Cybergarden: Spring into Summer

[Upwardandonward]

Here's a new thread for us.

First mint package arrived a few days ago! That's why I was so tired after potting! Sorry, should have said so much more clearly. And now you say it, I do indeed recognise the envelope - which was already in re-use!

What a canny bunch of re-cyclers we are.

at nightie-dance again, Merivel. Sounds like you did actually get a fair bit done, shodatin, although there's always more.

Sounds like everyone has been having a challenging day; hope Upward's has been manageable. Difficult day here, too, for non-health reasons. Ah well, we shall see.

So sorry you've had such a difficult day Nilgiri < HF nuzzles sy > Another one here sending gopositive vibes to upward
So pleased mint arrived safely , excellent
Hope you've recovered from outing shodatin, & thank you for patience with PMs ! Dh resting so it may noot be sorted tonight

Feel a fraud as have hadd a very memorable afternoon & evening , once poor Dh could leave his work for a bit - so lucky to have car at the moment & be able to get to a market town surrounded by hills < pines for Wales > to see a (free) talk & presentation of a Saxon relic back to the townsfolk .

Was sunny despite flash floods being predicted & was amazed to find a shop open after normal hours , a glorious cottage full of very reasonably-priced secondhand /antique - true bliss for present-hunting < hides palest green gossamer blouse - well, haven't been in a charity shop since December >
Had chips at riverside & seemed to accquire a pet duck --and a hungry seagull landed on my head - good job hair needs a wash

Old church was closed , but churchyyard ( more of Dh's forebears in there somewhere ) was like a landscaped garden , & by a series of coincidences we took a back route to walk the town's Saxon fortifications for the first time , & saw a fabulous cat emerge from houses within the "fort" ... palest ginger goddess stared most intently & apparently crossly , & eventually climbed back up slope & demanded fuss ! She was so unique -looking Dh thinks she may have Burmese ancestry mixed with her whitey-ginger ones. After a long , long time , she allowed us to walk on as she sat in the bright evening sun , atop the Saxon wall

Walked to the talk along c17th street only to find Saxon warriors defending the venue , most ably
s and ancient Britons' equivalent

PS ancient ? Saxons?< not listening to speaker sufficiently>

...and thank you for strengthening s, Nilgiri < sends calming , affirming , encouraging vibes > ...shodatin , I saw a couple of Easter trees in shop windows & thought I could achieve that look , thanks to you ! < glowing mention in N's dispatches for garden work >- hope you haven't had to sleep all evening to recover , and that small health improvements occur & make a real difference to daily life

< adds small log to fire in case of frosty night >
< puts out hot choc for stargazers & warm rugs for cats & beagle>

Will post tomorrow, waving goodnight to all

Sorry had to move quickly last night, exhaustion again, and bit fragile still, but had to thank Merivel for account of actual travels, including time spent with cat which might have been part-Burmese - your DH must be very knowledgeable about cats. (Friends had 2 Burmese who were indoor cats, would have been upset if one had mixed offspring, but can imagine how beautiful it must have been).
Thanks to Nilgiri for news of first mint envelope - it was indeed re-re-cycled, which is why I was bit worried, considering amount of moisture involved. While I remember, there are self-sown Lemon Balm plantlets available (been known to creep), and like the mints, it's good ground-cover in shade.
Realise upward can't garden just yet, but do let me know if any herbs appeal, maybe window-sill garden?

Sorry for missing good morning & thank you fors, *shodatin - so sorry a bit fragile - another winner of our cybergarden platinum medal for patience through arduous times>

I can well imagine that your friends would have been displeased by unapproved breeding & can understand the fuss about Burmese as seem ludicrously sociable & very faithful . SIL had a brother & sister given to her as kittens & they were a memorable pair , very close < memories of them draped round each other sleeping in www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-CAT-DOG-PET-FLEECE-RADIATOR-BED-BASKET-/220997054305?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Cats&hash=item3374736f61radiator bed >

Hope kizzie and madmouse & familes are all well

< HF pads along companionably to Nilgiri 's house for the most advanced tuition in feline thinking , the best for all situations >

Hope you can have some distraction , upward, & that this will will bring positve events

Burmese I knew were certainly sociable, not surprising really as stuck indoors, but having each other must have been great compensation.
Sun shining here, but not enough spoons to go outside again, and friend in village just emailed about being cold despite c/heating on, so I checked forecast: Cold until Mon, Heavy Rain Tu and Wed, so excellent time to dormouse in this location and hope the weekend is better elsewhere.

