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Messages - Artemesia's Garden
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« on: Today at 02:25:00 PM »
Everything is going mad outside. Unfortunately so are the slugs after all this rain and they are attaching my beans and squashes. We've had so much rain that all the perennial plants in the garden are doing really well, even though the most recent wave were only planted in Feb this year. All I have left after that is landscaping plants for when we finally get the boundary fixed. Native trees and shrubs like holly, ivy, hawthorn, juniper and birch and a couple of non-natives like pittosporum because in a semi-detached house privacy can be an issue and choice of evergreens is limited. I have a lot of good flowers at the moment, first roses and peonies. There's this awkward week in early May when the late tulips still haven't quite finished (letterbox red) and clash with the first early roses (barbie pink), but I've learned to be ruthless with the tulips and take the first roses indoors as cut flowers.
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« on: Today at 02:18:53 PM »
The refrigerator. I don't feel much inspired by music lately. The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams.
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« on: Today at 01:12:49 PM »
Thank you very muchly. Most of what I'm doing now is taken up by food growing and cooking. I do have quite a few flowers photos though from the last year or two, I will post when I get around to uploading them. Everything outside is just coming into full bloom right now, once I pick it up after the rain!
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« on: Today at 12:57:39 PM »
Baby and I looked at letters this morning and then went for a walk to splash in puddles. Her behaviour has taken a turn for stroppy so we decided 'no tv for three days'. She seems calmer this evening. I never used to have a tv before I moved in with my husband and I felt wierdly kind of calm too. It's been raining a lot here, there was a thunderstorm last night with claps of thunder and lightning. A classic summer storm followed by a downpour. It's been raining here for most of the day but this evening there was a beuutiful rainbow before sunset. I bought a case of kalamata olives in jars because my local supermarket no longer stocks them. They turned out to be quite nice.
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« on: Today at 12:52:24 PM »
My daughter is learning letters today and has started to say the phonic names for letters in the word d u c k, because it's her favourite word. We were using giant foam letters to learn with. When she brought over to me the letter F I kept telling her that we didn't need it to say 'duck' but for some reason she insisted. I keep having the strange impression that she has lived many lives before.
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« on: Today at 12:48:02 PM »
I'm not sure what the 'phone compatibility issue is, but as a laptop user I like this format a lot and I think the only reason it's harder to display photos than on social media is because you have to host the photo elsewhere online and link to it in your post. Ramble: Spoiler As far as I understand it, memory space costs money so unless running a business with a shady data collection model, it's not in anyone's interests to host thousand of photos and display them for free. I think people are just so used to having their every utterance displayed for free on the internet that they take it totally for granted as though it's normal, like pinning a sign to a telegraph pole for a lost cat. In that instance, everyone would tolerate it because it's a lost cat (aww) but in reality no-one likes to see bits of tatty paper adhering to the utilities equipment in their street. If we wish to support the function of free speech in a democracy etc. then a forum like Twitter should be better organised and run and funded by the state. Instead we let Amewrican AI companies provide this service for us and anyone who opts out is back writing to their local MP or risking being stoned at Speaker's Corner. I think sometimes people may forget that if it wasn't all being hoovered up into the 'beast' for the purposes of AI modelling of a 'new reality', no business would care about most of what what they have to say let alone host it on a website.
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« on: May 15, 2024, 03:05:26 AM »
Oh Artie, teething is not fun!!! Not for the baby, nor the parents xxx
Shame about your dragon game PBW. I've deleted all my subscriptions recently. The walk sounds good, you know when you've done a good walk if you ran out of water. I used to live in the East Neuk and I liked it very much. I literally just cleaned my sink as well. Today I'm also catching up on some baking to warm the house up, it's the first day it's been cool and damp here for a while.
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« on: May 15, 2024, 02:56:30 AM »
I cleaned out my no-tech aquarium yesterday. It's in a huge green glass demijohn with plants and rocks. I see a lot of my plant stuff as art or craft but can understand if that doesn't make any sense!
Can we see please?
I've got 2 patches coming in the mail. This jacket is nearly finished! Just 2 more patches to go and with any luck, maybe I'll have it done in time for winter?
Sure! Love your patches and I love pink and teal together too. I just scanned my blog for some images, there are some flower arrangements here: https://florencemeade.com/2022/04/30/2021/ and here: https://florencemeade.com/2018/12/21/bauble-terrariums/ but I don't have a pic of the no-tech tank handy right now. Is that what you particularly wanted to see?
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« on: May 13, 2024, 10:55:25 AM »
Someone has changed the sign post saying "Thetford Ranges" to say "Thetford ORanges". Not only in one direction of the dual carriageway, but in both directions. I only noticed that it goes in both directions today.
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« on: May 13, 2024, 10:19:10 AM »
The baby just keeps whining and crying tonight. We are both tired from work/gardening and were hoping for a quiet night. All her teeth are coming through. I am hiding downstairs while OH is playing with her upstairs. She seems to enjoy that part of the evening before bed where she plays upstairs so we've decided to stretch it out rather than watching too much tv.
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« on: May 09, 2024, 09:13:16 AM »
I cleaned out my no-tech aquarium yesterday. It's in a huge green glass demijohn with plants and rocks. I see a lot of my plant stuff as art or craft but can understand if that doesn't make any sense!
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« on: April 29, 2024, 11:02:31 AM »
Went to the woodland play group this morning and baby swung me in a hammock  she is really getting big now and is climbing hills and almost running too. She is due for yogurt now.
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« on: April 25, 2024, 04:51:15 AM »
Sigh of sympathy for your poor cat, HoM. I read the nipples bit.
My day is this, Granny has come over and is doing books and playtime with the baby. She used to teach so it's particularly good for baby because she's not in a nursery. Granny knows the kind of thing she will need to learn for nursery. I'm a huge fan of her being able to choose a book and bring it over to where I'm sitting! I am now catching up on personal admin.
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« on: April 22, 2024, 01:05:53 PM »
Today I took the baby to the woodland playgroup and the best thing was listening to the birds in the trees. All birds are 'duck' to my little one but I'm sure she'll soon get the hang of it  Post Merge: April 22, 2024, 01:08:06 PMThere is snow, there is melted ground, there is snow.. Cold, warm, cold.. this is the Finnish spring.
At the beginning of this month, I was able to admire crocuses and bumblebees. Migratory birds arrived and began searching for mates. I could smell the melted earth around me and watch the ice melt on the lake. 
Now, on Saturday, winter arrived back. I get to admire the snow-covered land and the forest again. Feel the freezing cold. But even though I love winter, I feel sad precisely because of these migratory birds, especially the small ones. They can't survive without the help of us people. Winter feeding must be continued. Most of all, I worry about the hedgehogs. I really hope I don't find them somewhere in the middle of the snow!  I heard that yesterday someone had found a hedgehog in poor condition. I hope it survived and got help in time! Now more snow and cold have been promised for the next few days. I have to be really careful now in my yard and in the woods too.
I didn't know it was like that, I just think of Finland as being like Moomintroll forest and once spring has arrived you play a flute and start planning hikes and garden parties. I love hearing you talk about where you live. We stopped feeding the birds about a month ago. There was a light frost last nigth but I think it will be the last.
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« on: April 22, 2024, 01:04:22 PM »
@BC, thanks for the kind words. Also love the sharks! I love how people can create these handicraft items that look so real. The hammer head shark is amazing.
@Lady Frostbite I love you for being the bin police. What a good deed to do for your neighbours!
I took the baby to the woodland play group today. It's a lot to navigate for her since it's not just a room like the old playgroup and there are a lot of older kids crashing about too. But she's doing really well.
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