Gardening diaries - friendly discussions (part 2)

Did some jam

It took 3lb of stoned plums, mended the bag to put them in. Do the rest tomorrow. Picked some gooseberries and got stung on my finger by a wasp that was eating them.

 

Yum yum!

 

Good morning - warmish and brightish/grey morning. As long as it stays 22C, I'm happy. Will carry on the bargain hunt..

 

Good morning all.nice day.

 

Been watching Top of the Lake on iplayer featuring Elizabeth Moss.. Episode 1 opens with some stunning scenery .. Wonder where that is.. Exquisite setting ..

 

@alp Top of the lake is in the RT, i did notice it, but it's down as a repeat, with 2 episodes on a Friday night. I thought that i tried to watch it before,i didn't bother. It says something about a island in New Zealand, so it could be there. They don't always film at same place.

 

Ah, thank you. The scene is lovely ..

 

@shiney How lovely! I have about 8 apples this year from my compact tree last year. Very pleased. I think I'm on the way to joining the fruit gang .. I might have 3 gooseberries and hope @zenj won't laugh at me. .. Well, I have to start somewhere. I must start collecting jars in case I have a bonanza next year!

 

@shiney Last year i got a lot of cooking apples from a neaghbour up our close. Still got some in freezer cooked,hop. to get more this year.
:bigthumb:

 

Can't believe a thread on gardening can make me laugh so much.. I helped this old lady who employed all sorts of cowboys and she had a bi-fold doors with a threshold so high that she got tripped over several times, she was told to send letters via recorded delivery to this and that and so far, she is still drowning. Citizen Advice Bureau is useless except raising false hope for people like her as all these scammers go into liquidation and ask her if she knows laws about small enterprise and private little businesses going bust. Of course, another business springs up ..

 

Good morning folks
One of my early jobs was assessing insurance claims.....met many "iffy" and fraudulent folk
Sometimes we have to fight the insurance companies......their default position seems to be no.
Those compressed bitumen pipes are now no longer covered by many companies Shiney. Apparently they are not as wonderful as once thought and roots will grow through them seeking the moisture in the drains. I had these replaced under my policy some 6 years ago

Upsy, had to chuckle when your son confronted the intruder.
One evening, it was dark, I saw a shadow by conservatory window.....Spike's growl made me look. Two guys were trying to break into toolshed. A combination of Spike barking and my own shouting alerted them and they ran. I gave chase and eventually caught one lf them. It was so funny.....as I got closer and closer I could hear the guy panicking. Took him back home and called the police.
I also caught a guy who had hit and run my niece in her car with his van. It was clear this guy used this road regularly so 4 weeks later I caught him. Got £400 from him which was more than enough to cover the scratches to her car. More effective than the police would have been alas......he would have had a token warning and my niece would have had nothing.

Hoping to transplant a couple of plants today and to feed front lawn.....ha ha, isn't gardening so much more civilised than chasing the bad guys ? :rasp:

 

Morning all hope all well
The summer plants are just starting to flower, seems like I've been waiting ages, all delphiniums have finished now along with all my alliums .
I am getting the itchy feeling when I want to move plants here there and everywhere.

Got to go to a christening today, I've been asked to be a god parent so that means I've to go . I hate having dress up, I might need a few to cheer me up . Probably miss tennis as well one more win for Fed for a 8th title

 

Hi , hope all are well.

Late today as we have had a family crisis, my younger sister was rushed to hospital yesterday in a very poorly state. She had her gall bladder removed a couple of weeks ago and her recovery hasn't been too good, they are now saying that they suspect she has pancreatitis and is now undergoing tests today. I've just been reading up on it and apparently it can be fatal and also cause organ failure......thank god she phoned 999 as she has been feeling bad for a while, but hasn't had any support from her GP....lives on her own and doesn't live down here near the rest of us.....phew that was too close a call!! At last she is in a safe place.

Have a Smashing Sunday.