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I am completely, totally, utterly, desperately FED UP WITH WINTER NOW!

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shovetheholly · 27/01/2017 14:10

I don't get people who love winter. It's cold and dark and there are no leaves or flowers. I realise that I still have another couple of months to get through in reality, but I feel that I have been patient for months already and that it is now, most definitely, TIME FOR SPRING.

Anyone else feel like January is about 13 weeks long?

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shovetheholly · 12/02/2017 12:25

Astrantia's moonshine has quite a ring to it as a brand name, you know!! Of course, like all proper moonshine, you'd have to sell it in big jam jars!!

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ChuckSnowballs · 12/02/2017 12:28

Minging here. Wet, claggy, baltic temperature and just can't actually do anything. Yuk.

AstrantiaMajor · 12/02/2017 13:37

I can feel a name change coming on.

bookbook · 13/02/2017 11:16

Morning!
I am just back from 3 weeks away warm, and yes it's cold. But It is nearly spring- I have run around my garden this morning to make sure its still there and so much is happening.
DH dug up an old bed and re planted - I thought I had lost my aconites, but no- they have popped up. Snowdrops out , and lots of cyclamen. :)

I am completely, totally, utterly, desperately FED UP WITH WINTER NOW!

AstrantiaMajor · 13/02/2017 15:36

They are so pretty.

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shovetheholly · 15/02/2017 06:54

I am properly ill with flu and unable to get out of bed! (Because I have a number of other problems, when I get this it really lays me low when I get this. I've avoided the hospital this time, though, which is a great improvement on last year!) But your cyclamen and aconites totally cheered me up book!

DH says my hellebores and snowdrops are properly out, though I can't see them at the moment.

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ChuckSnowballs · 15/02/2017 08:04

Sorry to hear that Shove. Get well soon.

AstrantiaMajor · 15/02/2017 08:15

So sorry to hear you are u well Shove. Get well soon

AndShesGone · 15/02/2017 08:28

Well yesterday I had no option but to move the plants on my allotment to London. That was fun

5 huge rose bushes and 4 tree peonies. Luckily it was warm enough during the day to dig them up. Then a 2 hour drive in rush hour. Then straight into pre prepared pots and watered in.

I have NO idea if any one them will survive. The roots were massive and had to be chopped back quite hard to get them in the pots.

We were potting in the pitch black at 9pm, if they all die I'm going to be right fucked off.

bookbook · 15/02/2017 09:00

oh shove - I did wonder where you were. Take good care of yourself. it takes a lot of recovering after flu, no rushing it.
Not a single hellebore flower as yet here, but the very first yellow crocus popped out yesterday, in a bunch of snowdrops !

bookbook · 15/02/2017 09:03

AndShesGone - I haven't moved big roses, but I have moved a big tree peony ( twice )- it did droop, badly for quite a while , and needed a fair amount of watering on a regular basis when it was settling in , but it is fine now .

AndShesGone · 15/02/2017 09:57

That's good to know book, I thought peonies were sulky bastards and hated it. Never moved them before. Dh was wondering why we were basically moving a dry stick

sunnyhills · 15/02/2017 12:02

Oh shove I'm so sorry you're not well .It's so boring and depressing .

I hope you have a lovely nosegay of spring flowers on your bedside table to rest your gaze on .

Remember you will get well and this will be behind you x

Andshegone can I be nosey about the reasons behind you having to toil in the dark to move plants from allotment ? Is it closing ?

AndShesGone · 15/02/2017 16:04

Moved house Giving up my allotment as it's a 2 hour drive. Sad to see it go after 10 years for a patio but I might put my name down around here but the waiting lists are closed at the moment.

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shovetheholly · 16/02/2017 08:57

You are all so lovely to me! I think I am turning a bit of a corner, though everything - and I really mean everything - still really hurts! Who knew I had so many muscles? I probably ought to make more effort to use some of them when I am better.

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AstrantiaMajor · 16/02/2017 09:33

I have discovered the magic of Voltorol 12 hour for aching muscles. I just use it twice a day it really helps.

bookbook · 16/02/2017 09:42

shove - rest !! :)
I can recommend this - I read it on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it
It's sunny this morning !
Is Voltorol still on prescription? I have only had it once when I wrenched a shoulder badly , a few years ago.

AstrantiaMajor · 16/02/2017 10:15

No you can buy it over the counter. The 12hour one seems more effective time than the other one. It was recommended to me by the Oesteopath.

jojosapphire · 19/02/2017 17:53

Super chuffed with my progress on our side garden, we moved in on the 1st of Aug. I started tackling it in october when the blackberries had finished, the brambles were up to 4m long and one trunk was as thick as a 50p! Its still a work in progress will have to dig out the roots and hoping ourbuilders will help with the rest of the lilac when our extention starts!
Plan for the area is a kitchen garden, with a picket fence to detur people and dogs from walking on our garden (looks like a verge). Itching to get started but i know that i cant do much for another year...

jojosapphire · 19/02/2017 17:55

Oops missed a picture...

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shovetheholly · 20/02/2017 07:27

Thanks for the recommendation - the Voltorol really helped me get some sleep as I was waking up every time I moved! I'm on the mend now!

jojo - you've done LOADS!

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BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 20/02/2017 07:57

Shove I've only just caught up with the thread, so sorry you've been bad but I'm glad you're on the mend now!

I have a friend coming over today but I'm hoping to get out in to the garden this afternoon for a bit, just for a general tidy, before it rains tomorrow.

bookbook · 20/02/2017 09:02

shove - nothing like to sleep to help recuperation. Good to hear you are on the mend .
Jojo - that is am immense amount of work - I can see why you would want to put some sort of barrier there,.
It was so warm yesterday that I am thinking I need to get on, but it's still February, with a warning for a cold snap and possible snow. So no clearing up just yet

jojosapphire · 20/02/2017 10:01

Thanks all. I have been on mums net for a couple of years now and still haven't worked out how to tag people in posts??
We are expecting a planning decision for our extention this week which includes moving our side wall out, but after lots of back and forth its been decided that we have to leave a 2m verge and has to be a wall so about £5k of work to gain less than 2m of garden so hence current plans to leave the wall so we will have more money to re-do our existing garden (provided it doesnt get swallowed up in building costs).
Im really enjoyingbthis spring like weather and hoping it continues

AstrantiaMajor · 20/02/2017 11:55

Having run out of things to do in the garden I have taken to catch- up Tv . I have watched so many old garden programmes. I do love Big dreams small spaces. There have been so many amazing ones. I wonder though if they really do it themselves. The one where the lady created the ruin was stunning, but it looked so professional. Am I just an old synic.

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