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Post by jellibeans on Mar 22, 2024 7:42:48 GMT
Get well soon Derek, that is so scary. My husband suffers occasional bad bouts of that . Not nice at all for the person to experience or their family to witness.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 22, 2024 19:39:10 GMT
Thank you very much for your messages.I arrived home from hospital this afternoon.I have had a monitor fitted and have to keep it on for a week then take it back.A doctor will examine it and decide if I need any further treatment. Martyn has been looking after Rosemary while I have been away and Heather arrived yesterday for the weekend.I feel O.K. and will start to get back to my normal jobs tomorrow .Two deliveries of plug plants arrived while I was away and some more arrived today. Heather has potted some up for me,some coleus from Dibleys so I will carry on doing them.
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Post by balc2 on Mar 22, 2024 20:23:00 GMT
Good to hear you are back home, derekbrooks. It must have been a very worrying time for you & your family. Glad you are feeling better!  |
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Post by grindle on Mar 23, 2024 4:06:52 GMT
glad to hear you're back home and feeling better now Derek
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Post by SueA on Mar 23, 2024 16:14:02 GMT
God to hear you're home derekbrooks, take it easy & don't overdo it! |
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 23, 2024 21:27:11 GMT
Heather had to take me back to hospital this morning because they had left a cannula in my arm.Thank you again for the messages you have sent me.
Had the afternoon in the greenhouse. I told you yesterday that some plug plants had arrived and I transferred them all to cell trays. There were 72 begonia "Non stop" and 72 begonia "Organdy"
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Post by jellibeans on Mar 24, 2024 11:26:39 GMT
Glad you're home now derekbrooks and wishing you a continuous and steady recovery. The same thing happened to my brother when he was discharged from hospital a month ago and found a cannula was still attached. They wanted him to return to hospital but at the time no hospital transport was available ( he's very disabled) so in the end they agreed to talk us through removing it ourselves. Enjoy your day but don't overdo things. |
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 24, 2024 21:10:18 GMT
Thank you,Jellibeans
Another afternoon in the greenhouse.Potted about 40 tomatoes into drinking cups then took another 45 chrysanth cuttings.Removed the chrysanth stools from the warming benches and put the tomatoes on.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 24, 2024 22:02:14 GMT
Two things I forgot to mention earlier.
I haven't mowed my lawns this year yet and they were rather long. Because I have to take things a bit easier my next door neighbour mowed them for me with his electric mower.I only have a push mower and it would have been hard work.
Heather went home this afternoon. She normally comes for the weekend every two weeks.This wasn't her week for coming but she came because she didn't know if I would still be in hospital.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 25, 2024 21:31:02 GMT
A showery day but I have been in the greenhouse most of the timw. Took another 20 chrysanth cuttings and 50 dahlias.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 26, 2024 21:12:04 GMT
A decent day today. I took Rosemary a walk in her wheelchair this afternoon.When we got home I went in the greenhouse .Started sowing some more flower seeds, 8 packets altogether and will sow some more tomorrow.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 27, 2024 19:35:39 GMT
A showery day and another day mostly in the greenhouse sowing more flower seeds.Sowed another 8 packets and also two varieties of which I had saved my own seeds ,Rudbeckia "Indian summer" and marigold "Tall Scotch Prize".I planted my begonias in boxes in February and put them in the propagator to start them growing.Today I potted four up into 5 inch pots that were growing.
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 28, 2024 21:11:20 GMT
Dry this morning but showery after. Martyn took me monitor back to the hospital this morning. I went to my allotment and started weeding what will be the root crop bed. This was the brassica bed before and there were still some sprouts on it but they have nearly finished.I picked some more and took them home. I also picked the first rhubarb and gave it to two of our neighbours.There is plenty more so I will pick some more for ourselves when we want some.
This afternoon I went to Blackleach for the art club. Richard, the ranger doesn't work on Thursdays and besides him I am the only person who has a key to the visitor centre so there can't be an art club unless I go to open up.While they were in I just sat at my desk writing my next article for Garden News.
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Post by balc2 on Mar 29, 2024 6:33:45 GMT
Good to hear you are getting back into your old routine 👍
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Post by derekbrooks on Mar 29, 2024 21:57:15 GMT
Thank you.Balc2
Our Good Friday service at church was half an hour earlier than usual, 10.00 so I had time to do something when I got home at 11.00. I decided to pepair a pane of glass in my larger greenhouse.Don't know how it got broken but a piece had broken off it and fell to the ground.I took it under the car port and joined the two pieces together by binding duck tape round them.
Took Rosemary a walk this afternoon then went in the greenhouse and started taking cuttings from my overwintered basket plants. Did some pink diascias.
Heather arrived at 10.30 this evening for the weekend.
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