Yawn Yawn Wakey Wakey 2025

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Good morning everyone. Its nice outside - if a bit chilly yet. Looking forward to going to my friend's this afternoon. Whatever you have got planned for today I hope that you have a most enjoyable Sunday.

 

Yes @Ergates i remember a day “ in town” was a great treat as a young woman I could shop for ever but now I want to be as quick as possible, although I make an exception for a garden centre. I could happily spend all day in one of those.
I am a very easily distracted person and gardens are so distracting at this time of year everywhere you look there is something to do so I have to force myself to concentrate on one area at a time.
More sunshine ☀️ this morning but I have some of my children for lunch so I won’t get outside to play today.

 

Good morning everyone!

First and foremost "Welcome"to the new arrival Skylar @Ladybird4 Lovely name!! I seem to have missed posting these last few days - get caught up in wicker whatnot, see the time and start to fly!!

Weatherwise, it is cold (2°C this morning) but there is sun!! The coming week is cold too, with rain - which I think will be drizzle. @Obelix-Vendée is getting some too as will the rest of the French contingent. It is surely March weather. My sister, who lives in Queenstown NZ said it was 3°C the other morning - it is the end of a hot summer!! Days are warm.

I have been pruning, cutting back, weeding and sweeping. I have planted a grapevine and I see that Aldi have some lemon trees in - I hope I'm not too late to get one. I put in my Dahlia tubers hopefully, too !! The pepper seeds that I sowed 12 days ago have surfaced - well, a few but the tomato seeds seem to be taking their time. In fact, I have found 3 tomato plants (tiny) in the garden - so much for nurturing seeds!!

I have also taken back up my knitting after having had to undo a number of rows, twice!! Grrr. I hope to finish the pattern come fair isle front panels today and hopefully after that it will be plain sailing. Ha! I have chosen a pattern that is knitted in one piece, so I have to decrease for armholes. Oh, the joy!!!

Well done on your paint job @Busy-Lizzie The doors look much brighter. I imagine it has opened the kitchen up. Why do you call the garden; a jewel garden, please?

The camellia photos are lovely @Fourmerkland Plants such as camellias, hydrangeas, rhododendrons are difficult to grow here. The soil and the heat are too much. Even in shady areas of the garden.

I wish you all a happy Sunday. Quiet here to concentrate on the knitting. Maybe some light opera - I have a nice Kiri Te Kanawa CD to listen to.

 

Good morning all.

Cold here, phone says -2C, at least there's no snow. Daughter near Poitiers has snow ❄️. I wonder if @Obelix-Vendée has snow. I won't be gardening today.

@Tui34 I call it the Jewel bed because I wanted to fill it with bright colours, like gemstones. Monty Don on GW has a Jewel Garden, I probably copied the name from him. All my beds have names.

 

Good morning. It is very cold here and set to get wet soon but not snow. I did notice on Friday that it is considerably colder just 100kms NNW when we were in that garden. Still need to sort and re-size those photos.

I have always wanted a white garden but find I get se²duced by colour instead. As for getting distracted, I solve that by folowing the lunar calendar. EG, if it's a roots day I'll sow, plant, weed or harvest root veggies such as onions, shallots, potatoes, fartichokes. That way I get the job done without being distracted by a flower bed or pruning roses or anything else. Works for me most of the time.

No knitting for me @Tui34 but I have decided to have a go at crochet as the patch club is having a crochet day at the end of the month. Beginners will learn grannysquares which can be joined to make a cushion cover or bag and the rest can do a more advanced stitch. I have always loathed the garish colours in granny squares so have bought some blues and cream.

Meanwhile, I've dug put half finished patchworks from when I've been teaching machine patch techniques so now I have 2 new cushion covers and am about to do a wall hanging from 4 blocks of batik.

Have a lovely day everyone, whatever you're doing.

