Chatback #17

[Snoop Puss]

Due to be hot and windy today. Not good. And another mini rant: spotted a hornet coming for water. As it was just the one, I managed to get reasonably close to have a good squint at it. A little bit aggressive and definitely Asian. I was hoping I was wrong the last time, but evidently not.

No gardening today. Just paid work. Tedious, but there you go. Keeps the wolf from the door. Which is a very odd expression, now I come to think of it. Hope the midges keep away, Rary. We put up our mozzie net last night, now it's so warm we're sleeping with all the doors and windows open. The cats love it.

Have a good day, everyone.

[Thelma Sanders]

Mornings!
It seemed like one thunderstorm after another waking me up last night, so everything is sodden and bashed down now. A sad year for the roses, specially the ones that don't repeat flower

Blue sky now for another plot showing in a bit, it is nearly shoulder high with weeds, so they'll need to be keen to take it on tbh - we'll see.

Have a good'un

[Nicos]

Mornin n'alln'all

Bit of a late start having been kept awake by the storm until stupido'clock.fr

Had to chuckle last night.
First of all an earthquake a few days ago. Then an intense lightning storm....what next ?...a plague of frogs?....nope, but after the rain stopped the crickets started chirping enmass all night. And yes, they do sound similar to the frogs by the stream/river at mating time!!!!!

All calm here now.

Herrings and hard boiled eggs this morning for breakfast ...with Swedish crispbread and finely chopped tomato and cucumber salad.
That'll be me burping all day then

First things first of course.....tea!

[burnie]

Morning, we didn't get quite the storms some got and the damage looks minimal, onion sets look battered, but everything else looking good and the greenhouse is getting more and more difficult to move in. My Roses aren't too bad, a lot of petals everywhere, but little broken, now bright and breezy, have a nice day all.

[bramble]

Good morning all.
We have been lucky here in Dublin.
With the exception of torrential rain on Sunday night all has been fine.
A bright morning with no rain forecast.
Off out this morning to the big toy store.
Grandson has his first birthday party coming up on Sundsy so we are getting him a garden swing.
Have a good day all.

[rary]

Good afternoon, warm but cloudy today when watering the greenhouse the s morning I decided to blast the tomato plants with water to see if I can get rid of the plague of whitefly and greenfly will have to wait and see if it has worked, after going a walk with a neighbour I went up to the church and put up some shelving, now back home, OH is out today with her old workmates so I have fed myself just finished a plate of ham, egg, sliced sausage, onion and beans, I love frying onion and beans together, so an enjoyable lunch all done in the one pan, for some reason OH doesn't like beans and onions fried together I don't know why, I usually listen to what she says, after all her life choices are far better than mine right for out to the garden for a wee while (no VC it means a short time)

[Snadger]

I've just built a six foot fence at the end of my garden. I had to cut down loads of ivy, mile a minute vine and elder to facilitate this.
Sick of looking at the heap and waiting for dry weather to be able to sort it, I decided just to don the wet weather gear and get rid.
My daughter lives six doors away and is on hol in Corfu. She has a half empty skip sitting on her drive so I thought what better way to get rid of my stuff. By dragging loads of bushes up the road on a tarpaulin I managed to fill the skip with about four loads. The rest of the bushes I have hidden behind the shed until November 5th when I will have a bonfire.
Now all I am waiting for is my Son-in- law to come back from holiday and punch my lights out for filling their skip!

[lottie dolly]

afternoon all,wet,dull and misserable here,thank goodness nothing bad,snoop you lucky to be able to leave all things open,stay safe all,what with heat waves and stormes,Bgood2yrselves.

[Snoop Puss]

Are you allowed to do that, Snadger? I thought there were strict rules about what could and could not be put in skips.

[Snadger]

Are you allowed to do that, Snadger? I thought there were strict rules about what could and could not be put in skips.

Surely bushes and vegetation are mainly what skips are hired for? Asbestos or car tyres are a no-no but everything else is fair game methinks.
Skip was half full of my Daughters garden rubbish anyway., I just filled it up

[rary]

Well with OH out for lunch he day I could do what I wanted so potted up some lupins, then painted an other part of my fence, next t what I wanted to do but need to get it out the way as OH goes on and on about it needing done, worse than the toothache, but the plus side, it has earned me some brownie points

[Bren In Pots]

Are you allowed to do that, Snadger? I thought there were strict rules about what could and could not be put in skips.

I'd always thought every skip had to contain at least one mattress.

[JanieB]

What a fantastic day. One of my best friends ever is over from NZ and we met for lunch. So seven and a half hours plus later we parted and I don't think we would've done so then if her sister hadn't rung. It was as if the last 20 years hadn't happened. She was about 20 and me 30 when we first met. We have many friends in common. She's here for another 2 weeks and says she won't be back again so I think it will be my turn to visit her. We will see each other again whilst she's here but with other friends around.

Time for me to organise it as I have the contact numbers.

[Snadger]

I'd always thought every skip had to contain at least one mattress.

And not necessarily from the skip hirer!

[rary]

Should have mentioned in my last post while painting the fence I had to move several branches of trees and bushes and they were alive with green fly my green house is 15ft. away no wonder I have problems with green fly just now