Since Sunday when i did a bit of gardening i have been in agony with my lower back. I did dig up some bulbs that spread as soon as your back is turned. So i dug them up with a fork(a proper fork, not the little hand ones) and i then having sorted the earth out ready to put some dahlias in the there. Also this heat is playing hell with me as well which is nothing unusual for me as i have found this in the past. I am existing on hydroxy and pain killers for my ra alone, no MTX as i have to wait for a year before i can go back on it depending on the ct scan i have to have then. I have nodules and glass particles on my lungs as well as the pneumonia. No i don't have much of an idea what that is all about.
I spent yesterday doing nothing but sitting in the garden. I was in the back garden all morning and after our lunch my dh opened the garage up and set my chair up and put the parasol up. It was a real big parasol that i got from the recycle shop down at the tip. It is brilliant.
So another day in my garden for me in the sunshine. I have been struggling what to test your brains with. So here is one for you, what have you been doing during this lock down period. As you know i have been gardening and i also been doing my colouring in books. Now over to you my lovely friends.........
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Hi Sylvi, you certainly have a super guy there and it’s lovely to hear how you support each other. I too love being in the garden but mine is only tiny. Good job really as it’s as much as I can cope with. To pass the time I read, try and get through the exercises the physio gave me after having my second hip replacement and I like keeping in touch with people. I’ve learned how to Zoom!
Today I’m going to make some buns. I sent for some bun cases from Amazon and they came but they are mini ones for heavens sake. I’ll just have to eat more!
Ive been very low so only just getting back to chatting on here. No one needed to read about my days, but ive tried to give 'my head a wobble' as they say round here.
Im sorry to read about the reprocussions of your gardening, its a b....r
Mainly I have been organisising food deliveries for my daughter and family, resently bereived sister and us. Cant get supermarket slot even tho we have both had sheilding letters. So between ordering, washing the fresh food and quarenteening food that comes on 2 different days each week. Sometimes our garage looks like a food warehouse. Then via huge social distancing food is collected. Then there are the bills to sort as bill has final vat on bottom so that needs sorting as vat only on certain items. All this mashes my brain as been very foggy recently. Its the only thing I can do to help.
Had last week off as body and mind not happy. So thats my 'job' at the mo, but like you its the garden.
Yesterday I potted up the tomato and courgette seedings. The salad leaves have grown beyond what we can eat. Im chufft as I split the dailias and they are doing well.....and more gardening examples which I wont go on about. When hand allow im knitting, just small baby and toddler things.
Lots of video watsap calls and writing letters.
So thats been my 9 weeks.
I look forward to reading about other peoples days.
Look after yourself lovely lady
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Ps im driving my lovely oh bonkers and he is recipricating 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This lock down has seen a lot of house hold chores, my next door neighbour has painted the front of our two houses which is so kind of them. My garden is not too big, but we have two allotments and that keeps my dh busy as well as taking care of me. Courgettes are down the allotment as well as pumpkins among other things. xxxx
Yes such a lot of diy going on for many. How kind to paint your house also.
Our garden is mediumish. House plus garage and side enterance width. About 60ft long I think. I should mesure it maybe nothing like that. No allotment. Very small veg plot, courgettes going under roses in rose garden. Dont normally grow them as take up a lot of room. Im going to try one in the green house and grow it vertically, we shall see.
Ah well. When not ensuring the sofa has not changed position or comfort levels, I have waged war with the bind weed, watered the veg but mainly am completing an Elizabeth Bradly needlepoint work which I intend to frame. Once that is done, I'm going to paint an old cupboard and maybe start some embroidery (hands but mainly concentration dependent). Fatique is dictating my choices at the moment - out goes playing my classical guitar / exercise and anything that demands an IQ. So off bind weed hunting I go, assisted by a cockapoo (ball permanently in mouth) and one of our two cats. Hope you enjoy your day soothed by the warmth.
I done some embroidery after i had my daughter and i was suffering post natal depression and was advised to start doing something and i did. I did a table cloth and after nearly 36yrs i still have it.xxx
I'm so sorry to hear that you're feeling so bad. Leave the bulbs until better days perhaps?
