The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

parsniphead

I love reading the tough threads but rarely come out of lurkdom.

Sweeties from years ago brought me out. The one I still miss are Texan bars. They used to take ages to eat but were gorgeous. Apparently the can back for a very short period a number of years back but I missed them.

Back to lurkdom and fences ( I'm slotting in a couple of new ones this morning).

GreyQueen

Jazee wrote: »

Just WOW GreyQueen. I only have a small veg patch being introduced this year and I'm finding that hard work to dig over. Will stick to raised beds and pots me thinks.

Gym done, just 40 minutes, having a cuppa now.

Thanks. But if I went to the gym, I wouldn't do anything else for the rest of the day, my gym is the lottie up in the suburbs.

I knew spring had sprung yesterday due to three portents.

1. The first daffodils out in the park.

2. A gang of approx 20 youths doing 'parkour' around the Towers.

3. Several of my neighbours spotted buying cartons of beer and cider at Tosspots (with their dole and the profits from selling weed) and then partying outside until nearly midnight.

I'm pro-daffodil, needless to say.

camelot1001

Drumstick lollies are my favourite sweets, the children at school quite often bring me one in and one of them bought me a mug with a drumstick jumper on filled with lollies! If I ever saw a caramac I would buy it, but just the one for about 5 years would do me! My Dad used to buy tootie fruities and tootie minties, the minties were the best.

We used to have a few Easter Eggs, I always got some with little wade animals in (I think they may have been called whimsies?), I still have them somewhere. Saw some at an antique fair and they were charging about £15 each for some of them.

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I have an old white butler sink halfway down my garden and last year my gardening chap planted some sweet peas for me in it .He put up some mesh to the adjoining fence and the sweet peas scrambled up it so I had a fence panel covered in sweet peas I know they are non edible and I should really get him to plant something useful to eat but just looking out of the window at a beautiful fence panel covered in flowers that smell so nice I can live without growing food .When my late OH was alive and I was far more mobile we would grow onions,lettuce,tomato's potatos and beetroot in the garden ,now my garden is for sitting in and looking at and smelling IYSWIM. My favourite in the summer is night-scented stocks grown in a tub on the patio.they look rubbish during the day but in the evening the smell is gorgeous.I have bulbs out at the moment and the concrete base at the bottom of the garden that my gardener filled with a mix of compost and soil is full of the bulbs coming up from last year. I have lots of packets of seed in a box indoors so once the bulbs have gone over I may get him to throw handfuls down and see what appears.
I loved gardening when younger and more able but now my gardening consists of sitting in the sunshine with a book and a cuppa just looking and smelling

Jazee

And JackieO, that sounds fantastic. I grow food because I like to see what can be achieved, but usually not very much. DH prefers a garden full of colourful flowers so we have to have a mix.

I'm going to take the dogs for a walk now before I take root besides this fence!

greenbee

GQ - I really think you should arrange a trip down south... I have the remains of an old hedge to dig out, and have been avoiding it, knowing that it means several hours with the mattock.

I need to follow your example and try to just do a bit at a time.

Yesterday was spent (yet again) working on reducing the size of the wood pile and turning it into logs. However, I have a problem, in that my 6-pallet long/half a pallet deep logstore is full to overflowing and I STILL have a pile of bits of tree in the middle of my patio (mind you, at least I can see most of the patio for the first time in nearly 18 months. Mostly I used the log splitter, but I did spend some time getting the hang of a maul, as chopping logs with a felling axe is unnecessarily hard work!

Overcast and grey here today, so I'm not sure whether to keep going on the garden (on the basis that it isn't actually raining) or deal with the many indoor jobs (finishing off the carpets - the offcuts have been patchworked so I need to trim them and tape them together, and starting the next phase of decorating by undercoating the wall on the stairs).

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Good morning all, really pleased to see the new thread with a lovely mix of old and new faces.
I need to lean on the middle of the fence at 5ft 4 on a slightly reinforced section
My favourite childhood sweet is the curlywurly.

I recently made the marshmallow recipe from the Tes*o free magazine with my daughters. We did not realise that one of the steps was missing from the recipe which resulted in my daughter trying to mix a rapidly solidifying sugar mixture which burnt out the motor in my electric hand whisk. I managed to rescue the mixture and we ended up with a jelly sweet instead of a marshmallow.
I emailed Tes*o and was very surprised to hear back from them. The recipie had apparently been altered during editing. They have now corrected the recipe on their website, are sending me a £5 voucher and are replacing my electric whisk for me as well.

For those of you who might remember from the old thread DD2 was waiting for sinus surgery which had unfortunately been cancelled due to winter bed pressures. Well 12 days ago she has the surgery. The recovery is going well. She still finds it painful to eat and is living off soups and pureed foods. It will be at least 8 weeks before everything settles down as they removed quite a bit of bone.

I am defrosting a side of salmon that I got when it was less than half price (ys). I am hoping DD will manage that with some mash and pureed peas for Sunday lunch.

I dropped lucky at the supermarket yesterdy and picked up 4 lamb neck fillets all us and less than half price. We all enjoy lamb but as it is expensive I only ever get it if Ican find it as a ys.

I'm off to see if my back can cope with a bit of gardening as it is another lovely day today.

Have a great day.

Mrs VP

Softstuff

GQ, I am in awe of your lottie clearance. I have a large garden now which the weeds seem to thrive in, clearance is job number one, swiftly followed by some serious stump grinding... I will get to planting eventually, just need the beds first. But I think I'm just as ornery as you, so will get there in the end

P.S having a huge pantry now is like having an extra large hand to fill with items for food poker

ginnyknit

Mrs VP glad your Dd is doing well after a long wait. Customer services at the sm's are often good - that was a result for you.

I was measured at the Gp's the other day and I am now 5 foot 3'' - I lost an inch??? Im only 55 what happening, Im disappearing I hoped to shrink widthways not lengthway :rotfl:

Sewing day for me after a wee grandma nap -Dgs was up at 6.30, way too early for night owl like me.

Molly41

camelot1001 wrote: »

We used to have a few Easter Eggs, I always got some with little wade animals in (I think they may have been called whimsies?), I still have them somewhere. Saw some at an antique fair and they were charging about £15 each for some of them.

How co-incidental as I have just set my set of whimsies up which I got from easter eggs and crackers at christmas. They came from my childhood bedroom.

Love the new thread x