Today I shall be Mainly...

[Sue]

Art, writing and yoga today. I ache somewhat after an intensive pilates session on Tuesday night, must be doing me good!

Lots of garden tidying yesterday, things look better and will ladt for a few weeks now. Next Wednesday will be the front gardens turn

[Stanley]

Busy, busy Sue!
I had a good day yesterday, wrote an article by 8AM and sent it off and two good hours doing fiddly work in the shed. Then normal resting and reading for the rest of the day after my afternoon sleep. It's all go here as well.......
Today a bit more gentle progress in the shed. I'm hoping to finish the prettification of Newton's cylinder today, then I can move on to the motion.

[Sue]

Craft today but no lunch out as our friends have gone away for the weekend. It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day, that gardening may get done this afternoon.

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

A bit of light shed, look after Jack and myself and then GP in Russia later. The washer is on as I write, standards are being maintained!

[Sue]

What a beautiful day it was yesterday. The gardening was done and everything is looking good. Today we have decided to go on a day out, we are thinking Wycollera and a walk, with perhaps a picnic lunch. How nice to be able to enjoy the last days of September

[Stanley]

Isn't it! And this afternoon there will be some sun......

[plaques]

we are thinking Wycollera and a walk,

Not wishing to put you off but the Wycoller car park is a notorious black spot for car break ins. Being in an isolated spot the bad lads simply smash their way in leaving all the alarms sounding and drive away. My friend who has the farm adjacent to the car park says it happens all the time. Having said all this I've used it several times with no mishaps.

[Wendyf]

We usually park in Laneshawbridge and walk into Wycoller down the beck. Our usual walk takes us up past Parson Lee farm onto tops then a right turn following the Pendle Way till after the bridge at Turnhole Clough where we follow the path over the rocky outcrops and down to Bank House and back into Wycoller. It's about 4 or 5 miles altogether. Lots of lovely longer walks though, if you head towards Boulsworth the down to Trawden.

[Stanley]

"We usually park in Laneshawbridge and walk into Wycoller down the beck."
If you do that, keep an eye on the beck just behind the corn mill (if it's still there....) There was a village rubbish dump there and I've seen all sorts in the bank of the beck where it had cut into it.

[Wendyf]

The corn mill is still there Stanley, not a mill anymore but still a feed merchants. There is recent housing development on the opposite side of the water to the mill so access looks difficult! Wycoller Beck joins Laneshaw beck just after Carriers Row and I think it then becomes Colne Water.

[Sue]

we are thinking Wycollera and a walk,

Not wishing to put you off but the Wycoller car park is a notorious black spot for car break ins. Being in an isolated spot the bad lads simply smash their way in leaving all the alarms sounding and drive away. My friend who has the farm adjacent to the car park says it happens all the time. Having said all this I've used it several times with no mishaps.

All was well, coffee at the Old To k Cafe in Trawden, then had a goodwalk through the village and over the moor back to the village for a late lunch. Back home via the garden centre to buy winter pansies and tete a tete daffodil bulbs. Home now as we are out again this evening with my cousin

[Sue]

We usually park in Laneshawbridge and walk into Wycoller down the beck. Our usual walk takes us up past Parson Lee farm onto tops then a right turn following the Pendle Way till after the bridge at Turnhole Clough where we follow the path over the rocky outcrops and down to Bank House and back into Wycoller. It's about 4 or 5 miles altogether. Lots of lovely longer walks though, if you head towards Boulsworth the down to Trawden.

That is more or less the walk we did but in reverse

[Stanley]

Shed and Sochi......

[Sue]

Claire and Erin coming this morning, then I am going to watch Erin at her swimming lessons. This afternoon I intend planting up some pots of daffodils for next Spring. Later I need to sort out my sewing as I have a lesson at 10 in the morning, in which case I will need to go for my Monday morning swim early. Bob will be at the Park with the model engineers so an afternoon to myself. It promises to be dry, cool and cloudy

[Marilyn]

Getting my prep done for a crowd for lunch tomorrow...could have up to 13 ...still waiting on stragglers...
I am tired but organised!
I DO resent my husband's "I can't cook" excuse when it comes to kitchen help. I bet he will be up a ladder, clearing out an extinct bird's nest in an obscure part of the garden or something just as pathetic when our guests arrive. He will leave all greetings/drinks/etc to me.
I find it a bit wearing, but he has promised we are pulling in the welcome mat for a few weeks after this ( our last social event) after a full calendar! I need to relax and recharge!

[StoneRoad]

I've been "under medical attention" since around 2315 last night - about 12hours in total. I spent most of time under observation for low blood pressure in a hospital "short stay unit" (step between A&E and a full ward admission).
I'm fine, now.
Currently maintaining my fluid intake and resting.
Apparently caused by the local "bad cold".

[Stanley]

Some of these nasty little viruses can do that to you. Sleep and rest cures them.
Going quietly forward into October in the shed.......

[Sue]

Sewing this morning and perhaps a swim later this afternoon. I shall also continue with some gardening. We are digging out the old compost heap and putting it on the garden. We are replacing it with a plastic compost bin which will be much tidier. The excess will go in our brown recyclin bin . With Erins help I used the compost yesterday to plant up 6 tubs of daffodils,

[StoneRoad]

You can never have too much compost ...

I've more top-dressing to do, but later.
I'm still recovering, but I did get a good night's sleep.

[Stanley]

Have you seen the latest Vegan idiosyncrasy? LINK
Note, carnivore pee is not allowed.......

[Wendyf]

Have you seen the latest Vegan idiosyncrasy? LINK
Note, carnivore pee is not allowed.......

I had to turn the radio off when that item was on the radio yesterday!

[Stanley]

So you didn't catch 'humanure' (only Vegans need apply) then? I thought the whole thing was bonkers and loses sight of simple science and common sense. What next, gender-based vegan fertilizers? How about LGBT?
As Our Ernie's dad used to say, "Daft I call it....."

[Sue]

They must have seen my compost heap, all twigs, leaves, grasses, and veggie waste. All now spread on the garden and dug in. Things are beginning to look tidier than they have for years.

Today is lunch with my sewing friends at a garden centre in Rochdale. I shall have a browse for a large heather to fill a space where one had died. I have one more patch to clear in the front garden but the brown bin is full till collection on Thursday. When cleared of a rather messy mix of several out of hand perennials and ground cover plants I intend to plant either a rose or some hardy fuchsias. The latter like our garden and flower continuously from early June to November. We have ordered two bundles of 6 plants to fill in several spaces to create a more colourful but still self maintaining perennial garden. We let it grow and cut back three times a year and very little weeding is necessary.

[Wendyf]

I like to add some horse manure to my compost, and chicken poo as it is very high in nitrogen. I wonder if vegans would use horse manure?
Talking of compost, I make mine in ton builders bags. Col built a wooden frame to allow three to hang side by side and they produce great compost.