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HELLO FORKERS - JANUARY 2019

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.
    Love to @WonkyWomble
    No news from hospital, so hopefully operation will go ahead tomorrow, have to get Moira in by 7.00.
    Grey and bitterly cold here, so a little bit of plant porn is called for.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Sunny here but cold.   Have to work out a week of vegan meals and then a shopping list.  Possum wants to me to get vegan hazelnut milk yogurt with coconut - yeah, not happening in rural France.

    Fingers crossed for Moira Pdoc.  Enjoy your porn.    Man up  Hosta - you need the money for HRT.

    Enjoy Dove - one of the advantages, I suppose, of long straight hair is that it just gets long between cuts.  Greetings to WW.

    Pat - your heat sounds like ours in summer.   Fine by me as long as I can retreat into the cool of the house for the peaks.

    Chicky - hope all the exams have gone well for Chicklets.   Possum has a final oral exam this pm and then home tomorrow for 10 days.

    Hope all goes well with the kitchen BL.  Oak sideboard sounds like a good find.  20+ years ago I found an entire oak bedroom set for about £200 - big wardrobe, dressing table, bed head and foot with side tables........... and colleagues of OH sold us their solid oak dining room set - table, chairs, sideboard and vitrine - for a similar sum because they were worried about grandkids and table corners at eye height.    Amazing.

    Have a good day all, whatever you're doing.




    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)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Two tons (or possibly tonnes... who knows...) of gravel have been barrowed and spread, to make a path in the park to an "outside classroom" (actually, just a clearing in the trees) for the local primary schools to use.  7 volunteers this morning made short work of it, but my shovelling muscles don't know what's hit them!
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    New propagator has just arrived, 4 large boxes....... oh no it is a flat pack. Hope I manage to put it together before the sowing season is over.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Do it while Moira is having her operation, punkdoc, to take your mind off it.

    That oak furniture sounds a really good deal, Obelixx.

    Kitchen looks totally bombstruck! Electrician is gouging out holes in the wall, new cooker socket, new double socket.

    I have finished the dining room curtains.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good luck with the kitchen BL.  Ours didn't need many extra holes for leccy but it seemed a long, hard haul camping in the dining room with a microwave and a gas hob for the duration - long haul while we dismantled the old kitchen, deep cleaned and then painted the walls and then days of installation.   Worth it tho.   Well done with teh curtains.   I'm just wondering weather Roman blinds might be better for our living room
    but they have to be dead accurate don't they?

    Pdoc - sounds like a good distraction project but maybe get a friendly neighbour to help?   or a boy scout?

    We have done the shop for a week of vegan food.  Managed to find almond, oat and hazelnut milks but no fancy yogurts, as I expected.   Found pasta made with chcik pea flour cos the normal stuff "may contain traces of egg".  OH has also bought himself some smelly cheese, just in case he gets a snack attack.


    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Back from the city with considerably less hair, meat and veg from the market and some birthday cards for the next batch of family birthdays. 
    Still chilly out there brrrrr!

    BL  :) we could never convince Ma that it was possible to move ghe cooker point so that it was sited somewhere safer than
    between the door to the conservatory and thd door  to the walk in pantry.  Not a square inch of worktop within arms reach  :o

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yeah! Propagator assembled with only minor amounts of cursing.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    punkdoc said:
    Yeah! Propagator assembled with only minor amounts of cursing.
    That’s a shame then because a good old curse can sometimes be good for you 😉
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Evening all. 
    A bit of a driech old drive around this morning, but no frost. 
    A very interesting time looms for Boscastle as the main road is closed " for 16 weeks" major risk of landslips so a big job which means everyone has to use a very narrow single track , steep road. I think I had  8 cars behind me when I'd finished. 
    Devon.
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