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Good morning everyone. Guess who overslept this morning - and even Cricket didn't give me a rude awakening. Maybe he has got bored with that game. Then I discovered that my milkman had left the wrong milk for me. My personal order was fine but the extra milk I order for tea/coffee mornings was wrong so I will have to call in at the petrol station early tomorrow. I did try ringing the dairy, but the recorded message advised that they are closed on a Saturday. @lizzie27 I had a blue ruched swimsuit too and a head busting rubber cap with a waterlily on top. I thought I was the bees knees but reckon I probably looked a right twonk! Weren't those ruched cozzies awful too when the shirring elastic perished? Happy days! Top of to do list today - adjust all the clocks/timers requiring manual tweaking prior to tomorrow.
I hope that all went well yesterday for @Penny_Forthem and family members.

 

Good morning. It's cold and grey and looks drismal but is dry a,d I'd have stayed in bed reading but OH has a haircut booked and the post is delivering a parcel between 9 and 10am - so late already - and Possum has gone to Les Herbiers to get her nails done so I've had to get washed and dressed. No idea why she can't find a nail salon in La Roche (25kms) or les Sables (45) instead of going 75 to Les Herbiers.

OH is coming home via France Rurale and bags of compost as my citruses need refreshing when they go into the polytunnel for winter. Lots of fruit and flowers on 2 of them so worth getting them into shelter before the colder nights and stronger winds hit us. Not looking forward to shorter afternoons as that's usually when I get going in the garden.

No idea what season I am for colours but I don't do well with colours like lemon, lime, bright orange. I wear clothes I like into the ground, sometimes literally as they end up worn for gardening or decorating.

Hope you have a restful weekend @AuntyRach. Not good to head into winter feeling exhausted already.

I like Gertrude Jekyll too @lizzie27 but she has vicious thorns and always needs gloves to handle her.

I had a knitted cozzie too when I was about 5 or 6 @Ladybird4 . Hideous and uncomfortable even when not wet and full of sand and stretched down to my knees. A ruched nylon job followed, yellow I think as mum made all my summer clothes that year in yellow and turquoise. Not a good combo on me even then.

The sky is lightening up. might get some gardening in this pm but, for now, I'm off to sew. Have a good time today, whatever you're doing.

 

Morning everybody,

Well, the sun was shining when we woke up but by the time we'd had breakfast in bed, got up, showered and dressed, it had of course disappeared. Blast, I do like some sunshine when I'm gardening as I'm rather a fair weather only gardener. However I want to start chopping the wisteria down so I can make a start on digging in plenty of manure and leaf mulch ready for the roses.

I remember those rubber hats @Ladybird4, I had one which was covered in all rubber petals. Everybody wore them to keep their hair dry and if I remember rightly, you weren't allowed in swimming pools without them.

OH got home last night later than expected. He'd been to a beer festival with friends and I was getting worried that he'd gone to sleep on the train home and could be on his way to Penzance!
He enjoyed his pasty when he eventually got home.

That does sound a bit odd for Possum to go that far for just a manicure @Obelix-Vendée , perhaps she just prefers Les Herbiers. Enjoy your sewing.

Thinking of @Penny_Forthem, hope it all went well.

The sun's just reappeared so I'd better get on, have a good day all.

 

Good morning all.

I was another child with a ruched nylon cozzie.

I hope @Penny_Forthem is OK today after such a sad event.

We are back from the farmers' market in the village hall. I bought a partridge, a fruit cake, some cheese straws for OH and we had breakfast there of coffee and bacon rolls. We met our friends from down the street on our way out. They were late this morning but we have arranged to have lunch together in the village pub on Thursday.

 

She's never been @lizzie27 either to Les Herbiers or a nail salon. Given that I've often got my hands deep in soil or compost or pulling weeds and pruning prickly customers I can't help her with nail bars.

We had to have hats for swimming at school and I had hair below my waist for many of those years so not easy to find a cap that could cope but I do remember those horrid decorated hats from the late 50s and early 60s.

 

Afternoon all.

Yes, me too in the ruched nylon cozzie brigade, and uncomfortable rubber hat with it. (Big head, plus lots of hair.) I never had to suffer a knitted swimming costume though, fortunately. Anyone else remember liberty bodices, for extra winter warmth? I'm not sure what "liberty" referred to.

It's a lovely afternoon, though still quite cold. Might go out for a while to tidy up the veg beds...

