Tuesday, 8 July 2025

I've Completely Lost It ...

 


I've completely lost it ... my train of thought that is.  😕

I had downloaded these two photos onto my new post, Alan came and asked me something ... and then the electric went off while the engineer was working on our Smart meters.  They haven't been 'talking to base', and since our change from British Gas who installed them, to Octopus, the new company has been struggling with getting the readings at their end.  British Gas kept us waiting for months and months and never got around to sorting things out, so hopefully we are on the verge of success.

Anyway all of the above made  me completely lose my train of thought.  When I compose a new post I usually start with a photo and go from there. I think the top photo was to show the space I now have next to my front door, so I will roll with that idea!!

  I sold the cupboard that used to stand there on Facebook Marketplace at the weekend.  It just had one of the Mother in Laws Tongue plants standing on it, and took up quite a bit of space.  Now the cupboard is gone, I have trimmed down both my plants, they were ridiculously tall, and put the cuttings into the jug you see there and I suddenly have space.  

This has been a very prolific plant, I have already sold two plants off the original and will soon have another pot of rooted leaves, so I guess another plant will have to go.  Not bad really, for an initial £24 purchase of a large Mother in Laws Tongue, I have already made back the purchase price and with hopefully more to come.


This was the second photo that I had ready loaded when the power went off ... at the same time as my brain seemingly.

Well, what can I say ... this is George the bear.  His name tag says Edward, but I have always thought of him as George!!  

You can just see next to him on the right, the jug that had been with the plants by the front door.  I moved it as I had visions of me whipping back the curtains and knocking water all over the floor, now that would have been annoying.

Not the blog post you were perhaps expecting, but then it's probably not the blog post that I was expecting either!!  


Sue xx


26 comments:

  1. Glad it's not just me then!
    You must have green fingers - pot plants all round for Christmas?

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    1. Haha, no it might be another sale .. or perhaps I could ask Alan if he would like one. ðŸŠī💚ðŸŠī

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  2. Always good when plants can be multiplied in that way.
    It doesn't take much these days to make me completely lose my train of thought 😆
    Alison in Devon x

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    1. I seem to have a knack with Mother in Laws Tongues and Spider Plants, they are almost annoyingly prolific. Now if you give me an Aloe Vera, she's dead in a month. 😄

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  3. Gosh I've never thought of selling plants, usually give them away.

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    1. I used to do that, but I've no-one to give them to now. If I give them to Alan it's like signing their death warrant. ðŸŦĢ I have to surreptitiously sneak in and look after the couple he has gotten from me. 😄

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  4. We all have moments like that. Xx

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    1. The older you get, the more often they pop up. 😄

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  5. It's called the wonder years.
    I wonder where I put that?
    I wonder why I came into the room?
    I wonder what happened to ...
    ~ skye

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  6. Yeah I very often loose my train of thought, lol
    I bought a Mother in laws tongue from Aldi a few years ago for £9.99, it's still going strong, there are a couple of new 'babies' in the pot too now. Do you just cut the leaves and stick them in water to root?

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    1. You simply cut the leaves right down at soil level, then you can trim them at the bottom to the height you would like your new plant and then simply stand them in a jug of water. Change the water regularly and it usually takes a couple of weeks for a mass of roots to develop. I always leave them far too long as I like seeing them in my jug. Pot up in normal compost, nothing fancy.

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  7. I was given a small Mother in Laws tongue years ago and it grew so large we ended up using it one year as the Christmas tree, fully decorated!
    Then all of a sudden it died.
    The plant I can't seem to stop growing everywhere is fuchsia, the wild dark red one that you see used as hedging in the West of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
    I just love it.

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    1. Oh no, that must have been so sad. :-(

      There was a beautiful fuchsia bush that seemed to be a mass of flowers virtually all year round in the communal gardens at Mum's bungalow, then just recently the new gardeners 'pruned it'. Now it's looking very sorry for itself.

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  8. That sounds like my head most of last week. I think its brilliant that you sold cuttings making the initial investment in the Mother-in-Law's Tongue free. Edwrad does look more like a George! xxx

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    1. It's been a good little money maker. :-)

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  9. A very prolific Mother-in-Laws Tongue indeed.

    God bless.

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    1. She really is, and it's such an easy plant to take cuttings from, no faffing about at all.

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  10. I lose my train of thought on a regular basis. At least we no longer have stairs so I don't climb to the top and then wonder why I went upstairs...lol
    Lovely plants :)
    Angie

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    1. Haha ... a brilliant reason for not having stairs. :-)

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  11. Ooooh I never think to sell plants from cuttings you are enterprising.

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    1. I don't know what made me think of it, but I thought it was worth a try. :-)

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  12. I can identify with your feelings (I call mine 'squirrel-like' during those events). I lost power, too, but due to a storm knocking down trees and power lines...so no power for 22 hours, back for a few hours, then lost it again due to another storm, but thankfully only for about an hour the second time. Amazingly good for forcing you to clean out your refrigerator...had to trash most everything, so a tad expensive. But compared to what is going on weather-wise in so many places, it was a non-event.

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    1. The worlds weather is going through some terrifying times isn't it. I think we are so lucky here in the UK on the whole.

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  13. Your plants all look very healthy. I've had no success with spider plants and I would so love to have one, too. Haven't tried growing mother-in-law's tongue as they are supposed to be poisonous to cats and Dancer likes to eat plants!

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    1. I am very lucky, none of my cats has ever been tempted to eat any of my plants. We did have a dog called Charley who chewed through the end of every leaf of Alan's beloved Christmas cacti, luckily spitting them all out. Amazingly the 'pruning' session did the plant the world of good.

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