Tuesday, 28 July 2009

ARE WE POSH OR WHAT!!!!

WELL I MUST EXPLAIN ME AND HIM INDOORS HAVE NOW DEVELOPED A FETISH FOR ....WAIT FOR IT BATHS, NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG, NOT BUBBLES IN THE BATH, CANDLES LIT KIND OF BATH ,BUT THE ONES PEOPLE WANT TO GET RID OF BECAUSE THEY HAVE DECIDED THIS WILL

NOT GO WITH MY NEWLY PAINTED DECOR 'BATH'.

WE STARTED ASKING OUR LOTTIE CHAIRMAN IF THERE'S A BATH SPARE CAN WE HAVE IT FOR WATER SO PLUG NEEDED, EH PRESTO NEXT DAY ONE PINK RECEPTICAL APPEARED.....THEN ANOTHER FOR OUR SALAD STUFF BRILL NO SLUG OR SNAILS AS YET...... THEN ANOTHER WHEN WE WENT UP TODAY OH MY GOD ONE CREAM CORNER BATH WITH SEAT OF ALL THINGS, IN IT'S PREVIOUS LIFE IT HAD A JET STREAM TO MAKE BUBBLES THIS IS WHEN I WISH WE HAD LECCI ON OUR LOTTIE!!!!

THIS ONE IS GOING AT THE TOP WHERE WE HAVE A LARGE HOLE DUG WHEN IT FLOODS IT HAS WORKED BRILLIANTLY,WE ARE GOING TO PUT A LINER IN AND MAKE A KIND OF BOG COME POND GARDEN PICTURES WILL COME LATER WATCH THIS SPACE.....
BEFORE PICS WATCH THIS SPACE.........

AT THE MOMENT I AM PUTTING A RECIPE BOOK TOGETHER COLLECTED FROM FILEY PEOPLE AND LOTTIE HOLDERS NOW TO CHOOSE SOME WITHOUT UPSETTING THE APPLE CART!!!! ALL PROCEEDS ARE GOING TO LOTTIE FUND YEH.


ONE LAST WORD THE GORGEOUS LOOKING CABBAGE ABOVE ARE NO MORE THEY LOOK A MESS WE THINK MICE( IF THEY EAT BRASSICAS THAT IS) BLOODY HUGE SLUGS OR CLEVER PIGEONS WHO HAVE GOT THROUGH FLEECE ,FINE NETTING ,FASTENED DOWN WITH TENT PEGS.... NEXT YEAR GROWING FOOD THAT EVERY PEST DOSEN'T TAKE A FANCY TO!!!

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

WHAT CAN I SAY BUT A LOTTIE BIG SORRYEEEEEE



' OUR LITTLE HARVEST'


NO EXCUSES, JUST HOWDY TO YOU BUSY BEES OUT THERE IN LOTTIE LAND. THIS IS THE BEST YEAR FOR GROWING, A LITTLE BIT OF SUN AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE WET STUFF IS JUST WHAT WE NEED! SO HOWS EVERYONE DOIN NO BACK PROBLEMS OR WASP OR BEE STINGS OUCH!!!!

HIM INDOORS GOT INTO THE TURNING OF OUR DOUBLE COMPOST HEAP WITH A FORK AND UPSET A POSSE OF WASPS AND THEY WERE NOT HAPPY BUNNIES( OR IS THAT WASPIES) WELL THREE STINGS LATER ONE UNDER HIS SHIRT AND TWO ON HIS FINGER AHH POOR THING. ME BEING ORGANISED HAD AN ALOE VERA PLANT WHICH DID THE TRICK TO COOL THE INFLAMMATION AND HE HAD MANAGED TO PULL THE STINGS OUT.

"HELLO VERA"

SO OUR LOTTIE NEIGHBOUR GEOFF THE EXPERT MOLE CATCHER, VEG GROWER, CARPENTER AND BEE AND WASP SORTER CAME TO OUR RESCUE, HE BANISHED THE LITTLE BEGGARS AND I DIDNT WANT TO KNOW THE DETAILS.SO HE WILL BE ON MY CHRISTMAS CARD LIST! WHO SAID BEES ARE ON THE DECLINE WE HAVE HAD LOADS IN THE GARDEN AND ON LOTTIE I LOVE WATCHING THEM,JUST A NOTE.... I HAVE JUST FINISHED READING "THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES" BY SUE MONK KIDD.A QUOTE,' SEND THEM LOVE AND EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT 'READ THIS BOOK PERFECT WHEN YOU HAVE A MOMENT AMONGST YOUR FLORA AND FAUNA IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL X



Monday, 1 September 2008

WELL WELL WELL ANYONE FOR CATERPILLAR SOUP!!!




