Hi Debbie,
Yes, the creep takes every opportunity it seems to make his presence known when I’m trying to finish a job up a ladder. My ocd in getting things done is a battle with knowing I should stop. Been aching ever since, but I did make a start today with Porsch on threading my fleece flag with ribbon. It turned so very chilly that we had to come in, I also popped along to see my friend as Robin’s ashes were brought home today. I sorted two good climbers that have grown on and am waiting for Robin’s print to arrive next week. It has been nice catching up with him a little even if it is just at the door. It will be nicer next week so will pop by to see him again and give him his gifts. I missed watching Monty on Friday and am so jel that you have natural foxgloves. I have lots of forget-me-nots (love them) and the red valerian reminds me of somethgi8ng similar in the old garden. Dad was always saying it was a weed but you coukld buy it in the garden centres.It has very thick juicy leaves and pongs a bit but very pretty and the insects love it.
Still haven’t ordered my water plants yet but I did get cress in with my shopping as it was on a featured garden so thought I’d try it as it reminds me of mam. She always had one n the windowsill. I’ll get some water lillies and irises for colour and I know Elodea Densa as I’ve had it in the fishtank (snails munched on it). Starting the flags took up so much time and I got side tracks in my ordering. Need some consetina plastic trellis before I can fix the bamboo to the trellises I put up. I can then replace the water butts and fill them ready for summer.
Glad you’re getting out for lunch and meeting friends. I felt so much better having a chat with my friend and I’m going swimming tomorrow with my niece and little nephew tomorrow so really looking forward to it. Been ages. And I have a new cossie to try out as the strap on the old one broke.
Will pop in tomorrow. Enjoy your Sunday.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Suzanne,
You crack me up with your dog adventures in the groom room. You should have told the woman you didn’t do the face! I would have just to see the reaction.
I usually love seeing a man wandering around in his boxers but the creep just makes my skin crawl, whatever he’s up to. It was all for effect. It’s like he was taking the opportunity because I was stuck up the bloody ladder. But he’s been quiet lately.
Your trips up the Loch are always inspiring me to want to get out into Nature, walk through the woods. Fab to see you haven’t given up on it. Those early mornings would kill me.
It’s been good for the soul reconnecting with my friend. He’s such an old hippy when he’s sober, very mystical and spiritual. Very temperamental and angry when he’s had a drink. I had to help him sort out things for Robin because he was off his face and couldn’t have done it himself. I did it for both of them. It’s strange that I can cut off my emotion (I was devastated) and return to my old efficient self. Not sure if I can do that when Porscha’s time comes. But I know that I will ask for his help and he’ll be there, he’s already said that. I’ve ordered a photobox print (the one I posted here) and have a couple of climbers which have grown on as Robin loved lounging on the pergola. I’ll also create a folder of all the pics I’ve taken of his cats so he can enjoy looking at them on his laptop. He lost his phone with all his pics so whatever he can get will be invaluable to him now.
I was chatting to him a bit about how dad treated me after mam left and he was saying how ‘really dark’ it is to treat me like that. Saying out loud to someone and getting that response makes me realise that it is really bad and totally unacceptable. Cruel even. And I was chatting about the creep getting in through the ceiling. He’s mentioned it to his mates and I told him to tell everyone. The people know what has happened the better. Buggar is still there and I can’t do a thing about it. Annoys the hell out of me.
Looking forward to my swim tomorrow with my niece and little nephew. Have a new cossie,. The old one had a skirt piece but this one doesn’t so had a bit of a tidy up just in case! Grooming certainly does slide when grief is in town!
Mouth is watering with your onion bahji / curry.
Enjoy your Loch. Hope you do see the eggs hatch and there are no thefts or mishaps. Will be magical seeing little babies.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Debbie, Can I be really cheeky and ask for a bit too?! Anything you see in mine you are very welcome to. xxx
Hi Neil,
So lovely to see your pics and you getting out and about with your cultural adventures! Shame you didn’t put a bet on. I remember doing a 50p bet years ago at work. I don’t gamble but joined in and bought 2 tickets. I won £94 ! Haven never done it again. Love playing cards for fun but never for cash. I do like the idea of dressing up and going to the races though, like Pretty Woman. I have a large hat waiting for me for the summer.
