The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

fuddle

Good on you for getting out and helping with the beach clean money. I dare say you get really cross.

I was watching a YouTube channel I follow last night. It's a girl who allotments on the Isle of Man. She went around the allotment site picking up bits of plastic - pots, drinks bottles, weed suppressant, net etc. I think they would have just blew away but to see the plastic bury itself in the soil was really quite a visual that will stay with me.i allotment on a hill and whatever blows downward blows into the local beck and subsequently into the Wear and then the North Sea and East coast beaches.

That said Greenbee you do speak sense and with my pumpkins in particular I was looking at making a bottle shelter of some kind. I'm growing squashes Greenbee I have my frames in place to have climbing spaghetti, Turks turban, jack be little and baby butternut. I'm also planning on patty pan for the summer. It will be something that they won't really be used to so I'm dousing the ground with as much well rotted manure and rabbit litter as I can get to feed the things.

I do wonder if half my problem is I'm a bit too left field and I don't realise that there's probably a reason why the older folk just grow potatoes leeks and onions outside but...

I do know of a young female Durham allotmenteer who grew smashing Rouge Viv d'Etampes pumpkin last year so that's the variety I've chosen and hope to follow suit. I am feeling the pressure though.

juliettet

Fuddle, just breath and enjoy. Mr too small to pee will hopefully have his polytunnel airlifted by the wind.

Anyone suffering from broken sleep should try adding magnesium to a warm bath. Takes a couple of times but really helped me when my Mum was ill.

VJsmum

Safe travels Greenbee.

Fuddle you make me :rotfl:

Thanks for the curtain suggestions - to be fair, they were 10 years old and had never been washed What's worse is that the curtains have shrunk but the linings haven't. I was going to put them in the other lounge to where they were, but that is also a full length french window so they are no good for there now. I might be able to use them on a shorter window at some point, so I will keep them...

Swedish furniture is slowly getting built - we built all the frame yesterday, but we haven't managed to get the doors on. Probably tomorrow night - OH is seeing his mother tonight. Then we can decide which of the tat goes back in...

The good news is that OH likes it - I was afraid he wouldn't

nursemaggie

juliettet OK if you have a bath, we don't, It's surprising how many houses don't have them these days.

fuddle

Is magnesium Epsom salts?

Elona_2

Fuddle
magnesium salts are magnesium chloride and epsom salts are magnesium sulphide.
The magnesium salts have five times the magnesium and can be used as a foot soak as well as in the bath.

juliettet

That is good Elona. Never occurred to me a foot soak. Thank you.

Hard_Up_Hester

Love the pea seedling name Fuddle.
We only have a shower on the boat, but then I only used the bath in my house three times in 15years
I slept badly last night, often do on a Sunday, fear of missing the alarm I think.
I'm on childcare duties again, DD is really enjoying her new job.

maryb

I don't clean my bath, I dust it. Lurve my power shower

MMF007

Anyone got any snow yet? We've had beautiful, slow-falling flakes on and off all day. Not building up, just floating round!
I did 4 hours cleaning, 1/2 being a companion , and then hoofed it to the post office (mahoosive queue there ), banked my chqs and then the most important job of the day...... I collected my new cosy dressing gown from MnS :j

DH cooked tea :rotfl: and it was lovely.
He has also fetched wood in for the wood burner and found candles, so we are prepared. I don't work Tuesdays so cosy at home tomorrow. Have forewarned my clients that if the snow is making the roads dodgy I shall be absent on Weds!

I have been thinking about Burtha today. Hope you are OK?!
Also, Karcher. Dare I ask how work is?
NM, have you got to get to hospital this week?? Just hoping the snow is not too bad but I see we have a yellow warning for tomorrow and Weds in the NorthWest.