Hi all. Hard frost here as well, but it looks like it may be sunny. Christmas plans may be disrupted, MIL appears to be behaving oddly, she is Bipolar and sometimes stops taking her medication. Family conflab later, then decide who is best placed to go up.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Jupiter Murcury and Venus were all close together just before sunrise. I got up at 2am to watch the meteors, would have been a good show, but thick cloud as always when there’s something spectacular to see.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Parents can be as worrisome as children Pdoc. Hope it gets sorted out satisfactorily.
Dramatic looking skies Pat. Hope they deliver lots of rain for you and all the plants and animals that need it. That zentangle stuff looks very intricate.
Dove - glad you could help that young man and he found his girlfriend safely. Chicky - safe trip for the family gathering expedition. We don't get Possum till the 22nd but she's sent a shoppng list for making macarons.
I am confined to barracks today waiting for a mosaic tile delivery. Sweet chili sauce to tame, cards to write, oak furniture sprucing continues and sewing. If delivery chappy comes early enough there'll be walkies too altho my left foot is a bit crunchy today after aerobic Viennese waltz and cha-cha followed by a new figure in rumba.
OH has a lovely day for his golf match. I might even get out in the garden for a while.
Have a lovely day everyone and stay safe and warm.
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)."
-1° but I don't know if there was a frost because of the fog. Supposed to be sunny according to Meteo France.
We flew back to France yesterday. We both have horrid colds and my left ear has been blocked since the plane. I was going to make 100 mince pies for Sunday's Carol Service. Don't feel like it, hope I feel a bit better tomorrow.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Not good Busy. If you can get there, Leclerc sell very good eucalyptus flavoured boiled sweets. Very good for clearing tubes. We keep a stock in winter just in case. Hope it clears up soon for you both. That's a lot of mince pies!
Early frost has gone in the sunshine but still feels freezing out there. Expecting rain tomorrow so it should be a bit warmer.
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)."
It's an amazing hoard of gold treasure (coins, jewellery, tableware etc) that was found on a farm close to the village where Wonky and I used to live. A farmer had dropped a metal tool off his tractor and asked a friend with a metal detector to try to find it and they found some coins ... they contacted the County Archaeologist and my friend Jude dashed over to investigate ... the first thing I knew about it was that Jude (who is an acclaimed archaeologist specialising in Roman stuff) turned up at my house, parked her car with the boot right up against the house wall and asked to use our phone (the days before mobiles). She swore us to secrecy and couldn't tell us much but she had to phone the police at the local HQ and then drive over there immediately .... would I phone her partner and say she'd be late home? It turned out that the boot of her car was full of gold and it was in our front garden!!! It had to be locked up in the strong room at the police station overnight an the police had to mount guard at the field. That was just the beginning of what they found ... absolutely beautiful stuff ... well worth seeing if you're in Canberra while it's there!
Thanks Dove. I think I saw it on TV not long ago about them discovering it. It looked very beautiful. I’m not sure if we’ll get back up there again in the short term, but I’ll check out the dates etc. good to know how to pronounce it, too.
That's worrying for you both re MIL, doc. Hope it's easily resolved, but I don't suppose it's that simple. BL - I reckon you do enough for everyone throughout the year. Let some other person provide the mince pies. Hope you feel better soon. These colds and coughs are miserable just now, and it probably hasn't helped that you've been back and forth on planes. Full of germs, those things Busy enough at work - yet more folk who are disorganised and adding to orders. Sigh. Glad it's over for another week. My fingers are only just thawing out now. Our sun didn't really hang around, and it's back to hazy stuff. It got to the dizzy heights of 4 for a short while. Birds are stuffing their wee faces out there. I think they've eaten all the cheese, and a little dunnock had a fat sultana in it's beak. Wasn't sure if they ate them, but I've seen it now!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
FG - Our garden birds are getting thru double rations of loose seed as well as scoffing the fat blocks and balls. Bright and sunny here but still cold, hovering around 0C and no breeze. Set to cloud over later tho so no star gazing.
What do people do with rosettes at Xmas? Awards for prize pratt at the office party?
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)."
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Hard frost here as well, but it looks like it may be sunny.
Christmas plans may be disrupted, MIL appears to be behaving oddly, she is Bipolar and sometimes stops taking her medication. Family conflab later, then decide who is best placed to go up.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I got up at 2am to watch the meteors, would have been a good show, but thick cloud as always when there’s something spectacular to see.
Dramatic looking skies Pat. Hope they deliver lots of rain for you and all the plants and animals that need it. That zentangle stuff looks very intricate.
Dove - glad you could help that young man and he found his girlfriend safely. Chicky - safe trip for the family gathering expedition. We don't get Possum till the 22nd but she's sent a shoppng list for making macarons.
I am confined to barracks today waiting for a mosaic tile delivery. Sweet chili sauce to tame, cards to write, oak furniture sprucing continues and sewing. If delivery chappy comes early enough there'll be walkies too altho my left foot is a bit crunchy today after aerobic Viennese waltz and cha-cha followed by a new figure in rumba.
OH has a lovely day for his golf match. I might even get out in the garden for a while.
Have a lovely day everyone and stay safe and warm.
Morning all.
-1° but I don't know if there was a frost because of the fog. Supposed to be sunny according to Meteo France.
We flew back to France yesterday. We both have horrid colds and my left ear has been blocked since the plane. I was going to make 100 mince pies for Sunday's Carol Service. Don't feel like it, hope I feel a bit better tomorrow.
Early frost has gone in the sunshine but still feels freezing out there. Expecting rain tomorrow so it should be a bit warmer.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
BL - I reckon you do enough for everyone throughout the year. Let some other person provide the mince pies. Hope you feel better soon. These colds and coughs are miserable just now, and it probably hasn't helped that you've been back and forth on planes. Full of germs, those things
Busy enough at work - yet more folk who are disorganised and adding to orders. Sigh.
Glad it's over for another week. My fingers are only just thawing out now.
Our sun didn't really hang around, and it's back to hazy stuff. It got to the dizzy heights of 4 for a short while. Birds are stuffing their wee faces out there. I think they've eaten all the cheese, and a little dunnock had a fat sultana in it's beak. Wasn't sure if they ate them, but I've seen it now!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What do people do with rosettes at Xmas? Awards for prize pratt at the office party?