General Chat

Evening all

Mel, why cant you grow PSB? Off to check my email, will report back.

Thanks Mandy, still having 'moments' but so many happy memories.

I wonder if Frank if popped his mobo scooter in the boot for a blip around Devon? :-D

Mandy no I didn’t go to the garden centre as the weather was not good. I did drive the car down the road to the nearest roundabout and back, not far but I wanted to check I had got the driving position back where it was before the garage had it.

Mel you did well with that path and the rickety looks good.

Just seen your photos Mel you've done a good job on the path looks lovely now ,I love the little gnome keeping an eye on the garden :-)

Evening all,

I'm here Mel just been busy in the garden trying to get some more baskets planted up before the rain came , when it did come about four o'clock it tipped out of the sky for about ten minutes then out came the sun again .

Hope Frank has arrived in Devon OK and has a nice stay with no mishaps

Vera I hope your muscle pain soon eases but it can take a while ,I find if I over stretch it plays my side up a couple of days later, you just have to take it easy for a while ,I hope you enjoyed your tea and cake with your friends .

Nice to see you posting Island ,it takes some getting use to a quiet house when you lose a pet :-(

AnnG did you get to the garden centre .

Mel what crafting are you doing ,I've made a couple of more bags ,im waiting for some more Interfacing to come before I can make any more .
You asked about the new series that started last week ,no we never watched that but there is a couple of new ones on tonight ,The Pact on bbc1 and Innocent on itv so we'll watch one and record the other one.

We also recorded Kew Gardens a year in bloom that was on last Thursday but we haven't watched that yet .

I wonder how things are going at Gills I expect there has been lots of clearing up to do ,when you knock a chimney out there's plenty of dust and soof too I expect.



We have had a roast chicken tonight with roasties and veg

I can't get on the net now. From this morning I had a white page and then try again and still can't get on there.

Meant to say you have been having trouble getting on here Island. Hope it all goes well from now on. We need your posts and pictures.

Safe journey Frank its just poured with rain here and stopped me gardening. I have cut down the dead off the very ancient Lavender on the corner of the rockery bit which I look out on from the sink. I have left one bit of it which has some leaves on it as I love the Lavender and its been there for over 25 years.

I have put in the space a white rockery Alisum and a pink Phlox hoping they will hang over the wall. I dug out the mollis that was on the corner too as it seeds itself everywhere.

Wish I could grow some purple sprouting brocc.

Where's our Mandy?

O I think it may have stopped raining so I can carry on for half an hour clearing the path down the side of the rocky bit.

Morning all

Anng, Vera and Mel - I tried posting three times yesterday. First, my laptop froze for two hours. Second, something somehow closed me down - losing my longish post.
Third, around midnight, I spotted GR had reappeared with my post - yippee! I finished typing it, clicked 'submit' and got the sign in page! What???

to recap briefly, Anng, I meant it was 'quiet here' meaning at home but yes, general chat isn't moving much.
Mel, yes the PSB seeds which I've just sown are for next year. They are slow growing so I'm only going to aim for six so they occupy less space. Made PSB and stilton quiche yesterday, a joint effort. Yummy.
Vera, our garden isn't big enough for all those plants. I always sow a lot in case some fail and so I have some to give to others. I tried growing caulis a few years ago, only one produced a (rather feeble) head -- even the dog looked at it with disdain! Never one to miss a photo opportunity, I'll have a look for it.
Enjoy your break Frank, safe journey.

Cooee Von. I haven't been well.

Have a lovely time Frank and safe journey. stay safe. :-) :-)

Morning all, Off to Devon in a few minutes, be back THUR/FRIDAY. Will try to post then. xxxx

Morning Anng Vera and all,

Slept like a log last night.

Cloudy then sun then grey sky it dos'nt know what it wants to do today.

I must have a clear out int he fridge this morning ready for tomorrows wipe down then I may be able to have a little play with my craft stuff.

Yesterday I pinned up a new pair of jim jam bottoms so I may sow those up today. I have another pair that need doing too if I ccan find where I put those ones.

Good morning AnnG and all

No sun here. It rained heavily late evening and quite a bit during the night. Now it’s just very grey and damp.

I didn’t sleep much again as this pain in my side is worse laying down and even sitting up in bed I kept waking every few minutes. Then of course I kept yawning and that hurts too.

Our friends are coming for.a cup of tea and piece of cake this afternoon. The wife has to have a Covid test in the morning and then they have to self isolate until she has a hospital appointment on Friday, so today’s the only day this week they can come. At least they can come inside from today so we won’t be sitting in the garden with umbrellas up.

Have a nice day everyone.

Good morning all, sunny and 9 degrees already but rain forecast (that will make a change!) slept ok but do wake early because it is so light. Garden bin day tomorrow so I ought to see if there is anything to go in that, I would like to get to the garden centre sometime too as I need more compost. next door are having a new fence today so neighbour's car will be on my drive when she is back from the hairdresser so If I want to go out in my car it will have to be while she is out. so I will see how things work out.

Vera, I suspect they are not growing because of the wet/cold so will catch up when it warms up a bit.

I hav'nt been in the garden much at all today but I did have the murky corner out in the kitchen where the toaster lives. The tray was so full of crumbs I thought I was'nt going to make it to the sink but I did. got all the old stuff out of the fridge and washed the pots and filled up the recykling bin. Some how the fridge has been turned up to 6 and when I got the bacon out for lunch it was frozen so were the tomamtoes I had'nt put in the draw and his red pepper which has thawed out but is all soggy.

