3: Gardening Diaries ...

[Upsy Daisy]

Glad I'm not the only one then @Logan

 

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy don't be ashamed of not washing your curtains. I haven't done mine for a few years.
The dining room patio doors are 10ft long and the curtains 90inc long and width each, also lined. They're very heavy when dry and hard to get back up, even with help from hubby. But it's too late now this year, it will have to wait until next, if i remember.

@alp sorry about your eyes. Do you have them checked every so often? They can do a lot more now.

As long as you hubs doesn't moan and you have few visitors, it's OK. I live by a very busy street so I feel better if I do it.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Me too @alp ...M3!!!!.....sadly only a once a year job though......how dirty am I!!!!!

 

[alp]

Tufts in amongst toms

Not even grass, but tufts

cuttings taken from @Leeski 's suggestion - side shoots taken as cuttings

I really like this dahlia - they really jazz up the corner and they stand proud of the leaves, unlike Crazy Love which bury the flowers in amongst the leaves.

Someone please ring an alarm bell for this lady - she might miss her party!

 

[alp]

Me too @alp ...M3!!!!.....sadly only a once a year job though......how dirty am I!!!!!

Have you got Excel? It's easier just to input figures. Send me one of your returns - the latest and I can work it out for you.

 

[Leeski]

Do you have Excel on your laptop? I could possibly send you one form with formulae embedded. But you must have a spreadsheet software and if you can tell you what you need, I can design one for you. But you possibly have one already. Once you input the data, the form will do the sums for you.

Thanks for offer I have an accountant who does most of my accounting it’s more time management and getting the most money as poss for the least amount of work I’m half way between taking two chefs on on a self employed basis so I will place them in work at £12 an hour and charge client £16 an hour just there’s more to it than that pli & ni just trying to figure out my best options basically I want to be earning £25 an hour for 10 hours of the day 7 days a wk

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Great pics @alp.....it's surprising all the late bloomers this year. My Dahlias have sprung back to life again too

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Worse part of being self-employed....the unseen hours that are put in doing paperwork/ bookkeeping. I was in the same position for 25 years....takes it's toll on family life. Be careful @Leeski !!

 

[alp]

Thanks for offer I have an accountant who does most of my accounting it’s more time management and getting the most money as poss for the least amount of work I’m half way between taking two chefs on on a self employed basis so I will place them in work at £12 an hour and charge client £16 an hour just there’s more to it than that pli & ni just trying to figure out my best options basically I want to be earning £25 an hour for 10 hours of the day 7 days a wk

Whoa! Very shrewd business woman! Glad to have you here! A breath of fresh air, apart from the seaweed. No, actually will 2 or 3 months be long enough to dissipate the foul smell. I will put it next to my other neighbour. Hope there is enough of it.!

 

[Logan]

As long as you hubs doesn't moan and you have few visitors, it's OK. I live by a very busy street so I feel better if I do it.

Thanks,he does joke about it when i haven't done it for so long, like the ironing, mending his clothes.
But he's ok. Thanks.

If it makes you feel better, then why not. Mom used to change hers from summer ones to winter ones.

 

[Leeski]

Worse part of being self-employed....the unseen hours that are put in doing paperwork/ bookkeeping. I was in the same position for 25 years....takes it's toll on family life. Be careful @Leeski !!

Sure does I agree 100% sometimes wish I had 9-5 on paye as soon as I get my new house will reassess my work garden life balance

 

[alp]

Great pics @alp.....it's surprising all the late bloomers this year. My Dahlias have sprung back to life again too

The tardiness is just purely exasperating! This one might even be Blue Bayou, by the look of it

I have made 4 attempts in buying it! All failures! She is already a happy belle, the others are sulking witches - literally having only tons of small green buds and masses of leaves!

 

[alp]

Sure does I agree 100% sometimes wish I had 9-5 on paye as soon as I get my new house will reassess my work garden life balance

Hard to have 9-5 if you are a chef! What kind of soil do you have in your area, clay? Make sure you choose one with a good aspect!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Good!! I still have little regrets and feel that missed out on certain times through our 3 childrens younger years. Hubs took them for all ( for example ) their swimming lessons every Saturday morning, while I waded through child development reports for Social Services and later OFSTED......not seeing some of my own children's developments .

Keep a clear head!! @Leeski

 

[Leeski]

Accird

Hard to have 9-5 if you are a chef! What kind of soil do you have in your area, clay? Make sure you choose one with a good aspect!

according to soil survey chart our soil should be clay I have dug around 3 foot deep in various places and it’s between clay and top soil so not to bad when I first moved here we dug in a tonne or topsoil and loads of horse manure have Studied the soil by us and there’s a fertile area where the Estery use to run runs straight through the middle of the Wirral strange that’s where I have focused my house search ;-)