the power cables - so I guess we might lose power later on when they come to sort it all out.
Well done on the early run Dove - you get such a lot done when you get up early don't you? - I must make more of an effort. Mascara for the work run... ... not sure I'd have managed that - but certainly pleased to hear you didn't go in your PJ's like some of the parents on school runs or 'sco customers!
Have a good one folks!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
My back garden was on telly this week! Well not quite but we back onto Marley Common which was featured in a BBC4 programme "South Downs - England's Mountains Green". The piece on Marley was about everybody's favourite thing, poisonous snakes. It showed local wildlife rangers fitting trackers to adders. We have grass snakes and slow worms but have yet to find an adder in the garden.
The programme also showed Fernhurst Furnace, a local medieval iron works which I think Chicky visited a few weeks ago. Other interesting local (to me) topics included Blackdown, Ebernoe Common which has the most bat species in England and the ancient yew forest in Kingley Vale near Chichester.
Well worth dipping into iPlayer to see it if you missed it.
Think I have cleared up most of the debris. I am always amazed how many branches Beech trees can shed, without coming to harm.
I feel very lucky that I have 4 of these 150 year old trees, on one of my boundaries, but leaf clearing and post storm branch collecting, make me sometimes doubt this.
Still not found the greenhouse door, despite wandering round the field.
Lovely and sunny here, but still a cold wind, and far too wet to work the soil.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I know what you mean about the beeches Punkdoc, one half of our garden has a line of 8 all covered by a TPO. When you walk under them in this weather what is needed is a PPO! They are wonderful trees but keep dropping bits onto the spring bulbs I am trying establish there.
Marley Common on the other side has some huge ones which move around alarmingly in the wind and close enough to take out my garage if they ever fall. Deciduous trees make a wonderful slow calendar noting the passing of the seasons.
I noticed that programme was on and meant to watch it, then forgot
I'll try and catch it
doc - I used to moan slightly in a previous garden about the leaf gathering, but the sight of one of the trees in autumn always made up for it. A common old maple, but it was a beautiful shape and, providing the stormy weather didn't annihilate it, the most glorious colours. Sadly - the new owners are currently removing it. It posed no problem where it was sited, and I loved looking at it from the front windows. Very sad.
Will you be able to get a replacement door?
Dove - you might have come up and done my housework if you were finished with yours...
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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Oh, and I've prepped tonight's supper too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quiet and sunny here with a fresh breeze. Lovely day. Currently doing h****work to clean and tidy for the weekend. Possum is coming for 4 days, arriving by train as there were no flights at short notice. She has to do some video work for her course and wants to go and film Nantes on Saturday. Double yikes! Lots of lovely things in the Vendée and she wants to do a big city on a shopping day.
Other than that a SM run and taking it easy. The arthritic bits in my upper spine are complaining. Humph!
Dove - well done but why do you need mascara to take OH to work?
Busy - lovely find. Unfortunately both our wheelbarrows are metal and still serviceable for many years I hope. I wonder if they'd like an old threshing machine we have discovered, unaccountably, upstairs in the ruin across rotting floorboards.
Last edited: 24 February 2017 10:17:12
Obelixx - it's routine - if I don't put it on first thing I'll forget - and I've never knowingly been seen in public without it - I'm a 60s girl once said by some fool to look like Twiggy - mind you, that was a very long time ago
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning - a much better day than yesterday
A delivery I was waiting for has just arrived so a quick tidy round then off to SM. When I return I'll have a bit of a clear up outside & make sure there's no damage.
Apparently one of the 2 roads out of the village is still closed. A tree is being held off the road by the power cables - so I guess we might lose power later on when they come to sort it all out.
Well done on the early run Dove - you get such a lot done when you get up early don't you? - I must make more of an effort. Mascara for the work run...
... not sure I'd have managed that - but certainly pleased to hear you didn't go in your PJ's like some of the parents on school runs or 'sco customers!
Have a good one folks!
Morning all.
My email notifications seem to have stopped.
Daughter and grandsons have gone.
Must go and help OH shift logs.
My back garden was on telly this week! Well not quite but we back onto Marley Common which was featured in a BBC4 programme "South Downs - England's Mountains Green". The piece on Marley was about everybody's favourite thing, poisonous snakes. It showed local wildlife rangers fitting trackers to adders. We have grass snakes and slow worms but have yet to find an adder in the garden.
The programme also showed Fernhurst Furnace, a local medieval iron works which I think Chicky visited a few weeks ago. Other interesting local (to me) topics included Blackdown, Ebernoe Common which has the most bat species in England and the ancient yew forest in Kingley Vale near Chichester.
Well worth dipping into iPlayer to see it if you missed it.
Hi all.
Think I have cleared up most of the debris. I am always amazed how many branches Beech trees can shed, without coming to harm.
I feel very lucky that I have 4 of these 150 year old trees, on one of my boundaries, but leaf clearing and post storm branch collecting, make me sometimes doubt this.
Still not found the greenhouse door, despite wandering round the field.
Lovely and sunny here, but still a cold wind, and far too wet to work the soil.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I know what you mean about the beeches Punkdoc, one half of our garden has a line of 8 all covered by a TPO. When you walk under them in this weather what is needed is a PPO! They are wonderful trees but keep dropping bits onto the spring bulbs I am trying establish there.
Marley Common on the other side has some huge ones which move around alarmingly in the wind and close enough to take out my garage if they ever fall. Deciduous trees make a wonderful slow calendar noting the passing of the seasons.
Agree with you two on this one, bit of a pain to say the least
slowly shedding leaves up until the new ones arrive. It's a never ending job here!
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Nice to see you steephill
I noticed that programme was on and meant to watch it, then forgot
I'll try and catch it
doc - I used to moan slightly in a previous garden about the leaf gathering, but the sight of one of the trees in autumn always made up for it. A common old maple, but it was a beautiful shape and, providing the stormy weather didn't annihilate it, the most glorious colours. Sadly - the new owners are currently removing it. It posed no problem where it was sited, and I loved looking at it from the front windows. Very sad.
Will you be able to get a replacement door?
Dove - you might have come up and done my housework if you were finished with yours...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...