June 14, 2009, Multiply, Busy in the garden

Been a very busy bee recently

We have had some very good weather recently and consequently I’ve managed to make a little progress on some of my garden projects. I still haven’t bought a new camera, so yet again these pictures are poor quality mobile phone pictures…….oh how I miss my camera.

Remember the pile of rubble I was left with after having my garden shed door moved??

I seem to remember Diana saying I could make it into a rockery. Well……………..I managed to ‘hide’ most of it and what was left, will indeed make a very nice neat corner rockery, thank you Diana.

Remember the complete bathroom I had dumped in my garden by well meaning and thoughtful daughters??

They intended to remove my green bath, toilet and sink and replace them with the cream ones.

The well meaning and thoughtful daughters never did plumb in the new cream bathroom and it has sat in my garden ever since. The bath became scratched and the grandchildren were getting very fed up with it being in their way in the garden. I decided to keep my aged but serviceable green bathroom and hired a little man to dig a hole and ‘plant’ the other bath that was sitting in the garden. This time next year this bath will be my wild life pond, we will have frogs and toads and dragon flies and lilly pads!!

 The earth from the hole was used for the new rockery and, once the bath was out of the way I moved the toilet and cistern and filled them with more of the earth from the hole. They are now ready and waiting for their plants.

The sink and pedestal will stay where they are until I paint the shed wall, then they will be fixed to the (newly painted) shed wall and be full of hanging plants………….it will look lovely I’m sure.

Painting all fences, gates, walls and generally anything that doesn’t have plants in it, is my summer vacation task.

The rest of the garden doesn't look too bad at the moment and I'll have the whole of the summer holidays to play in it and make it even more beautiful.

Tags: garden, bathroom, plants, pond, recycle, wildlife pond

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delete reply bennett1 wrote on Jun 24, '09 I tried to get your pictures to enlarge but I couldn't. You know that blue fence is my favorite. I was going to see about getting it on Jungleblogs. I am in dialog with Multiply about the enlarging pix issue. And a pond!! I have always wanted one. My husband says it would be a breeding place for mosquitos - that is what ducks are for - they eat the eggs and larva.

delete reply djdx wrote on Jun 15, '09 Looks good, the garden and the blog, I came here after your note.

delete reply starfishred wrote on Jun 14, '09 looking good loretta-

delete reply sandycaar wrote on Jun 14, '09 your garden looks great to me,,i really like the blue fence,,my mom many years ago had an old metal oblong tub put in a hole in the ground and made it into a gold fish pond,,she had it buried up to the top so you couldn't see any of the outside,,she had marbles on the bottom i remember,,don't remember any frogs etc. unless they just showed up because i know she didn't purchase or go out and hunt any :) too bad you didn't get to use the bathroom fixtures for the bathroom but you made good use of them anyways,,your page is showing up fine for me,,i use ff (after yahoo recommended updating ie and now i only get a blank page and that pops off)

delete reply lrrpslady wrote on Jun 14, '09 What a lovely idea. It looks wonderful. I caught myself thinking "She has flowers in her loo!" The garden looks great. Your page operates fine for me. Except for the picture enlarging thing. LOL.

delete reply acousticeagle wrote on Jun 14, '09 yes, you've been busy b'gosh. Nothing like getting sleeves rolled up and stuck in to it. It will be interesting to have frogs in the bathtub. *grin*

delete reply seanymph3 wrote on Jun 14, '09 I have noticed the first pic you load from your computer sometimes does that but it didnt always for me.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 seanymph3 said No, its always been like that. Hmmm well thats weird cos i have always loaded pictures straight from my computer into a blog and they always enlarged ok..............strange that it didn't wok that way for you

delete reply seanymph3 wrote on Jun 14, '09 No, its always been like that.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 seanymph3 said have found that the only way to get the pics to enlarge are to load them here to Multiply first. thanks, suppose this is part of the 'improvements', cos it used to work fine just loading them from the computer but if that's the way it has to be nothing we can do about it i guess

delete reply seanymph3 wrote on Jun 14, '09 I have found that the only way to get the pics to enlarge are to load them here to Multiply first. I dont know if thats where you have them but when I load right from my computer.....they wont enlarge.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 Another 'glitch' noticed...............now my pictures in blogs will NOT enlarge.......this is BAD BAD.. grrrrrrr

delete reply aimlessjoys wrote on Jun 14, '09 Splendid developments! It's too hot here by now to get outside much, & we have lost 2 trees from our neighbor's yard that USED to shade our patio, which is now broiling hot all afternoon. Now what?? As always, you inspire my endeavors! Looks Great!

