Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, well done PIppi! :j :j Love imagining you pottering about in the kitchen propogating :j :j :j

I've got a nice new curtain round the attic window :j :j There wasn't one there before at all. I've put a net up too, not sure whether it'll stay. I love to see out - but most of the view from that window is of the grey and mucky wall of the house next door :rotfl: :rotfl: So I thought a nice white blind, maybe with some flowers on, but then when I came to cut the piece of muslin stuff up, there was enough to drape all the way round the window frame, so i did :T Put up a net in the window instead, but it might be a little frilly, so it might come back down again :rotfl:

Also stuck up a peacock feather that we found last year, and made some flowers from fabric and pipe cleaners, so it's looking nicely festive now :T :T

I love pottering about when other people are pottering about too :j :j

vl2588

Sounds good! I have never prettied up a house before as resent doing it to rented property but I suppose that's silly as it's good to be surrounded by pretties!

Pippilongstocking

Grand cheery we live in rented but slowly I'm trying to make it more cheery - will take a bit though!

I've never owned a house.......

vl2588

Ooh there is hope for me then. I have always seen a mortgage as my biggest and most difficult to achieve 'need'!

Cheery_Daff

I've never owned a house either, and never intended to! Just sounds like a whole load of responsibility to me

However, then I met Mr Daffs, who had bought a house 20 years previously, so I've kind of fallen into home 'ownership' (although I don't technically own it at all) - and, as I suspected, it's a whole load of responsibility and hassle

(however, you can't knock walls and floors out of rented houses, so there are advantages! )

Karmacat

Love the sound of all the propagating and the artistic peacock feather very cheery indeed. As for owning a house ... I was a good little girl financially, in my 20s, got a mortgage at 25 - and because of the downsize I did last year, I own this one outright its a well-built 1930s council house with a brick porch built on .... small, but tis mine own when I've lived in rented I'm even worse at keeping a place in shape :eek:

I'll soon be at the stage where I can plant things on the windowsill, honest!

Keiss_21

In from the garden at last....ignoring the rugby, too painful! If Scotland score, DS's shouts will get me into the sitting room to see the replay

So, got three 4'x8' beds weeded today, and barrowloads of HM compost spread onto two of them. DH then covered them in black plastic and stapled the the wooden sides. It helps to warm up the beds, as well as keeping the weeds down. We will be able to plant the beds up earlier than normal We got the roll of plastic when I led my school gardening club (and their parents!) in creating a school jubilee garden (so 2002 that must have been). I had a few visits to a local wholesale supplier, and got a few things for my and others' gardens as well for the school garden project.

Also got the fruit cage weeded (well, DH did), added some sulphate of potash around the fruit bushes, then more HM compost. I also did a bit of pruning, very thrapeutic!

DS helped me clear out my "potting shed". It had had stuff just chucked in so you couldn't get in or reach anything!! Lots of rodents have been having a fine time of it...they had got into a box with seeds that I had planned to do successional sowing with last year....all that was left were parts of the packets and the labels!!! :eek::mad::eek:. And you should have seen what they did to a roll of fleece, more like a fluffy broom at one end!

So Pippi, I may be needing more seeds than I thought!

Oh dear, sighs and "bad language" coming from afar...think I will stay here for a bit longer...though tea is nearly ready, and folk want to finish watching the match.

Well done on your propagating Pippi, I should really pot up some baby spideys too...also have a few aloe veras needing to be split...they really like my conservatory!! The mummy plant (over 2' across) had three flower spikes last year, lovely, but dropped it's nectar everywhere!!

Hope the weather improves for everyone tomorrow, though we are due heavy rain....I might get some seeds sorted indoors instead!

Lemon_Tree

i've been baking - the giant cupcake, photo's to follow i'm sure when my camera is charged.
only problem is that the butter icing has gone a bit funny, it's way too runny and i've used the right measurements, oh well it's just going to have to avalanche it's way off the top of the cake and be a feature.

Pippilongstocking

Poor you keiss and lt hope the icing ok and stays on!!

Mr stripes en route

EssexHebridean

Hurrah for Mr Stripes!