Countdown to Christmas 2020 - Lockdown: Peaked! (Thread 5)

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Morning. Welcome to our new thread.

We maybe have rain today. I really hope we do! I have no ides when we last had it.

I'm baking with the kids today plus potting some plants on. Exciting. No idea where they'll go, mind you!

Only 2 days left of furlough. Yaaay for the financial side and booooo otherwise! 😂

Crazy that doll is gorgeous and l am not just saying that it is so lovely . I will hang my head in shame at not going to the lake or having a Cadwaladers However l will redeem myself by telling you l love Pontypool park Good news re the broker he will definitely get you an excellent deal , no worries
Wreck Were you thirsty cos of the prawn cocktail crisps because they make me awfully thirsty & my mouth sore from the salt
Fire l used to have gallons of Gaviscon it was excellent, hope you feel less windy & bloated now , heartburn is the worst though
shudder so painful fabulous plants too
Nero even my Mum has a dot it's excellent she loves it totally agree re the Covid vaccine but as compensation a huge Christmas party woud be smashing ! love your Menu too well done!
Biddy that bread sounds delish , enjoy it , you deserve a treat
Most which garden centre did you go to ? We popped to Raglan this afternoon on the way home from Monmouth , Dh was in seventh heaven it was very well run to be fair to them. Hope Ds cuc plant makes it
Fluffy how is it going WFH, Dd is on Furlough and she hates it , she even misses driving in and misses the craic and the compny , she's going a bit stir crazy bless her. Your greenhouse is looking crammed but the plants look really healthy
Boot where are you today missy
On the frugal thread , one of the posters had a bill for an ear infection for their cat for 1700 , they did a ct scan and xrays and tests , l thought Omg she is insured though PHEW!

Had quite a tough shift tonight. I heard one of the worst life stories ever. Just wanted to give him a huge hug and if there had been no virus I would have.

Haha no mrs the crisps craving stopped but the thirst continued!

Day off today. Need to do some of my online course and get the dc to do some work. Hopefully I can get theirs out of the way this morning so I can do stuff later. Also bonus is my work laptop has 4G so I can sit in the garden and do it.

Why I'm sorry you had a tough shift it's hard not to let these things weigh on your mind

Sorry to hear that why

We went to Blue Diamond in St Mellons Mrs which is our regular one :)

I can see on the BBC that the First Minister is due to give a roadmap for Wales later today so very interested to see what it says.

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Morning! I'm tired as I couldn't sleep last night. I need to get up!

Half day today...I've got loads to put in the ground. My leeks are almost big enough now too, but not quite yet, thankfully. Hopefully my top soil / compost mix will come today. I ordered a bulk bag to be delivered straight to my plot. It's for the kids' raised beds. Only one is built so far, but the other will be today.

Sorry work was rough, Why. MH services have been underfunded for so long that it's no surprise people are suffering.

Cucumber is not looking good :( DS is really upset.

Do you have any cucumber seeds, Most? They grow really quickly.

Put the poorly cucumber in the mini greenhouse today. See if it gets happier. Unless it's properly dead!

Give it a feed (tomato feed is fine). Then cross fingers. Plants can come back from almost-dead.

Morning

I am rubbish with plants . I tried to grow pumpkins one year ( my NDN had feral pumpkins in their front garden after the seeds spilled from their Hallowe'en pumpkins) mine got to the size of a tennis ball, shrivelled up and fell off )

Fig tree was really mean with fruit and the whole tree finally died . Actually the only fruit was in the first year which you cannot eat , the birds had them.

On a plus note , DH and I are off to Costco , it'll be an experience so say the least .
And I found last years W&H Christmas magazine under the mattress , so that must've been kept for a reason

whydoes just you listening and being there would've helped that person immensely . Don't underestimate how patients find that unburdaning to someone independant can help . Often they feel they cannot burden their family , or worry that their friends will back away . Sometimes being a good pair of ears is worth rubies .

Thanks for the advice fluffy, will give it a go and also try to order some cucumber seeds as a back up

why - agree with 70, you will have helped more than you know.

I have my fingers crossed for your plant most

I've been awake since 6:30. I got up and showered but I was then freezing so jumped back into bed. DH has only just got up so even though I was awake early I'm still being lazy 🙄

Just ordered cucumber seeds from Premier Seeds for under £2 including postage! Will stick them in the ground as soon as they arrive :)

Don't put them in the ground, Most. Start them in pots in your mini greenhouse. Mine came up in days!

I ❤️❤️ Premier Seeds. They have really good quality seeds.

Enjoy Costco, 70!

Fab thanks Fluffy :) Thought it might be too late for pots but will trust your more extensive experience!

Thanks for your positive thoughts everyone. Took me a while to get it out of my mind but alright now.

I can't do gardening to save my life. I am seriously uninterested plus I only have to touch a plant and it dies. So I am the opposite of green fingers 😂

Cucumbers are fussy buggers and the soil will be too cold yet! Your DS will have a plant more quickly if you do pots. ☺️

Black fingers, Why?! 😂

I'm the same why. Plus I hate dirt and worms. I like to look at flowers though

Great thanks fluffy :)

I'm not a gardener either, with the added bonus of not really liking flowers 😂

My dream garden is part grass, part patio with pots of herbs dotted around and maybe a lavender plant and a trough with wildflowers (purely planted for the benefits of bees and butterflies).

Fluffy have you always been a keen gardener or has your interest come about due to the allotment?

I've got over my mud hatred! And I'm a bit better with spiders these days too as I'm often in close quarters with them. 😂 😱

I just love eating food I've grown from a teeny seed.

Hmm nursery have clearly been given the heads up about today's announcement by Mark Drakeford as they have just asked us to let them know ASAP if we want our children to attend when they reopen 'sometime in June'.

There is something so magical about seeing massive plants laden down with fruits that you remember starting off as a seed so small you could barely see it isn't there fluffy!

I hated gardening until about 2 years ago.

I'm in the camp of non gardeners. I got a grow your own kit for children last year and it still didn't work out.

Our garden centres can open on Monday so I'm sure there will be a lot of people out trying to be green fingered.

Most we've been given a preliminary date of 1st June. I won't be sending them back at that stage though.

Is there anything that you would add to my menu? Dh has said more desserts and more picky things.

We know it won't be 1st June here in Wales but perhaps it will be a week or two later. I am not sure what to do to be honest. As DS is an only child I am worried about his socialisation but he doesn't want to go back. I would prefer it to be honest if playdates were allowed as then he could have socialisation but just with a couple of children, not a nursery full.