The land of the eternal stripey list returns.

Karmacat

Hi Pippi, hi Greying - good to see you! Sorry to hear your news about the gardening parental and I hope you can take care of your knees a bit while taking over caring for the estate My estate is looking a bit better these days, everything is finally getting planted, though not in rows, and I'm very glad I've decided *not* to put the chilis out into the garden - when they're big enough, I'll repot them inside.

Pippi, how you doing? You must be mad busy ... hope its all going well

EssexHebridean

Greying - lovely to see you too! :wave: :beer: <--- (That sort of falling down water...yes?!) Lovely to have got yourself a vast estate to manage but sad about the circumstances - hope things get sorted as soon as they possibly can and the parental in question is back to fighting fitness.

Hope the teaching went well Pippi! (I have visions of you chucking sparkling clean storage jars at any student daft enough to try blunting your secateurs! )

Greying_Pilgrim

Thank you Karmacat for your (as ever) kind words. I'm so glad that you are still around on DFW/MSE.

EssexHebridean - we are talking exactly the same language :beer:
Hopefully gardening parental will be on the mend soon. Not too sure about long term prognosis, lots of tests, prods, pokes and surgical intrusions to endure first, but I do know that having the garden 'ship-shape' will assist with recovery and/or general well-being. I am grateful that spring has been so slow - otherwise we'd never be able to catch-up - but we might well break even by this weekend

Pippi - I forgot to say - I'm lovin that Master Stripes has got a place in a female flat on the basis of his cheffing - go him! :T(and well done his ma too!) I hope that they cherish him and treat him kindly. Good fellas should be treasured.

Greying

Karmacat

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Thank you Karmacat for your (as ever) kind words. I'm so glad that you are still around on DFW/MSE.

Hopefully gardening parental will be on the mend soon. Not too sure about long term prognosis, lots of tests, prods, pokes and surgical intrusions to endure first, but I do know that having the garden 'ship-shape' will assist with recovery and/or general well-being. I am grateful that spring has been so slow - otherwise we'd never be able to catch-up - but we might well break even by this weekend

:wave: Yep, I pop on to say hi to Taxi and Pippi, and mooch around once a week when the new email comes out on Wednesdays Much gardening is going on - not like my brother, with raised beds and chickens and whatnot, but still, much more than there ever has been

Pippilongstocking

Hello world

A brief break between sessions today (Did I mention I HATE working weekends. The real downside to this job, but I'm grateful I have a job.)

GReying I hope the gardening parent recovers soon - a ship shape garden will indeed promote recovery. Good for you! I'm not really glad its cold but its nice that everything with chloroplasts hasn't gone 'whoompf' yet.

Hugs lady and nice to see you.

And, bleurgh to that kind of falling down water.

I did get to have a wee taste of a brnad new whisky on Thurs - must be in the only dept where a bottle of whisky plonked on your desk with 'take me away and try me, but bring me back' is kinda normal.

But I have to say it does beat the blackbirds and jack snipe that I'd sometimes find on there

Oh the good old days!

Pippilongstocking

Waves to all

Heading out for another shift, but catch up with you all tonight.

Funding proposal now off my desk for a few hours (yay) and submitting on Monday lunchtime - so we'll see how we go.

Reviewing it again after big boss man tomorrow - then he hits go and I have a large sit down wiht a cucumber over my brow.

Have a great weekend and enjoy it!

EssexHebridean

For a horrible moment I thought we were venturing in the direction of "things that used to live in freezers" in Stripey-ville! :rotfl: Good old days indeed - I'd rather have the whiskey too!

Greying, you're absolutely right about the garden - just imagine having been incarcerated at medical grounds and on your release getting home to find "everything in the garden's lovely" - that'd be bound to buck you up, eh!

Pippi one thing I have always managed to hold firm on is not working weekends so I can well understand why you'd hate it, yes. Still going :rotfl: at your beer-face though!

Pippilongstocking

Sadly horticulture and recycling (I have discovered) mean alot of weekend working.

Ey up home at 6.30 after a garden exhibition here we are attending
Popped for reduced bits (bread, fruit, veggies) spends up by 6.75
Dogs walked wrapped up hat, scarf the works! Balmy for may I think...:-(
Tea scoffed (made this am Spag bog with gnocchi)
Fires on with foraged wood it's arctic here
Early night for me back at the exhibituon tomorrow handing out our compost wisdom :-) for free, we are good like that.

Eurovision is on, have a great Sunday!

Karmacat

Foraging *and* a garden exhibition (just realised you're working at the exhibition, not explorin, oops! Excellent Glad you had that wood - its bleeping cold by the end of the day, even down here. Off to a bluebell wood today for me - hope the exhibition is still going well

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning Pippi and Stripey Gang members :hello:

Pippi - thank you! Hope it is not a huge disappointment to you when it arrives! Yes, I actually heartily agree that the cold spring has been a nuisance, both in gardening terms and in general wellbeing terms. But at least it gave me a fighting chance with the weeds - and for that I'm grateful.

Yay!, we have the shiny ball here so I'd better get lively and shake a tail feather - I've my own house to muck out and garden to attend to - so best get on with it!

Thank you all for your kind wishes, I'm touched by your thoughtfulness.

Have a great Sunday one and all.

Greying