*The first sunny day for ages*

So glad you've finally seen sense and crossed over to the flowery side of things Ian! Is that you in the background in pics 3 and 4 with Holly? :~))
I think the purple leaf shrub is Cotinus Coggyria (Smoke Bush to you and me) probably Royal Purple variety. Not sure about the white daisies, could be Feverfew or some sort of Marguerite (or whatever they call them these days) . Others will know better than me!
By the way, carrots do have a certain appeal LOL

hehehe you really do make me laugh In, you have such a lovely faily. Itake it your son is a typical teenager, as he never apperas suring the day?!

that purple foliage was gorgeous wasnt it and I noticed some Borage too on your last picture perfect for bees. bless lil Hollys heart for helping her ole dad, little love she definatly deserved to icecreams for that, or was it you who had 2!!

x x x

The purple leaves could be cotinus coggygria- bit hard to tell without a closer look. Glad you had a good time.

Glad u got every thing sorted Ian.Looks like you`s had a great day.Holly seemed to enjoy herself.That wud have been 1 for the camera ,chasing round in the mobility scootersLol. sorry can`t help with naming plants , my knowledge is less than a fleas Lol:~)))))

Thanks all for the lovely comments.
Lily2 I can't understand why you don't have row after row of them (carrots) the only reason I don't is there would be no room for my beloved potatoes..... :~))
You are cheeky you ! No its not me in the background..... Its a life size model of ..... well me actually Lol
Mookins, I was very good there and didn't have any Ice cream at all...... I thought the two cream cakes was enough !
Wagger thanks for the info, I shall do some research.
Mobee, It was hilarious, when we stopped we had an audience :~))

looks a nice park Ian , I am sure u will keep some veggies

Great blog again, Ian! :) You tell things sooo hilariously! :)

Hi Mac, to right I'll be keeping some veggies and Rufford IS a really nice place, there is loads to do for all ages.
Its the way I tell em Balcony :~))

I think that purple bit is a "smoke bush" - wch could b the common name for cotinus for all i know. I'm just a commoner though, enjoying the simple things in life!

No gardening really today, unless you count a mad dash around for a few bits of rubbish to stuff the green bin full (see first blog, if I've not deleted it).

In two days time at a local show there's to be a "longest runner bean" category, so I'm thinking of taking the plunge with... so far... (rushes out to garden with measuring stick)..... drum roll please.......34cm!!

Oh well done weeding, (Is that long??? I mean what is that in feet and inches, I can't do foreign.... Lol) and thanks for the identification. :-))
Good luck with the show ! ! !

erm, now huntin 4 measure that i've prob left s-where logical like in the fridge drawer...

About thirteen and a half inches - no, I'm not - I googled it.

Where else would you leave it? Weeding, seems like the logical place to put things like that. Lol
Cheers Wagger, I just can't get my head around foreign even though they tried to knock it into my head at school. :-))

brainiac husband says 13 and a bit '' - ? Tape measure eloped along with my mobile phone, the spare keys, Elvis and Lord Lucan, it seems.
Apologies to Lily2 cos she's already said smokebush (nearly wrote smackbush, whoops, that would probably get me arrested tut tut)
Lookin back at these pics - what a terrible shame after all your work on the veg. Hope all is not lost? On another blog did you still have some young climbing bean plants?

I think Elvis and Lord L. eloped on the back of that horse that went missing, but I can't remember its name now ! ! ! ! ! !
Yes I've got 5 runners beans, about 4 inches high, 4 peas, less than an inch, swede, cauli and carrots, just peeping through and loads of radish, everywhere (Holly got hold of the packet of seeds while I was doing the other veg) Lol

Shergar was the cuddy your thinking of Ian

She's the fellow Mac. I'm totally confused now LOl :-))

I'm so ridiculously proud, our bean came romping in in second place, so I got my first mini certificate ever and it's going up on the kitchen wall!
(no sour grapes, but we could tell the 1st prize one wch was def longer was also WELL stringy, heh heh! smug look... cos ours was beautiful)
The local village show was ace, though horrible rain the whole time,
and at the auction at the end we successfully bid for meringues, carrot cake, a whole box of lovely homegrown veg. Honestly I wish I could have taken you all along, you'd have loved it. : )
Shall I post a photo of the certificate?!

Right a blog about it and post lots of photos!!!!!

bri;lliant weeding!!!! . . . . . old bean ( sorry) .. anyway I would love to photos

Mac's bean (sorry) at the voddie again............ :~)))

I dont drink voddie as diggsy knows its campari and soda

LMAO. well you must have bean (Oooops) at something, check out your last comment

it was a slip o the lappy Ian . . . fingers are size 10 and I got a size 6 keyboard . . . . . .. now wheres me vino?

hic . . burp . .. scuse . . . . hic

Bless......... :~))

nice to see you're wetting the bean's head!
Husband and son found 2nd-longest-bean's (that reminds me of dances-with-wolves...) best friend and we ate him for tea tonight with the roast.
I couldn't find him last night when I looked, thought I must be going mad(der)
And now I can't find the camera for pic. I'll blame Lord Lucan & Shergar again.
I'll put up a pic one day I promise.

Yours in friendship,
Loses-absolutely-everything x