Today’s winds were, if anything, even faster than yesterday’s. The morning was, however, dry and sunny. This was when Jackie provided the solution predicted by paulinekingblog.wordpress.com. Pauline had faith that Jackie would come up with an answer to the battering that the plastic self-assembled greenhouses have been subjected to for the last week or so.
The Grow-arcs have been removed from the side of the house, separated, and firmly fixed elsewhere.
One is screwed to the fence between front and back gardens;
the other to the back of the garden shed.
Anyone who has followed my blog for any length of time will be aware that many items of our predecessors’ dubious D.I.Y. efforts still bore price labels and bar codes attached to their materials, often upside down.
Therefore, in keeping with the custom, Jackie left a Milford Supplies price label stuck on one of the brass brackets that hold the greenhouses in place.
These structures remained firm in the face of today’s gales.
I spent much of the afternoon perfecting and e-mailing my submission to livelytwist.
This evening we dined on pork rack of ribs in barbecue sauce, Jackie’s delicious special fried rice, and runner beans. The Cook drank Hoegaarden, whilst my choice was Trivento reserve Malbec 2014.
Brilliant. Tent pegs might be useful too and here they use sandbags to weigh down those market stalls. Pork ribs; yum.
Thank you, Mary.
Well… all the best… the next step will be to move the plastic structure inside!
I do home not, Bruce. But thank you.
😀
I think it all the’re good for!
I hope I’m not right!
Bravissimo, Jackie!
Thank you, Cynthia
Big smile and a curtsey, ta Cynthia. I just need time to a) get cross. b) calm down and shrug my shoulders. c) start to think. d) do something!
I like your modus operandum…and your style!
Even gale force winds can’t beat a determined Head Gardener!! It’s always good to know one’s faith is not misplaced 🙂 [Let’s hope Bruce hasn’t predicted the next step]
Thank you, Pauline
Thanks, I don’t like to be beaten by such things it is true.
The recent winds have been horrendous! Glad your greenhouses are now safe 🙂
Thank you, Becka
So happy to see the wily head gardener triumphing over the winds!
Thank you, Lisa
Time will tell of course, but I hope to have at least got one year out of them before the constant gusts tear the plastic covers!
Plastic is funny. Sometimes it lasts forever and others, not so much. I hope they last.
Yeah! Gorgeous dinner, Derrick 🙂 Sounds very delicious.
Thanks, Monica
So glad you’ve found a solution! I wish I lived close and was invited for dinner one of these days!
Thank you, Luanne. You’d be welcome
I might hold you to that!
When you comin’ ?
Very cool Jackie – way to go!! Solution is perfect ~
Thank you, Mary
Thankyou Mary, If at first you don’t succeed….
Pauline’s positive nature plus yours and Jackie’s determination proved to the gales of wind whose the better ones! 🙂
Thanks, Robin
Brilliant bit of ingenuity by Jackie.
I love the nod to the previous caretakers, with the upside down bracket…. I’d smile every time I looked at it.
Thank you Danella. I do
Brilliant…. love the deyemination of yourself and Jackie… kudos..
Thank you, Chitra