Weather is a funny thing Rogier. We’ve just returned from 12 days in Puerto Banus near Marbella Spain and it rained for 10 of them! Flooding everywhere! We had hoped to play a couple of games of golf whilst there but the local courses were closed due to flooding. Fortunately there were plenty cafes/restaurants/pubs to escape into and the rain didn’t affect the Rioja. 
Meanwhile back in Scotland they had great weather including the warmest day of the year so far. Just no justice in this world!
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Hi Andrea @Helen0609
How nice that you picked up my very subtle hint 
ooo I’ve been thinking about what I want to say to you … and how many superlatives I allow for myself …
what a view and I sat and watched it with great pleasure together with my wife and she said “ooo and that is close to her, how incredible that people live like that” … It makes me very happy to see and I am convinced that one year we will make a trip and I will see such images live again for a few days, and for now it also brings back great memories … what beautiful pictures …so happy for you 
Beautiful tulip and photo of a “Willow Cat” … I have cuddled thousands of them in the past (mmmm past 
)to heaven 
I sometimes hear in my left ear that I cause too much distraction when driving , which, especially in built-up areas, almost creates “situations” with other traffic or, like the day before yesterday, with a curb at the landfill for large garden waste.
If only 
then there will finally be a structure …
I’ll just repeat this again
… Unfortunately this one breaks in the translation, but for those few Dutch people…have fun, and one day I will turn this into a song with a wink so that my singing doesn’t matter (I think)
Mijn kat had honger en had geen geduld…
ze miauwde lief, hé, mijn buik moet gevuld…
Ik was te langzaam en zag het niet…
een paar minuten later ,… en het was zo lek als een vergiet…
Voer je kat toch sneller lxl …
My cat was hungry and had no patience, she meowed sweetly, hey, my belly needs to be filled… I was too slow and didn’t see … a few minutes later and it was leaking like a colander…
Feed your cat faster …you stuppid prxck…
You see …it needs a little more work than a minute
The fact is that she comes and stands very sweetly against my leg with 2 legs up… but sometimes a little bit loose and one or 2 nails are out… and now for the 3rd time my pillow is leaking because of it… and it’s really my own fault… 
I just got a call back…they will come by tomorrow afternoon 
small suffering small suffering 
only no guitarplaying …what ?? call that small 
…
Then just sit in the garden drink tea ,watch birds and catch snails play with the cat …and do the final pruning work, how simple fast good life can be … sometimes
Holy cow,
That’s just too much, yes …If you start longing for the weather in Scotland 
… Ooo I’m laughing so hard right now it hurts, it was on the news every day about the rainfall in Spain and a friend of mine who lives in Valencia was also hoping that it would stop soon… but when “them” have bad weather there, it is much more beautiful here… 28 years ago, 7 days to Gran Ganaria, 5 days of rain (they had never experienced that before)… it was also a terrible environment right in the neighborhood… oh well, now I can laugh about it
Greetings all
an old summer photo from before I played the guitar…old tiles, no trees in the garden, and not being able to drink tea with one hand…not everything was better in the past
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I finally got around to varnishing and fixing Edith’s Christmas present to her mum in her plot of ‘guerilla’ gardening across the road 
Took me a lot longer than it did my daughter 
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Hi Brian @brianlarsen
Hè Hè finally ,shame on you
But if you wait longer for something, it can become even more beautiful ,
both of us have enjoyed reading the board/plaque here and it has been like a few years the way we do it here and more and more people are getting involved here because when they come here and the newspapers and television are learning them more and more that things bought in the garden center, most flying visitors die within a few days due to all types of poison on them and that is why there are only tropical remnants in our garden or bought very expensively from enthusiasts grown in there own greenhouse without poison, etc…
This way we do now it takes a little longer and you get slightly less bright colors in return in these colder conditions, but gardening is becoming easier, watering less often every year, less trips to the garden center, less other maintenance such as not mowing the lawn too often, pruning “weeds” etc etc …
I see all of the plants on the foto that we also have (although sometimes you are fooled by the enormous similarity that plants can have) but at the front you can collect your own coins later, as posted above in post 376
Thanks for the photos, it brought a big smile…
“PLANT IT FORWARD”
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Hi Brian @brianlarsen
I just heard this on the news ,hey …we are a small country
The video could easily have been a lot more fun but that’s not the point
Millions of page views
The underwater live stream can accommodate around 2,000 visitors at the same time. That number is regularly exceeded and people are then referred to the livestream on YouTube. Fishing enthusiasts can spot animals there, but they cannot ‘ring the bell’ to have the lock opened…
Not bad for something that is not as iconic as “the” zebra crossing…
Have fun with this relaxing news in these confusing times
Greetings
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I can’t believe you just click-baited me into visiting the webcam again…
Good job it’s ‘experiencing technical difficulties’ right now, but I did check out yesterdays footage 
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I hope you’re not planning on posting another new topic on it again or Rogier will have to punish you for triple posting
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Pay attention, young man. Get with the program! 
