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Well, it looks like something approaching real spring has reached Northwest Wales 
Wall-to-wall blue sky, no wind, mild and, best of all, no significant rain in the forecast for the next ten days at least.
Strange thing: this is the first year I can recall when the daffodils flowered before the crocuses. Daffodils here are only about eight or nine days earlier than usual, but crocuses have only popped up and flowered a couple of days ago! I'm on the lookout now to see whether the ash comes before the oak!
Wall-to-wall blue sky, no wind, mild and, best of all, no significant rain in the forecast for the next ten days at least.
Strange thing: this is the first year I can recall when the daffodils flowered before the crocuses. Daffodils here are only about eight or nine days earlier than usual, but crocuses have only popped up and flowered a couple of days ago! I'm on the lookout now to see whether the ash comes before the oak!
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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I think round here all the daffodils will have been long gone by the time Easter arrives They have all been incredibly early this year and because the weather has been rather chilly they seem to have lasted much longer than last spring when unexpectedly warm weather finished them off rather quickly.
They have been selling daffs here for many weeks... Great buckets of them in bud at the checkouts in Dunnes. Only E 1 a bunch .. In from West Cork.. Lovely to see them with the terrible winter we have had here.
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CONGRATULATIONS WESTI
Mrs Snip and I went to the NEC and certainly did not expect to see you last night perambulating around the ring.
We knew you were a winner, fancy winning that big cup without the aid of manure. Actually that's just as well because manuring the ring could get you disqualified.
Mrs Snip and I went to the NEC and certainly did not expect to see you last night perambulating around the ring.
We knew you were a winner, fancy winning that big cup without the aid of manure. Actually that's just as well because manuring the ring could get you disqualified.
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Pa Snip wrote:CONGRATULATIONS WESTI
I echo this
Congratulations
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alan refail. Alan. You need some good weather to make up loosing to England on Saturday. 
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Ah! Another shaggy dog story!
My dog Ambush Amber & I watched the gun dogs. She was not impressed the Wire Haired Viszla did not get chosen, but we decided between us it was an inferior specimen to her as it didn't have the hairy ears! Consoled her with a chat about her cousin (really is), Boo on Country File having puppies!
It truly would be chaos if she was ever entered in anything other than an allotment & that is very dodgy as well!
Westi
My dog Ambush Amber & I watched the gun dogs. She was not impressed the Wire Haired Viszla did not get chosen, but we decided between us it was an inferior specimen to her as it didn't have the hairy ears! Consoled her with a chat about her cousin (really is), Boo on Country File having puppies!
It truly would be chaos if she was ever entered in anything other than an allotment & that is very dodgy as well!
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Pa Snip
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Ma Snip was there for gundog day on Friday as well as going back to see best in show yesterday.
Gundogs being our group of interest as well.
I should have saved my post above til 1st April
Gundogs being our group of interest as well.
I should have saved my post above til 1st April
The danger when people start to believe their own publicity is that they often fall off their own ego.
At least travelling under the guise of the Pa Snip Enterprise gives me an excuse for appearing to be on another planet
As every year, I could not stop myself from sowing things now the sun has been out for a few days, albeit accompanied by a vicious northeasterly wind.
So, sown today were sunflowers (tall and small), second lot of sweet peas, mixed lettuce, night-scented stocks, all in pans and roottrainers and all in the unheated greenhouse for now.
Blackbirds, robins and house sparrows are all busy building nests in the garden.
So, sown today were sunflowers (tall and small), second lot of sweet peas, mixed lettuce, night-scented stocks, all in pans and roottrainers and all in the unheated greenhouse for now.
Blackbirds, robins and house sparrows are all busy building nests in the garden.
Monika wrote:As every year, I could not stop myself from sowing things now the sun has been out for a few days, albeit accompanied by a vicious northeasterly wind.
So, sown today were sunflowers (tall and small), second lot of sweet peas, mixed lettuce, night-scented stocks, all in pans and roottrainers and all in the unheated greenhouse for now.
Blackbirds, robins and house sparrows are all busy building nests in the garden.
Sounds grand indeed! I have peas and broad beans in trays on a windowsill, but it is bitterly cold again today and a dark lowering sky. Had hoped to do without the range lit but no chance and no outdoor work. We can dream!
Marigold, my first sowing of peas (Hurst Greenshaft) and broad beans (de Monica) are also in roottrainers in the greenhouse and they will go out soon, protected by cloches which are needed not only against the still cold weather but also against the house sparrows which can devastate a whole row of peas in one morning! They eat the fresh leaves, not the seed peas themselves, as pigeons would. Even when the peas are quite tall, I still have to drape fleece round them because otherwise the new growth is nibbled by these little thieves.