Hostafan, I'm guessing they can't get a Pharmacist who wants to live in Bideford. I spent one summer driving to Scunthorpe from Nottingham and back every day. Leave home at 7.30 to get there for 9, leave at 6 and home for 7.30 if I was lucky. At the time it was M1, M18, M180, no roadworks, they paid travelling time as well as mileage. I refused to do it in Winter. I stopped doing long distance when the big companies stopped paying for mileage.
Obelixx, The sewing machine may be portable, but why are you giving it a whizz around the garden.?
Punkdoc. Good idea. Just make sure she has a flask and sandwiches.
You're getting your whirls and whizzes mixed up Fidget!. I have whizzed round the garden, found OH, asked him to some more pruning and crown lifting on a mimosa cos I can't at the mo with the dodgy neck, checked on the potager and my pots and then had lunch. Now I'm sorting out my sewing room to make space for th enew machine so I can give it a whirl.
That motorway journey sounds horrendous. No wonder you stopped. OH and I used to work from Soho Square in the middle of London and lived in Blackheath. Our company was bought out by another based in Greenford. That was bad enough by car but OH injured his back and I had to walk to the station, train to London Bridge, get across London by assorted tubes and then catch a bus from Ealing to Greenford. Nightmare - and then do it all again in the evening, carrying the shopping and then feed him. Exhausting. We moved to Harrow.
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 used to travel from Bristol to London 9 days out of 10. There's not much you can tell me about Great Western trains that I don't already know, unless the question starts with "why one earth do/don't they...". And I reckon I've spent at lest 20 minutes staring at every yard of track-side weeds in the vicinity of Swindon and Reading train stations. I really don't miss it.
My courgette is looking distinctly unhappy about last night's frost - not sure if it will recover. The main crops spuds are a tad iffy. Everything else seems to have basically shrugged it off.
Work done for the day. Hopefully I've earned myself a day gardening tomorrow
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Evening folks. Rough old night here, after a half decent morning. We usually get quite a few nice chilly, frosty mornings at this time of year, with lovely sunny days, but it's been rough, wild wet stuff instead. I'm very envious of all your frosts. Better add me to the weird list Hosta! Hope you left Moira a blanket and some waterproofs as well doc I had a good start to the day anyway, as I looked out the window before I got dressed, and there were 6 goldfinches squabbling over the sunflower hearts. Just delightful. I went to get another feeder - with four ports - just to give them all a chance! The mosaic sounds interesting Obs. Not something I've ever attempted. Happier with a jigsaw and a screwdriver. I think I may take up a bit of whittling when I retire...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'd be dangerous with anything sharp enough to whittle FG. Mosaic is really quite restful as you have to concentrate which means you can't have your brain churning over other stuff.
Have had a play with the new machine. Very good so far but, of course, all the knobs and levers are different and the bobbins are different form both my old Brother and my newer Bernina. Why can't they have a standard size and shape, like needles which are universal.
Still very dry here so the sprinkler is busy. Huge, lazy moon just popped up over the horizon. Beautiful.
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 everyone, hope you are all well, got back Sunday from a long weekend in your neck of the woods @Dovefromabove. well Snettisham, I should have given you the heads up before we came so you could order up some better weather for us. It was still very blowy when we arrived (Thursday) & very wet Saturday night into Sunday when we left. Just our luck to pick that weekend after all the good weather. Apparently there was was frost early morning here too but it had burned off by the time we had surfaced, the rain has helped but the ground is still quite dry here.
Oh I know @Dovefromabove all my own fault . Yes we had dinner in the Rose & Crown on the Saturday night. Our friends had been nagging us to visit again, but avoiding School holidays and other interruptions meant this was the first weekend that suited us both. Still managed a bit more in their garden, at least the horse problem is solved now, the farmer has put in a hedge with an electric fence inside. Ironically the Horse has not been in the field all summer anyway!
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That motorway journey sounds horrendous. No wonder you stopped. OH and I used to work from Soho Square in the middle of London and lived in Blackheath. Our company was bought out by another based in Greenford. That was bad enough by car but OH injured his back and I had to walk to the station, train to London Bridge, get across London by assorted tubes and then catch a bus from Ealing to Greenford. Nightmare - and then do it all again in the evening, carrying the shopping and then feed him. Exhausting. We moved to Harrow.
My courgette is looking distinctly unhappy about last night's frost - not sure if it will recover. The main crops spuds are a tad iffy. Everything else seems to have basically shrugged it off.
Work done for the day. Hopefully I've earned myself a day gardening tomorrow
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
this was yesterday , I've had another load delivered this morning.
Rough old night here, after a half decent morning. We usually get quite a few nice chilly, frosty mornings at this time of year, with lovely sunny days, but it's been rough, wild wet stuff instead. I'm very envious of all your frosts. Better add me to the weird list Hosta!
Hope you left Moira a blanket and some waterproofs as well doc
I had a good start to the day anyway, as I looked out the window before I got dressed, and there were 6 goldfinches squabbling over the sunflower hearts. Just delightful. I went to get another feeder - with four ports - just to give them all a chance!
The mosaic sounds interesting Obs. Not something I've ever attempted. Happier with a jigsaw and a screwdriver. I think I may take up a bit of whittling when I retire...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have had a play with the new machine. Very good so far but, of course, all the knobs and levers are different and the bobbins are different form both my old Brother and my newer Bernina. Why can't they have a standard size and shape, like needles which are universal.
Still very dry here so the sprinkler is busy. Huge, lazy moon just popped up over the horizon. Beautiful.
Under the duvet now so sweet dreams all
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.