Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Karmacat

Hey Pippi, hope you have a lovely day today on Hoy - I certainly hope you wrap up well, if its like this down here (grey overcast, raining) it must be downright chilly up with you. Don't know quite where all this sunshine is they're promising! As to jim jams ... well, I've bought the odd nightie to wear to a jimjam party I remember one with a three foot lipstick printed on the front, and I never realised quite how phallic that was I was such an innocent!

Keiss_21

Hope you have a great day on Hoy Pippi, glad you are wrapping up warm!!

Sunny here, and quite warm but wet underfoot. We expect more rain later, so busy indoors today for a bit...soup, brownies and bread to make this weekend.

Have a wonderfull weekend everyone...sunny tomorrow!!!:j

greenval

Morning all
Wet and miserable here too.
Pippi/Lucielle, I've made a note of you for the seed when it's ready.
Pippi, I was thinking last night, would it be better in terms of sales/cuttng expenditure if Mr S would lend you the money to get the poly tunnel up and running? Just a thought.
Also i know I sent some of you 'lambs lugs' which were probably pink but I've also got a lot of white ones this year as well so I can try and save seed for those who want it. Please don't worry about thinking that you must swap. I've just walked around the garden and after 27 years here it is packed like the plant equivalent of rush hour on the tube! I'm just happy to find good homes for my baby plants.

Pippilongstocking

Morning all

Mr F and Ma gone to the ferry - everything quiet after a frenzy of frantic packing, brekkie and goodbyes!

Quiet here now - phew - everyone happy!

I think I went to the most amazing beach I've ever seen yesterday and having been to the western isles and many gorgeous beaches thats saying something!

There were stripey stones the size of bean bags down to the size of bowling balls all chucked up the beach and a bothy (old barn) on the beach side with a small walled garden which was the campsite - and a sign in the car park asking campervans not to stay MORE than 7 nights - but no signs of anyone charging or anything like that (although I may be wrong)

And, I saw a highland cow - my absolute favourite bovine - , found a tiny teeny little cafe (cheery would be proud there ARE pictures) and feasted on crab on toast, cheese toasties for the non fish eaters and cullen skink (smoked haddock and potato soup) for me yum yum, what a great day - home for a posh cooked dinner (I set the table pretty and everything) and scoffed beautiful local fish medely (Mr F treated from the fishmonger), HM tuscan tomato and saffron sauce, herby rice and we topped it off with a reduced pineapple (65p) which had been unripe and put in a bag with a banana for a week - which was worth the wait!

Today need make a plan - holiday on Wednesday and exam on Tues and alot to do!


*Morning* off to catch up with you all

GV a great idea there we've talked about it too - OH alot of expenses this next few months but not outwith the realms of possibility. I love the idea of your garden being like rush hour on the tube!

GG - giggling here about rollers and head scarves!

gallygirl

I want to go to Hoy now, and stop off at your place for dinner :rotfl:, sounds fab :T.

Advice please pipster - am planning on lanscaping my front garden into a Mediterranean fantasy . (Ok, that translates as digging up grass to put stones down so DS can park his car :rotfl:). I want a few evergreen shrubs & was thinking lavender & rosemary as I adore both of those - would they be ok in exposed positions though? I have a few at the mo which are great but v sheltered.Any suggestions for a few others? Something that attracted birds & insects preferably. May just go for all lavender as DD has loads in her garden & it's lush . Ta mucheley.

Off to get ready for shopping, clean PJ's & change of rollers needed

Pippilongstocking

GG half way through a blog - will make you very much want go - those shrubs be grand and don't mind being exposed - rosemary comes from coastal cliffs in the med!

I'll think about others - springing to mind in an evergreen grey/green med feel are bay, cistus, sage, artemesia..............?

Excellent that you're donning new pjs and rollers for the off - I'm dressed, very boring for a sunday - but I do have my botanics jumper on and that always makes me happy - will gad out in garden in a mo - too busy oohing and ahhing over yesterdays pictures!!!

Mainly of course the cellist took them, she's a great eye for a picture that teenager!

ETA

YAY blog done and here it be - adventure in hoy with a highland moo cow!

gilligansyle

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Used £6 off £40 shop yesterday to get a bit of the store cupboard topped up ( soap powder, coffee,sugar etc) - btw, mr t value washing powder has changed and smells like a posh brand one ATM - £1.69 for 3kg it's quite cheap and worth a try, IMHO. Maybe not very eco - but very good value!

I mix the cheap stuff with a bit of good stuff to make it smell nicer, or even just a touch of lavender oil in the final rinse. My sister was amazed that a big box of D@z that was on offer for a fiver is still going strong months later.

Hope you're all going to have a good day. X more coffee required and clothes, to cold to go hoy in jimmyI jams today!

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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: erm.......... hope that you are joking

I was in Speke at the TK Maxx there and I even saw women in Mr Ms there in pyjamas. Thought that phase had passed. Although I had heard about the going out in rollers one.

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Off to get ready for shopping, clean PJ's & change of rollers needed

Cheri - Speke Morrison's - basically the normal wear is PJ's and big rollers, full make up and spray tan, generally worn with Ugg boots!:D It's my local Mr M and I must admit I sort of take it for granted, not to mention that strangely I feel scruffy.

Pippi generally they are new looking PJ's, they definitely haven't been slept in, so GG is doing the right thing.:rotfl:

Your trip out on the ferry sounds wonderful.

Triciaxx

Loved the pictures and tale of Hoy! An excellent adventure.

Lemon_Tree

bet you'll enjoy your peace today. much as visitors are lovely it's often nice to get a bit of space back for a little while. Hope tues goes well, have you started your packing list for Wed?

I'm not dressed yet. Mr LT has had to go back to work today, so that's the official end to our holibob feel that we both need another week off, this time to go somewhere nice and do something relaxing, not lay a floor.

Pippilongstocking

Gilligan - thank you what a great idea about the oil too do you add it in the fabric softener bit?!

How lovely folk go out in pjs - I might try that on the mainland next week! I dunno about the full face of makeup and the ugg boots though, how about bedraggled locks and wellies?

Tricaxx thank you! You don't know how scruffy you look until you see your own photos- I might have been better co-ordinated in my jim-jams!!!!

Not a bad day out - ferry not too expensive (Mr F paid), lunch very reasonable (£20 - for four of us) and we had a hoot looking at the nearly 200 pictures we took -

LT - poor you - I wish your car had be sensible and you could have come here - nice they have gone TBH I like visitors but like it when folk go too - is that naughty of me? Never feel you get a mo to clean properly or anything when folk are here! (())