snowmash's cybergarden

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We filled up your thread, snowmash! So here's another one.

Neither weather nor circumstance seems to be cooperating at the moment, so I thought we could do with a virtual garden to sit out in.

shodatin has started work already:
"we don't lose anything to the frost here, and nobody thieves our daffs and precious bay trees. Most days will be sunny I think, but sometimes we have rain at night, particularly when we've done some planting..."

And I think it needs a summer house with a chiminea or the like to sit round after dark and toast our tootsies.

Night all. Hope everyone gets some sleep.

Hello all! What entertaining jollity you got up to yesterday and I'm sure it will have made snowmash smile. Sorry I didn't get back to our garden - was unexpectedly out most of the day & had a memorable day, in a good way. Cheers to frolics and cake, TIANC

How are you today snowmash ? We all have our fingers crossed for you unless there's anything you'd like us to do? I guess there's no chance your health problem can ease up at all until you have the approopriate medication? Bloomin' eck shodatin, sorry to nosey in on something you were sharing with snowmash - I would be a coward with those symptoms. I hope you two get some warning of it .

Aha , so the moon was much brighter. It was huge here at 7PM , then seemed to shrink. We were watching it on the drive by a nearby coastal headland which used to be the main port of the Celts and is really atmospheric even now - people come from all around for a few minutes of that place. We met someone out in the frost on his pushbike who we hadn't seen for years and years, with carrier bags of sandwiches , waiting for his mates to come to a full moon party. I'm sure someone will have turned up for him but hope they got a move on, as it was so cold.

Hope you all had an unforgettable day pixie & that madmouse & family have a well earned good time.
Have we planted snowmash's wildflower / meadow seds this week? Not sure which bed they're to go in - we could scatter them in spare spots too. I'm off to look up outdoor sowing as I'm puzzled about it in this frosty weather. Hope everyone has a restful day and you continue to feel better shodatin.

Hello hob, glad you had a good day yesterday, and thanks for news of full-moon-party. After reminding about everyone I knew, I simply forgot to look myself, too many elderly moments these days.
It occurred to me that the blackouts were probably only of interest to snowmash - if that- but I did want her to know I understood how it felt, as I never met anyone else who had this.

I always sowed wildflower seeds indoors in pots to give them a start, most annuals really, having had poor germination/survival rates with outdoor sowings.
I used to think the wildlife watched for me sowing and descended on the food the minute I went indoors, and buying the individual plants could become expensive, so I'm happy to sow a few more for the cybergarden about now, plus maybe a packet of "mixed" to see what we get. A friend used to sow a spoonful of birdseed now and again, just for a few exotics, so maybe someone could beg a bit of this from a bird-owner?

Afternoon all.

Sorry that I need to make this brief again, not lack of interest at all, or ignoring questions, just still rubbish (time limited fortunately, but at the moment I'd like a pound for everyone who asks if I've tried the pill...I tried the mirena before Christmas despite having had no kids, so what do they think? ).

Just wanted to reassure (don't even have both ibuprofen and paracetamol written up).

Have good afternoons all b

Hi snowmash, just returned to laptop and so pleased you've posted. I do wonder if there's anyone in charge of your drugs in the hospital, or just a few people hoping they've got it right. I have plenty of painkillers, yes even ibuprofen, paracet and aspirin apart from the serious stuff, so could send you any of this, along with the painting and snacks I keep mentioning.
Am guessing you feel too horrible to care, particularly with constant questions/suggestions you've already tried, but it's all part of people wanting to help.

Hope you have something good happening this afternoon, like a best friend visiting or doctor arriving with armfuls of useful meds which don't have any side-effects.

Hey snowmash, always good to see you! Ave a !

Sorry you're still feeling a bit rough, tho.

And at the daft questions you're getting. Just what you need when you're feeling ghastly, isn't it, idiots with mouth in motion before brain in gear. (Although as a foot-in-mouth expert myself, thank you that you are always so kind to idiots .)

for incredibly busy Pixie

Night Pixie, hope you have a good sleep and wake refreshed from all your entertaining. Hope your DD2 is not too tired from the celebrations - glad she got
home in time after all.

TIANC, I'll have a too before bedtime, if there's enough left. Hope you had a reasonable day and a relaxing evening. Because I forgot last night's moon, I thoughht I'd check it tonight, but can't actually find the thing.... Must be too tired to see properly, so will wish you a good night, and to snowmash too, love, S

Always more in the pot, shodatin!

