Tea towels and pinnies are all that needs washing today ... they're having a proper hottish wash. Kitchen and bathroom drains have had the soda and hot water treatment and the house is tidy ... I'd better write that shopping list ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’ve just had a phone call from Hubby. They are on their way home. Another hour or so, I guess. He had to wait until he got to a town where there was mobile phone reception. Don’t know what the situation at the fire, but will find out when he gets home - no doubt after his shower to get rid of the smoke smell, as usual.
Busyl, I found it quite helpful to take 2 panadol about an hour before my appt.. good luck with it.
Hosta has clearly been a dirty boy. I hope he's not using a tumble dryer!
Pat - I hope OH is home safe and sound now. I would feel quite fierce too about idiots and carelessness.
Busy - maybe just an hour or two pottering here and there?
PP - yes. need to organise on for me too but not keen.
Garden visits yesterday pm were most enjoyable with friendly, welcoming people keen to share plants, cuttings, seeds and divisions. I now have a baby cassia corymbosa about 4" high and ready to flower plus a wee baby of golden leaved pineapple sage and a sprig of an epiphyte fern which he grows in pots hanging under a fig tree. This chap is very inventive and artistic and creative and has a fine collection of salvias and some wonderful trees and shrubs. Pics of the gardens on the visits thread when uploaded.
Another sunny day here but I was up very late today so have missed most of the morning. Dogs clamouring at the dining room door at 4:15 so I crept downstairs and let them out and then shut them in the annex for the rest of the night. 6:15 and birthday boy Cosmos came in with his very first shrew - a very noisy wee thing that complained bitterly when I rescued it and bit me, fortunately through a cloth so no damage. Took it downstairs and released it thru the green room door so it could escape into cover but found myself amidst hundreds of cluster flies. Door left open for them to go away.
Pottering quietly for the rest of the day.
Hope you all have the weather and energy you need for your projects.
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)."
Progress report - I’m sure you don’t really want to,know, but he just rang from Nimitabel so another hour driving, then the need to refill the truck with water in case of another emergency Etc, etc, etc. late dinner. I might start myself.
The Fire isnt out, but it’s spotting, so trucks will need to go out again tomorrow to see if they can get it under control.
He left at 3 pm and it’s now 9.25, so by the time he’s home and showered, it’ll be going on for 11, I suppose.
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Tea towels and pinnies are all that needs washing today ... they're having a proper hottish wash. Kitchen and bathroom drains have had the soda and hot water treatment and the house is tidy ... I'd better write that shopping list ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’ve just had a phone call from Hubby. They are on their way home. Another hour or so, I guess. He had to wait until he got to a town where there was mobile phone reception. Don’t know what the situation at the fire, but will find out when he gets home - no doubt after his shower to get rid of the smoke smell, as usual.
Busyl, I found it quite helpful to take 2 panadol about an hour before my appt.
. good luck with it.
Hi all.
No sleep again last night, which can be a worrying sign for me. Need to stay well as holidays soon.
Back to bed for a while I think.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hosta has clearly been a dirty boy. I hope he's not using a tumble dryer!
Pat - I hope OH is home safe and sound now. I would feel quite fierce too about idiots and carelessness.
Busy - maybe just an hour or two pottering here and there?
PP - yes. need to organise on for me too but not keen.
Garden visits yesterday pm were most enjoyable with friendly, welcoming people keen to share plants, cuttings, seeds and divisions. I now have a baby cassia corymbosa about 4" high and ready to flower plus a wee baby of golden leaved pineapple sage and a sprig of an epiphyte fern which he grows in pots hanging under a fig tree. This chap is very inventive and artistic and creative and has a fine collection of salvias and some wonderful trees and shrubs. Pics of the gardens on the visits thread when uploaded.
Another sunny day here but I was up very late today so have missed most of the morning. Dogs clamouring at the dining room door at 4:15 so I crept downstairs and let them out and then shut them in the annex for the rest of the night. 6:15 and birthday boy Cosmos came in with his very first shrew - a very noisy wee thing that complained bitterly when I rescued it and bit me, fortunately through a cloth so no damage. Took it downstairs and released it thru the green room door so it could escape into cover but found myself amidst hundreds of cluster flies. Door left open for them to go away.
Pottering quietly for the rest of the day.
Hope you all have the weather and energy you need for your projects.
BL says
"I note Hosta says washing machines - I wonder how many he has?
But the machine does all the work, we just have to peg it on the line."
You've sussed me .
I don't even peg it "out" It all gets hung in the conservatory. ( that's all it's used for )
I've just listened to a ryan air pilot speaking to LBC radio.
My gast has never been so flabbered.
Pilots ( QUALIFIED PILOTS) have to pay 360 euros for the privilege of an interview then pay 26,000 euros to go through Ryan Air's "training"
If flights are delayed, all air crew are unpaid, even if they're on board waiting for a slot to take off.
It goes on and on. They don't even get a discount if they buy a bottle of water onboard.
.https://www.aol.co.uk/travel/2017/09/22/furious-ryanair-pilot-calls-lbc-reveal-all-airline/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk3&pLid=-496114258_uk
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I think I'd be flabbered too? Given a shortage of pilots in general there must be some even worse employers to make anyone go near Ryanair!
Seems the pilots " do their time" then , often within a year, they're off to other airlines.
Progress report - I’m sure you don’t really want to,know, but he just rang from Nimitabel so another hour driving, then the need to refill the truck with water in case of another emergency Etc, etc, etc. late dinner. I might start myself.
The Fire isnt out, but it’s spotting, so trucks will need to go out again tomorrow to see if they can get it under control.
He left at 3 pm and it’s now 9.25, so by the time he’s home and showered, it’ll be going on for 11, I suppose.
Pat ,,, whichever country we're in, we owe so much to the emergency services who give so much to keep us safe ... full-time, part-time and volunteers
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.