General Chat

It is so dull and dark here, 12 degrees but feels less than that and I have a sweater on over my light long sleeved Tee shirt. I spent about 20 minutes in the garden pulling up weeds as the ground has had a soaking to make it easier, I also managed to clear away a lot of the bulb leaves that have died right down. Unfortunately the later floering bulbs have a long way to go before dying down. I also cut back a bit of wandering clematis and some winter flowering jasmine as well so that right hand border is starting to look a bit tidier.

Runners all planted and watered in ,few spots of rain but that was all ,sounds as if the rain is lower down with Vera .

Mel it sounds as if your on a misson with those thistles :-D

On the way to feed the chcikens there were two big thistles type weeds growing by the garage very low to the ground as iof they were trying to hide. After the rain they are now 18 inches high so the spade came out and cuct them down. They are only annual thistlesy type thing but very visious with their prickles. So a job for today is to walk around the garden with my trusty spade to irradicate the blighters.

Morning girls,

Up at 6.11 for thebathroom and went back to bed for a lie in and woke again at 10am. So you could say I had a good sleep last night.

May do a bit of clearing in the garden today round the house. Up on the border the big red poppies are out and even a rose has put in an appearance the Clematis is flowering and the bearded iris. I thought it was a bit early for all of those. Must get up there at some point and cut the Penstemon down. I usually do it in April. Theres also brimbles to cut down in the border too.

Morning all

Very grey, wet and chilly today. What a change from the last couple of days. Bank holidays don’t mean much since retiring. We prefer to stay home and go out on less busy days so I think it will be h/w today. One load of washing is done and a second is in the machine. Have a nice day whatever you are doing.

Morning Anng ,morning all,

Very cloudy here too ,we hope to get the runners in today ,yesterday son and dil came to put the canopy on the gazebo so another job done and son also ordered our new garden benches ,we had found some but it was forty pound delivery so son looked and found the same rwo seater benches with another company with no delivery charge so they should come in the next week or two .
I have some washing to go out but it's not looking very good now so I'll hang on a bit ,I washed my fleece and Ialso need to get our winter jackets washed and put away sometime .

Ann I hope your feeling better now ,there's lots of these bugs about ,dil had a day off school the other week and some others were away in the school too , you could have had a reaction to the covid jab .

good morning all. 10 degreesA white/light cloud sky, no sun yet. Bedding in the washing machine and I am about to have a shower and wash my hair, bank holiday monday but I am not going anywhere. Maybe a bit of gardening if it stays dry. I will see.

I meant to say we had a really strange rain storm ealier. It was great big spot of rain making a noise on the patio roof which I why I went out to see what was going on. When I looked at the big pond it was like someone was dropping stones in it all apaced out. I tried to get a pic of it. It was like little explosions in the water, great splashes comeing up.

I am so please Annx has postedd as I was a bit worried. Hope you feel better soon and don't forget to show us any new paintings please. I still want lily of the valley if any comes up Annx please.

My grandmother would have been 131 today.

Ann I hope you continue to feel better now. Maybe just do some painting to relax.

Vera the thing is I have been in touch all along with ex granddaughter in law, we get on fine. They have lived in the bungalow they have bought together for about a year and we often talk about their garden which she does, and how the fruit trees bought with money in memory of T are doing now transplanted. It was obvious they would eventually get married that is why I found it strange. She is a bit scatty so probably forgot who she should tell.

Your OH does see. To increase your work maybe doubles it

Frustrated now one of my hearing aids has stopped working. The two month old aids.

I hope you are beginning to feel a little better now Annx Take it easy for a day or two and don't do anything you don't feel like doing.

Anng, I think when couples divorce they often find it difficult to tell their ex's family about a new marriage. They are not sure how the news will be received but you have broken the ice with your grandson's ex. and she has responded so I am sure all will be well. Btw, like Mel OH uses Roundup for weeds.

I slept badly again and I'm feeling a bit heavy headed and tired at the moment but pleased I've managed to get a few jobs done today. I did a bit of hand pulling of weeds and some pot washing, cut down some more penstemon and planted up two troughs of begonias. While doing this OH interrupted me 3 times. First he couldn't find which towel to use for his shower. They are in the same place they have been for the last 12 years. He only had to put his hand in the cupboard and take one out. Then he had to wash some bird muck of an outside wall just where I was planting the begonias. The final straw was when I had to leave everything to go round the front of the house and discuss exactly where we are going to put a lizard wall sculpture. We are going to ask the handyman who is coming on 12th to put it up on the wall for us so we've plenty of time to sort out exactly where we want it, but, no, it had to be done then. In between all this I was in and out of the kitchen cooking the full roast dinner that OH enjoys so I feel I've done quite well this morning.