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delete reply veroniquemariquita wrote on Jun 14, '09 I have two small ponds just off my back deck. Nothing fancy there either ... just a water hole to be used by the wild life as they choose. The ponds are almost hidden and it is fun to watch the expression on my friends' faces when ,as we are sitting on the deck chatting and bird watching, one of the resident bull frogs decides to let out one of his loud grrrr ummmphs! LOL I love having them so close.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 veroniquemariquita said How creative. You turned a problem into an asset Thanks Vero...............i just don't like to throw stuff away if it can be used and I have wanted a wild life pond for ages. I've been reading about how to set them up, no fish and no alien species, just good old british frogs, toads and oxygenating native plants...........I would love newts too but they are so rare now it is illegal to move, damage, endanger, buy, sell, trade or otherwise interfere with newts..........so unless they decide to migrate to my garden, all on their own ( out of the countryside and into the town) i have no chance of getting them. What a shame!!

delete reply veroniquemariquita wrote on Jun 14, '09 How creative. You turned a problem into an asset... proved once again that .."Where there's a will there's a way".

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 seanymph3 said Wow, what great ideas! My FF works just fine on Hi Sea and thanks.............you know what I'm like for recycling, just can't throw any thing away. as for the problems on the site...........well this has happened to me before and to be honist these problems are not as bad as last time and I'mj ust sort of hoping that once every thingsettles down my site will return to normal

delete reply princessoftheking2 wrote on Jun 14, '09 Ah, thanks. I just started using FF myself and Multiply, so I don't know what it was like before so I've no idea if i've got the 4.0 version. But hello to Arbroath from Dundee all the same. My mum lives in Leonard Street, my cousin's at St. Murdoch's Crescent and my brother and sis-in-law live at Fergus Square.

delete reply seanymph3 wrote on Jun 14, '09 Wow, what great ideas! My FF works just fine on it. So I dont think its Multiply. There is a computer group in my groups list. If you join it and ask what to do to fix it someone there will help. They are pretty good with stuff. :)

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 14, '09 If you use the small size of your font and do bold it should be okay to use links and they can still be seen.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 princessoftheking2 said What's FF? Firefox..............I much prefer it to IE because its faster but for some reason the 'new and improved' Multiply refuses to operate on it.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 msowens1 said you have been a busy busy bee... Hi Mo, thanks, yep been quite busy recently with different things and you know how I love to recycle, dobn't like to throw things away.

delete reply princessoftheking2 wrote on Jun 14, '09 What's FF?

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 untill every thing settles down i must remember not to use links, still can't use FF though

delete reply msowens1 wrote on Jun 14, '09 you have been a busy busy bee... I love the recycled used for the bathtub, etc.... very creative.... a lovely garden!

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Frank you were right, it was just the links making it stretch, thank you

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 14, '09 Try removing the URL or break it into 2 lines or go to small size font.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 veryfrank said may be the length or the font size of your URL in the text that stretched it: thanks frank, didn't think of that, i'll remove the links, don't really need them anyway so i'll see if it makes a difference.

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Jun 14, '09 Yes, Frank is right. On IE it's very stretched but not so on FF.

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 14, '09 It is stretched in IE.

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Jun 14, '09 Wait and see Loretta if anyone else has this problem because for me it doesn't appear stretched out. I'll go look at it on IE though.

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 14, '09, edited on Jun 14, '09 It may be the length or the font size of your URL in the text that stretched it: http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/284/New_Computer_Up_and_Running.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 14, '09 Sorry about this page....................I thought all th little problems on this page were sorted and then this happens.............it stretched and stretched and stretched

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Jun 14, '09 LOL. The other day I read an article about some neighbours in a town in the US who created a big 'stink' because a woman had used a toilet as a planter. Sure hope your neighbours are not like that!