Hi all. Happy birthday Hosta. Builders should have been here, fixing another leak, but they are not coming. They did phone though, which is something of an improvement. Sorry you had such a c##p day LP.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Gloriously wet out there and windy too. Yellow alert for the Vendée but I love it. We've been out to fetch our Xmas tree from the local primary school and it has had its bottom trimmed and is now standing in water and tied to a drainpipe to keep it upright for the next 2 to 3 weeks till we bring it in.
OH is now tucked up in his barn putting branches thru the chipper and I'm about to make pumpkin soup for lunch before cutting out the pieces for my Xmas patch machine homework. It's so long since I did any serious gardening I've had to cut my nails cos they were too long, rather then being broken or bent from messing with plants and soil. Never mind, the soil will be lovely to work in next week.
LP - glad you're OK. There's nowt like a car trauma and no signal. I drove round a bend at the top of Thirlmere one wet autumn to find the road flooded. Drowned the engine. Stepma trudged miles over fells to find a farmhouse with a landline while I stayed with Possum and a Zafira full of damson trees and other plants plus stepma's dog. Stopped other cars from drowning but not one offered to tow us out or call for help! Our Belgian AA offered to fly us home while the car was fixed. I told them that would be hard given the trees and other plants and wellies and suitcases too so they hired us an estate car but only to Dover so OH had to drive across and fetch us. Got some funny looks sat waiting with two trollies, 4 trees, other plants, bags of Lakeland and Booth's goodies...........
Stay warm and dry everyone. Good day to be cosy.
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)."
I've just been to a Christmas Fair, bought some English charity cards and a small Christmas cake. I haven't made one as hardly anyone in the family eats it. I love it but didn't want to get any fatter. There were several people I know there, one said I was looking well, roses in my cheeks. I'd just had a large paper cup of mulled wine!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Stopped other cars from drowning but not one offered to tow us out or call for help!
That always astounds me. You'd think that if there's no mobile signal [or in pre mobile days] a person with a 'working car' would drive back to a phone box, pub, home or summat and make the call. People are idiots, and I'm being polite. I'd never leave someone stranded like that, regardless of who they were. I offered to help a couple of lads one day in Glen Lyon when they realised they didn't have enough petrol to get out of the glen. There's a couple of places they could have walked to and got help, but they were quite happy to enjoy their 'adventure' as they put it. It wouldn't have been an issue to take them to the nearest garage for some petrol and take them back. Keeps raining here so I'm clearing a ch. of drawers for using elsewhere. How thrilling, but I've found the photo album which little fairylet gave me some years ago. For anyone who's read the sheep thread - they'll know what I'm doing with it!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hope you're having a lovely time. It's getting a little brighter here. I may be able to get a few plants put in - hellebores which I grew on, and some Pachysandra I bought recently. Might need quite a few layers on - it was parky when I was out earlier doing bird feeders and taking rubbish out. I know how to live chicky ...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Happy birthday Hosta.
Builders should have been here, fixing another leak, but they are not coming. They did phone though, which is something of an improvement.
Sorry you had such a c##p day LP.
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.
Happy Birthday Hosta!
Miserable day here but need to venture out to pick the foliage for Crimbo craft day. Wellies and coat required!
Have a fab weekend all.
Gloriously wet out there and windy too. Yellow alert for the Vendée but I love it. We've been out to fetch our Xmas tree from the local primary school and it has had its bottom trimmed and is now standing in water and tied to a drainpipe to keep it upright for the next 2 to 3 weeks till we bring it in.
OH is now tucked up in his barn putting branches thru the chipper and I'm about to make pumpkin soup for lunch before cutting out the pieces for my Xmas patch machine homework. It's so long since I did any serious gardening I've had to cut my nails cos they were too long, rather then being broken or bent from messing with plants and soil. Never mind, the soil will be lovely to work in next week.
LP - glad you're OK. There's nowt like a car trauma and no signal. I drove round a bend at the top of Thirlmere one wet autumn to find the road flooded. Drowned the engine. Stepma trudged miles over fells to find a farmhouse with a landline while I stayed with Possum and a Zafira full of damson trees and other plants plus stepma's dog. Stopped other cars from drowning but not one offered to tow us out or call for help! Our Belgian AA offered to fly us home while the car was fixed. I told them that would be hard given the trees and other plants and wellies and suitcases too so they hired us an estate car but only to Dover so OH had to drive across and fetch us. Got some funny looks sat waiting with two trollies, 4 trees, other plants, bags of Lakeland and Booth's goodies...........
Stay warm and dry everyone. Good day to be cosy.
Hello all.
Happy birthday, Hosta.
I've just been to a Christmas Fair, bought some English charity cards and a small Christmas cake. I haven't made one as hardly anyone in the family eats it. I love it but didn't want to get any fatter. There were several people I know there, one said I was looking well, roses in my cheeks. I'd just had a large paper cup of mulled wine!
Keeps raining here so I'm clearing a ch. of drawers for using elsewhere. How thrilling, but I've found the photo album which little fairylet gave me some years ago. For anyone who's read the sheep thread - they'll know what I'm doing with it!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sat waiting for a train into New York City .....feeling very adventurous 😀. Brace yourself for pics later 🏙🌃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope you're having a lovely time.
It's getting a little brighter here. I may be able to get a few plants put in - hellebores which I grew on, and some Pachysandra I bought recently.
Might need quite a few layers on - it was parky when I was out earlier doing bird feeders and taking rubbish out.
I know how to live chicky ...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...