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Do you allow anything to hang or flop over your patio or path? I do. But it is tidy overhanging!

 

Good morning all.

I'm using my old phone as my new phone has decided it doesn't want to connect to Internet. OH is investigating it. This phone is much slower.

I like plants that hang over walls and paths too @cactus_girl. I like informal planting but tidy beds, not full of weeds and overgrown edges.

Packing today. I hope we don't forget anything @Ladybird4 but we are used to it. Off to OH's daughter in Eastbourne for a couple of nights then ferry to France on Thursday.

Sunny, but frosty outside. Should be another nice day.

 

Good afternoon everyone!

I'm sure you have a spare set of whatever @Busy-Lizzie in both of your homes. Just don't forget the Marmite and stuff that your children have ordered!! I also, like a busy flower/shrub garden but without the weeds and dead branches @cactus_girl

Got lots of horse manure this morning. Heavy going as the chap said that the older darker stuff was better. It was quite wet but I have more or less spread it over my little vegetable garden and I am lucky enough to have access to some topsoil. I have done 2 wheelbarrow loads already and tipped the soil over the manure. Strike while the iron is hot!! I'd like to top it all off with a few bags of universal compost. Here's hoping ....!

No sun today - it's still and grey with a little breeze so ideal for shovelling ssss... soil!! Have had 2 bowls of a rich chicken soup, an orange and some cake with coffee, so I will chill out for an hour and do some more work.

 

major YES. I like plants to soften the hard line of a walkway. Many of my hostas leaves extend over the walkway, and hardy geraniums, or other ground cover. Don't like hard lines. Mother nature has curvy paths. I have a mature honey suckle vine that drapes over my deck railing, been there for years, grand to sit on the bench and watch hummers on the flowers. Also a climbing rose is on another railing.

 

Evening everyone.

I like a pathway sprawl of plants too. I had a massive Lavender which filled half the path, but that has been retired.

Hospital trip with the wheelchair went well. We would have only been an hour total in the building, but there was an M&S food shop to distract. All done for another 6 months anyway.

Just thinking what to make with leftover chicken from yesterday’s dinner… I fancy a fried rice I think.

Have a good evening folks.

 

Good afternoon all. Oh well done @Tui34 on all your gardening efforts today. Is Fizz ever tempted to have a good roll in the horse manure. We once had a Corgi who used to come home after a country walk with us absolutely caked in malodorous manure - usually cow pats - and he wasn't allowed anywhere near the back door until he had been hosed down in the yard and dried off. Huge amusement for we children.
I am another who prefers the more natural look in my garden and I do not have any grass apart from the odd tussocks that move in from my neighbour's patch.
Glad the hospital visit went without a hitch @AuntyRach. Chicken fried rice sounds delicious

 

Well done on the wheelchair solution, @AuntyRach! And getting some goodies in the on site M and S! A chicken stir fry is one of my favourites.
Safe journey, @Busy-Lizzie. You’ll be able to pick up any forgotten supplies in Eastbourne before you head across the Channel.
I had to laugh at the mucky corgi story, @Ladybird4! I was watching a couple walking their dog on the pebbly beach a few days ago. Off its lead, and neither of them keeping an eye on it. I was getting cross that they wouldn’t have noticed if it was doing a poo, and therefore wouldn’t have come back to pick it up. I was rather pleased then, that when they did look round, the dog had found a dead seagull and was having a really good roll in it!
Despite being 0C with a light frost this morning, the sun has been out all day. Out for a light lunch and a walk, then an hour and a half in the garden. Another big bag of stuff for the green bin, I reckon that’ll be full tomorrow. Didn’t think I’d have the energy, so I’m rather pleased with myself. I shall treat myself to a chilled alcohol free beer!

 

It’s not a very prominent hill @cactus_girl Birmingham generally is very up and down but I suppose our hills would be another areas gentle rolls.

We are off on a tiny lane at right angles to the proper road which goes downhill so we look out over back-to-back gardens with a big sky view - if that makes sense. Our little row of front doors and all of the original windows in the cottages face directly east. So we get wonderful sunrises and full blast when it’s a freezing easterly wind. I do wonder if the orientation was deliberate to make sure the peasants were woken up as early as possible by the sun - they were built for the local toffs estate workers. Our main gardens are on this side too, although just to confuse things two of the cottages (including us) now use the back doors as our official front doors and two still use the original. We can always tell when we have a temporary postie covering for our usual chap or someone visiting/delivering for the first time

 

Glad the hospital visit went well @AuntyRach M&S - what a bonus better than the usual dodgy coffee cubby hole.