Knitting small things for the premature babies' group. Trying to make myself a skirt. I seem have a bad case of housewives' twitch. Cleaned, cleared and tidied everything that doesn't move fast enough. Investigated the contents of the big old sea chest where I keep craft stuff and discovered a couple of tapestries I don't remember buying amongst a whole lot of assorted rubbish. I do hope it wears off soon.
It’s so nice that you feel well enough to sit in your garden Sylvi. It’s lovely to hear!
I don’t cope very well with temperatures over 20 so if I’m going to do any gardening it has to be first thing in the morning or early evening. Luckily my house is cool inside.
I’m spending my time in lockdown baking cakes and bread (I have a machine because I can’t knead anymore), colouring, doing sudokus, crosswords, online quizzes, cross stitching and knitting. I got very exciting because my daughter has brought me a huge pile of printing to cut out and laminate ready for the new academic year (she’s a primary school teacher)
I too suffer with the heat and if i have anything to do i have to do it before lunchtime. I am no good for anything after lunch as well. I too do colouring as well darling.xxx
Ouch .. I hope you feel better soon with your back Sylvi. Sit comfy and hope after tomorrow we get our sun back as forecast. I’m glad you can have fresh vegetables and have an allotment. The taste of home grown is delicious. I have been making a gardening journal for all my seeds I am planting. New to seeds but not to planting. Well haven’t done seeds since I was a child. Flowers as well and salad and vegetable seeds.
I’ve been doing a lot of art inside and out. Outside I’ve been up cycling and rejuvenating/painting many garden things. A lovely birdbath old fashioned style in white with gold antiqued bowl decor and gold metal birds. Metallic dark green plant shelves. Then some wicker plant pots in matte gold .. and an old wicker magazine rack, large frog shape. I plan for a trailing lobelia in his mouth! I love frogs and bees so have a few tasteful garden ornaments and container pots featuring those critters! Also revived a large crumbling snail container pot and painted him a subtle silver. He needs bright red eyes in the form of two jewels .. keep it simple and effective and then some bright red flowers in him! Also painting some regular plant pots. Going to hand paint delicately on those once a couple of coats of a single colour on them. Also decoupage some with my small botanical/insect prints. A ceramic cat too to upcycle, paying tribute to a former feline! I hope I do him justice.
So, lots of projects on the go and to do. I’ve been doing some “sunography” too. A form of cyanotype print. I have several more of those to do on fabric (linen) using delicate objects and plants/objects and will make an arrangement of the successful ones to frame for inside. Also painting some picture frames. Changing pictures in them too to some of my own images/prints. I’m organising all my art equipment and portfolios and finding all sorts of treasures in the form of pencils and paints and papers. I’ll post my artwork inside and out when it’s all done soon. Happy colouring dear Sylvi! I love the colouring books by Zoe de la Cases. Secret Paris/Tokyo/NY. Also Johanna Basford’s Enchanted Forest/Lost Ocean/Time Garden. xxxx
Blimey i am a amateur compared to you darling. You are a amazing doing all what you do in crafting. Some of what you do i have never heard of. I usually set all the seeds in the greenhouse for hubby to take down to the allotment. Due to me being so ill i am not allowed down there for the time being, but as soon as my lock down is over i will go down there with my camera and i will be able to show you what we have growing down there. Hubby has the netting ready to take down the allotment to cover the cherry tree before all the birds get at them. I love taking photos and i have missed all the hawthorn flowers due to the lock down(there's those two words again) I sure have missed going out with it and taking photos of the flora in my area, xxxx
No you are certainly no amateur as your artistic side comes through in your photography and all you do and your plants are gorgeous .. far nicer than most I’ve seen 💗 I would love to see all your plants when you can get there to take pics. My art is just my way of life. I paint a thing here and there. I would go mad if I didn’t do that most days. 😁 I’ll post pics of my art when I’ve done more then it will (hopefully!) be a nice collection at once. I’m sorry you can’t go to see your seeds growing, but you are right, you can’t go down to an allotment having this lingering pneumonia madness (at least mine jiggers off for a couple of months before it comes back😑) and I wouldn’t go either. We are normally patient people and have to be even more so at the moment. I hope you feel stronger each day and your lungs are healing. It takes time I know that. Love to you dear Sylvi. xxxx
Time yes that word again. I am not the best person for being patient i can tell you. My dh always says and my late mum says i always want things yesterday.xxx
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Sunflower in my garden 😊❤️
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