Yawn Yawn Wakey Wakey 2025

Just discovered dozens of bamboo canes in my old shed - I had wondered if I had any at all for my tomatoes and nearly bought some the other day. Saved by the shed (which I need to get rid of in order to have more planting space in my garden. I use my garage as a shed nowadays. I am having an early sign out with quizzing tonight so I bid you all good night and I hope that you all have wonderful evenings. See you in the morning.

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I hung the new light green shower curtains on the gazebo on the lower patio today. I bought it to protect the garden furniture from the mulberry tree which drop mulberries onto the patio so it's unusable. There were curtain hooks already on the frame with exactly the right number of hooks. This is the gazebo before curtains.


This afternoon I made an asparagus and smoked salmon quiche; chicken pieces marinated in a Greek lemon and olive oil and herb marinade, then cooked, and made a Charlotte with sponge cake, cooked blueberries and raspberries topped with lemon cream. I will put fresh raspberries and blueberries on top tomorrow and make a tabouleh salad and a green salad with avocados. Friends are coming for lunch, will be seven of us.

 

A very good morning one and all. Had a fun night last night but we lost the quiz by 1 point. They are our favourite opponents because they are so nice and friendly. I got a text from my neighbour which I only got to really take on board this morning with further news about the builders who had the planning permission to build houses at the back of our houses denied the other year but they have made an appeal to have that decision overturned. This is all extremely worrying as the village has already had thousands of new homes erected and the infrastructure is already struggling to cope. There will be a meeting in September for concerns, yet again, to be raised. On a more positive note I am hoping for a good gardening day today.

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@Busy-Lizzie your food sounds absolutely delicious! Have you room for one more? Just to even up the numbers you understand!

 

Good morning all.

That news about more new houses sounds worrying for you @Ladybird4. You would be welcome to come to lunch but you would have to catch a plane very quickly!

It looks like being another lovely sunny day. I hope it isn't too hot to eat outside.

 

Thank you for the lovely thought @Busy-Lizzie Do you have a fan perhaps that you could use? Your patio looks so nice.

 

Can I come too @Busy-Lizzie? Your lunch sound delicious

We are off shortly to see MIL for the day. A mooch around her local GC, lunch out and various jobs around the house and garden are on the schedule.

I finally finished planting out all my Cosmos and Rudbeckia at the weekend. We didn’t get up to much yesterday. Just a canal walk and then pottering around doing bits and bobs. We were debating whether to go away first a few days later this week but have decided to stay at home. We have lots of shady spots in the garden so we can admire the sunshine from comfortable green shade

 

Morning all. Another hot day by the looks of it but with the inevitable gusty winds still floating around.
Our insect net curtain has finally gone up across one of the patio doors to allow the door to stay open in the afternoon when the sun is at front of house. It’s been a god send as it allows the cooler air to come in but keeps flies etc out.
@Busy-Lizzie your patio area looks lovely. Hope you have a lovely time with your friends.
@Ladybird4 , don’t like the sound of those builders on the horizon again. It’s happening all over the place……the building trade have massive targets to hit

 

You have my sympathies. My sister had your problem and ended up with a house being built across the back of her garden only a few feet away from her fence. The building company thought she would be delighted because they put up a new fence, couldn't understand why she was upset at having windows looking straight into her back garden and house.

 

I didn't do much yesterday.
My daughter called in for a cup of tea and to off load about a very unsatisfactory telephone conversation she had with her father on Father's Day. It is sad so many people become nasty as they age. He is lucky to have a son and a daughter who are so forgiving and do not walk away from him. They realize how miserable and lonely he feels but he refuses to do anything about it, apart from be unco-operative with everyone, especially the carers who go in each day.
I pottered, filled a compost sack full of rubbish, ready to go out for black sack day next week.
Potted on some plants and made a prawn curry for dinner. I had to tie back some Lucifer crocosmia to enable my grocery order to be delivered through my front door. They are enormous this year, so tall, just coming into flower. They were leaning so I tied them back to the fuse box to avoid them being broken or attacking the delivery man.
In anticipation of the forthcoming heat wave I have opened up the house this morning but I am surprised at how chilly it feels. The weather forecast is predicting a heat wave again.
The chocolates for my daughter's birthday were delivered, today the plant for my sister is due to be delivered, just the smellies to complete my daughter's birthday present to be delivered then I am done.

 

Hi Lizzie,
I think you are right. There are so many alternatives for medications these days. The one I have been prescribed is 15mg Rivaroxaban, one a day with food. I was completely unaware I had an irregular pulse, usually people suffer with palpitations or a racing heart beat but my pulse was very shallow, weak and stopped and started. I have been checking my pulse since starting the new tablet, it is much more regular now so seems to be working.
It was great to read someone else thinks outside the box and uses items for jobs they were not originally designed for. My greenhouse looks lovely at the moment, I have white terylene curtains up as shading, much nicer than white wash etc. Your shower curtain idea must work a treat.

 

No plums last year due to late frost. Spent yesterday thinning out my plums due to a massive crop. Heartbreaking to see them all lying on the ground. Is it better to clear them up or leave them on the ground (bare earth) amongst my roses?

 

The June drop is thinning out our apples and pears. The dogs eat them like sweets. Surprised they don't have collywobbles.
What a lovely lunch menu @Busy-Lizzie, and the venue looks most inviting, too.
A local developer wanted to put houses on the cricket pitch over the road and build a new pitch elsewhere. It was denied, but you always wonder...
Looks like I'll be watering again later.

 

@Penny_Forthem this week we are going to Carlisle, PA. and that show is called the GM nationals. Next one end of July will be a further drive, all the way to Louisville, KT. it is a big one, as many as 8 Thousand cars show up, we will be in it to get judged. Then August back to Carlisle, PA but this one is for Corvettes only. Then September we go to Onterio, Canada. Somehow I think I am missing a show.
Its sort of fun, but work, husband busy with polishing the car ect. He's been working on the belly of it, as there will be a show that we will have the car up in the air, at this point we just put mirrors under the back end, they guys love seeing the back end of the car, some get on the ground just to look. They are all in wonderment of the size of back tires on it, 18 inches. Our biggest worry is the weather, she cannot go out in the rain, no top, a true roadster. For indoor shows it works, driving the trailer inside the building and unloading then. Anyway, thanks for asking.

 

I would have thought you could just leave the to compost where they are @waterbut