Weeds

Redcurrants

2008-07-13T10:53:00.002+01:00

I haven't had much time for posting but felt that I must share a wonderful tip that I read the other day.
Like a lot of people at this time of year I am inundated with redcurrants on my 2 bushes and picking them is very laborious, it was a job that my husband would spend hours on but I get bored quickly. While looking up a reminder of how much sugar to fruit for making jam I came across a tip that to pick them run a fork down the stalks, and it really is so much quicker I have bowls full in half the time. So now I have made the jam I might get quite a few frozen before the birds finish them off.

Margate

2008-04-20T19:08:00.002+01:00

Interesting article Dr Moores seems to be in conflict with the thoughts of his leader.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/20/ukcrime.communities

Rambling

2008-03-16T00:10:00.002Z

This post may ramble a bit as I have just come back from a jolly good night out but am now sitting here thinking. The sight of the ripped up Shannon Matthews posters started me off.
When I was working in a London stockbrokers during the 1960's I was quickly promoted to supervisor but all of the boys/men that worked for me got paid so much more than the girls for the same job that when one man got paid more than me I handed my notice in. I immediately got a big pay rise, due to my explanation that my eggs and butter were no cheaper than his. But the girls did not do any better, my very selfish thoughts at that age was that was their look out.
In the early 1990's I had moved to Ramsgate and my attitude to Margaret Thatcher was that she agreed that women's lib was rubbish but women needed to fight for their rights themselves and that was a good thing.
However she was to visit Ramsgate and I watched a television crew, who were bored with waiting for her, arrange a local demonstration and their police escort, who were equally as bored, in to a really good rant with the police holding them back ( what from ?)so that they could get some good pictures. When Maggie finally arrived it was much more subdued.
So what I am getting at is did people really rip up posters and celebrate without help from the press or did they just mumble 'that's a good thing' to themselves.
I think I had better go to bed now - god help me in the morning.

Guns in Thanet

2008-03-01T12:47:00.002Z

Following the murder in Margate this morning, it made me think, we don't very often hear of gun crime in Thanet. I do hope this is just a one off and guns don't start appearing on the streets here.

Has spring sprung

2008-02-10T14:18:00.000Z

I spent the last two days walking around London. Went to stay with my daughter on Thursday and decided to do some family research around the City all day on Friday including ancient burial grounds. I got chucked out of Guildhall Library at 5pm and decided to look at the Art Gallery, which was a mistake as they were really closed too, and I got myself caught up in a private viewing but the artist was nice and the wine welcome by that time.
On Saturday my daughter walked me all over the Isle of Dogs which was lovely but I told her I didn't need my coat (would she listen!)
Today I just feel unable to move but with weather like this I had to go into the garden. I took a saw with me thinking I might cut some overgrown trees down a bit on the border with next door a quick attempt and I knew I didn't have the energy, but, with luck the neighbour was out too and said pass me the saw and I'll do it from this side. So with little effort on my part the garden is looking much better - now that's what I call gardening.

Crocuses and snowdrops with daffodils to follow - Happy Days

Ramsgate Harbour

2008-01-08T16:22:00.000Z

I came across an interesting observation from 1797.

This harbour is intended as a place of refuge for ships in the frequent hard gales of wind from south-east to east-north-east, when they are exposed to the greatest danger in the Downs. But after all the immense cost attending this stupendous work, not less than 300,000l, after all the time, trouble, and contrivance, which have been employed and exerted in completing this enormous undertaking, it collects so much sand, mud, &c. that it by no means, answers the great end designed by its construction.

Yet another unsolved problem!

Npower

2008-01-05T00:09:00.000Z

I cannot believe that my supply from my new supplier Npower started yesterday. Now I have to go through it all over again!

Happy Christmas

2007-12-23T08:59:00.000Z

I should be on my way by now but haven't even cleaned the car out let alone packed it. And here I am reading blogs.
Well a Happy Christmas to you all and I am sure next year will be a good one.

Oh dear!

