Spring has sprung... Eventually!

[clivehorridge]

After what seems like the longest winter, spring has finally sprung where we are...

The first two pics are at the house out of the city, but the last one is in the heart of town.

 

[Chas]

We've got shoots appearing in our garden too, just need it to get a bit warmer though, can't stand the cold.

 

[Shayne]

Such simple pleasures are missed whilst living in a concrete jungle just wish someone would inform the Beaufort Scale its spring so i could start earning something

 

[yogi]

Wow Clive, the house is really coming on. Looks wonderful.

 

[clivehorridge]

We've got shoots appearing in our garden too, just need it to get a bit warmer though, can't stand the cold.

I love it when it's cold, -10C and lower is great, but we've had a very "British" winter this time, damp, windy, rainy and +4's temps which feels colder and more miserable than -10 and dry. That's why it seems to have dragged on.

20C today and rising...

 

[clivehorridge]

Such simple pleasures are missed whilst living in a concrete jungle just wish someone would inform the Beaufort Scale its spring so i could start earning something

Won't be long Shayne, sit it out mate, you'll soon be busy!

 

[clivehorridge]

Wow Clive, the house is really coming on. Looks wonderful.

Cheer's yogi...!

From the outside, it's been "finished" for some time, but the interior is taking time and sucking up cash at a rate of knots! But it's coming, should have the downstairs extension finished this year...

More photos here http://www.landcruiserclub.net/forums/album.php?albumid=71

 

[yogi]

Cheer's yogi...!

From the outside, it's been "finished" for some time, but the interior is taking time and sucking up cash at a rate of knots! But it's coming, should have the downstairs extension finished this year...

More photos here http://www.landcruiserclub.net/forums/album.php?albumid=71

The interior always feels like it will never be finished!! I basically rebuilt my place except for the roof and some of the floors, whilst rebuilding and enlarging the old extension.

I did a lot of the work myself and it still felt like a bottomless money pit that would never be finished! And then one day your tidying up after painting etc and its done!! And 3 months later someone asks you a question about something you did, and your answer without thinking is 'Ah, it was handy'.

When it really took days....

 

[froggy Steve]

Its been wet here forever! I dont think it got below -2 all winter. (-21 just 3 years ago!) We have had 2 weeks of sun, the grass is growing (woopie doo) and we have managed to get round every customer and now start the 2nd cuts today (raining) - I suppose everyone will want their pool open for easter (early) far too cold to use, but 'they look nice'
grrrr

 

[clivehorridge]

Its been wet here forever! I dont think it got below -2 all winter. (-21 just 3 years ago!) We have had 2 weeks of sun, the grass is growing (woopie doo) and we have managed to get round every customer and now start the 2nd cuts today (raining) - I suppose everyone will want their pool open for easter (early) far too cold to use, but 'they look nice'
grrrr

Thankfully Steve, the grass hasn't realized that the ambient ground temperature is above the magic 5 degrees yet, but it soon will!

I knackered my Viking s/propelled rotor mower on the last cut of 2013, so I need to take that to town to have a new crank fitted. I want a flymo petrol hover mower to do down the banks and around the trees with, but they're not available here, nobody's even heard of them here! I'll have to import one from the UK I suppose

 

[froggy Steve]

Honda do a range of hovers, perhaps your local garden machinery guy will have one?

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[clivehorridge]

Honda do a range of hovers, perhaps your local garden machinery guy will have one?

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Thanks Steve, I wasn't aware of that. I do know that many other brands use Honda engines, such as Viking.

I'll look into it

 

[clivehorridge]

The magnolia is out now...



and the forsythia


And a flowering ornamental something or another complemented by a grubby looking cruiser!

 

[yogi]

Its a Prunus spp. , an ornamental cherry, Clive

 

[clivehorridge]

Its a Prunus spp. , an ornamental cherry, Clive

Thanks for that yogi! It's been in about 2 years so a bit of growing to do just yet.

Originally, every tree was in some way or another, linked to alcohol, or rather the making of it!

The cherries are bitter "visine" well, sour but I can't enjoy them as fruit. So we're gradually changing them, as the old one's die to ornamentals or at least some edible fruit.

The apples are ok, but they're more suitable for the "tuica" or "palinca", again not sweet enough for regular eating IMO. Likewise with the plums "prune" sour as wigs!

There's one pear tree though, it has hard green pears and they're sweet, better than all the yellow conference soft as sh!t pears... I like these green ones!

 

[Chas]

Watch out for those 'ornamental cherries' Clive, that tree at the bottom of my garden was an ornamental, I say was because when I planted it the trunk (stem) was as thick as my thumb and about a metre and a half tall, now it is higher than my house and the trunk is about as thick as my trunk.

 

[clivehorridge]

Yep, we get a bit duped sometimes with these dainty looking things in the garden centre!

I've got a bit of space to go at thankfully...