Dressing gown gardening

Its been tooo wet this year to sit out much at all, torrential overnight, so noisy that it woke me, finally stopped butnortherly winds keeping me indoors doing the ironing.........:0(

have you decided what to plant yet

No, am going for the technical approach..............will go to garden centre and see what takes my fancy, whilst trying NOT to spend a small fortune.lol Jx

Hi Jane,

I am always in the garden in my dressing gown and flip flops and often like you get caught up with trimming or transplanting various things, then I go back in make another coffee, then I am back out again, on my days off sometimes its gone 1pm and I realise I have still got my dressing gown on, I just get so carried away and absorbed, luckily we are not overlooked so I can get away with it!!!

Oh, I recognise this scenario only too well! Luckily, like Marion, I am not overlooked at all, which is just as well.

Very luckily neither are we, me in dressing gown is not ideal viewing....the postman has had therepy now though and is nearly used to it.
Marion, I too have flip flops on and can also lose days in my dressing gown. some of my best gardening is definately done whilst pink and fluffy. You will be pleased to know, I have put normal clothes on to go to the garden centre though! Byee off to shop for plants. Jx

I know this too, I love the early morning just me the cat and the garden.

heh I go out in my dressing gown and slippers too..then always do soemything that means my feet get dirty lol..cant help it!

It's great isn't it! :))

Yup! Me too!!!

Yesterday, I was out there, in my dressing gown and slippers, spotted an escaped duck (the only one I know of which is capable of vertical take-off) and ended up chasing it up and down the road!!!

Still, around here it's not that unusual to see people in the supermarket in their slippers...

Happy Shopping at the Garden Centre! x

Thanks bought 3 plants. A 2nd yellow fuschia (to keep the first one company and because it had a rogue orange bud on it). A salvia 'Sensation Rose' full of bees already. and a new one to me, Lychnis - Jenny. Full of whispy pink flowers and looks great with the cosmos. Have put a pic with blog. Jx

Oooh Lovely!!
That was quick! x

Don't hang around me! lol Garden centre - in, found plants, bought plants, got plants home and straight in ground. job done. :))
Last year boarders were all colour themed. Bored with that now, just gone for a huge riot of colour. Prob not technically correct, but who cares. Jx

I thought this was the norm Jane, always take a wander round my estate (all 220 sq yards of it) drinking my first cuppa weather permitting. The reason I`ve been so crabby lately is that its raining most mornings and my dressing gown insn`t waterproof.
Like the sound of the new salvia and the lychnis, will go look at your blog.

Best start to the day stroller, weather permitting. :))

Me too, slippers and dressing gown, lol. all good stuff, our postman had to have therapy many years ago when Karensusan was still at home. I hope she can remember the incident because I can. lol. (She will kill me for this) lol.
Being a wise old bird though and not wishing to cause him any more painful experiences had a post box installed at the top of the garden drive away from the house. lol. Funnily enough he retired not long after the painful experience. Cannot think why!!!

Guilty as charged........ Always out in my Jammies....... New plants are lovely :) x

You bought some nice plants. They look great after planting :o)
Well I shudder to think about me going down the garden in my boxer shorts and tee shirt lol I'd freeze :D

Big lols Jx

Obviously many of us are familiar with this scene. First place I go when I get up is out to the back step to sit and contemplate what I've to do. Those plants are looking good there. I do hope yOu find out if you have been nurturing a weed or not. How disappointed are you going to be if it is :(. I know I would be gutted!!

Tee hee - time will tell. I have now put it in the flower bed behind the terrace wall, it looks okay, so I decided it isn't a weed as I like it there.
Just seen weather forecast for tomorrow, unlikely it will be a dressing gown garden morning :o(

Wouldn't put my neighbours through such torture..........1 we are overlooked and 2 its usually too d****d cold (would need a jacket and boots most days) but do peruse the 'estate' first thing with a cuppa and get involved in some project or other (anything but housework).........
Glad you got plants ,you are a fast worker .....and a weed is just a misplaced plant after all;)))

Now this has made me really Lol! I took some of the photos in my blog this morning dressed in nightie and slippers (wet legs by the time I had finished and couldn't sit down because of the puddled chairs) but coffee outside always tastes better. I often end up getting dressed mid-morning because I start gardening in slippers and forget what I'm wearing xx

Only because you asked, so don't say TMI later ;)
Usually sleep in a T-Shirt and undies. Always go out in the a.m wearing that to have my 1st coffee. Figure if the neighbours don't like it, tough! Don't look over or through the fence! :)))

My neighbours can't see me anymore.....I love trees and hedges!

