General Chat

It is a lovely day here this morning, and too good to stay abed. I am still working outside, making the most of it whilst the weather is good.
At the end of last year, I bought David Austen Climbing Rose - Alchymist, a lovely old-fashioned type, and yellow in colour. I put this at the back on a new border I had created, against the fence. It is now well established, and managed to get through the awful winter. So, today my prime job is to fix to the fence, sheets of a mesh grid, to enable me to tie the rose in. I have got some wooden batons at the ready to fix to the fence, and then the wIre mesh sheets will be added on.
So, it is out with the power tools for me, this morning. We are forecasted showers from early afternoon, so I can work in the greenhouse painting up old pots, to jazz them up for my sempavervums.
Life is always busy here, and never a dull or empty moment.
Retire. I havn't got time to retire.
Have a good one, whatever you are doing, and take care.
Julia in Derbyshire

baby satan and myself potted on some plants yesterday
and put some seeds in the green houses
we had lots of fun while poor benson was locked in the garage
for safety reasons
we went the garden center and replaced my plants the cold winter had killed
and the butler put his hand in his pocket
and gave me the money for my summer plants
the car was over flowing
and he got the lock stuck so had to tie the hatch down till we got home
then while he was trying to fix it
i found a button on the lock pressed it and it shut straight away
it sometimes takes a woman to do a mans job pmsl

so my garden will soon be on track
just need some clematises and maybe a small apple tree

Joy - I am banned from more clematises or hostas!

i always buy my hostas from the Scorton boot sale
a lady has a stall she only sells hostas of may variety

i only have a few but some of them ive had for years
and only payed a pound each for them

and i just love clematises
i have a arch at the end of my garden next to my summer house
and they are just starting to flower a mass of pink buds
so its going to be a good year i think

Phew, lunch break at last. Must take care of the diabetis, before it gets at me. Job is nearly done, and me pins are killing me.

JoyBoroAngel
Every good mother and wife like yourself deserves a kind and loving butler, that likes to reward with cash or plastic. Give me cash everytime, much better than kind LOL
Chris of Wessex. Almost everytime I go into M******sons, a Clematis, or two, appears in my trolly. Don't know how they do it. Always got a space for another Clematis LOL

On a Sunday afternoon when I am having a drive through D.H. Lawrence country to a nice little garden centre for at least a nice cuppa in the sunshine, I pass the cottage of a lady who sells by the roadside, from her garden, plants for the charity SCOPE. I have notice she sells Hostas, and must make a point of calling in for some.

Julia in Derbyshire

i have just nipped to morrisons for some tea bags
come out with three clematises and three trays of plants

great minds julia lol
the butler has said he may as well get paid through my bank account
just to cut out the middle man pmsl i wish

Julia, Its amazing what you can achieve when you have got good pwer tools.:o)>Just a little tip for your roses. get you banana peel and shred it,then put it on as a mulch. Take Care. **M**.:o)>.

Thanks you Merlin for the tip. I have to eat a banana every day for Potassium deiciency. Now I know what to do with the skins. LOL
Julia in Derbyshire

That came to me from the "Old" David Austin many years ago.**M**.

Hate to tell you Julia that when in hospital I loathed the potassium drink - it tastes foul, I offered to eat bananas - told I would need to eat more than 50 daily!!

Inside of banana skins cleans brown shoes beautifully.

Chris, Hi, do you mean SandoK, that dissolves like Andrews. I don't quite mind it. Better than the Lactoluse I take at night. Too syruppy for my tastes. Yes. I know I can never eat enough of the banana, but at least I try.LOL

Julia in Derbyshire

I don't know what they gave me - did dissolve and was bitter bitter and awful tasting, they used to put a drop of squash in it for me.

You have been busy this morning, I have done my exercises walked upstairs and down and up garden path and round the corner so going well. Had a Slimfast lunch, have to do something, don't eat sweets/chocolate (very rarely), dont' eat between meals but circumstances do not allow the exercise I used to do but piling on weight. Will try for a month!