Meh. Far too much soft focus sunlit Hobbit I haven't even tried to watch The Hobbit. Despite thinking Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of Smaug is probably a good idea.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It's all a bit exciting here. PV panels going in as expected but it seems we're also getting the whole heat exchange system and ducted air too today which means holes in ceilings and floors to move it all about...... So pleased we haven't done all the decorating yet!! Now to work out what to do with the heating oil we will no longer burn and all those heavy, old fashioned, beautiful but pig to clean and paint radiators and a boiler that looks like something out of a 60s TV space fantasy.
They're Poles and, unlike French workmen, appreciate a pot of coffee and a pile of freshly made chocolate chip biscuits. That's the last of my proper Belgian chocolate chips gone too. The smaller French ones don't melt the same way.
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)."
A very "Aprilly" day here, alternating sun and showers. My most useful job so far today has been getting out the ladders and clearing leaves out of the back gutter. Must get a cage thingy for the top of the downspout because that particular gutter regularly gets stuffed with leaves - it must just face the wrong way, I suppose.
I'm with you on classic books adapted for TV, Raisingirl, Obelixx, Dove etc... I hate to have my mental pictures of the characters spoiled. And inevitably the adaptation - however good - rushes through to fit the time available, and misses out some of the most important bits for plot development, if they're difficult or expensive to stage or film.
Am trying to catch up with a spot of h....w..k, shopping for essentials, etc, after a busy weekend followed by a trip to see Mum yesterday. I still love spending time with her, even though now we are limited in our communication largely to smiles and cuddles. She's beginning to look very frail - hardly surprising at 97, I suppose.
I can now play 7 notes on my tenor horn! Those who can hear the noise say it's slightly less painful to listen to, now I've been practising for a week...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Well, I'm a very happy chappy. Having been called in at 2 hours notice to drive on Good Friday, my manager told me I could have £15 of stock as a thank you I held off and last night I saw some nice paeonias for £9 each. I went in this afternoon and asked if I could pay £3 and have 2. " just take 2 , you got us out of a hole" We went outside to choose and I picked Sarah Bernhardt then couldn't decide between the darker pink Dr Alexander Fleming , or the white Shirley Temple. " Oh go on then, take the 3. Call it money in the bank the next time we ask you for a favour" RESULT.
I had Sarah B in Belgium. Hope one of the divisions I've brought turns out to be her. Gorgeous peony. Don't know the other two. My unidentified tree peony is flowering now, also gorgeous frilly pink and perfumed too. Love it.
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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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
They're Poles and, unlike French workmen, appreciate a pot of coffee and a pile of freshly made chocolate chip biscuits. That's the last of my proper Belgian chocolate chips gone too. The smaller French ones don't melt the same way.
A very "Aprilly" day here, alternating sun and showers. My most useful job so far today has been getting out the ladders and clearing leaves out of the back gutter. Must get a cage thingy for the top of the downspout because that particular gutter regularly gets stuffed with leaves - it must just face the wrong way, I suppose.
I'm with you on classic books adapted for TV, Raisingirl, Obelixx, Dove etc... I hate to have my mental pictures of the characters spoiled. And inevitably the adaptation - however good - rushes through to fit the time available, and misses out some of the most important bits for plot development, if they're difficult or expensive to stage or film.
Am trying to catch up with a spot of h....w..k, shopping for essentials, etc, after a busy weekend followed by a trip to see Mum yesterday. I still love spending time with her, even though now we are limited in our communication largely to smiles and cuddles. She's beginning to look very frail - hardly surprising at 97, I suppose.
I can now play 7 notes on my tenor horn!
Just had a violent hailstorm here, after I had spent the morning planting stuff out, what a bummer.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Having been called in at 2 hours notice to drive on Good Friday, my manager told me I could have £15 of stock as a thank you
I held off and last night I saw some nice paeonias for £9 each. I went in this afternoon and asked if I could pay £3 and have 2. " just take 2 , you got us out of a hole"
We went outside to choose and I picked Sarah Bernhardt then couldn't decide between the darker pink Dr Alexander Fleming , or the white Shirley Temple.
" Oh go on then, take the 3. Call it money in the bank the next time we ask you for a favour"
RESULT.
no no hail here thank goodness, but some very heavy showers
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.