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Thank you OH, you are very kind :)

I shall post a pic if I ever get the dress finished; silk is fiddley to sew if remember rightly. Worth it though, its such a gorgeous fabric.
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Gales and pouring rain for today and more to come tomorrow. You'd think it was a bank holiday :wink:
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I never mind working in the rain, but this morning was just too wet and windy, i had to admit defeat.....
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Flaming June? Flaming awful!!
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Well at least the frogs and toads are happy in my garden, as the pond is full to overflowing again ....... :D

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A bit breezy down this way but the runner canes are still standing! The black membrane I planted some courgettes through blew up but fortunately lifted clear over the plants and didn't take them with it. My DIY wind break did exactly what it said on the can - broke! :D

Will add the mending and fixing to the growing list of things to do at lottie then! (Actually think it has gone from list to chapters now).

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I was just wondering if Lady Lettuce has cleaned out her shed yet?

Now shall i send her a PM and ask? :)

It was in the K.G Magazine, if anyone is wondering what on earth i'm on about...... :)
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Wet and windy here today too - weather peeps say it is lows due to the jet stream stuck and not shifting north as it usually does in summer. The strawberries are ripening and need some sunshine to sweeten them!
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Dear Nature's Babe, your strawberries sound very much like me at the moment.... :)
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Commiserations to all you people who post from near Hull. I am visiting my sister near Hornsea to do a bit of weeding as she has had a knee operation but the patch I was working on is now under water after a thunderstorm.
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Geoff wrote:Comiserations to all you people who post from near Hull. I am visiting my sister near Hornsea to do a bit of weeding as she has had a knee operation but the patch I was working on is now under water after a thunderstorm.


Lol, and to add insult to injury we're officially in a drough area and under a hosepipe ban :D

Hope your sister is feeling right as rain :wink: :D very soon.

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Good to look out on a sunny morning :D
Rain and wind have gone; might get some outside planting done this week once three daysworth of rain has dried out a bit.
We are feeling very fortunate to have been north of the terrible floods round Aberystwyth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18378124
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BBC had an amazing picture, from Cornwall, of a static caravan being engulfed by a sand dune. Overnight last weeks gales had moved the dune up to the caravan and nearly to the top.of it, with the corner well under cover. :shock:


Today I glyphosated my block paved driveway, spent a while in the soft fruit disentangling Bindweed before lying it.on the ground for a shower, finished by (hopefully) dealing with a Bindweed infested strip and bulge on plot 18.
Had mowed yesterday evening in the one bit of sunshine, after rehanging & fixing quarter of the clubhouse guttering , then ruining the chairman's flowerbed because I noticed it was one brick higher than the damp proof course, being a rugby club we then watched the rather disappointing first test against South Africa. Why didn't we play the whole match like we played the last three minutes?
Finished today by setting first post in from the corner, together with 1' concrete gravel board and paying £10 for my load of shredded tree.
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Enjoyed our first harvest this evening...tender heart cabbage and thinnings from carrots, with roast pork and the usual trimmings ...
Grandson loved the mis-shaped carrots, thought they were really funny and ate them first!! :)

Every one else agreed home grown carrots taste nicer than shop bought....

Tomorrow..carrot seeds, trowel and the allotment is calling :)
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Dear Donedigging, glad you all enjoyed your first pickings, let's hope it will be the first of many. :)

After a lovely day yesterday, it's back to torrential rain this morning... :evil:
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