Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: New shoot on March 26, 2020, 08:19
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How we are all doing today?
I have to go to work later (food shop) but I am going to potter a bit in the garden this morning. OH is off work for the moment. He is going to be a temporary delivery driver for the place I work for, to help with the extra on-line orders we will be be getting. Yesterday he did a 10 minute run and spent the rest of the day aching. Today it was 30 minutes cycling first thing. I asked him to go and open the gate as the bin men were due and got a plaintive 'I don't know if I can walk that far' :lol:
So what are you up to? You might inspire someone else or even pick up an idea for something you have been meaning to do, but not got around to yet. Staying active in body and mind are so important, so let's get through this together :)
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be digging a hole to put a fence repair pin in. When I've done all I can my neighbour will take over, mixing the concrete to go around it. (I know postcrete is easier, but I'm using up what I already have, rather than arrange a delivery)
Neither of us are planning to be in the garden at the same time :lol: :lol: Sounds silly - but needs must ;)
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The diminishing contents of my freezer revealed two bags of raspberries, one from last year, the other the year before, so today I'm going to make some raspberry jam (probably enough for two jars so one will be 'stockpiled', the other will be used for a buttered toast-and-jamfest! :)
Other than that, more weeding (not fun, not exactly an inspirational idea, but necessary.)
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I'm trying to keep home time interesting to a school loving sprog, currently watching bees in the garden is a suprise hit.
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We have already been for a little walk round the park at the back of our house. No one there so it’s fine. Today I’m going to continue to miss my children and grandchildren, but will enjoy carrying on sorting my shed. I will also continue repotting fuchsias and the like which are all sprouting well.
I hope that Plotfather will put a second coat of paint on the bathroom ceiling.
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Today, I have re-instated my Sainsbury on-line shop. I Haven't used it since Mum died. Once I got into it I quite enjoyed it. Was tricky to set up as I had forgotten my password and got locked out. But its ok now and I have got an order for Sunday between 2 - 3pm. Mind you, I wonder how much will arrive !! The only other problem I had with it is trying to check if my Nectar card is still linked. Nightmare - how difficult can it be ! I have given up on that for now. If there are no points, I shall try to sort it then. Apart from that, I am having to stay indoors waiting for a call back from SSE !! Take care folks. Mrs Bouquet
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I've been out and painted four fence panels with wood preserver. Usually only do them every other year so the front ones are not due this year but needs must, it was just a touch up job really where the colour had faded or worn. Will carry on this tiresome task, as and when the mood takes me. Like Plotmother missing my Grandchildren who were supposed to be coming over at Easter.
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finished the potting shed re-fit all singing and dancing new shelves new potting bench all the pots and hanging baskets sorted could do with a visit to the recycle centre but that's a no no haven't been out the gate since Monday
do you know i mite actually find time to sow some seed in the potting shed tomorrow when I've planted some cauliflower plants in a raised bed also planning to go down the allotments next week ?
so you all keep safe & well and keep the conversations going on A&G
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Today, I have re-instated my Sainsbury on-line shop. I Haven't used it since Mum died. Once I got into it I quite enjoyed it. Was tricky to set up as I had forgotten my password and got locked out. But its ok now and I have got an order for Sunday between 2 - 3pm. Mind you, I wonder how much will arrive !! The only other problem I had with it is trying to check if my Nectar card is still linked. Nightmare - how difficult can it be ! I have given up on that for now. If there are no points, I shall try to sort it then. Apart from that, I am having to stay indoors waiting for a call back from SSE !! Take care folks. Mrs Bouquet
I was told that shops pick up stock for home delivery from the shelves and it was best to order early in the hay because the locusts hadn't gotten to everything yet.
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walked the dog with hubby,not much work here except Moy Park, but not that desperate, I dug over the front growing area,hubby painted 1 chimney stack.
More digging tomorrow in more sunshine.
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After I've walked.the.dog.I'm going to dead.head the daffodils in the front garden and tidy the borders. Then I'm going to do some embroidery, my son, who I love.very.much, thought a cross stitch sampler would be an ideal christening gift for.his.goddaughter. I can only work on it for an hour at a time, it's had me in tears and I am very glad.the.christening has been delayed. This afternoon I'm going in the greenhouse for a.little seed sewing.
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Today I’m going to make minestrone soup ✅
Make some sort of cake. ✅
Go to the Allotment ✅✅
Give my daughter a cuddle when she visits- she’s been self isolating for 14 days & due back to work tomorrow. X she said were not allowed 😟
Make an apple pie maybe.x
Most importantly not kill any of my family that are living with me, believe me I’m serious it’s like he’ll let loose here this morning.✅ but only just lol
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I was told that shops pick up stock for home delivery from the shelves and it was best to order early in the hay because the locusts hadn't gotten to everything yet.
I know Trashco pick home delivery orders overnight at the local warehouse.
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I'm going to make some lunch in a bit, then head off to the plot for an hour or so.
I was told that shops pick up stock for home delivery from the shelves and it was best to order early in the hay because the locusts hadn't gotten to everything yet.
I know Trashco pick home delivery orders overnight at the local warehouse.
I think it is all change very soon on this. I have been told to ignore what my rota currently say for the next few weeks, as I may be going onto shift work, round the clock and 7 days a week.
Hence I am trying to get the plot as ready as I can, so I can dash up there even more erratically than I do at present and shove stuff in as and when :lol:
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How will that affect your other job?
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How will that affect your other job?
We have shut our business down for now, so hopefully all will be OK. If we can get going again, I will just have to fit that in around it ... somehow :unsure:
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...chip and saw all the garden rubbish which the council can't take away until further notice!
I don't mind at all, as our whole front garden and drive is made over to wild flowers and shrubs, and which only needs a layer of mulch or a three-monthly strim, so it's a win-win for me!
My only problem so far is to actually find the garden 'muncher'...
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How will that affect your other job?
We have shut our business down for now, so hopefully all will be OK. If we can get going again, I will just have to fit that in around it ... somehow :unsure:
Fingers crossed for you, at least you’ve got the 2nd job in these troubled times although that must be a worry toowith the nature of it
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this morning depends on the weather outside planting a few plants for my mate at a safe distance then putting a few plants in a new raised bed i made yesterday
after lunch i think a couple hours in the potting shed
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... bake some sour dough loaves I made last night, cook some dhal for our lunch, potter in the garden with the chickens for an hour or so, then go to the plot this afternoon.
The sun is out but there is a chilly breeze. I am going to wrap up and get out there anyway to make the most of it :)
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1 Wait for the arrival of some garden stuff that will turn up in the next few days so that I can tidy up the home garden - garden centre is selling what it has by email as it can't open.
2 Wait for the greenhouse to be repaired - it needs polycarb going back in before I can use it.
3 Do some housework though how much you can make if there's one of you in a small bungalow
4 Maybe even make a cake for me
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go to the allotment this afternoon with OH to burn pile of rubbish hopefully not upsetting anyone ;)
It is in the middle of a bed so stopping me digging it ready for brassicas.
Take a stake down for propping up an apple tree which fell over and thought it had died until saw lots of shoots on it :)
Cut the grass at side of plot.
Have potatoes to plant but maybe another day.
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Finally sow some seeds :lol:
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I'm having an easier day today as a lot of gardening has been done over the previous couple, plus it is freezing and blowing a gale out there.
So far, we have visited the workshop to catch up on a bit of paperwork for our business and I have fetched a paper for my neighbour and left it outside in our pre-arranged spot for deliveries.
Other than that, I am going to do a Sunday roast, but with chicken portions, plus do a bit of planning for the plot/seed sowing, now I have all the plot areas ready to go. OH is studying YouTube videos on how to edit his home shot footage. I may be a movie star yet - more likely the chickens will be though :lol:
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I was told that shops pick up stock for home delivery from the shelves and it was best to order early in the hay because the locusts hadn't gotten to everything yet.
I know Trashco pick home delivery orders overnight at the local warehouse.
Now you can tell I was not talking to Tescos employee. That is very interesting, seems more efficient.
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Today, other than offering to take the local pensioner's grass clippings away to be composted I took some of our seedlings out of the propagator as they are too big. I need to pot some of them on, if it's not too cold. It's Baltic out there.
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I never did the chipping - it was too damn cold...
So I cleared out the pantry shelves and floor and made a new shelf for all the panic buying - paaaaah...
Result! Enough dog food tins, some pasta we'd totally forgotten, a jelly sachet with the sell/by date 2016, a dust-pan and brush, a dirty old kick-step which will take a day to restore, and a few more items...
Life ain't easy, but sometimes more fun...
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Yesterday's plans got a bit interrupted by a quick visit to a vet with a neighbour's dog. She is OK, but is suspected of snuffling up something she should not have in the garden. She has been known to before and has made herself properly ill this time ::) A few days of antibiotics and a bland diet for you my girl !
Today ... go to work later, unless I get called in earlier. OH registered as a temporary home delivery driver last week and has been asked to come in this morning, so who knows.
I also have a shopping list texted to me by a neighbour to get while I am there.
Other than that, I am going to have a tidy up in the greenhouse (a.k.a. the greenhouse shuffle) and maybe sow some more seeds :) If I can magic up room :unsure: :lol:
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I’m going out into the wilderness to do some essential shopping as supplies in fresh stuff & dairy are running low!
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Today I have
1. got a new electric hand whisk-last one in the shop! It's a non essential so I don't know if they'll get more in, drivers are off or have more important things to deliver.
2. I've gone to a community orchard with the loppers and trimmed off all the cankerous branches I could reach. There's one bit I can't get to on my own. I need to take a knife to the rest of the patches so that'll be tomorrow's walk with the Husband.
3. Husband has gone to the Garden centre of choice and picked up the 6x chicken manure, 2x pellets for the allotment and other stuff for the garden. He's leaving it in the car park to preserve the safe distance, but he's lining the orders beside each other which is counter productive.
4. I caught the last neighbour and told her we'll take her grass clippings, veg and fruit peelings and she was happy to accept.
