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HELLO FORKERS - JANUARY 2019

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Oh dear, A Boy, 2019 isn't letting you in lightly! Doesn't that make three already as you started by having to pop back for presents?

    Just looking in before bed. Goodnight all.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    There have been multiple dry lightning strikes in the hills around our district, so Hubby has been called out to help with the resulting bushfires. 🤬
    S. E. NSW
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Hope Hubby is home safely Pat.

    First time I have seen these numbers on the clock for a few weeks 🙁. Up and at ‘em 💃🏼
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    He’s not home yet Chicky, but I think they will be soon. 
    We currently have a thunderstorm overhead, so our reception might fail.

    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Type your comments. Ps. Do you still have a chicklet coming over. The temp in Adelaide today was 41c😳
    S. E. NSW
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Morning all. 41 Pat! It’s 1 here!! 
    I suppose today is a ‘back to normal’ day for most after all the Winter festivities.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Aunty Rach, the weather this year is awful. 

    Hubby is home from the fire. But is to be back at the fire shed in the morning early.

    S. E. NSW
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Good morning, there has been a hard frost overnight. No idea what temp is as we have had to move the weather station into study as reception best there.

    I felt less dizzy yesterday but did practically nothing!  Taking decor down today. I have bulbs of hyacinth ready to come in.  They always make the house fresh after festivities

    Hosta glad you both safely there, I could do with some heat but not the 41 of Adelaide!
    hope hubby home Pat

    chicky hope you have an easy day.  My family are back today too. We get another day up here!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all  :) pale blue sky and a few fluffy clouds ... about 4C here. Considerably more under this duvet.  :)
    Hope those of you returning to work can ease yourselves back in very gently ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PalaisglidePalaisglide Posts: 3,414
    Allotment Boy, You certainly know how to enjoy yourself. "Err" you may have had number three, Did a Burglar knock it over getting in the window?

    Pat E, This world has shrunk in my lifetime from six weeks by boat down to a few hours by air, we have relatives on holiday in Melbourne as we speak. Christmas and New Year I got messages from the USA, Canada, France and all parts of the UK almost instantly with Pictures on Face Book, to me miraculous.
    It took me twelve days by Troop ship to get to Port Said Egypt, mind we had a few stops on the way and storm repairs after the Bay of Biscay.
    It took the blue flimsy Air Mail letters ten days to get home now we flash round the world in seconds. I wonder what my Grandchildren will be doing when they reach my age. They may look at a machine that reads their thoughts transfers them to the other persons brain as they are pressing the button that automatically cleans the whole house in seconds makes your porridge and stirs the marmalade into it for you.
    The bit worrying me is the world now expects to be coddled from birth to death, they forget how to fight adversity, we had adversity from birth and were taught to fend for ourselves, a message I pass on to my Grandson. The good life will not come to you, get out there and grab it by the throat.
    Frank.
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