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Popperwell

Lazy day but lots of tidying to do tomorrow and Tuesday...Landlord visits on Wednesday:(be happier when that's out of the way...

Can you believe I was playing bingo tonight:p:eek:doing a pub quiz and a game of 21...but it got me out of the house...

Have destroyed my chicken pie(looks like a jigsaw)but I've added diced ham and sliced leeks and asparagus...will get a couple of meals out of it and it really is packed with chicken(It only cost me £1)but was worth £3.50. Will have some small rosti's with it.

All being well off on my travels next Saturday to a food festival at Tynemouth, not been there before in my life. Looks worth a look to see the scenery so may have to go back again...

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Another lovely day and a HOLIDAY, yippee. I laid abed until the late hour of 7.30 am and am pootling around, looking forward to a day off a bit of gardening and bit of hanging out at a mate's.

nuttyp, haven't seen a cowslip yet, but the "countryside" I've been in is inside the city, long bits of woodland along cycle paths. Have seen forgetmenots, summat I need to take the book to ID, crab apple tree in blossom, plus white dead nettles and red dead nettles and lots of dandelions shining their happy little faces like suns among the green green grass. Cowslips seem to favour a more clay-ey soil than we have here. Cow parsley is lovely and lacy and is a real sign of early summer for me.

May is one of my favourite months. The hawthorns are well behind their usual time and it wouldn't normally be much past this when I'd see the dog roses in flower. Must make time in a week or so to go to the proper woods and see if the bluebells are out. It's a bit of ancient woodland, untouched since before the Norman Conquest, and is a real (if sadly small) gem.

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Morning Toughies, we've got bluebells out now, both in the woods and in gardens and I've seen one cowslip, in the new wild flower meadow the park rangers put in a couple of seasons ago. We have no elderflowers, though the buds are there but no sign of even buds on the hawthorns all through the village and in the woods. It's odd because even the beech hedges aren't fully in leaf and most of the trees through the village are still only showing leaf buds. Lilacs, which are normally well out by May are still only in bud too, it's going to be an odd year I think. Enjoy the sunshine, who'd have thought it was a Bank Holiday Weekend??? I've just put up the garden umberella too!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

alfsmum

GQ, there's nothing like a beautiful May morning in England is there?

No offence to the rest of the UK and elsewhere......

Rowan9

alfsmum wrote: »

GQ, there's nothing like a beautiful May morning in England is there?

No offence to the rest of the UK and elsewhere......

I've had beautiful May mornings in England and Scotland - not been in Wales or Ireland in May. I did have some glorious May mornings in Austria wakening to cow bells. That was memorable. Must go back there!

This is one of the beautiful days that just make you appreciate great weather wherever you are I think.

Happy Bank Hol folks
W

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We have just sat in the garden and had Homemade Lentil and Tomato Soup with cheesy pitta breads for lunch, followed by home grown poached Rhubarb and Homemade Greek Yoghurt just right for the day!!!!! He Who Knows and his boy have just headed out for thier afternoon walk with a bottle of water in case the boy gets hot,and Joy of Joys our old apple tree has finally put out some tiny bright green leaves, I was beginning to wonder if we'd lost him in the cold, what a beautiful day. Pushkin the kitten has been in DD1s garden for the first time today, she has a little harness and lead for him and the picture she sent has him stalking the guinea pig in it's pen on the lawn, it's a big new world for a small kitten, Cheers Lyn xxx.

nuttyp

afternoon all, superbly sunny in the back garden. We were suppose to be tidying the shed/summerhouse but far too nice to do it. Instead we have taken down the broken vertical blinds, and they have been replaced by nets. We are on a bus route so its nice to have some privacy. We only bought them as they were reduced in price. They look lovely as they are crisp white nets.

OH has fallen asleep, so I will go and change the bed covers.

SDG31000

Afternoon all

I did get my afternoon out yesterday and went to a lovely exhibition of artists that work on paper. Here's the link to it if anyone is interested http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Exhibitions/ViewEvent.html?e=2243&c=5&d=0 The gallery is at The University of Nottingham and there is a boating lake, a park and a children's play area there as well.
We then went to Ikea and spent rather a lot of shelving and storage for the new shed. I did get some meatballs and a big box of frozen crayfish for DS2 to try as well. He, DH and DS1 are having them for dinner with prawns and hot smoked mackerel that I found lurking in the freezer. I'm having chicken as the crayfish look too much like big bugs and I'm not fond of seafood.

I spent yesterday evening and this morning painting various sheds and shelves and basically whatever I was told to in red cedar wood stain. So most of me, the garden and the woodwork is now orange. DS2 got bribed into mowing the lawns so now the neighbours can stop looking agast at the state of them. I so wish we had the money to dig up the lawns and pave the whole lot. We don't use the space, none of us can garden and we all suffer from hayfever. Anyone want a small back garden to play in/with? I'm happy to pay in cake for it being sorted.

Now I'm going to go and scrub myself and try to remove all the orange spots. I look like I'm turning into an oompa-loompa.

Take care xxxx

GreyQueen

Oooff, am a tired little bunny and have several more wings and dings on my hands but a big chunk of the lottie is now ready for planting. I have been delving as deeply as I can with the digging fork and hoicking up great skeins of horsetail roots. They're keeping bad company with spirals of bindweed roots and the dreaded couch grass.

I know their roots go up to six feet deep so I have only managed to get the top 18 inches' worth, so am merely slowing down its growth, not actually winning, but you can only do what you can do.

Nails slightly outnumbered glass shards today, with a side order of roofing felt scraps and bits of pottery. Haven't found a doubloon, much to my disappointment, although I did find one of those aluminium ring-pulls off a soft drinks can, which haven't been made for some time,

Plus had a lovely visit with a pal.

Mrs LW, I just noticed this afternoon that the lilac on a nearby lottie is about to burst out into blossom. It's a corker of a lilac, really huge, and great gusts of scent wash over you when gardening, so lush. Plus I saw a few bluebells today, it's all happening.

Just getting the tea on, then am going to watch a rental DVD due back tomorrow, bath then beddy-byes.

Can we have weather like this every weekend, please?

Mrs_Chip

Lovely day here too, so up the garden it was. I have now dug and manured a runner bean ring in the top garden, and done a bit more excavation work in the top corner - lots of rusty corrugated iron, plastic, broken glass and pottery shards. I keep these because one day (hmmm, not sure when exactly) I am going to make them into a mosaic 'thingy' for the garden. I have a big bowlful, but await inspiration!

Have a nice evening all!