Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

EssexHebridean

Ooh - proper exciting - you could be the next Monty Don, only shorter, and not so annoying...! (Don't like him, can you tell?!) :rotfl: I'm making no references to Charlie Dimmock...! :rotfl: Of COURSE you could make a go of that sort of thing though - silly Stripes!

Well done on the gate - now step away from the Bay of E...it's bad for you!

:rotfl: at tanning stuff too - I got quite singed on Saturday in SPITE of factor 50 - honestly! I've also now got my regular scattering of freckliness over my face - so will be spending the rest of the summer looking like I've got a dirty patch on my nose...it doesn't scrub off though, I've tried!

Huggles to all - If Mr TRG is about the place the new aircraft carrier is being launched from next Friday tell him to look out for my new chums in their whizzy red planes, won't you! :T (Actually they might swing over you at some stage too - they're coming in from Leuchars so depends which direction they'll be approaching from...) Give 'em a wave from me if you see 'em!

ClootiesMum

Oooohhh - you do garden designing stuff. ******ponders as gazes at garden needing redesigned *****

Are you going to see the baton in Ainster or St Andrews today? It's running right past my house but as I have a Drs appt at the time I won't see it - and getting to Drs will require serious planning due to all roads in area subject to rolling roadblocks

Have a good day

mfmaybe

mfmaybe wrote: »

Thanks for that - I liked the haivering version too :rotfl:. Interesting to read on your blog you can use the black elder flowers too, I have both in my garden. Might have to try one of each. Though on closer inspection the black ones are flowering, the regular white are only flowering at the impossible to reach top.

Pippi the work you've done on the garden already is amazing, you clearly aren't feart of a bit of graft.

Today I am hoping to do some cordial making :T I have the sugar and lemons but not the citric acid so will just go for extra lemons. I am going to need to get the ladder out for the higher up flowers. The black elder is awash though. Could make a factory's worth! A question though, some of my regular elders' "heads" aren't yet in flower and on others some of the flowers have gone over - ie the head is mostly in full flower with a few wee brown ones in there. Should this bother me in small quantities?

beanielou

Great news on the job :j :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up Pips

Of course you can do the working from home bit. Give it a go, it isn't going to stop you keeping a weather eye out for jobs in companies/organisations. Who cares if you've a patchwork income of selling chuck eggs and produce/authoring gardening tomes/designing sustainable (or totally unpractical if it pays ) garden 'spaces' - you'll be doing what you love and contributing to the homestead. Winner Winner, pays the mortgage and for dinner......

Are you looking for someone to pop in to look after the dogs/chucks/garden, or are you looking for an actual house-sitter who will do all that too?

We're rocking this season's 'must have' celtic white look too :D I tend to go 'tomato red' and then back to celtic white... and at least he didn't call you a lobster

Have a good evening

Greying

wik

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

One way to check whether it's been completely turned off or not....

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S!!!!HORPE!

This make me chuckle!!! as someone who lives in the vicinity of S!!!!horpe.... and the troubles this word causes!! :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Yawns and stretches. Visitors how wonderful.

Cuppa, catch up, banks.

We all know the drill. Happy Friday chaps.

What plans for the weekend?

mooomin

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

What plans for the weekend?

Currently yet more wallpaper stripping. Mr Mooo did the first bit and the plaster underneath is in VERY bad shape, so the decorator man is popping round later to investigate before we finish the job and do damage

Apart from that, a great big food shop and some washing.

It's rock and roll times here in Mooo Towers :rotfl:

Did you see that there's a big orchid event on at the Botanics for the next few weeks?

Pippilongstocking

Essex - Monty is lush. That's all I'm saying about that. laughing and freckle scrubbing. And promise to wave to your red chums if they pass by.

Decent train station in Leuchars - just saying.

Clootiesmum - waves if its plants I does it. I planned my day yesterday to avoid the baton so an early into Golfland to clothe the manchild for his work placement via the charity shops. I hope the Dr's went well.

I'm feeling MSE defo has a strong hold in these here parts. Waves

MFMaybe in small quantities no they shouldn't. You COULD always pick the unopened ones and leave them in a dish of water in the kitchen for a day and they should open nicely. I do like a bit of graft. The gardening parent approved of some of my toils. Not quite a gold star but that classic Scottish 'That doesn't look as bad as I expected'........:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: thanks mither.

Beanie thank you. A fellow mse'r and wellybooker has been nudging me to think a wee bit outside the box with things. She's a good un.:A Hope you have a great day today.

Winner winner eat my dinner (from home) indeed Greying. Hard sometimes to fathom why folks would need my particular comedic help. But always nice to be asked. It appears the hounds may well be sorted nicely to have an adventure all of their own. And, the house may also be adventuring, not sure yet - I had no fixed ideas about what we would do aside not leave the pups home alone. They are so rubbish at remembering to water my plants, with, erm water not the usual way they do it. Leaving plants in full on summer isn't ideal, which is why a full on house sitter might have been nice....
:rotfl::rotfl:

Have a great weekend dear heart.

Last night in mse and cpd fashion I attended a free local workshop on writing. I'll get me book out of me brain one way or the other.

I got a few laughs at my attempts at a first line and 3 of my attempts got enough votes to be up on the board. :T

Wik makes me chuckle too lassie.

:A

Pippilongstocking

mooomin wrote: »

Currently yet more wallpaper stripping. Mr Mooo did the first bit and the plaster underneath is in VERY bad shape, so the decorator man is popping round later to investigate before we finish the job and do damage

Apart from that, a great big food shop and some washing.

It's rock and roll times here in Mooo Towers :rotfl:

Did you see that there's a big orchid event on at the Botanics for the next few weeks?

Oh I didn't see that before but I did now thank you. I'm still slightly sulking with my favourite garden for NOT giving me a job. But, I'll get over it soon enough.

You going?

I'm a friend of the local garden here and I do like a wee pop into that one too. Its lovely seeing plants labelled properly. Unlike some garden centres........

EEk to pesky walls, I'll not scare you with the story of TRG's flat and its woodchip straight on plasterboard malarkay.

:eek:

We need to do a bit of fruit shopping here, I'd like a trip to the neep-shop we need a few bits and I've me eye on a very nice outdoor table.

Looks just bonnie enough to pot plants on and possibly NOT get into trouble with TRG. But at 2.13 m long in its box, it'll nae fit in me peedie car.