Have a lovely walk on the beach Joyce. It's already too warm here for the dogs.
I'm glad the football team are doing well. It makes lots of people happy, even if it bores me to tears. And as DE says, it's lovely and peaceful outside (no lawnmowers), in the supermarket, on the roads during the matches. If you want to get anything done, this afternoon will be a great time to avoid the queues
OH suggested a trebuchet funeral for my mother. I always thought a viking burial would be good. I hate boats but I doubt I'll get seasick when I'm dead. A neighbour here (pretty much all our neighbours are farmers) was buried standing up in the gateway of a field on his farm. His neighbour went a bit doolally, thinking the dead bloke was watching him the whole time. They're a bit odd 'round here
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Plants can be curmudgeonly b#ggers too. I have an orchid which was doing not much more than staying alive (earworm alert ). Anyway...I stuck it on top of a wardrobe out of the way of the builders and forgot about it. It's put on more growth in the last fortnight than it's done in the past year. I suppose I'll have to leave it there.
I have loved this World Cup just to see all the so called pundits proved totally wrong. the Bookies having to wipe their odds board so fast they set on fire and all the England fans who said our lads would be home after the first match shown the "Hand of God' sometimes works for us. The Hands of a N.E. lad considered too young too small and not enough experience of top class football, again by the pundits who are being paid a fortune for their duff comments, sack the lot. My garden was never neater than during Queens and Wimbledon, grown men batting a little ball about with hair nets on handles, Girls showing their underwear to all and sundry playing half a match three sets to the mens five and getting the same pay? Joan watched every minute of it and I camped in the Greenhouse until they finally jumped the net and fell on their fat faces, that was the best bit.
Obelixx, buy Apple, all my stuff is now Apple after 20 years of cheaper computers and laptops. Now I have roaming rites, I read books and listen to music on the iPad and everything else on the laptop. The freedom makes you want to run round the garden naked, Could the neighbours stand to the sight I ask? maybe not. Frank.
I enjoy the peace and quiet and the slightly naughty feeling of not watching. It's almost as good as the feeling you get when you escape during the interval if a really bad play.
PG - I am not taking a pooter to bed! And I only read in bed these days. Too busy otherwise, but yes, I won't be buying a Windows PC again.
One "friend" in the UK has just texted OH delighting in how happy I must be with Tour de France either side of us today and tomorrow, football and grand prix. As it happens, I have a car boot full of 12 x 70 litres of planting compost, trays of baby celeriac, broccoli and beetroot to plant out, more slug and snail treatment (wildlife friendly) and lots of weeding and planting to do plus Possum and dogs and cats to play with and cuddle. What more can a girl ask. I've even done lots of washing so OH has a huge pie of ironing to keep him productive while the vegetates with all the sport on TV.
Mini raid on the SM on the way home with the booty and lots of chaps stocking up on packs of Belgian beer, chips and olives. Clearly a busy weekend in store..........
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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I'm glad the football team are doing well. It makes lots of people happy, even if it bores me to tears. And as DE says, it's lovely and peaceful outside (no lawnmowers), in the supermarket, on the roads during the matches. If you want to get anything done, this afternoon will be a great time to avoid the queues
OH suggested a trebuchet funeral for my mother.
I always thought a viking burial would be good. I hate boats but I doubt I'll get seasick when I'm dead.
A neighbour here (pretty much all our neighbours are farmers) was buried standing up in the gateway of a field on his farm. His neighbour went a bit doolally, thinking the dead bloke was watching him the whole time. They're a bit odd 'round here
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I have an orchid which was doing not much more than staying alive (earworm alert
Anyway...I stuck it on top of a wardrobe out of the way of the builders and forgot about it.
It's put on more growth in the last fortnight than it's done in the past year.
I suppose I'll have to leave it there.
My garden was never neater than during Queens and Wimbledon, grown men batting a little ball about with hair nets on handles, Girls showing their underwear to all and sundry playing half a match three sets to the mens five and getting the same pay?
Joan watched every minute of it and I camped in the Greenhouse until they finally jumped the net and fell on their fat faces, that was the best bit.
Obelixx, buy Apple, all my stuff is now Apple after 20 years of cheaper computers and laptops. Now I have roaming rites, I read books and listen to music on the iPad and everything else on the laptop. The freedom makes you want to run round the garden naked, Could the neighbours stand to the sight I ask? maybe not.
Frank.
Do they involve dancing and incantations?
Can you post them on you tube?
Clearly your orchid has the soul of a suitcase
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
One "friend" in the UK has just texted OH delighting in how happy I must be with Tour de France either side of us today and tomorrow, football and grand prix. As it happens, I have a car boot full of 12 x 70 litres of planting compost, trays of baby celeriac, broccoli and beetroot to plant out, more slug and snail treatment (wildlife friendly) and lots of weeding and planting to do plus Possum and dogs and cats to play with and cuddle. What more can a girl ask. I've even done lots of washing so OH has a huge pie of ironing to keep him productive while the vegetates with all the sport on TV.
Mini raid on the SM on the way home with the booty and lots of chaps stocking up on packs of Belgian beer, chips and olives. Clearly a busy weekend in store..........