Safe journey tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie

I have neat edges to my borders, thanks to OH, but lots of things flopping over. I do also have quite a lot of weeds but like to think of them as wildflowers and native grasses. I do spend quite a bit of time editing the chaos and managing my various garden thugs - it’s certainly not a low maintenance approach

 

Evening all. Good day today but not gardening. Bright sun to start but very cold then 12C this pm. Lunch with patch club committee, just for the fun of it but also to book the restaurant for our club lunch in May. Then patch club all afternoon.

Good atmosphere and lots of laughter and exchanges. I have been sugar and carbs free all February so haven't been taking or eating cakes but two ladies turned up with offerings today - an apple cake and a mix of canelés and financiers. Yum! One friend who is a keen but novice gardener has sown some seeds and was offering spare babies of carex pendula. Two other novice gardeners have taken some home, despite warnings from me and a couple of others who know better.

We have sprung a leak in the pipe where the mains water comes into the house and the plumber is coming tomorrow pm so I need to have a good clean and tidy there and prune the shrub which overhangs the manhole over the stop tap and water meter. Tomato and chilli sowing day for me too. OH is golfing.

When we lived in Belgium our two dogs would return home from walkies absolutely filthy and need hosing down outside and then the bit they liked best - a good rub down to dry them off followed by a treat. Rasta was especially good at finding fox poo and Egyptian geese poo to roll in and add a certain je ne sais quoi and then we'd have to give her a full bath and shampoo cos the stink was awful. Drier here so usually just paws to clean tho Bonzo did like ditch diving in the wet season and Rasta discovered coypu poo.

Well done @AuntyRach. Not easy. Our embroidery expert has broken her heel and has been in a wheelchair since Jan 1st and I picked her up today to go to the restaurant. Should get the OK to move to crutches tomorrow.

Safe and smooth journey tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie and for the ferry and drive south too.

A pleasant evening to all.

 

Evening all, had a good relaxing day today. My friend kindly picked me up at 11 ish and drove us to our local GC for a potter around, a good long gossip and my belated treat of coffee/cake for her birthday last week. Should have been lunch but we decided we weren't hungry enough. I had a gorgeous slice of coffee and walnut cake, very yummy. I didn't buy any plants, only routine stuff like more Hort.grit, Rose Food and 1st early seed potatoes for OH.
Her car's temperature gauge was showing 20c at about 1.30pm, although we'd had yet another hard frost this morning.
Got to get up early tomorrow as I have a surgery appointment for the new RSV jab. Must remember to have my right arm done as I usually sleep on my left side.
Good job we don't have any dogs, don't think I could cope with cleaning very smelly ones.

Glad the hospital visit went well @AuntyRach and that your Dad is ok. Renting a wheelchair was a great idea. I did that years ago from the Red Cross I think when my son had smashed his knee/leg in a bad car accident but had to go back to Plymouth Uni to sit his 1st year exams. His friends very kindly pushed him around in it, including to the pub, although they did threaten once to leave him at the top of a steep hill!

It sounds as though a broken heel is a bad injury @Obelix_Vendee, how on earth did that happen to your friend? Glad your enjoyed the patch club lunch and meeting.

 

I am signing out for this evening. Seems funny not to be out quizzing though I did dip into the ones on TV. Safe journey tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie. I bet your OH's daughter will spoil you whilst you are there. See you all in the morning.

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I popped outside to put the badgers tea out, and there was a beautiful new moon! The temperature is dropping though. Bedsocks tonight ( although they only stay on till I’ve properly warmed up, then I remember I can’t stand having hot feet!)

 

We don’t really @cactus_girl . Most of the planting is slightly further back from the path so doesn’t tend to encroach onto the path. Just different styles I guess and as we don’t have a large garden we are limited with our planting and overall “look”. We do have one or two border plants that tend to grow onto the grass though ( sometimes)…. does that count?

 

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Good morning one and all. I hope you have all got your pancakes and lemons organised. Mine are all good to go but first thing today I am acting as a tea lady after a funeral at Church. I'm not actually attending the funeral itself but was asked to help out afterwards. Caterers are coming as there will be a gathering of the mourners in the Church Hall so I said I would assist with the drinks. Whatever you have planned today, have a good one. Bon voyage @Busy-Lizzie.