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Pippilongstocking

troglodyte wrote: »

Pippi how do you 'accidentally' take up a carpet :rotfl:

By the way I meant to ask for some botanical advice - have you ever successfully propagated a bay tree from a cutting? I've tried a few times but never managed it.

It just accientally came away in my hand, with the screwdriver and the hammer all 8 bits of it

Brilliant recipe thanks. Bay from cuttings, I've done it I think but think they are boogers and callous rather than root quickly - will look in secret plant recipe book, which might be at work but I will look cos need double check rosemary.

Speaking of which LT that sounded yummy! Hope tests today ok xx

Lemon_Tree

Pippi do you ever stop and just breathe???? carpet lifting, racing around here there and everywhere. I feel tired just reading it let alone pegging out my washing and watering a few plantlets.

Pippilongstocking

LT I have two speeds, stop and go, I'm not great at much else OH always telling me off for it. When i stop i tend to fall asleep Although dd and I did sit in garden - well lollipted for 10 mins eating ice lollies and blethering, but after ten mins we both got fidgety and did other stuff - I need learn go slower. But lifes so short

Glad your basil perking up. hope oh survives his cut!

Lemon_Tree

i'll be kind to OH during his cut so i'm sure he'll be fine lol
test went ok thanks, just got to wait for the results now.

I think i also have two speeds, stop and snails pace

lucielle

My paces are stopping and stopped!!!!
L

Karmacat

Ditto here - maybe thats one of the reasons we're on here!

Morning Pippi!

Pippilongstocking

Morning KC

Tea in hand - sun out - couldn't sleep very well - did a blog at a silly o clock time - too long and wordy but maybe thats where I am right now.

Thinking about the day ahead

I've gamerboy to pick at at 12.30 (we've swapped for hoovering - I drive if he hoovers)
A bit of conservation work to do at 2pm at a local garden (happy valley) aptly the afternoon is named salmonberry slaughter - its a plant which is invasive and can out compete most things - a bit of a brute - even here.
Need find varnish for the stairs#
Dr who tonight - and inbetween that lot - not sure - potting shed is unbeleiveable - imagine that wardrobe in the house anyones got full to bursting - I opened the door of the potting shed and couldn't get in there and thought 'oh' - walked away thinking 'oh dear'!
Think about the now naked upstairs floor - half are floor boards - a bit uneven and a bit manky - the other bit is chip board - maybe we need a carpet on there rather than painted? I'm contemplating this before I take up the jaggy edgy floor things from the upstairs hall. I can't bear the navy blue axminster carpet - maybe we'll replace it with something light and airy and plain. I realise I'm typing this with almost no money in the bank - hmm - the local carpet place does do off cuts. Until money arrives we can live with the hall the way it is with a few cotton rugs.

Tea tea tea

What you upto today chaps?

lucielle

Trying to avoid the housework but will probably fail and do it.
L

Pippilongstocking

lucielle wrote: »

Trying to avoid the housework but will probably fail and do it.
L

Well in my defecne about the stair and hall carpet - they needed either cleaning or taking up.

I opted for taking up - but a hoover I fear might have been an easier option!

Have fun - plants go to you on Monday if that suits - this time of year didn't want to chance them going in post on fri and possibly getting stuck somewhere over weekend.

thrifty_fifty

Hi Pippi

Just subscribed to your blog. Wow! What an amazing place you live in, I was just imagining I was there through your lovely photos. Congratulations on submitting the thesis x

Have a lovely weekend.