Spring already!

Spit · Post by **Spit** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 11:36 am

First Crocus flowering in the garden today - I don't remember a year when they've been out this early!

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 11:59 am

That's coz you never lived in Kinsale!!

Post by **prospero** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 12:36 pm

If they try coming up in what passes for my garden they will drown.

Compost heap is floating. Plenty of frogs though. Caught a baby one creeping across my workshop floor.

markw · Post by **markw** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 2:08 pm

snowflakes and crocus popping their little heads up here in the Cotswolds. The Birds also seem to have perked up a bit over the last few days and are putting a bit more effort in to singing.

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 4:58 pm

Rising sap... Roboframer..... Potentially dicey combination....

Spit · Post by **Spit** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 5:07 pm

Remind me not to sit opposite in Wing Wahs......

Grahame Case · Post by **Grahame Case** » Wed 23 Jan, 2008 10:04 pm

noticed Daffodils out here in Cornwall this week and thought this was rather strange!

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Thu 24 Jan, 2008 12:48 am

If you like gardening, the southwest parts of both Ireland and England are great! Signs of spring, as noted, come lovely and early, but there's also usually far less frost. Great for fuchsia and dahlia lovers, as the former usually overwintered very successfully, and I never bothered to lift the bulbs for the latter. Only lost two plants in all the time it was home.

Two things I really miss doing since kicking off the framing business: gardening and drawing....

Roboframer · Post by **Roboframer** » Thu 24 Jan, 2008 12:54 am

Spring is sprung, de grass is riz
I wonder where dem birdies iz
De little bird am on de wing.
Ain't dat absurd -
De little wing am on de bird!

Moglet wrote: Two things I really miss doing since kicking off the framing business: gardening and drawing....

I'll see you those two and I'll raise you cycling. (Man have I got a card to turn over should you wanna play on!)

lynnbmack · Post by **lynnbmack** » Tue 29 Jan, 2008 10:54 am

I have a polytunnel put up 3 yrs ago and a reasonably large garden - these and my sketchbooks have hardly been touched since starting the framing business - my goal for this year is get back in touch with both of these this year - life's too short!

And there's nothing quite so nice as eating veg you've produced yourself!

Post by **prospero** » Tue 29 Jan, 2008 8:02 pm

Grow the veggies, draw the veggies, eat the veggies. Very Zen.

I don't have weeds in my garden. I have botanical specimens.

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Tue 29 Jan, 2008 8:36 pm

Roboframer wrote:I'll see you those two and I'll raise you cycling. (Man have I got a card to turn over should you wanna play on!)

Ok, I'll bite..

Playing the flute.

Roboframer · Post by **Roboframer** » Wed 30 Jan, 2008 12:25 am

A life.

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Wed 30 Jan, 2008 12:33 am

Mmmmm!

I keep meaning to get one of those....

Actually, that's not strictly true. For all the stresses and strains, I love my wee business, and I have first-hand experience of far worse ways to pass my time on this planet. (Framing is spectacularly more fulfilling than designing call centres...)