Yasmine looks very pleased to see you. It’s lovely that you have a real connection with the people involved in what you love. Just a thought. Could you start your own blog about your theatres and ballet productions? I’d certainly be interested in being a subscriber. Get it on instagram, ticktok, youtube etc and even if it is just for fun it would be very rewarding. I think people love to experience things without actually doing it themselves or because, like me, they can’t. Could be something to try out over the summer and see where it leads. I really should start my blogs again for my website and mrxstitch but it feels too hard to commit to it since mam. I did a few last year. I seem to have a burst of energy and creativity but it doesn’t last. Hope to get back to it soon.
Going swimming with my niece and little nephew tomorrow. It’s always fun bobbing about in the waves and playing shark and octopus games of tag. Will pop back when I get in.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Tina,
I am absolutely appalled at your brother and his wanting to demolish the garden. Why doesn’t he just go and live in a cement cube (polished cement is rather beautiful) so he has no greenery or anything natural to bother him. No wonder you’re upset. If I was there I’d be fighting to the end to save your mams lovely garden. I’m sure that explosive temper of his is just so you won’t say anything and he gets everything his own way. It is astonishing that he behaves like this (a demented toddler!) especially when your mam cared for those plants and loved them all these years. I am truly gobsmacked that he thinks he has the right to do whatever he wants, regardless of how you feel about it. I’ll stop going on now but I really am appalled by his behaviour. I’m so angry at him! I wonder why you bother at all but then if you didn’t what else would you do? Don’t lose your fighting spirit. See what happens when you tell him ‘‘NO!’’ And if he insists and says you can’t stop him tell him something nasty might happen to his precious bike! The garden is good for your well being. It is always uplifting for me, despite the struggle with the creep and the awful neighbours. I was inspired by your raised bed wall. That’s why I tackled my step again. Please don’t let him take the garden away from you. He’s such a selfish person.
It seems like such a long time ago now that Robin passed but it was only last Tuesday. His ashes came back today in a little pouch but there was no kind words or gestures with it. I’m waiting for a framed photograph of Robin, have a couple of good climbers (maybe a clematis and a honeysuckle but not sure) and will create a picture portfolio of his 3 cats mooching about my garden, usually up on the pergola sunning themselves in the hot summers. My friend was so drunk that he lost his phone with all his photos so he’s so grateful that I have those for him. The sadness of Robin passing in Porscha’s bed brought mam in her last moments and has made Porsch’a death very real. But I’ve decided on cremation for her and she will be added to mams shrine. The taxidermy animals were too upsetting, knowing they once lived and now don’t. Death in all it’s forms absolutely terrifies me when I’m forced to confront it. The fact that I didn’t stay with Robin and hold his paw util he passed still haunts me. I had run to get my friend but we were too late. I really do beat myself up for not being better than I am. If I was perfect I would have peace of mind, I suppose and not carry this guilt around like a bag of spanners. But the worst has passed again and I was sitting out today with Porsch sewing ribbon through my fleece flags (such a faff because the fabric is so fragile).
I can just imagine you in the summer fiddling about in the heat while your hubby snoozes in complete bliss. I can’t sit still for two mins. If I’m not doing something garden based my nose is in a logic puzzle. Never understood them before but mam loved them. So I learned how and now they are my fave puzzles.
I must say your sandwich with apple is a strange one! I quite like nibbly bits of strong cheddar and banana together. You are so like me when it comes to leaving the house. I never know how I’ll manage it or if I can at all. I take each day as it comes and do what I feel I can achieve. Popping to the shop just isn’t an option. But I was popping into Sainsbury’s after my regular swim until I realised the creep had followed me. I saw his van parked in a side road to avoid cameras. I thought that maybe I was being paranoid and he’d prob just gone to the pub. Until I got back and overheard his conversation about how he could barely keep up with me (I’m not a daudler) and that I seemed normal (that I wasn’t in a panic). I had no clue he had followed me and that means he had also followed me to swimming. Again there was conversation about me in my costume. There is a full window overlooking the pool and people often wander and have a look. Freak! He’s vile. Makes me trust my instincts when I feel like I’m being watched / followed.
