LG you could start a business making those cloches I think everyone on here would buy some.
Going to see Iolanthe at the Colosseum tonight, means going on Northern line (again) don't know how I did it all those years when I was working but at least it's convenient and now I am that certain age FREE!
No chance of any gardening was cold & windy first thing now it's cold windy and wet
It's probably a bit premature to start this year's Tracking the Swallows thread, but I'd thought you'd all like to know that they've arrived in Cyprus ... so says my friend who lives there
"I saw our first swallow today, ........they usually get here about 14th February, it has been entered on the Cyprus record. "
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Talking of photos lost in a fire, I scanned hundreds of old photos and slides and put them on a memory stick, you can then place that in a fire proof box. I know that copies are not the same as the originals, but better than nothing at all.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hosta, we were in Cartagena 3 years ago, a very beautiful place We always said we would go back
Thank you for your kind comments re our friends. Worst part of it is that the fire started in the afternoon, winter sun shining into a bedroom mirror reflecting back onto a metal thread in the curtain The bedroom a shell.
The fire brigade signed it off about 6 pm friends went to stay with another friend having taken passports, jewellery etc as House not very secure. Planned to go back in the morning and get the rest. Phone call at 2.30 am to say flames leaping thro the roof, by the time they got there there were just the 4 walls! Doubly devastating. Think the fire brigade may be talked to by the insurance company as they had assured my friend that thermal imaging showed fire was out.
The irony of this sad story is that the Fire Station backs onto their garden. ?
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Have been reading back. So awful about the house fire, I feel so sorry for them. I hope they are well insured.
Saw Punkdoc had posted about the fabulous restaurant. I love seafood, oysters etc but I don't eat caviar, although I love it, because it's so horribly expensive. Also feel bad eating something so pricey when so many can't afford to eat healthily. First OH used to buy a tin every year for Christmas.
Glad to see Chicky back, also more people here than have been recently.
Daughter in law and family have left. We had an early lunch with pancakes for pudding. I hope they'll be OK, it's now snowing here and everything is going white. They have to get to Calais.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Re the fire: we had a lucky escape a few years ago. Unbeknown to us one of the grandchildren left a glass weight on the window sill of "their" bedroom at our house. Some time later on a bright sunny day I smelled charred wood when I investigated behind the curtain there was a burn track across the wooden sill. Luckily it had not spread too far, but it was getting close to the curtain.
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LG you could start a business making those cloches I think everyone on here would buy some.
Going to see Iolanthe at the Colosseum tonight, means going on Northern line (again) don't know how I did it all those years when I was working but at least it's convenient and now I am that certain age FREE!
No chance of any gardening was cold & windy first thing now it's cold windy and wet
It's probably a bit premature to start this year's Tracking the Swallows thread, but I'd thought you'd all like to know that they've arrived in Cyprus ... so says my friend who lives there
"I saw our first swallow today, ........they usually get here about 14th February, it has been entered on the Cyprus record. "
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Talking of photos lost in a fire, I scanned hundreds of old photos and slides and put them on a memory stick, you can then place that in a fire proof box. I know that copies are not the same as the originals, but better than nothing at all.
Bought my seed compost, Vermiculite, etc., so I am ready to start sowing more seeds, when the impulse takes me.
Sweet Peas sown 2 weeks ago are an inch tall and in the greenhouse.
I am planning on sending a hand made valentine card, hope that doesn't sound too tacky.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The opposite of tacky pdoc
Not at all Pdoc ... it's the height of sophistication and good taste ............ it's what we're doing after all
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Punk are you also cooking dinner?
Hosta, we were in Cartagena 3 years ago, a very beautiful place We always said we would go back
Thank you for your kind comments re our friends. Worst part of it is that the fire started in the afternoon, winter sun shining into a bedroom mirror reflecting back onto a metal thread in the curtain The bedroom a shell.
The fire brigade signed it off about 6 pm friends went to stay with another friend having taken passports, jewellery etc as House not very secure. Planned to go back in the morning and get the rest. Phone call at 2.30 am to say flames leaping thro the roof, by the time they got there there were just the 4 walls! Doubly devastating. Think the fire brigade may be talked to by the insurance company as they had assured my friend that thermal imaging showed fire was out.
The irony of this sad story is that the Fire Station backs onto their garden. ?
Last edited: 13 February 2018 13:16:41
A A Milne
Have been reading back. So awful about the house fire, I feel so sorry for them. I hope they are well insured.
Saw Punkdoc had posted about the fabulous restaurant. I love seafood, oysters etc but I don't eat caviar, although I love it, because it's so horribly expensive. Also feel bad eating something so pricey when so many can't afford to eat healthily. First OH used to buy a tin every year for Christmas.
Glad to see Chicky back, also more people here than have been recently.
Daughter in law and family have left. We had an early lunch with pancakes for pudding. I hope they'll be OK, it's now snowing here and everything is going white. They have to get to Calais.
Oh LilyP how terribly shocking for them. They must be devastated.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Re the fire: we had a lucky escape a few years ago. Unbeknown to us one of the grandchildren left a glass weight on the window sill of "their" bedroom at our house. Some time later on a bright sunny day I smelled charred wood when I investigated behind the curtain there was a burn track across the wooden sill. Luckily it had not spread too far, but it was getting close to the curtain.