Friends on the Wildfood board also had a sleepless night... one of them posted this "but did anybody else see the article about eating 2 kiwi fruit an hour before bed ? . They are apparently rich in the chemicals that induce sleep (melatonin/serotonin ???) This was research carried out in Japan"
Worth trying ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH is an architect and he hates all colours that are not the natural colour of things - so he doesn't mind rusty metal or mouldy wood but he hates to see a plastered wall painted, I dunno, blue or green, for example. The only colour of paint he will allow is white. I get fed up with this from time to time and will sneak off and buy a tin of outrageous colour paint and paint a wall. Sometimes I get away with it. More often the change will force an immediate compromise - so I paint the wall Barbie pink and he agrees to allow a mellow ochre to cover it up. Therefore most walls in our house (that aren't white) have been painted at least twice
Commiserations Nanny B - I've lived in building sites for the last 20 years and hardly ever had a house where the roof didn't leak somewhere. I hope it will be fixed in very short order.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Dove, we once emulsioned our sitting room walls and ceiling twice in one week as we couldn't live with the colour.
Oh Joyce It takes us weeks to paint the sitting room walls and ceiling ........ we have to sand and rub and everything down about three times and then put lots of coats of paint on ... just like preparing a gallery for an exhibition
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, we buy all our bed linen from The White Company. Lovely.
I delivered to a house last night. XXXXX Farm. Delivery instructions mentioned "drive down the unmade lane and you'll see an old farm house on the left, we're behind the gate to the right just before that house"
I'd imagined some old cottage. NO SUCH THING. It was stilted, flat ,grassy roof, lots of glass and beautiful wood cladding. Stunning.
You can tell it was on the other side of " the river". Cornish councils are a lot more progressive than our council in Devon.
Raisingirl ... exactly ... white or pale neutrals and stone or bare wood with natural skins and leather here. Just for once we went for a darker shade ... still a neutral but it just swallowed all the light .... what was I thinking ...... the perils of being bored when stuck on the sofa for six weeks
And as for rain coming through the roof ... I remember a certain builder tarring the flat roof of the kitchen before the inside of the roof and ceiling had been done ... but of course, we were living in the kitchen ... tar came pouring through the cracks ... right onto a basket full of freshly ir*ned laundry l of course, as I was married to the builder I was able to impress on him the seriousness of the event!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hosta ... love White Company stuff ... I can only think I wasn't in my right mind
And you're right ... there's some gorgeous homes in Cornwall ... but they've the influence of St Ives etc which does help open planners/councillors minds a bit I'm sure.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Nanny B, I feel for you! Hope you get the work finished very soon, and then get compensation for the mess.
I keep suggesting to OH that after 11 years in this house, a bit of re-decorating wouldn't go amiss... I think we might need to employ someone to do the stairs & landing though. Balancing high up ladders is no longer an enjoyable experience.
We're off to Buxton to sing in the Fringe festival tomorrow. Still trying to learn words - think I know them really, just need to keep them "fresh". It's not like it was when I was a teenager, and could learn French vocabulary by reading through it a couple of times on the bus on the way home. Now these things need hammering in to the old brain over a longer period of time...
The sun is shining and there are raspberries to pick.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Dove, we once emulsioned our sitting room walls and ceiling twice in one week as we couldn't live with the colour.
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Friends on the Wildfood board also had a sleepless night... one of them posted this " but did anybody else see the article about eating 2 kiwi fruit an hour before bed ? . They are apparently rich in the chemicals that induce sleep (melatonin/serotonin ???) This was research carried out in Japan"
Worth trying ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH is an architect and he hates all colours that are not the natural colour of things - so he doesn't mind rusty metal or mouldy wood but he hates to see a plastered wall painted, I dunno, blue or green, for example. The only colour of paint he will allow is white. I get fed up with this from time to time and will sneak off and buy a tin of outrageous colour paint and paint a wall. Sometimes I get away with it. More often the change will force an immediate compromise - so I paint the wall Barbie pink and he agrees to allow a mellow ochre to cover it up. Therefore most walls in our house (that aren't white) have been painted at least twice
Commiserations Nanny B - I've lived in building sites for the last 20 years and hardly ever had a house where the roof didn't leak somewhere. I hope it will be fixed in very short order.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Oh Joyce
It takes us weeks to paint the sitting room walls and ceiling ........ we have to sand and rub and everything down about three times and then put lots of coats of paint on ... just like preparing a gallery for an exhibition 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, we buy all our bed linen from The White Company. Lovely.
I delivered to a house last night. XXXXX Farm. Delivery instructions mentioned "drive down the unmade lane and you'll see an old farm house on the left, we're behind the gate to the right just before that house"
I'd imagined some old cottage. NO SUCH THING. It was stilted, flat ,grassy roof, lots of glass and beautiful wood cladding. Stunning.
You can tell it was on the other side of " the river". Cornish councils are a lot more progressive than our council in Devon.
Raisingirl ... exactly ... white or pale neutrals and stone or bare wood with natural skins and leather here. Just for once we went for a darker shade ... still a neutral but it just swallowed all the light .... what was I thinking ...... the perils of being bored when stuck on the sofa for six weeks
And as for rain coming through the roof ... I remember a certain builder
tarring the flat roof of the kitchen before the inside of the roof and ceiling had been done ... but of course, we were living in the kitchen ... tar came pouring through the cracks ... right onto a basket full of freshly ir*ned laundry 
l of course, as I was married to the builder I was able to impress on him the seriousness of the event!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hosta ... love White Company stuff ... I can only think I wasn't in my right mind
And you're right ... there's some gorgeous homes in Cornwall ... but they've the influence of St Ives etc which does help open planners/councillors minds a bit I'm sure.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all.
So sorry to hear about OH's BIL, Lizzie.
Nanny B, I feel for you! Hope you get the work finished very soon, and then get compensation for the mess.
I keep suggesting to OH that after 11 years in this house, a bit of re-decorating wouldn't go amiss... I think we might need to employ someone to do the stairs & landing though. Balancing high up ladders is no longer an enjoyable experience.
We're off to Buxton to sing in the Fringe festival tomorrow. Still trying to learn words
- think I know them really, just need to keep them "fresh". It's not like it was when I was a teenager, and could learn French vocabulary by reading through it a couple of times on the bus on the way home. Now these things need hammering in to the old brain over a longer period of time... 
The sun is shining and there are raspberries to pick.
GWRS, the steel posts and chicken wire are to stop kangaroos from breaking branches off shrubs and trees.
GWRS, sorry it took me a while to find a photo of one of the shrubs that the roos had a couple of goes at.