A Story and a Thank you!

[veggiechicken]

Really? Y'don't say!

Its called Gardening on a tangent

[veggiechicken]

G'won, Aunty VC! Am right behind you, sweetheart. You are gonna need a Bruno.

Thanks HH Is Bruno any good at clearing brambles?

[Potstubsdustbins]

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been three days since your last post

R.S.M. Potty

[veggiechicken]

Oops, sorry Sir (touches forelock ). 'Eres my What I did on the 7th

"Counted my fruit trees for the first time ever - 36 Must try to identify some more of them this year - if they manage to flower and fruit
Did some more bramble clearance.
Planted about 30 coloured primroses that I received from T&M last year as mini-mini plugs - think they were free if you paid postage.
Planted some Rocket and Charlotte potatoes in bags in the GH. I don't think I'll put any in the soil this year, having lost the lot to blight last year.
Another fine day messing about in the garden"
Yesterday and some of today was spent awaiting the Boiler Service man I thought of you when he said he was stuck in an airing cupboard

[Potstubsdustbins]

Now what was he doing in there I ask myself?

Your going to be rightly proud of your garden when you've finished, might be all the rest of us touching our collective forelock's then.

Potty

[veggiechicken]

He was wiring up summat - when I rang him. I think he may have been asleep ampngst the spare blankets from his muffled voice Then he came here, serviced the boiler, and went away, leaving his phone in my airing cupboard Good job he came back for it before it rang

[Mikey]

Now you know this only too well but if you've got something heavy that needs a pair of strong lads you always have two local boys you can call on. How you get both of us there at the same time I wouldn't like to say!!!

I've seen the size of your garden VC the one in cabbage I mean, and while it is an absolute gem of a spot, I'd work from the back door out rather than the end of the paddock back. Its an awful long way from the kettle down there.

Keep it up gal.

I've been coveting a new greenhouse today but it sold on the bay for a little more than I had in my mind to spend. It was only lickle 28ft x 10ft, I'd have had to move the chickens again had I got it!!!

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Mike. One day you're going to have to meet Chris - you can't keep putting it off - or is it the other way round
That GH is/was enormous. I've just counted the floor tiles in the kitchen to get an idea. Shame you missed it - it would have been fantastic. Maybe another will be along soon - like buses

[Mikey]

Not sure I could afford it if it did...... its one of those fly fishing houses. built to last a 100 years.

I know he's desperate to meet me he's just waiting for me to finish the pizza oven, that could be why its taken 2 years!!!!. I've been doing more research on it tonight, the more I learn the more confusing it gets. I'm trying to figure out how you keep a cob oven dry without putting a roof over it, while still letting it breathe.

Its gonna rain after lunch tomorrow so I'm told so whatever you've got planned, make sure its under cover.

[veggiechicken]

Fly fishing house - you must have a big pond My neighbour built one of those pizza ovens that looks like a Greek church - don't think he's ever used it
Anyway, tomorrow's plan is garden in the morning and in the afternoon, visiting a neighbour who had a fall recently and smashed his elbow into nothingness. His wife has asked me to go down to entertain him He must be bored

[Hazel at the Hill]

So it's gardening; piccies; then entertaining a poor awld croc tomorrow? Emphasis on the piccies, obviously

Actually, I hope that your neighbour hasn't invited your round chivvy up the housebound as some sort of aversion therapy? You know - like the 52wk challenge equivalent of the suggestion of cleaning windows? If so, the hope is that he'll be hand-standing round the village in no time?!

No, of course not, that would be mean.

[chris]

Not sure I could afford it if it did...... its one of those fly fishing houses. built to last a 100 years.

I know he's desperate to meet me he's just waiting for me to finish the pizza oven, that could be why its taken 2 years!!!!. I've been doing more research on it tonight, the more I learn the more confusing it gets. I'm trying to figure out how you keep a cob oven dry without putting a roof over it, while still letting it breathe.

Its gonna rain after lunch tomorrow so I'm told so whatever you've got planned, make sure its under cover.

I'm off to a river cottage course on building clay ovens mikey, so you never know I might actually learn something and be able to relay some info on..

I reckon Mikey and myself could make a dent in those brambles - I'm very close to getting downstairs sorted in my house, so see if you can book us both in at the same time

[chris]

(aka, kettle, tea/coffee and an unholy amount of biccies.. now I know you, I won't be polite and hold back. If mikey blinks I'll scoff the lot.)

[veggiechicken]

.......and I know you both - and we'd all be fighting over those biccies
'Twould be a laugh though

[taff]

I didnt think you had to keep a cob oven dry.....anyway, try cow poo mixed with mud, it'll bake to a nice consistency....