Love that - stamina of a tadpole! You always manage to make me laugh.
Oh, I got my blood tests back and my colesterol is still high but my iron in the blood has come down (still double what it should be). But all the other tests (20 in total!) were all within range so nothing else going on which is good news. I did have to fight to get the GP receptionists to email me the results, giving that by July they’d be so out if date that I’d have to do all the tests again just because my appointment was rescheduled.
OMG! Just noticed the time so must get some sleep. Up early for swimming with my niece / little nephew as the boyfriend is arriving later in the afternoon. Young love! They are inseparable it seems. Oh to be that smitten again. It always ends in tears. What a cynic I am now! A realist. No rose tinted specs for me. I was quite annoyed though when I broke my new sunglasses putting up my trellises. They were just cheap tat but I liked them.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Christine
We used to have a little bet every year on the National and Dad especially was very lucky . Mum used to back Tiger Roll as she loved cats big and small and he won two years in a row . My first winner in the race for 11 years to the day. Wouldn’t have got rich though as it was the favourite
I have thought about writing about my cultural adventures ( I do on Facebook, Twitter and Insta ) but not really interested in doing a blog. Just like posting pics and a brief review.
Will pop on here again later to have a look at any posts.
Sending love and best wishes
Neil x
Hi Christine
Just popping on to say a quick good morning to you and everyone.
I’ll check back later for a chat.
What, the Creep followed you, that is getting worrying, what a piece of work. Take care out and about. You did raise a chuckle with the grooming! Yes, things like that aren’t even on the radar in times of grief are they! There’s been times my face would only see a bit of soap in passing for days.
I’m gonna try and have a walk to the local Aldo today. It’s a couple of miles away and ever since I was told I had high blood pressure and cholesterol I’m scared of going out. Had headaches got a month and not a headache person.
Anyway catch up later and have a nice day one and all xx
xx
Hi Neil,
Love the image of Tiger Roll as a big cat. I’ve not long been in from swimming with my niece and nephew and a McD’s in the car afterwards. I’m absolutely shattered and had to have a lie down when I got in. Haven’t been swimming for weeks. Hard to get back into it and rebuild my stamina. Always lovely to see them. I didn’t realise the schools are just going back tomorrow after Easter. Debbie does get some fab holidays!
I had planned on finishing my fleece flags with ribbon but I’m fighting to stay awake. Is this long covid? Could be. Porsch is out in the garden on her cushion without me. Going to see what I can watch online to wake up a bit. I do love a comedy. The Cleaner is good and Absolutely Fabulous. Nighty Night is hilarious. Looking forward to Great Expectations tonight. I’ve always loved period dramas and wonder how anybody survived the harsh ways of life. Olivia Coleman is good in this.
Going to be nice all week so hoping to get more trellises finished and perhaps the bamboo rolls too. Trying to finish big jobs before summer arrives.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Tina,
Love your new banner, the colours are intense. Was just saying to Neil how very shattered I am after swimming. Had to have a lie down when I got in and only got up for the door. Hoping a second coffee can revive me.
I’ve hot high colesterol and high iron in the blood. Think by my age there’s going to be something going on. But well done you for taking a long walk to the shops. Apart from swimming I don’t do exercise because I don’t go out but I really ought to push myself and go to the woods again. So lovely being out in the fresh air. Not sure if headaches are a symptom of high C. I don’t get them.
Little Porsch will be very miffed that I’m not out there with her. She’s bagged the big chair and cushion so mine is the stripy deckchair. Be lovely in summer when I’ve finished my jobs and can sit back and relax (hard to do when I’m always looking for a project). Be nice doing nothing for a change. Think I’ve worn myself out. But it was lovely to see my niece and nephew. He’s been learning rude jokes and I fall for it every time!
Going to see if a scoop of ice cream wakes me up!
Lots of love xxx
Evening all 
Love all your photos @NEILB72 and glad to hear you had a lovely time and you always look so happy when you see your ballet friends x Did you manage to choose another show with your vouchers?
