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I just used sand and compost. I saw the rose near the town centre. It is white and floribunda. And next to it, there was ceanothus! At this rate, I don't need to buy any plants. Like thornless rose!
I'm off to bed now. Hope you get better soon, @Upsy Daisy ! Good night, everybody!
I'm off to bed now. Hope you get better soon, @Upsy Daisy ! Good night, everybody!
Good morning, everyone! It's a cool and dark start to the day. Going to be 22c and I am washing the first of my duvets. More to come later. I will iron my duvet sheet for once as the high thread count makes it very unsightedly if I don't. Still have some photos from yesterday
Monty said that dahlias are a bit tardy this year! That's an understatement. This one could be a thin petalled speckled dahlia. Desperate to see if it is a new flower for me altogether
Toms ripening up sporadically - not a joyous harvest, but a hesitant, tentative one ..
An elongated one maturing! Fun!
Beans for dinner last night
A very scarlet dark crimson or blood red dahlia
Ah, what a lonely soul - the end of August - a hellebore smiled. I don't think I will pinch it. No point, I have had very few flowers.
Hope you're getting better today, @Upsy Daisy !
Monty said that dahlias are a bit tardy this year! That's an understatement. This one could be a thin petalled speckled dahlia. Desperate to see if it is a new flower for me altogether
Toms ripening up sporadically - not a joyous harvest, but a hesitant, tentative one ..
An elongated one maturing! Fun!
Beans for dinner last night
A very scarlet dark crimson or blood red dahlia
Ah, what a lonely soul - the end of August - a hellebore smiled. I don't think I will pinch it. No point, I have had very few flowers.
Hope you're getting better today, @Upsy Daisy !
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Morning @alp and all who drop by for a chat
Well after gingerly opening my eyes this morning I was pleased to find that my head wasn't thumping anywhere near as badly as it has been for the last coup!e of days.........yippeee think it's on it's way out now , fingers crossed . I won't tempt fate and stay on here too long or use the tablet too much today......but yep I'm feeling pretty good .
Lovely pics @alp, Hellebores out now!!! Gosh that is an early one isn't it ?
The Dahlia is a beautiful colour.....I have one deep red one but for some reason ( not me of course!) it never comes out true to colour in photos
We have eaten all our ripen tomatoes now......just having to wait now for all the rest to ripen, but not sure if they all will now.
Well...grocery shopping and Dad visiting are todays plans, but first hubs had a friend coming over to talk car talk etc.
Have a Soothing Saturday everyone
Well after gingerly opening my eyes this morning I was pleased to find that my head wasn't thumping anywhere near as badly as it has been for the last coup!e of days.........yippeee think it's on it's way out now , fingers crossed .
I won't tempt fate and stay on here too long or use the tablet too much today......but yep I'm feeling pretty good .Lovely pics @alp, Hellebores out now!!!
Gosh that is an early one isn't it ?The Dahlia is a beautiful colour.....I have one deep red one but for some reason ( not me of course!
) it never comes out true to colour in photos We have eaten all our ripen tomatoes now......just having to wait now for all the rest to ripen, but not sure if they all will now.
Well...grocery shopping and Dad visiting are todays plans, but first hubs had a friend coming over to talk car talk etc
.Have a Soothing Saturday everyone
Morning all hope your feeling better upsy glad you sink is sorted alp
Been in the garden since first light splitting lillies and taken cuttings time is my enemy at the moment not enough hours in the day got a 13 hour shift today :-(
Have a good day all
Been in the garden since first light splitting lillies and taken cuttings time is my enemy at the moment not enough hours in the day got a 13 hour shift today :-(
Have a good day all
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It’s going to be relatively easy work and busy the shift will fly by hopefully and I’m charging them £17 an hour so worth doingMorning @Leeski , thanks...yes it is
It's definitely hard to do everything when work gets in the way
Sorry that you have a long shift today.....but lucky customers
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Very worth it...good on you !
13-hour shift! That's demanding. Hope you get paid well so that you can pay for you know what!
What kind of lilies are you splitting, @Leeski ?
I usually scale my lily bulbs and end up with 3 or 4 times more. Very easy to do.
Oh, £17 an hour, sounds like a lecturer's pay! Lol! Just think about the pound sign when you're working!
I bet if you work in London, it will be more!
You remember that the achillea seeds packets that we bought and neither of us had anything to show for it. Guess what, I have a whole lawn of it.
I bet they are white and I have just mown them down. A whole lawn of these. They can either fly or creep!
That's demanding. Hope you get paid well so that you can pay for you know what!What kind of lilies are you splitting, @Leeski ?
I usually scale my lily bulbs and end up with 3 or 4 times more. Very easy to do.
Oh, £17 an hour, sounds like a lecturer's pay! Lol!
Just think about the pound sign when you're working!I bet if you work in London, it will be more!
You remember that the achillea seeds packets that we bought and neither of us had anything to show for it. Guess what, I have a whole lawn of it.
I bet they are white and I have just mown them down. A whole lawn of these. They can either fly or creep!
@Upsy Daisy Glad that you're better!
Got 6 big clumps of day lillies I got 12 good plants out them for myself will give the rest away to many for me .
Chef wages are the same in London as Liverpool unless you get head chef in top top restaurant then you can earn 100k plus but you will work 100 hours a week and stress levels are out of this world and the chances of have some kinda break down are very high have seen it many times had a friend who was at the top earning big bucks had it all flash car big house 12 months later he was an alcoholic sleeping on the streets very sad :-(
I’m self employed only do what I wanna do charge what I like could work 80 hours a wk if I wanted
Next step for me is to employ another couple of chefs
Chef wages are the same in London as Liverpool unless you get head chef in top top restaurant then you can earn 100k plus but you will work 100 hours a week and stress levels are out of this world and the chances of have some kinda break down are very high have seen it many times had a friend who was at the top earning big bucks had it all flash car big house 12 months later he was an alcoholic sleeping on the streets very sad :-(
I’m self employed only do what I wanna do charge what I like could work 80 hours a wk if I wanted
Next step for me is to employ another couple of chefs
Leeski Thank you for the education. I want to make a good pizza base and need some help. Will pc you.
Yes, a lot of pressure for top chefs - I'm glad that you're self-employed and can work around your other hobbies and vice versa. Sanity, happiness and quality of life are more important than money. I wish I could lecture my neighbours. But there are people who would engage the grandchildren to do dirty business and I realise that I have to move asap! I had a look at the house prices and regretted that I lowered the prices. Hard to say .. I hope the new owner is a builder!
Yes, a lot of pressure for top chefs - I'm glad that you're self-employed and can work around your other hobbies and vice versa. Sanity, happiness and quality of life are more important than money. I wish I could lecture my neighbours. But there are people who would engage the grandchildren to do dirty business and I realise that I have to move asap! I had a look at the house prices and regretted that I lowered the prices. Hard to say .. I hope the new owner is a builder!
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There was a recent article about the stress levels and the consequences that resulted from them for chefs in the bigger restaurants. Frighteningly getting very common
There is so much to learn about being a human being - how to look after oneself, interact with others and cope with stresses.. and look after the environment ... Increasingly, things happen too fast, too soon to children and they don't have the maturity to cope with these seismic changes in life .. all the more sad for them ..
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