Sun is shining again, that is consecutive days, a record for this summer, I think.
After a few quiet months NDN has been at it again. Last night OH could not park, so she went round and politely asked him to move one of their many cars, he just slammed the door.
My solution was to leave OH's car half way up drive, where he could not see it. Knock on the door about 8 pm, he neede to go out. Said I was busy, but would move it in a while.
I will teach him, not to try bullying us.
Really please your Dad is out of hospital Chicky.
Have a lovely day at Rosemoor, I have only been once and I loved it.
Off to go and track down the fish van, to try and get a nice Cod loin for Dinner.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
oh well done Joyce. I was just scratching my head about that one
Morning everyone. Have a great day out Lyn and Hosta - hope it stays dry 'til this evening.
DL - take a bit more care when hooning about, hmm?
Doc - home made fish and chips for supper? Lovely
AuntyRach - if it helps (probably not) you're unlikely to be the strangest thing the driver sees today, cat slippers notwithstanding. A bit like it's impossible to be the oddest looking person on the tube
Back to the jelly making......
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Aunty, does the cat actually mind you wearing their slippers. puncdoc, arent horrible neighbours well horrible! People park outside, or opposite our place to go to the local shops, which I might add, have a nice big car park. We have a slip road to our garage which is in a block, we use it for storage, you have deliveries going all day to the back of the shops.People park there, one person in particular, havent seen them, think they live above the shops. Saw an old bloke the other day, if I had had camera to hand, would have taken photo, he was parked (I use the term advisedly!!) in the slip road, at a funny angle, and started off, without indicating or looking, there was a car passing the slip road, and anoter which was parked on the wrong side of the road opposite the slip road, on double yellow lines. He should not have been driving. Did anyone was the programme last night "The 100 year old driver". Of course I can understand people wanting to keep their independance as long as possible. My late Father who would now be in his late 80s said he never passed a driving test, as such. He drove really fast and so close to other cars, terrified me, hes been gone 11 years, and my youngest daughter remarked the other day, how scared she was being in a car with him! Mind you, shes as bad.
Scares me how fast some people drive in the narrow lanes around here in Norfolk. It always seems to be me who slows down and goes into the passing place.
Back to France tomorrow. I was going to finish cleaning the cottage and make up the single beds in the children's room. Son and family may stay here in the October hols. Load of ironing too. But a friend in the village has asked us to lunch and a neighbour just called by to ask us to coffee. OH has gone to the nearby town so he won't be going for coffee.
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Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good morning. Lie in today cos I've been bitten and was awake half the nigh applying anti-itch despite taking anti-histamines. Persistent and potent biters!
On the whole, people round her drive at sensible speeds and are happy to slow down and move over which is a huge difference from when we first drove regularly in France over 20 odd years ago but some days, on longer trips we seem to collect every numpty going - wrong speed, not looking, not indicating, turning inappropriately etc.
Pdoc - lentils for me. Well done with NDN. Hope he didn't do anything silly to OH's car. Have you got a CCTV camera installed on your house to record, and maybe limit, his shenanigans?
Chicky - good news for dad. Empty nest feelings will ease, honestly.
Busy - hope you find the garden visits thread. I didn't for my photos from Sunday's visits. Been invited by 2 new friends in the garden group to visit their gardens this Friday pm and hope they don't mine me taking pics. Have a good trip back tomorrow.
Hosta and Lyn - enjoy your day at Rosemoor.
Greetings everyone and the cats and dogs. Hope it's a good day for you. I'm off to tend to my roses for a wee while.
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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)."
Nanny Beach .....just lying hiding from the ~30 degree heat as my BH is still soaking up the rays ....she gets a freaking tan quicker than a piece of toast
your comments about your dear old dad made me smile emotionaly... I started riding a motorcycle at the age of 14 in Dublin .....a wonderfully named Garelli Monza....my poor mum would hang on for dear life as I took her to the shops . I would also be dispatched to pick up me drunken da from the local 'The Black Horse' for him it was a yeehaa.... experience hanging off the back of the bike
It's nearly 10 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. What strange weather - feels like late summer today, but yesterday was definitely autumn.
Mum was on pretty good form yesterday. She recognised me, and was generally disposed to be happy, which made the visit much more pleasurable than sometimes. She even made a bit of sense from time to time, which is rare these days.
The car got a new windscreen while I was away. A couple of days ago we went down the steps to where we park it, to find it had a foot-wide, star-shaped load of cracks in it. We're hoping it was something falling off the tree above and hitting it at a weak spot which caused the damage - would hate to think it had been vandalised...
Chicky, good news about your dad! The one good thing about "empty nest syndrome" is that it's highly unlikely your Chicklets will be missing you as much as you're missing them - in my experience they're quick to get in touch if anything's amiss. If everything goes quiet it probably means they're having too much of a good time to remember they've got parents...
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Hi fellow Rocket men.
Sun is shining again, that is consecutive days, a record for this summer, I think.
