Yawn, Yawn, Wakey Wakey!! 2016

Good evening WW'ers

@moyra - ah yes, the pitfalls of being early enough to get a parking space vs being too, too early for the appointment! Good luck with the biopsy (and do take their advice re the painkillers beforehand )

And then had to keep racing to the toilet

I cannot believe I have been such a Numpty Turnip Yesterday, I transferred a couple of plants (which I'd planted last week into a small piece of soil) into tall planters. Gave them a good compost bed, tucked them in nicely, gave them a fresh, clean duvet of bark chippings and remembered to put in some slow release fertilizer too! Anyone spot what was missing? No, I didn't either!

Had quite a busy "non-garden" day today, part of which involved a 2hr Skype chat with son in Spain (lots of "oh dears", "never mind's" and "soon be homes"). Part way through the conversation, he indicated he was going to make a cuppa and I decided to do the same. As the kettle is coming to the boil something caught my eye through the rear door No!!!!! The hens were in the main part of the garden! I raced outside to usher them back into their part of the garden - noting along the way that *someone* hadn't shut the gate in the arch fully and that is how the girls had got out Not simply "got out" you understand: oh no; these are hens we're talking about ... hens who took one look at the open gate, the "greenery" beyond and clearly thought: Smorgasbord!!!! So, half a dozen hens rampaging through the new border I'd lovingly created a month ago
The saving grace on the whole situation was: Ozzy was upstairs snoozing and *not* in the garden Otherwise he may also have thought: Smorgasbord!!!

Finally finished the Skype session and then I got the baking bug. Now, the ancient range in this house has never had an "efficient" working oven. Out of two ovens, only one works and it has just two temperatures that can be relied upon: on and off. I've sort of managed to wiggle my way around that, until just after Christmas when the bottom hinge on the door snapped through completely Yes, I know, buy a new oven - but, that's another (long) story. So, today's baking relied upon a) the microwave and b) the bread machine (which I've never used to bake a cake before, so it was all rather exciting). The microwave bake is a sort of crumble slice effort and is a family favourite of old and simply swapped oven cooking for microwave with some success. The bread machine cake is a toffee sponge/loaf thingamajig effort, which hasn't turned out too bad (even if I do say so myself ).

So, now all suitably warmed up and in need of a break, outside I go with Ozzy and a cuppa and sit on the bench on the patio and reflect upon #2 son's situation. I gaze over the chaos the girls had created and note that, all things considered, there's no damage that cannot be replanted. With smug satisfaction I turn my head to the right to my newly planted raised tubs to admire my recent project ... ... one of the plants is positively d.y.i.n.g! Well, drooping so much it's head was almost touching the floor. WATER!!!! That's what I forgot: to water the ruddy pot after planting it up 24 (ish) hours after being put into their new home and one of them has been neglected already I've given both of those pots a thorough dousing and keeping my fingers crossed the poor thing survives my plant abuse.

I'm glad its the evening and the day is behind me

Healing vibes for all in need of them and miles of smiles for all xxMxx

 

Evening later people

Been a tiring week, sorry i'd not cort up with everyone

Have a good evening everyone and don't get locked out on a frosty night

 

@"M" you crack me up. Yes, I too have been reminded to water my plants because they are doing a run on death.

Like Zigs, I have been working a lot lately - and thank goodness for that because I've got lots of unexpected expenses to take care of.

I'll be finishing up some paperwork and then having a nice spritzer to celebrate the end of a long work week.

I hope everyone else had a great day and wakes up in the morning to fine weather.

 

Good evening,

That smilie sums me up!

I'm having internet problems, everything works apart from my phone! Technology hey! I will try to sort that out tomorrow .

I hope you've all had a good day

I will catch up with you all in the morning, night night

 

Good morning everyone, nice to see the sunshine this morning, still pretty cold though. The last day of April already and no promise that May is going to be any better! I hope you are going to have some good weather for the Open Day Shiney. I didn't get there last year but I remember the year before we had quite a bit of rain!
Have a good day everyone, stay warm and dry and above all safe and well, God bless.

 

Good morning,

Another beautiful bright day here, but it's chilly.

I have a flipping magpie visiting the garden, the dam thing is really noisy, I've told him he's not welcome! I don't know what it is about those birds but I just don't like them!

I'm off into work shortly, I also have to do a couple of hours on Sunday or Monday so much for two days off, I think I will have an early start, that way I will not use up too much gardening time.

Still no baby news, we are teasing my brothers girl friend now, Kev has offered to take her for a ride up a bumpy track in a tractor ! (Of course we wouldn't really)

I spoke to my mum last night, she sounded a lot better on the phone, I might pop in on her over the weekend.

I hope you are all well.wrap up warm if you are going to venture out.....oh & happy shopping to those who can't resist a trip to the garden centre!

@BeeHappy I hope you are ok, I've not see you for a few days & ive missed your posts

 

Morning early people

It was a bit soggy @moyra thanks for lending me your coat

Think @CanadianLori and I need to combine our 2 cars and have a mustang/land rover hybrid, between the 2 of them we might make a whole one, mine just cost me another £370

Touch of frost damage on the greenhouse tomatoes, but I think they'll recover

Off to Salisbury to go to the Cuckoo Fair with Willow tomorrow

Have a good day everyone

 

Morning all. Hope everyone is well.

Frost here first thing this morning, but it promises to be a lovely sunny day.

@Beckie76 You're right about the magpie, not the most musical of birds is it? At least you only have one, we get anything up to half a dozen at a time around here. Their speciality is gathering in the trees across the road at about five o'clock in the morning, squawking and chattering away until they've made sure everyone is awake.

Got plenty of garden jobs lined up today, then a meal and a pub quiz with youngest daughter and her fiancé tonight.

Have a good day everyone and enjoy your weekend.

 

Good job Willow just phoned, Cuckoo Fair is today, not tomorrow

http://www.cuckoofair.co.uk/

 

Good day everyone
@Zigs have fun at the fair where all is Cuckoo!

Glad to hear that the sun is shining over there. I also am looking out the window at a clear blue sky. Just makes me smile to see a day starting out like this.

My new side fences and front gates are being installed today. I'm am extremely excited about this because once they're in, I can start doing repairs to the grass. The old wooden fence blocked a lot of sun and I am looking forward to better growing successes around the perimeters. I never thought I would get excited over a fence but I am. Truly excited!

I hope everyone has a safe day and one as fun as I'm looking forward to!

 

Ha! I was like that when I moved here and was having my fencing done
Hope it all goes well and without any unexpected issues