The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

FairyPrincessk

Afternoon all,

We've done the shop, put that away and I've just polished off my lunch. A few chores this afternoon, possibly a walk and then a skype with mum and dad while OH sorts tea.

I suddenly fancied cinnamon bread yesterday but was sure what is in the shops wouldn't be managable in my diet so I made some. It is lovely! I just used my normal bread recipe and added in the cinnamon sugar after the second rise. I gave it a third rise before popping it in the oven. High in sugar, but a nice treat and almost makes up for the lack of cakes lately.

Nursemaggie, you're not going insane. Not only will the prolonged exposure to noise have masked other small noises in the building, but there also could be someone up there (they can have tenants in with shocking amounts of work going on as long as there is plumbing) or there could be a small animal up there you're hearing, perhaps a cat going in a window. I know everyone says cats are quiet on their feet but we sometimes call Maggie the Cat thunder paws for good reason! It would be quieter than the previous tenants but might still sound like someone moving around quietly. There also may be machinery running up there--I don't think it would sound the same, but things like dehumidifiers are often left on during building works. Of course, it could also be coming from another flat and just sound like it is above. All of that to say--there are plenty of rational things! Try to enjoy the relative peace.

Well I have a new attar of roses to pot up and a few bits and bobs of gardening to do. Upstairs needs dusting and the bathroom needs cleaning.

Hugs to all who need them.x

ivyleaf

Well done monna, re the post

silvasava Sorry to hear you're still poorly x

mr ivyleaf seems ok; he was obviously shaken up, but I told him to stay at home and DS took me to the shops. No bruise by his eye yet.

I had a blood test done yesterday, and i have a small bruise, but it's not in the place where the needle went in, but a good two inches away from it! Strange.

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Hello again, back from a very tiring week and glad to be in the calm of home. Those pickles are very nice but have run me off my feet in a way they never have before, phew I must be getting old! We got back just after lunch and have unpacked and I have one wash load on the line and another going round in the machine. Looking forward to a good nights sleep in 'my' bed tonight and not having to be up at 6 am (sometimes earlier) when the small ones need to be sorted and fed.

Lovely evening last night, we drove up to Nell as a small part of the choir were singing at a flower festival in one of the most beautiful Cotswold churches I've ever been in. I had my usual job of handing leaflets with the choir details to the members of the audience as they arrived. The church was dressed as though for a wedding and there were some really lovely wedding dresses on display along with hats, shoes, and all the 'smart' peripheries that go with attending a wedding and all the sung pieces were wedding related too it was really lovely and on a perfect summers evening maybe just the best way to spend it!

We got home to find that my darling brother who had been watering the hot houses and plots while we were away had NOT picked anything and as a consequence we have lost the peas, the French beans have stopped flowering and those on the vines are too hard and fibrous to use so have been composted and we had large marrows rather than courgettes! whilst I appreciate that he was very kind to water for us I HATE that amount of waste and mind having to throw large parts of a harvest away for any reason!

Perhaps it will all not seem so horrid when I've had a good sleep and I love him anyway but just now I'd mince him happily!

ivyleaf

Oh Lyn, what a shame I take it he didn't realise he needed to pick stuff?

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We told him to take it, we've no idea why he didn't but even if he'd only picked and put into the compost bin it would have been better than leaving it on the plants. With a bit of luck we'll be able to coax the beans back into flower but the peas are dead and the courgette has no flowers coming on, we'll see! not the end of the world but really upsetting!

TiredTrophy

Not too late to resow the beans, water the cougette with tomato feed.

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We've given them all a really good drink TT, they are all in the polytunnel which has even with the doors open been very hot in this warm weather. I have hopes for the French beans but we have some fine beans coming in to flower in the garden and the runners are just beginning to set pods so it's not an absolute disaster and we have outside courgettes on the allotment that are beginning to produce too I just hate the waste of good home grown food, just me being a cross patch because I'm a bit tired xxx.

gran3

NM. Email your MP, its really easy and they do see everything that's sent. There's nothing Agencies like less that an MP's enquiry as they have very short timescales in which they need to reply or all hell breaks loose.
It cant hurt, can it?

TiredTrophy

I also sorry for short answer..got shingles...hands hurt.

Glad you have lots if produce...used to love my UK allotments

nursemaggie

Sorry you lost things Lyn. I think you need to emphasise the more you pick the more will grow. Non gardeners don't realise, they think they are taking from you, when in fact if they don't pick them there is less.

I will wait until Tuesday or Wednesday as I have bid for a flat and I have a bungalow to phone about on Monday.


DS came for dinner so I cooked the chicken. I finally got my curtains up 2 years and 3 months after I bought them.