General Chat

Went into town had coffee in M&S then bought myself a Tee shirt and a sleeveless tee shirt top then to Bon Marche and bought a pair of crops, all in sage green so, please with that. It kept coming over dark but it didn't rain.

Morning all,

Raining here ,nice steady rain so it will be better for the garden than a heavy rain that runs off and doesn't soak in .
We're off to sons later for coffee and I need a few bits from the shop and the we'll see how the day goes .
We have a load of wood coming on Friday so son and family wil help with bringing that round .

Good morning all. bright and 8 degrees here this morning garden looks damp, but more as if we have had a shower rather than consistent rain. Still every little helps.
Can't really say I slept well. I slept okish, in patches. two hours here, two there then at 0745 woke with a start coughing, something must have caught my throat, like when you are eating and something goes the wrong way. went on for almost 10 minutes.

Morning all,

Looks wet outside so it must have rained in the night. It was steady rain in the evening so I think it may have done the garden a bit of good this time.

BIL's birthday today so I must send him a message.

Shopping day too and I have one of my favorite drivers again this week, its Dan and Iv'e had him do the delivery for the last two weeks so this will be three in a row.

Hope you all slept well.

The roast went down a treat Mel ,we had a busy day got a lot of jobs done ,Colin cut some more wood and i pricked out thirty sunflower plants ,last year I gave dil some and she also took some into the school .
I topped the compost up in the pots where the runner beans are coming up as the compost had sunk down a bit ,I got all the bedding on the line and it all got dry ,I also remade the bed ,got the veg all done for the roast, cleaned the upstairs bathroom but never got round to hoovering up.

That's good the tic came out OK Mel ,you'll have to be careful when your working in the long grass .

I rang the docs first thing and they told me to come down at 9am to see the nurse so thats what I did. She had to use tweezers as it was so small the tick lifter was too big. she did it and told me if I get a rash or flu like symtoms to go back to the docs.

Its just rained here quite hard but only for a little while.

Enjoy your roast today Mandy.

Well I have no idea why Genes could not take my card. Said it was possibly because the number they had was an old card. But the card I am using dates from 2023??? Still all legal again for another year.

Morning all,

Nice and sunny here ,we had a little rain yesterday and I had to push the canopy up on the gazebo to get the rain off this morning ,don't want that coming down on us as we're walking past it.
Got the bedding in the wash so hope I can get that dry and I'm doing the roast today .

Mel ,hope you can get sorted out at the doctors with the tic .

Morning girls,

Quite a bright morning here and its 9 degrees but pc says to expect rain by 3pm. I don't like it whe it says that.

Not stopping to write more as I need to get in the shower and ring the docs to see if they can get this tic off my arm the redness is now getitng bigger.

good morning all, sunshine again, I am not sure if we had any rain over night. I will check later when I see if it is any easier to get the weeds out that I couldn't shift because it was roo rock solid. 5 degrees out there so not cold and no frost. A few outstanding gardening jobs to do today , a bit of washing and I must clean the inside of the front windows which look really bad first thing when the sun is on them.

Hope you can get some shuteye tonight Vera and feel better .
With the Geraniums I just dug them out of the pots shook the soil off and clumped them all together in a washing up bowl and a tub ,never watered them at all over the winter ,they had a dribble of water about three weeks ago once I saw they had green shoots and leaves ,it just seems to work OK.

We've had a couple very light showers not enough to really wet the ground and tomorrow shouldn't be a bad day we should see a little sun .

Hope Gill is OK she's gone quiet again .

Sorry about pinching your sleep Vera!! I hope you get some good shuteye tonight.

I hav'nt done much today at all. I did do a little varnishing this morning berfore BIL cam. I think I told you he sheared of a bolt on his new mower and he took that shaft off today to take in to work to remove the rest of the bolt. I don't know what he will do when he retires as he won't be able to get htis sort of things done then.

I watched my Living The Skye Life on youtube at 6pm and Sarah did the most wonderful painting of an otter and she said it took her 25 hours in all. I do wish our Annx would watch it as he paintings are so very good and detailed like Ann like to do. Its wonderful to see how she builds up the picture from the very start with a light pencil scetch. They are having a rest so thier next video is the 4th May so I am really going to miss my Sunday night 6pm fix of this lovely young couple and their two dogs.

It sounds as though you have had a successful weekend with the boys AnnG. It’s always lovely to see family.

You did well with your geraniums Mandy. The ones I put in pots in the little plastic greenhouse didn’t survive the winter but the ones in troughs that I put in the conservatory are OK and most of the cuttings I took have done well.