Lol. I just had to wash my flip flops, because I forgot I was wearing them and went to plant some french beans. Needless to say, I stood in something a bit unsavoury and whilst sat at the computer catching up with GYO, kept getting a whiff of something quite eye watering. Think feet need a bit of a scrub too - or a splash in the sheep dip jaccuzzi. Jx

Bigger lol, I don't sleep in any thing, so not a good idea to go straight out from bed. :o)

Lol xx

Lol @jane!!! :)

Lovely pictures Jane - and I often have an early stroll around garden - but not in pink gown lol but a cup of tea or a latte - those leylandiis are enourmous - my neighbour next door but one had them chopped and now spends each day cutting and burning them - 3 40 ft trees to do!! Your garden is so tidy and pretty

I dont either Jane but i have jammies or dressing gown at the ready lol. If its raining i go out in my dressing gown with hood up and wellies hahaha! Well gotta feed the birds and fish!

It was funny the other morning. About 2 weeks ago, we were woken at 2am with the dog barking like mad. We both lept out of bed and peered through the bedroom window, just to see a car disappearing off the yard. Our farm yard is quite away from the road, down a bumpy track, so it wasn't any one lost. Without futher ado, Mick ran downstairs, lept into his truck and gave chase. They had disappeared. As he came back into the bedroom, I said 'Mick, you didn't go out like that did you' he hadn't got a stitch on. Probably a good job he didn't find them, he would likely have been arrested for indecent exposure. He did mention the incident to the police (well not the lack of clothes part) as farms are targeted on a regular basis and sure enough, 3 days later several of the surrounding farms had been burgled. mainly quad bikes, which we don't have. But I would have loved to have seen the burglars faces, if Mick had caught up with them.lol
Thanks Paul, the garden doesn't feel neat. With all this rain, it feels like a battle with nature, to keep grass and weeds at bay. There are parts, where she is succeeding too. jx

yes, many a time jane and slippers that i ruin from digging something out when i should be wearing wellies!!!

lol Jane! that would have been funny if he had caught them! heheh..glad you wernt burgled tho! :(

LOL Jane, that is me to a T!! It happens all the time...sometimes it's about 11am before I get around to getting dressed. The neighbours must think I am absolutely barmy...they'd be right of course! :D Thank you for the kind mention! x

All us gardeners are alike eh? lolol I was out weeding and i hadnt even washed my face lol but nobody can see me..next door are away on holiday :)

I always go out in my dressing gown and slippers too..doesn't every gardener ? ..a bit of deadheading,and tweaking..but so far,no digging!...I love your new plants,Jane..they look great there :o)

Wait til you see my blog on what I was doing this morning in my pjs and slippers!

I'll just pour my self a stiff drink.......................

lol..lighting a ciggie coffee at ready...

I am joining you,Pixi..only with tea :o)

Sorry ladies....will post to tomorrow. Tried earlier but was very slow and had to go to work. If you can't wait have a look at my question you will get the gist from there :))

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ oops I fell asleep waiting ;)

Blog is on now girls...still had trouble with the pictures today but got there in the end....sory for any delay and inconvience I may have caused you all :)))))))))

oooh will have a look after tea. Jxx

its a great blog scottish, thank you

All in your pjs. Am so proud of you. Great blog. jxx
ps. still haven't had tea, but have managed 2 glasses of wine. :o)

Just read tho all this seems it very normal for all of us LOL .. I def do it every day ... Rain or shine. Sets u up for the day . Lucky u liveing on a farm ... Our horse is up the rd on a yard ... Wud love her here ..

Another entertaining blog...a yes of course I do and we are overlooked, but I pretend we're not. What an exciting life you lead there Jane...just like the Archers:-)

Oooh arr Mrs! :) x

the rate we are going someone should start selling waterproof dressing gowns and slippers.

Sticki...I'll get on to it straight away. Now what shall we call the d/gowns...erm...I've got it! I'll call the waterproof dressing gowns BAmacs...and the slippers... BAwellies...waddya think? This idea will surely put B.A.Fashions back on the map...it's on a par with our long sleeved long legged woolly (Brittish wool) tankinis :-)

The slippers should be called BA Swellies >:-}~

Get back to work...better than smellies I suppose:-)

Swellies is brilliant!!!

