If I get real 'nuisance calls' I just use the Block Number facility ... that way I never ever hear from them again.
OH has just dashed to W'rose on his bike ... we had no milk and I have paperwork to do ... need another coffee in order to do paperwork!!! Our coffee mugs are quite small
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
... Wanted to say "Hear, hear" to Dove about the art thing - very well put. The way of looking at art that I always remember is something a foundation tutor used to say - compare it to literature (as you did with poetry). Some pieces are a witty paragraph, others are an incisive statement. But many are novels, and if you give them the same amount of time that you would give to reading a novel then you will have quite a different understanding than if you just read the blurb on the back. No one has to read the novel, no one has to enjoy it, but not many would suggest that everything about it should be evident without giving the time it takes to read it. ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It’s the same in town. Everyone must have a sore ear because they walk around with one hand up to their ear. 😳 it’s very worrying driving around when people cross the road with very little attention to where they are walking.
Paperwork completed Just finishing a coffee then I'll head to the PO and send it Recorded Delivery ... and pop into W'rose for some fish for supper ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello everyone. It is cool here but dry so far. I've been messing about indoors while OH moves a huge pile of rubble from the terrace - stoned from the hole in the wall. Now it can be swept and I can move my Japanese woodland round there - maples and hostas in pots after last year's drought. Need to get the spuds and leeks too but OH said the soil was very wet and heavy when he was weeding the space for me yesterday.
I hope things have gone OK for Yvie. Positive waves for her and Pdoc and his Mrs and anyone else with worries.
Good art appreciation summary Dove. Bit like garden visiting. Some people focus on individual plants and others see the rich combinations and clever associations of form and colour whilst others just ask how many hours a week it needs to maintain and would probably pave half or more if it were theirs.
Mobile phones for me are for emergencies. Mine is old tech and lives in my bag but often as not needs charging but I can do that in the car. It never comes out in the garden. If I'm out I'm busy shopping, seeing friends, eating, sightseeing, walking the dogs none of which want interrupting by a phone. If I'm home there's a fixed line and I like messages on a proper keyboard via email tho I' learning to use Messenger on FB for Possum chats and other friends across oceans and on different time zones.
Possum has just called. She's been asked to write an article on Brexit from the youth perspective for a centre left magazine and wanted to know what centre left meant. On the one hand our efforts not to indoctrinate her with received political views have clearly been a success but then, given the plethora of parties left/right/centre/humanist and Catholic in Belgium and all replicated in the Flemish and French speaking halves it's easy to be befuddled.
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)."
Two beds and one border weeded ready for manure to go on. Perennials are starting to put on a spurt of growth at last. Belgian politics would befuddle most people Obelixx. Good luck to Possum for her article. I take my mobile phone to the parts of the garden where a shout for help from me wouldn't be heard by neighbours or passers by.
You're right Joyce and they have PR to boot so, last time, it took over a year before the necessary alignments and haggling for ministerial posts for the new government were agreed.
Maybe my next sewing project should be a set of mobile phone pockets for hanging around the garden so it can stay clean and dry in case I go out t play when OH is out playing golf - no that he'd have his phone switched on then anyway. Neighbours' numbers then.
I have just had a very frustrating conversation about my Rangemaster. I need a technician to come and fit new burners on the bob and also change them from propane which we had in Belgium because it has a lower freezing threshold to Butane which would make it the same as the new hob in the kitchen. They can't open a dossier if I can't supply it series number and date of purchase. What difference does it make? They have the model. They don't do anything without first sending someone to do an estimate so he can find all that out or even recognise it, surely?
No, I have to go thru all the paperwork and see if I can find an invoice from years ago and crawl about looking for series and serial number..........
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)."