I know what you mean Annx about the problem of fitting in holidays around all the various medical appointments. I am very keen to have a break but we have several appointments between us and getting anywhere now is difficult. Neither of us wants to drive far these days and to get anywhere much by train often means getting down to London first. We may be holidaying in sunny Suffolk from now on.

Did you manage to get that tick out Mel or will you have to go to the surgery tomorrow? Like Annx I’d have wanted it removed PDQ. You did sleep well. You’ve been using energy in the garden and getting lots of fresh air which is probably helping you sleep.

I haven’t slept much recently and not felt very good for a couple of days, probably due to lack of shuteye. I blame Mel, I think she’s got my share of sleep as well as her own ;-). I haven’t done anything in the garden for a couple of days and some of those creeping weeds are taking over. I keep looking at them but haven’t had the energy to do anything about them.

It’s raining at the moment but I don’t think it’s going to amount to much, not enough to do the garden any good.

Sleep well tonight everyone and, with luck, we’ll all be full of beans tomorrow.

They left here at 1.45 so should be about home now.It was lovely to see them and the boys were so good, didn't hear a peep out of them, just came for food then went back and were on their Ipads in their room together. No squabbling at all.

It is raining now, nice steady gentle rain and it smells lovely outside. 13 degrees.

They have gone home now Ann, should take 2 hours but was longer coming up on Saturday so who knows. Lovely to see them, the boys are just nine and three months off twelve.

If you are going to open gardens it might be worth buying the Gardeners World magazine for May, I know it is not cheap but it has a two for one on gardens book in it. I have used the two for one before in previous years. I have not got it yet this year but hope to soon.

Afternoon all,

We've had sun most of the morning but it's clouded over a bit now and its definitely cooler today , I have got three loads of washing dry so that was good .

Reporting the Geraniums lol its this blooming ipad putting reporting instead of repotting, I was pleased I got them all done and although they look a bit puny they looked like that last year but I had some lovely flowers on them so fingers crossed for good flowers again .

Mel you must have needed the sleep , I wonder how many babies Robbie has .

Ann yes I suppose a few days out will suit you better while there's all the appointments to fit in ,just sitting in the car with a nice picnic people watching can be relaxing .
I thought that sheepskin wouldn't be very practical on a chair perhaps it's only for show and they won't let anyone sit on it .
I wonder what the bedrooms are going to be like .

Angg I hope you've had a nice weekend with the family ,are you going away to your daughters for easter .

We're having a salad tonight with jacket potatoes, Nice and easy after our busy week in the garden ,I'll cook the chicken tomorrow .

Just watching the boat race ,mens race now going to start after a bit of a todo in the women's race they had to do a restart after clashing oars

Afternoon All,

Dull here at first and cooler as they said it would be. It's rained just a sprinkle but not enough to do any good yet. Now the sun is shining, but I decided to rest more today or rather my knees said to have a rest after yesterday's jobs. I'm having a coffee and sit for a bit.

I don't think we can fit in going away yet Mandy as OH has all these appointments for rehab, physio, dentist and to see the hospital consultant and a liver scan. We thought about seeing a few Open Gardens or NT places with gardens and perhaps go on the boat to see the Ospreys at Rutland water again, things like that. :-) Yes I agree with you about the Chapel room colours and the blue seems very dark. When I saw the woodburner I though that will never heat that room, then remembered they had underfloor heating too. I wasn't sure about the sheepskin nailed on the chairs and thought it would soon get dirty and squash down looking matted. It may be just me though, as a friend years ago had a sheepskin rug and it got full of fleas from the cat! I wonder what colours they will use elsewhere! Like you I expected their taste to be adventurous, but it's more extreme than I expected.

How old are the boys AnnG? It's nice that they have been good during their stay with you as well. Next it will be getting your house straight again after they have gone.

Mel you were up later than me today and I had a lie in. It's lovely Robbie has some babies now. What happened with the Wren in the shed? We have what I think is a Magpie nest in the Blackthorn tree over the back fence. The man who cut all the brambles and hedge growing over our fence thinned it out where it was hanging over and now the bigger birds can get into it. I've seen a Magpie near it, but it may have been up to no good.

BIL has arrived to put the old mower battery on and I am sitting here not dressed, well I was feeding Robby he took away 8 worms so definately has babies. :-D

Today was good Friday 13th back in 1979 the day and year my dear dad died

Morning girls,

I was up at 8.23am for the first visit to the loo and thought as it was a bit chilly I would have a little lie in, Disaster woke again exactley three hours later at 11.23am. I must remember to stay up and then I will have more daytime.

Good they had a nice stay Anng but you will miss them when they leave today, the house will see all very quiet.

Quite a bright morning here with some sunshine and clouds and its 11 degrees and p says mostly sunny so maybe another day in the garden after my rest yesterday. What do you think?