The sibling dupo adored each other ,shodatin - ideal situation .
< stifles sob as friendly Burmese hops on head >

Horrors at being cold in spite of the heating - greyest cloud here & not warm , but still nothing on the freshness of your local air, I'll bet . Hope dormousing helps your energy levels

< watches back gate of cybergarden for delivery of new sponns >

Hope we can all happen upon something to keep our spirits up whilst being indoor cats
Forgot to mention yesterday that had the great goodfortune to see a set of baby bunnies feeding

Oh, lost this morning's post.

Never mind, 'twas only to share some . And there's always more in the pot...

Always annoying to lose a post Nilgiri, worse when there's no clue what happened to it.
Had a mystified few minutes while contemplating spon delivery Merivel, then reckoned they must be spoons arriving at back gate of cybergarden - wish there were some arriving at my RL garden, or even a cat coming to give lessons in feline thinking. Seem to be stuck with beagle thinking - curl up somewhere comfortable and ignore world if it's not entertaining and/or not mealtime.

shodatin, did I put some wild and bizarre postcode on the snowdrop packet? Checking the return address you put on the mint, it's not what I had before.

Normally errors like that are Definitely My Fault, but given we're both occasionally foggy I thought I'd check...

So old, wrong postcode: digits in your PC added up to 11.
New, correct postcode: digits add up to 5.

Is that right?

at Merivel's feeding bunnies...

Nilgiri, I have some vague memory of one incorrect number somewhere on a recent envelope - correct one is definitely digits adding to 5, as you mentioned. Had postcode for about eight years, and think I use same one every time, but really can't remember. The real problem is that I have both an O and a 0 , can never remember which comes where, until it's not accepted, of course.
(Wonder if one of the zeros looked like a 6, which would add up to 11, apologies anyway.
Have to say goodnight now - sleep well all.

Sorry missed you , shodatin ,< and hope you feel less beagley very soon - spoons delivery definitely overdue for some of us , though I'm inccredibly grateful to have had more than usual this past few weeks

Ah , postcodes < weeps> - hope all turns up where intended

Eeeeek , apologies - unexpected snooze after food shop . I dozed off in a very bad mood at my peculiar inadequacies with housekeeping etc , seeing how it impacts on rundown Dh , & woke to find he had unearthed an important item of work equpment that had disappeared on day of last inspection (small), & which he would have had to have paid for replacing .

I also found one of my most precious possessions yesterday , which I'd carefully hidden in a sensible place no burglar would ever think to look and neither did I < gratefully clinks s >

Sorry you lost post earlier , Nilgiri < teeny bunnies hop in from cybergarden to nibble cushions >

PS I also realised I'd left the car unlocked again- and found it still parked safely

< remembers pot of chocolate. and big tin of Sunday baked goods , with tight anti -bunny lid >

What grim weather, shodatin. Definitely time for dormousing - or beagle-thinking! In fact, curled up warm in bed, with a hot water bottle and a mug of hot chocolate, is about as good a use of such a day as one could imagine. Except possibly sitting with friends round a roaring fire, with the remains of a good meal on the table and the convivial clink of glasses and the telling of stories.

Hope a few days curled up will accumulate spoon supply for when sun comes out.

Thank you for postcode confirmation. Definitely not your handwriting - I was wildly and creatively wrong! Fortunately your clever postie seems to have ignored and all did indeed arrive as intended!

Merivel thank you for sharing your wonderful day out! And I thought the F-word was banned. No one's a Fraud, and there's no competitive misery round here. Good days are worth celebrating, and it's extremely kind of you to share yours with us, including part-Burmese goddess. So beautiful.

Much empathy with your self-annoyance about housekeeping today, and impact on DH. I know that one very well indeed. But hurrah for finding of objects! Not lost, just in a Safe Place...

And thank you so much for the company of HF, whose thinking I have had much need of these last few days. Many knots still to be teased apart here. Hope your tangled skein is still unwinding and reknitting in a manageable way.

And the same to Upward, who may also be doing lots of painful, uphill work.

Think we may need another of those group hugs but no tongues, whoever it was last time.

Hope everyone sleeps well tonight, and wakes with enough spoons to get through the morrow.

Glad we've got postcode sorted Nilgiri. Have learned over the years that a card with Christmas money is wonderful help for posties to use initiative, save me hassle etc. (and she is indeed lovely person anyway).
Thanks to Merivel for sharing baby bunnies with us, as well as super-cat, and other animals on travels. Really good news about absent-mindedness with car and two important objects, doesn't it raise one's spirits? (Once left keys on outside of door while out shopping...)
{brew}s all round, before I forget, and yes, a happy group hug,(holds beagle safely over shoulder, just in case, as he looks forward to group hugs and no-one really minds waving tail at waist level).
Cold but sunny morning here, so not too bad but definitely preferable to be indoors.