WISH I WAS THERE NOW..................
SORRY FOR DELAY IN POST, EXCUSES EXCUSES I KNOW..........

YOU REMEMBER ME COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WET STUFF , WELL LOTTIE HAS DONE GOOD IN HER FIRST YEAR THE THOUGHT OF HAVING TO WATER THREE TIMES A DAY WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CASE IF WE HAD BEEN BLESSED WITH WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED A 'BRITISH SUMMER'
WHATS HAPPENED HERE THEN?

WE WERE BRAGGING ABOUT THE LACK OF HOLES IN OUR GREENS AND HEY PRESTO THE CABBAGE WHITES OVERHEARD AND THOUGHT THEY WOULD LEAVE A GIFT, YOU GUESSED BEGINS WITH C ENDS IN GREEDY LITTLE BEGGARS..............
HAD A LOVELY BBQ AT WEEKEND AND ENJOYED A LOVELY SALAD 'OURS' WITH HOMEMADE BURGERS WITH 'OUR' ONIONS,SO BRILL TO HAVE A SUNNY DAY GOOD COMPANY AND EATING THINGS YOU HAVE GROWN..................

GOT TO KEEP HIM INDOORS BUSY PODDING PEAS....


WE ARE OFF TO SUNNY DEVON JESS WILL BE STAYING IN BOARD AND LODGINGS DOGGY STYLE, WHICH GIVES US A BIT OF TIME TO OURSELVES DOIN COUPLE THINGS, BIKE RIDES GOING OUT ON AN EVENING NOT WORRYING IF SHE WILL BE LONELY IN THE CARAVAN ,DON'T GET ME WRONG WE WILL MISS HER WHEN WALKING ON THE GORGEOUS BEACHES BUT IT'S ONLY A WEEK MMMMMMMMMMMMMM BLISS.............
BILLY GOAT GRUFF SHOWING US THE WAY..........

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

WELL WELL WELL........



HOW IS EVERYONE DOING ON THIS BRIGHT BREEZY AND BEAUTIFUL SUMMERS DAY, OOPS SORRY WAS I DREAMING.


IV'E DECIDED TO COME BACK AS A DUCK THIS WILL BE THE FUTURE OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS WILL TAKE OVER, PERFECT WEATHERPROOF COAT A STRONG BEAK TO WARD OFF INTRUDERS AND LOTS OF NOSH GIVEN TO YOU BY GENEROUS VISITORS, CHILDREN, GRANNIES,ETC ETC.
THIS IS THE LIFE EH KEV...................

BACK TO THE ALLOTMENT,EATING WELL, YUMMY SOUPS, EVERYONE WHO LOVES COURGETTES ARE GETTING THEIR BAG FULL MANGE TOUT ARE TAKING OVER LIKE TRIFFIDS.EVERYTHING TASTES SO DELICIOUS BECAUSE WE KNOW ALL THE HARDWORK THAT HAS BEEN PUT IN HAS ALL BEEN WORTHWHILE .

THE RAIN HAS BEATEN US IN THAT WE HAVE HAD TO DIG UP THE POTATOES DUE TO THE FACT MUD WRESTLERS WOULD HAVE A BRILL TIME IN THE SPUD BED. SLUGS ARE DIVING IN LIKE THEY THINK THEY ARE COMPETING IN THE OLYMPICS NO GOLD MEDALS THERE THEN....... SO INSTEAD OF A LARGE SPUD WE ARE GETTING WEENY BECAUSE IF WE HAD LEFT THEM IN ANY LONGER THEY WOULD HAVE ROTTED, DIFFERENT TACTICS NEXT YEAR DEFFO.....

CUCUMBERS ARE DOING JUST FINE CUTTING THEM AT 9 INCHES THIS THEY SAY IS A GOOD LENGTH( WELL LADIES I WILL LEAVE YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN MINDS UP )!

A GORGEOUS HOT DAY IN SALTBURN(NOT DREAMING)

STILL GOT TO SEE MAMAMIA YET, EVERYONE SAYS THERE WILL BE DANCING AND SINGING IF I HAVE GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT THERE WILL.
I'M TIRED NOW HAD A LONG DAY COUNTING THOSE BLOODY RAINDROPS. WHOEVER THOUGHT OF NAMING THAT SONG "RAINDROPS ARE FALLING ON MY HEAD" WANTS SHOOTING PRONTO!!!!!