 

Good afternoon. Well I got a nice surprise earlier. I had emailed my milkman about my odd order and lo and behold he made an extra trip and brought the right milk for me. I found the bottle on the doorstep after hearing a little tap on the door. I emailed again to say how much that was appreciated. I was actually changing my bedding as I had had an email from my energy company to say I had 3 hours free energy today - between 12:00 and 15:00 so rather than wait until Monday I went for a wash load to make the most of that free energy. It has turned out quite pleasant here so I think it will be drying nicely. All my pelargoniums have been consigned to the GH now and I planted the last allium bulbs into the large pot that 4 of those pelargoniums had been in. I also planted a white primula vialli into the centre of the pot. I got some more Californian Poppy seeds sown but I intend keeping some in a cool place until next year.
@Liriodendron, I wore liberty (I don't know why either!) bodices and remember the rubber buttons down the front that used to break in half after several washes. As I recall, they were purely decorative as I seem to think the liberty bodice was just pulled on over my head. I may have got that wrong though. They were certainly nice and snuggly.

 

Oooh Liberty bodices @Ladybird4 , I remember those too.

 

Never had one, just vests.

Not doing bulbs in pots this year @Ladybird4 and am hoping to get most of mine planted out in th enew beds this coming week or two as we're set to stay in the mid teens except for tonight. I've been collecting seeds form my California poppies but will sow them in cells next spring. It's worked for me before and most survive pricking out if I sow them thinly enough.

@Liriodendron your name sake is turning a fabulous shade of amber and looks glorious with the low sun shining thru it. Needless to say by the time I found my camera it was too late.

Dinner is now in the oven - Sunday roast today as OH has a golfing dinner tomorrow - so i'm off to finish my new blouse. It would have gone a lot quicker if I hadn't sown the fronts to the back the wrong way round. Darts outside is not a good look unless you're wearing designer clothes sown by expert seamstresses and tailors.

 

Another one for wearing Liberty bodices. They might have been an American import perhaps. Made from several layers of flannelette, I remember the rubber buttons as well but don't know why, might have been a shortage of small pearl buttons maybe.

Oh dear @Obelix-Vendée, the kind of thing I used to do. Was forever getting the sleeves the wrong way round or the fabric inside out on the wrong bit. Hope all is resolved now and that you like the new blouse. I liked the sound of your sage green wool challis, am I right in thinking it's a very fine wool which drapes beautifully?

Felt rather sad today as I started chopping down my beautiful wisteria. The outside wall/fence looks very bare without it. However whilst I was doing that, a neighbour and fellow garden club member (a judge for dahlias at the RHS) walked by and then commented ' had it ever flowered?'
I was speechless! This year was the best ever with over 24ft of it a curtain of bloom for over a fortnight. I only trained it along that wall to provide the neighbours/passerbys something nice to look at instead of a boring wooden fence.

You have a very kind milkman @Ladybird4.

I'm getting a trifle concerned as I think @Goldenlily26 hasn't posted for a while, is anybody in touch with her? Do hope she is ok and not in hospital.

 

All sorted now @lizzie27 but I've stopped again to sort out the gravy and get the Yorkshire pud in the oven. Yes, the challis is lovely and drapes well.

I can't imagine missing a 24' curtain of wisteria. Shame you've had to cut it down. I just keep our old ones in check and, now that we've had rain, should be able to get the metposts in to support the new one I bought for the veggie plot boundary. One of the originals has sent out suckers that have popped up in a bed we made round a sick magnolia to try and revive it. It died anyway but clearly the wisteria roots are very clever at finding new homes to grow and we have 6 short plants all flowering already.

I think @Goldenlily26 was expecting visitors so will be busy and then exhausted but I do hope all is well.

 

I agree @Obelix-Vendée. @Goldenlily26 was getting ready for visitors and like you I hope that all is well there. I feel guilty because I haven't had time to do any craftwork today but I'm all organised for tea/coffee morning tomorrow and thanks to my lovely milkman I don't have to stop off at the petrol station. Signing out for this evening. Hope you all have nice nights with restful sleeps later.

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Just popping in and catching up after 2 very hectic and rather trying days.
The funeral was so busy, we could not get a parking space anywhere, without walking miles. Glad for them, but we decided that, as we did not know the young man (only his parents) that those friends and family take whatever spaces they could. It was standing room only at the back, apparently.
Then today, we had Cambridgeshire friends call for lunch. They'd been to see John Bishop at the arena in L'pool.
I had a snooze after they left.
Thank goodness I avoided the knitted cossies, but I did have a fetching turquoise ruched one.
I have an album dated 1932, when my Dad would have been 17. Here's his swimming outfit.

 

I was going to look out the photo of my Dad in his knitted cossie but you beat me to it @Penny_Forthem. It's the same type of cossie.

I find it so annoying when there's not enough parking space for funerals. Mourners are stressed enough without going round and round looking for a space, especially when time is short. It was one of the reasons why I chose a different crematorium for my Mum's funeral rather than the one nearest to us.

Do you think wisteria roots themselves will send out new shoots if we don't dig the stump out Obelisk, I don't think we have the energy to dig this one out, especially as it's a wall one side and a paved path the other. I was contemplating cutting the stump down as much as possible, soaking it in SBK and leaving it to die off and planting the roses to each side of it.

 

Our wisteria has refused to die @lizzie27 . Plenty of new shoots.