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…
But nooo …do the Press the fish doorbell and have someone open the fishing lock
door, that is much more active behind your computer
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That’s a good idea, we could all follow your example and post random stuff in your learning log to keep the forum decluttered 
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A beautiful photo that, after years of trying with an old phone, was finally successful yesterday with the new one that clicks much faster…
this opportunity occurs less than once a two months.
If the cat just wants to look behind the gate and it doesn’t go fast enough for her majesty
she asks about a few times by jumping on the windowsill and I or my wife open the door, and then she jumps off into the garden… sorry but sometimes you have to do something inside or finish typing…
then she climbs onto the fence,
jumps onto the roof of the veranda and then onto the ground through the container at the back, this only works in one direction so you still have to leave the house and open the gate quickly,she is afraid of many things behind that gate (big birds, most other cats, cars and worst of all the municipal lawn mower (those idiots mow once a week ) )
and always want back in quick
… Well this photo is unedited and without filters and such and I am very happy with it
Greetings 
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Hè hè ,that will safe me a lot of searching for the things i need to find here (ooo if that was just a joke )
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Come fly with me …
Learning to fly … 
Fly away …
I’m like a bird … 
Fly like an Eagle …
Wind beneath my Wings … I believe I can fly …
You really have a cool cat, Rogier 
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Hi Gunhild @Gunhild ,
…Thank you
Great to hear from you ,mised you a little .
Now I start the day with a lot of songs in my head
Greetings
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Great picture! 
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Hi Rogier. With some planning you can achieve tidy borders but still maintain space for insects. I’ve just spent the last week or two getting my garden into ‘Spring’ shape. Weeds dug up and weed suppressing topsoil put down.
Tidy border….
But behind the border lots of space for our insect friends……
And of course the messy area beside the hut and greenhouse.
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that’s plenty of crawl space for John, Paul, George and Ringo
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Gordon
That’s an impressive garden! Particularly so for Scotland in April.
Brian
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Thanks Andrea @Helen0609
Pfff yesterday, almost immediately after you posted, the power was taking down here (it was planned), almost the entire morning and then briefly on and off again on the day, that took adjustments 
… making a cup of tea suddenly became a hassle with electric gas ignition, back to the Stone Age with pieces of wood with sulfur on them to make a fire , and then chores around the house…ooocrap power for this power for that …and also rain outside so I couldn’t work in the garden either @sairfingers …
What You have a beautiful garden Gordon … and that Japanese maple (small one in the border and more of course ) is a real eye-catcher ,
and this morning I looked with my wife at previous garden photos of yours somewhere above and such a sleek, neat garden is something that I certainly find very beautiful to sit in and see… . but there are a incredible lot more insects to be found here on every square 10 cm by leaving leaf litter and such since we start do it this way , that really makes a world of difference, and as mentioned, an incredible number of snails as well.
But it would be fantastic if everyone had a garden like yours, starting with my neighbors… the one to our left has 300 square meters of ugly concrete tiles because he doesn’t want to work in the garden …But he is burning/scraping and spraying away “weeds” almost every weekend. (no kidding)
Shrubs do well in the rain I see … It is record dry here sinds they start counting that in the Netherlands for 6 weeks and now I have had to water the garden twice and those (constant) drops from yesterday do not help … Ps, I think for me watering is the best garden job after watching how it grows every day
Greetings ,And I look forward to the summer garden photos from you with sunshine
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