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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Evening All. What plans have you got for your garden this weekend ?
I was hoping to dig out the new front border but if it's as frosty as they forecast, I'll need a pneumatic drill to get through the turf !!
I don't know what else I'm doing yet. Mrs FA is taking the horrors, sorry I mean "darlings" to a birthday party tomorrow morning so I get a couple of hours of uninterrupted garden. I'm sure I'll find something to do !!
Cheers
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Message 2
Posted by susie-snowdrop (U2989562) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm going to be at work all weekend
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Message 3
Posted by mzsunny (U3084783) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Its snowing pretty hard here at the moment but I'm working all weekend anyway, so woulldn't have got in the garden. Hope next wed. thur. fri. are good cos have days off then.
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Message 4
Posted by auricula (U3244275) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm planning a mega trip to the garden centre !! I've got a list of perrennials I need to fill out my long flower border. Then I'm going to plant,plant,plant - yummy, I can't wait !!
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Message 5
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm going to be at work all weekend
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Oh dear Susie. Here's a
to cheer you up !
I don't expect I'll get a lot done anyway. The ground has been frozen for several days and hasn't even thawed out in the sun very much. Maybe I'll just spend a couple of hours trawling through catalogues and the RHS plant encyclopedia for ideas for my new front border !
Cheers
FA x -
Message 6
Posted by Plocket (U684859) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I have absolutely no plans at all for the weekend except for LP's swimming lessons and the Dreaded Weekly Shop. I've got some plants that will want to go in the ground sometime but it's too cold at the moment. Still the weather looks as though it's going to improve next week. It was -7 last night so it had better improve!!!
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Message 7
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm planning a mega trip to the garden centre !! I've got a list of perrennials I need to fill out my long flower border. Then I'm going to plant,plant,plant - yummy, I can't wait !!
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I hope the ground's not frozen where you are, then !
FA x -
Message 8
Posted by auricula (U3244275) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
No, luckily the worst is well past here - it was positively balmy today
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Message 9
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
It was -7 last night so it had better improve!!!Ìý
I know how cold it was last night. I was indulging in one of my other passions - looking at the stars through my telescope. It was so cold I only managed to stay out there for about an hour. Got an excellent view of Saturn though so it was worth it.
Cheers
FA x -
Message 10
Posted by janeth1948 (U2397434) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
OH is building a new archway that is going to have lonicera Graham Thomas + a purple clem on one side & the other will have a Paul's Scarlet rose & a couple of clems ( ideas welcome please). I have some roses to put in pots. Lots to do but dependant on the weather. We may even get to shrubs direct to buy the clems ( + a few other things I might like).
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Message 11
Posted by lilylouise (U3205282) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Hello, My son took me on a Garden Centre 'crawl' today and I bought loads of begonias,gloxinias and small plants - namely convolvulus sabatius,scaeveola,anagalis and heliotrope.I also bought a Sophora - so I will be in the greenhouse if it is too cold outside!!!
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Message 12
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm going to be at work all weekend
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Susie
I've just been looking at the who/what/why thread from a while back and I see you're from Whitby. I've got some friends who live in Brotton (near Saltburn). That's not that far from you is it ?
My cousin also lives just off the A1 near Ripon. Little village called Melmerby. That's not that far either is it ?
Cheers
FA x -
Message 13
Posted by Goldilocks (U2296284) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Saturday - Lie in - then driving lesson for No 2 son. Then empty my second lot of 20 large bags of lovely horse manure (no straw) from the van - collected today, and a third order placed for two weeks time. Then off to see daughter perform in school musical.
Sunday - lie in, another driving lesson, then chill (not the most apt choice of word at the moment!)
Monday - off to Wales in the van (weather permitting) to collect lots of plants and a petrol shredder - back Tuesday. -
Message 14
Posted by Lottie (U2331125) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I have to work this weekend - but I'm off next weekend 
LL x -
Message 15
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Saturday - Lie in
Sunday - lie in Ìý
Goldi
I have 2 children, 1 aged 2½ and 1 aged 5 months. I'm sorry I don't understand your message.
Andy -
Message 16
Posted by 8supermum (U2768246) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Monday - off to Wales in the van (weather permitting) to collect lots of plants and a petrol shredder - back Tuesday. Ìý
Where in Wales are you going ??? I think N Wales is a bit snow bound, but we're not too bad down the bottom.