Hi all, back from the big city. Funny you all talking about mobile phones I have driven our stretch of motorway for over 10 years and it is always obvious to me when drivers use their phones illegally Speed drops, move into inside lane and as I pass heads are down. I get out the way. The ones that worry me are the lorries! dil says she is having more patients than ever with neck issues from iPhones and tablets and it is youngsters too, also they walk into immovable obstacles, bollards lamposts etc. However it’s a rule to have one in your pocket when working here, I use mine as a radio and plug in with headphones Obelixx you would have to make sure it’s not on silent lol! Hope you find the number for the range. I know a chap who would convert it for you, he would enjoy a wee holiday! wonder how Yvie is doing bless possum, hope her article goes well
I do like Waitrose but they dont stock Scottish meat or any fish brought in north of the border. I understand that but I feel I have to buy local to help things being sustainable.
off to check my greenhouse for the mouse!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Much weeding has been done at the front of the house. Hubby has hoe'd ( if that's even a word? ) the weeds coming through the paviors on the drive. he likes doing that . It suits his OCD. I was pleasantly surprised to find new shoots just below the surface on a hedychium I left in the ground over the winter. I'd even venture to say it was " warm " in the sunny spells!!
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OH has just dashed to W'rose on his bike ... we had no milk and I have paperwork to do ... need another coffee in order to do paperwork!!! Our coffee mugs are quite small
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hope things have gone OK for Yvie. Positive waves for her and Pdoc and his Mrs and anyone else with worries.
Good art appreciation summary Dove. Bit like garden visiting. Some people focus on individual plants and others see the rich combinations and clever associations of form and colour whilst others just ask how many hours a week it needs to maintain and would probably pave half or more if it were theirs.
Mobile phones for me are for emergencies. Mine is old tech and lives in my bag but often as not needs charging but I can do that in the car. It never comes out in the garden. If I'm out I'm busy shopping, seeing friends, eating, sightseeing, walking the dogs none of which want interrupting by a phone. If I'm home there's a fixed line and I like messages on a proper keyboard via email tho I' learning to use Messenger on FB for Possum chats and other friends across oceans and on different time zones.
Possum has just called. She's been asked to write an article on Brexit from the youth perspective for a centre left magazine and wanted to know what centre left meant. On the one hand our efforts not to indoctrinate her with received political views have clearly been a success but then, given the plethora of parties left/right/centre/humanist and Catholic in Belgium and all replicated in the Flemish and French speaking halves it's easy to be befuddled.
Perennials are starting to put on a spurt of growth at last.
Belgian politics would befuddle most people Obelixx. Good luck to Possum for her article.
I take my mobile phone to the parts of the garden where a shout for help from me wouldn't be heard by neighbours or passers by.
Maybe my next sewing project should be a set of mobile phone pockets for hanging around the garden so it can stay clean and dry in case I go out t play when OH is out playing golf - no that he'd have his phone switched on then anyway. Neighbours' numbers then.
I have just had a very frustrating conversation about my Rangemaster. I need a technician to come and fit new burners on the bob and also change them from propane which we had in Belgium because it has a lower freezing threshold to Butane which would make it the same as the new hob in the kitchen. They can't open a dossier if I can't supply it series number and date of purchase. What difference does it make? They have the model. They don't do anything without first sending someone to do an estimate so he can find all that out or even recognise it, surely?
No, I have to go thru all the paperwork and see if I can find an invoice from years ago and crawl about looking for series and serial number..........
dil says she is having more patients than ever with neck issues from iPhones and tablets and it is youngsters too, also they walk into immovable obstacles, bollards lamposts etc.
However it’s a rule to have one in your pocket when working here, I use mine as a radio and plug in with headphones
Obelixx you would have to make sure it’s not on silent lol! Hope you find the number for the range. I know a chap who would convert it for you, he would enjoy a wee holiday!
wonder how Yvie is doing bless possum, hope her article goes well
I do like Waitrose but they dont stock Scottish meat or any fish brought in north of the border. I understand that but I feel I have to buy local to help things being sustainable.
off to check my greenhouse for the mouse!
A A Milne
I was pleasantly surprised to find new shoots just below the surface on a hedychium I left in the ground over the winter.
I'd even venture to say it was " warm " in the sunny spells!!