The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

MrsCD

The 'hill' is at the far end. The weather first thing was dull and cloudy,  but the clouds parted and we had some lovely sunshine for our walk.

pollyanna_26

MrsCD said:

The 'hill' is at the far end. The weather first thing was dull and cloudy,  but the clouds parted and we had some lovely sunshine for our walk.

Lovely pic, I love skies like that we get them sometimes but Scotland is my favourtite. I was watching Rainbow Warrior making her way up the Clyde  yesterday bringing back many wonderful memories of all the years since joining Greenpeace but had one eye on the skies too, they seem to go on forever andI was always sad crossing back into England. I regret not moving there.

I'll dig out thr little list of photographers .

managed just over 4 hours sleep last night after a run of insomnia so a bit of energy today.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Just noticed we were on page 2. Hope everyone is ok and Monna has recovered from her top up jab.

NE Photographs. Craig Connor @ ConnorReachPLC- Photo journalist for the Chronicle. Most recent Sunset over Newcastle Quayside.

Coastal Portraits- It's Grim up North @johndefatkin Sunset and lighthouse mouth of the Tyne.

Gary Richardson@mountaisand sky Storm Hour Rough sea at Roker

owenhumphreys often gets out with his camera and did some lovely shots of Whitley bay recently,

simon c woodley is one of my faves night shots and moons.

pollyx

MingVase

Loads of great pics on BBC Scot of the northern lights - they had a good display of them from Aberdeen   recently. We had them above the last house a couple of times but only green, no colours. I was watching Rainbow Warrior up the Clyde too, nice wee boat but somehow I always thought it was bigger.

Sunny bright morning here, really lifts the mood. I should get out and lift the last of the summer bedding but just can't dedge up the energy. And some of them are still in bloom anyway. I put in the bulbs last week just before the deluge so they should be ok. White bluebells, fancy Dutch white tulips, and Chionodoxia - I wanted to look out and see white flowers instead of that ugly brown fence.

MrsCD

Thanks Polly, I'll look those photographers up.
I saw the pictures of the Northern Lights. They are amazing. It would be great to see them someday. 
This morning, we shredded the branches of the Rowan tree that we reduced over the last few weeks. Then I planted the 'Ice cream' tulips that Dad bought for DD in a pot I found in his garage. I had some Winter pansies so they went on the top for a bit of colour until they come through.

pollyanna_26

The northern Lights were visible from some parts of Yorkshire much to dd1s delight. She's stayed in the Ice palace and many other places but never saw the Northern lights until now.

My garden bulbs have been in the ground for more years than I remember blue , white and combinations of both they're the gift that keeps on giving through the years starting with very early snowdrops i can't remember the name of much to eldest dds annoyance.

A male friend and fellow member of greenpeace  and friends of the earth over all the years has always grown tiny violas, we don't often get snow but when we have they have stood through winter into spring almost buried in the snow. in the window boxes and baskets.

Everyting is blues and whites and it's my favourite time in the garden,+ Those violas are years old but i move them into the back garden in the window box liners and containers after flowering dead head them but let a few go to seed . ididn't do that last year but back they came.

The offspring often bought me Hyacinths as gifts. I discovered the scent gave me headaches so they were planted out and follow after the violas, blues and whites again. Someone once remarked strange choice for a ManU fan but I love blue and white in the garden and was an Everton fan before Georgie Best took the plane to Manchester Everton were forgotten.

I was press officer for our local Green party in the 80s and 90s and one year it was our turn to host ther party conference. I got to know David Icke then prior to his theories on lizards. A lovely man very quiet and gentlemanly. i offered to put his lovely tweed jacket away safely but he draped it around my shoulders and i felt a  right idiot in this jacket for every day of the conference with the national press out in force.

We actually protested against a plan from BNF to allow Nirex to dump spent nucleur fuel along this coast and after a long battle  we won. my enduring memory is standing outside the gates of Springfields eyeball to eyeball with a member of BNF security clutching a machine gun. i had a baby at home and things could have gone badly that day but luckily i wasn't about to try to climb those big gates.

i left the green Party a few years later when it all got very silly but still belong to Greenpeace and FOE. I'm politically homeless since a while ago when i realised having the same Christian name as a great man doesn't make you a great or in anyway effective party leader. it feels strange when you've always used your vote.

pollyx

MingVase

You're very wise Polly, and very realistic which seems to be rare these days.

Actually I'm getting a bit bored being normal and nice and all the rest of it - I hope I'm not turning into a Stepford Vase. I would so hate that..

pollyanna_26

MingVase said:

You're very wise Polly, and very realistic which seems to be rare these days.

Actually I'm getting a bit bored being normal and nice and all the rest of it - I hope I'm not turning into a Stepford Vase. I would so hate that..

Is a Stepford vase like a Stepford wife? Perfect and like a robot vase. i could live with that I dont recall homicidal tendancies.

I know it goes against your normal behaviour but how about using your interest in the Romans to create a new you yet again. You'd have to be a nice one though and less of the Parrot!

Failing that your interest in Social history means you could reinvent yourself as a wee scottish woman from the past- no famous murderers allowed.

How out of all the OSers did I ever end up trying to reason with a Ming  vase?

pollyx

monnagran

Heaven knows Polly, but nothing would surprise me here.

Mrs CD, I consider myself very fortunate to live on an island and be surrounded by sea.  I was talking today to someone who has lived here for about 40 years.  She moved here because of her husband's job and having been born and brought up near Liverpool hadn't the first idea of where the Isle of Wight was.  One of her family told her that she wouldn't be able to take her dog with her because of rabies!  So she called the police station and asked if she could take her dog to the IOW and did he have to have any special injections.  The policeman said he would enquire and having done so came back and said that she could take her dog to the IOW but would probably not be allowed to bring him back into the country!

MingVase

pollyanna_26 said:

How out of all the OSers did I ever end up trying to reason with a Ming  vase?

pollyx

I'm a very reasonable vase I will have you know!