I'm sure my plans will have to change for the weekend, the kids forget we have lives and are not actually a private taxi service/hotel/awful service - wish some would check out....I wouldn't stay with the service offered.
Anyway Sat: have morning to garden (dependent on weather), hopefully doing more steps..groan. Aft swimming gala for olympic hopeful number 8 (age7). Quiz evening hopefully (m'spouse is supposed to be doing the questions and hasn't finished yet as usual).
Sun: swimming again, no2 work, parish breakfast (full english etc), aft gardening, late aft swimming yet again, washing etc & get everything ready for school Monday... -
Message 17
Posted by susie-snowdrop (U2989562) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm going to be at work all weekend
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Susie
I've just been looking at the who/what/why thread from a while back and I see you're from Whitby. I've got some friends who live in Brotton (near Saltburn). That's not that far from you is it ?
My cousin also lives just off the A1 near Ripon. Little village called Melmerby. That's not that far either is it ?
Cheers
FA xÌý
Hi! I don't actually live in Whitby just near it. I'm closer to Brotton than Whitby and know it quite well! Ripon is a litter further away, probably about 45 mins drive.
Susiex -
Message 18
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Hi! I don't actually live in Whitby just near it. I'm closer to Brotton than Whitby and know it quite well! Ripon is a litter further away, probably about 45 mins drive.
SusiexÌý
I'll have to come and see you next time we're up that way ! I try to get up to see my cousin at least once a year. I haven't been to Brotton to visit my friends yet but they have a massive house and we have an open invitation....!
Cheers
FA x -
Message 19
Posted by susie-snowdrop (U2989562) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Sounds like a great idea! There's loads of really nice places to visit in the area. Well worth a visit!
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Message 20
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Sounds like a great idea! There's loads of really nice places to visit in the area. Well worth a visit!
SxÌý
Excellent. We'll leave the kids with your for a week or two and go and visit all the nice places....!
FA x -
Message 21
Posted by anneliesje (U3003883) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Dear S-S, L.L. and mzsunny, a big
for the workers.
F.A. and 8supermum, the lie-ins come back sooner than you wish (although not always when you want
).
I have now another problem, when do I get in! I'm taxiing in the evening or waiting anxious for when they come home.
Here it is too cold to garden, and I have to get some household-jobs done as well because next week I'm abroad 2 days
. I hate this. And earlier this week I bought 6 very nice terra cotta pots, some big ones to grow courgettes and tomatoes in later, and somesmaller ones for herbs, so in fact the March GC money is spent.
I'm still waiting for my Valentines present however. Maybe I can get OH to buy me something nice, or at least get him to camouflage the compost heap.
Good luck with the small ones FA! Enjoy! -
Message 22
Posted by princessanabana (U2421659) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
...and then they leave home, get cars of their own and you say "phone me everyday to tell me you are alive and kicking!!" - Children are forever!!!
Tomorrow, I will take delivery of manure (for the first time), plant up my new plants, and various other things. Sunday will also be garden related.
And then Monday
5 days later it will be the weekend -
Message 23
Posted by susie-snowdrop (U2989562) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Sounds like a great idea! There's loads of really nice places to visit in the area. Well worth a visit!
SxÌý
Excellent. We'll leave the kids with your for a week or two and go and visit all the nice places....!
FA xÌý
...I'm sure I'm away for that fortnight
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Message 24
Posted by 8supermum (U2768246) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
FA,
Drop them in with us, I'm sure we wouldn't even notice.....
When we go on holiday people always try and get their children to join our line, saying we won't notice...We now have an extremely large TV, garden and 18 pinball machines, and for the last 7 years, it seems to have worked.... -
Message 25
Posted by anneliesje (U3003883) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
I'm looking forward to the 8th of April, me off, kids off, things to do in the garden, maybe a day out to the very beautiful Site des Caps (Cap Blanc Nez and Gris Nez) in France, only 2 hours away.
5 more weeks and then....
Have a nice WE
And then Monday
5 days later it will be the weekendÌý
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Message 26
Posted by U2331885 (U2331885) on Friday, 3rd March 2006
Saturday - Lie in
Sunday - lie in Ìý
Goldi
I have 2 children, 1 aged 2½ and 1 aged 5 months. I'm sorry I don't understand your message.