I am now going to get on and sort some more of my brother's books and photos that came home with me after our friend's funeral. In fact the lizard sculpture mentioned above also came home then. That had belonged to our friend and was on the wall of his conservatory. I always liked it and when friend's sister asked me if there was anything in the house I would like as a memento I chose that. It reminds me of times when we would visit him and he'd bring home made cake and coffee into the conservatory and we'd chat away. Happy memories.

I did message my ex Granddaughter in law and she replied very apologetic saying she had not realised anyone would post so quickly. she said she didn't know if I would want to know about the wedding and she felt embarassed about it so didn't tell us. I think she realises it would have been the thing to do and she has promised to keep in touch with anything else we would be interested in.

Afternoon All,

Sun's trying to break through, but we had heavy rain during the night which is good and should make the weeds easier to get out like Mandy said. It was mostly brick hard here too as it hasn't been properly turned over here for a few years either.

I didn't feel well yesterday, so after a trip to the shop I didn't really do anything. I think it was just a bug, but my shoulder took ages to stop being achey after my covid jab this time and I'd felt under the weather since. I kept waking feeling hot and headachey last night but feel a lot better now. I might have picked up a bug at the Pharmacy when went for OH's meds as I had to queue and wait ages. I don't know why pharmacies and GP surgeries aren't required to have brass or copper door handles which are antibacterial.

It would have been my mother's 99th birthday yesterday. How time flies by, She would never have coped with the internet and never had a credit card and only had a bank card to be able to draw cash. She was a few months younger than me when she passed away.

OH's went to a match with his footie pal yesterday who has just started work at a well reknowned undertakers. In his first week he's already been out collecting bodies and is keen to eventually qualify as an embalmer. I'd be too squeamish!

Oh Vera, our gutters are low being a bungalow, but we had someone come and clean and hose them last year. Typical like your OH though, OH never plans and prepares when he does things or move things out of the way like you say. If I ask him to carry something into the conservatory or garage, he never thinks to go and open the doors first and ends up shouting me to do it. First OH would drill a hole in the back of a kitchen cupboard without taking anything out of the cupboard first. It must be a man thing. Your OH was very lucky he didn't do more harm to himself though and it must have been very worrying for you when they needed to check him so well, but reassuring as well.

AnnG I think people can be so busy they just don't think at times. Despite OH often visiting his mum's aunt and two nephews in Lincolnshire with his parents and her nephews attending MIL and FIL's funerals, the remaining nephew didn't let OH know when his brother passed away till he sent us our Christmas card. We were both puzzled, but decided with us not being local to them, it had perhaps slipped their minds till they started their Christmas card list.

A friend has told me to try pouring a little salt on the centre of our dandelions to get rid of them and I've read that adding vinegar and a little washing up liquid is good for getting rid of weeds too as long as it's kept off plants you want to keep.

I'll see what state the remaining Lillies of the Valley are in Mel as OH has been slashing and bashing them and using the spade to cut a few below the surface to try and stop them spreading further. I see Alan Titchmarsh has some with striped, variegated leaves.

I might sketch out a little painting idea next. I have a mock up of cardboard boxes in the lounge forming two options for the shower in the bathroom that I should be getting on with, and checking if large enough for OH, but my head still with some aching doesn't feel quite up to it yet. I'm meeting Fitz soon and he always asks me to bring any paintings or anything I've made for him to see.

Still no Annx. I do hope they are both ok.

I was going to look something up and answered your question and now I have forgotten what I was looking up. :-(

How about a kettle of boiling water? I must admit I use Roundup but not near either ponds. I get it fromAsda with my shopping or in Mole Valley.

What is the best weed killer for weeds growing in gravel, a lot of which are clover which must have fought its way through from the lawn undernesth.

I agree Mel and no way was I criticizing her getting re-married. She knows I am happy for her in her new relationship. I am in quite frequent contact with her, especially because of the boys. Yes I heard from Grandson this morning, we have always been quite close.

I suppose they all have their lives to live how they wish Anng. Do you hear from your grandson?

good morning all, went back to sleep at 615 and woke ar way gone eight. feels like I am all behind, but, having nothing to do I am really not and a wash load is already in. dry here so far and 12 degrees, bright, not sunny.

Feeling a bit sad as I have just seen eldest grandson#s ex wife has re-married, not been informed but saw it on facebook. looks ike she was in the full white as well. Not really a problem, I wish them well for the sake of my great grandson's and he seems a nice fellow. But it would have been nice to have been told.