Chatterbox 2
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No, prohibitively expensive for caravan use!!
The bagged cushions are huooooge. The downstairs loo is OOO!!
We have excess new carpet in the loft. New van carpets are the next ask. Not, thankfully, as expensive!!
Then our caravan will be almost as good as new!!
The bagged cushions are huooooge. The downstairs loo is OOO!!
We have excess new carpet in the loft. New van carpets are the next ask. Not, thankfully, as expensive!!
Then our caravan will be almost as good as new!!
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Gillthepainter wrote:AH!
Got it, Zero. But I think the Welsh fella is bending the roolz again.
So now we know they are apt to use American spellings and double letters. I had been wondering about double letters ... so basically no holds barred English. Scrabble rules? If it's in a dictionary it flies ...
I've only been doing it for a couple of weeks and was getting them in three and feeling very clever until the last two! They getting sneaky!
Grass and lawn is a pain to keep up Gill. Need servants and gardeners for that Didn't think about the small gravel kitty litter problem! I like paving stones a lot.
Plum shale sounds pretty - paving slabs or gravel?
That's a job, Sloe!
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And think of size of the shale, I think ours was 25mm, with larger sizes it can be quite chunky not pleasant to walk on.
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well, this is the image from google stock I have in my head (south facing garden needing shade)
This is how our garden looks at the moment. Just a lot of grass and a patio, 3 x the size of the image here.
With a pretty wall.
And our previous garden, in Kew. Designed by Roddy Llewellyn.
I don't want herringbone again, or bricks. Nor a pond - I don't miss the waders. But I do like a good courtyard garden.
which can be used
This is how our garden looks at the moment. Just a lot of grass and a patio, 3 x the size of the image here.
With a pretty wall.
And our previous garden, in Kew. Designed by Roddy Llewellyn.
I don't want herringbone again, or bricks. Nor a pond - I don't miss the waders. But I do like a good courtyard garden.
which can be used
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I'm not a gardener, unless it's veg, but here's our shale with the side of the garden where it runs up to the fence and we've put in some pots. The triffid plant is where our pond was, impossible to get rid of it so we just let it go. There's a couple of old logs left for insects etc.
The honeysuckle frame took a pounding in the winds and small fir tree felt the frost but the other one didn't. The clematis at the back does look good in the summer as do the small acers.
The honeysuckle frame took a pounding in the winds and small fir tree felt the frost but the other one didn't. The clematis at the back does look good in the summer as do the small acers.
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Do you mean shale or slate? I Googled because I’d never heard of using shale, and the results returned were for plum slate
I wouldn’t have the currently fashionable slate layer anywhere that will be routinely walked on, a friend has it and I think everyone we know has slipped on it, a couple of us quite heavily, a lot of people have stepping stones embedded in it which also looks quite decorative and is much safer
Love the Google image Gill, reminds me of the houses we knew in Gascony, sigh
I wouldn’t have the currently fashionable slate layer anywhere that will be routinely walked on, a friend has it and I think everyone we know has slipped on it, a couple of us quite heavily, a lot of people have stepping stones embedded in it which also looks quite decorative and is much safer
Love the Google image Gill, reminds me of the houses we knew in Gascony, sigh
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Your picture reminds me of how I planned my garden after visiting the Chelsea Flower Show (but hasn't happened!).
Looking at your current garden and written plans I'm assuming most entertaining would be on your current paving? Shale, slate, shingle etc can be very trying for chairs of the dining sort which are pulled backwards and forwards from the table. Not so bad for ones you just sit on and don't need to move so much. Feel quite excited about what you're planning though!
Looking at your current garden and written plans I'm assuming most entertaining would be on your current paving? Shale, slate, shingle etc can be very trying for chairs of the dining sort which are pulled backwards and forwards from the table. Not so bad for ones you just sit on and don't need to move so much. Feel quite excited about what you're planning though!
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Yep, the French really know how to do a garden.
No picture, Dennis. But I do know what you mean.
We definitely don't want trees, we've decided. So a fig in a large pot would be perfect.
Any road, the first thing over the next 2 months is to die back that unwanted grass.
It's a good lawn, straight and well laid. But just not for us.
No picture, Dennis. But I do know what you mean.
We definitely don't want trees, we've decided. So a fig in a large pot would be perfect.
