Later start for me today as I have a conference thing to go to .....but its followed by a meal, so I will pay for the lie in by enforced socialising with people I would not choose to spend my free time with. Getting grumpier as I approach the ripe old age of 28
However, for a good/bad news combo, my upcoming trip to Paris and Giverney is under threat because the French train drivers are planning a strike that day/weekend. Won’t know for definite til next week, but if they strike we get a refund. So the good news is that alternatives in Shropshire have been planned ......David Austin, Abbeydore and Wollerton Old Hall are on the list. So we’ll have a good weekend whatever way it goes. Love a Plan B
Littlest Chicklet safely returned to Uni . House seems very quiet again......and she doesn’t even make much noise when she is here 😳
Morning all. sorry to those souls who didn’t sleep Happy Anzac Day Pat. I remember the kids singing advance Australia fair at school. The words just come rushing back! chicky our house is so quiet again after our family left OH breathes a sigh ofrelief. Takes me a few days to tidy up and return to our quieter way of life. Keep busy. DD I think you are doing brilliantly, when I think of this time last year! Hope Charlie enjoying life. ear still blocked getting p....d off with this off to pilates then lunch with a pal so no gardening for me today stay safe
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Yes, as you noted Lilyp, it’s ANZAC Day here, so a public holiday so all the good people can go to the dawn service or the march, TV full of ceremonies. I hate to be reminded of all those deaths.
Good morning. SNCF strike calendar here Chicky - https://www.oui.sncf/train/greve Messes with Possum coming here for a week too, blast them. Did Chicklet appreciate the veggie food?
I went to an ANZAC day ceremony at Ypres once with my Oz friend who worked at the embassy. It was all very moving with a parade thru the town - old soldiers and banners - and a ceremony at the Menin Gate followed by the daily Las Post. Floods of tears all round seeing all those names and feeling the respect as well as the loss and waste. Powerful stuff.
I'm careful about seeing films before reading the book or else I can sit thru the entire thing muttering about script writers and directors especially when it involves messing with Jane Austin or leaving out essential plot info like they do in Harry Potter and changing main characters and endings like Chocolat.
Cool and grey here. Tomatoes staying under cover all morning. Men due soon to make a hole in the roof for the PV panels and heat exchangers. I'm on sewing this morning then potting on in the PT. I have more squashes coming through and the early bird spaghetti squashes need bigger pots already.
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)."
I'm careful about seeing films before reading the book or else I can sit thru the entire thing muttering about script writers and directors especially when it involves messing with Jane Austin or leaving out essential plot info like they do in Harry Potter and changing main characters and endings like Chocolat.
I completely agree Obs. TV versions are often just as bad. Such as changing 'who dunnit' in an Agatha Christie as they did in the TV one at Easter. Not understanding or portraying the subtleties of Lizzie's change of heart in Pride and Prejudice (the famous BBC adaptation with Colin Firth) makes her seem to fall in love with Darcy's money when she gets to Pemberley which misses the point entirely and is a shame. But changing the murderer in a murder story is like saying "I think you wrote the wrong story" - it's the whole point, not a subtlety. They may as well have written a completely new story and be done with it. I didn't mind ITV adding Miss Marple into the story as much as I minded the BBC changing the murderer. There have been lots of film adaptations where I thought the book was interesting and the film was trite (The Time Traveller's Wife, for another example) so like you, I'm a bit wary of them.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I am totally unable to watch any of the Lord of the Rings films ... they've got it all wrong ... none of it matches the vivid images which I've retained in my head since my early teens (and my imagination is so much better than theirs )
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can't watch them either Dove. Mind you, I could never get as far as page 2 in the books either and I've tried at least once every decade since my teens but finally abandoned the endeavour in my 50s.
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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Later start for me today as I have a conference thing to go to .....but its followed by a meal, so I will pay for the lie in by enforced socialising with people I would not choose to spend my free time with. Getting grumpier as I approach the ripe old age of 28
However, for a good/bad news combo, my upcoming trip to Paris and Giverney is under threat because the French train drivers are planning a strike that day/weekend. Won’t know for definite til next week, but if they strike we get a refund. So the good news is that alternatives in Shropshire have been planned ......David Austin, Abbeydore and Wollerton Old Hall are on the list. So we’ll have a good weekend whatever way it goes. Love a Plan B
Littlest Chicklet safely returned to Uni
sorry to those souls who didn’t sleep
Happy Anzac Day Pat. I remember the kids singing advance Australia fair at school. The words just come rushing back!
chicky our house is so quiet again after our family left OH breathes a sigh ofrelief. Takes me a few days to tidy up and return to our quieter way of life. Keep busy.
DD I think you are doing brilliantly, when I think of this time last year! Hope Charlie enjoying life.
ear still blocked getting p....d off with this
off to pilates then lunch with a pal so no gardening for me today
stay safe
A A Milne
hi DD
Chicky it will be a shame if your trip to France has to be cancelled, but that Plan B isn't at all bad
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Beautiful tree Pat.
Lunch out for me too LP then art and photographic exhibition.
I went to an ANZAC day ceremony at Ypres once with my Oz friend who worked at the embassy. It was all very moving with a parade thru the town - old soldiers and banners - and a ceremony at the Menin Gate followed by the daily Las Post. Floods of tears all round seeing all those names and feeling the respect as well as the loss and waste. Powerful stuff.
I'm careful about seeing films before reading the book or else I can sit thru the entire thing muttering about script writers and directors especially when it involves messing with Jane Austin or leaving out essential plot info like they do in Harry Potter and changing main characters and endings like Chocolat.
Cool and grey here. Tomatoes staying under cover all morning. Men due soon to make a hole in the roof for the PV panels and heat exchangers. I'm on sewing this morning then potting on in the PT. I have more squashes coming through and the early bird spaghetti squashes need bigger pots already.
There have been lots of film adaptations where I thought the book was interesting and the film was trite (The Time Traveller's Wife, for another example) so like you, I'm a bit wary of them.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.