He's been doing Coast Australia and Coast New Zealand as well. Can't help being fascinated, although as a claustrophobic, I'd rather he didn't crawl through dark tunnels.?
Orkney is on my "To Do" list - so much fascinating archaeology up there - and finding new stuff all the time
Morning everyone - another sunny day - more garden prep this morning before the area I'm working goes into the shade. It was another cold night - glad I tucked my tomatoes up.
Hope Chicky enjoyed her day yesterday - that event looked very much my sort of thing and so many excellent speakers. Would definitely have gone if we lived closer.
Wonder if Fairy is up to her knees in snow yet? OH said there was a lot on the hills in the Lakes but it was very wet and slushy and really quite slippery. He turned back because it was hard work and not the safest surface to walk on in ordinary walking boots. Fairy's probably got her crampons and ice axe out
Hope everyone has a good day - whether it's Mothers Day stuff or (like me) just doing their own thing - whatever - enjoy
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Coast Oz and NZ sounds good. Heads up please if they come our way. Neil Oliver is good but i have a soft spot for that chap who began the original series and has an umbrella in his back pack.
Messy start to Mothers' Day here. I went to bed early at 10ish GMT and slept thru to 9ish BST when I heard the dogs banging on the dining room door. Clearly too long for doggies as there was a pee and a poo to clean up. Lovely. Good job we have tiled floors and a steam cleaner.
On a well-earned second coffee now. I have been out to check my new babies and all are well. Re-potting roses today in my jolly new buckets. Might go and get 4 more for the ones that arrived in pots so I can take my time getting the soil prep right for their new beds. We seem to have heavy yellow clay under the surface so I need t source some compost and grit. There is not a single rose in this garden, not even a wild one and just the one, as yet, unidentfiable clematis I am nurturing from a 2" shoot I found last July.
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'm helping daughter make a new rose bed. Yesterday we went to a nursery and daughter spent her birthday money on shrubs and perennials, she was like a child in a sweet shop, it was great fun. Good little nursery, good variety of plants, properly labeled and very reasonably priced. Wish there was one like that near me. My local garden centre, Jardiland, is expensive and the staff don't know much about plants, which aren't properly named with the variety.
Daughter thinks she will have around 100 roses when the latest offer arrives. Lots of David Austin ones.
Looked at that site about Loch Etive, heartbreaking.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Busy - sounds like a good day and a lovely project. Yesterday's garden centre was Villaverde in Olonne and very expensive but good quality. I have just discovered that my local nursery, Boutin, hides clematis - no variety names - in its list of shrubs and conifers and priced at 11.80€ a plant. I shall go and investigate this week as they also have other stuff I want..
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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He's been doing Coast Australia and Coast New Zealand as well. Can't help being fascinated, although as a claustrophobic, I'd rather he didn't crawl through dark tunnels.?
Orkney is on my "To Do" list - so much fascinating archaeology up there - and finding new stuff all the time
Morning everyone - another sunny day - more garden prep this morning before the area I'm working goes into the shade. It was another cold night - glad I tucked my tomatoes up.
Hope Chicky enjoyed her day yesterday - that event looked very much my sort of thing and so many excellent speakers. Would definitely have gone if we lived closer.
Wonder if Fairy is up to her knees in snow yet? OH said there was a lot on the hills in the Lakes but it was very wet and slushy and really quite slippery. He turned back because it was hard work and not the safest surface to walk on in ordinary walking boots. Fairy's probably got her crampons and ice axe out
Hope everyone has a good day - whether it's Mothers Day stuff or (like me) just doing their own thing - whatever - enjoy
Daughter has just arrived, having driven up from north of Manchester.......very early start,
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Coast Oz and NZ sounds good. Heads up please if they come our way. Neil Oliver is good but i have a soft spot for that chap who began the original series and has an umbrella in his back pack.
Messy start to Mothers' Day here. I went to bed early at 10ish GMT and slept thru to 9ish BST when I heard the dogs banging on the dining room door. Clearly too long for doggies as there was a pee and a poo to clean up. Lovely. Good job we have tiled floors and a steam cleaner.
On a well-earned second coffee now. I have been out to check my new babies and all are well. Re-potting roses today in my jolly new buckets. Might go and get 4 more for the ones that arrived in pots so I can take my time getting the soil prep right for their new beds. We seem to have heavy yellow clay under the surface so I need t source some compost and grit. There is not a single rose in this garden, not even a wild one and just the one, as yet, unidentfiable clematis I am nurturing from a 2" shoot I found last July.
Was it Dr Who, Obelixx?
Nicholas Crane.
Obelixx ... Nicholas Crane ... he grew up in Norfolk
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
I'm helping daughter make a new rose bed. Yesterday we went to a nursery and daughter spent her birthday money on shrubs and perennials, she was like a child in a sweet shop, it was great fun. Good little nursery, good variety of plants, properly labeled and very reasonably priced. Wish there was one like that near me. My local garden centre, Jardiland, is expensive and the staff don't know much about plants, which aren't properly named with the variety.
Daughter thinks she will have around 100 roses when the latest offer arrives. Lots of David Austin ones.
Looked at that site about Loch Etive, heartbreaking.
Oh yeah! I forgot about him. Haven't seen him for a while.
Busy - sounds like a good day and a lovely project. Yesterday's garden centre was Villaverde in Olonne and very expensive but good quality. I have just discovered that my local nursery, Boutin, hides clematis - no variety names - in its list of shrubs and conifers and priced at 11.80€ a plant. I shall go and investigate this week as they also have other stuff I want..