5. To do, I will take the exhausted compost and mix it with NPK and the 6x chicken manure for planting things out.
6. I will separate the seedlings into separate pots.
7. I will try and figure out what volume these pots are.
8. I will read up on chillies and find out do they like fertile compost or do they need to be treated mean. Maybe put them into their end pots. If anyone knows if I should gradually work them up pot size please tell
me.
9. Homework with Eldest.
10. Make rainbows
11. Modify to add, put the folded laundry away.
12. Pancakes. Omn nom nom nom.
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Today, I will mostly be trying remortgage the house, teaching homeschool, nagging about chores, shouting at all of them to shut up while I try to remortgage the house (the dog has taken to barking at random things and the child does not want to do chores and is being a pita because screens are forbidden in school time) logging onto Ocado to see what they are doing with editing orders this week (they are not actually telling anybody, you just have to log on and see whether you can edit your order or not, as the moment, which is tricky, because I have no idea when I will next get one. I understand but an email would not go amiss, Ocado!). Then we will ride up to the plot this afternoon, do a bit more digging over as far as tolerance allows. Bike repairs en route, and home for leftover chicken stir fry and hot baths. I might start some more seeds, and the chicken carcass needs putting in for stock, too. Oh, and two loads of laundry. Knitting and gin later, and we all badly need an early night after the ridiculous messing about with the time again.
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Took this selfie before setting off to Tossco's this morning - driving was a bit tricky and I did get a few funny looks, but at least I feel confident that it's only groceries I picked up there. :wub:
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Today I have
1. got a new electric hand whisk-last one in the shop! It's a non essential so I don't know if they'll get more in, drivers are off or have more important things to deliver.
2. I've gone to a community orchard with the loppers and trimmed off all the cankerous branches I could reach. There's one bit I can't get to on my own. I need to take a knife to the rest of the patches so that'll be tomorrow's walk with the Husband.
3. Husband has gone to the Garden centre of choice and picked up the 6x chicken manure, 2x pellets for the allotment and other stuff for the garden. He's leaving it in the car park to preserve the safe distance, but he's lining the orders beside each other which is counter productive.
4. I caught the last neighbour and told her we'll take her grass clippings, veg and fruit peelings and she was happy to accept.
5. To do, I will take the exhausted compost and mix it with NPK and the 6x chicken manure for planting things out.
6. I will separate the seedlings into separate pots.
7. I will try and figure out what volume these pots are.
8. I will read up on chillies and find out do they like fertile compost or do they need to be treated mean. Maybe put them into their end pots. If anyone knows if I should gradually work them up pot size please tell
me.
9. Homework with Eldest.
10. Make rainbows
11. Modify to add, put the folded laundry away.
12. Pancakes. Omn nom nom nom.
Adding I didn't get 5, 6 and 7 done because it's an out of door task and the neighbours have stooped doing whatever dodgy thing it is they do and had a party. Complete with screaming, shrieking and awful loud music that you can hear streets away so I stayed inside and was cross. Got laundry sorted though.
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Today I have
1. got a new electric hand whisk-last one in the shop! It's a non essential so I don't know if they'll get more in, drivers are off or have more important things to deliver.
2. I've gone to a community orchard with the loppers and trimmed off all the cankerous branches I could reach. There's one bit I can't get to on my own. I need to take a knife to the rest of the patches so that'll be tomorrow's walk with the Husband.
3. Husband has gone to the Garden centre of choice and picked up the 6x chicken manure, 2x pellets for the allotment and other stuff for the garden. He's leaving it in the car park to preserve the safe distance, but he's lining the orders beside each other which is counter productive.
4. I caught the last neighbour and told her we'll take her grass clippings, veg and fruit peelings and she was happy to accept.
5. To do, I will take the exhausted compost and mix it with NPK and the 6x chicken manure for planting things out.
6. I will separate the seedlings into separate pots.
7. I will try and figure out what volume these pots are.
8. I will read up on chillies and find out do they like fertile compost or do they need to be treated mean. Maybe put them into their end pots. If anyone knows if I should gradually work them up pot size please tell
me.
9. Homework with Eldest.
10. Make rainbows
11. Modify to add, put the folded laundry away.
12. Pancakes. Omn nom nom nom.
Adding I didn't get 5, 6 and 7 done because it's an out of door task and the neighbours have stooped doing whatever dodgy thing it is they do and had a party. Complete with screaming, shrieking and awful loud music that you can hear streets away so I stayed inside and was cross. Got laundry sorted though.
Did they have visitors? I’d have rung the police if so
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Did they have visitors? I’d have rung the police if so
Hard to tell, there's that many people coming and going we don't know who lives there and how many people live there. It's probably an illegal HMO.
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I'm going to work for a fairly long shift this afternoon and into the evening. OH is going out delivering shopping this evening.
I did get called in early yesterday and spend quite a few hours chucking stock out, so I'm having a lazy morning :D
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The other day I didn't...
...go out and 'munch' the garden prunings, because they're in a pile in the coldest part of the garden...
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Today I have remembered to have a look at a friend's apple tree. Husband and I will go and saw off the cankerous bits and apply potash to help it get over it's bitter pit. The potash is already at her house because we didn't know about Corvid-19 so it was safe to leave it there. The kids will have to play in the garden while he saws the infected branches off. Husband's thinking of heeping the branches in the second plot's shed-the one with the door hanging off to season so he can burn it at a later stage. Apple apparently smells nice and the shed is a safe distance from the apple trees nearby.
We're about to go to the plot where I'll turn Husband's apple into a family tree-it's a triploid and needs 2 pollination partners so it'll have to grow it's own ones. We have the friend's scions, Sunset, Crispin and 2 others, I'll have to go look them up during tomorrow's allotted session outdoors.
We'll apply chicken manure to the plots and fork a bit of the top plot over to stop the grass taking over.
Right, now to get this lot in their wellies.
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Today I was looking after the munchkins so mummy could go to the new house & continue decorating (they’re living with us so same household) . I didn’t think I’d get any gardening done but after the children’s daily walk went in the garden & they planted my competition potato ( not that I think there’ll be a competition let alone a show in August) plus another potato so they’ve got 1 each, then I planted a camellia seed I was given that had been soaking .
So all in all I got more done than I expected :D
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Today I am going to do some weeding.
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Today I am also going to do some weeding and then apply manure to the beds.
I will brush up the seeds the sparrows don't like and put them under a hedge because some bird will like them.
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Go to the Allotment & plant potatoes, remember my mum, 4 yrs today since she died.
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Today I have
1. got a new electric hand whisk-last one in the shop! It's a non essential so I don't know if they'll get more in, drivers are off or have more important things to deliver.
Today I have had my walk so Husband will take the last electric hand whisk back after it went brrrp for 2 seconds and died. GAAAHHHH
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A late start for me with my to do list, but this is when my free time is today.
So far I have baked MoS's eggless sponge cake and resisted eating it ... just. I'm going to be making more stuff for tea and to stash in the fridge and doing a water change on the fish tank.
Right now I have made a pot of green tea and am doing nuffin' :lol:
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Had to brave the supermarket today for a weekly shop. Most of the customers were really good, respecting the distance markers and following the prescribed route through the store. It goes without saying there were a few muppets as well!
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The side gate and all front fences are now painted, and four in the back garden are done. Instead of working one or two days a week in our shop I've moved to three and it looks like a full week next week. We are a hardware shop and at the moment are struggling to keep up with demand for paint especially. We even sold a pair of garden shears today that have been here for fifteen years!!!!
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Today I am also going to do some weeding and then apply manure to the beds.
I will brush up the seeds the sparrows don't like and put them under a hedge because some bird will like them.
So far I edged the border, weeded, Husband added the manure and we "mulched" with some moss I used the 3 tine cultivator to drag out of the "lawn". We filled a knee high trug and a 2x2x2 1/2 foot box to take up to the allotment with the effort from today and moss rakings I did a few days ago. So I am pleased.
I also did the edging cut for the other bed. But Husband wasn't impressed as it wasn't straight but I'm planning on widening it so no worries. He'll get his stick out, make sure it's straight and wave it about until it's pointing in the right direction and look all impressed with himself.
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Today I'm going to continue weeding another bed, pot up my Charlotte Russe mulberry bushes and Cherry bomb chillies- in the pink pots. I'll also grump about my misters not being here. GGGGGRRRRRRR
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Can you re-purpose a spray bottle that had something else in WG?
I'm off to work later, but am going to check the greenhouse and cold frame seedlings, let the chickens out for a bit and generally potter about outside while the sun is out.
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Can you re-purpose a spray bottle that had something else in WG?
I'm off to work later, but am going to check the greenhouse and cold frame seedlings, let the chickens out for a bit and generally potter about outside while the sun is out.
Most have had some sort of cleaner in them unfortunately. Found out that there's been a Corona outbreak in the warehouse so it's stuck until the place has been deep cleaned. Annoyingly the supermarket has some, but the reviews say that they break within a few weeks.
Could you possibly add post pictures of chickens on the blog to your to do list?
I love chickens, they are so much fun, total characters. :D What type are yours? I used to have Rhode Island Red pet choocks before I moved up here.
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Yesterday I moved the Norfolk plastic greenhouse to the other side of the garden. I've lost a bit more of the lawn, but it's doubled the size of my garden veg-bed.I have to fix it down to the wooden bearers today, and clean it. That's one job I hate - but needs must ;)
Bags of Wickes manure and some compost being delivered sometime today, so even if I do stop going to the allotment, there'll be somewhere to grow some veg!
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Could you possibly add post pictures of chickens on the blog to your to do list?
I love chickens, they are so much fun, total characters. :D What type are yours? I used to have Rhode Island Red pet choocks before I moved up here.
Will do :D I'll try and do a biog post with piccies. I've been a bit mobbed with hours at job no. 2, but have tomorrow off. Crosses fingers and toes :lol:
With the cleaner bottles, rinse well three times, then test spray something you don't value with water. If it doesn't keel over within a few days I reckon you are in business ;)
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Will do :D I'll try and do a biog post with piccies. I've been a bit mobbed with hours at job no. 2, but have tomorrow off. Crosses fingers and toes :lol:
With the cleaner bottles, rinse well three times, then test spray something you don't value with water. If it doesn't keel over within a few days I reckon you are in business ;)
Thank you so much.
