General Chat

Discretion is the better part of valour ;-)

Hmm, did you tell the Duchess :-|

Oh I enjoyed myself never fear - like you wouldn't believe ;-)

Of course it was in the line of duty, heaven forbid that you would enjoy yourself

I must have drank gallons of it in my time, but all in the line of duty you understand - but still never acquired a taste for it

Maybe it is an acquired taste, which I have acquired :-D

Red will be fine thank you - strangely, I am not keen on champagne, never have been

Oops, we only have red, I don't like white wine, unless it is Champagne of course

That's very kind of you - a dry white would be just the job if you have one - thank you :-)

I think I will, would you care for one?

Maybe you ought to have another by now :-)

Well, I did all the cleaning,so obviously I deserve a glass of wine now

I would love it to be 20 Berona :-)

It is nearly lunchtime and I still haven't started cleaning. I have done useful things such as renew my annual travel insurance policy. The chap warned me in advance that the price will rocket next year as we will reach the ancient age of 65, oh joy

Not quite as good a day as I hoped for. It was only 5c overnight, not 6 - and to-day's temp got to 20, but not for long. There was a cold feel to the air. Perhaps because it was cold up in the mountains and if the wind comes from the west, we feel the overflow here. Yes, I know 20 sounds ideal to you, but I think our humidity is different, and the temp only needs to fall a couple of degrees for us to feel the difference. We can expect another cold night, tonight, so I have put the heater on low in order to keep the house warm when I turn it off to go to bed. I don't feel cold in bed - still using the same covers as I have been using all year and not yet got into the warm nightwear. Might start wearing socks tonight. My feet are the first to feel the cold.

Goodmorning from the rainy north. Still it will refill the water butts on the allotment,so that is good.

OH has grown everything from seed this year, but the tomato plants are not germinating well,so he might buy some. I am not bothered that they will be late, in fact last year we didn't get many red tomatoes, mainly green ones, but that was excellent for my chutney making.

We have never been very successful with cauliflowers, they grow alright, but instead of being nice closed heads, they seem to bolt straight away. I did try making piccalilli with them, but it wasn't very nice

Today I am going to clean the house, well once I psyche myself up to do it :-(

Just reporting in - late again. Nice day coming up, although only 6c overnight. Sun is shining and it looks nice outside, but I won't be testing it for a while. Should get to 21 later, around lunch time, then it starts getting cooler again at around 3pm.
Still no rain, of course, but I soaked all of my pots yesterday, so I don't have to worry about watering them to-day. I don't have many of them left, after the hot weather in Summer and into Autumn. I'll have to look around for some new ones.

Goodnight to you both <3 <3

Stealth Cauliflowers Sue ....lol

Tec , there is a lady on the allotment next to us that has bees , she did a course on Bee keeping and spent a small fortune I shouldn't wonder , on the outfit , equipment and the swarm . She hasn't , to be honest , been that successful . The swarm swarmed last spring and she then got a third hive !! The bees from the first two hives fly low and bother us quite a lot , especially if we are working on the end of the plot :-|
She did eventually remove hive number three , then , during the winter one of the two hives perished :-(
So she was down to one but we did notice that a new " second " hive appeared a few days ago , so she hasn't given up with the idea .
There are other bee keepers on some of the other plots , so we benefit , with polination etc with out the bother cost or worry :-D

I'm off to bed now , so good night and sweet dreams .
Have a good day Sue .

~~~~ to anyone else that looks in later :-)

I'm off to bed now,

Enjoy your day of peace Sue - take care,

Sleep well Amanda - keep warm

Goodnight,
Tec :-)

Amanda perhaps you could sell cauliflowers out the front as well.
Have you ever thought of keeping bees on the allotment?