Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Greying_Pilgrim

Well Pippi at least I ought to mention something MSE in a post!

We've just stuffed ourselves with green 'frog in a bog' (veggie sausages - whoopsied), with homegrown cabbage, homegrown sweetcorn and new potatoes bought at a farmers market last week (but they accompanied us home, so no extra food miles really). and a glug of gravy (mostly for DP, but I had a bit). Following up is a raspberry (last of the 'fresh' homegrown) and donated bramley apple (1 down, 15 to find a use for!) crumble with (packet) custard. i've just poured, it'll be getting cold and also Monty (Halls) and the 'Big Yin' (Billy Conolly) are beckoning me to take up residence on the sofa in front of the telly.

Hope your cold is getting better. Yay! to homegrown and local produce!

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Yum yum yum yum

yummy green frog in bog

Ace MSE tea

starnac

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: loving the idea of the potatoes "accompanying" you home "Shall I walk you home madam??" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

starnac

Pippi I wonder what you can do with recycled commoners??

Keiss_21

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

congratulations Pippi on gettting the thesis approved yay!
Hope the cold starts to clear soon.

Keiss heating on in October???? I'll try to push ours as far into November as possible but then i'm mean lol

Well, we do try and stave it off for as long as possible. We might get the fire lit in October once I have cleared out all the odds and sods from the log basket and taken the orchids off the top of the wood-burner. They have had a holiday there while we decorated the conservatory.

A lot of the logs and wood we will be burning this year will be from trees/bushes we felled in our own garden: a couple of lilacs and a damson...we still have a bit of old apple tree left over from last year too We are due to help cut down next door's eucalyptus tree...it's massive, so we will get some of it to burn too...that will smell nice .

We don't have the most insulated of houses...most is over 300 years old with no wall cavities and single glazing. So I have loads of curtains to keep out the draughts and lots of rugs to snuggle up to ! Also the stairs go up out of the sitting room, so the warmest place in the house tends to be near the top of the stairs (despite the curtains!)...that's where our cat used to sleep! I think I might make a few quilted wall-hangings and have them on the walls as another layer of insulation, like they did with tapestries, decorative, yet functional!!!

Right, going to check on a few things before settling down with the knitting and watch Billy Connolly at 9...then off to bed as I have to take DS2 to college tomorrow as DH is off camping! Might pick up some freegled cooking apples on my way home and drop off a bag of DS2's clothes into a CS...and I won't spend anything as I won't take my purse. Plan on making tomorrow an NSD!!! :j

So I hope all those of you feeling under the weather are feeling better soon and than you have a nice cozy evening ...whether the heating is on or not!

MrsMoo2U

Hey Pippi, just read the womble blog, really, really thought provoking. Who knew you could use bog rolls for so many things? Mine are recycled by Coco my parrrot who loves to play with them and throw them around the house then tear them to shreds. Then they go onto the compost heap.

vl2588

Thanks Pippi! Unfortunately balancing ponds aren't very glamorous, they're just storage devices really (to prevent flooding during rainstorms)! Found some Potamogeton today though which was nice

Ooh my coriander never got big enough to harvest but it did grow some very beautiful flowers, which I have a photo of somewhere! I am hoping that my new place will have a sunnier windowsill!

troglodyte

Morning all!

Only just got light here, sky still has pink-tinted streaks of cloud, very pretty

And it's Friday - Yay!

Pippilongstocking

Morning Trog - bit grey and yuksome here - yawn bit bored with this weather, I like the sound of yours - the nights are definitely darker and its later in the am when its light again isn't, very autumnal - I may need to seek out a wood (there is one or two here) and swish about in leaves

Lots of lovely chat on here

Today today - Friday, which is great -

got an hours paid work to do and eggs to drop off
PAPERWORK to do - bleurgh, if I do it early I might have a treat (ie pick blackberres, I hope it doesn't turn into a game of find the blackberry.......)
House is seriously getting me down so I do need a tidy and maybe a switch around
Need work on my own website if Mr F aint using our meagre internet.

Banks to check, children to shimmy...................................morning all

Karmacat

Morning!

Fancy you walking in a wood! Hope you get to do it, I like the sound of that.