Looks like there's a hurricane (Leslie) due to hit Portugal tonight and tomorrow and then sweep across norther Spain and into France - probably heading straight for @Busy-Lizzie and DD with swirly bits at the edges for us. Best bring in the garden furniture then.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Evening all. I managed to post ( I think ) last night then phone and internet both went off again. Just on again now. Callum has been a very naughty boy but , on a plus side, the lake is about an inch from the top of the overflow pipe . I reckon it'll be full by nightfall.
hi all, Hosta every could and all that Joyce and Fairy, we have had to have the lights on all day Flumpy fingers crossed as I write the hubby is being sorted and out of pain. My gp was the same when I saw her last week, she was beside herself with pain and could be seen for three days. She said “Imagine if I said that to patients” Pat, I remember they used to hang bottle of vinegar from the trees in FNQ, do they still do that? Punk, perhaps you should get a dog? lots of retired working dogs looking for a home and it would be all trained yet adore you for giving it a nice retirement. Don’t fear about being restricted there is a wonderful organisation called Barking Mad We took the guide dogs. I think you could give a dog a great home😉 bird is still in chimney, sweep due any second. He said they can take three days to die! nearly gin time
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Awe thanks Lilly and all, my hubby as just come out of the doctors with a script for antibiotics plus he may have to have root canal 😬. I picked my car up to be told that thankfully there is nothing wrong with my break, he said there was a magnet stuck between my break disc and break pad 😲
Don't want any trouble with brakes flumpy - always best to get that sorted double quick! Have you built an ark for the lake yet Hosta ? I saw that storm coming your way on the forecast Obelixx. Wasn't sure how near you and BL [or DD] it would be heading. These things can switch around so easily. Hope it brings you rain but no damage. Wales has had a real bashing. LP - hope chimney chap can get bird out relatively unscathed. Not had lights on until half an hour ago , but I've been at the back of the house mainly, and it's fairly bright there. Been bird watching quite a bit. Those goldies are hilarious. There was a huge 'charm of them a couple of times - at least 20 -30 or so. A pair of chaffinches were visiting which is good. They've been noticeably absent here. Little wren popped in too. It's amazing how much they feed when they don't have me f*nnying around out there and putting them off....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh dear, I hope there isn't a hurricane coming this way. We have rain forecast for tomorrow.
Today didn't quite go as planned. OH woke up bunged up with a cold and decided not to go on the vineyard visit with the gardening club so I went on my own. I left my car in a Mairie carpark and friends drove me in their car as it was over an hour away. The vineyard was lovely, pretty hilly scenery, not very big, 2 hectares. The chap inherited his parents farm but he couldn't bear to send animals he'd reared go for slaughter so he decided to plant organic grapes and make wine instead. He has 2 horses to pull the harrow for weeding between the rows and he does all the pruning by hand himself.
Anyway, we went into his barn to taste the wine and listen to him explain how it's made. For a sweet dessert wine he dries the grapes in ventilated boxes, on the way to being sultanas then makes the wine. Suddenly one of the older men collapsed onto the concrete floor. Ambulance was called and I spent the afternoon in Brive hospital with his wife, who wasn't allowed to travel in the ambulance. Luckily, hours later, they let him go so I drove them home.
Looking forward to dinner, missed the lunch in the restaurant, and Strictly.
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Your birds sound very entertaining Fairy - I can spend hours at our window watching. 🤓
Just been for a cycle (yay !!) and then for a wander round the garden with my camera. All looking rather lovely 😊 .
Time for a shower now - going out for dinner with Mr C tonight, to celebrate 24 years of being married (actually on Monday, but decided to go early 😝).
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Looks like there's a hurricane (Leslie) due to hit Portugal tonight and tomorrow and then sweep across norther Spain and into France - probably heading straight for @Busy-Lizzie and DD with swirly bits at the edges for us. Best bring in the garden furniture then.
I managed to post ( I think ) last night then phone and internet both went off again.
Just on again now.
Callum has been a very naughty boy but , on a plus side, the lake is about an inch from the top of the overflow pipe . I reckon it'll be full by nightfall.
Hosta every could and all that
Joyce and Fairy, we have had to have the lights on all day
Flumpy fingers crossed as I write the hubby is being sorted and out of pain. My gp was the same when I saw her last week, she was beside herself with pain and could be seen for three days. She said “Imagine if I said that to patients”
Pat, I remember they used to hang bottle of vinegar from the trees in FNQ, do they still do that?
Punk, perhaps you should get a dog? lots of retired working dogs looking for a home and it would be all trained yet adore you for giving it a nice retirement. Don’t fear about being restricted there is a wonderful organisation called Barking Mad We took the guide dogs. I think you could give a dog a great home😉
bird is still in chimney, sweep due any second. He said they can take three days to die!
nearly gin time
A A Milne
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have you built an ark for the lake yet Hosta ?
I saw that storm coming your way on the forecast Obelixx. Wasn't sure how near you and BL [or DD] it would be heading. These things can switch around so easily. Hope it brings you rain but no damage. Wales has had a real bashing.
LP - hope chimney chap can get bird out relatively unscathed.
Not had lights on until half an hour ago , but I've been at the back of the house mainly, and it's fairly bright there. Been bird watching quite a bit. Those goldies are hilarious. There was a huge 'charm of them a couple of times - at least 20 -30 or so. A pair of chaffinches were visiting which is good. They've been noticeably absent here. Little wren popped in too. It's amazing how much they feed when they don't have me f*nnying around out there and putting them off....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh dear, I hope there isn't a hurricane coming this way. We have rain forecast for tomorrow.
Today didn't quite go as planned. OH woke up bunged up with a cold and decided not to go on the vineyard visit with the gardening club so I went on my own. I left my car in a Mairie carpark and friends drove me in their car as it was over an hour away.
The vineyard was lovely, pretty hilly scenery, not very big, 2 hectares. The chap inherited his parents farm but he couldn't bear to send animals he'd reared go for slaughter so he decided to plant organic grapes and make wine instead. He has 2 horses to pull the harrow for weeding between the rows and he does all the pruning by hand himself.
Anyway, we went into his barn to taste the wine and listen to him explain how it's made. For a sweet dessert wine he dries the grapes in ventilated boxes, on the way to being sultanas then makes the wine.
Suddenly one of the older men collapsed onto the concrete floor. Ambulance was called and I spent the afternoon in Brive hospital with his wife, who wasn't allowed to travel in the ambulance. Luckily, hours later, they let him go so I drove them home.
Looking forward to dinner, missed the lunch in the restaurant, and Strictly.
Just been for a cycle (yay !!) and then for a wander round the garden with my camera. All looking rather lovely 😊 .
Time for a shower now - going out for dinner with Mr C tonight, to celebrate 24 years of being married (actually on Monday, but decided to go early 😝).