AndyÌý
Andy - Lucky you! - Both of mine are one month older and wiser The older one has spent 2 hours in the garden on each Sat/Sun of the past month. Then he gets cold followed by sarcastic comments from me about being a "soft southern milk drinker".
This weekend? - Friday night - Propogated from 10 surfinia's (and similar), so now how 35 plants. Got seed compost laid. Doing a mix between seed trays and 5'' pots.
Saturday - Lie in might be possible. Catch up with cricket on the way to tip. Do an hour of earthworks. Spend two hours with son digging over two more veggie beds. Propagate & sow seeds of an evening. Watch semi-finals rugby on video.
Sunday - Early kiddie start. Catch up with cricket and celebrate hopefully. Fix up yet another new mini-greenhouse (this one is designated as "Mummy's"). Go for walk with kids to visit valley spring & local allotment. Ensure vehicles are ready for next week. Do some path building. Spend a couple of hours with son in greenhouse/garden. Sow seeds. Watch footie on video and wonder where the weekend went.... -
Message 27
Posted by Margi (U2334861) on Saturday, 4th March 2006
6pm Friday - take the Seedling to her father's for the weekend!
8am Saturday - wake up and look out of the window. Decide weather unfit to go to college 40 miles away, and turn over and go back to sleep.
10am - wake up again feeling refreshed and well rested. Coffee and breakfast. Stare out the window for a long while thinking how beautiful it all is. Turn on the computer.
11am - get dressed and go into the garden to take some piccies.
Rest of Saturday - struggle to get nice piccies of snow in garden onto Beeb boards!
Saturday evening - watch Christopher Dean (oops, I meant Dancing on Ice, obviously!) on the telly, then friends coming round for a bottle of wine. Bed late.
Sunday - lie in again! Mooch about a bit. Maybe go for a walk if I can think of anywhere nice to go... Do a bit of washing, and prepare for the return of the Seedling. Large snuggle, several stories. Bed.
Sounds good to me...
Margi x -
Message 28
Posted by Goldilocks (U2296284) on Saturday, 4th March 2006
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Where in Wales are you going ???
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Near Mold, but 1000ft higher and usually 2 degrees lower this time of year. Over a foot of snow and milkman can't get up the drive but it is supposed to thaw Monday. If not I will have to postpone the trip as there is no way my van will get up.
Good news is that the frost is really breaking up my clods of claggy clay soil. Been out today whacking them with the side of the spade and they are crumbling nicely.
42nd Street was a great show, though we were in the front row and No2 son who was coerced into going looked decidedly bored throughout- so much so that several of the female cast remarked on it afterwards. Still, I reckon several now fancy him. The driving lesson earlier went well except for reversing round corners - he had about 12 goes before he got the hang of it. Will try again tomorrow but perhaps not so close to our new neighburs, who must have been getting fed up! -
Message 29
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Saturday, 4th March 2006
Hi.
I managed to get part of the new front border dug out after the ground had defrosted this morning. I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing though. The area I've cleared isn't really that big but it looks soooooooooo huge and scarily empty. Oh well, think of the fun I'll have deciding what to put in it !!
Not sure if I'll get the rest done this weekend. Mrs FA wants to take the ankle-biters out tomorrow so I may only get a couple of hours in the afternoon.
Hope your weekends are all going well. Susie, hope work wasn't too much of a bore !
Cheers
FA x -
Message 30
Posted by Slugger (U2316506) on Saturday, 4th March 2006
Spent all afternoon potting up lots of little babies!
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Message 31
Posted by 8supermum (U2768246) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Anyway Sat: have morning to garden (dependent on weather), hopefully doing more steps..groan. Aft swimming gala for olympic hopeful number 8 (age7). Quiz evening hopefully (m'spouse is supposed to be doing the questions and hasn't finished yet as usual).
Sun: swimming again, no2 work, parish breakfast (full english etc), aft gardening, late aft swimming yet again, washing etc & get everything ready for school Monday...
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I think I did really well, my plans for the weekend nearly succeded.
Sat: went exactly to plan, number 8 came 3rd (out of 4) in her 25m race against under 9's, which for a 7 yr old is really good, were all really proud of her, and she swam 2 relay lengths.
Sun: Nearly went to plan although number 8 was sick in the night (too much fizzy and running around at quiz night I think). So no swimming, No2 got lift from someone to work, Parish breakfast lovely, no swimming at all, so full aft in garden.
We've decided to call the steps the "Stairway to heaven". (I'll try and take a photo tomorrow).