I like all these wildflower plans - I'll leave you skilled people to work out how to sow them successfully. (My RL slugs even eat poppies and lungwort, so cyberflora could be the way forward!)

Sleep well everyone.

Good night all.

Gosh everyone sounds busy...hope all is going well, will try to find other threads when I have chance. Definitely not rejecting parcel offers either...but managed to have awful mh as well as physical yesterday...here's hoping today is better.

Hope it is better snowmash, and I mean it about the parcel/s, just let me know. Night again. (Definitely no moon out there tonight)

Morning everyone! Shower day (exciting account of a psych ward, this)

Morning all! Sorry not to have been around much yesterday but been falling asleep whenever I sit down to post Very grateful for your reassurances to us, snowmash, and glad torment is at least time - limited . Don't suppose you'll have felt up to eating much ? but hope once discomfort eases off your appetite returns.

Are you feeling better today, shodatin? Thank you so much for giving me your gardening experiences as I was getting embarrassed about my rubbish results with outdoor sowing. Amused by your comment about wildlife as have a gigantic squirrel here who comes to dig up seeds the second we've sown them. It used to stroll into my neighbours' greenhouse and "drink" from the tiny pots of seeds they were sorting to sow on their allotment.
We'll all look forward to the wild flowers you've sown and any surprising varieties we might get as a bonus < sows spare birdseed >

How are you today TIANC? Hope kizzie & vigorous pixie are well & madmice are enjoying visiting family.

Morning hob, you must need the rest if you keep sleeping, so hope today is not too tiring. Are you normally one of us "absenters?"
You may regret thanking me for gardening experiences, as most are boring and/or bitter (one of the reasons I do so little these days). Squirrel's great size shows how successful he's been in the garden, doesn't it?

Morning to snowmash too - a shower day! As someone once said, returning from toilets, " It's surprising what makes you happy when you're in hospital" Hope you can actually enjoy it too, and the lovely sunshine.

So sorry snowmash, I was typing my over long post when you posted your morning message & didn't see yours. Hope you had a refreshing shower. Your posts are very interesting - just wish we could fill that ward with every imaginable entertainment for you .

Oh no shodatin what rotten gardening experiences could so traumatise you? Pests? - slugs, root weevil? The high winds of recent years have been so destructive too. I bet if your garden was southerly you'd have no problem .. .also , it's just not possible for any gardening tale to be tedious!
Thanks for asking , no, not an absenter & would be a rotten whinger if I was - long time MSer, like quite a few Mners, I notice.
at successful obese squirrel. My dear departed neigbour (he of the stolen seeds) took to barking like a large dog to repel this creature's raids. His cats used to watch him in great astonishment from my side of the fence & look at me as if to ask why

Are you in need of extra rest today, TIANC? have a
I have been given a Bleeding Heart shrub - would that suit a spot in our garden? Hope sunny afternoon to everyone & improved comfort to snowmash

? Why, thank you!

Sorry to be so slow today - been straying into other bits of MN today and resting quietly in a corner of our cybergarden, listening to all of you!

(I see your shower, snowmash and raise you a lineful of laundry in the sun. It's sad just how excited this makes me!)

Have just looked up that Bleeding Heart shrub. How spectacular!

By all means plant one in the cybergarden and stop tempting me in RL ! I don't have space for more, and urgently need to sort out donated fuschias and pieris which need repotting and moving to happier positions.

Thanks for sharing about your barking neighbour, hob, I can just imagine the cats' bafflement at the noise, and his frustration at the thieving squirrel. We once had one which liked to take away the birds' half-coconut, so DH spent time and ingenuity fastening it with wire then laughed as squirrel jumped up and down with it, chattering and almost swearing with fury as it resisted his efforts. Not often the humans win against a squirrel though.

Yes, let's have a bleeding heart shrub in the garden, I did lose one at one time but can't remember why.
May we have some small stone walls along the paths please, with scented stuff planted to bloom at wheel-chair height? (Remembering friend's garden).

Hi TIANC, Hope you've had a good day in the sunshine. I miss the special smell of sun-dried laundry, but was too busy for washing today, with my helper dashing around and doing the digging (she was too busy for housework too,) making the most of the weather after so many dull days.

Hello snowmash, hope you were able to spend time in the sun too, feeling clean and spruce after the (booked?) shower. Can I/we send you anything yet?

Prayers please....

Oh that's fantastic you got some gardening done, shodatin. I lurve scented plants - especially the ones which give off scent as you brush past (have lavender by back door just for this).

Whats wrong snowmash ? Thinking of you x