On a jam packed train to Londinium - you'd think it was rush hour
Fairy - it was my knee felt twingy at the end of last weeks efforts - and didn't want to push it and make it into something serious. Am meeting my sisters for a trek along the south downs tomorrow, and might try some walking poles to see if it helps.
I've been outside doing stuff in the garden ... I walked indoors to use the facilities when I heard a really odd rattling whirring noise .... tracked it down to the front window .... behind the Sansevieria and rattling around among the wooden slats of the blinds was a huge male Southern Hawker dragonfly
I managed to pull the blinds up without sqidging him and opened the window and ushered him out with a copy of Gardeners' World
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, I think he's a Southern Hawker, although having looked him up every description says they have blue markings on the tail end segments ......... and he doesn't
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The poles do help to take the strain off the knees. I hated the thought of using them, but I'm used to them now, and it's amazing the difference it makes. I force myself to use them even when I don't really need them, so that I don't get complacent. I stow them in the ruckie when there's any scrambling though - slightly unsafe otherwise
Ooh - gorgeous anyway Dove
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It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We've bee to La Roche to collect more wood for raised beds and do a mini SM raid. Traffic! People leaving La Tranche-sur-Mer and environs to head home so queues for the first time ever and today's a red day on the motorways as Paris mepties out and heads for the sun. Lots of traffic ciming th eother way already so very wary of exhausted overnight drivers.
It is grey and cloudy but warming up nicely. I'm on sewing anyway as I have a hurty in my left hand - joints seized and swollen so no lifting or pulling. Possum is tinkling withe her keyboard but will go surfing later..
Clari - your OH needs a serious talking to. Birthday celebration involve wives and girlfriends - unless it's something stupid like golf (in our case) golf and an indulgence has been granted.
Pdoc - good decision. Surely there are local opportunities for volunteering that wills satisfy your urge to help and make it worthwhile keeping your license - mountain rescue, St John's, Red Cross, youth work, - plus some bungee jumping or a roller coaster with blind folds to give you thrills.
Yvie - hope things perk up for you. Chicky and FG - I see people round here using walking poles on local walks involving village roads and country lanes. All sorts and sizes and a surprise given that the terrain here is rolling so not exactly demanding but maybe good for long distances.
DD - so pleased it's going well. Hope it carries on into autumn and winter too.
Hello to everyone. Hope your day is going well.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hope the hands aren't too painful Obelixx. I'd have thought sewing would aggravate them though.
I use my poles on 'level' surfaces like approach tracks and estate roads, as well as ascents and descents, just so that I don't jog or run either. It's too easy to do that on descents sometimes, and it really doesn't do the knees any favours
How lovely, Dove. Hope she has some future babies for you to admire too
R***y rain keeps coming back on just when it looks like it might stay away for a while. Could do some h****work, but might go and get more compost and a few things. I split and potted on a few things yesterday, but I could do with redoing the basil. Think I might freeze some of it too. We don't seem to have used a lot this year, and I sowed more a few weeks ago.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Hi everyone. I've been able to read your posts, but could not respond.
Hubby just did something to fix it so that I could hook on to the motel system. I'm really hopeless at this stuff.
On a jam packed train to Londinium - you'd think it was rush hour
Fairy - it was my knee felt twingy at the end of last weeks efforts - and didn't want to push it and make it into something serious. Am meeting my sisters for a trek along the south downs tomorrow, and might try some walking poles to see if it helps.
Today we walked all over the new Arboretum. Made my 10,000 steps on the wrist thingy.
Ill put some photos on the camera thread if they work.
happy birthday to Joyce belatedly.
Mr & Mrs Pdoc ((huge hugs)) xx
Good to see you Pat
I've been outside doing stuff in the garden ... I walked indoors to use the facilities when I heard a really odd rattling whirring noise .... tracked it down to the front window .... behind the Sansevieria and rattling around among the wooden slats of the blinds was a huge male Southern Hawker dragonfly
I managed to pull the blinds up without sqidging him and opened the window and ushered him out with a copy of Gardeners' World
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, I think he's a Southern Hawker, although having looked him up every description says they have blue markings on the tail end segments ......... and he doesn't
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Pat
chicky - I forgot it was your knees
The poles do help to take the strain off the knees. I hated the thought of using them, but I'm used to them now, and it's amazing the difference it makes. I force myself to use them even when I don't really need them, so that I don't get complacent. I stow them in the ruckie when there's any scrambling though - slightly unsafe otherwise
Ooh - gorgeous anyway Dove
Last edited: 29 July 2017 11:38:21
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Could it be young, or a female with different colouring perhaps, Dove?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Think you're right Fairy ... I've found a better site for identifying the sexes ... it's a female
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've bee to La Roche to collect more wood for raised beds and do a mini SM raid. Traffic! People leaving La Tranche-sur-Mer and environs to head home so queues for the first time ever and today's a red day on the motorways as Paris mepties out and heads for the sun. Lots of traffic ciming th eother way already so very wary of exhausted overnight drivers.
It is grey and cloudy but warming up nicely. I'm on sewing anyway as I have a hurty in my left hand - joints seized and swollen so no lifting or pulling. Possum is tinkling withe her keyboard but will go surfing later..
Clari - your OH needs a serious talking to. Birthday celebration involve wives and girlfriends - unless it's something stupid like golf (in our case) golf and an indulgence has been granted.
Pdoc - good decision. Surely there are local opportunities for volunteering that wills satisfy your urge to help and make it worthwhile keeping your license - mountain rescue, St John's, Red Cross, youth work, - plus some bungee jumping or a roller coaster with blind folds to give you thrills.
Yvie - hope things perk up for you. Chicky and FG - I see people round here using walking poles on local walks involving village roads and country lanes. All sorts and sizes and a surprise given that the terrain here is rolling so not exactly demanding but maybe good for long distances.
DD - so pleased it's going well. Hope it carries on into autumn and winter too.
Hello to everyone. Hope your day is going well.
Hope the hands aren't too painful Obelixx. I'd have thought sewing would aggravate them though.
I use my poles on 'level' surfaces like approach tracks and estate roads, as well as ascents and descents, just so that I don't jog or run either. It's too easy to do that on descents sometimes, and it really doesn't do the knees any favours
How lovely, Dove. Hope she has some future babies for you to admire too
R***y rain keeps coming back on just when it looks like it might stay away for a while. Could do some h****work, but might go and get more compost and a few things. I split and potted on a few things yesterday, but I could do with redoing the basil. Think I might freeze some of it too. We don't seem to have used a lot this year, and I sowed more a few weeks ago.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...