Sending love to Frank and hope he's ok. <3

Lovely to see you Island. You've been very busy with your veg. I'm jealous. All I really have room for here are a few tomatoes and herbs in pots. My tomatoes germinated really well in a seed tray. I then potted the ones I wanted up into little pots and have just recently put them in their final big pots. Now they seem to have stopped growing. I have these pathetic little things that are just sitting there doing nothing (sigh). Good luck with the cauli. When we had a big veg plot at our old house I grew loads of stuff but I never had any success with caulis.

I haven't done a lot today. I did manage to spill half my breakfast down my dressing gown so that had to go in the wash and I cooked a roast chicken dinner with lots of veg. We had that just after 2 pm and I still feel as though I have eaten too much. I don't think I'll want much more tonight.

Hi to Island and a nice ~~~~~~~~~~~~ to you. You have been busy with your sowing and have a nice lot of seedlings and plants coming on. I must clean out the spider webs in the corner of my she dI can't reach very well as you say they are that thick I couold knit a mat with mine too. In the earlier months when I get the Long Tailed Tits comeing to the feeder I take the cobwebs out of the shed and put them on the feeder. They are always gratefully recieved and never stay there long. I have even seen one flying away with a foot long web in its beak. One of those times when you don't have a camera to hand.

Have you sown more PSB for next year? I love that and can't get any at the moment from Asda they keep putting on the lists but always out of stock.

good morning Island how lovely to see you on here. Do you mean it is quiet on GR generally or just this thread. I think both go in fits and starts but it is nice when we all catch up.
Goodness you have been busy in the potting shed (and other places by the sound of it. Not having been able to get to the garden centre for my 'war' wound as you so beautifully called it, I have not been able to make the spontaneous purchases that usually fell into my trolly this time of year. I suppose it has saved money but it has spoiled my gardening experience a bit. Mind you looking round the garden it would not occur to anyone that I was short of plants.
anyway Island, if it all grows you are not going to go short of veg this year are you. As T never grew much veg I shan't miss that aspect of the garden. I did notice just now that the rhubarb is growing.Although only one stick looks ready for picking. Obviously it will be ready when we are away.

vera I too have loads recorded and not yet watched every so often I have a purge and either watch or delete but I am a bit of a light weight with TV programmes, tend to put things on like watched before Midsummer murders, Lewis, Morse which don't need a lot of concentration and for that reason also I am a soap watcher. I did find and enjoy as well a series of George Gently but I have finished all those now. Not a daytime watcher either, TV hardly ever goes on before 4pm unless I am really bored when it may go on at 3pm to watch the house buying programmes either in UK or abroad.

Morning all

So much for 'gardening rest' - the weather has not been too friendly. I managed one day when I delved into the dark depths of the spider hotel - aka the potting shed - there's probably enough spider fluff to knit a small mat :-0 I must take a photo. So now I have lots of plastic plant pots to wash.
I was late with sowing seeds but most seem keen to catch up which means potting on already. Toms. cues, pointy peppers (from raw) all coming up on the front window sill. Runners and climbing dwarf beans coming on a pace in the potting shed with courgettes, purple peas, and sweetcorn about to burst forth. It's my first time with 'Flower Sprouts Kale' and cauli so we'll see what happens. Three types of sunflowers and some marigolds. The PSB is still feeding us and this year I'm trying seed, which I sowed on Friday, rather than scrabbling around to buy plants at the last minute. 120 2" pots in all :-0 many needing potting on already. I start off with little pots for germinating to save compost and space as I have had mass failings in the past. None of my suttons dwarf beans germinated last year after three sowings - I tell a lie, I got five plants out of about 40 seeds.
I'd put half a cherry tomato on one side on kitchen paper in a dish a while back. Forgot about it, then discovered it was dried up with a bit of mould where the flesh had been - nice! What the heck, I planted it and guess what? Tomato seedlings have come up! Given that tomato seeds survive our digestive systems to flourish at sewage farms, why am I surprised? Mine hadn't been eaten I hasten to add!

Vera, I do sympathise with you struggling with a pulled muscle - I'm still getting the odd twinge in my ribs. I hope yours eases soon.
Anng I hope your 'war wound' will soon be healed.
It's the wrong time of year to be out of action although I think the weather is dictating when we can and cannot be outdoors.
I'm enjoying Gills progress reports - been there, done that, found a cement mixer in the front room :-0
Annx, love your paintings, especially the water on the river scene and the boat. I've 'signed up' for a seven day sketch challenge on FB which is starting soon - hoping it will give me a push to get arty/crafty again.
Mel, foxy Robbie, lovely.

Thank you all for emails and kind comments, I'm sorry I have been remiss in not catching up with them but all were appreciated very much.
It's a bit quiet here now. :-(

Dull and grey here now so I expect it will rain again soon.

Do you mean the programme called The Pursuit of Love Mel? If so, I haven’t watched it but might watch it on iPlayer at sometime. I am so far behind with my viewing. I’ve got films I recorded 3 or 4 years ago that I haven’t yet watched. I’ve watched the first 5 series of Line of Duty on iPlayer but still have the final series to see and I’m currently trying to catch up on watching The Serpent. I read a lot, never without 2 or 3 books on the go, and I like to do crosswords so there just aren’t enough hours in the day. At least I don’t have time to get bored :-)

Morning Anng Vera and all,

Quite bright here this morning but its just started raining so how long that will last I don't knwo.

Slept well.

Did anyone watch that new serise last week on BBC 1? I did ask before but nobody replied.