@christine51 glad to read that you went swimming and enjoyed it x you have been busy in the garden again and always inspiring x
I’ll post a couple of my photos from the Loch from my 6am shift on Sat and actually saw three beavers 
swimming across the Loch one after the after…such an amazing sight to see 
x
Hi Suzanne
Wow they are amazing photos, especially the first one. Beautiful .
Had a great time Saturday. Only downside my view was a bit obscured but that happens sometimes when buying cheaper tickets and for the price I cant complain.
Managed to book an opera for June but had trouble booking others due to websites playing up so will book something else later this week.
Even had the National winner on Sat and West Ham came from two goals down to draw with league leaders Arsenal so weekend made even better!
Hope you can have a good week and speak again soon
Sending love and best wishes
Neil x
Hi Suzanne,
STUNNING pics! Makes it worth getting out of bed at that time! And fab to see your beavers swimming. It must feels quite magical being there. Especially love the second pic where the trees look like lace against the sky. You must feel a real sense of peace when you are there. Imagine if that could be your full time job instead of dealing with all the annoying customers of the pooches.
I really am aching after swimming and doing the trellises last week. Must be getting old! Waiting for my consetina trellises to arrive so I can add my bamboo rolls to the trellises I put up. But if the sun comes out (been raining here overnight so garden is soaking) I can crack on fixing more posts and hammering in the spikes. Oh the joys of manual work because I don’t have a man to boss about in the garden! Who needs a man when I have arms!
My niece has a zoom interview today so will here from her later and hope to get back to my swim routine during the week.
Feeling that deep sense of sadness for mam as I always do when I wake up. Just want to talk to her. I miss her so much.
Porsch seems to have a little cold with being out in the garden recently. Has a dry cough now and again. Will get my print of Robin later in the week so will see my friend and take a climber round. Will bring back some paving while I’m there to create a higher step and a better seating area at the top garden.
Hope the sun gets out so I can crack on with my flags again. It’s a buggar to do but they will look fab when up. Hope the creep goes to work today so I can be free.
Hope to post pics later as more flowers open. I found my dahlia tubers and lots of seeds I’d collected last Autumn so will be quite busy potting up. Have stacks of plantpots ready for the job. Wish I had a greenhouse so I could be busy all year round but I don’t have room and don’t want extra heating bills with heating the thing over winter. I shall make do with windowsills to get them going.
Enjoy grooming all the little and big pooches.
Lots of love xxx
Hi Neil,
Just wondering if your Tuesdays are as bad as they were? I still wake with a deep sense of sadness and find the beginning of week harder because I see a whole week to have to fill I suppose. Just want to talk to mam. Seeing my niece and nephew yesterday makes me aware of how alone I am. Everything is a massive effort.
Just admiring Suzanne’s stunning pics. Would love to have that on my doorstep. Food for the soul, much like your ballet and theatre.
Anything planned for this week? You should tell your GP it’s the only thing keeping you going. Imagine if you could get it on prescription once a week!
Hoping to crack on with my flags and will sort out my seeds for potting on. Porsch has a little dander in the garden while I’m doing her breakfast, has a bite, another look out and then back to bed while I have my cuppa. The life of a princess! She has claimed the big chair with the cushion when we sit out so I’m in the smaller one next to her. Will get a pic later today if it gets out sunny. I enjoy doing a puzzle book between jobs as it reminds me of mam. Gets me through the day.
Did you watch the Hunt for Raoul Moat last night? Back on again tonight. What a nutter! Always like a new drama. I remember going to Birtley baths with my friend. It’s a world away from living down south.
Will hear from my niece about her interview later today. Something to look forward to.
Hope your day goes well and I’ll pop in later with pics.
Lots of love xxx
Hi all,
Had to come in from my day planned in the garden because the creep is back with his garden power tools cutting everything back as he does regularly. Just cannot be out there when he’s there as he’s so creepy. So I did stuff in the loft and heard a comment - ‘Have you upset her? … She’s an artist.’ So clearly talking about me. Don’t know who said it but I bet they don’t know that he drilled out the loft wall in order to climb down through the bloody ceiling to get into my house. I hate that he is free to be out there doing what he wants and I’m struck indoors with the blinds down. I hope he does it to someone else and gets well and truly battered for it. Now the sun is out all the neighbours will be out in their gardens. This is why I wanted to finish my jobs so I can just sit or fiddle about. Worn out with the stress of it all, seeing him out there. He has no shame.