Any road, the first thing over the next 2 months is to die back that unwanted grass.
It's a good lawn, straight and well laid. But just not for us.
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It will be nice to have your garden the way that you want it Gill. Definitely no trees, because you get all the leaves in the autumn.
Has anyone seen Seville oranges yet? I tried to ring both Asda and Sainsburys today, but it was impossible to speak to a real person. I didn't want to make the journey and find that they didn't have them.
Has anyone seen Seville oranges yet? I tried to ring both Asda and Sainsburys today, but it was impossible to speak to a real person. I didn't want to make the journey and find that they didn't have them.
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Waitrose and Ocado have them, in fact Waitrose had them before Christmas. Don’t know about the others Renee.
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I saw them in Aldi yesterday.
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Thanks very much. I will try Aldi which is closer than Waitrose. Sainsburys is opposite, so I can try there if I can't get them from Aldi.
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A bit late, but now we're back home here's the photo of one side of our back garden.
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Looking good, Dennis. And easy to maintain, I should think.
Well this weekend we have begun the process to kill the grass. We are lucky in that the previous owners spent a lot on the garden, so the existing lawn is flat and even, giving us a good starting point for our plans.
The easiest way to my mind was to cover the grass for 8 weeks until it dies. I've weighted it down with every pot and garden thing that I could find.
As it's prone to be windy round here, I have to keep the tarpaulin flattish and in place.
Well this weekend we have begun the process to kill the grass. We are lucky in that the previous owners spent a lot on the garden, so the existing lawn is flat and even, giving us a good starting point for our plans.
The easiest way to my mind was to cover the grass for 8 weeks until it dies. I've weighted it down with every pot and garden thing that I could find.
As it's prone to be windy round here, I have to keep the tarpaulin flattish and in place.
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Interested to see what you've both done/are doing. I'd wondered if you could have sold your grass as turf, Gill!
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I hadn't thought about selling it off, no. In our plan, we aren't digging the turf up, so it's not available to take away.
Our plan is to die it off, cover it with weed killing matting of some sort, that also drains well.
And lay gravel over it.
The borders will have edging tiles, so it will be a contained area, we are hoping to get reclaimed stone edges that look like ropes perhaps.
Our plan is to die it off, cover it with weed killing matting of some sort, that also drains well.
And lay gravel over it.
The borders will have edging tiles, so it will be a contained area, we are hoping to get reclaimed stone edges that look like ropes perhaps.
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Earthmaiden wrote: I'd wondered if you could have sold your grass as turf, Gill!
that was my thought when you first told us what you were doing.
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I've had an odd thing today
I had 3 torches, none working properly, so I sat down to sort them out
When I opened the big butch one, which wasn't working at all, I discovered that the batteries in it had decomposed, rather like batteries used to 50 years ago, they were a sort of chalky mass round the edges, as far as I could see, they had gummed themselves in and couldn't be removed - I think they were the batteries that came with it, obviously not the Duracell type
So I opened the newest little pocket torch, that still had its original batteries, and I realised that the reason it hadn't been working some of the time was because they are slightly too small and slip about and don't always make proper contact, it's rather a good torch with Duracells in place.
The "spare" torch I think I'd just loosened the lens too far trying to control the beam, it seems to be all right now
But just a general reminder that cheap batteries that rot are still out there, don't assume the batteries supplied with cheap & cheerful equipment are worth having.
I had 3 torches, none working properly, so I sat down to sort them out
When I opened the big butch one, which wasn't working at all, I discovered that the batteries in it had decomposed, rather like batteries used to 50 years ago, they were a sort of chalky mass round the edges, as far as I could see, they had gummed themselves in and couldn't be removed - I think they were the batteries that came with it, obviously not the Duracell type
So I opened the newest little pocket torch, that still had its original batteries, and I realised that the reason it hadn't been working some of the time was because they are slightly too small and slip about and don't always make proper contact, it's rather a good torch with Duracells in place.
The "spare" torch I think I'd just loosened the lens too far trying to control the beam, it seems to be all right now
But just a general reminder that cheap batteries that rot are still out there, don't assume the batteries supplied with cheap & cheerful equipment are worth having.
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Good point Sue.
I had to bin some fairy lights after I put them away with (inexpensive) batteries still in.
I had to bin some fairy lights after I put them away with (inexpensive) batteries still in.
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