3: Gardening Diaries ...

[johnny canoe]

My gourds!!

 

[DirtMechanic]

My gourds!!
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Lol..Hang on let me take a pic of Becky's gourds..

I wish these were investments ..there are even more in the back. Maybe she will turn all of them into art, but I notice it takes quite a while for "inspiration" to strike.

 

[alp]

It’s called the sage ,music mostly venue brilliant acoustics We’ve seen Kathrine Jenkins ,Kate Rusby ,And Julie Fowler there,Jake Bugg And Joanna Lumleys on soon so a mix bag of entertainment .

Nice! Can we go in to have a look as tourists or is there a cafe inside please?

 

[alp]

Ah Evening all sure do along with billy cotton band show and Black and white minstrels also remember the dot going when you turned the tele off .

Didn't turn off the dot and very SAD to see the red dot this morning. Blamed my son. No, joking only. It was me watching Evil Twins - truly evil twins! and Channel 66 is my major source of joy!

 

[alp]

My gourds!!
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Expect to see a lot of bird nests next year, John!

 

[alp]

Lol..Hang on let me take a pic of Becky's gourds..

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I wish these were investments ..there are even more in the back. Maybe she will turn all of them into art, but I notice it takes quite a while for "inspiration" to strike.

Or you can turn them into bird nests... Like John! I am happy that I don't have any squash this year. They were huge and I was sick looking at them. Kept one for months and it didn't taste good. Put some in the freezer and they tasted weird.

 

[alp]

My gourds!!
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Lovely! Looks like a good harvest!

 

[Zenj]

Nice! Can we go in to have a look as tourists or is there a cafe inside please?

Yes you can just walk in and it as a cafe and bars sometime they have a music group or folk works playing which is free you can walk over the millennium bridge to the sage from Newcastle Quayside the sage is on the Gateshead side.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Or you can turn them into bird nests... Like John! I am happy that I don't have any squash this year. They were huge and I was sick looking at them. Kept one for months and it didn't taste good. Put some in the freezer and they tasted weird.

Yes Birdhouses, but I am afraid not as functional as @johnny canoe. The gourds at my house come out like Georgia O'keefe

Or like Picasso

Sometimes like A Starry Night

Or wild like Dali

Normal would be nice.

 

[alp]

Very nice! Hope Becky strikes new grounds and new seams! She's good enough to come in on her own! I do like the one with a hint of Picasso though!

Good morning. Woken up at 4.41am. This is worrying! Going to tidy up the lean to and water houseplants today!

Lovely gardening weather! A lot will be done!

 

[alp]

Yes you can just walk in and it as a cafe and bars sometime they have a music group or folk works playing which is free you can walk over the millennium bridge to the sage from Newcastle Quayside the sage is on the Gateshead side.

Thank you for the heads up! I do like flunky buildings. Went to the University of Nottingham just to see this

And took a lot of photos outside the Bull's Ring in Birmingham

 

[Zenj]

Morning all feels warm and no winds so I will give the lawns a cut while I still can as they are too wet all winter, have a great day all.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hi everyone!

No notifications whatsoever today, so thought nobody was in a chatty mood !!

Ok ( ish ) day today, so might get outside after a quick visit to my sister's ( who am I kidding....they are never quick visits ).

Wonder why I'm not getting alerts??

Have a great day

 

[alp]

I didn't have @johnny canoe 's gourds notification yesterday either. Was sweetly surprised to see Johnny's prospective bird nests AND DM's colourful artworks! I wonder how they gut the gourds to make a dry nest. Hope Johnny will upload the process!

Such a miserable day! Glad that you could cut the lawn, @Zenj ! Been tidying up the lean to and before that did a laundry round only to see DRIZZLE the WHOLE day!. Non-stop drizzle and I hope it is good for all my cuttings.

A whole day of cleaning. Was thinking of potting all the hellebores up, but after having done 40 pots, I was too overwhelmed to carry on.

 

[alp]

Winter's coming! Temperatures could plunge as low as -1C tonight before Arctic air puts an end to warm October by sweeping across Britain next week

• Jet stream is being pushed far to the north over Greenland - causing high pressure to build in mid-Atlantic
• Cold air will sweep across Britain next week after temperatures dip to -1C (30F) in some rural areas tonight
• It comes after temperatures hit 71F in London yesterday - and Storm Callum hit Britain over the weekend
  
  Gee! I hope they are talking about Scotland!