Thought I’d take this opportunity to bag up mams things (skirts and cardies that I always picture her in) and pop them in the loft. I brought my kaftans down for sunny days. It’s very inbetween so not a full summer wardrobe but bits of both. I bought some new bedding for summer. Mam always got it for me at xmas. It’s really sad that I have to do it for myself now. And I can’t tell her about it. It’s the little things we shared that are now being replaced with nothing. Really missing her and not able to phone to see what she’s up to and whether she’s in the garden. I forget she no longer lives at the old house. My memory seems to skip chunks of time when I want to picture her. Feeling quite lost and alone. Have nobody to ring for a chat and can’t even do that if I wanted to because the creep would be listening. Waiting to see if he’ll go to work so I can go back outside again. I feel like a prisoner when he is at home. Wondering how you all are. I’m sure Porsch is wondering why I’ve come in and locked the door.
Think I’ll fill in time watching Gardeners World. I found my dahlias, wallflower and lillies seeds and will try the pumpkin seeds too but have no clue as to when to do it. So will have to google. Mam kept me within the gardening timetable. It came natural to her to know what and when. Don’t want to lose everything to frost if I do it too soon. Feel lost without mam and so very sad she isn’t here to help me.
love to all xxx
Hello christine51, drilling through the loft wall and climbing though it would be breaking and entering. Have you reported it to the police? - Nick
Hi Nick,
I most certainly did and they said it was a council matter! Still can’t believe it actually happened and that nobody helped me. He burned my wallpaper with a cigarette, next to my boiler, and I found a really creepy typed sticker on my fridge plug saying ‘stirrer’ . I may never have found these if I hadn’t been decorating. The men who rebuilt the loft wall discovered he had covered it in a piece of carpet to make crawling over the brickwork more comfortable for him. I was infested with rats from his loft and had to have my entire loft insulation removed, cleaned and replaced. And I still have to live next door to him knowing nothing was done to him because I had no proof. Who has cameras in their loft incase a creepy neighbour decides to burrow through the wall. I have ongoing stress and never feel safe in my house or if I go out. My therapist had me look for cameras all over the ceiling incase he was spying / recording me. It’s like something out of a horror film. I discovered my passport and birth certificate are missing when I had to renew my drivers lisence. He followed me around Sainsbury’s. I wonder what he’s doing that I don’t know about. I feel so powerless because I cannot do anything to him. I discovered he has accused me of sexual harrassment towards him! I overheard a conversation about me when he was chatting to his friend / neighbour. All the neighbours know what he has done and why I react to him when he returns home by drawing the blinds and hiding in the house. It is very rare that I will be outside when he is at home. He is the creepiest man I have ever met. Wish something really nasty would happen to him to teach him a lesson. It’s the attitude that he has the right to do whatever he wants that really annoys me.
When he went to work later on today I finally got out in the garden and sat stitching my flags. Managed to get one lot up and I took pics and will post tomorrow. Have another lot nearly finished and more to start. Will look really lovely when finished. The flags look like garden angels dancing and wafting about. Porsch isn’t happy at all that her treats are limited so she’s in a massive huff with me.
I’m so very tired now me thinks I’ll have an early night. Hayfever is awful too.
Have my therapy tomorrow. I cancelled last week because of Robin dying and sorting out the cremation. Just had a text telling me his print will be delivered Wed so hope it is a good one. Also have a climber to plant in his garden as he loved lounging around the pergola.
I wonder what police and councils did before cameras were available to the public. Just a very lazy attitude of not being able to help. It’s resurfaced again because he was out there today and stopped me doing what I had planned. Just hate him watching / looking/ /making comments about me. I even stopped wearing makeup after his comment about me ‘looking like a clown’. He was falling over himself to chat to me when he first moved in and then got nasty when I didn’t want any interaction. Some men have no concept of how to behave. I can only imagine what he has stashed in his bedside table.
