Morning all. I hate reading about things like that, Flumpy, and I find it a big cause of concern and the cuts in spending on the police too, but I don't really like discussing politics on this forum.
I hope you have a lovely holiday Hosta and it is as hot as you are hoping.
Lovely to see you DD. Good news about the boyfriend, hope it all works out for you. Sorry I couldn't get to your open day. I won't be doing one next year.
This is the new window, before and after but not yet finished. Should be finished and sill put in today. I will then paint it all next week. A smaller one will be put in in the breakfast room on Monday.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Flumpy - get real! Parenting and neighbourliness come first, well before kids get anywhere needing police intervention. Kids aren't born badly behaved. If you want low taxes you have to accept low service levels on all fronts from customs and immigration thru local councils to education and policing.
Good morning all. I suspect it's a PITA Pat but a weed patrol sounds a lot better to me than having to deal with loss of native flora and fauna resulting from foreign invasions.
DD - great to have you pop in and with such positive news. I found Golden Syrup for the first time in our usual Leclerc yesterday. Can't tell you happy I was as my cooky patch ladies can now do some of my cakes and biscuits. Even happier that there's no Xmas pud.
Dove - glad the toe isn't stopping you getting about. Hosta - going on hls by any chance? I'd never have guessed. Good luck with all the preps and the journey too.
We have rain here, averaging 3cm a day for 3 days now. Wonders will never cease. I'm off out between showers to put up some plants for the garden club picnic and plant swap tomorrow.
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)."
Crime is not OK but it's not there because there are fewer police on the streets. It's just easier to get away with it now. If parents, family and neighbours don't expect or teach good manners and respect to small children they will grow up unruly and selfish at best and delinquent at worst. Like I said, it starts long before any police need to get involved.
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 one said crime is ok ... what they said is that we need more police and we have to accept that we will have to have increased taxes to pay for them ... when governments get elected by appealing to greed rather than a sense of community and social responsibility this is what happens.
If I've seemed a little distracted at times
over the past few months it has been with good reason, but now all is
well on the way to being resolved. Back in June my son bought a car on
finance from a nationwide second hand car sales company ... it was not a
cheap car and had a full service history etc etc etc ... within a few
days a series of major electrical faults revealed themselves and the
sellers asked him to take it to a main dealer to have the faults
diagnosed ... this was done but the sellers said they would rectify the
faults themselves ... the inspection by the main dealer also revealed
other faults and what can only be called 'recent errors in the service
log'
... the finance company asked my son to allow the seller to rectify the
faults ... they car has been back to them at least seven times ... for
several days and sometimes a week each time ... each time the fault has not been fixed and
they have admitted that on at least one occasion they lied to us about
the work they had done.
The last time they had the car was for four weeks and a week ago it was returned with even more electrical faults and emergency warning lights flashing up every few minutes.
Yesterday the finance company agreed to take back the car, terminate the loan, refund his money and pay compensation.
I've been handling most of this for my son as he has been working 24/7
trying to get his life and business back on track following his divorce and house
sale etc. It has been horrendous.
If anyone would like to know which
national second hand car seller NOT to buy a car from, just send me a PM
...
Hopefully my stress levels will soon return to normal
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove thats excately what I was saying but my words have got twisted, plus I wasn’t talking politics, I’m a nice person always have been and always will.
It would be good if newspapers encouraged a sense of community and cohesion as well as reporting the more negative aspects of the news.
As for my toe ... I stubbed it on Tuesday morning ... that's all ... and it's been incredibly painful and turned all colours of the rainbow ... but they're begining to fade now and I can get my shoe on so I was able to drive to the shops and get some food for the weekend ... phew!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
New window looks fantastic Lizzie - transforms that room. Well worth the dust 😀
Glad the car issues are sorted Dove - sounds like a lot of stress and hassle, but your perseverance paid off.
Sun has just peeped out from behind the clouds, so I am off outside to plant tulips 🌷. The planting bit is easy, its the clearing of all the summer bedding from the pots I want to plant the bulbs in that will take the time 🙄
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I hate reading about things like that, Flumpy, and I find it a big cause of concern and the cuts in spending on the police too, but I don't really like discussing politics on this forum.
I hope you have a lovely holiday Hosta and it is as hot as you are hoping.
Lovely to see you DD. Good news about the boyfriend, hope it all works out for you. Sorry I couldn't get to your open day. I won't be doing one next year.
This is the new window, before and after but not yet finished. Should be finished and sill put in today. I will then paint it all next week. A smaller one will be put in in the breakfast room on Monday.
im packing up for the evening. See you all tomorrow.
Good morning all. I suspect it's a PITA Pat but a weed patrol sounds a lot better to me than having to deal with loss of native flora and fauna resulting from foreign invasions.
DD - great to have you pop in and with such positive news. I found Golden Syrup for the first time in our usual Leclerc yesterday. Can't tell you happy I was as my cooky patch ladies can now do some of my cakes and biscuits. Even happier that there's no Xmas pud.
Dove - glad the toe isn't stopping you getting about. Hosta - going on hls by any chance? I'd never have guessed. Good luck with all the preps and the journey too.
We have rain here, averaging 3cm a day for 3 days now. Wonders will never cease. I'm off out between showers to put up some plants for the garden club picnic and plant swap tomorrow.
Hopefully my stress levels will soon return to normal
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Almost every word in that article is a lie. [ Yes I do know ]
You are not a nice person, if you copy stuff like that without thought.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad the car issues are sorted Dove - sounds like a lot of stress and hassle, but your perseverance paid off.
Sun has just peeped out from behind the clouds, so I am off outside to plant tulips 🌷. The planting bit is easy, its the clearing of all the summer bedding from the pots I want to plant the bulbs in that will take the time 🙄