Morning all. Quite a bright morning here, the sunrise was beautiful (I only caught a glimpse). Garden still very soggy from the rain but I must get on anyway.
Depressing news, Pat. Here we get Trump, sport AND Brexit. Makes me almost (but not quite!) wish for the trite human interest story for a bit of relief. Sounds like things are happening in the Mueller investigation though, so that'll be interesting.
Enjoy the big smoke, Chicky, and I hope your friend has a wonderful party.
Good morning Liri, if you're there. Hope yesterday went smoothly and you found some comfort.
Right, still got bulbs to plant so must get outside. Enjoy the decorating, BL.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
'Fraid Brexit and the discussions and thus coverage will go on for several years.....and the fallout even longer. Thank goodness we have our gardens to keep us sane, notwithstanding delinquent under gardeners.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Pastry for chicken and mushroom pie to make @Obelixx ... then some paperwork then a bit of shuffling of pots outside ... not a lot 'cos OH will be at work ... then .... who knows??? Tra la..............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm about to sand down the plaster around the window before painting. OH is putting up curtain rails in the dining room. Then we are off to Southwold for a seafood lunch, need a break.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks, @LG_ - it was a lovely "do" with much more laughter than tears. We had Mum's two favourite hymns, and virtually everyone in the extended family sings so we raised the roof with "How great Thou art!". Our nearly-one-year-old grandson joined in as well. The eulogy sounded ok and said what I wanted to say - even got the odd laugh, which is good. The music at the end was something Mum loved very much, and which we daughters and our husbands had sung in the choir in which we all met as students... we were supposed to walk out of the chapel while it was on, but all stood and listened to it... it has one of those endings which pulls the rug from under your feet. Words by John Donne, music by William Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DogQazxXdYk
The only thing wrong with yesterday - which was brilliant weather-wise, too, with loads of Autumn colour, which Mum would have loved - was that the A-road from Hebden Bridge to my town, Todmorden, was closed by a burst water main. It's only 4 miles so you'd think a detour would be easy... but we're in the Pennines, in a very steep-sided valley. The "alternative route" only added a couple of miles in distance, but involved single track roads with 1 in 4 gradients and hairpin bends. Not a walk in the park in normal conditions, but in the dark, with drivers not used to reversing up steep hills to find passing places, an absolute nightmare... it added an extra 45 mins to the journey, and OH went straight to sleep when we got home.
Hope the light box does the trick, Punkdoc.
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Sounds (and I'm sure, sounded) wonderful, Liri. The journey home not so much, when everyone was probably emotionally exhausted. Take care of yourself today - the come down after even a good funeral can be hard.
I didn't go straight out into the garden as I remembered that we have a complicated concert-y evening coming up - one in a concert at school, the other at a dress rehearsal somewhere else altogether, two dental appointments to squeeze in, OH trying (and probably failing) to get back from work in time, no time to cook and no one available to eat at the same time as anyone else. So have chucked stuff in the slow cooker and everyone can help themselves as and when.
Enjoy your horticultural retail therapy, Obxx.
And have a lovely lunch, BL. Cream tea at the boating lake cafe afterwards... ?
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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OH is golfing so I'm off to find pots to move babies on to give them more root space.
Have a good time this evening Chicky. Enjoy the Ukes Pat. Knitting or gardening Dove?
Depressing news, Pat. Here we get Trump, sport AND Brexit. Makes me almost (but not quite!) wish for the trite human interest story for a bit of relief. Sounds like things are happening in the Mueller investigation though, so that'll be interesting.
Enjoy the big smoke, Chicky, and I hope your friend has a wonderful party.
Good morning Liri, if you're there. Hope yesterday went smoothly and you found some comfort.
Right, still got bulbs to plant so must get outside. Enjoy the decorating, BL.
'Fraid Brexit and the discussions and thus coverage will go on for several years.....and the fallout even longer. Thank goodness we have our gardens to keep us sane, notwithstanding delinquent under gardeners.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm about to sand down the plaster around the window before painting. OH is putting up curtain rails in the dining room. Then we are off to Southwold for a seafood lunch, need a break.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pie sounds good too Dove.
Right, I'm off out for a wee bit of retail therapy of the horticultural kind.
Thanks, @LG_ - it was a lovely "do" with much more laughter than tears. We had Mum's two favourite hymns, and virtually everyone in the extended family sings so we raised the roof with "How great Thou art!". Our nearly-one-year-old grandson joined in as well.
The only thing wrong with yesterday - which was brilliant weather-wise, too, with loads of Autumn colour, which Mum would have loved - was that the A-road from Hebden Bridge to my town, Todmorden, was closed by a burst water main. It's only 4 miles so you'd think a detour would be easy... but we're in the Pennines, in a very steep-sided valley. The "alternative route" only added a couple of miles in distance, but involved single track roads with 1 in 4 gradients and hairpin bends. Not a walk in the park in normal conditions, but in the dark, with drivers not used to reversing up steep hills to find passing places, an absolute nightmare... it added an extra 45 mins to the journey, and OH went straight to sleep when we got home.
Hope the light box does the trick, Punkdoc.
I didn't go straight out into the garden as I remembered that we have a complicated concert-y evening coming up - one in a concert at school, the other at a dress rehearsal somewhere else altogether, two dental appointments to squeeze in, OH trying (and probably failing) to get back from work in time, no time to cook and no one available to eat at the same time as anyone else. So have chucked stuff in the slow cooker and everyone can help themselves as and when.
Enjoy your horticultural retail therapy, Obxx.
And have a lovely lunch, BL. Cream tea at the boating lake cafe afterwards... ?