Morning all/afties Pat - if you're around. Perhaps tucked up warm
Another wet day here. 17 degrees is an ideal temp for me, and is pretty average for summer here NBeach. If it's dry for three days in a row we think all our birthdays have come at once!
Thunder and lightning aren't any good without 'stair rod' rain Dove. I'd complain to the management
Clari - they're b***ers aren't they? The cornflowers I carefully scatter in the places I want them, succumb to slugs, but the ones that have self seeded....
Lovely cake LP. That was a nice gesture.
Glad your toms survived fairly well chicky. I didn't grow any this year, but I did carrots, and we picked some the other day and had them in the dinner last night. They'd never have passed for supermarket ones - too squint and hairy!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I do understand how difficult it must be when a loved one has died on or near your birthday ... with remarkably good planning (she was like that) Ma managed to die the day after her own birthday.
I remember talking to a young mum who had experienced a tragedy on her own birthday ... she found it impossible to celebrate it and yet her children were getting to the age when they wanted to help their mummy have a lovely birthday ... I put my thinking cap on and discovered that her name was that of a saint, with the Saint's Day being slap bang in the middle of the school summer holidays several months away from her birthday .......... she decided that she would celebrate the Saint's Day as her own special day ... a family BBQ and party in the garden was a huge success and the rest of her family took on board that this would now be regarded as her birthday when cards and presents would be given ... it became a family tradition and really worked ... she was able to deal with her sad memories quietly and also get on with having fun with her family which actually did her own self-image and self esteem no end of good
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Right, bed linen in the machine and fresh linen on the bed (I call it linen, always have, but it's not although we do have some, courtesy of when ex DIL worked for Volga Linen ... well, she still does but we don't get a discount any more ) .
The hedgehogs appear to have found the new feeding station and approved ..the cats can't get in there and.the dish has been emptied three nights running
Now heading for the bathroom, armed with de-scaler ............... I may be gone some time ...........
Last edited: 28 July 2017 09:41:37
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A little bit of sun for a change, so have been out weeding, with all this rain it is starting to look like a jungle.
Still have not decided on where to get my medicinal sun this winter, what is Cape Verde like, Hosta?
I know this will attract opprobrium from some of you, but I have a big decision to make in September. MSF. would like me to cover some a/l in Yemen and I am not sure what to do. Need some major discussions with OH whilst in Scotland.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
P'doc ... all I'm going to say is talk to your OH and get her to really talk to you, and you must really listen and reflect on what she says, plus talk to your therapist people .... you have my utmost admiration for even considering it ... but you do have a responsibility to look after yourself and your OH too.
Right ... bathroom and bedroom all done bar vacuuming bedroom and landing carpet, and a line full of bedlinen flapping in the breeze ... still sunny here so fingers crossed the forecast is correct and I've got time to get that lot and the towels dry before rain late this afternoon.
Right, now to get the vacuum out .........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Morning all/afties Pat - if you're around. Perhaps tucked up warm
Another wet day here. 17 degrees is an ideal temp for me, and is pretty average for summer here NBeach. If it's dry for three days in a row we think all our birthdays have come at once!
Thunder and lightning aren't any good without 'stair rod' rain Dove. I'd complain to the management
Clari - they're b***ers aren't they? The cornflowers I carefully scatter in the places I want them, succumb to slugs, but the ones that have self seeded....
Lovely cake LP. That was a nice gesture.
Glad your toms survived fairly well chicky. I didn't grow any this year, but I did carrots, and we picked some the other day and had them in the dinner last night. They'd never have passed for supermarket ones - too squint and hairy!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My Mum died on my 42nd birthday. I've not celebrated it since
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Lovely looking cake LP - and so well iced. I think I need to practice the whole decorating thing
Damp and dreary here. Better do some work
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Fairy "17 degrees is an ideal temp for me," If we're talking about night time minimums, I agree.
Got back to sleep around 4.30 . Rubbish day and showers forecast in some shape of form for the next 10 days ( sorry Obs )
I do understand how difficult it must be when a loved one has died on or near your birthday ... with remarkably good planning (she was like that) Ma managed to die the day after her own birthday.
I remember talking to a young mum who had experienced a tragedy on her own birthday ... she found it impossible to celebrate it and yet her children were getting to the age when they wanted to help their mummy have a lovely birthday ... I put my thinking cap on and discovered that her name was that of a saint, with the Saint's Day being slap bang in the middle of the school summer holidays several months away from her birthday .......... she decided that she would celebrate the Saint's Day as her own special day ... a family BBQ and party in the garden was a huge success and the rest of her family took on board that this would now be regarded as her birthday when cards and presents would be given ... it became a family tradition and really worked ... she was able to deal with her sad memories quietly and also get on with having fun with her family which actually did her own self-image and self esteem no end of good
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Right, bed linen in the machine and fresh linen on the bed (I call it linen, always have, but it's not although we do have some, courtesy of when ex DIL worked for Volga Linen ... well, she still does but we don't get a discount any more
) .
The hedgehogs appear to have found the new feeding station and approved ..the cats can't get in there and.the dish has been emptied three nights running
Now heading for the bathroom, armed with de-scaler ............... I may be gone some time ...........
Last edited: 28 July 2017 09:41:37
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all.
A little bit of sun for a change, so have been out weeding, with all this rain it is starting to look like a jungle.
Still have not decided on where to get my medicinal sun this winter, what is Cape Verde like, Hosta?
I know this will attract opprobrium from some of you, but I have a big decision to make in September. MSF. would like me to cover some a/l in Yemen and I am not sure what to do. Need some major discussions with OH whilst in Scotland.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
P'doc ... all I'm going to say is talk to your OH and get her to really talk to you, and you must really listen and reflect on what she says, plus talk to your therapist people .... you have my utmost admiration for even considering it ... but you do have a responsibility to look after yourself and your OH too.
Right ... bathroom and bedroom all done bar vacuuming bedroom and landing carpet, and a line full of bedlinen flapping in the breeze ... still sunny here so fingers crossed the forecast is correct and I've got time to get that lot and the towels dry before rain late this afternoon.
Right, now to get the vacuum out .........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pdoc, as Dove said talk and listen.......listening being the more important part.
I too concur with Dove's sentiments.
2 loads of washing done and hung up in the conservatory to dry.
Bullrushes cleared from the piles by the lake.