We'll be at my son's home for a few days over Christmas so we won't put a tree up here ... We'll have lights and cards and Christmas ornaments and wreaths of greenery etc which will make everywhere look festive. We have OHs and sons birthdays on thd 19 and 22 to celebrate first!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning All! Today's big job is to prepare 30kg of meat for the hounds dinners (usually takes around 5 hours by the time it's sliced, weighed, bagged up etc) and..
*drum roll*
Buy a dining table! It's a two seater affair for the kitchen as we decided against putting the original 6 seater back up In the lounge. Eventually we'll have the conservatory / dining room built but til then we will only host meals in the summer or in the peak of a snow storm insist on a BBQ as part of our eccentric English lifestyle.
My four robin's stitched so far!
No work for me today as I'm holiday - trying to use up my annual leave as it's very much a use it or loose it affair. The trouble is not working just makes me realise how better my fatigue levels are if I can rest when I need, and how much better I can get chores done before the master of the house gets home... how mother's manage it when they work I've no idea.
Off to Norfolk at lunchtime. Housesitter rang yesterday to check time.
Been worried about my cat. She was a feral cat but has got to trust me, more or less, over the years and now comes in at night to sleep in the winter. There has been a stray feral cat, very nervous, who has been stealing her food. 2 days ago he attacked my cat, terrible screaming and yowling, I chased him away but my cat disappeared and hasn't been in at night. Just when we are going away. But my cat was sitting on my car in the garage this morning so that's a relief.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Do you find yourself wandering round it going 'baaa' as you have to follow the arrows (and the crowds) inexorably towards the bags of nightlight candles? Just me then.
Finally managed to get the garlic in and the dahlias up this weekend. With storms and rain forecast this week I thought I'd better stop prevaricating around the bush, as Wallace would say.
Busy L - glad your cat's come home
Clari, you're so organised. I rarely manage to get more than 4 days dog food all sorted ahead of time. Reggie is very handsome. But you know that, of course.
My broken dog had to miss his chemo yesterday because his white cell count is still too low - back to try again next week. He seems happy in himself though and he's put on a kg in 3 weeks - building up muscle basically, now he's walking regularly again. I on the other hand am hoping to lose a kg (or several) having been on enforced rest while the dog's been laid up, now that I am also walking regularly again. The month before Christmas is not the best time to diet, of course.
Christmas shopping all done - don't have many presents to buy anyway and do it all online these days. Now I just have to hope the delivery drivers actually turn up (rather than dumping things at a random neighbour in the same postcode, as they often do).
Need to get the Christmas pudding made too. I'm so disorganised this year
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Not here. OH is the only one who likes Xmas pud - I can manage a spoonful but not more - so I buy him an organic one. There is a good Xmas market on this Sunday in th enearest wee town so we'll go that and it's also St Catherine and the French and Walloons have a saying " à la St Catherine, tout prend racine" so it's an auspicious day for planting trees and shrubs and lots of local councils give away whips and 2 yr old bare-rooted native trees and shrubs for people to plant for biodiversity.
Don't know if ours does yet but I'm going plant shopping on Thursday so we'll see what I can get, even if it's just ordinary stuff for our new wildlife bank made form pond clearance stuff.
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 morning all
G'day Pat 
We'll be at my son's home for a few days over Christmas so we won't put a tree up here ... We'll have lights and cards and Christmas ornaments and wreaths of greenery etc which will make everywhere look festive. We have OHs and sons birthdays on thd 19 and 22 to celebrate first!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning Dove. Your Christmas plans sound promising.
Morning All! Today's big job is to prepare 30kg of meat for the hounds dinners (usually takes around 5 hours by the time it's sliced, weighed, bagged up etc) and..
*drum roll*
Buy a dining table! It's a two seater affair for the kitchen as we decided against putting the original 6 seater back up In the lounge. Eventually we'll have the conservatory / dining room built but til then we will only host meals in the summer or in the peak of a snow storm insist on a BBQ as part of our eccentric English lifestyle.
My four robin's stitched so far!
No work for me today as I'm holiday - trying to use up my annual leave as it's very much a use it or loose it affair. The trouble is not working just makes me realise how better my fatigue levels are if I can rest when I need, and how much better I can get chores done before the master of the house gets home... how mother's manage it when they work I've no idea.
Right; mug of tea anyone?
Morning all.
Off to Norfolk at lunchtime. Housesitter rang yesterday to check time.
Been worried about my cat. She was a feral cat but has got to trust me, more or less, over the years and now comes in at night to sleep in the winter. There has been a stray feral cat, very nervous, who has been stealing her food. 2 days ago he attacked my cat, terrible screaming and yowling, I chased him away but my cat disappeared and hasn't been in at night. Just when we are going away. But my cat was sitting on my car in the garage this morning so that's a relief.
Good morning all , of to allotment soon , Dull & cold but a bit of digging should warm m up
Although at relatives for Christmas ? always put a few decorations up , one year didn’t and it din’t feel right
Have a good day everybody
BusyL, that makes it difficult for you to go away. Your feral must be scared of the new one.
Do you find yourself wandering round it going 'baaa' as you have to follow the arrows (and the crowds) inexorably towards the bags of nightlight candles? Just me then.
Finally managed to get the garlic in and the dahlias up this weekend. With storms and rain forecast this week I thought I'd better stop prevaricating around the bush, as Wallace would say.
Busy L - glad your cat's come home
Clari, you're so organised. I rarely manage to get more than 4 days dog food all sorted ahead of time. Reggie is very handsome. But you know that, of course.
My broken dog had to miss his chemo yesterday because his white cell count is still too low - back to try again next week. He seems happy in himself though and he's put on a kg in 3 weeks - building up muscle basically, now he's walking regularly again. I on the other hand am hoping to lose a kg (or several) having been on enforced rest while the dog's been laid up, now that I am also walking regularly again. The month before Christmas is not the best time to diet, of course.
Christmas shopping all done - don't have many presents to buy anyway and do it all online these days. Now I just have to hope the delivery drivers actually turn up (rather than dumping things at a random neighbour in the same postcode, as they often do).
Need to get the Christmas pudding made too. I'm so disorganised this year
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Rgirl ... Stir Up Sunday this weekend
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not here. OH is the only one who likes Xmas pud - I can manage a spoonful but not more - so I buy him an organic one. There is a good Xmas market on this Sunday in th enearest wee town so we'll go that and it's also St Catherine and the French and Walloons have a saying " à la St Catherine, tout prend racine" so it's an auspicious day for planting trees and shrubs and lots of local councils give away whips and 2 yr old bare-rooted native trees and shrubs for people to plant for biodiversity.
Don't know if ours does yet but I'm going plant shopping on Thursday so we'll see what I can get, even if it's just ordinary stuff for our new wildlife bank made form pond clearance stuff.
Too late, did mine in September ?