Morning LG, sounds like your profession had changed from the one you started quite dramatically! Don't blame you for feeling you should stop and take stock of the upcoming future pension is about the same distance off for me also which is why I had a career rethink myself!
Enjoy the time in the garden, sounds like you have company out there what with the squirrels!
LG: enjoy that break! Sometimes time to think it most definitely needed. I always think of my brain as a sponge; sometimes I need to rest it and let a little bit of knowledge leak out before I can absorb anything new.
Well I'm now sat in my cupboard / office / mostly a cupboard looking at all the things I have purchased to do my job: I'm not entirely sure where I am going to put it all if / when I leave!
LG - Had a career change in mid-30s. Stopped nursing, went to uni to do a History degree then taught in a secondary school. Thoroughly enjoyed being a student again and felt rejuvenated
Final year at uni coincided with daughter's final school year so exam fever was at a pitch!
Hi again all. I'm on my own again this evening. Hubby has been press-ganged into yet another FireBrigade meeting. I must sat I'm getting a bit fed up with it all. And, to top it off, Regina turned up last night, very rare for a Monday, and spent the first half hour talking Fire Brigade stuff. I missed the last half of the Michael Mosely programme we were watching. Hubby has promised to get it on play back or some such. Not impressed.
On a more positive note, I'm starting to make some progress in cleaning up the garden for winter. It's amazing how many dead stems are mixed up with Allysim and other flowering plants that have taken over one of the veg patches. There is a positive jungle of Nigella seedlings appearing so I suppose I'll rip most of them out. I'm thinking about lifting the Lovage and putting it into a large pot in the GH over winter, as it disappeared last year and then came back in spring. I did think I'd lost it for several months.
The tubs of strawberries which I hid from birds in the GH over summer are all trying to reproduce, so I might need to do some serious replacing of older plants with some of the new vigorous young ones. At least I won't need to keep them inside. Not a five minute job, though.
i also need to give the roses a prune and I foolishly bought some daffodil bulbs, so I'll need to clean up some places to plant them. You'd think I'd learn.
Nice trug Wonky. I've never had one, but use a variety of old bowls, sieves, buckets, etc. I often look at Montys trug and feel a bit tempted to look for one.
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Oh and I meant to say: welcome to learnincurve and plantmaiden!
And morning Wonky - belated happy birthday. Sounds like it was a good one ;-).
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Hello LG, welcome back. Enjoy your career break!
Hi all.
Congratulations on the bees Hosta, very exciting.
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Hope you all have a good day.
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Morning LG, sounds like your profession had changed from the one you started quite dramatically! Don't blame you for feeling you should stop and take stock of the upcoming future
pension is about the same distance off for me also which is why I had a career rethink myself!
Enjoy the time in the garden, sounds like you have company out there what with the squirrels!
LG: enjoy that break! Sometimes time to think it most definitely needed. I always think of my brain as a sponge; sometimes I need to rest it and let a little bit of knowledge leak out before I can absorb anything new.
Well I'm now sat in my cupboard / office / mostly a cupboard looking at all the things I have purchased to do my job: I'm not entirely sure where I am going to put it all if / when I leave!
Managed to upload a pic of my birthday trug!
LG - Had a career change in mid-30s. Stopped nursing, went to uni to do a History degree then taught in a secondary school. Thoroughly enjoyed being a student again and felt rejuvenated
Final year at uni coincided with daughter's final school year so exam fever was at a pitch!
Hi again all. I'm on my own again this evening. Hubby has been press-ganged into yet another FireBrigade meeting. I must sat I'm getting a bit fed up with it all. And, to top it off, Regina turned up last night, very rare for a Monday, and spent the first half hour talking Fire Brigade stuff. I missed the last half of the Michael Mosely programme we were watching. Hubby has promised to get it on play back or some such.
Not impressed.
On a more positive note, I'm starting to make some progress in cleaning up the garden for winter. It's amazing how many dead stems are mixed up with Allysim and other flowering plants that have taken over one of the veg patches. There is a positive jungle of Nigella seedlings appearing so I suppose I'll rip most of them out. I'm thinking about lifting the Lovage and putting it into a large pot in the GH over winter, as it disappeared last year and then came back in spring. I did think I'd lost it for several months.
The tubs of strawberries which I hid from birds in the GH over summer are all trying to reproduce, so I might need to do some serious replacing of older plants with some of the new vigorous young ones. At least I won't need to keep them inside. Not a five minute job, though.
i also need to give the roses a prune and I foolishly bought some daffodil bulbs, so I'll need to clean up some places to plant them. You'd think I'd learn.
have a good day everyone.
Sturdy trug Wonky for your gardening "stuff". Greenhouse this weekend?
Nice trug Wonky. I've never had one, but use a variety of old bowls, sieves, buckets, etc. I often look at Montys trug and feel a bit tempted to look for one.