Good on you Dove. Your planning should work well for you holiday.
Have any of you see Michel Roux's series on Hidden Restuarants? It's just started here and we are enjoying it. In the first episode they cooked goat. Interesting to see people's reactions.
Had a Hosta night, thanks to achy hips and a very cuddly kitten and still awake at 5am. Got up at 10am to find OH watching golf when he was supposed to have gone out to get eggs for a cooked breakfast so we've only just finished brunch and they've gone off to see what the horsey day is like. It's grey and feels like it should rain so i'm keeping an eye on the washing while I decide if I want to go out or not.
WW - great to see you popping in. Sorry about the hands and hope you can get them fixed. Mine aren't great either at the mo so I can sympathise.
FG - hope you're feeling better today. Sorry you missed your hills but a good decision not to force it. They'll still be there another day. Love the butterfly pics. How do you get them to pose? Ours always close their wings when they sit or flit abut too quickly to get more than a blur.
No meteors last night as it was cloudy. Typical. Should be clear tonight tho.
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)."
They do flit about a lot Obelixx, but they seem to be happy to sit on warm timber or paving if it's sunny, and they've stuffed their faces on buddleias or similar!
The ones on the hill were fascinating. The PLs seemed to be ganging up on, and chasing the RA. I watched them for ages. Never seen that behaviour before, so I don't know if it's common.
Hope you get a decent night tonight. Not sleeping well is horrible.
Was really down about yesterday. The issue with a walk like that is that it's a big, strenuous day - even if only doing two of the hills - so you need to feel really up for it and fit. Takes about an hour just to get to the start of the ascent. Doesn't help when you get there and see the two main summits and the ridge in all their glory....
Better go and fetch daughter from work. A tiny part of the road is closed for resurfacing, and the buses are being diverted in a ludicrous fashion so she can't get a bus anywhere near to where we live. She'd have needed to get a taxi if I'd walked today. Ridiculous, especially when they manged to divert them the week before without any problem when another part on the route was closed.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Was it a good lunch? It's getting warmer feeling here and the clouds seem to be clearing at last.
Have spent my afternoon cutting out a frock for Possum - shapely like me so princess seas and dropped waits and lots of pieces. She and I have decided to go to Bilbao for her half term break so I've also spent ages on internet sites looking at flights for her and B&B for us both with parking for Harry. Not as easy as you might think. Done now tho.
Very smelly roast shoulder of lamb for dinner. I've adapted a Marion Jones (formerly of the Croquembouche, Malvern) recipe for leg of lamb which involves taking out the bone and smearing all sides with a heady mix or rosemary, spring onions, garlic, anchovies, soy sauce and Dijon mustard. It's going to be yummy.
Joyce - scunnered. Such a lovely word.
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)."
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Good on you Dove. Your planning should work well for you holiday.
Have any of you see Michel Roux's series on Hidden Restuarants? It's just started here and we are enjoying it. In the first episode they cooked goat. Interesting to see people's reactions.
Had a Hosta night, thanks to achy hips and a very cuddly kitten and still awake at 5am. Got up at 10am to find OH watching golf when he was supposed to have gone out to get eggs for a cooked breakfast so we've only just finished brunch and they've gone off to see what the horsey day is like. It's grey and feels like it should rain so i'm keeping an eye on the washing while I decide if I want to go out or not.
WW - great to see you popping in. Sorry about the hands and hope you can get them fixed. Mine aren't great either at the mo so I can sympathise.
FG - hope you're feeling better today. Sorry you missed your hills but a good decision not to force it. They'll still be there another day. Love the butterfly pics. How do you get them to pose? Ours always close their wings when they sit or flit abut too quickly to get more than a blur.
No meteors last night as it was cloudy. Typical. Should be clear tonight tho.
They do flit about a lot Obelixx, but they seem to be happy to sit on warm timber or paving if it's sunny, and they've stuffed their faces on buddleias or similar!
The ones on the hill were fascinating. The PLs seemed to be ganging up on, and chasing the RA. I watched them for ages. Never seen that behaviour before, so I don't know if it's common.
Hope you get a decent night tonight. Not sleeping well is horrible.
Was really down about yesterday. The issue with a walk like that is that it's a big, strenuous day - even if only doing two of the hills - so you need to feel really up for it and fit. Takes about an hour just to get to the start of the ascent. Doesn't help when you get there and see the two main summits and the ridge in all their glory....
Better go and fetch daughter from work. A tiny part of the road is closed for resurfacing, and the buses are being diverted in a ludicrous fashion so she can't get a bus anywhere near to where we live. She'd have needed to get a taxi if I'd walked today. Ridiculous, especially when they manged to divert them the week before without any problem when another part on the route was closed.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy ... that all sounds complicated ... wish we were in charge ((hugs))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all!
Hard luck about the hills, Fairy. Hope you get your mojo back quickly!
Sorry your hands are so painful, Wonky. Sounds as if you might need some sort of intervention...
More work needed on our garden bench, so I need to stir myself (after our late lunch) and find the old paint brushes.
Here's an Irish butterfly to add to your collection, Pat:
I think it might be a silver-washed fritillary.
Sorry, not a good quality pic at that degree of enlargement!
Fairy, you must have been scunnered yesterday. Hope you feel better today.
Lousy forecast for next week so lots of pruning and some planting done while the sun is shining today.
Thanks Liri. That'll help. Going to sleep now - nearly midnight.
Back from being out to lunch. Weather is looking up.
Was it a good lunch? It's getting warmer feeling here and the clouds seem to be clearing at last.
Have spent my afternoon cutting out a frock for Possum - shapely like me so princess seas and dropped waits and lots of pieces. She and I have decided to go to Bilbao for her half term break so I've also spent ages on internet sites looking at flights for her and B&B for us both with parking for Harry. Not as easy as you might think. Done now tho.
Very smelly roast shoulder of lamb for dinner. I've adapted a Marion Jones (formerly of the Croquembouche, Malvern) recipe for leg of lamb which involves taking out the bone and smearing all sides with a heady mix or rosemary, spring onions, garlic, anchovies, soy sauce and Dijon mustard. It's going to be yummy.
Joyce - scunnered. Such a lovely word.