According to the website we'll get the misters tommorrow before 8pm. So we'll see how that goes.
Today I'm going to continue weeding another bed, pot up my Charlotte Russe mulberry bushes and Cherry bomb chillies- in the pink pots. I'll also grump about my misters not being here. GGGGGRRRRRRR
Gale force winds so nothing was done today. I couldn't even edge a border because I was blown over, I'm no feather weight. Well I cleaned and rearranged a pair of cupboards and folded laundry. But that's not sorting out my plants is it? I did volunteer to weed the In laws border.
Well we pulled up one of my rescue blackcurrants that wasn't showing a sign of reviving, it's two mates on each side, new branches up, doing well and making us happy to see them progress. This one looked dead so Husband pulled it up and found the roots were horrible. Grey and covered in disgusting slime. Massive slugs everywhere and loads of slug eggs. Which was distressing as I've been feeding it the cooked vegetable water and sat out with them last summer enjoying the weather beside it. So I poured boiling water into the root hole to kill the eggs, put the blackcurrant into water and I stabbed the slugs with my Ho-Mi. We'll plant the spare where-will-we-put-this-blackcurrant? in it's place.
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I m going to walk to the shop with the dog to get milk and bread. If we go her favourite way it's about 2 miles. Then I'm off to my sons allotment. He is one of the many exhausted keyworker brigade and I have agreed to do some work on his plot. Today I'm planting some spuds and a couple of rhubarb crowns. I will probably give his shed a clean/tidy as well. My plan is to get it ready, and keep it tidy so that when he has time to visit its not a total bomb site. Half an hour on the dreaded sampler this afternoon.
So those days when I thought it would be lovely to just sit and read -now I can I don't want to!
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Today is a big walk for the kids and then some potting up for the chillies. More edging, weeding and feeding the borders.
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Yesterday, my "I'm going to..." was watch One Man Two Guvnors on YouTube from the National Theatre at Home. Absolutely brilliant and is available for another 6 days. Then next week it's Jane Eyre.
Today, my "I'm going to..." was watch Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on YouTube on The Show Must Go On channel. Available for 48 hours. Is it so very wrong that I'm a little in lust with Donny Osmond from 1999?! :lol:
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Canker trim.
Maybe plant some pickling onion seeds since there is no frost or hail for the past hour.
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Today it's edging up plot borders and weeding. So romantic.
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wash the car
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Make some pastry as I’ve had a request for mince pies
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Today I did some cankerous trees, gave up on one as it looked like there was patches where branches had been. But there was a huge patch hidden under the bark, every limb had a patch every few inches and it's too advanced. :(. I also weeded down there as well and I have a massive blister.
Husband re-edged and I weeded the 2nd 3rd of the border which was mostly overgrown grass and crowded strawberries so we replanted that bit. Replacing the old strawberries with their children and filling the space with 6 hyacinths-3 each of white and blue. Eldest helped with the planting which was lovely. I took more moss out of the lawn. We swapped one of the 3 currants in the corner with a larger one as everyone is tripping over it and taken the leaves off the original occupant. A red currant is in where we pulled out the slug infested blackcurrant. The borders have been fed, everything watered. NPK on the pot plants. Just manure is needed now.
6x Cherry bomb chillies were repotted. I need some more pots of the correct colour before I do the other 3.
Busy day.
What's left, just the manure on the potted currants.
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Yesterday, my "I'm going to..." was watch One Man Two Guvnors on YouTube from the National Theatre at Home. Absolutely brilliant and is available for another 6 days. Then next week it's Jane Eyre.
Today, my "I'm going to..." was watch Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on YouTube on The Show Must Go On channel. Available for 48 hours. Is it so very wrong that I'm a little in lust with Donny Osmond from 1999?! :lol:
Thanks Yorkie!
The other night, we watched the last episode of 'To play the King', the second Michael Dobbs trilogy 'House of cards'!
It was so exiting - and scary, that the next morning (yesterday), we kept asking each other what happened etc, so we had to watch it again last night...
Wow, what an incredible prog that is, well worth a re-visit after twenty-five years, and often on Ebay!
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I'll join you Yorkie with the 'Donny ' moment. I went to London and saw Philip schofield and Jason Donovan in the role but much prefer my video tape of Donny in the role. Trouble is, the tellies we have now won't let us plug in the video tape player so it's just sat there taunting me. You've made me really want to watch it now!
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... Have a relaxing morning and perhaps a potter around in the greenhouse, then off to work. I am finding my seed tin is even more essential than usual :lol: Even just flicking through it and planning what's next in my head is a great pastime :)
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Today I am going to finish that last 3rd of the front and pot up some seedlings. Some of which will sit outside with me to get toughened up. Mostly you leggy legumes.
We should go up the plot, but it's 30mph and the soil is as dry as dust. We haven't had decent rain since storm Ciara. Digging=soil+dust+wind+eyes= :( and pain.
Also we planted 4 of the blue and white hyacinths, not 3.
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Today I will add more scions to the tree out the back in the garden. I have some large potatoes chitting, I'll probably divide them before we leave.
Up the plot we are going up after breakfast and digging over the main body of the plot. Or what's left after planting all the fruit. That's for to grow potatoes, onions and beetroot. Dig it over, spread chicken pellets, NPK and leave until later this week and hope we get some rain to activate it. I watered in the garden yesterday and an hour later the Husband was working on the same patch and told me he wouldn't know it's been watered if he hadn't seen me do it. We haven't had proper rain since Storm Ciara, I think one heavy shower and a handful of hail showers, but they didn't drop much moisture. The soil is like a biscuit up the plot. This week we're 5x chances for a light shower, but less than a 40% of it happening.
We have onion sets and seeds so we may plant some of them and cover with fleece to keep the super lardy wood pigeons from eating them. I have a mystery plant to plant. It's more than likely a Jostaberry that we put in the lawn that the Husband and kids kept tripping over, so had to be taken out of the garden.
To bring,
seeds-onion + beetroot, onion sets, rake, 3 tine cultivator, the plant, gloves. Change of child clothes, something for them to drink. Wet wipes, spray, hand wash (latter 2 in the car). Tub to carry chicken manure around in.
Modify, string, bring string for to plan out the drills.
Modify again, check shed for seed trays and make up more salad greens. If there is no trays up there sow in the tops of egg boxes because there are no plant pots. Also plant the perennial spinach sorrel in the corner between the autumn rhubarb.
Modify again, bring up the moss I dragged out of the lawn and the edging soil.
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Do much the same as yesterday and the day before. My life seems to have become one of "Manyana" Dont't know how to spell that", but you all know what I mean. Read the paper, chat to you folk, go for a walk round the village. Must cut finger nails today. Do an hour or so cutting back in the garden. My laughing treat for the day is late afternoon, ITV 4, "Minder". Poor old Arthur !!! :lol: :lol: Mrs Bouquet
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"ITV 4, "Minder". Poor old Arthur !!! "
Peter Childs, Inspector Ronnie Rycott to you, used to live a few yards from here, and he liked a pint or three, and always chatted with us whenever he could, with a lot of fun and humour!
Once, quite a few years ago, I was having a beer with a chum in a famous London pub, 'The Castle', near to the BBC rehearsal rooms in North Acton, and there was Peter, with lots of easily recognisable actor chums, regaling everyone about the good things in life, and everyone was having a great time.
When he spotted me across the bar, he immediately called me over and introduced me to everyone in his group, including the landlord, who actually lived in Brighton, and drove to his pub in his Rolls Royce every day! Of course, I was dumbstruck, and, what was so nice was, afterwards, the landlord always treated me as a chum, and Peter was always the same - sadly until he got some nasty disease far, far too early.
His wife, Jackie, moved away a few years later, after running a chaotic allotment here, much to the chagrin of all the old boys who moaned about her all the time, but she cared not a jot! Great lady too, and also great fun!
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Hello I've been to hospital so can't do a lot now jezza
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Hello I've been to hospital so can't do a lot now jezza
Come back here, Jezza, we need you!
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Get dressed.
Allotment again, it was really busy yesterday. Today's aim is not to hurt myself, remember painkillers, get as much done as we can. Husband wants to start planting the potatoes. He's the one who can judge distances so it's up to him.
Fork over the soil and rake, take up more garden stuff=-leave some for the birds as the garden is heaped with birds taking some, spread over the rubbish plot, mark drills, leave Eldest and Husband to put potatoes in, make sure Husband still has string
Take up the plant I forgot, the tool box, check tape measure is in place, chalk to mark drills, rake, 3 tine cultivator, juice for kids. Fill the beer fermenter with water to take up as all our newly put in plants are wilting. potatoes, cut the huge potatoes including Mr PURPLE and one is called. Biscuits maybe, kids briefly complain less when their mouths are full, bubble rods. Cover the onions and beetroot with fleece to keep the lardy pigeons off (one face planted it's crop was that full).
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...put my feet up this arvo, as I potted on seventy-five leeks according to the edict of DD, who is both a pea god and leek god, and felt shattered at all the sitting down, dibbling, singing to myself, and generally becoming a bit of a nuisance to everyone until lunchtime, when I became only a nuisance to Mrs Growster and JRT...
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Sit down like Growster after turning an enormous compost heap and watering loads. I promise not to annoy Mrs G and JRT cos I don't have the energy yet.
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Sit down like Growster after turning an enormous compost heap and watering loads. I promise not to annoy Mrs G and JRT cos I don't have the energy yet.
I bet; that's an exhausting job, so enjoy the inside of the eyelids for a while...
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swept back patio, jet washed back patio and furniture.
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Take cardboard and water up the plot-we had too much garden waste to take up yesterday to have space in the boot.
Put in another two drills, one each. More if we're fit and the kids are happy.
Count how many drills need dug. Bring up clover seeds and see
In the house, pot up the squashes and whatever those things in the back right of the propagator that are getting big are. Talk to husband about lifting the turf to grow peas. Water the plants as well.
To bring, water, potatoes, juice for the kids.
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Brave the shops again !
