Me too Busy but so much better since we moved to drier climes. Have a great time with your brother.
Take it easy Chicky and Hosta but best to keep moving gently if you can or you'll seize up. You'll have more room in the car than the plane Hosta!
Fg - lots of good ceremonies yesterday and good to see them concentrating on remembering but also reconciliation - unlike the Trump twut whose speech will surely go down as an object lesson in being embarrassing and ignorant.
Dove - sensible boots with a whip?
Supposed to be cool and wet here today but there are large blue bits and it's dry. Not complaining tho as we had 5cms yesterday and strange wet bits called puddles I think.
Dorset apple traybake in the oven for patchwork later so I'll save getting mucky with bulbs till tomorrow. Need to go to a GC to get some pots for moving on my baby mulberries and other bits of stuff too as I have no more here.
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)."
You know me Obelixx ... ever the practical one you need stability if your going to put a bit of effort into what you're doing
Car passed MOT with only a light bulb to pay for ... a couple of
advisories (keep an eye on tyres and a little bit of play on wheel
joints) but not bad for an old girl
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope the backs improve, Chicky & Hosta - that hot water bottle idea is a good one... and then, Hosta, lying in the sun for a bit should do the trick.
Fairy, sorry you still feel crook. OH has had a horrible cold, now just easing - and (shhh!) he hasn't passed it on to me. Yet...
Just been baking, some of the treats we were always fed when we visited my parents over the years. I'll take them to the "wake" after the funeral tomorrow... which should hopefully be a time of remembering, rather than mourning, given the circumstances. Everyone has been asked to bring or wear something which reminds them of Mum; she was the best I know at mending things invisibly, so I'll be bringing a gilet which she repaired for me (when she was 80!), using a matching piece of material culled from inside the pocket (which she then patched with lining material). I have to find the repair by feel - you really can't see where it is.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hope the funeral and wake go well tomorrow, Liri. Baking things my mum used to bake, and using her things to bake them, has always been very comforting to me. It will be lovely to see and hear others' memories too.
Not the best time for a bad back, Hosta! But the sun should sort it out. Hope yours feels better soon too, Chicky. Hope everyone else with lurgies recovers soon.
We've had a lot of rain over the past few days, thunder this morning but otherwise not stormy, just very, very soggy. Gardening impossible, as I need to weed and clear. Bow had to get a large piece of ply to school for her art mock GCSE - I'd wrapped it in weed membrane but she somehow managed to dodge the heavy showers anyway.
Putting off housework at the moment...
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
At work so just popping quickly to say to Hosta that I drove to Southampton last night with a pack of frozen peas pushed against my back - a wise man told me that I have to wait til day 3 before applying heat. Drove to work this morning repeating the process with one of our wine bottle cooling jackets......improvisation is my middle name. Good luck 😉
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Morning all.
Sorry about your backs, Chicky and Hosta. I can sympathise, I have arthritis in mine.
My brother has come to stay for a couple of days. We have had a good catch up on each other's news.
Take it easy Chicky and Hosta but best to keep moving gently if you can or you'll seize up. You'll have more room in the car than the plane Hosta!
Fg - lots of good ceremonies yesterday and good to see them concentrating on remembering but also reconciliation - unlike the Trump twut whose speech will surely go down as an object lesson in being embarrassing and ignorant.
Dove - sensible boots with a whip?
Supposed to be cool and wet here today but there are large blue bits and it's dry. Not complaining tho as we had 5cms yesterday and strange wet bits called puddles I think.
Dorset apple traybake in the oven for patchwork later so I'll save getting mucky with bulbs till tomorrow. Need to go to a GC to get some pots for moving on my baby mulberries and other bits of stuff too as I have no more here.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope the backs improve, Chicky & Hosta - that hot water bottle idea is a good one... and then, Hosta, lying in the sun for a bit should do the trick.
Fairy, sorry you still feel crook. OH has had a horrible cold, now just easing - and (shhh!) he hasn't passed it on to me. Yet...
Just been baking, some of the treats we were always fed when we visited my parents over the years. I'll take them to the "wake" after the funeral tomorrow... which should hopefully be a time of remembering, rather than mourning, given the circumstances. Everyone has been asked to bring or wear something which reminds them of Mum; she was the best I know at mending things invisibly, so I'll be bringing a gilet which she repaired for me (when she was 80!), using a matching piece of material culled from inside the pocket (which she then patched with lining material). I have to find the repair by feel - you really can't see where it is.
Not the best time for a bad back, Hosta! But the sun should sort it out. Hope yours feels better soon too, Chicky. Hope everyone else with lurgies recovers soon.
We've had a lot of rain over the past few days, thunder this morning but otherwise not stormy, just very, very soggy. Gardening impossible, as I need to weed and clear. Bow had to get a large piece of ply to school for her art mock GCSE - I'd wrapped it in weed membrane but she somehow managed to dodge the heavy showers anyway.
Putting off housework at the moment...
thinking of you Liri. ❤️
have a good one Hosta.😄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.