"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Yep, I managed to actually get up, and even removed the rollers MrsMoo! £30 on the tickets? Are there no advance tickets round your way? Ouch ... Spends today weren't too bad: £3.40 on a bus ticket, £9 entry (a little bit ouch), £1 on a thingy to weed with, £4 on a new fleece. Took my own food and water, and I snaffled 3 more broken roof tiles on the way home

As with all the people I was reading about on Pippi's thread, its been *hot* here, had to water the plants again. However, I've discovered a downside to the hotness .... those *humongous* big fat spiders, the ones that Flying Friesian calls Spidermouses, have been wandering about inside - I've nabbed *two* of them this afternoon. I'm not happy about that bl**dy things even tho I get the adrenalin jolt from them, I'm *bored* with them now - b*ggr off and play somewhere else!

Anyway, the show was great, tho a lot smaller than the Summer Show. Doggies on assault courses, terrier racing for passers by (one of them ran straight to his owner instead of chasing the thingie ) I met two Alaskan Malamute puppies and found a firm selling Kentish cobnuts - they were nearly my new best friends, until the guy showed me a nutcracker made from virgin teak and asked for my opinion - I made a song and dance about provenance, and bringing the forestry certificates with them to places like this, and when I'd beaten down every argument he'd tried to make, he confessed that they'd been selling them for 6 weeks and all their market research said exactly what I'd been saying :D:D

I also learned that I should have harvested my little cobnut tree about a month ago, oops - and yes, every single cobnut has gone - never saw any squirrels round my garden tho :question: I'm a bit puzzled about that.

Karmacat

Mmmm..... not sure what to do today (and I just lost a post, grr) sadly, I *do* need to clean the kitchen a bit, or at least the hob. Have to pop into "town" later to buy some insect killer but what I really want to do is work on the garden.

I know ... dig up some turf to expand the south facing border as planned, then put some of the stones from the kitchen patio border into it, as I need a well drained area for sedum and garlic. Two birds with one stone and all that :j

Pippilongstocking

Well done on asking all the right questions KC

sounds like you had a fun day - wonder where the cob nuts went - strange - Wiks tree has a squirrel who buries them all over the lawn - then the seedlings pop up everywhere! I've got one in my bathroom, not that the squirrel got that far, but I did get a seedling from her.

Terriers are a bit crazy - sounds like a lovely show.

The big spiders you talked about sound like they don't like the heat - here we've alot of these 'harvestman' at the moment they aint spiders, just look like them.......:) - sorry if the link isn't nice for you don't look if you dont want to see them - they are like spiders on stilts

Yay to extending borders........

gilligansyle

sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday.

Re: tickets, I have just looked at my booking confirmation for my trip to London tomorrow and the cost of the tickets is a BIG 3 figure sum! You can generally only get decent offers if you really plan in advance, like when you book your weekends away etc.

Shows how little I know about gardens and gardening, was pottering yesterday (such a lovely activity!) and realised there were a lot of 'wasps' around, so looked for a nest; then realised they were all sitting on the buddleia, so maybe they were bees?

Karmacat

Thanks Pippi!

How excellent to get a tree seedling from Wik ... I do admire you working on the perennial plants where you live, even knowing that you'll be leaving in comparatively few years. Mind you, this isn't the forever home I thought it might be.... tho I'll probably own it for a good long stretch, renting it out.

The show was great, it really was - my mum would love to go to the summer or spring ones - or rather, I think it would be better to go to that one, its bigger, more choice etc - but even now, I've got some great ideas from them.

What you say about the biiiig spiders not liking the heat makes absolute sense, I'm quite impatient for them to booger off tho I did click on the link, with eyes half closed and shut it down again pretty quickly I do recognise those tho

Brekkie now - garden soon, while its still cool at the back!

Karmacat

Hi Gill! Yes, if they were on the buddleia, there's a good chance they're bees I passed within a foot of some flowering ivy yesterday, and the whole thing was *alive* with bees, they were really making a racket!

Pippilongstocking

My life in a pot. When we move, it will be more plants than furniture. Otherwise I'd go insane here.

Love flowering ivy enjoy the garden, suns gone here but I'm off out for a plooter myself soon, chickens to bed, garden to scratch head at. Walking to be done......

Have a good one.

Karmacat

Ah! That makes sense. Hope you can do it gradually, or get specialist movers, or be *very* firm with the ordinary movers - the ones I had weren't bad, but if I'd realised how many plants I was bringing with me, I'd have worked a bit harder at checking out the attitudes

Just popped on to formally declare that I love my neighbour (apart from him having a cold that is :rotfl::rotfl:) I heard him in his back garden, asked if we could have a chat, to which he agreed, and I asked about cutting back the ivy thats outside my back door, which I loathe passionately, for all sorts of practical reasons. Anyway, he not only agreed he didn't need it, he offered to cut it back with his hedgetrimmer, plus doing the box hedge that side of the garden which is *really* badly overgrown now :j:j:j

I was out there doing the digging for widening the border, which also segued into chopping a bit of grass and a bit of weeding

Since its still only 1.30, I'm going to pamper myself and have a 2nd cup of coffee :j:j:j

Triciaxx

HI, all. It sounds as if you all had a good day. Your 'harvestment', we call 'Daddy Longlegs', Pippi. I gently removed one from the caravan this morning.

It's still very hot here (Shropshire) and we had every window and the roof open last night - in October. :eek:

We walked up Haughmond Hill this afternoon and saw no less than 3 peedie dogs taking a man for a walk - all in different directions! Very funny. :rotfl:

I'm pleased you will get your Tunnel cover before winter - it will make life a lot easier.

Have a good evening, all.

Karmacat

wow, Tricia, what a great place to be! Lovely link, thank you

My day stayed good, 2nd coffee :j, popped into town for a little bit of stuff, did a tiny bit more work on the garden (part of which was to take a small cardboard box from a skip and stick it down in the garden ).

Definitely flagging now, so just a quick roundup ...