BAgowns?? Bamacgowns? Gardening Gowns? by BA

See Sticki likes my name Ba and she is a celebrity on here!

Should be Baaaaa swellies and Baaaaa watergowns. Jx

WWWWWWWWWWhat annella?

i dont think so

but i do like your name, thats true.

You are our special envoy Sticki!

You could wear them in your jacuzzi Jane to preserve your maidenly mystique:-)

Annella, I hear Sticki has been asked to go on Celebrity Big Brother...Sticki..is it true? We'll all watch and vote for you Sticki..or does it cost money to vote?...Well we'll all watch you Sticki:-)

I wouldn't think of getting into it without them on BA. And of course all the victims - oops sorry clients, will have to have them too. So you see a ready market. lol Jx
Is Sticki really going on BB. Jx

We could become business partners Jane...how about a round of golf and a cigar. She hasn't quashed the rumour Jane...so it must be true:-)

Its the shock! That and being fanned with a wellie did nogood at all...

no
no
no
no
no
sticki is not going on BB nor cant cook wont cook nor escape to the country nor sadly saturday kitchen

Of course not Sticki....You can cook and have met a good 10% of the members on here, only I'm a celebrity get me out of here will do now :O))))))x

get me out of this rain would help!!!

but i think we would all like that ~ Beam me up!!

Scottie x

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I got on to Come Dine with Me, does that count? Jxx

Oh Lord...just back from the rain in Scotland...

...had to borrow wellies from my mum...

Reversed two cars into objects unseen...and one of them was MINE!!!

So, which channels do I have to watch???? xx

did you really ~ definitely it counts!!! i watch that a lot. what was it really like

Haven't done it yet. I got on last year, just as I was carted off to hospital with my asthma. After 10 days in there, they'd done it without me. Honestly, I got my contract and everything. Bl***y timing eh. Anyway, I thought no more about it, till I got a phone call last month, completely out of the blue. Apparently, they still want to use me, just have to wait till they come back into my area. Don't worry. you will all know about it, if it ever happens. lol Jx

Oh Karen, sorry forgot to add welcome back and how bl***y annoying re the cars. Jxx

i will DEFINITELY watch that one!!

did you manage to see the one you missed out on?

Hellooooooooo Karen glad you are back xxxx Jane, Jamie and me love that program we neeeeed to know when you are on, oh and can I stay that week and wait for you Lol!!

Tables that is xx

I can do silver service xxxx

i think we ought to be your guests!!! and pretend not to know you

We can be the 'Entertainment' Sticki

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

No Sticki you mean......Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

BTW.....We don't really 'Know' her Lol x

well thats true.

i would be scared of what that dave lamb would say!!!

Do you know, I've never seen the one I should have been on. It's a bit annoying as I've seen some of them half a dozen times.
I wanted a medieval theme initially. I would have liked a small pavillion in the top field. Mick would have had to take us up in the medieval 4x4, and there would be red carpets, banners fluttering in the breeze, rich tapestries etc, etc. however as Mick pointed out, fine dining in a tent, can be a bit tricky. Not least, getting all the food there. I could have asked them to pick a lamb, and got a serf type person to butcher it. Possibly not conducive to winning the £1000. Anyway, the production team, veetoed that. Aparently, the sound man can't cope withthe rain on canvass - makes a dreadful noise! That also put paid to the bedouin tent theme. I still have to come up with one for the one I'm supposed to be on. Ummmmm wonder if I can work the spa element in? Dinner is served........................ in the septic tank. lol :-)

and what would that do to the camera, never mind the sound man!!!!

Oh don't even go there Sticki :-)

dont worry i wont!!!

but im thinking now

you could serve a [sheep] dip

with crudites of course.lol

naturally!!!!

if your farmhouse is old could you theme it to that age??

Lol........ Just been catching back up on this!!!!! A soon to be celeb in our ranks!!!!! That's a shame you were unwell last year, glad you are ok and hope you get "the call'soon :) my hubby has been in you've been framed :) ....and does extra work a lot. ......
Back to orig topic, I was out last night gardening in a other extreme of fashion...... Tailored blouse, twin set cardigan, pencil skirt and rubber riding boots (my wellies) .... Went out to slug hunt and weed a wee bit, ended up with the shears and secateurs attacking triffid hedge, very odd looks from neighbours and passers by!!

What a sight Mag, sort of a cross between Miss jean Brodie and the Wurzels! :-) Jx