Koalagirl

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I enjoy growing earlies.  I grow them in sacks and love sticking my hand down the side and broggling for potatoes for my tea.  I just rinse them under the tap, cook them with a sprig of mint and then eat them with a big lump of butter. mmmmmmmmmmmm

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Hi Geoff.  Sitting in the conservatory with a cuppa dreaming of summer and waiting for the aussie contingent to finish cooking dinner.

Mail Order Plants - Wrong variety supplied

Fryers sent me the wrong roses a few years ago.  I didn't notice until they started flowering in the wrong colour.  They sent me replacements free of charge so I ended up with six for the price of three. 

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Just popped in to say hi. 

I sowed some seeds in my conservatory without any additional heat the Saturday before last and they have all come up.  I feel really springlike now.  Dianthus, heleotrope, leeks, parsley and basil.  I grow basil in the kitchen practically all year round.  My potatoes are sitting in their egg boxes chitting away merrily also (Lady Cristl and Charlotte).  

I got home from work before the sun went down and had a little wander around the garden.  I can hardly wait until I can come home from work and mow the front lawn.

I was on the local radio last week and nobody heard.   I tried to signal to my niece that I was on the radio and she misunderstood and turned it off!  I had phoned in with the answer to a competition - the fabulous prize was a Splash FM mug.

Which spuds to get...

I've ordered the same as last year - Charlottes and Lady Cristl.  They are both nice - one is a first early and the other is a second, so they last longer.

what do you think is the best make of bird food you have bought?

Definitely CJ Wildbird food.  I get two sacks of shelled sunflower seeds delivered twice a year.  No delivery charge and a discount for buying in bulk.  I tried buying other food, but the birds only ever eat the sunflower seeds and toss everything else out onto the lawn.

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I re-read War of the Worlds a couple of months ago.  It was much more scarey to think of martians landing in somewhere local to us rather than in America.  I also used to own the album.  Goodness knows what happened to it.  I liked Forever Autumn best.

Just popping in so I only read from the top of page 876!

My shallots have started coming up.  Feels like spring. 

Best tasting cherry tomatoes

I really like sweet olive.  They have a really tomatoey flavour, if you know what I mean.

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I was worried about turning into a candidate for that programme so before Christmas I got rid of three years of old gardening magazines.

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I was feeling below par on Friday so I texted my boss at 6am to ask to take the day off as annual leave.  You have to jump through so many hoops to take a sick day that it is easier to take them as leave.

Lots of birds on my feeders this morning.  Am thinking about nipping along to the garden centre to use my token for a free pot of tea.