2007-12-20T15:50:00.000Z

I forgot that my sister ocassionally deigns to read my blog and am I in trouble. Of course David Essex is wonderful and here is a link to his website so that you can all hear him David Essex

40 years ago

2007-12-17T23:08:00.000Z

Sometimes just looking up a little item in Google can bring up frightening results. To find out that it was 40 years ago that I went to the best gig I have ever been to in my life. It was at Fairfield Hall Croydon, is now known as the Stax tour and included among others Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Otis Rush, Wilson Picket and Arthur Conley and I really wish that I could remember who else. It was a real stand in the aisles and dance night unlike Rolling Stones etc which had been scream nights. In more recent years I have stooped to concerts and operas ( much easier on the ears) but last year my sister conned me into going to a David Essex concert and I couldn't believe that it was a sell out with screaming middle aged women (I tried to hide under my seat but she dragged me out again). Unfortunately Otis Redding died a few months after the tour but at least I saw him and the others at their best.

Irvine Drive

2007-11-16T14:49:00.000Z

Just wondering - I know the police action is, of course, necessary but what happens to the people who own the house now. Have they been rehoused sensibly? Will their house be put back properly? Will they ever want to go back with what they know? If they do will they have gawpers for ever more? Will it ever be possible to sell it?

Christmas cakes

2007-10-14T11:22:00.000+01:00

Just looking back on last years blog(I knew they would come in handy at some time) I have managed to make my Christmas cakes 2 weeks earlier this year. Just one problem, daughter has been home and baking and taken my tins away with her so where to store them. So I bought 2 tins of chocolates ready for Christmas that were on special offer. Now I have another problem, having tipped the chocolates out to use the tin for cake how do I stop myself eating them before Christmas?

The Match

2007-10-13T22:07:00.000+01:00

I just can't believe it. And I missed the first try because I thought I would just pop to the loo before I settled down. Now it's just wait 'til this time tomorrow to see who we play in the Final and the way it's going it could be either. But I shall be watching from the beginning next week.

Dreamland

2007-09-11T15:04:00.000+01:00

Another conversation on my trip was started by the 'what is Thanet for' question.
Ramsgate was about boats, yacht club, ferries and a harbourside nightlife.
Broadstairs was the old fashioned gentle seaside with folk week etc.
Margate was much more difficult but it always came back to Dreamland, without it Margate is nothing much else.

Wheelie bins

2007-09-10T16:50:00.001+01:00

I know that there seems to be a lot of controversy over wheelie bins in Thanet, so as I have been on a long drive around various parts (relative visiting) of England and Wales in the last week I thought that I would take a survey. When I moved to Thanet 20 years ago I came from an area that had wheelie bins, though not recycling at that time, and really missed it. Everywhere I went (West Country, Wales, Midlands) had wheelie bins and alternate waste/recycling weeks. Nobody complained, they had got used to it, nobody had the feared vermin in the main waste bin and everybody felt good/righteous about the recycling. All I can say is wheel in the bins - and soon.

Show time

2007-08-19T23:19:00.000+01:00

Manston Garden Club had it's annual show yesterday and what a marvellous show it was too. Well done to them all

Maybe too pc

2007-08-16T19:17:00.000+01:00

It's not often that I get worked up by the news but the fact that Ruhela Khanom got off with no prosecution is amazing. The judge was convinced enough to discharge her and report her onwards and people have been convicted of contempt for much less

Summer

2007-08-12T09:27:00.000+01:00

Went for a drive around the coast with my Mum yesterday. Started at Minnis bay by the time we got to Westgate we decided to walk along the front for half an hour and have an ice cream (I'd like a '99' - do you want a flake with that!). Margate was just as busy as Mum remembered from her youth but no chance of parking anywhere. Thought of having a quick one at the Captain Digby but decided to wait until Joss Bay, but that was as busy as I remember from my youth and no chance of parking there either.
By the time we were approaching Broadstairs, I remembered Folk week, and decided a full detour was in order to get home and have a cup of tea.
We did try to watch the Perseids late last night but only managed to see one out of the corner of the eye - never seem to be looking in the right place - will have to try again tonight

Finished

2007-07-25T15:08:00.001+01:00

Well, I managed to find time to finish the book but unfortunately the time I found was sleep time. I am really tired now.