I went this morning, saw the queue was along front of supermarket, all along the side and out to main road. So drove round car park to the next supermarket which was just as busy. So I thought I'll pop into the local shop for a few essentials only to find it was shut for cleaning!I
Oh well I suppose I can pass the time planting peas!
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Now that I've recovered from a heavy bout of weeding under the miles of allotment hedges, I'm going to look forward to a day off the allotment tomorrow. Home needs some attention.
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... have a day off :D
I've got no work, the garden to play in, the chickens to keep amused and a sunny day :D Sounds pretty perfick to me :D
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Today I'm going to do what we should have done yesterday. One of the kid's after school activities teachers put on a class. It was amazing the effect it had on us. OMG there's someone out there who wants to contact us. Besides Boris and his Proxies telling us to stay in. It went well until Youngest tried to join in and Haka'd about in the background while I was "watching" him to keep him out of the livingroom. Aka chopping onions.
Take cardboard and water up the plot-we had too much garden waste to take up yesterday to have space in the boot.
Put in another two drills, one each. More if we're fit and the kids are happy.
Count how many drills need dug. Bring up clover seeds and see
In the house, pot up the squashes and whatever those things in the back right of the propagator that are getting big are. Talk to husband about lifting the turf to grow peas. Water the plants as well.
To bring, water, potatoes, juice for the kids.
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Take the dog and my 6yr old son a long walk round the country park (next to us), hopefully that tires them both out!
Plant the broad beans I managed to buy at the supermarket yesterday and plant more peas and salad crops. Then I need to move the nasturtiums I planted, my son loves eating nasturtiums and my small seedlings are being eyed up already. I also have more powerwashing to finish off.
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Today I am NOT going to do this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52220174) - mind it just shows how long it is since that garden was dug over. :ohmy:
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Today I am NOT going to do this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52220174) - mind it just shows how long it is since that garden was dug over. :ohmy:
Love it, Christine!
Years ago, these cars were the starter-car of choice, and once one was seventeen, there was invariably a Ford Pop around to buy!
About then (1960s), there was one in the village which kept changing hands for £5, which meant that once one of the lads had driven it until he could afford to get a better car, he'd just sell it to a chum for the same price!
The pub where the whole village used to meet was also a breeding ground for 'Arfur Dalys', and a good chum even sold his Morris van for a pint of bitter!
Happy days...:0)
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Going to strim an orchard down Kylie and Danni (chickens)can't see the cat that's stalking them jezza
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Not a lot. Overdid it a bit yesterday. Usual bad nights sleep, and eventually woke today at 10.30 AM :ohmy:. Today, I just feel tired and weary and not in the mood. So that's that. :) Mrs Bouquet
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Today we planned to go to the allotment and do what we were supposed to do yesterday (I was too sore) and day before (virtual class).
We did and we finished the digging plot and it's filled with potatoes! We watered and weeded.
We are going back once the Sheewee arrives because now just isn't fun. Husband is the only one of the 4 of us capable of keeping clean. Then it's to weed, to water and plant pickling onions between the furrows. We'll pickle them tiny before the potatoes get any height.
We may put cabbages in the bottom plot in front of the shed.
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Today I have a popped blister right in the middle of the palm of my hand so I'm going to pot up some of the plants and plant out my beans/peas into grow bags in the garden. Then I'm going for a walk with the kids.
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I'm cooking a turkey, then popping to the plot to water some seedlings. The turkey was a freebie from work - 'wrong' packaging. It is a 5.2kg monster :ohmy: Guess we are eating that for a while then :lol:
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Glad to see you had "put up more chicken stuff" on your To Do list yesterday. Thank you.
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Add to my To Do List, make buttermilk and then make some wheaten bread with it.
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Make some more Greek Easter buns and sow leeks and some more flowers :)
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Make some more Greek Easter buns
That sounds good. :D
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Today's plants were cancelled because it's freezing and very windy outside. Not good for seedlings.
I made bread, 2x wheaten bread and one plain white which is sitting under the heated clothes dryer as we speak. One is actually multi grain flour but the same recipe because it's nice.
I forgot that these are pound loaf tins and I'm making kg loaves. So part of one batch is in a giant cup cake silicon mould. Which is fine, the In Laws can have that one. Then I forgot I was making double sized breads and added half the milk I needed. Also the loaf I made last weekend had rye flour, which is a thirsty flour and absorbed all the water, so they looked the same lucky I realised in time and added more. I wonder if if these will work out okay or be horrible in some fashion.
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I wonder if if these will work out okay or be horrible in some fashion.
Good luck, I'm sure they'll be fine ;)
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I wonder if if these will work out okay or be horrible in some fashion.
Good luck, I'm sure they'll be fine ;)
Not quite.
I tried them in the halogen oven for the first time because the oven is a fickle beast. Turns out halogen ovens aren't for bread so while it was nice, I had to put the oven on for the white yeasted loaf. As
Halogen ovens +bread = scorchio top + runny middles + just not entirely cooked.
If Husband hadn't eaten the charred bit we'd have had a medieval feast tonight using it as trencher bread.
But the non scorched bit tasted nice and the white yeasted oven one was the best bread I've made yet. I tried sourdough, but gave up, you were adding so much flour, binning loads and we didn't get through the bread fast enough to use the to be binned stuff.
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I tried sourdough, but gave up, you were adding so much flour, binning loads and we didn't get through the bread fast enough to use the to be binned stuff.
I keep my starter in a jar in the fridge. It gets fed once a week. 1 cup of starter, 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of water gets whisked up together and put back in the fridge. The cup of starter left over needs a couple of spoons of flour, a splash of water and 24 hours out of the fridge to be ready for bread making. I find that makes enough to keep us going for another week.
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... and today I am carrying on with the seedlings, batch cooking for meals later in the week and going to work :)
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...go outside when the sun comes out...
Oooh, it just has...
:0)
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Clear up the mess made when the little freezer decided to give up the ghost. It's been on borrowed time for about 10 years! Husband delighted to eat chocolate ice cream for breakfast. With the exception of some bread sauce everything else was salvageable and has been dealt with
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Write and post a condolence card, plant the beans and peas out, they can camp overnight in a cardboard box.
Do some weeding and edge the borders. Try and tidy the kids bedroom.
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... stay in for a while, because it's freezing out there...
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Sow some beans. Pot on the tomatoes. It's blooming cold so I need to be greenhouse based.
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Take my son and the dog for a walk into the woods and gather some wood for a fire later. Clean out the fish tank and catch up with my housework Then hopefully sow my sweetcorn !
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Today I'm taking youngest out so he doesn't join in the zoom class with Eldest. Spray down the swings at the park with disinfectant. I'm going to plant out the peas and beetroot and put the chillies out into the garden since it's due to be lovely. Laundry, fold laundry and put it away. I have a folded mountain.
Finish extending the front border and plant hyacinths in there as well as strawberries or raspberries now Husband has edged it. That bit was all stones so they need to be lifted and put in the other stony border. Finish weeding between the flags and lift the weeds into the trug.
Yesterday we planted up the beans and peas in the garden. Husband edged.
Husband to do list, take the trough planter out of the shed and back to the house. Water the allotment, maybe take us with him.
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I'm nipping off to the plot soon to plant out cabbage and then hopefully have some time at home later for more seedling sorting, sowing and potting on.
I will mostly dodging calls from work as well, but we will have to see if that plan comes off :lol:
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Today have a long walk which I should have started over an hour ago but one of the children woke up and I don't like leaving them unattended. Husband was working on something late last night and is still asleep. Maybe weed the community allotment.
Poke the bread and try leave alone until it "rises".
Change the water in the fish tank, empting it into milk cartons and take up the plot and water the plants. That'll give them a boost. Still no rain and I'm still worried.
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I am going to try and do something about the last plastic sack of rotted manure. It was all stacked up last autumn and I didn't do it. Now it is full of watery urine, which is running out and staining the patio. So eventually I shall have to get that staining off. Any advice what to use !! Meanwhile I am not looking forward to this job, because it is so filthy, and it has really made my hand/wrist arthritis hurt. So apart from that and a walk - not a lot. Mrs Bouquet
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I am going to try and do something about the last plastic sack of rotted manure. It was all stacked up last autumn and I didn't do it. Now it is full of watery urine, which is running out and staining the patio. So eventually I shall have to get that staining off. Any advice what to use !! Meanwhile I am not looking forward to this job, because it is so filthy, and it has really made my hand/wrist arthritis hurt. So apart from that and a walk - not a lot. Mrs Bouquet
Don't risk your wrist, it's the start of the season and it's giving you long term problems. Pay a handyman or friend to do it for you. If I remember correctly you do the safe workmen list locally? It's maybe an hour's work so it won't cost you much.
Or even call past a man or woman in the street who likes gardening or DIY. Ask them for a hand, afree a price and spray the notes down before leaving them under a stone nearby. If a neighbour called past us for help the Husband would put his gloves on and I'd get the hoe out to give it a spread.
It'd be a diversion.
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Those are wise words, but I have now finished it. However I did put my wrist splints on with big rubber gloves over. The patio is wash down and scrubbed, although it will need something else as it has stained. My clothes are just spinning and I have scrubbed all the tools I used and my "Crocs", -oh, and my body. What a relief to get that out of the way. :mellow: . Thank you for your advice WG, I know you are right. Sometimes I forget my age etc, and think, no probs, I can do that ::) ::) Mrs Bouquet
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I’ve been cooking this morning, but I think I might sow some more tomatoes this afternoon. I reckon I can start the outdoor ones off.
Sweet corn can also get chitting on damp paper towel :)
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My biggest ever fear, worse than a volcanic eruption, or a visit from men from Mars, is finding that our runner beans haven't germinated...
I have nightmares about this, as Mrs Growster has only a few addictions, but a decent crop of runners is an absolute must, on pain of excruciating torture and perpetual abuse..:0(
So I went out and sowed another back-up crop this morning, just to be on the safe side...
:o(
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The sweetcorn I set chitting a couple of days ago is already sprouting, so the first of them need potting up. I am now looking at the bean packs and trying to stop myself :lol: I think another greenhouse reccy is needed to see what can be moved out to the cold frame and onto the plot.
