The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Floss

Softstuff the beauty of doing interior design is that you walk in, direct, walk out and leave others to live in the mess

Am currently on the allotment looking at the weeds which have multiplied tenfold since Tuesday still, there are raspberries, blackberries, tomatoes, chillies and peppers to pick, and I need to check on the gay courgette...

juliettet

Courgettes & onions softened in olive oil, tin of toms of fresh if you can. Herbs and you can put over pasta. Yum. I remember the pics of your last place Softstuff, beautiful.

mardatha

MrsL - 1) Collect every courgette you have.
2) Peel them/clean them/whatever the hell you do with them.
3) throw them all in the bin and have a nice plate of sticky toffee pavlova and custard.

monnagran

Mardatha! You are terrible. You deserve to have VERY BAD SPOTS.

Do you hate everything green per se or is it just vegetables that earn your wrath?

elona

Don't forget that they make green jelly babies and green jelly beans

The builders are here finishing up jobs and have just brought me a box of chocolates and a card for my birthday tomorrow which is so sweet :j

Softstuff

Your tiler sounds like a complete pain in the posterior!!

moneyistooshorttomention

Softstuff - Well I've never had a workman swearing at me yet at least. Cheeky s*d:eek:

In your place - put him on the "not to be touched with a bargepole for work in future" list and promise yourself and hubbie a Nice Reward at the end of the work I think. Not quite sure just how big a Nice Reward to promise yourself - whether of the luxury meal out/weekend away or holiday variety. At the rate he's going - I'd be inclined to be wondering about a "holiday" size Nice Reward.

monnagran

Elona. I bet she leaves the green jelly babies till last and bites their heads off in a particularly venomous and vicious manner.

Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

x

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That's my girl MAR!!!

burtha

Yes never did get them out of bed till late , so parenting badge is work in progress lol
Today not much better , youngest ds has just got up/ came downstairs... dd is still in her room , haven't seen or heard from yet ...
Its sooooo quiet
It's first day of shooting season today so dh is out with all the dogs , I only have the very old one here , very odd not triping over my little dog ,hope she is ok and behaving herself lol
so far today I have cleaned /brushed up all the patio/yard , all the slabs cleaned on the next level down , all 7 kennels presure washed down and disinfected, all ready for the happy hounds to come back to
3 loads of washing done and dry thanks to it been rather windy again ,
having five minutes ,before I decide what to do next , due behind bar at 7 , but think I will end up there at 5 , just heard there is a 52 seater bus leaving from us to go to a wedding at 6 30 ....
Right think I will put the fire on and shove something in the oven for tea ...
Courgette cake , think I got the recipe from here ? Was very nice , but think I should have peeled them first as the bits of green were a bit random looking ....but kids still scoffed it down

pineapple

Has anyone else had toads or frogs in their house?
Today I turned the dog bed in the lounge and there was a little creature underneath - nestling between the bed and the stone flags :eek::eek::eek:. I think it was a toad rather than a frog. I tend to leave the door open so maybe it came in that way. Anyway I caught it underneath a container and deposited it outside...