The Deathly Hallows

2007-07-22T15:27:00.000+01:00

Well, I queued on Friday night at midnight (cheated really, sat and had coffee with a friend, chatting & watching the queue go down then joined it). The trouble is I was so busy yesterday, and tired, that I have still only read a third. I feel it necessary to get through it quickly before some eejit tells me how it ends, so I'd better get back to it now.

Strange year

2007-07-06T22:31:00.000+01:00

Looking at Zumi's post on sunflowers, I think he is one of the lucky ones.
We had a barbeque at the garden club this evening, which went exceptionally well considering. There were , of course a lot of discussions on growing. We were all given sunflower seeds in March to grow on for judging on 1st September some have giants but not 7'10" like Zumi and some of us have scraggy little weeds like me - it's amazing the variation from the same packet of seeds. Tomatoes seem to be an all round disaster, inside and out, but the soft fruit is brilliant although much too early for showing next month. A few people are showing signs of potato blight at their home gardens as well as others reported at the allotments lately, which always provokes a lively argument on the uses of organic or chemical remedies and EU regulations. I know it's 'geeky' but if the weather is decent, as forecast, over the weekend the french tours and put put boats can go hang if we can dig and weed at last.

more rain!

2007-06-29T22:15:00.000+01:00

I knew I should have planted rice

Simple things

2007-06-19T00:47:00.000+01:00

I came home from the allotment this evening and as I parked my car on the drive I just sat there looking for a while. Within a couple of feet of me were a sparrow in a tree, a red admiral and a bee in the flowers and I just couldn't decide which was more beautiful.

Poppies

2007-06-14T23:47:00.000+01:00

Almost worth going to Margate for the sight of the field of poppies

BBC Radio

2007-05-28T00:23:00.000+01:00

I have just heard that this year is the 40th anniversary of the creation of Radio 1, 2, 3 & 4. this is really frightening, I don't feel old but I remember the old Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third. Must be time I went to bed before the shipping forecast comes on - without Finisterre!

Roses

2007-05-23T20:35:00.000+01:00

I am not particularly fond of roses but this one is the only plant making a real impression in my garden at the moment.
And the smell as I walk past it to the greenhouse is a treat

A miracle

2007-05-21T19:48:00.000+01:00

New computer - and initial email address invalid - but with the help of support at blogger I have at last reclaimed my account.
Can't think of anything to say but at least I am able when I do have something.

Must be an election soon

2007-01-13T23:11:00.000Z

You think that you are going to a quiet little Parish Council meeting, just the odd problem to put across. What do you find on arrival- TDC Leader, County councillor, prospective Tory candidate and North Thanet MP. Parish Council meeting or hustings?

Thanet Allotments

2006-11-19T16:36:00.000Z

I attended a meeting for allotment holders a while ago hosted by Paul Verrall (Parks Manager) and Brian White (Planning). The intention is to sell off the Manston Road allotments in Ramsgate to use for housing and the money raised to be used to upgrade the rest of the allotments in Thanet. Allotments, nationally and locally, are now being recognised as an essential part of leisure and exercise for a large range of people as well as the production of fresh, frequently organic food and are to be encouraged. However one of the outcomes of the meeting was that allotments would be upgraded to a certain extent but with the good guy, bad guy act it was shown that although some of the money would be used the rest of it was to go into the council's coffers. The sale of that land should bring a lot more than Bury's Lowry but should only be used for allotments (some of which are in a dire state) and not for more councillors jollies.

Fuchsia

2006-11-10T18:46:00.000Z

Why is it that you wait all season for things to come into bloom at the right time. All shows are now long in the past and we are well into autumn so why is my fuchsia deciding to flower now - no sense of timing these plants.

