Morning Fairy, Dove and Hosta. Hope you knee improves Fairy. Very irritating when you want to be out there hill walking, etc. Hosta, there's never enough time for gardening. I've just about given up.
Hubby trimmed (with the whipper snipper, or in your terms, the strimmer) the Thyme border yesterday, but gave up after he'd done the path side. Still the top and garden side to do, but he's worried about getting some of my neglected plants that are buried under the Thyme. Looks as though I'll have to take some hand tools down there and have a go. It was too cold today - the wind from the south was freezing. Only 4c. Maybe tomorrow.
It looks like your hubby is like my dad was. I let things overhang paths. So long as there is room to place one foot in front of the other, I am Ok. My dad used to prune shrub borders into hedges, usually the week before they flowered, and paths are strictly for walking on, not overflow space for pots or plants.
The plus side is that hopefully that the snakes have all gone elsewhere now that it's cooled off and I don't have to worry about getting my wrists under plants where I can't see. I suspect that there might be another Leveret in there again. As I was leaning over the verandah to take those two photos, an adult hare took off at great speed from somewhere in the Thyme. Hmmm. I'll be gentle with the secateurs and/of hedge trimmers.
Chicky, I don't envy you moving all that mulch. Dove lovely healthy broad beans. I really love them, raw and cooked, but when our son is visiting, we have to peel the individual beans before he'll eat them. I think he's been watching too many cooking shows on Tele.
Pat, I saw film on tv last night, of the flooding. It's really bad. Darwin friend emailed that Lismore was badly affected.........Lismore in Scotland is a small island where Liri has her cottage and near where friend and I come from.
Hi Joyce. Yes the flooding is bad. The main trouble is that there is a problem with it all draining away. I had realised that Lismore is also where Liri goes. It's funny how many places in Australia have names from them"old country". I really think that the early settlers were homesick.
On the news this evening I think they said there are another three people missing. There are already three confirmed dead. The trouble is that people think they can cross streams etc, and don't realise how dangerous it is. I sympathise with the people who have to rescue them.
It must be so awful to have your house flooded. I've just read that people are driving there to look and laugh but not to help. Wonder if that's true or just journalist gossip.
Going to daughter 2 for lunch. Have just dug up snowdrops and cyclamen for her woody bit.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Forgot to post on here yesterday - thought it was strange that I wasn't getting any Forkers notifications.
The flooding looks dreadful Pat - glad you and yours are not affected.
Fairy - has anyone claimed the bra the stag was wearing? It's quite pink isn't it - mine are all boring white, black and nude. We had a very enjoyable holiday in a cottage in Applecross some years ago. It was during the rutting season. The stags still come down to the village - and having a pair of them bellowing outside your bedroom window is a shock to the system.
Lovely day here but I'm a bit sore after another full days digging. Will find few indoor tasks this morning & perhaps some lighter outdoor ones this afternoon.
Enjoy Sunday
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Good morning all
Glad you're ok Pat 
We've heard about the flooding ... So sad 
Its a lovely soft spring morning - I can hear the song thrush again
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
Why does it always seem we have a clear blue sky these days when I'm stuck on a till? grrr
Masses to do in the garden and just not enough hours in the day.
Morning Fairy, Dove and Hosta. Hope you knee improves Fairy. Very irritating when you want to be out there hill walking, etc. Hosta, there's never enough time for gardening. I've just about given up.
Hubby trimmed (with the whipper snipper, or in your terms, the strimmer) the Thyme border yesterday, but gave up after he'd done the path side. Still the top and garden side to do, but he's worried about getting some of my neglected plants that are buried under the Thyme. Looks as though I'll have to take some hand tools down there and have a go. It was too cold today - the wind from the south was freezing. Only 4c. Maybe tomorrow.
It looks like your hubby is like my dad was. I let things overhang paths. So long as there is room to place one foot in front of the other, I am Ok. My dad used to prune shrub borders into hedges, usually the week before they flowered, and paths are strictly for walking on, not overflow space for pots or plants.
The plus side is that hopefully that the snakes have all gone elsewhere now that it's cooled off and I don't have to worry about getting my wrists under plants where I can't see. I suspect that there might be another Leveret in there again. As I was leaning over the verandah to take those two photos, an adult hare took off at great speed from somewhere in the Thyme. Hmmm. I'll be gentle with the secateurs and/of hedge trimmers.
Chicky, I don't envy you moving all that mulch. Dove lovely healthy broad beans. I really love them, raw and cooked, but when our son is visiting, we have to peel the individual beans before he'll eat them.
I think he's been watching too many cooking shows on Tele.
Lying in bed watching a hot air balloon drift past and over the rise ... Don't think they can see us ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
Pat, I saw film on tv last night, of the flooding. It's really bad. Darwin friend emailed that Lismore was badly affected.........Lismore in Scotland is a small island where Liri has her cottage and near where friend and I come from.
Forecast good for today
Hi Joyce. Yes the flooding is bad. The main trouble is that there is a problem with it all draining away. I had realised that Lismore is also where Liri goes. It's funny how many places in Australia have names from them"old country". I really think that the early settlers were homesick.
On the news this evening I think they said there are another three people missing. There are already three confirmed dead.
The trouble is that people think they can cross streams etc, and don't realise how dangerous it is. I sympathise with the people who have to rescue them.
Morning all.
It must be so awful to have your house flooded. I've just read that people are driving there to look and laugh but not to help. Wonder if that's true or just journalist gossip.
Going to daughter 2 for lunch. Have just dug up snowdrops and cyclamen for her woody bit.
Morning
Forgot to post on here yesterday
- thought it was strange that I wasn't getting any Forkers notifications.
The flooding looks dreadful Pat - glad you and yours are not affected.
Fairy - has anyone claimed the bra the stag was wearing? It's quite pink isn't it - mine are all boring white, black and nude. We had a very enjoyable holiday in a cottage in Applecross some years ago. It was during the rutting season. The stags still come down to the village - and having a pair of them bellowing outside your bedroom window is a shock to the system.
Lovely day here but I'm a bit sore after another full days digging. Will find few indoor tasks this morning & perhaps some lighter outdoor ones this afternoon.
Enjoy Sunday