More up Front (n a bit more of Shula)

wow!!! lots of lovely photos, love the skies and the japanese anemones; cant wait for that chutney!

Shula has grown loads! how many biscuits has she been eating?

better re-name your polytunnel ⇉ polyarches? the vine leaves look really good ~ AND two more passionflowers?

cant believe the size of those passionfruits!

i reckon you must be using something like george's marvellous medicine down there ~ the rate things are growing!!!

great pictures of shula and gnuts

thanks stevie!

Very nice enjoyed a lot.

yes indeed - plenty of pictures, creatures, fruits and flowers.
Shula looks very happy and full of energy:)
does it all grow that well on comphrey?
Thank you for an update:)

so many pictures ~ i forgot to say that acer has never looked better!

and i really like the daddylonglegs in the gymnastic event

and that little leaf hopper bug

Cheers folks, Sorry I have to edit this and inject a bit of humour, just took so long to load it all on ; )

This one is your most impressive blog, especially regarding colours. I love how those first two photos fit perfectly together.
Shula is in motion, that´s typical for her age. By the way, do you know that sniffing for dogs or cats is the same activity as we do when we read newspapers? They read a lot of news about the street:)
Impressive crops!!! I must say, you are very good farmer, Stevie. So many fruits and vegetables. I have lot of apples this summer, so on weekend I am going to make "strudel" and can make a blog, if there is interest. I will bake with D´Artagnan :))
And like that colourful living wall of the cottage :))

Sticki@daddylonglegs in the gymnastic event, LOL. I have never heard that, hahaha. Funny.

will you let us know when the results of the tomato tasting jury are in please stevie?

yes please katarina ~ strudel blog [and tasting] would be very good!!

Strudel blog will be, just how to organize the tasting ceremony? Lol.

Well we've done Chutney but never had a Strudel blog yet, looking forward to that : )

i clicked favourites instead of like this time stevie ~ loved the new commentary!

Im just wondering about this bit
'The arch did fairly well, mostly covered, my evil plant has worked : )'

evil plant???!!!!

that acer ought to be framed ~ its so gorgeous

love the japanese section

you do 456 press ups stevie? im really impressed!!!

katarina ~ you do the blog, we'll do the tasting?!! [and the awards!!]

I must say that the best strudels are made in Central Europe, Germany and Netherlands. OK. So Strudel day this weekend :))

ah totally exhausted, blogged out Sticki, meant to say 'plan'

yes but it made me laugh!!! liked the evil plant!

Lapsus linguae - that´s what we in fact wanted to say. But evil plan sounds more distinguished :))

Re-read the blog - it's much better now Stevie.
Katarina - waiting for a blog on strudel and D´Artagnan.
We can visually judge the strudel? lol

Visually you can´t, of course. Only in case you are big esthete, lol. Most of all I would like to invite for strudel, vanille ice cream and coffee...

yes please, thank you katarina!

wish we could come...;)

And what was with that T-shirt, Steve? Please, do not use idiomatic English, then I do not understand, lol.

Katarina - just ask. I know how hard it is, especially about idioms/phrasal verbs. But this is everyday language for them, sometimes it is hard for them to judge which phares we are not familiar with.... And some expressions - you just cannot translate as they go (word for word) as it doesn't make sense at all...

What do you want to say? It was nonsense? Lol :)))
Better have a look on how women look when they eat a lot of strudels - just uploaded :))
Kasia, soon you will see your flowers photo in frame :)

no it wasn't nonsense Katarina. I am also wondering what it means;-) lol
will check in a sec.
and waiting to see a photo in a frame:)

Stevie is blogged out under cushions, let wish him good night and sweet dreams, trellies-free.

will put a photo of that T Shirt on in the morning, that is to say a T-Shirt with the phrase 'I Love NY' on it. Meaning if you have that T shirt then you dont have to go there to get one : )

That´s intelligent :)

Very jealous of your tomatoes!

No bog one, all sort of medium size. took three plants out as they were not going to do/produce anything usuable at all so lots more room now for the remaining ones to get some light : )

Chucked mine away:(

Whilst Dave cant escape you could pester him for a polytunnel ; )

he could borrow it for drum practise occasionally???

He nearly mowed my lawn today but it was making the other shoulder hurt!

oh no! is it right shoulder and is he right handed?

you will have to have a little mower that you can get Sluggy to pull round the grass???

Its the curse of the OB ; )

Enjoyed your pics!

Cheers TB : )

OB? or am I being obtuse!

i spent ages trying to work that out but i still havent!!

curse of the OB!! I thought it would be obvious, you know the old wives saying that
'''She who keeps OB from someone who visits (with blueberrys) and refuses to give it back brings bad luck on the house''' Its widley know that if then that person does a mocking mosiac with said OB then shoulder injury of partner is very likely''
So said the witches of the old bamboo grove in the time of the dragons I believe ; )

Ha! haha...ha! I've forgotten where I've put it.........

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nooooooo, I need proof of life (I know, its with the shoes ; )

What? Hidden behind the cupboard....I don't think so!
Have you seen the veggie patch pic? Think I've mesed my shoulder up digging it over!

oh THAT OB ~ no wonder google couldnt find it, lulu cant either!!!

Google seems to think that 'orange bowl' is a sport.

Heh heh it is when you nick one, hide/loose it!

OK, Englishmen, what is OB? Here it is the name for Garden Center. I am sure you will giggle and then say something polite to me :))

sorry katarina i am giggling!!!!

OB = stevie's Orange Bowl that he left behind at lulu's house.

So that´s skeleton in Lulu´s cupboard...isn´t it? :))

i will leave lulu to answer that one ~ made me laugh!!

Skeleton with OB carved on its skull, lol.

Maybe no room in the cupboard in that case ; ) or behind it for that matter (pile of shoes)

Lol. Were they forgot by some guests as well?