I also need to clean the chickens out and top up the fish tank water.
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Try and figure out what to do with all the onions and plant those raspberries in the front.
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Put the first of the courgettes and squash and pumpkins into small pots on a sunny window ledge at home. Maybe I will be energetic enough to finish washing the large tubs in the greenhouse ready for the tomatoes.
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Weed anywhere, sort out the front border and get the raspberries in, plant out the trough with beetroot and put the peas in a grow bag. Water.
Husband, get the trough planter, water up the allotment, water children.
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After four years doing up this bungalow we bought from an old lady, I can now start clearing up and redesign the garden I am struggling because I have now developed a back problem.
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Take a picture, and identify, some of the weird mushrooms growing in the allotment manure heap. Pot on/plant out some of my seedlings.
Read a chapter of a book.
Make bagels.
Drink coffee
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This is a bit premature, but tomorrow, I'm going to...
Sow some spinach seeds, some rocket seeds, some radish seeds, some lettuce seeds, and generally look at the whole shebang with some more love and affection...
Our gorgeous chum at our fabulous local GC delivered some seeds to us on her way home, late this evening, having worked her socks off and dealt with online orders all day, and, at 6'8" we all had a lovely chat over the gate, as a good hug was just out of the question, sadly...
My Goodness, this whole scenario ain't arf changed things...
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I'm going shopping, have list from neighbour as well as mine. On the way I will deliver some seeds to my son and loan him my garden sieve.
Then I'm going in the greenhouse to pot up my tomatoes. As in previous years I have too many but this year some of the excess have been promised to neighbours. I also want to sow some spinach and salad leaves.
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Today I am making the chickens very happy. We get to take home the unsold stuff going out of date that day at work and yesterday was 2 punnets of strawberries and a bag of salad leaves.
The strawberries were a bit squishy here and there, so I have the good ones and the chucks are filling their boots with the rest. They got the salad leaves as well as they were a bit sad looking. Chucky heaven though :)
More work looming soon but tomorrow I am free, so off to play on the plot :D
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Give myself a pedicure, and ponder, ( some more !) about my blackened patio - Wet and forget, or Patio Magic, I shall read the direction/instructions again !! Too windy for me to be out too long. Mrs B
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Today I finally gathered up enough plastic milk containers to empty the fish tank into them. So that's nearly 175L of fish poo water joy for the plants up the allotment.
I made bread, that actually rose and worked as bread. It was comparison loaves so they are very similar, Matthews was less messy though and seemed to have better structure. What else. Sod all other than the faff of home made oven chips and a few online museum tours with the kids I think.
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Today - well later - I'm going to prick out the tomato seedlings from tray to small pots. Short visit to the allotments for bits and bobs. Nothing to energetic for a change.
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Today I'm going to sit in the warmth of the greenhouse, drink tea and eat coffee and walnut cake :)
I'll do whatever I fancy and ignore everything else :lol:
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Plant tomatoes and dig over the dead plot to put cabbages in and onions. There's no space but too many cabbages and onions.
Water the plot.
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Today I'm going to sit in the warmth of the greenhouse, drink tea and eat coffee and walnut cake :)
I'll do whatever I fancy and ignore everything else :lol:
Quite right too birthday girl :)
I have done some washing and watered stuff at home. I will go to the plot later. Right now I am sitting in the sun in the garden and finding it hard to convince myself to move :lol:
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Theoretically planting out my salads raised as plugs and giving everything a good watering.
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Happy Birthday Mum, just the day to please yourself. Coffee and walnut cake - my fav, will there be any left, please.
I was supposed to be going on a WI trip to some nice gardens about 20 miles from here, with lunch. Never mind, another day. ::) Mrs Bouquet
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Having a quite day as i over did it yesterday, spent all morning yesterday potting up seedlings, lunch then went for a long walk on the way home OH said i wonder how quiet Sainburys would be guess what we did it not only for us but mum as well after an hour going round there i had to put it away and cook dinner Never again.
Having said that it was lovely and quiet hardly anybody in there no queuing, so today has been more peaceful. :)
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Happy Birthday, Mum!
Much cake left...?
;0)
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Lay a patio and I have to make a raised bed the for veg soil is too poor .
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quick happy birthday Mam
x
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Ordered cement and sand from Travis Perkins, who will deliver on Monday, so at least I can continue to make garden edging for a friend.
Weeded a bit, but too hot so chilled out reading in a chair hammock I made a few years back.
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...not going to panic at 9:00am when the pump on the poo-tank stopped working (treatment plant here - always have a set of diaphragms and can do the repair in ten minutes these days), but oooh - yucccch...
Otherwise, it'll be gently stringing up the sweet peas, to get them nearer the canes, clearing out the coal shed to make room for the big mower!
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Plant some seeds, wipe down kitchen, remember zoom meeting time, continue clearing out garage.
We've lost a DVD that I totally want to watch and thought, maybe it's in the garage? Not so far >:(
We binned a load of stuff though. I also checked up one one of the neighbours and had a chat to them.
Modify, try slow cooker partial sourdough rye bread (Pain de Campagne (‘country loaf’)) from the Brilliant Breads book. I got more yeast from the lovely man at the shop so it's an option and has been resting overnight. So it's had 12 hours to rest and is massive. I'm glad I move it up from the small, to the medium slow cooker.
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The other day our neighbor gave me some banana's 'HELP' what was i going to do with them having all ready brought some. I decided to make a Banana cake never done it before it was lovely so moist, Not much left :)
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Carried on lying the slabs I am stuck now, run out of 2x2s only got 3x2 and they re too heavy for me, I think if I can lift my large hand grinder I will cut them down to 2x2 otherwise will need to source some 2x2.Found my camera today batteries flat I will post some photos tomorrow.
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Exciting day coming! We're going to far off Bangor (10 miles away) for a click and collect at the supermarket. Not done this before.. got disposable gloves at the ready. Must get up early and check the car's oil, tyre pressures and so forth. Print out a map on Mr Google in case I can't remember how to get there.
Nearly forgot, we'll need sandwiches and a flask for the journey.
I don't think I'll sleep tonight :)
And if we feel really brave and the car park at Home Bargains looks empty-ish then we might pick up some compost on the way home. It's used to be outside so I can flash in, wave a card at the machine and run back out to load them into the car. They're 40 litre bags so my back can handle them.
After weeks of going no further than the post box, it's going to be very strange.
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Not half as exciting here :lol:
I’m off to work later, but am potting on cabbage and sweet corn, plus setting squash seeds off.
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My cup runneth over! Now I'm glued to the screen watching the progress of Keith from DPD. We're No 56 and he's currently delivering No
11 12 now :)
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Did you get your compost? I managed to pick some up from B & Q on Tuesday.
Today will be spent replacing the brake pads on the workhorse.
Should only take an hour, for someone who knows what they're doing, so it could cut across lunch, and afternoon tea :lol: :lol:
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Keep moving a few pots around the garden trying to make up my mind where I like them best. Cut the lawn edges. Mooch around the garden, wishing I could find a man to rebuild my greenhouse. Overslept today, so I am off now for breakfast ::) Mrs Bouquet
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Been busy this morning also doing lawn edges as OH mowed the lawn first thing I then decided to go round dead heading tiding up in general out the front.
Sow my bean seeds this afternoon runner and french. :)
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We survived the massive trek to the far off metropolis of Bangor. Drove up, opened the boot and a nice young lady put the bags in there for us. Could not have been easier or safer - certainly as safe as having something delivered. Only time I've enjoyed food shopping :)
Drove into the Home Bargain car park which was surprisingly busy, so straight back home without getting out. Didn't even need my disposable gloves - although I put them on when we pulled up. Up to the polytunnel after I've had a cuppa to recover from the excitement of it all.
Being serious, amazed how many people were at the shops. Not just Tesco but others also had lots more cars in the car parks than I expected to see. Noticed how cheap fuel was .. now we're not using it much. Typical.
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I went to work!!!! Do bookkeeping on an ad-hoc basis, the boss phones me when it piles up, works out to be about a day every three weeks. Can't complain, refreshments provided, today s lunch was smoked salmon sandwiches and he gave me the wine to bring home. Now I'm going to sit in the sun and share it with OH who has mowed the grass and hung the washing out.
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...feel pretty good, as our local pub, https://theeight-bells.co.uk/ re-started doing take-aways at weekends, and their fish and chips are second to none! All as expected, with a smile and a welcome!
Also, James and Annie sell some decent beer in a 'Growler' - four pints, so it'll keep me going for - oooooh, about an hour or three...
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Today I want to find out why me Husband and me Husband's car are missing. Me Eldest is also missing. :dry: ::). Windows cleaned and doors washed. Need to water pot plants and make more bread. We ate everything. Besides loaf Nessie's head.
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Today I want to find out why me Husband and me Husband's car are missing. Me Eldest is also missing. :dry: ::). Windows cleaned and doors washed. Need to water pot plants and make more bread. We ate everything. Besides loaf Nessie's head.
Weavers, it's your fanatic work on bread-making which has started us going again, with lots of rolls already done, and many more in the offing!
I dunno what it is about bread-baking, but the result always brings out the best in chums here!
Keep going!
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Move from the front garden 300 Imperial size bricks left over from the conservatory extension
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Tidy the shed.
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Be glad I'm not dugless with all those bricks to move.
Housework needs doing; back garden needs attention; I could do with a day off! :)
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Being serious, amazed how many people were at the shops. Not just Tesco but others also had lots more cars in the car parks than I expected to see.
It was a big shopping day yesterday - way busier than I have seen it for a while. I got stuck on the shop door for a while to restrict access, but everyone was completely fine about it and very nice :) They were happy shopping, so not many big trolleys, but lots of folk buying treats and BBQ stuff and making the most of a bad situation.
Today I have my own version of mega excitement :D A day off whoop whoop :D Off to the plot to play with strimming edges, planting out brassicas and watering on the agenda. Then back home to clean the chickens out and sow seeds.
Nice lunch/tea planned of chicken with asparagus from the garden and greens from the plot. I may even go mad and make a crumble. I have a bottle of vino collapso for a glass or two this evening :D
Sounds pretty good to me 8)
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Today will be spent replacing the brake pads on the workhorse.