After a few quiet months NDN has been at it again. Last night OH could not park, so she went round and politely asked him to move one of their many cars, he just slammed the door.
My solution was to leave OH's car half way up drive, where he could not see it. Knock on the door about 8 pm, he neede to go out. Said I was busy, but would move it in a while.
I will teach him, not to try bullying us.
Really please your Dad is out of hospital Chicky.
Have a lovely day at Rosemoor, I have only been once and I loved it.
Off to go and track down the fish van, to try and get a nice Cod loin for Dinner.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Oooh, cod loin ... butterbean mash goes well with that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
oh well done Joyce. I was just scratching my head about that one
Morning everyone. Have a great day out Lyn and Hosta - hope it stays dry 'til this evening.
DL - take a bit more care when hooning about, hmm?
Doc - home made fish and chips for supper? Lovely
AuntyRach - if it helps (probably not) you're unlikely to be the strangest thing the driver sees today, cat slippers notwithstanding. A bit like it's impossible to be the oddest looking person on the tube
Back to the jelly making......
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I was thinking that Dove, or maybe served on Puy lentils, with roasted Tomatoes.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Aunty, does the cat actually mind you wearing their slippers. puncdoc, arent horrible neighbours well horrible! People park outside, or opposite our place to go to the local shops, which I might add, have a nice big car park. We have a slip road to our garage which is in a block, we use it for storage, you have deliveries going all day to the back of the shops.People park there, one person in particular, havent seen them, think they live above the shops. Saw an old bloke the other day, if I had had camera to hand, would have taken photo, he was parked (I use the term advisedly!!) in the slip road, at a funny angle, and started off, without indicating or looking, there was a car passing the slip road, and anoter which was parked on the wrong side of the road opposite the slip road, on double yellow lines. He should not have been driving. Did anyone was the programme last night "The 100 year old driver". Of course I can understand people wanting to keep their independance as long as possible. My late Father who would now be in his late 80s said he never passed a driving test, as such. He drove really fast and so close to other cars, terrified me, hes been gone 11 years, and my youngest daughter remarked the other day, how scared she was being in a car with him! Mind you, shes as bad.
Morning all.
Scares me how fast some people drive in the narrow lanes around here in Norfolk. It always seems to be me who slows down and goes into the passing place.
Back to France tomorrow. I was going to finish cleaning the cottage and make up the single beds in the children's room. Son and family may stay here in the October hols. Load of ironing too. But a friend in the village has asked us to lunch and a neighbour just called by to ask us to coffee. OH has gone to the nearby town so he won't be going for coffee.
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Good morning. Lie in today cos I've been bitten and was awake half the nigh applying anti-itch despite taking anti-histamines. Persistent and potent biters!
On the whole, people round her drive at sensible speeds and are happy to slow down and move over which is a huge difference from when we first drove regularly in France over 20 odd years ago but some days, on longer trips we seem to collect every numpty going - wrong speed, not looking, not indicating, turning inappropriately etc.
Pdoc - lentils for me. Well done with NDN. Hope he didn't do anything silly to OH's car. Have you got a CCTV camera installed on your house to record, and maybe limit, his shenanigans?
Chicky - good news for dad. Empty nest feelings will ease, honestly.
Busy - hope you find the garden visits thread. I didn't for my photos from Sunday's visits. Been invited by 2 new friends in the garden group to visit their gardens this Friday pm and hope they don't mine me taking pics. Have a good trip back tomorrow.
Hosta and Lyn - enjoy your day at Rosemoor.
Greetings everyone and the cats and dogs. Hope it's a good day for you. I'm off to tend to my roses for a wee while.
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Joyce , Rasingirl , you are right , a Manicure ?
Spelling was never my best subject
Nanny Beach .....just lying hiding from the ~30 degree heat as my BH is still soaking up the rays ....she gets a freaking tan quicker than a piece of toast
your comments about your dear old dad made me smile emotionaly... I started riding a motorcycle at the age of 14 in Dublin .....a wonderfully named Garelli Monza....my poor mum would hang on for dear life as I took her to the shops . I would also be dispatched to pick up me drunken da from the local 'The Black Horse' for him it was a yeehaa.... experience hanging off the back of the bike
Afternoon everyone!
It's nearly 10 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. What strange weather - feels like late summer today, but yesterday was definitely autumn.
Mum was on pretty good form yesterday. She recognised me, and was generally disposed to be happy, which made the visit much more pleasurable than sometimes. She even made a bit of sense from time to time, which is rare these days.
The car got a new windscreen while I was away. A couple of days ago we went down the steps to where we park it, to find it had a foot-wide, star-shaped load of cracks in it. We're hoping it was something falling off the tree above and hitting it at a weak spot which caused the damage - would hate to think it had been vandalised...
Chicky, good news about your dad! The one good thing about "empty nest syndrome" is that it's highly unlikely your Chicklets will be missing you as much as you're missing them - in my experience they're quick to get in touch if anything's amiss. If everything goes quiet it probably means they're having too much of a good time to remember they've got parents...