so fed up!!

[Dan 2]

Ahhh, sorry about the rain! I'm a Kent'un so experienced rain too! Chin up chuck- worse things happen at sea! Dan :-)

[Dan 2]

[froglets]

Sunday was the only day I had free this week and it rained in Cheshire - but it was warm rain, soooo washed the car ( rain helps ease of the dirt), checked out the new hedge ( which needed the rain), Scrubbed down the back yard and bench with algae remover ( which said wet surface first) moved a couple of clematis ( less shock in the rain?), and generally got unbelievable filthy.
Then came indoors with a big grin on my face & got tarted up to go out for the evening.

Now I'm back at work, It's drying out again.  Ha flippin ha. (and I've got a heap of wet muddly clothes to deal with later.

[Heldi]

It was raining here on Sunday too. I ended up going swimming with the kids. Had hoped to start digging on the other side of the path at the lotty but it was too wet. The other side will have to wait a bit longer. Not looking forward to it as it is full of couch grass. I keep telling myself that all that digging will do my bum some good...I try to ignore what it does to my back. :D

[moonbells]

mmm I agree with the fed up sentiments.

Had Friday off work. Looked at forecast (BBC - when will I learn?) It said sunny all weekend. So I did house stuff all day Friday, made and half-dug the last raised bed on Saturday and woke up  Sunday to rain. First comment: OH B****R it's RAINING followed three seconds later by OH GOOD WE NEED IT!  (Third comment was that my ordered rain gauge hadn't arrived so I wouldn't be able to see how much we'd had!)

Still miffed - if the Beeb had been more accurate I'd have spent Friday and Saturday beavering and Sunday defrosting the freezers. (Even though it would have been harder as I couldn't have put the food outside to keep cold).

moonbells

[Robert_Brenchley]

I went to do some digging, it bucketed down, and I got spectacularly covered in mud. Then guess what, someone from the Birmingham Post phoned to say he wanted to come and take my picture. Si it looks like I'll be immortalised as the mud-man.

[dirtyfingernails]

Hey Robert you'll have to post the photo up!

in the end on Sunday I sowed (sewed?) 80 tomato plants (40 marmande and 40 alicante) and 40 radish in modules, 3 pots of celery for the window sill and a big pot of carrots (which I'm leaving in the greenhouse as an experiment) and guess what - today, 3 days later, there are 4 radishes poking up their first leaves!!

spring is definitely in the air

btw - I don't even like radishes but the seeds were there and you know how it is

[supersprout]

radish in MODULES df!  :o :o :o
Good luck with the marmandes, yum  8)

[dirtyfingernails]

radish in MODULES df!  :o :o :o

I know - I was desperate!

[DERYCK32]

Hi there Columbus.
Oh dear mice,well I chit my potatoes in trays on the upstaires windowsill.
Will your dear wife allow to do that because we have to beat the B----- mice don't we?

[flower]

I was on a real buzz on Saturday down at the lotties started off freezing then sun warmed it up got a fair bit done but then, :( sunday alternated between odd burst of sun and freezing sleet still soldiered on but boy was it cold  but just look at the weather for this week bludy crap :( thank god for me greenhouse in the garden  ;D 

p.s busy Lizzie theres a poundland in the metro centre gateshead bit of a bus ride but there :)