The Chateau Diaries #315 500.000€ spent on the chapel made Saint Joseph drop dead.

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We have a seasonal delivery of swallows who live in our barns & repay the accommodation with keeping us mosquito- free (almost) during the summer, swooping & screeching at dusk. At first the mess they left made me want to block them out but imagining the distances they migrate to get here stopped me but now the advantages outweigh the guano.
 
Spirit of place said:
@Jeeves. Bicarb is another of those useful allrounders. Good for cleaning Eg. an anti- pathogen for plants, eg. spray diluted on leaves, (it works),
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I can vouch for this! When I first got interested in gardening over 30 years ago, there was a guy who was very popular here in the US (he was an older gentleman, I cannot remember his name), but he advocated all sorts of home-made remedies to help in the garden. There are a couple of his recipes that I still use today, and one of them is the bicarb of soda, with a bit of dish soap and water to dilute and a splash of Listerine. It keeps mildew prone plants mildew-free! My huge clump of Monarda is rarely affected by mildew anymore because I use this regularly from the time it is a foot high. He also had a natural remedy for getting rid of pests (the bug kind) that employs a similar concoction, without the bicarb. You soak four or five tobacco pouches in water, dilute it with a little more water and add the dish soap and Listerine and it works - I am able to effectively control cucumber beetles that plague my garden! You have to be careful with the tobacco concoction - it will kill every living bug as nicotine is fairly powerful, and some of those bugs are good for the plants.
 
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Spirit of place said:
We have a seasonal delivery of swallows who live in our barns & repay the accommodation with keeping us mosquito- free (almost) during the summer, swooping & screeching at dusk. At first the mess they left made me want to block them out but imagining the distances they migrate to get here stopped me but now the advantages outweigh the guano.
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Lucky you. I just love the nightly party time for the swallows. Nothing better than to sit out in the warm evening air with a glass of wine just watching them and hearing them having a ball.
 
graciemckitten said:
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮stalker Wendy going to the flower show
@wendygrimwood8122
3 hours ago
See you tomorrow, bring a raincoat !

@marlieskorsten-wc8ud
9 minutes ago
That garden is so neglected! Hedges should have been cut already, and it's full of weed. What a waste of a lovely area. And when is that fountain going to be installed?
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@jadejohns3107
3 hours ago
If only Phillip was dedicated to the engagement ring as he is porcelain. Who knows perhaps he has something magnificent in the works…
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@TheBTG88
5 hours ago
I never heard the ‘e’ in cantaloupe pronounced before. A first time for everything!
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Windy Wendy gives me the creeps too, one hell of a desperate superfan. One who is saintlike in The Gibbons FB group and can do no wrong EVER!

Oh to be that sad of a person, it's pathetic.

That trip to India for the stone, whether Trixie (honest I'm a homebody, I hate luxury international travel) likes it or not, is booked. My guess is Jaipur Rajasthan, already have one of the luxury hotels booked.
 
Hmmm, there's a pattern to Permasmiley's most generous gift giving. Or she is colluding with the greedy graspers? Remember the red bed which Fraudie 'loved' but didn't buy ? Later 'gifted' by Perma? Now the tureen over which the abstemious asses drooled. Either they didn't want them OR, more likely, purchased them and, in return for Perma to hock her schlock, the gifting pretense is employed. 🤔:m
 
Lochness Monster said:
Once again she has changed her bio. Now she has become a greenie again.
Green as in naive, definitely.
Greenie as in being interested in the environment and locally produced food, no.

Is that another burnt lemon curd tart… and what did the other guest get? Maybe she is allergic to egg!.

As for that tureen from permasmile. It is another pretend gift like the red bed. Snorts has to have what he wants, I can see him jumping up and down stamping his pointy slippered foot.
Welcome back Gracie and Karma too. Now where is Just Griftwood?
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At least she's put herself in the right place for the Chef Hierarchy, finally. However, does a one week course even constitute as qualifying for that. Don't most go to catering college and then do an apprenticeship?



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Pekey said:
M&M........ would this work on roses that have mildew too ??? 🌹
I have a problem with it and the darn black spot too.
Just pruned my roses today .... its winter here.
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Let me check.....I have the guy's little paperback book - I still can't remember his name - and I'll get back to you later today. Although I don't grow roses but know about their diseases, just in thinking about it, I think it would be useful, but I'd want to make sure you had the correct recipe...and also see what he says. I've been amazed all these years at how well it staves off powdery mildew on the Monarda. I don't have the newer ones that are mildew resistant, so I battle it all the time with our summer humidity.
 
C'est moi said:
After the horse has bolted I can only recommend preventative spray. I swear by it and recommend it to everyone and anyone who will list
Pranarōm anti mosquitoe spray. You can get it in most French pharmacies and parapharmacies. It's not unpleasant or sticky icky. The Pranarōm bite cream is excellent too, really take the sting out of the bite.
We have set up a bi-monthly delivery from Amazon because the pharmacies don't stock it once summer ends. And tiger bastard mosquitoes are a year round problem chez nous.
The Para'kito bracelets are very good too.
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......the bastard things are here too and we get them all year.

They use to like biting me but not so much now and I get very little reaction.

Perhaps that's one thing I can thank the menopause for.....mood swings obviously you don't taste so nice, must try harder.
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Madame de Pompanddoodoo said:
Lucky you. I just love the nightly party time for the swallows. Nothing better than to sit out in the warm evening air with a glass of wine just watching them and hearing them having a ball.
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This year we've got them nesting under the roof tiles, they're right above the utility room the chatter! Along with the Sparrows, Starlings and who knows what else.

I love it when they arrive, there are loads i n this villagebut by god does my car get covered.

Saw the best thing ever last night, a family of Golden Orioles in the cherry tree. You hear them but never see them as they're so shy.
 
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