Travelling On

debtfreeoneday

I too have gone through seeds this week and listed them in order in an effort to get the planted!!  Too many years I miss the sowing months!

Suffolk_lass

I also need to go through my seeds - lots of failed old seeds this year

I should perhaps have worded my assertion as regular contributors rather than readers - as there are obviously a variety of views - just that the MSE ethos brings a like-minded focus to many who comment and we subscribe to (bookmark) like-minded threads. Going way back, many of us thanked as we went so we knew where we had read up to and I guess I have been going by that in my identification of like-minded. With the new viewing tools I guess that is irrelevant now but I still do it so people know I have been there.

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I think the difference between people on here & those in the real world is that we tend to think not oh great we can go out & do what we like but we can go out & do what we like but what is sensible for US, what will keep us safe.  I agree that long covid is scary & was never mentioned early on & flu never had that sort of effect either. 

Although thinking about it I am not totally sure that that is true.  Back in 1988 I got flu followed by bronchitis including giving up smoking followed by my thyroid going walkabout.  Taste buds also went walkabout unlike the norm of stopping smoking meaning your sense of taste improves.  So was that version of flu actually a version of covid?  It would not surprise me to find out this sort of thing has been around a very long time.

Thats a good way of putting it, badmemory, and interesting (sadly) about your experiences in 1988.  Covid is a coronavirus, and apparently its the 7th, so as well as its new twists, it must have related effects to the earlier coronviruses (I refuse to write "coronavirii   

Karmacat

debtfreeoneday said:

I too have gone through seeds this week and listed them in order in an effort to get the planted!!  Too many years I miss the sowing months!

Suffolk_lass said:

I also need to go through my seeds - lots of failed old seeds this year

Yay seeds!  I had a few things missing so I ordered some from a recommended supplier, Premium Seeds Direct I think, and they've just arrived.  Still got to integrate those into my little list, and I'm done.  Very happy about it - it's that whole thing of missing the sowing months, absolutely.

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

I should perhaps have worded my assertion as regular contributors rather than readers - as there are obviously a variety of views - just that the MSE ethos brings a like-minded focus to many who comment and we subscribe to (bookmark) like-minded threads. Going way back, many of us thanked as we went so we knew where we had read up to and I guess I have been going by that in my identification of like-minded. With the new viewing tools I guess that is irrelevant now but I still do it so people know I have been there.

We often think its just the people who press the thanks button that are reading, I'm not surprised you phrased it that way, SL I would have too.  And I still press the thanks button to every post. 

As to lurkers though **waves happily** I think I've mentioned that when I posted up my 50 Norwegian photos from the first cruise I did, they got something like 125 views in a day, and I'd only written about them on here - I take that as the number of lurkers now.  Fine by me, especially when a long-term reader delurks, thats very special  

Cheery_Daff

I've been doing seed things this week too! I didn't buy anything at all this year, just planted EVERYTHING I already had, old packets that I'd moved house with and all. So this year I'm starting from scratch and ordering all hardy varieties, good for exposed places and cold weather Hopefully things will grow! 

I've traditionally been rubbish at remembering the right months too and the last few years most of my stuff has been started too late, this year definitely, which isn't good as we have a relatively short growing season anyway. So I'm going to be writing a list and doing some planning to make sure everything gets planted when it needs to be and does as well as it can. Exciting to be thinking about spring

taka

**Delurks to happily wave back**

**wanders off again, wishing I had a garden to myself... **

Karmacat

taka said:

**Delurks to happily wave back**

**wanders off again, wishing I had a garden to myself... **

Hi taka!  Thank you for delurking!  I'm sorry you've no garden   I have a few house plants - aloe vera, which I always mean to use on my skin but never do, and spider plants, for air purification, but they're only in one room that I use mainly for storage
Best laid plans, and all that ... 

Cheery, that's exactly what I did this year, planted the old packets - I was too late, likewise and they didn't get enough light, I don't think, they were all very spindly etc.  The only ones that survived were the marigolds, and I *did* plant them out, in an old drawer thats acting like a windowbox, but its on the ground in the garden

My garden doesn't need hardy varieties (yours absolutely does, of course!) but I certainly have enough seeds now.  In fact, since I won't be able to plant all of them of each variety this year, I'll have enough to experiment with seed saving and still have "official" seeds in reserve  
 

Karmacat

So, yesterday went pretty well, until I switched off the tv after Strictly.  I'd done some Christmas buying online, I worked in the garden clearing another couple of feet of weeds and putting *all* the weeds I've dug up this week into the green bin, and I also kept going on writing the biography of an ancestor of mine, born in 1790.  And then it all went to pot I stayed up reading old fanfiction stories (yes, about Stargate, I confess) way, way too late.  They're so well written, and don't have the mistakes that fiction books do on kindle, but I've already read them ... naughty.

Well, here I am again anyway.  Today is more gardening/ green binning, plus I confess the shopping from the *last* delivery still hasn't been cleaned and put away, and the next delivery is due on Tuesday.  And it would be nice to retrieve my Christmas cards from their storage spot before December starts.  Yeah, I take things nice and easy and then everything accelerates madly.  Story of my life and frankly if thats the worst it gets, I'm in absolute clover compared to a lot of people, aren't I?  A lot of gratitude for my current space.

taka

Karmacat said:

taka said:

**Delurks to happily wave back**

**wanders off again, wishing I had a garden to myself... **

Hi taka!  Thank you for delurking!  I'm sorry you've no garden   I have a few house plants - aloe vera, which I always mean to use on my skin but never do, and spider plants, for air purification, but they're only in one room that I use mainly for storage

I live in an Edwardian tenement flat so we have a shared drying green. As we are next to a corner the space is pretty small. There is grass, a very narrow border on 2 sides (and a few bushes in the corner that the original edwardian washing line post is missing) but it is shared between 8 flats. If it is vaguely dry it is crammed with washing so you can't exactly sit out or host a BBQ! There is a dog in one of the flats (so you can't plant out things like herbs etc safely!  )  & it really puts me off planting anything out. I'm lucky there is a park round the corner!

Close to 2/3 of my city's accomodation is flats so it is pretty common to not have a private garden here. Some of the shared drying greens/gardens are much larger though and actually have space to sit out / plant stuff as well as dry sheets etc! I'm hoping once Dad's estate is finally sorted that I can move somewhere that has a private garden / patio or at least space to sit out and plant a few things as well as dry stuff!