No point bird counting here. It's blowing a hooley, any birds unwise enough to leave their tree get blown by so fast I wouldn't be able to identify them.
Take the good you find, Anni, however small it may be. Hope your foot is just having a brief relapse and is better again tomorrow
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
No point bird counting here. It's blowing a hooley, any birds unwise enough to leave their tree get blown by so fast I wouldn't be able to identify them.
I had to laugh at that. I have a vision of you looking out the window and something flashing past at the speed of light, with you desperately trying to focus binoculars on it.
Many years ago I worked in an office with windows looking out over open lawns. One day it was blowing hard and there were a number of magpies on the ground outside. They would face into the wind then jump and extend their wings to get blown backwards. They continued to do this for ages - fascinating to watch as they were clearly just doing it for fun.
Where did the weekend go? I managed about an hour in the garden and most of that was spent on one plant
My wife told me to sort out my own dinner last night since she was feeling unwell still. I figured I fancied a curry so went to the shop to buy a ready meal and return my dented tins of soup. The ready meals were too rich for my stingy taste so I decided to make my own. Being a logical person I bought a whole chicken rather than pay more for the prepared stuff, then I thought I'll need to deal with the rest of the chicken so had to buy more supplies as well. In the end I spent the whole evening roasting the chicken, making a big batch of curry, enough chicken soup to last all week and still left the chicken breasts for my wife to eat when she feels like she can keep it down and enough chicken and veg to mush up for baby food. I wish I'd bought more veg now and got a casserole going in the slow cooker while I was doing veg prep.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
There were points when I wish I'd gone with the beans. The only rice we had takes 22 minutes to cook. After all that cooking I had to wait 22 minutes for bleedin' rice to cook before I could eat.
Anyway. I took the library dust jacket off my new book yesterday too. A very high quality book cover if anyone is in the market for them. The company name was stamped on the reverse side so feel free to google gaylord.com for more info...
I googled the library it came from too and it looks like an amazing place. They even had a seed library scheme where you can take seeds, grow the plants and harvest your own seed to return to the library. Neat idea.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Just back from dentist - new crown required, a swift 360 odd quid. OH stunned me on the way home by revealing that he'd had a crown fitted about 10 years ago, and he's also had root canal work. I could have sworn that l never knew either of those things. Nearly 40 years married and he's still a man of mystery . Had foot pummelled and pushed yesterday (touch wood not too bad today), and now think I'm coming down with a cold. Curmudgeonly doesn't come close at the moment. OH did buy me a small cream cake though - l'm allowed half today and half tomorrow .
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Take the good you find, Anni, however small it may be. Hope your foot is just having a brief relapse and is better again tomorrow
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I’m good at doing salads 🥒 , Impressed with your cooking skills
OH did buy me a small cream cake though - l'm allowed half today and half tomorrow .