Christmas rush

2006-11-02T22:59:00.000Z

Well I managed to finish making the Christmas cakes last night, delayed a day while acquiring extra brandy to soak the fruit in. I'm not quite sure why I still bother - habit I guess. I didn't manage to finish all the washing up etc until this evening though. I broke a handbag strap today so needed to buy a new bag but all the stores are into the Christmas rush already and trying to find things that aren't silver, gold or sparkly is becoming very difficult. I persevered and ended up with two replacement bags - sensible shopping!

Hedges

2006-10-28T15:23:00.000+01:00

I have had to learn a lot of new skills this year and one of them is hedgecutting. Apart from a couple of 10 foot hedges I have a nice large 100foot one in the back. I think I have now cut about a quarter of it, didn't realise the cutters were so heavy. Well it was always cut very neatly and straight before but I have decided that a more undulating look could be quite aesthetically pleasing.

Hanging about

2006-10-25T21:06:00.000+01:00

I don't know how long this scaffolding has been up in Ramsgate but I guess it just might have been too long for someone.

Play time

2006-10-25T16:41:00.000+01:00

The boys have started another scuffle in the playground, what is it with them? The majority of Thanet bloggers are anonymous to a greater or lesser extent, all for different reasons and that is their choice and should be left alone. Equally those that chose to be totally public should have their names respected. Time to calm down I think and just smell the flowers.

Wet weekend

2006-10-23T23:20:00.000+01:00

Gathering people together- that being me, my daughter, down from London, and a very kindly brother-in-law - has been quite an effort as we are all really busy, but this weekend was it. So we gathered in my back garden to erect my new shed and the wind blew and it rained and rained. The shed is up but it was a really heroic effort from them both ( I kept finding an excuse to make tea, sandwiches, bake a cake, anything indoors). Maybe next weekend will be a bit drier so that I can fill it with all the stuff shoved in the greenhouse when the old one was taken/fell down so some men could spend an hour at that part of the wall it was too close to for them ( they will never know the trouble they caused).

Sheep wanted

2006-10-16T15:35:00.000+01:00

I have not mown my back lawn for the last 3 weeks, tried it yesterday and the lawnmower doesn't want to know. I am going to have to do the whole thing with the little old qualcast unless I can find some sheep. From a brown wasteland to a lush meadow in such a short space of time.

Traffic

2006-10-14T15:19:00.000+01:00

Twice in the last week I have had to drive across London from East to West then vice versa, once in the congestion zone. I thought that I was very brave to drive through all that traffic and amazed at how much there was, then, today, I had to drive through Westwood twice. I am convinced that there was more traffic and that it took me longer. Maybe a congestion charge zone is the answer!

Political Bias

2006-10-06T08:36:00.000+01:00

I read most of the Thanet blogs every day and have noticed how strong the left right bias has become recently. Being female I look after the local and personal and let the gentlemen run the rest of the world, which means that I look at the person as well as their politics. I went to Dr Ladyman's surgery in 1999, where I explained the problems of a bill that was due to go through parliament shortly and even had surprising help from his assistant in convincing him. When I left he was in total agreement that it would be bad law. He then voted for it and I heard nothing from him ever again and despite his being my local MP I have never set eyes on him since. Roger Gale is not my local MP but I have seen him at meetings, even where he has had to explain himself for not being politically correct as he was not, strictly speaking, on his patch until boundary changes occur. I always vote but the local politicians make it very difficult, where is the Liberal voice. The Parish councils are not politically aligned at the moment and I hope that doesn't change if Ramsgate should be daft enough to exchange it's Charter for a parish council. I know that there is a lot wrong with TDC but I think the tendency to blame it on their politics shows a short memory.

Not a bad effort - but could do better

2006-09-25T20:34:00.001+01:00

I thought my beans were good but there were a lot that were better. At least my marrow didn't let me down!

