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Post by balc2 on Oct 14, 2024 15:27:02 GMT
Take care then & I hope you have a safe journey in both directions! 👍
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Post by geumgrower on Oct 15, 2024 16:56:58 GMT
Back!. Nice service (if you know what I mean) apposite for the kind of person he was.
Drive there is horrendous. Drive home is horrible. I don't think we will drive that sort of distance again.
Nice to see all my children and spouses together though, even if for such a sad occasion.
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Post by balc2 on Oct 15, 2024 19:23:19 GMT
Glad to see you made the journey safely in both directions, geumgrower! |
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Post by balc2 on Oct 16, 2024 5:12:56 GMT
Today I'm going to our minister's old house to help him tidy up the garden. He moved house on Monday and during the week he will be doing any work that may need to be done to leave the house in the best condition for the next family to move in.
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Post by seaburn on Oct 16, 2024 16:19:54 GMT
we drove 4hrs to Scole near Diss Norfolk yesterday. Much slower than normal, all the limited speed lorries on the roads. Had a relaxing evening last night. Been shopping in Norwich [her birthday] and then spent an hour deciding what gardening to do tomorrow. Hubby is putting electricity sockets etc into their garage, so Dan can use it as a workshop.
Tired now but too late to have a nap before we go out for a meal. Its a hard life!!
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Post by balc2 on Oct 17, 2024 5:15:39 GMT
Glad you enjoyed your day out shopping with your daughter, seaburn! I spent an hour with our minister cutting back bramble! Some of the branches were 3-4m long! But as I said to him "You need an army of gardeners to clear away the bramble!" I did the same back in June this year when they expected to move a lot earlier than October! As we all know you need to get the roots out of you want to eliminate it from your garden! So most of the cutting back will need to be done again by whoever moves into the house next year! 😕 |
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Post by seaburn on Oct 18, 2024 21:31:47 GMT
mmmh brambles, tell me about it! Lots in the daughters garden and I have thorn embedded between 2 knuckles and I cant get it out. Will have to keep an eye on it and hope my skin rejects it. Tetanus jab is up to date thankfully.
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Post by grindle on Oct 19, 2024 3:21:16 GMT
ouch that's not nice seaburn hope it doesn't cause you too much trouble, brambles are a pain  |
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Post by grindle on Oct 19, 2024 3:32:24 GMT
I've had to make the decision to have my birch tree cut down, it's got too tall and is now into the phone wires from next door and with the storm season here making a start and the way it was leaning in the last heavy winds, I don't want it to end up in my neighbours garden the deed will be done in January my tree man has been booked, I'm sure I will find something to replace it  |
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Post by seaburn on Oct 19, 2024 6:56:36 GMT
Thats the problem isn't it. when to call it quits. but every failed/felled plant is an opportunity to go and visit the garden centers.  |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 19, 2024 11:00:49 GMT
It was my first day back at yoga yesterday at Wiggenhall St Germans after 3 months absence, and it was uncannily very warm. I have had a holiday in Scotland, and had a really bad flu, which I now learn was most probably Covid as my son and his partner were tested positive for this, but did not want to tell me. It all makes sense now and I still have a ‘Covid’ head for which I was blaming flu. Oh well, I am getting better.
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Post by Cherry on Oct 19, 2024 11:17:03 GMT
I've had to make the decision to have my birch tree cut down, it's got too tall and is now into the phone wires from next door and with the storm season here making a start and the way it was leaning in the last heavy winds, I don't want it to end up in my neighbours garden the deed will be done in January my tree man has been booked, I'm sure I will find something to replace it Have you got a Sorbus tree Grindle? They come in all shapes and heights and can be multi-stemmed too. If you do plant one, do put a copper coin under the roots to keep the witches away. This would take mistletoe easily too.
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Post by balc2 on Oct 19, 2024 19:27:39 GMT
There comes a moment in everyone's garden, yes, even on the balcony, too, when we have to remove something we have had for years! |
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Post by grindle on Oct 20, 2024 2:51:07 GMT
Yes Cherry I do have one, I've got a Witch hazel 'Arnold Promise' an Acer 'Butterfly' and a Halesia carolina waiting for new homes, but I think the Halesia would be too big for the space so I might go with the Acer which would not grow too big, I already have a Chitalpa there which is quite big now, although I've been asked for the overhang to be cut back, that will be done at the same time |
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Post by Cherry on Oct 20, 2024 16:27:03 GMT
Of course you would have one Grindle. Your selection sounds lovely.
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