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Schoolmarm
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Your garden looks massive, I bet you would never catch up if you don't do the garden now.
philpjuk100
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Its got to be the garden,or really keeping the mower/strimmer/hedge trimmer etc running!
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Might be a good idea to press on with a small/er section of the house so that it won't bug you during the winter months, and then perhaps general maintenance of hedges etc, and concentrate on a bit of the garden that needs some changes.
But, all in al,l if the summer weather should turn out to be lovely I would opt for lazying out with a bbq and a good bottle of wine-- you deserve it!
But, all in al,l if the summer weather should turn out to be lovely I would opt for lazying out with a bbq and a good bottle of wine-- you deserve it!
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I think of it as more of an indoors/outdoors thing, where outdoors includes the garden as well as the house. I've still got plenty of exterior work needed on the house but I'll have to spend at least a day per week on the 'garden' as it quickly reverts to wilderness if neglected. I just love being able to work outside, on anything really.
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Snow here todayAMc said:
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That is such an impossible question. I do picture myself one day in a wide brimmed hat tying up roses - but it seems a very long way off.
Our wild acre has been pretty neglected for 200 years and is more wood than garden - so it's still at the stage of boys' work with major chainsawing activity needed! I'd like to redevelop the lot but I can see it's going to take about 15 years.
So you'll have to picture us sitting in the chairs here admiring the sunset with a bottle of wine or two and discussing which trees to fell, whether to swap that laburnum for a pool with statues and topiary and open up the view to the south, whether to entirely fell the spinney and keep pigs, and where on earth to put the maze.
Our wild acre has been pretty neglected for 200 years and is more wood than garden - so it's still at the stage of boys' work with major chainsawing activity needed! I'd like to redevelop the lot but I can see it's going to take about 15 years.
So you'll have to picture us sitting in the chairs here admiring the sunset with a bottle of wine or two and discussing which trees to fell, whether to swap that laburnum for a pool with statues and topiary and open up the view to the south, whether to entirely fell the spinney and keep pigs, and where on earth to put the maze.
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It's very brave of you to include that patio heater in the photo Joce.
I'd have cropped that edge before posting for fear of rousing the green police from their slumbers. :wink:
I'd have cropped that edge before posting for fear of rousing the green police from their slumbers. :wink:
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:lol: Well, before they get too upset, it only went on once last summer.
We bought it for our London garden and entertained outdoors as the flat was too small to fit many in. Now I'm a country girl I've left these London ways altogether.
We bought it for our London garden and entertained outdoors as the flat was too small to fit many in. Now I'm a country girl I've left these London ways altogether.
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Compelled to be inside - but want to be outside
I must get one of our attic bedrooms habitable, if I ever want to move my kids between bedrooms and get our youngest out of our bedroom! Not a problem at the moment as he's only 8 weeks old, but if I don't get it done........
I must get one of our attic bedrooms habitable, if I ever want to move my kids between bedrooms and get our youngest out of our bedroom! Not a problem at the moment as he's only 8 weeks old, but if I don't get it done........
1 day a week in the garden sounds like heaven!
Once the weather warms up and things start growing, it is pretty much a full time job in our garden just to maintain the status quo. I suppose it serves us right for growing fruit and veg as these do take a lot of effort, but even the lawns can take half a day to cut and come the Summer need cutting once every 5 days.
Mrs F went to look at some lambs for our paddock again this year. These were unweaned, but the farmer wanted 90quid for weaned lambs!! He muttered something about the hot weather last year resulting in poor lambing this year. Anyway, we're shopping around before buying. Has anyone else experienced such high prices or is this a one off?
So much in the garden depends on the weather and at least the house is now at the stage where if left alone, it doesn't get any worse (at least not in 1 season)..whereas the garden untended for a week looks like a jungle. :x
Once the weather warms up and things start growing, it is pretty much a full time job in our garden just to maintain the status quo. I suppose it serves us right for growing fruit and veg as these do take a lot of effort, but even the lawns can take half a day to cut and come the Summer need cutting once every 5 days.