Not a bad effort - but could do better

2006-09-25T20:34:00.000+01:00

I thought my beans were good but there were a lot that were better. At least my marrow didn't let me down!

Nearing the end of the season

2006-09-21T22:57:00.000+01:00

There are Shows this Saturday at both Cliffsend and Acol Garden Clubs ( Minster was last weekend) and I think that is about it for this year. Luckily I planted my runner beans exceptionally late this year and they are just beginning to crop really well. I lost all of my tomatoes at the allotment due to tomato blight which surprised me by spreading to the courgette plants but I had more or less finished harvesting them. So the only tomatoes I have are in the greenhouse and I am having to fight my way through enormous spiders and their webs to get at them, I have never seen so many before.

This is one of my favourite areas in the garden especially when the Canna is in full bloom, I have it in a pot and think it could do with going in a new bigger one next year. I seem to have lost a Lobelia Cardinalis which I expect was due to the drought, I just hope we have a decent amouunt of rain this winter. Not just yet though I am really enjoying the late August we are having, I think the months have swapped themselves around!

Tempus fugit

2006-09-03T18:32:00.000+01:00

When I started this blog business nearly 4 months ago I wittered on about the gladioli that I was having trouble planting. It was very late in the season to be planting but now they are beginning to show and are beautiful.

I am not a phtographer and can't really do justice but I am happy just to look at them

Raining again

2006-08-25T08:47:00.000+01:00

During a spell of boredom yesterday when I coudn't get outside yet again, I sat here and did a bit of googling. This is one item that I came up with.

JOHANNESBURG
Man arrested for Margate shooting

Sun, 20 Aug 2006
A 20-year-old man will appear in the Ramsgate Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with an attack on an East Rand woman and her British boyfriend in Leisure Bay near Margate, police said.

Should the British go to Margate? Is it safe?

Another decision

2006-08-24T09:03:00.000+01:00

I know my memory has been getting worse lately, but, what month is this? What do I wear to work today? I am sitting here freezing but remember last Thursday when I dressed up warm only, after a bit of running around in the afternoon, coming home in a molten state with the heat. Did we have a proper August in July?

Decisions

2006-08-17T00:01:00.000+01:00

Too many decisions to make at the moment. Are any of the fuchsias going to be good enough to show? Am I going to have enough ripe tomatoes ( they really are giving me trouble this year}? Is it worth going up the allotment for carrots, has the rain been any good to them? When is the weedkiller going to work on the clover in the lawn, do I need to put more on? It's all hurting my head.

Local Plan

2006-08-09T23:30:00.000+01:00

I have been really busy lately, garden club shows and coach trips to visit gardens etc. So much to do in the garden and on the allotment.
But like others I have also been following the Westwood housing trail including the meeting at Manston and the site planning meeting. I am fed up with the excuse 'Local Plan'. OK so it took 4 years to be completed but that was years ago, since then Westwood retail has been built. The councillors standing there could see the traffic that has been created since the 'Local Plan' was agreed. Is it set in stone? They can live in cloud cuckoo land if they want but people still won't walk, cycle or use buses, they will use cars and the centre of Thanet is not the place for more cars. The western outskirts are prepared for it, especially with the new East Kent Road so just change the 'Local Plan'.

Israel

2006-07-26T18:21:00.000+01:00

I don't like to get controversial in public but every time I have listened to the news in the last 24 hours I have got angrier and angrier. Of course Israel's retaliation is disproportionate, why are we, yet again colluding with America. If they love Israel so much why not move it to California get it out of the Middle East and sort out everyones problems. America was prepared to denounce, help break up and sort out another 20th century created country; Yugoslavia. Israel is anther that needs the same. Israel deliberately bombed unarmed UN observers and nobody but Kofi Annan has the guts to say so. The reason, so that there is no one there to watch them massacre innocent civilians in the area.

