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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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Farway said:Black_Cat2 said:No rain for an hour so popped out and cut back my herbs (like DD265 was planning to do) and wrestled with the weeds surrounding my carrots. Good crop this year - been in the ground for months so they're huge! Too many for me and the other half to eat.Just my opinion, no offence 🐈0
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Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).
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[Deleted User] said:Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).Just my opinion, no offence 🐈1
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Morning BC 😊
You've been doin' that rain dance again, haven't you 🙄😆
Hail here earlier, can't wait to see what the rest of the day brings - at least the wind direction's changed though, very warm out again today 😊1 -
Black_Cat2 said:Catsacor said:Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).There was Margaret Thatcher and we only had a 28' garden.....that's just two things off the top of my head.Looks like a pick n' mix day today, but might get some wild planting done. I have a bank of rugosa roses to finish off along the roadside, some alder buckthorn to stick in a hedge and another eucalyptus to insert behind a nasty neighbour.
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Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣2 -
[Deleted User] said:Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣Long story....far too long...so let's just say that the neighbour tried to intimidate me when I dared to alter things on a patch of land near their property, so we have a copse of unwanted trees behind the laurels and barbed wire fence that now separate us and him. Behind those trees, we have a line of 'proper' deciduous specimens, like copper beech, Swedish whitebeam and wild service tree, with buddleias for the butterflies. They're what we see.So, the eucalyptus is just going into a gap in the 'hotch-potch' section, where it may turn into firewood in 5 years or so. Everything in there is expendable.3 -
[Deleted User] said:Morning BC 😊
You've been doin' that rain dance again, haven't you 🙄😆
Hail here earlier, can't wait to see what the rest of the day brings - at least the wind direction's changed though, very warm out again today 😊
@Davesnave - lots of good things in the 80s, like... umm... okay you have a point. Best thing was the bad clothes and outrageous perms so it didn't matter if you woke up straight out of bed looking like a scarecrow because back then you were good to go! 😁
Just my opinion, no offence 🐈2 -
Davesnave said:[Deleted User] said:Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣Long story....far too long...so let's just say that the neighbour tried to intimidate me when I dared to alter things on a patch of land near their property, so we have a copse of unwanted trees behind the laurels and barbed wire fence that now separate us and him. Behind those trees, we have a line of 'proper' deciduous specimens, like copper beech, Swedish whitebeam and wild service tree, with buddleias for the butterflies. They're what we see.So, the eucalyptus is just going into a gap in the 'hotch-potch' section, where it may turn into firewood in 5 years or so. Everything in there is expendable.1
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