Idle chat
Last post 22-11-2009 8:58 AM by BB. 4421 replies.
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18/08/2009 04:36 PM
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I have just seen the other 'idle chat' that Sue was talking about - I realise know that I did know about it as I have posted a few things on there myself Doh!  although I'm still not sure what the difference is. Is this 'idle chat' just one of the threads on the other main 'idle chat'?
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18/08/2009 06:38 PM
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Hiya all,
Remember me???
I have been keeping up with every ones adventures and misadventures for quite awhile...Been very busy lets go back a bit
Last August Mark got bit on his shin by a bug that we never saw to identify, by the next morning a clear liquid filled blister the size of a large grapefruit had formed...so he popped it....rolling eyes here...it then within 24 hours became a ulcerated wound and his leg swelled up HUGE from his knee down. Due to the swelling he developed a blood clot in that leg... undiagnosed for a couple of months..they put him on warfrin for 6 months and he was on antibiotics on and off and but when he came off them he developed ulcerations again in different areas. So since he wasn't having enough fun laying on the settee he decided to have a very severe case of vertigo...so he was then in bed for 4 weeks. So I have been running our fledging nursery,getting all the crocosmia in for the winter and then out again in the spring, weeding 5000 pots of plants and the flower beds too. But he is on the mend and on daily antibiotics now indefinitely..
We made the NGS Yellow Book this year so that has kept us out of trouble the past few weekends...
Before I forget can anyone tell me when the RHS magazine comes out....we are in the September edition and I lost the contact number for the guy who wrote the article...
I will try to post more now that we only have one more open garden weekend left for Plant Heritage NCCPG then it is back to semi normal...
Oh and who has the fried green tomatoes....I'll be right there!!!!
Be back soon....Lauri
if you clear it, plant it....the weeds will come!! So plant more!!!
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18/08/2009 06:39 PM
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LOL sorry once I remember how to poat photos I'll post some of the gardens this year..
if you clear it, plant it....the weeds will come!! So plant more!!!
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18/08/2009 06:55 PM
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- patiopal
- My Garden forums
- 11 Feb 2009
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thanks Sue for that, I am new here, i hope all will be patient!!!!
er, have to say that the teeth found in the raised bed of my new home were that of - sheep! so says the local vet. this has always been social housing stock and these houses were build about 14yrs ago.
mystery thickens, but we were not a wealthy country so maybe someone was boiling sheeps heads and eating brains, ears etc. Yes, honest they did that.
I shall investigate from the neighbours!
xpatio pal.
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18/08/2009 08:06 PM
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Hi Patiopal glad you found your way here. Hope you have settled into your new place OK. I expect you were glad to find what the teeth and jaw belonged to after finding them in your garden.
Nice to meet you Mrs crocosmia it sounds as though you have had it quite a busy recently with all your planting, nursing and your Open weekends!
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18/08/2009 08:46 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Thanks everyone re Sasha, the specialist says it will probably be a few weeks before the op will be done, it will give her time to get over having another anaesthetic before giving her another one. The recovery time from the op itself is expected to be 2-3 months but the vet said that most dogs are up and walking around a little the next day. When she does go in, she will go in the night before the op and stay for one or two days afterwards. Nice to see you back again Mrs C, please give our best wishes to Mr C and hope he makes a full recovery. I forgot earlier Susiq - the cherry tree in your slideshow earlier looks exactly the same as the one a couple of doors down from here but I don't know which one it is.
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18/08/2009 09:25 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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That sounds like a very good recovery time, Sue. It must give you more confidence about having it done. Make sure to tell us the date and we can send Sasha good vibes  Good to see you back, Mrs C! It's been a while! Sorry to hear that Mr C has been under the weather and hope he's mending nicely. That bite on his leg sounds a bit like when my partner was bitten by a Blandford fly, only his didn't have such a big blister and only looked like someone had cut a tomato in half and stuck it onto his ankle. Still, didn't think you got Blandford flies up where you are. The tomatoes are mine and I haven't fried them yet - been having so much faff with jam and chutney making and a horrible, smelly unblockable drain that I haven't got round to it. Saw it recommended that you fry them in bacon fat, so got some fatty bacon and fried it very slowly to get all the fat out and will use it to cook them with tomorrow. Added the bacon to a courgette soup I made earlier and it was lovely. The recipe I saw said you can coat the tomatoes with whatever you've got (flour, cornmeal, ground up crackers etc), so I'll try breadcrumbs and see how it goes.
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18/08/2009 09:28 PM
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I expect you are glad to be back home after your hectic day Sue. Well at least the news is good and you know that something is going to be done with Sasha before too long. I hope your plum jam making has gone OK Miranda and that you have managed to chase all those wasps away
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18/08/2009 11:24 PM
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Hello Phot's Moll are you still on line? have you been busy again today bottling, allotmenting, pickling etc
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19/08/2009 08:52 AM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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I'll certainly let you know the date when Sasha has it done Miranda, it's just a case of waiting to see when they can fit her in and OH can get time off work to take her up there. It was lovely to get back home again Richard, we managed the trip in 2 hours each way and although it was scorching, we had the benefit of air con in the car. It was lovely driving through the countryside and seeing the crops being harvested along the way. I was so shattered that I had an early night as I'd been up since 5.30 to leave at 7am to get there on time. I'm going to pick the last of the blueberries today and make some more jam with them, and hang the curtain up at the door so the wasps can't get in
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19/08/2009 09:37 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Glad it went okay, Sue. Sounds like a long day, bet you were glad to get into your bed. Hope the wasps keep away for you today while you're making your jam. They were still coming in a bit yesterday after I'd finished my preserving and one fell into the soup I was making. At least I didn't have to chase it and could just scoop it out of the pot!
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19/08/2009 10:07 AM
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- BB
- Hereford
- 12 May 2009
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When my Mum is jam making she puts an old jam jar on the window ledge with just the scrapings of jam around the sides and then half fills it with water. The wasps are attracted to the smell as they enter the house and fly into the jar - climb down -and drown.
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19/08/2009 10:40 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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I'm going to do that next time, BB!
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19/08/2009 01:28 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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That's a very good idea with the jam jar BB, I didn't have to worry about the wasps in the end as they couldn't get through the curtain Hope you get the felt ok Richard to fix the roof. I found a huge hole today when I went into the garden, it was in one of the raised beds and my leeks had been dug up and squashed along with some spring onions and beetroot, and the radishes I'd sown last week had their seed leaves poking through the soil and have been totally covered with soil and now I know why the dog's water bowl was very dirty after they were let out first thing
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