3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Unfortunately, 2 sinks with an inch of water! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Now I have to think of the nasty chemical method. Now I need to go around and label all the dahlia so that next year the Mambo won't be hidden by a taller magenta cousin. Not so sunny today

Not a happy or cheerful day - ideal for gardening!

4 days of predicted rain - a record!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Oh dear ...not a good start to your day then @alp. Fingers crossed that you day gets onto a happier track and impoves for you

 

[alp]

Oh dear ...not a good start to your day then @alp. Fingers crossed that you day gets onto a happier track and impoves for you

Thank you for cheering me up. Just emailed another estate agent - a costly one and I need to think long and hard ..

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Yes , perhaps it's time to reflect a bit about your next move. You're working so hard at the moment, maybe a lower price and just keeping things ticking over and tidy is what you must now think about now ......for the sake of your own, health and wellbeing. Of course this might not be appropriate for you, only you can make this decision . Love to see you and your lovely son settled in somewhere that makes you both happier......and breathing clean air!!

 

[alp]

Yes , perhaps it's time to reflect a bit about your next move. You're working so hard at the moment, maybe a lower price and just keeping things ticking over and tidy is what you must now think about now ......for the sake of your own, health and wellbeing. Of course this might not be appropriate for you, only you can make this decision . Love to see you and your lovely son settled in somewhere that makes you both happier......and breathing clean air!!

Yes, I really fancy Wales - much cheaper and bigger piece of land. Can't buy anything round here! No point going to live in a terrace and be clamped in. Watching The Papers. Very sad that people die from allergy. Modern allergies are so frightening. If I were a parent, I would make my own food. It's not a joke. People can just die from eating a bit of peanut! or a crisp!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Yes allergies are scary the last little boy that I looked after had nut allergies and I always had to carry an EpiPen with us. One cafe that we always went to for a morning drink/ snack ( and toilet, stop ,as they had lovely clean ones!!) admitted to me that they couldn't guarantee that their snacks were nut free, so were absolutely fine with me taking in my own snacks for him
Just wish that there were more honest places like this one , where customers health comes first and not the daily

 

[alp]

Yes. Allergies with kids can be very frightening. I remember this boy coming to play with my son and he told me straight away that he had nut allergies. Mama mia! It didn't even register with me. Thank heavens, no nasty happened in my house and he only came once. I am totally thick. When I first passed my test, I drove the car down the car at a frightful speed and didn't register that the cyclist was an obstacle. I saw his face went white. Thank heavens I brake hard and in time. That was such a fright. Once during a holiday journey, I fell asleep and nearly crash into a blue Honda Jazz coming out of a side road! I still remember it to this day. Another time, I fell asleep and drifted the car along the motorway; fortunately, a person gently horned his car and I went, "Oh, dear, dear, dear! I fell asleep!" Things can turn bad and tragic in the flick of a second.

Now please don't laugh at my messiness. It's hard work - my humble effort at cloud effect box!

 

[alp]

I have the feeling that they should be in a straight line, but separate. I might be so wrong.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Wow! Very good @alp. I wouldn't know where to start!!

 

[alp]

Wow! Very good @alp. I wouldn't know where to start!!

I might have to tweak it a great deal. I might follow this Irish lady. I certainly won't do this on the ground. Funny thing is that I had to remove a tie which bound all the different boxes together and bend them apart. It's fun. It might be quite wrong.

4pm, I watched Monty's Japanese and China garden again. Very disappointed with the way Chinese gardens are portrayed. It's like looking at an elephant parts and not whole. The Japanese gardens are so boring. Give me @Perki 's, Johnny's, Zenj 's any time or yours any time.

The Japanese said their gardens didn't rely on the colours of flowers and all I could see was raked shingles and boring stones .. LOL!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Gosh ,there's more to it than I thought...weighing it down with heavy stones!! Quite an art

 

[alp]

Gosh ,there's more to it than I thought...weighing it down with heavy stones!! Quite an art

Yes, better than with wires. I think I will do the same. But I need to see more photos of cloud tree first. Will buy the other £6 one to have another go! Quite fun!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

We'll need progress pics please

 

[alp]

It's getting so cold now. Son is suggesting something, which I will ignore as Wednesday will be 24c. Oh, by the way, guess what I've found

Cerinthes thought it was summer and they are multiplying like mad

and out of nowhere, a rudbeckia

Must be from last year's buy. See, they sense something which we can't .. Here comes the heat! HURRAH!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

He wants the heating on ??.Have to say we have ours on in certain rooms, my joints just cease up when I get really cold.