Mucho excitemundo. I've just had a call from one of our delivery customers who's a bit of a bat "expert" She's coming round tomorrow evening with her "kit" to detect bats and also to talk me through some plans for building bat boxes/ finding places to site them. Her door knocker is a wee bat. She's bonkers, but divine.
Report back please Hosta. I have a bat box and no idea where best to site it - outside, in an open barn, in the ruin, north, south, east, west?
Sunny here too and very peaceful apart from a big bang at the quarry and a very persistent bird trilling away. Think it's a robin but can't see it. Off to the doc about my neck this pm and can't decide whether to stay calm and relaxed cutting out patchwork homework or to go and have a couple of hours getting really mucky potting on babies and moving pots.
Great photos Pat. Our mimosas are showing flower buds very early this year. Normally they burst forth in Jan/Feb but they're looking ready to go now. The magnolia has dropped all its leaves again after growing a small, second set after dropping the real ones in August.
Chicky - yes, too exciting and no, not too soon to check weather tho I wouldn't rely on any forecasts.
I need more coffee. Hope it's warm and sunny for everyone, like the forecast said.
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)."
No need to be rude..... Lovely to get first hand expertise like that. chicky - so easy to worry isn't it? She probably thinks it's great though ' There's been a murrrderrr' as they're so fond of saying when mentioning Taggart. Lovely looking little shep pies Pat. We were discussing that at work yesterday - lentils replacing meat in a shepherd's/cottage pie. I'm thinking of trying it and seeing if daughter notices. They did it on one of those eat better for less progs, and the chap, who was an avid shep. pie eater, had no idea it was half meat, half lentil. Love the pix too. Still wild, wet and windy here. The goldies were using bungee cords to hang onto the feeder this morning.... Hedge is almost bare of leaves now, but I've collected quite a lot. Trees are all looking a bit dishevelled, but still some nice colour on them. Pity it's been so wild, as we usually get to enjoy the colour for a bit longer.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've spent an hour fighting with the woodburner. I head a "click" last night which meant the bolt joining the lever to the base/air plate had dropped off. As the fire had been lit, I had to wait until this morning until it had completely cooled. I retrieved the bold but couldn't reconnect it to the arm/baseplate. "I've lost the little nut it screws into" I thought. Having had to empty the ash to see what I was doing, I had to tip it onto newspaper and go through it was a table fork to find the nut, Nope, no joy. I got a magnet and did the same , nope, no joy there either. I went and got THAT tin in the garage, I reckon we all have one, with all the bit and bobs of nuts/bolts/screws in it and found one which fitted the bolt. Hurrah, but no, I couldn't get it to fit between the arm and base plate. I stuck my hand underneath and slowly rotated the base plate until I felt a hole, where the bolt screws in!!!! Fixed at last, but what a faff and a waste of a lovely sunny morning. A bowl of blueberry and cranberry granola and a cuppa for lunch then I'm off out into the garden.
FG - we had a lodger for a while when he was between moves having changed jobs. He was his mum's spoilt baby and ate meat and 2 veg which had to be peas or carrots plus potatoes. I gave him a shepherd's pie and told him it wasn't like his mum's cos I'd sliced the potatoes thinly instead of mashing them. He had second helpings and then I told him the lamb part was actually onions, mushrooms, lentils, carrots, leeks and herbs. I don't think his digestive tract knew what had hit 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)."
On Friday the Smart Meter installation didn't happen. I phoned the installation company who told me that Npower had cancelled the appointment with no explanation. He said that I needn't do anything ... he would contact them to find out why and get back to me on Monday ... of course, he didn't.
I phoned Npower just now ..... interesting ... Npower told me that they certainly hadn't cancelled the installation ... on the contrary, in September the installation company contacted them to say that I had cancelled!!!
And no, in spite of what he told me on Friday the chap from the installation company definitely hasn't contacted them to find out why it was cancelled (surprise surprise) .... methinks someone's pants are on fire!!!
It looks as if I'm in line for a £30 payout ... they are investigating ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I've just had a call from one of our delivery customers who's a bit of a bat "expert" She's coming round tomorrow evening with her "kit" to detect bats and also to talk me through some plans for building bat boxes/ finding places to site them.
Her door knocker is a wee bat. She's bonkers, but divine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sunny here too and very peaceful apart from a big bang at the quarry and a very persistent bird trilling away. Think it's a robin but can't see it. Off to the doc about my neck this pm and can't decide whether to stay calm and relaxed cutting out patchwork homework or to go and have a couple of hours getting really mucky potting on babies and moving pots.
Great photos Pat. Our mimosas are showing flower buds very early this year. Normally they burst forth in Jan/Feb but they're looking ready to go now. The magnolia has dropped all its leaves again after growing a small, second set after dropping the real ones in August.
Chicky - yes, too exciting and no, not too soon to check weather tho I wouldn't rely on any forecasts.
I need more coffee. Hope it's warm and sunny for everyone, like the forecast said.
There you are Obelixx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely to get first hand expertise like that.
chicky - so easy to worry isn't it? She probably thinks it's great though
' There's been a murrrderrr' as they're so fond of saying when mentioning Taggart.
Lovely looking little shep pies Pat. We were discussing that at work yesterday - lentils replacing meat in a shepherd's/cottage pie. I'm thinking of trying it and seeing if daughter notices. They did it on one of those eat better for less progs, and the chap, who was an avid shep. pie eater, had no idea it was half meat, half lentil.
Love the pix too.
Still wild, wet and windy here. The goldies were using bungee cords to hang onto the feeder this morning....
Hedge is almost bare of leaves now, but I've collected quite a lot. Trees are all looking a bit dishevelled, but still some nice colour on them. Pity it's been so wild, as we usually get to enjoy the colour for a bit longer.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I head a "click" last night which meant the bolt joining the lever to the base/air plate had dropped off. As the fire had been lit, I had to wait until this morning until it had completely cooled.
I retrieved the bold but couldn't reconnect it to the arm/baseplate. "I've lost the little nut it screws into" I thought.
Having had to empty the ash to see what I was doing, I had to tip it onto newspaper and go through it was a table fork to find the nut, Nope, no joy. I got a magnet and did the same , nope, no joy there either.
I went and got THAT tin in the garage, I reckon we all have one, with all the bit and bobs of nuts/bolts/screws in it and found one which fitted the bolt. Hurrah, but no, I couldn't get it to fit between the arm and base plate.
I stuck my hand underneath and slowly rotated the base plate until I felt a hole, where the bolt screws in!!!!
Fixed at last, but what a faff and a waste of a lovely sunny morning.
A bowl of blueberry and cranberry granola and a cuppa for lunch then I'm off out into the garden.
I phoned Npower just now ..... interesting ... Npower told me that they certainly hadn't cancelled the installation ... on the contrary, in September the installation company contacted them to say that I had cancelled!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.