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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I've replied to you T'bird. I could actually send you one of the plants from last year if you wanted. There's still a couple in small pots. Let me know image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Sounds like you OH is a man after Clari's OH's heart TB - nicking her motor when he needs one that works and can carry stuff.   Where is Clari?  I expected her to have leccy by now.?

    Our new kitchen is sort of creamy and glossy and no silly ridges or corners to collect muck so that when I'm 37 and 47 it'll still be easy to clean and look good.  We're recycling bits of the old one in the annex but all the doors will get a serious clean and then plain paint because the walls in there are either stone or very pale grey and dirty cream with terracotta just won't go.

    Home alone so simple sausages and my sweet and sour red and cabbage salad cos I made a huge bowl of it on Monday.  

    When we chose our new car to replace a very old Opel Omega estate I suggested we get an Astra estate but OH said it would be too low for Bonzo to sit up in the back when we went on hols!   We got another Zafira but only 5 seats this time - perfect for dogs and clems and can take at least 10 bags of 70l compost.  The other car is also a Zafira with 7 seats - useful for when rellies or friends descend as hordes and also perfect for dogs and clems and assorted bits of furniture I find in Trocs and brocantes and flea markets.

    I hope your tooth holds Joyce.  I finally had one out after a serially perforating sinus - infected root and crown followed by 2 replacements which also got infected.   Gave up but they did last almost 40 years between them.

    Hosta - Ouch too, but for your wallet.   Sell some hostas?  Do some overtime after all?  

    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
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Fairygirl says:

    I've replied to you T'bird. I could actually send you one of the plants from last year if you wanted. There's still a couple in small pots. Let me know image

    See original post

    Thanks Fairy - that's very kind image

    I've thought a bit more about my plans and I think I'll be better waiting until the autumn to plant the tree(s) and make the wildflower meadow underneath (have enough on making my new shrub and perennial border this spring to be honest).

    So there's no hurry for the plants - let me know when the new ones are ready and I'll send you my address.

    Thanks again - as you said - a wee bit of Scotland in Suffolk - lovelyimage

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355

    Obx - We recycled lots of our old kitchen too - in the garage. Stuff stays much cleaner in cupboards and the garage (sometimes!) looks much tidier.

    In his defence I have to say OH doesn't often pinch my car at the moment - mainly because he's usually away at work (and he always make it worth my while to lend it to himimage)

    When he's retired, however, he knows he will need a more practical car - which he finds slightly irritating. He still has lots of boys toys though - motorbike, masses of cycling and camping stuff, bass guitar, electric organ etc etc image - so he can still run away and pretend to be 16 when the real world is too much to bearimage

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    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Topbird says:
     

    Thanks again - as you said - a wee bit of Scotland in Suffolk - lovelyimage

    See original post

     image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    T',bird,   our basement also has old kitchen units in it but half the time I forget what i have stashed behind the doors out of sight.image

    Tooth was extracted instead of having root canal treatment. Dentist felt it was a bit unstable with a shallow root so crown and tooth may only be there for six months....."No point wasting £200"  I agreed.

    Lily P  - no rain after early morning drizzle.  I hope it cleared up with you.

    Congratulations on new g'daughter Fritillary.

    SW Scotland
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355

    Lots of plants to be had for £200 Joyceimage

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    T'bird - very true image   Bulbs for next spring maybe -  - - 

    SW Scotland
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    imageI like my old style oak kitchen with unfashionable tiles. My children tell me it's dated, but I find it warm and homely. I do agree that new sleek kitchens look gorgeous but I'm a rather untidy and not a sleek sort of person. Daughter 2 may be getting a kitchen like obelixx. The one they had fitted in their previous house was modern, smart and shiny. But daughter 2 is a very clean and tidy sort of person.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    I like your kitchen Busy and love natural wood and would have gone with wood if ours wasn't so dark on dull days.   In fact the most important consideration was to have higher base units and pull out drawers plus carousels in the corners to make stuff easier to access.    Back troubles.

    The previous owners recycled their predecessors' kitchen into the annex as a pantry so there will be 3 generations of kitchen here.  In my garden shed I have an old 50s unit we brought with us (cream paint and red formica top) for storing garden stuff so I suppose that makes 4 generations.   Had to leave behind the 3m long unit with drawers, cupboards, integral bread bin and pull out, fold out table.......  Great garage storage.

    Went for a wander round our plot earlier with the dogs and kittens in tow (quite a procession) and found some unidentified fruit trees in flower and what I think are raspberries leafing up.   Very exciting.

    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
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