Should only take an hour, for someone who knows what they're doing, so it could cut across lunch, and afternoon tea :lol: :lol:
First side took an hour and a half, second side, well I've put in my application for pit crew for McLaren.
I can now put "experienced mechanic" on my CV. :lol: :lol:
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Today moved 42 2x1ft coping stones from off the front to the back garden.
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... Hide out in the garden with my son while the OH fits laminate flooring in the kitchen ! :D
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Reinstalled my wife's old laptop so the sprog can have his own computer. A horrible task, which I deeply regret starting...
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Stay indoors and read. The weather is foul.
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All I seem to have done today is absolutely nothing!
Fire now lit, and probably an hour of 'The Duchess of Duke Street' will make tomorrow a new challenge - hope so...
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I was hoping to attack the ironing pile as rain was forecast,as son was staying home with the children, but hey ho all change, I had the children all day whilst they all went to the new house, so nothing other done but child care.
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Went out to get the eggs from the chooks and we both went for drive down to the postbox with the book orders but otherwise stuck on the computer. I was scanning pieces for the new book, correcting cropping etc.
Losing the will to live after a bit.
I also did some accounts work - rough calculations of how much we've got in the business, what we need to put aside for the tax man and so forth. Could be better but it could be a lot worse - it must be awful for publicans, restaurant owners and so forth. No customers, no idea what's coming. In a nutshell, I'm very grateful to be where we are.
And now a bit of light relief.. a cartoon from 1942 Smallholder
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I wiped some of the units down and did a mountain of dishes. I feel buried by them.
Not sleeping again so I'm shambling about going nurrrrr? In a rather stupid manner.
Tomorrow is putting in the onions and cabbages at the allotment. Husband may measure shed up for felt.
Any tips for re felting?
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And now a bit of light relief.. a cartoon from 1942 Smallholder
:lol: :lol: Love the cartoon
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Raining all day, so bottled up 8 demijohns and continued to sort my sewing room. Tomorrow is bottling beer
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Allotment day, bring up water, plant out seedlings. Cabbage, onions, more onions, shallots and more shallots and big flat onions. Water plants, bit of a weed if we have time. Husband will stuff some pond liner under the felt so it's not bare boards up there and measure for to re felt it. Water plants outside in the garden, bring back the bamboo canes?
Prove for more part sourdough country loaf this evening. Freeze a portion of that curry.
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Sort out todays poetry production for the walking football lads (its our clubs birthday today, 5 years), we have a whatts app group and I am the Punk Poet reciting poetry bringing culture to our group ???
Make Tea ready for the Mrs returns from work.
Depending when the wet stuff arrives might get some time on the plot.
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Just for you Aidy
I'm not a poet but you might like this.. :)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Don't go outside
Lest COVID gets you!
OK, I'll get me coat... :wacko:
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Been meaning to link you this, John, for some time! (A bit off topic - sorry)...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011plrs (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011plrs)
My old business partner sent it to me recently, and it is such a pleasant and informative interlude about a much-misunderstood, but well-loved character - Syd Barrett - in Pink Floyd!
They all seemed to worship him at first, and I never realised the high esteem he had within the band until I watched this!
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Stay indoors and read. The weather is foul.
Two minds think alike gave the outside a miss.
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Rain! We've had rain, so I'm going to clean the kitchen because I'm not getting down on my knees in the allotment to plant seedlings. Maybe have a bit of a weed.
Modify, we got the bit of the shed that the felt came off of covered so hopefully the rain will run off and into the gutter, all the way down into our water butts.
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Done today's poetic viddy for the team.
Gonna sort tea owt.
Time to get the snips pre-chitting so will be popping the seeds into their new home.
Have a chat with the chucks and get my little pressies.
Have tea, go to bed and sleep
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I am potting on some flower seedlings, planting celery plants in troughs and sowing a few bits. All greenhouse jobs.
There is a meal in progress, but it is being done in bits, then going to work later on.
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Walking around the garden, looking under pots, for snails and slugs. Then I tread on them :mad:
Also going to order a couple of "Tulbaghia - Fairy Star". to go in a planter. Mrs Bouquet
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Here's a GG poem for you all and hope it gives you a laugh or something.
I wear so many hats so I get up and feed the cats
Then I make some cups of tea and watch the news on the BBC.
It's the only way that I can face
To clean up what my OH left
In my clean kitchen late last night.
As we're moving home and my garden's in a mess,
I've just put my apron on
And now have turned my Dyson on
Just to clean up once again.
I'd love to sow a lot of seeds
But my plot is full of weeds.
And there's more washing to be done
But I can still find bits of fun
So does it matter how we do it
When we feel so low and blue?
No, it matters one jot
When you show OH how to put
His pots and plates and pans in the dishwasher.
Which might just result in a mega-disaster.
You could always apply some sort of a plaster.
Make him a cocoa and put him to bed
Then find where he's hidden the keys to his shed.
Ring up your girlfriends. "We're going to a party
And going to be ever so naughty"
When we've drunk all his beer and his wine
Then we'll all have a jolly good time!
We'll wash all his laundry on 90 degrees
And all of us will be ever so pleased
When he comes back from the pub with a massive hang-over
And he says "Oh my god! I will never do all that again!"
Then you say" Oh my lover, I'm also hung-over
But I managed to peg up your washing outside
Which seems to have shrunk, so I'm doing a bunk
With my little bit I've got on the side."
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Another idle day OH says I am becoming German, well at least an Idlburger.
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The sun is out the sky is blue back to work so much to do
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I'm going to wait up at the allotments for another freebie compost bin to walk along the road. Someone says they want their garden back and the bins are never used. Not the sort of thing you can pick up on the bus - they wouldn't go through the door. ;)
Other than that- have a look under the black plastic and try to see if the oldest compost heap is ready to turn into what will be the courgette/pumpkin patch.
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Putting posts up for raspberries and putting bean canes up so i know whats left to plant. :)
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ermmm..
Done todays poetic viddy for the lads
Now it came as a bit of shock yesterday that I discovered :ohmy: our magic washing basket in the bedroom is in fact NOT magic! I was then whisked away into the Ladyshed and shown (forced trained) how to operate the shakey, whirley noisey machine in there so guess what todays task is ???
Got some digging today on the plot need to get the squash bed ready, not be long before they will be popping up.
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Well, I've been and done the weekly shop (ordeal over!) Time to head outside, my lovely husband managed to get me 2 bales of mp compost and fence paint yesterday so I can pot up some of my seedlings. I also need to move the peas and beans from the house to the polytunnel now to free up space to sow more. Then I'll carry on with painting the endless fence!
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I'm having a lazy start to the day, but will be going to the plot to plant out stuff. If I have energy after that, I am going to do some gardening at home. I got the grass cut in the back yesterday afternoon and some weeding done, but the front needs a tidy.
There is chicken defrosting for a roast dinner later, so some gentle kitchen activity will follow to round off the day :D
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I have hurt my leg so rest up and stare at seedlings.
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Finish pricking out the rest of the tomatoes ✔️ Prick out peppers✔️ Report some house plants✔️ Relax a bit now we’re back to just the 2 of us, enjoy the peace & quiet✔️Miss the grandchildren even though they’ve only just gone✔️✔️
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I completed the patio outside the shed at the bottom of the garden, now for the raised bed.
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Lazy day in the back garden doing a bit of tidying up and raking of moss out of the lawn. Come Friday might just do some more of that raking (day off the allotment as it's a bank holiday). It's a reaction to having to clear a messy corner on allotment number 2.
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So much for resting the leg up. I also slept funny so it's so sore. Painkillers full steam ahead.
Today is finish the hallway.
Yesterday I got bored and pulled out a sofa and bookcase and hoovered under them, then wiped the skirting board. So while I was enjoying a clean skirting board I decided to wipe the skirting boards and wall down in the hallway. The paint is emulsion so it's conversion from nasty ice white to peach continued. It's a textured wallpaper with roses on so the high bits were peach and fading down to ice white with some grey. It was hideous. Did you see the tense change there?
The hall is now antique cream, the same colour as the 5L tin we had in the garage.
I roped the Husband initially to do the small bit at the bottom of the stairs. But now 3/4 of the entire hallway is done. Downstairs from the kitchen door to the front door, across above the front door, above and below the window next to the door. then right up to the stairs to the landing. As well as above the banister on the other side and that bit on the other wall downstairs where youngest indulged in permanent pen. It's a U shape with one long side and a tiny bit inwards from the long side for the hallway upstairs, and we've done the outside of the long side of the entire shape, plus the top 3/4 of the inside of the long side. I'll try and recreate it using the keyboard. Long bit is the stairs, we've done the entire outer surface of that shape.
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We have to take the roller over the whole bottom that I brush painted because as it was plastered very roughly. There's brush work up the big wall surface to get the bits we missed, thank you textured flowery wallpaper from the 80s that no one removed. There's a small amount to be done in the top hallway as well, we're leaving one wall because it needs some repair work to retouch the plaster after a leak. That wasn't us, the landlord did that, but we will have enough paint to leave for to do that wall. And repaint future scuffs. Under the radiator wasn't painted (...!?) so we did that as well.
It's also emulsion, but it's not our house so we stuck with the theme. Also used what we owned which was handy. To be honest, it looks so much nicer than ice white pith peach highlights in places with marks that you couldn't get off. Being such a pale shade of cream it's not that much different. Other than lacking scuffs not not glaring. The landlord won't care, he's said as much in the past about a bit upstairs in the kids room.
We're thinking about painting the banisters, windowsill and skirting boards.
Why does emulsion exist? I couldn't wipe the wall to get rid of dust and whatever the marks were there beforehand, I still can't, but the big nasty marks are gone. Also the wall isn't a hideous ice white so bonus.
Today.
Ban children from the hallway between the livingroom to the kitchen. Take everything off the coat rack, put it outside and give it a good wipe down. Put the antique table in the livingroom. wipe it and the wall down as well then paint/roller it. Maybe a polish for the table. Roller the rough plasterboard downstairs, the white wall, brush and mop, paint upstairs and the bit below the banister to finish off the stairs. Paint around the doors upstairs. Much more fiddly.
