I’m ok thanks Obelixx. It just gets to me some years more than others. My psychologist is very supportive and all your lovely support does help a lot. Thanks again everyone.
Evening all - been slightly awol for various reasons.
doc - I haven't read back yet, but I'm really sorry you're having such a rough time. Glad you've checked in here for your 'forum threrapy' though. You know we'll all be thinking of you and hoping you'll be back to your old self soon x
I was thinking that today about Fidget, Dove - I haven't seen her
Came home to a flooded hall yesterday...boiler man came and the walls and floors are drying out. He'll have to come back and fix the overflow pipe properly that should have gone through the wall....
Hope no one has had too many probs with the windy weather, although Ireland seems to have had the worst of it. We've not had any real issues, apart from a few bits and pieces of trees/branches down and little bits of flooding in the local area.No damage in my garden apart form pots being chucked around. Wild enough overnight, 50/60 mph gusts forecast, and that certainly seemed about right, but not too different from what we normally get at this time of year and over the next six months or so.
Just listened to Chris Bonnington on Simon Mayo's show. Brilliant man.
Forgot to offer cake from my birthday, as I didn't get a chance, so here's some for you all - only one left now....
I'll read back after dinner - roast chicken on the go.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
FG - I hope you're clean and dry now. What a pain! Those cakes look very prim and proper for a significant birthday but absolutely gorgeous and very tempting.
I made a fruit scone round today for house history chappy but he couldn't stay so all the more for OH and me and some for the freezer. Yum yum. Haven't made fruit scone for over 20 years. Chappy tells me loads of big, mature trees were taken down by various storms form '72 onwards and was moretified to see what owners before us have done to his aunt's "jardin à la française". Only a tree peony and the wild rootstock of a persimmon left. He planted our walnut tree 30 years ago and tells us that the end of the plot where we are building the potager has several feet deep of very rich, fertile soil. Good.
Meanwhile, chappies turned up to bash the hole in the wall to our new shower room. I'd have thought exposing thing back to the insulation behind our plaster board interior wall would be a brilliant rain dance but no, the forecast for 47mm of rain overnight has changed to an uncertain 4mm on Friday night. Typical!
I hope everyone has a peaceful night, weather wise, health wise and worry wise.
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)."
Very glad you got home, punkdoc. Keep us posted on how you're doing.
Finding out about the history of your home sounds very interesting, Obelixx. Lovely to hear about the soil!
Fairy, have you read The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd? I haven't, but a book I'm reading talks about it at length and I kept thinking of you.
Had a lovely time in the garden today. Weeded, moved some foxgloves, weeded some more, dug out a leycesteria and potted it to give to a plant stall, pootled about. The light went a bit weird again (nowhere near as weird as yesterday) but it was good weather to be in the garden.
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I’m ok thanks Obelixx. It just gets to me some years more than others. My psychologist is very supportive and all your lovely support does help a lot. Thanks again everyone.
Im off to bed again - it’s after midnight.
Just spoken to Wonky ... she's re-doing the white cutting garden ... suggestions welcome.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was just thinking that, with the charge for carrier bags, the trees and bushes aren't festooned with them after the storm.
Evening all - been slightly awol for various reasons.
doc - I haven't read back yet, but I'm really sorry you're having such a rough time. Glad you've checked in here for your 'forum threrapy' though. You know we'll all be thinking of you and hoping you'll be back to your old self soon x
I was thinking that today about Fidget, Dove - I haven't seen her
Came home to a flooded hall yesterday...boiler man came and the walls and floors are drying out. He'll have to come back and fix the overflow pipe properly that should have gone through the wall....
Hope no one has had too many probs with the windy weather, although Ireland seems to have had the worst of it. We've not had any real issues, apart from a few bits and pieces of trees/branches down and little bits of flooding in the local area.No damage in my garden apart form pots being chucked around. Wild enough overnight, 50/60 mph gusts forecast, and that certainly seemed about right, but not too different from what we normally get at this time of year and over the next six months or so.
Just listened to Chris Bonnington on Simon Mayo's show. Brilliant man.
Forgot to offer cake from my birthday, as I didn't get a chance, so here's some for you all - only one left now....
I'll read back after dinner - roast chicken on the go.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all.
Punk; you know we're only a message away if you need something.
FG - I hope you're clean and dry now. What a pain! Those cakes look very prim and proper for a significant birthday but absolutely gorgeous and very tempting.
I made a fruit scone round today for house history chappy but he couldn't stay so all the more for OH and me and some for the freezer. Yum yum. Haven't made fruit scone for over 20 years. Chappy tells me loads of big, mature trees were taken down by various storms form '72 onwards and was moretified to see what owners before us have done to his aunt's "jardin à la française". Only a tree peony and the wild rootstock of a persimmon left. He planted our walnut tree 30 years ago and tells us that the end of the plot where we are building the potager has several feet deep of very rich, fertile soil. Good.
Meanwhile, chappies turned up to bash the hole in the wall to our new shower room. I'd have thought exposing thing back to the insulation behind our plaster board interior wall would be a brilliant rain dance but no, the forecast for 47mm of rain overnight has changed to an uncertain 4mm on Friday night. Typical!
I hope everyone has a peaceful night, weather wise, health wise and worry wise.
Very glad you got home, punkdoc. Keep us posted on how you're doing.
Finding out about the history of your home sounds very interesting, Obelixx. Lovely to hear about the soil!
Fairy, have you read The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd? I haven't, but a book I'm reading talks about it at length and I kept thinking of you.
Had a lovely time in the garden today. Weeded, moved some foxgloves, weeded some more, dug out a leycesteria and potted it to give to a plant stall, pootled about. The light went a bit weird again (nowhere near as weird as yesterday) but it was good weather to be in the garden.
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Light went weird again here too LG
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all
Anyone got the kettle on yet ...?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.