Mrs F went to look at some lambs for our paddock again this year. These were unweaned, but the farmer wanted 90quid for weaned lambs!! He muttered something about the hot weather last year resulting in poor lambing this year. Anyway, we're shopping around before buying. Has anyone else experienced such high prices or is this a one off?
So much in the garden depends on the weather and at least the house is now at the stage where if left alone, it doesn't get any worse (at least not in 1 season)..whereas the garden untended for a week looks like a jungle. :x
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I would be paying someone to do the lawns. We used to pay someone in our last house it was great. :lol:
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Sorry, but I don't understand the question.
What is this "energy" of which you speak?
What is this "energy" of which you speak?
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Penners said:
Know what you mean - I can't remember what it felt like not to be completely kn@ckered. Home from work, shut door on bare wall that needs lime pointing and plastering (job No. 1 on list of hundreds), close blinds on waterlogged garden, cook supper, go to bed, get up, go to work, (an HOUR early) etc. etc...
Don't know where Ilona finds the energy! Let us in on the secret?
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In this game of Solitaire that is our House/Garden the two are almost inextricably intertwined.
The sunken greenhouse/workshop at the end of the garden (does this, therefore, count as "Garden"?) is a project largely born of the need to reclaim our front room indoors from being the Workshop+Store for wood/architectural cast iron/ hydraulic lime and cement before it fills so completely that I can't work in it at all!
Unfortunately, building the "greenhouse"(....think more 18inch+ thick walls of reclaimed brick and flint to act as a massive heat store, than light-weight aluminium & glass) has added yet more woodwork for repair/conversion to that already in the front room.
"Now,if I move that into that space there, I will have just enough room to....."
Currently stripping back to bare wood two panels with gunstock stiles, that once went either side of a Victorian or Edwardian glazed door, for conversion into the double doors going from the greenhouse into the garden. The heavy teak frames for this & the rear door into the back lane probably came from a village hall or an industrial building and just needed rejointing to fit the narrower openings.
Whether this work is done in the House or the Garden depends on which has more space and less rain :lol:
The sunken greenhouse/workshop at the end of the garden (does this, therefore, count as "Garden"?) is a project largely born of the need to reclaim our front room indoors from being the Workshop+Store for wood/architectural cast iron/ hydraulic lime and cement before it fills so completely that I can't work in it at all!
Unfortunately, building the "greenhouse"(....think more 18inch+ thick walls of reclaimed brick and flint to act as a massive heat store, than light-weight aluminium & glass) has added yet more woodwork for repair/conversion to that already in the front room.
"Now,if I move that into that space there, I will have just enough room to....."
Currently stripping back to bare wood two panels with gunstock stiles, that once went either side of a Victorian or Edwardian glazed door, for conversion into the double doors going from the greenhouse into the garden. The heavy teak frames for this & the rear door into the back lane probably came from a village hall or an industrial building and just needed rejointing to fit the narrower openings.
Whether this work is done in the House or the Garden depends on which has more space and less rain :lol:
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wish our garden were prettier, at the moment its all about practicality, so can my answer to the poll be 'equally in both' but only to pick up daily dog poos and catch another child off the trampoline???
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I'm suffering from eager Jackdaws, they've pecked up loads of manure that I have put over the veggie bed and the newly cut herbaceous bed. Five of them each day, fly down pick up whatever they can cram into their beaks and off up to the chimney pots for their nests. One spent ages trying to stuff the compost underneath the pantiles on our shed roof! I'll try to get a piccy, it is really quite interesting watching them.
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One for sorrow,two for joy,oh no they are magpies,for jackdaws use an air rifle!.
Ahh, jackdaws....
We have had three come down our chimney and out the fireplace at the bottom:
I've now put a wooden cowl on top of the chimney so they can't get it. It only took 15 minutes but fixing the plastic roof took 2 hours after the wind blew one of the ladders I was using over on to it.
We have had three come down our chimney and out the fireplace at the bottom:
I've now put a wooden cowl on top of the chimney so they can't get it. It only took 15 minutes but fixing the plastic roof took 2 hours after the wind blew one of the ladders I was using over on to it.