Good morning! Have read back but it's pages so I'll just say Hi and hope all are well but Pdoc - I agree, can't sum up a life or a personality in an email so keep it brief and suggest a meeting somewhere neutral. Then you can take it further or not as you see fit but do remember, it's not his fault he's an unknown half-brother but he does share half your genes. He may turn out to be a kindred spirit or someone with whom there is no spark of connection at all.
Came home to ecstatic dogs, purry, cuddly kittens and a tired OH. He'd been busy all day clearing up after the tree surgeon. We are now minus 2 big ash trees, both too close to the house and one badly damaged by winds. Lots of mess but we'll have plenty of firewood and mulch.
3 days of chateaux were fun but exhausting. We started at Ussé - inspiration for Sleeping Beauty tale and very pretty with a small garden now used for cutting flowers then headed to our hotel in Tours and a lovely evening in the old town. Next day was Chenonceau which is definitely on a grander, royal scale and has a photo of a big ginger cat at the entrance and a warning to all dogs that he is on guard. Beautiful chateau for powerful women and with 2 stylish, formal gardens plus the maze and green garden and farm. Amboise is stunning and definitely a place for a powerful man with commanding views and a feeling of security and formal grounds all surrounded now by a lovely little town.
Clos Lucé, down below, is where Leonardo ended up and is fascinating - gardens full of his experimental engineering from flying machines to locks, bridges, water management and gardens full of trees and shrubs to give him light and shade and perspective and now hung with his drawings and paintings. Fabulous. Ended up with Azay-le-Rideau which is a little gem. We stayed in Tours which is a lovely town full of well preserved old buildings but also newer stuff which the planners have kept to scale and matched the traditional colours of materials. Lots of pedestrian bits, trees, trams and bridges over the Loire and a lively centre full of bars and restaurants spilling outside.
Now to get Possum ready for going back to Namur with all her stuff. First tho, a check of my beds and pots.
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)."
Afternoon all. I think I came in this morning but can't remember if I said hello.
Or tried and forgot to click send.
Punkdoc; the written word is hard, can be miss read, tones and sense of humour can be misplaced.
Think of what you'd be prepared to tell me. Because right now you and I and i have a much closer tie and relationship than you .
If you're married, children, what hobbies you have or career in brief, may be a little of what you look like if you're not sending a photo.
You don't need to tell me about your holidays, what your house is like, where you live in detail, what life was like growing up.
Wait for you half brother to ask questions then decide if you want to answer them. There is nothing wrong with saying you don't want to answer a question
Wasted day here. Drove into the city to buy books, decided I wasn't in the mood, so came home.
Drove to the G/C, nothing to see, so home again.
Rained relentlessly all day.
Thanks Clari, you make some very good points. I think we will have to meet, which will mean fairly long drives for both of us. My sisters are adamant that they don't want to meet him, so it will just be me.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Internet creeping at snail's pace today Joyce so it's taken all day to load my pics onto photobucket. If it speeds up I'll post some here but if not, I'll just post links.
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)."
Good evening from Norfolk. Plane left an hour late, we stopped at Sainburys on the way and now we are full of salmon and asparagus and watching with horror the damage by the hurricane. We are so lucky living where we do.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, have been glued to the live reports about the heart breaking events caused by the hurricane, it appears this will only get worse, thoughts and prayers to all those affected
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Good morning! Have read back but it's pages so I'll just say Hi and hope all are well but Pdoc - I agree, can't sum up a life or a personality in an email so keep it brief and suggest a meeting somewhere neutral. Then you can take it further or not as you see fit but do remember, it's not his fault he's an unknown half-brother but he does share half your genes. He may turn out to be a kindred spirit or someone with whom there is no spark of connection at all.
Came home to ecstatic dogs, purry, cuddly kittens and a tired OH. He'd been busy all day clearing up after the tree surgeon. We are now minus 2 big ash trees, both too close to the house and one badly damaged by winds. Lots of mess but we'll have plenty of firewood and mulch.
3 days of chateaux were fun but exhausting. We started at Ussé - inspiration for Sleeping Beauty tale and very pretty with a small garden now used for cutting flowers then headed to our hotel in Tours and a lovely evening in the old town. Next day was Chenonceau which is definitely on a grander, royal scale and has a photo of a big ginger cat at the entrance and a warning to all dogs that he is on guard. Beautiful chateau for powerful women and with 2 stylish, formal gardens plus the maze and green garden and farm. Amboise is stunning and definitely a place for a powerful man with commanding views and a feeling of security and formal grounds all surrounded now by a lovely little town.
Clos Lucé, down below, is where Leonardo ended up and is fascinating - gardens full of his experimental engineering from flying machines to locks, bridges, water management and gardens full of trees and shrubs to give him light and shade and perspective and now hung with his drawings and paintings. Fabulous. Ended up with Azay-le-Rideau which is a little gem. We stayed in Tours which is a lovely town full of well preserved old buildings but also newer stuff which the planners have kept to scale and matched the traditional colours of materials. Lots of pedestrian bits, trees, trams and bridges over the Loire and a lively centre full of bars and restaurants spilling outside.
Now to get Possum ready for going back to Namur with all her stuff. First tho, a check of my beds and pots.
Afternoon all. I think I came in this morning but can't remember if I said hello.
Or tried and forgot to click send.
Punkdoc; the written word is hard, can be miss read, tones and sense of humour can be misplaced.
Think of what you'd be prepared to tell me. Because right now you and I and i have a much closer tie and relationship than you .
If you're married, children, what hobbies you have or career in brief, may be a little of what you look like if you're not sending a photo.
You don't need to tell me about your holidays, what your house is like, where you live in detail, what life was like growing up.
Wait for you half brother to ask questions then decide if you want to answer them. There is nothing wrong with saying you don't want to answer a question
Hi Clari. Hope you're feeling better.
Hi all.
Wasted day here. Drove into the city to buy books, decided I wasn't in the mood, so came home.
Drove to the G/C, nothing to see, so home again.
Rained relentlessly all day.
Thanks Clari, you make some very good points. I think we will have to meet, which will mean fairly long drives for both of us. My sisters are adamant that they don't want to meet him, so it will just be me.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Obelixx, it seems as though you and Possum had and enjoyable few days
Will you be posting photos when you have time?
Internet creeping at snail's pace today Joyce so it's taken all day to load my pics onto photobucket. If it speeds up I'll post some here but if not, I'll just post links.
Hello all , just had dinner and red wine ?, excellent steak , salad & sweet potatoe wedges
O/H watching Emmerdale , personally not bothered , we will watch " Safe House " thou
Rainng at moment
Have a good evening everybody
Good evening from Norfolk. Plane left an hour late, we stopped at Sainburys on the way and now we are full of salmon and asparagus and watching with horror the damage by the hurricane. We are so lucky living where we do.
Damage to homes and infrastructure is horrendous Busy.
Made me feel guilt complaining about our weather today.
Morning all, have been glued to the live reports about the heart breaking events caused by the hurricane, it appears this will only get worse, thoughts and prayers to all those affected
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