Daydream thread continues.....

ukmaggie45

Meant to be off to London today but was too knackered after trying to pot on a million seedlings yesterday. Though I think the real reason I feel so carp is have a lot of midge (?) bites that are getting bigger and bigger by the minute. Had some very bad ones last summer, so hope these don't go the same way. Am tucked up in bed now, hope have energy to pack and do the last bits of potting on in the morning! Not sure how I'll cope at Chelsea, we're hoping to get there early before it fills up too much. Should be interesting anyway! :rotfl:

Alfie, how amazing are those photos of Ruby!

rozeepozee

Itismehonest wrote: »

I think you'll find that things just alter It's a bit like parenting - the problems don't stop they just change.

Well, the May is finally trying to bloom; the ash is at the tiny lime green buds stage; the sycamores are out as are the oaks (oak before ash in for a splash); the lambs are finally out playing together; the swallows, who must have been roosted up in the outbuildings feeling miserable as sin & wishing they'd stayed in S Africa, are bombing around - many less than last year, though, we're normally inundated; the rabbits seem to have spent all the lousy weather multiplying at an even faster rate than normal - like ruddy Watership Down ......... & the Pineapple Mint is alive & about 4" tall :rotfl:
It's a good job you didn't wait for mine, CTC(?)

It will soon be time for red deer to calve. We usually have at least one calf born in our top field. Mum tucks it away among the longer grass or gorse & disappears all day coming back to it at dusk

Sounds idyllic.

rainbowcattail

Wow the horsevwhisperer sounds amazing. Ruby is so beautiful as well.

Maggie hope you enjoy Chelsea tomorrow, the weather will be lovely for it.

I have a stinking cold & think I might have killed my pumpkin, squash & courgette seedlings by overwatering . Well it's all a learning curve!

Speaking of the torch it comes near my work on July 26, held by a person I assume not a coach!

alfie_1

rainbowcattail wrote: »

Wow the horsevwhisperer sounds amazing. Ruby is so beautiful as well.

Maggie hope you enjoy Chelsea tomorrow, the weather will be lovely for it.

I have a stinking cold & think I might have killed my pumpkin, squash & courgette seedlings by overwatering . Well it's all a learning curve!

Speaking of the torch it comes near my work on July 26, held by a person I assume not a coach!

i know i shouldnt :rotfl: but when you put your "stinking cold" on par with "killing" your plants.....i sooooo empathise with you !! [please note QI, one does know BIG words....sometimes i can even spell em :rotfl: ]

maggie ...you will have fab time at chelsea once you are there, all those beautiful flowers will lift your spirits:)

alfie_1

sorry itsme , im in "norty" mode....

rhiwfield

alfie_1 wrote: »

sorry itsme , im in "norty" mode....

You're in norty mode? I'm just thinking what to put in the lucky bag :eek:

But it wont be tomorrow as we're off buying.

Front garden has come on a treat, all shades of purple and red leaves, with the beech hedge thickening up at last. Will move the chooks again at the weekend to clear another raised bed

Maggie, I'm finding I react more to insect bites, even midges are a b****y nuisance! Need to get myself the usual summer prescription just in case a horsefly gets thru the defences!

rozeepozee

Have you an aloe vera plant, maggie? If so, cut a little of the leaf off, strip it and rub the liquid on your bites. Instant relief!

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

sorry itsme , im in "norty" mode....

What's to apologise for? I (note I'm talking about myself so ..... I ) do have a sense of humour, you know?

Oh, horseflies are the pits, rhiw. Almost as bad as darned ticks
I've known people get ticks in some verrrrry delicate places ........ but then I did keep telling them that walking in bracken with shorts on was not a good move :rotfl:

alfie_1

do you know that ,without sounding smug, that for some reason every time i see my RUBY ...I SMILE. i see before me a beautifull horse. i dont know what it is because iv had various horse over the years. iv loved them all. but ruby has got my heart. the only other animal to do this was my fox. maybe if i got deep, his spirit/heart is now looking after ruby. and she was meant to be mine and i was meant to be hers.


ok ok .....im smug!!

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

Sounds idyllic.

In many ways it is.
We have videos taken from the house of the deer in the fields, fox cubs pinching the cat food from the back porch (I never did get my flip-flops back that the little blighters ran off with :mad:), swallows building their nest & raising their young in the same porch & rabbits playing on the steps outside.

Where there aren't many people the animals tend to just get on with whatever they're doing as long as they think you aren't going to bother them. They watch you watching them. Sometimes I think I should dress up as Snow White & break out into With A Smile & A Song. Only here it wasn't chipmunks, it was the goat kids that used to come up & sit on my lap every time I sat down