Number 5 & 6 came and helped a bit - "cos it looks easy", no 6 lasted 10 mins, but no 5 lasted an hour or so, he really enjoyed trying to dig out a massive tree stump (we didn't manage in the end). I've only about 4 or 5 more steps to do, but they rise about 10' with about 3' still to go,its about 15 steps so far.
They will be very practical, but I think they're a bit OTT so will have to disguise them a bit with planting, ohhh... a trip to the GC's.
How did everybody else's plans work out ?? -
Message 32
Posted by princessanabana (U2421659) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Well - most of my weekend went according to plan - love the way you number your kids- daughter announced yesterday that she is planing another - she is 23 and has one aged 3 and one aged 2ish-
Babysitting was just getting easier- how on earth do you do it ...and garden!!!!
Best wishes - PA -
Message 33
Posted by 8supermum (U2768246) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
how on earth do you do it ...and garden!!!!
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No 8 has No 7 to play with, No 6 has No 5 to play with, No 4 and No1F go to town most days etc etc...
The more you have the easier it becomes once they get to school age.....also m'spouse is very good with the children and thinks nothing of piling no's 5 to 8 in the car and taking them to the pictures ( I can spend the afternoon in the garden!!!).
They also go to school, so can spend the day in the garden. (Because a lot of the children we foster are not at school for various reasons & it takes so long for them to get into school) we have to be at home anyway.
Rule:
Raining - tidy house
Not raining - in the garden.
So you've either got to have no children, or lots...
PS. they answer to their numbers too.... -
Message 34
Posted by Lottie (U2331125) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Is it like the Waltons at bedtime too Supermum?
LL x -
Message 35
Posted by 8supermum (U2768246) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Is it like the Waltons at bedtime too Supermum?Ìý
Thankfully no, their spread over 3 floors with us in the middle. Its usually groans (I've disconnected the internet) or forgotten to heat their microwave bears, or "this is new simpsons, please please please"...
Mealtimes are like the Waltons, apart from the grandparents(thankgoodness). But they seem to enjoy it, especially the little ones. Although No 1 bought his girlfriend home at Xmas and she is an only child, so it was a bit of a shock for her, but she does like coming here now -for short visits..... -
Message 36
Posted by Skarloey (U2326588) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
Hi Andy,
Had to attend my nieces 6th birthday yesterday so no gardening to be done BUT....
Spent all today in the garden just clearing up. It has made a huge difference too.
First we (yep, OH helped, although it wasn't technically gardening) picked up all the cr@p, I was ruthless, and took it all down the dump in FIL's pick-up.
Then we started at the far end which I was going to gravel to use as a patio area but seeing as I have a problem with cats at the moment, I have decided to grass. I may get round to paving it next year.
However, we had to move 60 roof tiles (left over from the extention work 2 years ago) and a number of bricks (ditto) and came upon 6 frogs and toads which needed rounding up and re-housing first. OH wouldn't shift them so I had to (they're not my favourite things but were O.K with gloves on) and they were quite spritely for critters that are 'sposed to be dormant.
Anyway, I made them two new homes from a couple of ridge tiles so hopefully they will re-pay my efforts with slug catching in the coming year.
Just need to dig and rake and rake and errr... rake some more then we can sow the grass seed. But it's coming on and looks loads better than it did this morning.
Oh also sowed some cosmos with the little fella in the potting shed this morning and took 'The Grouchy One' (15 y/o daughter) swimming this evening.
So quite a good W/E all in all.
Hope you and yours are well.
Regards, Skarloey. -
Message 37
Posted by U2331885 (U2331885) on Sunday, 5th March 2006
I never got to the tip, or went for the family walk. But I did do a whole lot of digging and building pathways - not where I intended as that was frozen solid, but in my sunny veggie bit. Which is now also a fine tilth and ready!
I also found a big bucket of Spring bulbs skulking away on a top shelf and was seriously peeved. They are now planted and we'll wait and see if any flower.
My little lad helped build the mini-greenhouse, sow 18 packets of seed, propogate cuttings, pot up 25 new strawbs, transplant a dozen or raspberries, move his & mine wheelbarrows and loads of other stuff. Bliss! By 2009 I reckon I can have the year off!
Last Autumn I felt somewhat stressed as I seemed to be very much behind everyone else - Now I'm behind in just 90% of my garden
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