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  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Heavens Dove! Take care!!!

    also meant to say hello to Clari, she posted late last night. Do hope the plastering gets finished this weekend.

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Hosta - maybe the tits are busy incubating eggs?

    LilyP - wasn't that Clarice posting last night?  It was good to see her - she'd not been around for a bit. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    ahhh thanks Dove I think you are right nice to see Clarice. Hope Clarington ok. Think she might be swamped in plaster!!!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    Hi everyone. It sounds as though you've all got things to keep you busy. 

    Just watched Michael Portillo making sewing needles in a factory at Cheltenham. Fascinating. Now we're onto Freemasons. Now he's planning on staying in a lovely old building overlooking the race course. What a life!

    Lilyp. the 80 year has a rifle more like a blunderbus than a basic .22. Just as well, as he's a terrible shot. No wonder Germany lost the war.(Hubby's comment. Not mine). image Joking!

    S. E. NSW
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Good morning.  NOt a lot of sleep.  OH in snore mode all night.  Thank goodness he's gone to Belgium today and I can get a good sleep tonight.   No chance of a zizz today as kitchen man is here plus two chaps and a cement mixer for the new fencing and another chap with a mini digger.   Bonzo dog is beside himself.   

    It started off perishing cold but bright and sunny.   The promised thunder storms didn't materialise but we have had 11mm of rain.   That makes 1750mm since the 20th of Jan.

    Judging by the holes for the fence posts and what we've found in the beds we've cleared so far we have claggy clay soil underneath a layer of varying thickness humussy stuff from being cow pasture.  Nothing like the loamy depths we had in Belgium but our gendarme neighbour says we can have lots of horse poo for our compost so it will improve.  

    I have moved my new treasures from the shelter of the garage to full sun for the day and now I definitely need another large coffee.

    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)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Sorry - so tired I forgot to wish everyone a good day and a wish for Hosta and a diagnosis at the doc's.

    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

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    There you are Obelixx image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Thanks Dove.  Much appreciated.

    I'm off in a mo to collect daffs drom the potager.  Over a dozen large clumps of lovely, pale creamy daffs have come up through the lumpy bumpy turf and weeds but were too deeply buried for me to extricate with my trusty spade so digger man has shifted them for me.   Definitely worth saving if I can.

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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)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Good morning Joyce, Hosta, Dove, Fairy, Chicky, LilyP, Obelixx and anyone I've missed!  

    Hi Pat - glad things are turning green at last, down your way. 

    I've actually been awake since 6, but we've been on the phone to Santander trying to sort out why OH's debit card stopped working, for what seems like hours... actually they're very hot on spotting fraud, which is great, though this time the problem was just that he'd tried to make a payment through a website which kept crashing, so he'd kept trying to re-enter his details.  Anyway, it's all sorted out now.  Except that what he was trying to pay for was the ferry to Ireland this summer, so it's still not booked - I think that's my next job, as he's had enough of it!

    Hope Hosta's doc visit is reassuring.

    Have fun with the mini-digger, Obelixx... 

    Your trip on Saturday sounds great, Chicky.  Cake as well!

    It's not as cold here as you have it, Fairy, but it's lovely and bright.  The forecast is good too.  Do you have plans for a spot of the Great Outdoors?

    Have a lovely day everyone!

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Morning all.

    Frost -1° Must do some more pruning.

    Going to daughter No 1 tomorrow morning until Sunday evening, she lives south of Poitiers. Her Internet is not good.

    Have fun on Saturday, Chicky, sounds great.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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