Stay safe up there Lilyp, Joyce and Fairy! Bright and sunny start here this morning. Lovely visit from Dove and lovely OH yesterday 😊 Step soon has his driving test this morning, fingers crossed please folks! Going for a potter around the charity shops, haven't been in town in months, also after hearing from Dove about the Darjeeling tea shortage, I'm on a mission to track down socks and start hoarding! Pdoc, with any luck your neighbour will become blacklisted as a time waster with all your local tree surgeons! 😉 Have a lovely day folks! 😀
Grey here and miserable looking. I suppose I ought to go and do the food shop, but it's not desperate. It could wait until tomorrow.
Did anyone see my great aunt Sylvia on Monday night on the tv? She is on the programme with the four year olds in the retired people complex. (Lark Hill in Nottingham) She is the 102 year old who got the basketball in the net. The centre send a "nice young man" around to her every morning to make her a cup of tea. She says they are checking to see if her bungalow is going to be available.i.e. died in the night. She owns it, but it has to be sold back to the charity that operate the complex, and there is a five year waiting list for places. My mum, a sprightly 85, says she would put her name down, except the charity ran out of money when they were building it , and didn't put in the planned swimming pool. It has practically everything else an old peoples village would want.
Callum well and truly upon us, to add to it all a silly crow has managed to fall into the chimney. I have opened a thread for help. All suggestions welcome! this pot was meant to be impenetrable!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Did anyone see my great aunt Sylvia on Monday night on the tv? She is on the programme with the four year olds in the retired people complex.
Saw a trailer fidget, but didn't watch it. Must take a look It's certainly a very interestinf experiment - beneficial to both sides I'd think. Gorgeous pic Dove. Very symmetrical which pleases me Will take a look at the other pix soon. Not much chance of seeing anything colourful in the sky here today The rain cleared for a little while late morning, but came back on about 1 ish. I've seen much worse, so I think we're on the 'edge' of it. Wales and 'Norn' were getting the brunt of it from what I could gather, and the west coast up here. Not warm though. Heating's on. It's about 12 just now. LP - have you got a gun? Daft bird. The crow - not you....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi all hope you are all ok, I had a few weeks of feeling down in the dumps, although I still read you letters i dinot feel like answering. I am feeling ok now and this week i gave gates and fencing a coat of varnish yesterday I gave the wendy house a varnish as well, just got my pottering shed to do but that is cresoted. We have had some rain and today our rain gauge says we have had 6mm.Your storm seems to be very windy so hope no one has any damage.
Fidget our primary schools have a link with the care home locally, it’s a wonderful thing. Go Auntie! Fairy, it is an option but there isn’t a gamekeeper to be seen today, funny that! called the sweep but strangely enough he is on voicemail too!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Sorry to hear you've been down Glenys. Hope things are a little brighter for you now, especially as you've been out doing some 'stuff'. That can help enormously LP - R and be T is still closed, and to be closed all weekend because of new landslips, so I think your BIL has no choice but to go the long way round to Loch Fyne. I'm not sure why they started clearing it, bearing in mind the forecast. Think I said that the other day. It was a no brainer that there would be more slip Is the crow still flapping around?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hello everyone. Another busy day here starting witha walkies for OH while I pottered with pussies and washing then off to a GC at Chateau d'Olonnes to get plants for the front door pots for winter. Picked up two very pink and purple cordylines to go with some very small leaved green shrub thingies with teeny, pink, pom-pom flowers. They'd carefully put the reduced price label over the name on the pot so no idea what they are. Got some hardy cyclamen for my dry shade bed too.
Thence to the market where we picked up some mackerel for dinner and then on to the SM. After a very tasty wholemeal baguette with Serrano ham, rocket, walnuts and blue cheese (yum) we set off to La Roche-s-Yon and another GC for bedding violas to fill the pots and some veggie plugs, then we collected the skirting tiles to finish the shower room and, finally, a raid on the fabric shop for binding for my patchwork place mats, Xmas fabric for a patchwork table cover and cotton to make shorts and trousers for OH for next summer cos it was on at half price.
Knackered now. A sunny 28C out of the wind. Lovely. Sunday and Monday look a bit grey and damp. I hope so.
Huge rainbow Dove! Hope all in the west and north are OK and not being blown to bits. Glad you're feeling better Glenys. Touch of the winter blues?
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Lovely visit from Dove and lovely OH yesterday 😊
Step soon has his driving test this morning, fingers crossed please folks!
Going for a potter around the charity shops, haven't been in town in months, also after hearing from Dove about the Darjeeling tea shortage, I'm on a mission to track down socks and start hoarding!
Pdoc, with any luck your neighbour will become blacklisted as a time waster with all your local tree surgeons! 😉
Have a lovely day folks! 😀
this pot was meant to be impenetrable!
A A Milne
There are some very strong gusts of wind and the rain has just started.
it's all over the local press
more pics here http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photographs-show-early-morning-rainbow-over-norfolk-1-5733831
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's certainly a very interestinf experiment - beneficial to both sides I'd think.
Gorgeous pic Dove. Very symmetrical which pleases me
The rain cleared for a little while late morning, but came back on about 1 ish. I've seen much worse, so I think we're on the 'edge' of it. Wales and 'Norn' were getting the brunt of it from what I could gather, and the west coast up here. Not warm though. Heating's on. It's about 12 just now.
LP - have you got a gun?
Daft bird. The crow - not you....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy, it is an option but there isn’t a gamekeeper to be seen today, funny that!
called the sweep but strangely enough he is on voicemail too!
A A Milne
LP - R and be T is still closed, and to be closed all weekend because of new landslips, so I think your BIL has no choice but to go the long way round to Loch Fyne. I'm not sure why they started clearing it, bearing in mind the forecast. Think I said that the other day. It was a no brainer that there would be more slip
Is the crow still flapping around?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thence to the market where we picked up some mackerel for dinner and then on to the SM. After a very tasty wholemeal baguette with Serrano ham, rocket, walnuts and blue cheese (yum) we set off to La Roche-s-Yon and another GC for bedding violas to fill the pots and some veggie plugs, then we collected the skirting tiles to finish the shower room and, finally, a raid on the fabric shop for binding for my patchwork place mats, Xmas fabric for a patchwork table cover and cotton to make shorts and trousers for OH for next summer cos it was on at half price.
Knackered now. A sunny 28C out of the wind. Lovely. Sunday and Monday look a bit grey and damp. I hope so.
Huge rainbow Dove! Hope all in the west and north are OK and not being blown to bits. Glad you're feeling better Glenys. Touch of the winter blues?