Thank you both for beautiful posts < sniffle , wail > which mean I will certainly have to join in group hug - slobeer was due to my being a snivelly type < eyes beagle guiltily at you holding him carefully away, shodatin

Thank you , upward , for bringing together these incredible people , and I'm sorry you can't enjoy a chat more often , & worry my overlong posts make it hard for you to read / join in Hope you often sit with us in the summerhouse - I would put the sunloungers out today if wasn't so windy... Wonder if you saw the concert for Titanic yesterday , which Dh is complaining they might as well be banging on formica tables as use those posh drums , TV sound is so bad

Wishing you an improvement soon , shodatin , & that you can have a bit of enjoyment between everyday tasks and dormousing - indoors sounds good.
Will try PMs again in a bit - Notepad didn't save my post , argh , & now neither browser allows the PM to send

Thank you so much for sharing fun & not begrudging littlee rabbits the final end of the cushion tassels .Thank you so much Nilgiri for your thoughts on hard times for cybergardeners v celebrating good days further sniffling >le

HF delighted to spend time with a mind very nearly on a par with hers , Nilgiri < sending every good wish for untangling >

< rustles up cyber Sunday lunch for us all to enjoy afternoon of chat ( & snoozing ) in front of fire afterwards >

< very glad of a parallel universe where I rustle up anything tasty>
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Ditto here *Merivel, can't remember when last made Sunday lunch for guests, and even longer since washed dishes afterwards, but am very grateful even if it's only cyber-lunch (and do wish we were near enough/well enough to organise similar), such an excellent idea.
Am assuming small rabbits are finding way to summerhouse too - don't really need table with Noah's Ark animals these days, and of course, non of the cyber-animals would be interested in having rabbit lunch...

< glad infant rabbits nibbling loudly so couldn't hear the speculation as to suitabilility for larger animal's meal >

< clinks glasses with shodatin , agreeing would be brilliant to do this in RL one day > and puts out between-meal crunchy snacks , wholegrain of course, and fizzy grape juice

Ooh, thank you for cyberlunch, Merivel. Much appreciated earlier.

And glad it was sunny for you this morning, shodatin, after the grim grey forecasts.

at speculation about baby rabbits! Although with us dormice around... You know what they say: you don't need to run faster than a polar bear; you just need to run faster than the other people.

Love the polar-bear quote Nilgiri, and not to worry about bloodthirsty beagles - one never did any damage by itself, and we made awful mistake once by boiling up pig's trotters as treat for hounds- they were so very embarrassed and unable to eat new snack, realising they were being given animal paws to chew on... Feeling ill just remembering, but bunnies will be quite safe, and of course HF does know about Not Eating Friends (and of course has no interest whatever in human-sized dormice).
Hope weekend went well upward, and that you might have some good news from consultant this week.

How wise of beagles to recognise trotters, shodatin. And the rest of us seem content to just chew on a tassel now and then (I'm sure it's not all the bunnies' fault).

Alas knew nothing about Titanic concert, Merivel, and must go look that up now. Sorry your TV wasn't up to the job. Must be very frustrating for such musical people as yourselves.

And you've reminded me to go listen again to Gavin Bryars' "Sounds for the Sinking of the Titanic". The tragedy seems to have inspired so much art over the years, in a way that the Lusitania and other sinkings haven't.

Back in the garden, 'twill soon be weather for sunloungers! If nothing else, we can recline in the big glass orangerie and watch the changing sky.

Upward hope the weekend has gone bearably for you, and the new week brings improvements. Same for shodatin, and for all of us one way or another.

Sleep well all, and hear's to a sunny tomorrow.

Waving goodnight

Huge apologies - intrnet crashed all late evening & night- seems OK now

Of course HF wouldn't be tempted , Nilgiri_ her Peace Studies course involves complex ethics , which is easier for feline minds than for ours , & she regularly takes part in group psychotherapy to progress her self-actualisation & social activism

Trotters were a thoughtful treat , shodatin , & am fascinated that your beagles weere so conscious - wildly curious about animal preception now

I s grateful , but very sorry , that you can relate to the housekeeping difficulties , Nilgiri , & probably all of us < been up for hours searching for one of the jumpers Dh feels presentable in to give a presentation tomorrow - had put it in a Safe Place >

Hoping more than ever you can have further aids to recovery , shodatin , & that upward will see doctor this week & have cause to feel encouraged

s and apple juice

Thank you for recommending Titanic music , Nilgiri -will listen when dare start up Dh's PC which has working speakers

Wish we could all have sunshine this morning Am going to indulge myself with some more sowing , as lots of rain forecast this week < puts up cinema-sized screen in summerhouse to show films of hot climes >