Breaking Through, Travelling On

Knit_Witch

I understand that spraying veg oil on a piece of paper and sending it through once in while helps

Karmacat

Loving your recent posts, KC - the energy from them is fantastic

xx

Aww, thank you greent! I think, rather than putting up with things the way they are, I've taken action - everything from pruning the garden to be the way I want it, to kondoing, to writing, to retiring ... there's a lot to be said for going your own way. Consideration for others is crucial, but sacrifice isn't. Keeping it real, as they say

I've spent quite a while with my tweezers, picking bits of plastic out of the jaws of the unplugged shredder and given it another go with the WD40 - spraying oil on paper is a good idea for regular maintenance, KW, and I think I'll do that in future, but right now my shredder is in the mechanical equivalent of A&E :eek: so stern measures are called for.

An ex-mser on facebook has given me some health links, so after I've ordered a few supplements, I'm off out for a healthy walk, then relax - I want to put some £10 stuff on ebay, or even abe books, but I'll do that tomorrow and schedule the finish time for best sale prospects.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend :beer:

Watty1

Lovely catch up with diary and envy over witchhazel.
Mine is clearly in a major sulk and has not flowered other than the first year. It is only about 3 years old, was lovely first year, and that has been it. Really needs to pull its self together

rtandon27

There is purple in the garden this morning!:j

It's spring!:j

A crocus & a purple hyacinth!:j

Along with three dozen daffs in the horse trough and two stray ones coming up under the bushes!:D

Karmacat

The witchhazel was here when I moved in, Watty, and is very big now, as well as very badly shaped, but I've started on that, by pruning branches below about foor foot ... its a start.

RT, you have purple :j:j:j lovely! I've had grape hyacinths self seed all along the border at the front since I moved here, I think I may have brought them with me in soil from the cuttings I installed but they're not displaying this year - they may have had a few setbacks when I was pulling out the roots of that awful creeping conifer that did nothing except look boring. At the side of the house, that same border is going wild with bulbs, uncovered since last year - I'd have planted my wild garlic there if I'd known how good that area was for bulbs :rotfl: though I think a lot of them are what's called summer snowdrops - like snowdrops, but the size of daffodils, they're very odd, I've never seen them before.

No garden work today - I walked to my posh village charity shop, they have quite a few sofa beds, at around £200 each, and they're *really* nice. Leather, too. Slightly weird to think of leather, as a vegetarian, but its 2nd hand, and I just don't object. Odd.

I've also been rootling about on facebook, clearing things up and also finding out how to "like" and subscribe to pages not just as me, but as my website-support page :D:D which feels very crafty for me, but is utterly normal for facebook

Off to meet Katniss Everdeen soon

rtandon27

Never heard of summer snowdrops - g00gled them & they are just lovely!

£200 for a leather sofabed sounds like a bargain! Not sure if a vegi with a leather sofa is odd or not - but environmentally I feel natural fibres are better than poly-whatever & plastic filled with toxins!

Katniss is lovely & I'm sure you will enjoy her company.;)

Karmacat

That's true about the environmental level, you're right, RT. Thanks for that I hate the awful lilac thing currently in my living room, and if I rent out the house, I'll need a bigger one - and I'll have space for it once the oversized bookcase is gone

I love Katniss - I'm writing a cat blog post about Buttercup, so I have an excuse to re-read :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

smallholdingsister

Also veggie with leather furniture.
Thought it would withstand three kids and a dog.
Nai- b l o o d y- eve.

Karmacat

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Also veggie with leather furniture.
Thought it would withstand three kids and a dog.

Thats really good to hear :j - I was thinking I could clean it really well and still use it after the potential renters had used it.

Nai- b l o o d y- eve.

I've no idea what that means :rotfl: but I suspect your hopes were not fulfilled

misscousinitt

Knit_Witch wrote: »

there was a case a year or so back where someone took all the plants etc when they moved out and the judge went with the new owners as they had bought the house AND garden as seen and the previous owners had to make good and pay the fees

Hi KW/KC

It's okay - it was like that when we viewed the house. Talking to the neighbour the people who had the house before have systematically removed All plants bushes and trees over the last few years.

The garden has loads of potential but absolutely no character at the moment. Looking forward to making it mine (ours).

MCI