Open the windows. Yesterday got a bit woozy.
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As little as possible.
Wife at work ;) did chores yesterday etc.
Oh and the sun is owt :)
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Tidy out/up the garden shed! ! ! !
Cheers, Tony. ::)
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Off to work later, but the inside chores are done. I’m off outside to water the pots and the greenhouse. Then the seeds may come out as I planted out loads yesterday and have greenhouse space going begging :D
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I've already hoovered, cleaned and hung out 2 washes with a 3rd in the machine. I'll take the dog and child a walk with the hope of tiring them both out so I can get peace to sow more seeds. OH is finishing off the flooring in the kitchen just the beading to do ( which I painted yesterday), he's promised he'll be finished all the Kitchen by Friday!
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Have a trip to allotment to weed potato and onion beds.
Quick visit yesterday to drop off bricks to edge paths and noticed weeds popping up ;)
No sign of any potatoes through though :lol:
Will plant some tomatoes in greenhouse. Cleared half ready so 3 grow bags in.
Rest to plant when cleared rest of greenhouse.
Seeds sown at plot are a no show or eaten :(
Sowed carrots, red and orange beetroot and parsnips and turnips.
Will sow some at home to plant out.
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I did a lot of clearing B---dy bluebells, when we moved here they were every where, i now allow just a few any way all the foliage has gone as tip coming tomorrow, i then did all the edges to the lawn just to make it look better. :)
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I found my camera so will take a few snaps now so I can do a before and after
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Okay, didn't paint yesterday, roller wasn't dry.
Today, Plant
Fill up the mint planter with mintsTICK. Fill up the mint planter with the old compost TICK, add some manure TICK and NPK. TICK
Raspberries. TICK
Rhubarb the Husband just got given TICK . Except to 2 to go to Husband's friend.
Today, repot
Squash, half manure. TICK
The mulberry TICK
Onions, some thereof
salad leaves TICK
Harden off
That rubbish pea planted out, or harden it off.
Water the pot plants TICK
Get stones out of the front border TICK and replant TICK .
Slug hunt under the cardboard with the Ho-Mi.
Find my kindle TICK so I can look up how to make something fruity and alcoholic with this dark rum. Where is it now?
Photo for MIL of the kids TICK
Send it.
All the laundry. Strip the beds, washed TICK, dried, folded and away. Or keep the away for the child who wins the "And why didn't you do as you were told award?" to help with.
Coats, sort, wash and winter items away. Thin the coat rack.
Prepare for more painting.
Don't overdo it.
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Plan to sit back for the rest of the day, read a book and plan for the essentials that need doing down the plots tomorrow.
I've spent the lock down running round chasing my tail and trying not to be bored. Well I'm knackered and could do with a rest. So from now till Monday is rest and relax and do the minimum required. Maybe even sit in the sun and observe my kingdom which will soon be full of produce.
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Started brewing rhubarb wine :D
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Sort out both freezers✔️
Make a curry for dinner✔️
Clean the utility & cat room✔️
Visit chickens x 2✔️
Plant more seeds x
Do some gardening x
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I have sorted out my nail varnish, chucked a load out !, I have cut my lovely long nails short a few weeks ago, I thought there was less chance of germs. Usual things like a bit of housework, hair washing, thinking about tomorrows washing. Lunch time Village Walk. Answered a few emails. Went out into the garden, transplanted a plant that I planted yesterday and explained to her why. ::) Scrubbed out some Terracotta pots and then soaked them, and finally planted them up. Watered the plants and came in for a Salad and Omelette. Sat down about 7pm and promptly went to sleep. Now I shan't sleep again tonight :mad: Mrs B
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Paint, roller is dry.
Today, Plant
Onions, some thereof
Harden off
That rubbish pea planted out, or harden it off.
Water the pot plants again
Slug hunt under the cardboard with the Ho-Mi.
Send a photo of the kids to MIL
Find a recipe for the rum and redcurrants and make it up. ✔️
Sort of getting pickling spices.✔️
Coats, sort, wash and winter items away. Thin the coat rack.✔️
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Finished the patio started the raised bed, unable to show you progress batteries will not old charge.
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Get up into the roof to find all the old sheets we use when painting 'The Turrets', and get them organised so that the outside plants can get used to 'self-insulating' over the next few days, when we're due some chilly weather!
Then I'm going to sow some more seeds in succession, fill all the pots for the geraniums, move all the trays of baby salad around to get better light, and generally make a real mess of the whole place - all in one morning!
Then I'm going to have a short kip after lunch, as JRT woke me up very early, wanting to go out, and I didn't...
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Mow the jungle aka lawn
Sow some courgette & bean seeds
Continue weeding on the plot
Watering at the plot / GH
Enjoy the sun
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Check to see whether the runner bean and sweetcorn seeds have sprouted yet in their plastic boxes - if yes, sow into the paper pots I made yesterday.
Lockdown has meant I'm almost on top of the weeds (for now) - the weather has meant I'm spending a lot of time watering (I'm lucky enough to have an online weather station situated only a few hundred yards from my house, and the records show that in Feb we had 189mm of rain, March just 11mm, so far this May, 0.6mm. :nowink:)
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Continue building the raised bed out of ridged coping stones but I have 42 two x one so waste not want not even if they are difficult to support.
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Didn't do any of the above, as our lovely neighbour gave me her beehive-style compost heap, which she didn't want any more!
So it's been a day of sanding, brushing and painting, and I've also now got paint on my best gardening shirt, so as it's only about twenty-five years old, I'll seriously have to consider replacing it, probably in about five years time...
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Ooh Mr G lucky you ,beehive acquisition not the shirt lol
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I've walked the dog, it's low tide so we had a wonderful walk on the sand. Washing in the machine. Going to deliver some strawberries to my son at his allotment, will take my flask of coffee and have a natter. Runner beans to sow, tomatoes to pot on. Salad leaves to sow, and garden to be sat in. If I get bored I might even get the Hoover out, or then I might not.
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Back garden time. It needs a sort out. Hasn't had one for years. Looking tatty in places. Thing is that stuff has been put in the border along the back next to the border fence and thick hedge where it's damp and shady so things aren't thriving. Whatever, even empty space might be better at the moment.
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At last a picture of my progress. Today making supports and fitting.
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Sow some more carrot seeds after a fox or badger dug up the last lot...grrr.. :mad: >:(
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I'm going to have a really lazy day, going to the shops for a few things then i'm going painting, no meal to make just lunch. Enjoy your day :D
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Going to try and thin out my rocket......
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I was scanning pieces for the new book, correcting cropping etc.
I hope it's about home brew....!? Please?
I want to know how to make the orange pulp wine. Or alcohol in general.
I was looking at a sample of another book by a different author on preserving that's more flashy than yours, it's mostly her flouncing around in a skirt or a dress and hoping that'll help with sales. I hope you're not thinking of taking that up because I love your compact books, I can keep loads (all) of them on my kindle without them taking up loads of space on pictures.
I'm sure the entirety of you, and the bits of you between your shoulders and your knees are lovely in a dress. But it doesn't help me do any preserving or find what I'm after if the books are too big to keep on my device. And I'm flicking past so many pictures I can't easily find things or read a recipe.
I do like your wee doodles. And chickens being happy pictures, but I like looking at chocks.
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Today I'm going to have to do a day off visit to fleece delicate crops at the plots.
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... pick up a hamper from our local pub, which does takeaways over the weekend!
Take out a huge Rosemary, - no, not the lady down the road, the one by the path which looks just awful now!
Think carefully about the coming week, as the weather around here could turn nasty, and lots of tender stuff is either out there, or raring to go out...
Aren't we all..:0~
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... pick up a hamper from our local pub, which does takeaways over the weekend!
That sounds like a nice treat :)
I am also thinking about the weather next week. I haven't planted out too much yet that could be trouble, but the stuff inside is raring to go, as you say. They could all be playing sardines in the greenhouse.
On the list today are also a plot visit, clean out the chooks and a bit of loafing about before work starts again tomorrow :)
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Re do my water collecting pipe from the shed roof and later bake some bread
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Give the conservatory it’s spring clean & rope in hubby to help now that the hoards have gone lol. Can only do it on a dull day, which today is, otherwise I roast!
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Now the fine weather has gone, I'm finally going to do some ironing ::) :lol:
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Now the fine weather has gone, I'm finally going to do some ironing ::) :lol:
:lol: I was going to attack the ironing but was saved by a return visit by our son & family! (Just before any body says, they were living with us until last Saturday )
We sat in the beautifully clean & sparkling conservatory :)
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Enjoy today for today is known as Ben Watsons day, so Happy Ben Watsons Day to you all.
The sun is shining, what cracking day just like the day seven years ago at Wembley, 93rd Minute and up pops Ben Watson to break the hearts of Citiiieee fans
Might even drink some beer.
Enjoy today people
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Work in my garage/workshop too cold outside for these old bones.
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I have been in the greenhouse. Last night about 8pm I went out and lugged all the veg and flower tubs back in. Today, I feel like Growster, I don't know why I bother !. It is much too cold for me, and my babies, so they can stay in the warm. But I have been around the beds with some canes and string - why do I bother ::)
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Started brewing rhubarb wine :D
May I ask is it pure rhubarb or rhubarb and something?
I've been looking at rhubarb wine recipes and found a rhubarb and elderflower and rhubarb, elderflower and mint recipe.
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Pure rhubarb with a cup of black tea added for tannin. The next batch will have added extras, though I'm not sure what at the moment.
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Still playing in the workshop looks like Thursday for work outside.
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Total deep cleanse of the bathroom. Washing on line. Lugged plants/veg about. Swept up debris from the very high winds. Cut grass and done beautiful edges. Had a couple of nice on-line chatters. Going to get washing in now and then think about watering. Oh, and eating I suppose :unsure: Mrs B
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I was going to put the laundry out but it just started to hail. I am completely unimpressed.
Well since I treated the counters in the kitchen and they are still tacky and unusable that means I'm going to sit in my stinky house and feel grumpy until they dry and the hail sods off.