Courgettes

2006-07-24T20:59:00.000+01:00

Luckily we can still use hosepipes at the allotment but only for half an hour or to fill water butts. I use most of mine on the courgette plants but now have courgettes coming out of my ears and there are only so many things that can be done with them. I have given so many away that I think friends, neighbours and relatives have had enough too. I am now allowing a couple to grow into marrows for the show bench let's hope one is successful. I was there by 7.30 yesterday morning and couldn't believe when by 8.00 I could feel the heat and the sun burning my back yet again, but I am not complaining. ( Stupid American spellchecker doesn't like courgettes either).

This is probably my favourite part of the garden, even better once the Canna flowers, but I think next year some of the shrubs will have to be replaced by the Bishop of Llandaff.

Sitting in Clover

2006-07-11T08:38:00.000+01:00

I managed to mow the lawns before the rain but seem to have a nasty plague of clover. It's no good asking for advice here as I get told that the flowers are as pretty as the white and yellow ones, which is their reason for not wanting to mow! I seem to remember that weedol is not the answer so that is going to be my excuse to try the new Homebase this afternoon for an alternative.
I still have things in the greenhouse to plant out and it is very late in the year, where does the time go?

Strange meals

2006-07-03T21:19:00.000+01:00

This early in the season I have to eat what there is which gives some strange combinations. All freshly dug:- potatoes, beetroot, pak choi and a teaspoonful of peas. But it did all taste delicious and my daughter enjoyed it (I have to start feeding her again as she has decided that London is not ready for her yet). Shame that I have lost the pakchoi seed packet because I really should have planted the next lot by now.

Back in the garden the white area is coming into it's own now.

Supplementary tourette

2006-07-01T20:33:00.000+01:00

Like Lucymail, I too was in Ramsgate last night. It was a lovely night and the place was buzzing, unlike her though I didn't even get a sniff of a millionaire Did take some photos though.

Isn't it pretty

Frustating times.

2006-06-28T22:56:00.000+01:00

Why do large companies insist on making life difficult. I ordered broadband for my mother just over a month ago, she has still not received the modem. I have made several phone calls and sent several emails and eventually lost my temper and told them to cancel the order this was the reply:

Thank you for your email. We apologise for the delay in the response.

Unfortunately we are not able to cancel an entire contract due to the failure of Royal Mail to deliver the equipment package.

I rang them to try to make them understand that it was their customer service at fault but all they would do was insist that they send another modem. I give them until Friday....

I then decided that I would check my bank account as I was sure that it needed money moving. I have a 7 digit security number but the stupid system was asking me for the 8th digit, I tried 3 times and, of course locked it. Telephone again, eventually after several numbers and the music was told that nobody could unlock it or even look at it except at the branch and I would need ID. Luckily the bank was empty and it was easy to do but what a palaver.

Next was the dentist who had put a temporary filling in 5 weeks ago. He asked how it was and I said fine, no discomfort, no pain and I didn't look forward to the full filling. I couldn't believe it when he said that in that case as it looked good and firm he couldn't see any point in maybe causing me pain and discomfort so we could just forget it until it was a problem. (I thought nhs dentists got paid by piecework). What a lovely man.

I was so pleased by that I rushed to the allotment, dug up some beetroot took them home, cooked them and had a delicious beetroot sandwich. The perfect end to a rubbish day.

Tomorrow

2006-06-25T22:20:00.000+01:00

She says she will definitely go tomorrow. She will have to, there is no food left in the freezer now.

Thanet life

2006-06-24T23:59:00.000+01:00

Well, I see that Eastcliff Richard is in for an exciting weekend but mine is even better, there are so many things to do in Thanet. My daughter and I did a stall at the church fete this afternoon and tomorrow she is doing a bootfair which I have to help with ( I can't wait). But she has promised to move up to London tomorrow afternoon so at least I can manage a few hours on the allotment and might even come back for the second half of the England match.

An exciting weekend

2006-06-19T22:12:00.000+01:00

What a lot of activity in Thanet this weekend.

