Orbs - jangold

Well another sunny day here in the UK - who's complaining - not me although I got burned through leggings over lunch. I had my friend Kerry up for lunch and we had a lovely pasta salad with garlic bread then for dessert I made strawberry waffles with vanilla icecream - very scrummy.

Gave me time to get some more done in the garden - so I got out my 6 orbs (3 pictured) you can see the reflection of the top part of the garden with the two chairs Kerry and I had been lazing on :-) Now if I can get all the solar lights to work - that will be another matter. Bye for now Hugs Jan xxx

As the sun goes down - jangold

At 5pm the skies started to clear the grey away and give way eventually to lovely blue, clear skies. They have given out a 'heatwave' for Britain this week - so let's see how it goes.So by 8pm when I'd just finished work here I went outside with my camera.The garden at the back doesn't have any sun on it now at this time of day - but the front of the house is beautiful.I took this picture of our lovely hanging basket in the setting sun. It is so warm and peaceful here now at this time of day - I hope I wake up tomorrow and it has not gone.

Hugs Jan xxx

Crowing about the weather (like a Brit) - jangold

Hi girls

Well after a long stretch of Summer weather (that's just under a week in Brit speak), today was awful - very cold and the rain was very heavy.

I took this photo of two crows sheltering on a telegraph wire opposite our house - trying to get under the tiles of a house opposite - even they did not look amused.

Worst still as I was taking it I could hear the church bells at church at the bottom of the town, meaning there was a wedding. The poor bride to be must have been devasted having had a lovely weekend last week and a few good days in the week. But on the flipside it gave me plenty of time to do some much needed tidying and work inside. I'm sure Summer will arrive properly soon - it's just knowing when ! Hope you are all having a great weekend wherever you are. Hugs Jan xxx

Self-discovery - jangold

This is a picture from a few days ago of some of my gardening work, literally lining up for me to do ! I have discovered through this blog that I am fanatical about taking pictures of rows of things - is there anything you have found out about yourself since joining this blog?

Yesterday because it was such a lovely day I trimmed and shaped all these buxus plants. The front one is in situ at the entrance to our back garden - the other two are to go in tall zinc style pots in the front garden. We are just about to go and get some stones to weigh the pots down so that the pots do not go walk abouts with our local youth.

We have beautiful blue skies again today and tomorrow it speaks of being even nicer. Happy weekend to you all. Jan

Gardening at last - jangold

The sun is out at last here and forecasts it will be around for the weekend as well ... quote Sunday will be a 'scorcher'. So it's to the garden at last - lots of things to tidy up and things to plant and get out of the shed. I'm also going to create some aluminium style tubs at the front with some buxus plants which I have just cut into shape. So I predict the noise of lawn movers around 5pm this evening ... now what do they say about mad dogs and Englishmen? Have a happy Friday and weekend girls. Hugs Jan