 

I love the idea of the granny squares in blue and cream, @Obelix-Vendée, you’ve nearly tempted me to look for my crochet hooks! I too tend to associate them with garish mixes of leftover wools, and hadn’t occurred to me what they would look like in a tasteful colour scheme.
Never really developed a taste for opera, @Tui34, but when we were first married, we were listening to the news on the radio, and there was a section on a famous American singer appearing in Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I’d always loved the music from Carmen, and mentioned that to my OH. Bless him, he went out ( to the local travel agent, in those days, none of this internet thingy back then!) and got us tickets. It was a magical evening. I can’t remember the name of the famous lead singer, but the male lead was some chap called Placido Domingo, and also included a newcomer with a wonderful voice, Kiri Te Kanawa!
A glorious sunny morning here, but very cold. Out for breakfast and a walk, well wrapped out, then maybe some gardening this afternoon. I think OH may need to have a nap later. He woke in the early hours just in time for the F1, and ended up watching the whole race.

 

I visited Saville Garden this week and saw these daffodils by the hundreds. The effect was stunning. Apparently it is called Narcissus Cyclamineus. Needless to say I bought a few of these on my way out!

 

Afternoon (already) folks.

Having a quiet morning and hoping washing will dry on the line (bit chilly but some sun). Off to MIL’s later to do her pedicure, the dog’s eye care and a few jobs. Always rewarded with tea and cake.

Daffodils really making a cheerful appearance now. More luck than judgement, but my garden ones are staggered from early Feb until late March with the potted ones first and those in the ground a bit later.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone.

 

Brother in law visited yesterday. And of course he does something stupid. Normally I just ignore it. But this time he rolls his car onto my lawn and rolls over my early white and cream crocuses. SMH. I yell at him. There is so much about him I could say. Don't know how he was raised.
Anyway, rained last night. Working on house stuff and taxes. take care all.

 

I don't know where this morning's gone - a flurry of washing, dog wrangling, and Yorkshire pudding batter making!
@redstar, I'd do more than yell at him. Family, eh!
Right, I have made time for an hour in the greenhouse, though it's not very warm in there - 14 degrees.

 

Good afternoon all,

Well, I potted up the patio roses this afternoon after lunch, so that’s a job done. I’d intended doing them yesterday, but it didn’t happen. Of course, the only time the weather decided to give us a short, sharp shower was whilst I was doing the roses. The sun is out again now. Oh well, such is life.

I’d have been very cross too, @redstar. My SiL is often incapable of parking her car fully on the hard standing when she calls and nearly always gets the drivers side tyres on the grass. It irritates the life out of me .

Like you @Ergates , I find that I’m not as interested in a day of shopping in the way I used to be and now, more often than not, whizz round, get or do what I need to and come home. At one time I could happily browse round for hours. I don’t think it helps that the town is so run down now and not at all as lovely as it once was. It looks neglected and so many shop spaces are empty and boarded up, so that there’s no encouragement to linger. We used to have a really good, thriving market, too, but that is reduced to about a quarter of what it once was, and has totally lost its atmosphere. So sad.

I hope you have a productive hour in your greenhouse @Penny_Forthem.

 

Good evening all. I had a nice time with my friends and I do have to say that the 'pod' is very nice. It was a bit too cool to get the full benefit but if I had one like that I would never get anything done. I hope to go back on a nice day to fully appreciate it.
@Blue arbour I feel very much about my town as you do yours. Its heart has been ripped out of it to bring it up to the 21st Century - in other words just making yet another clone of vast numbers of town centres now. As this development is proceeding there are predominantly only coffee shops, charity shops, and mobile phone repair shops on what used to be the main street. It just looks like a bomb site.

 

@Eddie105 I am certainly going to be looking for more of these tiny daffs. I have tall troughs outside my back door and this is where I planted that.

 

I have to admit, I didn't do much in the greenhouse. With no sun, it was cool.
I don't like shopping any more, either. In the halcyon days, we'd go to Llandudno or Chester, have coffee, lunch, and a mooch.
However.... drum roll.... we are going to 'The Garden centre of the year 2024', on Wednesday
Plants & Gardening - View Our Range at Fron Goch
Now, that is worth getting out of bed for!

 

Looking good there @Penny_Forthem. Will you be dining there?