Yesterday we made a batch of John's raspberry (our frozen raspberries) wine which is bubbling away to itself very happily, I made 2 loaves of bread in the slow cooker. One white one wholemeal and we have fish out for the tea. Or pizza. I just need to make sure there is no bluuping of sauce onto the units. I'm going to try and find a good recipe to cure a pork shoulder for tomorrow.
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Shift this, or at least make a start, some for the garden & some to the plot. Plot is 5 or so minutes away, garden I have to go up 4 steps to the lawn area & then another 2 to the top border & chuck it over the raised bed wall. Maybe get need a lay down later.lol
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Looks like fab stuff there, Snows!
Must move it before it rains and gets wet, or laydowns may be for worse reasons...:0~
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Shift this, or at least make a start, some for the garden & some to the plot. Plot is 5 or so minutes away, garden I have to go up 4 steps to the lawn area & then another 2 to the top border & chuck it over the raised bed wall. Maybe get need a lay down later.lol
You are going to be busy with that lot.
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Not much left now, i found it was better to fill tub trugs & barrow them into the garden & then climb into the borders to tip them out, looks like a Chelsea show garden now lol...in my dreams :lol:
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Today i'm going baking then i'm going to have a quite weekend i hope :)
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Great progress with the the raised bed started to fill in all that are built as I need it to settle before planting I can Finnish the build as I find the time.
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Looking forward to finally getting some of the tender plants into the greenhouse/polytunnel. Happy days... also I might need a nap or two as neighbours son seems to come to life just when I go to bed and neither he nor his computer appear to have a volume control!!!
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Just walked the dog, got some ironing to do (probably not). Lawn needs to be mowed, and some weeding done. sow some runner and French beans, pick some rhubarb. Perhaps sit in garden with some lunch and a glass of wine. Today's the feel of a 'pottering' day.
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...pop the beans in everywhere, and dig out a wide edge for the sunflowers...
Also, start the hanging baskets, pot on some nasturtiums and look forward to a beer at noon...
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Today were going to move tomatoes out under lid for there growing time as they've been hardened of for the last week or so also to give everything a good soaking with hose :)
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Yesterday was a big tidy up session at home for the front garden and greenhouse. Tender plants now mostly out of the house and in the greenhouse to grow on.
Today is plot tidy and then cook a roast dinner :)
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I decided to get the courgettes, butternuts, pumpkins, aubergines, peppers out into the greenhouse before I awarded myself breakfast as it was nicely warm enough for them even though it was early.
I'm having a break from tidying up kitchen cupboards and working on what I fancy cooking for the week. I've not had any nasty surprises. Except that I'm not sure I'm making the best use of some of the space.
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So far I've tidied, hoovered and walked the dog before the rest of the house rolled out of bed. Face painted son to look like a husky (??)and escaped outside!
Thankfully it's raining so I didn't need to water, instead I hid in the polytunnel trying to get it better organised. Potted up a few flowering pots to dot round the place.
This afternoon I'm going to pot on the Tomatoes and cucumbers, sow more lettuce seeds and prick out pots of sweet William and Aubretia.
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Watered everything this morning in greenhouse and all the pots on the table outside in the sunshine.
Washing machine on and hoovered and mopped all downstairs.
Rested with cup of tea, telephoned mum then then plot after tea :lol:
Busy day. Night shifts tom so wont be at the plot til later in the week :lol:
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I'm going up the plots today. Think I may have to change the growing plan I have in mind. The usual bit of plot 2 is not co-operating. I need to start planting out some of the brassicas.
Sat down for yesterday so the back garden is still in need of attention. It's actually in need of a new planting regime. Don't want to resort to bedding plants/need to order new bulbs in the autumn for next spring/need to find two or three colourful perennials for next year. Matters not to be rushed. Lawn has needed replacing for years. That won't happen. Good thing it's only a little garden.
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Going to get the beans in the ground today and probably a bit of weeding, sprog permitting.
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I planted half my beans yesterday the runners aren't quite ready yet i also planted sweetcorn and gave everything a good watering.
This morning going to my 96 old mother to help out with some jobs, then this afternoon going for a nice long walk :)
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Job no. 1 this morning, then escape to the garden and/or plot. I have also been on a successful mission this morning to get some slug pellets for my neighbour. She will be happy when I get home later :)
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Been making a batch of plastic bottle drippers... see https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=132473.msg1533752#msg1533752 (https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=132473.msg1533752#msg1533752)
Made the sauce for tonights tea, chicken capresse
Sowed some Kale and Early Sprouting Broccoli
Recorded my punk poem and punk song :D (now singing too)
Now just chilling till Mrs comes home then back in the kitchen
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Walked the dog, it's glorious out there, tide out, the sun is shining and we had the beach to ourselves. Will put the washing out and then it's of to work, my bosses paperwork is making a mess of his desk and he's asked that I go in and clear it. My once a fortnight is now once every 6weekish but it keeps the brain ticking over.
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...plant out the Sunflowers, and take down the temporary outside shelves we use for hardening off. It's always a great, signal day, for clearing the stuff, especially when it's as sunny as now!
As we have thirty Sunflowers, I'll probably have to dig up another few square yards to make room for them as well - goodness knows where...
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Deliver the delayed garden club newsletters,my delivery plus another chap who is shielding following chemo. Might pot up some toms if I get chance now I’ve got the big growhouse out of the greenhouse.
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Went to the plot yesterday afternoon to get the strimming done. Today is plant out the last of the cabbage and a few greens and salads.
I need to check my seeds as well. I know swedes need doing but I’m thinking there are a few more that have been missed :unsure: Decision time as to whether to go for it or leave it for next year coming up :lol:
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Had a day on the plot, just having a brew before I go back on.
Spent a little time weeding. Leek rows are now prepped ready for the leeks in a week or so to be transplanted.
Had a brainwave :wacko: see photo, this is now MK3 plastic bottle dripper system, this I think is the one.
Checked and gave a little feed to me tadpoles, they are growing up so quick now.
Got to sort what we are eating for tea in a bit as well and of course post the poem on the whatts app group.
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Carry on with the revamp of the back garden, an old lady lived here before and it was badly neglected, it is going to be a long job because it takes me twice as long to do half as much. LoL
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Tomorrow I'm going to do more than I did today. Knackered I am and was fed up with gardening by lunch time so came home and read a book.
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...feel a bit mis, as all the plants are now out there in their new homes, and all I've got to do is start garden maintenance, like the hedges, painting the shed, hoeing etc!
It's a bit like the kids leaving home; a new phase, a new season...
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Started the day with a nice 18 mile cycle ride up Blackpool prom and then inland and back home, for the most was fairly quiet.
Sat now waiting on a parcel to come.
Will pop onto the plot a little later when it has cooled down a little.
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Have a manicure, pedicure, and my hair done. When I finish there, I am going to buy myself a nice Luncheon, and then go into the shops and buy myself some nice clothes. THEN, when I awake from my daydream, I am going to work in the garden :lol: :lol: :lol: Dream on, What lovely things are you going to do today, Mrs Bouquet
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I've had a lovely quite day, did all my jobs first thing this morning also knocked up a loaf of bread sorted our dinner out for tonight, then i've been sitting doing my painting from teacher vie video 'Cacti ' the subject, great fun.
Had a simple lunch then of on our walk, cold drink in the garden hopefully an hours read before i start all over again getting our dinner.
Hope you've all had a GOOD DAY :)
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... try to finish thinking about what's happened over the weekend.
A dear, lovely, friend nearby was burgled on Saturday night. She is nearly elderly, in her middle eighties, widowed last year, a stalwart in our village, a friend to all, and the whole issue is making her so apprehensive, knowing that such slack-jawed, skiving, layabout cheats and barstewards are out there, taking their perverse advantage of the 'lockdown', and generally being utter contemptible thieves and charlatans and, by their disgusting behaviour, giving normal, law-abiding citizens a damn b****y good reason to despise this lazy, despicable, nasty dross of humanity we have to put up with in our British society.
We're all rallying round our lady chum, of course, but it brings it all back to home when such a disgraceful, cowardly, slimy act happens within yards of your own castle.
I rest my case.
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Oh how dreadful Mr G, trouble is there always was & always will be those sort of people around :(.
Today I’m going to try & move a bit more than I did yesterday, I did myself a mischief on Saturday helping an allotment friend build a compost bin!
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Growster, that is appalling, poor lady. Thank goodness she has the support of yourselves and the village. Mrs Bouquet
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These scroats are beyond contempt! I have various ideas what I'd like to do with them but the Mods would chuck me off the Forum tout-suite as I detest any kind of thievery no matter what sort it is. When you next see this lady please give her a mega-GG hug.
I've had a lot of practice over the years so you're going to have to have some lessons. Unfortunately I am not available due to certain circumstances but this is your first tutorial. Before attempting this, make sure there is a large comfy cushion she can fall on if needed.
You put your right leg in then your right leg out so you can get your stance correct.
Fling both arms in the air whilst rolling your shoulders to make sure your muscles are in good condition.
Put your paws on said lady's shoulders (you know how to do that so am not repeating it cos I've only done it with men) then ever so slowly move them onto her face and give her a big fat kiss on the lips, cheeks or whatever is available.
For H&S reasons please ensure you keep the social distancing as per.
If that's too much to resist just get one of those children's bubble-making jobbies and blow her a kiss or several.
Please do that for me or I'll reveal where you keep your stash of home-made brew! ;)
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Been there, done that, Goosey;0)
She's the first lady I've hugged in all this time, (except for Mrs Growster of course) - she was so upset on Saturday, she got several hugs more, poor love!
Today (an 'I'm going to do something' day...), I'd planned to cut all the hedges outside our house and hers. It's
normally a two hour job and has taken me twice as long, as everyone has been passing by, and talking about her ordeal, and they're just lovely village friends (eminently huggable too, under normal circumstances - even a new face, so an extra hug may well be on the cards one day, so the hedge has started growing again pretty damn quick, and I may be some time...!
But I'd definitely like some more practice, so here's my telephone number - Whitehall 1212...;0)