Will pop in tomorrow with pics of what I’ve been up to today. I’m quite pleased it wasn’t a wasted day, even if I didn’t get my posts and trellises done like I’d planned.
Hope you are doing ok. I know how hard it is to keep going. I keep telling Porsch not to die because I’ll have no reason to get up in the morning without her there. It’s so true. I’ll be totally lost without her.
Lots of love xxx
Hi all,
A cold start but sunshine coming out now to warm the place up. Had to bring Porsch in from her chair as too chilly. She’s back in her fave drawer (my pj’s). Thought I’d catch up from yester with my pics of creating flags and seeing my garden starting to come back to life.
So here are my fleece flags, recycled from the winter. They have taken on the form of ethereal garden angels as they are created,
threaded onto ribbon
and pulled along the length
to create flags
which dance in the breeze. I’m creating two layers and have lots more to play around with.
Here’s Porsch enjoying the big chair.
Although I don’t have much colour yet what I do have is quite thrilling. Little tets are so delicate in
their pale yellow hue
set against the vibrant hyacinths in blue / purple,
a pink stripe
and luminous white.
Pleased to see the tulips uncurling.
Still love my winter pansies with their rich velvets in yellows
and deep reds.
Weeds are now flowering with beautiful structures in blue (looks like very tall forget-me-not),
mauve,
purple
and white.
Dandelions are coming out to play
and I’m so pleased to see bluebells I brought from the old garden.
Forget-me-nots are always a fave.
Ferns are thriving both in the ground
and potted.
New growth on the climber at the kitchen arch can be tied in to hopefully give me some privacy when I’m doing dishes with the door open.
Pleased to see the jasmine recovering after cutting back and setting up new arches at the top garden. It used to be very dense, like a hedge.
Irises are shooting up every day now
and delighted my lillies have returned, although one has been munched (red beetle?)
I’m hoping my peonies flower this year.
The black grasses with it always do well, as do the eukera in shades of purple
and pink.
Not sure what this little guy is but he’s doing well too.
My honey bushes are budding. The smell in the summer as I arrived at the old house was overpowering. A lovely welcome and a sense of being home again.
Trees are springing to life. Potted plants will have to be planted in. Not my fave job!
The pond grasses have new growth
and I bought cress to try. Debbie, should I plant into compost in a tub? Got the idea from a featured gardener on Gardeners World.
Delighted that my strawberries are starting to form fruit. I had them in hanging baskets last year to stop them being munched but transferred into pots so I could fleece them over winter.
Some of my lights are working which is fab to see. The orange flames were a birthday pressie and the white orbs I rescued them from my sisters garden when she moved.
My fave colour palette is still white and green, inspiring me with my flags.
Anyone know what this little curly creation is?
I will be watching and collecting garden data as Spring uncurls and we head into warmer and longer days.
Will start looking for pond plants now and hope I can create the haven it once was when I first made it. Used to have an enormous arty toad years ago. My little cat Mercedes used to love playing with the baby frogs, chasing them around the garden when they travelled between the ponds. Really miss him, especially in the summer. He was still a baby when he left because he had a growth in his chest. He was such a massive character, always tormenting Porsch. She did her best but she isn’t the most natural mother, and as he wasn’t hers (Mam’s cat’s litter) she resented him quite a bit. Such a possessive little princess!
Off to get ready for therapy now. Have lots to catch up on as I missed last week. Hope you are all doing ok.
Lots of love xxx
Hello christine51, what a creep! Are the other neighbours any better? What are you doing without your passport and birth certificate now? I just do not understand that the police did not do anything. Did they thing that someone else did brake into the neighbour’s first, knocked down the wall and then entered your house?? I do not understand their thinking. I bet they did not even check for finger prints?
Your photos are so calming. Give Porsche a big houg from me. I just cuddled Tammy. All the best, Nick.
Hi Nick,
Love that my garden pics are calming. I didn’t used to really look at it and photograph the way I do now. Posting here inspires me to get out there and encourages me to keep it going. Just looking at pond plants to encourage my frogs back again. Will ask Debbie what she thinks of my choices as she’s a whizz with ponds. Did you see her old pond which Doug created. Like something off the Gardeners World. I always get so disheartened when I look at mine in comparison to the thriving gardens there but I have clay soil which is a mud bath when wet and baked hard with deep ravines when summer. I’ve spent a fortune trying to create a paradise garden and am now reluctant to keep repeating my mistakes. That’s why I’m so thrilled with my potted plants. Be good to see if anything comes back from last year. I get lots of those pretty red beetles that munch everything. Love the bright green ones.
