The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

nannywindow

Mrs L I am jealous of your sunshine as we have grey skies again Not long to go for the babies to put in an appearance :j
Camelot1001 not long before your baby DGC arrives.....hope all goes well.

Monna I'm sorry the moving saga is still ongoing.


I have washing to do and the bed to strip, sooooo exciting...... not.
Take care all.
nan xx

Loch_Ness

Sorry to butt in but I am new to the site and am trying to navigate around it without success. Can some one please tell me how to post a question? I can answer but thats all. The instructions the site give are of no use.

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If you look at the top left hand corner of the thread listings before you click to come to this thread you will see a big blue box that says NEW THREAD. If you click on that it gives you the format for setting a new thread in motion, easy to understand. I don't know if a very new member can add new threads straight away or if you have to wait a few weeks until you've been here a certain amount of time. If you look at the top of the thread now the blue box says POST REPLY. It's in exactly the same place on the listings page you first get to. Hope that helps.

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Evening all, been looking after those Grandpickles for a couple of days and now have very sore knees from wooden floorboards and continuous jigsawing! much fun had though and smallest pickle has cracked potty training, oh my word that boy could wee for England! nice day today we took him to the Botanical Gardens and then out for lunch and all had a super time. He missed his afternoon nap as he dozed in the car but woke up as I put him in his bed when we got home and was quite in need of entertainment in the afternoon because he was tired out, never naughty though. Nice now to be home and looking forward to a nights rest in my own bed, bliss xxx.

Hard_Up_Hester

I'm blackberrying every time I walk Beano, they are a bit sparse and small but I just need a small box full for the freezer to go with some apples.

The hops aren't ready yet and there will be no sloe gin this year as they were pruned at the wrong time.

meanmarie

Have my first Apple and blackberry sponge of the year in the oven.....they are small here too Hester and much later to ripen than last year.....will continue to pick what I get as I like to have some in the freezer for winter.

Marie

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The year is turning, driving home this morning all the roadside trees are showing yellow leaves, many different species, the hawthorn is reddening up and the rose hips are already bright as a Robins tummy too. HWK has been to the allotment and the beans have finished but he harvested plums from the tree, courgettes and the first of the ears of sweetcorn which we'll have for supper tonight. We have standing carrots and leeks waiting for the cooler weather and the grapes on the vine that twines round the shed are fat little green balls of jucyness and are beginning to tinge with the deep purple that they turn when they're ripe. I'm waiting for the first of the English apples to show up in the greengrocers, when we lived in Kent many years ago that was the biggest treat of the autumn when first the Discovery apples came on sale, so fragrant they scented a room as if they were potpourri and then the first English Cox's Orange Pippins which for me are the best apple ever for tastiness and lunches of apple, cheddar cheese, bread and butter and a pickled onion or two that are ambrosial! I shall have to find apple sales here where we've moved to in the local farm shops although most of what is grown here is for cider so I may not be lucky.

Hard_Up_Hester

Day trip out for me tomorrow, Southern Wool Show with DD1 and two of the dgd's. I'm looking forward to it.

camelot1001

Enjoy HH.

The rain here is heavy and set to carry on tomorrow too. Not sure I'll ever dig up the potatoes and onions!

Pooky

After several naff blackberry years here, this years are good and juicy. Luckily our allotment plot is at the back of the site, backing onto woodland so we have plenty to pick. Our beans have only just got going, isn't it strange how it can vary so much across the country.

I'm desperate to make some chutneys and chilli jams but don't have the jars or space at the moment (recently moved and the builders are in so brick dust everywhere). I've got some left from last year but really missing the making, it's part of the seasons changing for me.