Travelling On

Goldiegirl

You are doing amazingly well with your garden. It must be so satisfying to see things starting to take shape.

I've never seen a 50p delivery with Sainsbury's. It's very pleasing to take advantage of the off peak offers

Karmacat

Thank you both! The garden is much more open, and I can *see* things! The planting scheme was very overcrowded, I think it was done for immediate effect by a non-gardener, so although I'd cut down a few rhodedendrons, I've gone for it much more. There's still a lot though - while I was ill, two small ash trees got established :eek::eek::eek: I've been waiting for the sap to rise before I cut them off at the ground and pour stump killer on I know they're endangered, but two ash trees in a 35' suburban garden, its not a good thing.

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Well done for fighting that bullet. Have fun in the garden - we shall be doing loads together after tomorrow as it is the start of half term for Mr SL. I also anticipate some beautiful flowers tomorrow, as Mr SL will buy on "national reduced flowers day" - I love the frugality of it!

National Reduced Flowers Day :j:j:j
Absolutely wonderful concept :rotfl:

Goldiegirl wrote: »

You are doing amazingly well with your garden. It must be so satisfying to see things starting to take shape.

I've never seen a 50p delivery with Sainsbury's. It's very pleasing to take advantage of the off peak offers

Yep, I was really surprised - I've gone for £1 deliveries for a long time, of course, but they must be getting a bit desperate. Better take advantage while I can! Along with a £12 money off voucher, and all those Nectar points

Gardening was good again. I didn't concentrate on any one thing - a swathe of work - bramble roots, then moving on to a mix of bramble and ground ivy, then a potentilla thats never been pruned, then dead buddleia branches. Astonishing amount of stuff. Another few weeks, then a few weeks off for various other things, then I'm planting

:j :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Glad to see your gardening is paying off! :j

You sent me on a little rabbit hole there by mentioning ash trees (I quite agree that it's impractical to have large trees in relatively small gardens on the whole!) I hadn't realised The Conservation Foundation keeps a register of elm trees - we actually have a couple here :j so when they've got leaves on (so I can send photos for identification) I'll add them to the register :j

earthgirl

Wow great work on the garden!! Take it slow with the kitchen move about, if I remember rightly it was a lot of toing and froing.

Karmacat

Cheery, sorry about the rabbit hole - but it actually sounds pretty productive in the long term, thats something. I'd not even heard of the Conservation Foundation so there's a rabbit hole for me too

Earthie, you're right about all the to-ing and fro-ing in clearing the kitchen, and to be honest my throat feels a bit scratchy today - which reminds me, before I plan today, I'm off to find my First Defence lurgy remedy.

Back later.

Karmacat

Oh! I do know them! They're the people working on the site right next door to Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral :j

And I found my First Defence gizmo. And I had a little sip of coffee left Okay, pootle about on here, then think about the day.

Cheery_Daff

I'd not heard of the Conservation Foundation myself!

Sorry to her the lurgy is making its presence felt, hope you can head it off.

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery, me too. We'll see - it's been around for a few days, this very, very gradual thing is a bad sign, how things used to be, but I'll focus on keeping well.

So, today:
- SB, nearly finished.
- the French interest payment figures.
- I need *something* physical and out of door, so a bit of gardening.
- or maybe buying some frozen veg. Or both.

The French accountant now has software where I can enter my figures directly on their website. Which is good, because I still haven't bought any printer ink so I can't print out and fill in the form they sent me. If its successful, it makes another point for bargaining with them over the price they charge.

Ancestry is free all this weekend :j

Karmacat

I've "successfully" avoided the scanning and the figures input all day

Got out to the garden, though, once the fog cleared - mostly digging up non-fruiting strawberries, couch grass and ground ivy, plus cutting back a huge evergreen foliage shrub, a sort of cross between box and snowberry. The view from the kitchen window is really different.

Dug out some nuts that I haven't used for ages - walnuts and brazils - and I've got them soaking. I plan/hope to fry some onions, maybe make a sort of sloppy nutloaf type thing, we'll see

apple_muncher

I read that as you had dug up some nuts and wondered which bit of the garden you had hidden them in...