The only time I am able to go out and be free to do jobs or just sit in the sun with a puzzle is when the creep is at work. The police didn’t even come out when I reported what he had done. They said it was a neighbour dispute and down to the council! Imagine if it wasn’t the loft wall but the sitting room wall? Could it be ignored then? Thing is I was at home when he was drilling out the wall. Amazed and appalled that he thinks he has the right to do that to me. But he must have done it before to know he can get away with it. Wish I had a taser waiting for him as he undid the brickwork. I imagine all sorts of punishments like on the Saw horror films. I believe people should be punished for their crimes. The neighbours know what he has done and have no sympathy at all for me. It’s like living in a Father Ted scenario. People are housed here due to high vulnerability. I was stalked to be taken on as a tenant. So to say I don’t fit in is an understatement! I battle ptsd and anxiety with panic attacks because of the stalking years ago. I had a full life and it all stopped. I became totally housebound and moved back in with my parents. Before that I was a very outgoing, fun loving person. Mam accepted me for being me. I wish I’d told her what that means now to me. I didn’t realise my dad and sisters would bully me because of it after mam passed. So my garden is a haven when the creep isn’t there. But I am always being watched by the neighbours (on behaviour orders from last year). Oh to return to a normal world where people go out to work and have a standard level of education to mold them as a person. I’ve never known anything like it!
Porsch loves the garden and now it’s warming up she wants to be out even when it’s chilly, like today. Had to huddle her up in a blanket thinking the sun would come through but then coax her back in with a treat. She’s snoozing in her drawer now and I’ve had to pop the heating on to finish off the washing on radiators. It’s so freeing in the summer to have washing dried in no time at all.
Will quickly ask Debbie about pond plants before I leav efor my therapy. Stay warm!
Lots of love xxx
Hi Debbie,
Busy searching for pond plants and wonder what you think. Collections or individual plants, bee or frog, planted in baskets or bare root? So much variety it’s hard to choose. Lincolnshire Pond Plants Ltd
£39.99
- Lincolnshire Pond Plants Bee Marginal 8 x 1LTR plants that are loved by bees from our vast range of pond marginals that we know bees enjoy - Alisma Plantago / Butomus Umbellatus pink or white / Caltha Palustris / Cardamine Pratensis / Cotula / Geum Rivale / over 15 varieties of iris / Lobelia Queen Victoria / Lychnis Flos Cuculi / Lysimachia Nummulia / Lythrium Salcaria / Mentha aquatica / Menthal Oulegium / Menyanthes Trifoliata / Mimulus / Myosotis Scorpoides / Nasturtium Officinale / Ponteder
- 8 x 1LTR plants supplied
- A range of depths and flowering times
- Bareroot plants supplied
£49.99
- Lincolnshire Pond Plants Frog Pack. The pack contains 4 x marginal plants ideal for frogs. 2 x Oxygenating plants for cover for tadpoles and during the metamorphosis phase to frogs. 1 x coloured water lily providing shade and cover and a platform to leave the water. Frogs and toads normally overwinter in places like compost heaps, amongst dead wood or under decking/your shed/other objects. Some amphibians, usually frogs and sometimes newts, will choose to overwinter at the bottom of the pond.
- 4 x marginal plants suitable for frogs
- 2 x oxygenators for providing cover for tadpoles etc…
- 1 x colour water lily for shade protection and a platform to elave the water
- Naturally grown no lights or nutrients added – POTTED supplied
Have a couple more to add but have to dash now for my therapy. Very overwhelmed now with choices! Seems very expensive too if they don’t survive. Might ask my therapist if he has a little water lilly to spare. That’s all he has in his so not sure I need a full range of plants. His is thriving with frogs, tads, newts and snails.
No rush. I know you’ll be mad busy getting back after the Easter break.
Lots of love xxx