It's thirsty work and a 👧 girl needs her refreshment.
A four sided frozen tetrahedral iced lolly or jubbly for short.
Heidi is quite content to stand there licking if someone holds it for her.
She says ice lollies 🍭 and jubblys are not paw friendly.
It's still not rained here and I am watering my plants and vegetables every second day.
Living in the Emerald Isle I never thought we would be hoping for some much needed rain.
I suppose when it starts it will never stop?
We have had two nights of overnight rain, warm sunny days. The garden loves this weather. But its too late for my nasturtiums. I'm slowly pulling them all out. At least they will come back by themselves next winter
ReplyDeleteOvernight rain is the perfect rain Linda. Farmers are struggling here for pasture for grazing and grass growth to make silage. I had lots of nasturtiums last year but there are very few this year. Must be the wet winters. Lavender hates the Irish climate and doesn't live long here.
ReplyDeleteVery dry here as well, with our neighbours garden so overgrown along the fence on our sunny side, my beds are drying out, so watering 5 out of 7 days, using kitchen grey water where I can. At least my 'lawn' does not need doing.
ReplyDeleteWe should all save rainwater Marlene but we don't. It's full of free nitrogen for our plants and vegetables. Lawns are such a chore and lawnmowers and strimmers make so much noise. I haven't got a lawn at the moment. It's another vegetable patch.
ReplyDeleteMy "lawn" provides mulch and also a good activating layer in the compost heap
DeleteVery true. I just don't like gardens that are all grass and a noisy chore to cut every week.
DeleteDry here too but rain is forecast for the bank holiday weekend - surprise, surprise!
ReplyDeleteIt always rains on bank holidays JayCee. One hundred percent guaranteed.😃
DeleteClearly what we need is more bank holidays.
DeleteI would vote for them.
DeleteThat look of bliss!
ReplyDeleteStill very dry here...
Yes GZ. Heidi is so intelligent and human like. I have never known a spring like it. Unbelievable.
ReplyDelete1976?
DeleteYes. I remember it. I saw pictures of empty ish reservoirs in Ripponden the other day and I thought exactly the same thing. Apparently it's dry until the bank holiday weekend and then it's all change.
Delete1976 was a great summer but up until May it had not been anything out of the ordinary.
DeleteI only remember the summer of that year.
DeleteNever mind the jubblies - I see that you have got a couple of miners' lamps in the corner. Any family history or did you pick them up at car boot sales?
ReplyDeleteNothing from the family history YP. I was given one and I bought the silver coloured one from an Irish carboot. They both come from Eccles where the cakes come from. My Irish great great grandfather was a miner here. They mined lead, copper and silver and tinon this peninsula and on Beara and Mizen peninsulas. The lamps and other brasses and copper need a food clean and polish like you cleaned that plaque. A lot of the miners here came from Cornwall. A lot of them ended up in Butte in Montano when the price of tin fell over here. I read about it in one of Pete McCarthy's very funny books.
ReplyDeleteOkay. Thanks for explaining Dave. Instead of messing about with plants, get the "Brasso" out tomorrow lad!
DeleteShine Your Buttons With Brasso. My plants need rain.
DeleteThe reservoirs here are looking worryingly low.
ReplyDeleteWorryingly is the word Jules.
ReplyDeleteDo you collect rain water and store it? That is all the water we will have here - once we get a roof to collect it off.
ReplyDeleteGosh. I will watch your rain gathering posts with interest. I must get some IBC tanks to collect rainwater from our outbuildings roofs.
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