The Framers Forum

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

That's coz you never lived in Kinsale!!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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....

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!)

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!

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

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

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.

A life.

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...)