I walked around Minster open Gardens on both Saturday and Sunday. It is the best opportunity to be nosey and either praise or criticise what other people do to their gardens ( always praise to their face ,of course!). Funnily enough it is nearly always the smaller gardens that are more creative and interesting, I only saw one very large one that was good but he had split it into several areas so that one could never see it all at the same time. There is nothing exciting about a vast expanse of lawn with shrubs around the edge. I must get some Sisyrinchium, they were everywhere but so pretty.

And then there was Cliffsend Garden Club Summer Show, which was unfortunately not very well attended and it is such a shame when so much work goes into staging these shows.

My sister is staying with me for a few days and for some bizarre reason got bored with gardens, so I dropped her and my daughter off in Broadstairs so that they could do girlie things like hairdressers and shopping. That meant going past the airport several times and there were a lot of planes around. Watching the Red Arrows land and park is a beautiful sight. The back-up team stands to attention as soon as they land and the parking sequence is perfectly timed like a dance.

Half way

2006-06-12T20:07:00.000+01:00

Well the rest of a nearly full packet of Qualcast mower blades and gallons of perspiration later, I deserve this cup of tea. It really is too hot out there still.

The blue border is beginning to come good now though

Anyone know where the best place to buy replacement blades is?

Heat

2006-06-12T18:53:00.000+01:00

I went to the allotment early yesterday (I will never get there as early as the retired gentlemen though). But I stayed too long and although I arrived home before midday I still got burnt. My daughter was just thinking of getting up at that time, along with prize headache, so she missed out again (her idea of a tan will never materialise as it was then too hot to go out).

I invited guests for dinner last night and had already bought a joint but cooking it with accompaniments involved me running from the kitchen after every 10 minutes and splashing myself with cold water. But it was lovely to sit in the garden all evening chatting and imbibing even if this morning I had the headache. At least the numbers still added up at work this morning.

It has nearly cooled down enough for me to go and tackle the front lawn now(once the Archers has finished). It is about 2 foot high as it is full of spring bulbs that can't be mowed until June so it may be a bit every day this week.

Links

2006-06-08T15:00:00.000+01:00

Well, after the honour of being added to Thanet Blog List I decided to try adding it as a link. I got very hot and bothered and had to have several tries but got there in the end. I think it might be the only one, even though I enjoy most of the other bloggers. Skin of Stars said I had to "get down and dirty with the code" but I think I will just get dirty with my compost instead, it's easier.

And anyway why do I keep going on about my loud and brash summer gladioli when the dainty, little late sping flowering Gladiolus byzantinus has suddenly produced it's pretty deep magenta flowers with the onset of this lovely weather we are having.

Yesterday, when I got back from work, I suggested to my daughter that we go back to the allotment. I knew that I might be pushing my luck and I was right, so I took her to the station as she felt London was calling for a couple of days. She might be back for the weekend so I will try again then.

Amazing

2006-06-06T22:39:00.000+01:00

Well, it really is amazing how far those gladioli bulbs pinged. I am finding them in the strangest of places one was perfectly placed in the middle of a hosta (or should that be an hosta).

What is even more amazing is that I persuaded my daughter to come and help me dig my allotment. The idea of exercise to get fit and a suntan at the same time were the promise. And when the courgette plants (which were screaming to get out of their pots) went in she was so delighted at the idea that she has promised to come again.

back at work

2006-05-29T14:44:00.000+01:00

I managed to plant some Gladioli on Thursday afternoon, the only trouble is I am not sure where. I dug a nice little patch for them, but when I opened the bag, I really had to struggle and they pinged all over the garden so I am not sure how many ended up planted where I wanted and where the others went. But I don't like a garden too neat and uniform.

I had to go away for the weekend but went up the allotment this morning before the rain started again, it's amazing how good the rain has been for the weeds. I know I mustn't grumble.

No, it's not my garden but I could only wish

May Blossom

2006-05-23T23:28:00.000+01:00

Is it just me, have I missed the smell of May Blossom this year. Maybe I am not going out enough with all of this wind and rain

How am I supposed to get the weeding done?? Who said it doesn't rain in Thanet.