Put away your purse & become debt-averse

foxgloves

Thanks, HHoD, Yes, a nice surprise on the scales would definitely help make up for the last few days. Fingers crossed. 
F x

foxgloves

Aww, sad about your hellebores, OBL, as I know you are fond of them. Where have they broken? Is it just the flowering stems smashed off in the storm? If so, I'd cut those off plus anything obviously broken & then wait & see what happens. They may have a 2nd flowering later. If the entire plants are smashed, I think I'd trim them right back & hope that a good root system will bring them back next year. You know, I think I lose more plants to winter deluges now than I ever have to snow & ice.
Hope they can be salvaged, anyway. 
F x

foxgloves

Hello Snowdrops, 
Still very definitely not 100% in the inner world of the Foxgloves tummy, but I am now starting to feel more like I do when I'm coming to the end of a bad spell of IBS or bug. I do have a bit more energy today. I've done two laundry loads, a few kitchen jobs & been to the village garden centre. I chose my new gardening gloves & decided to try a £12.95 pair. Apart from a posh leather pair which cost twice as much, which I bought when I was Spendy, & were too stiff & inflexible to do the range of tasks I need to do, I have only ever bought cheap ones. These have tended to wear into holes in the fingers quickly. Even if I have a 3-pack, I won't have any left by the end of summer. Well I love this new pair I bought today. They are a bit padded, but not so much that it affects my dexterity & I can adjust them at the wrist to fit. That's another issue I have with gardening gloves. They're usually one-size. I have small hands & sometimes find floppy gloves fall off mid-task. So I don't regret dipping into my spends at all & hope to be wearing my pretty new gloves this week as I get stuck into my late winter gardening jobs.
I also chose 3 primulas & a cowslip to add a bit of extra colour & a bunch of daffodils to replace my Valentine's tulips on the windowsill. Mr F & I had a little walk around the garden & identified a few useful jobs we'd like to do over the next couple of weeks. We were going to have our first coffee of the year out on our courtyard coffee bench, but as soon as the coffee machine pinged, the rain started. Never mind. Al fresco coffee WILL start this week. 
Well Mr F is watching some very stylish but stark looking film which will doutless involve a load of aliens at some not-too-distant point in its exposition......... I think I will tuck up & read my book.
Take care, dear readers, 
F xx

Four_Seasons

Lovely to hear you are on the mend. sending hugs x

foxgloves

Thanks, Four_Seasons, I am truly thinking it cannot go on for much longer & am trying to think positive.
F x

Humdinger1

@foxgloves get well soon! Always so positive, even in the midst of tummy trouble. A plain baked normal/sweet potato might help? Hope you don't mind me suggesting food....

HairyHandofDartmoor

It sounds like a really horrid experience Foxgloves. I hope you feel completely better soon.

ladyholly

Glad to hear you are improving.

foxgloves

Thanks all of you for your kind wishes. Yes, Humdinger, I have felt better on fairly bland food..... so may well come to regret that I've just eaten a roast dinner! I am hoping to continue picking up over the next couple of days. I don't need to go anywhere, thankfully. I would just like to feel able to do more things & a lot less sitting around groaning with a hot water bottle. Hope that by the time I talk to you tomorrow, I'll have achieved at least a few things.
F xx

Sun_Addict

If you’ve eaten a roast dinner you must be on the mend👍