LilyP, love and hugs from me too. Glad your OH is on side, taking you out for Sunday lunch - could he email round the family, saying they're very welcome to come for Easter, but that they must make a rota for cooking meals etc, because Mum is under doctor's orders not to do too much? It might work...
We have snow too, though most has disappeared from the valley bottom. Stay warm and safe, folks.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@Lily Pilly I laughed and then blushed at your ‘Mrs Fixit’ ... when I was married members of the extended family would phone me up if they lost something ... hearing aid, cheque book, car keys etc ... I would rush up the road and find whatever it was.
And then I worked for Children’s Services solving problems for the families of children with severe disabilities and life-limiting conditions ... OH says that whenever he hears the Eurythmics song ‘I saved the world today’ he thinks of me ... 🙄
Now Im trying to de-activate my ‘auto-response setting’ ... after all, as Wonky says, if I get ill I’m making the problems worse rather than better ... and she’s right ... I’ve a feeling my little girl is probably grown up now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all. Sorry to hear your news @Lily Pilly, take care. All a bit miserable here, have been home alone for a few days, with another week to come. Pleased to hear your news @WonkyWomble. Love to all.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good morning. Good sleep last night after painting all day and dancing all evening. Didn't hear the wind but it was wet when we got home and is very blowy now. OH is out there digging up spuds for his dinner. More radiator stuff for me today - lovely orange one in the sewing room and a blue one in the lilac room that need painting before they get their covers. Sewing this pm as I have patchwork homework to do for tomorrow.
LP - good luck managing the stress. Hard to switch off but must be done for their sake as well as yours. Share the load. Sow some seeds but not so many the pricking out becomes a chore. OH sounds lovely but maybe just forget Sunday roasts? Possum likes them so I got in the habit but she's not here now so tonight, for the first time in years, no roast.
Pdoc - I hope you're enjoying the calm and not feeling lonely. Busy time for gardeners so that should help keep you centred.
Wonky - hope you're having a relaxing day! Don't have to fill every minute. Take time to breathe.
FG - Love the idea of a blackcurrant wall for a Fairylet. No raspberry for me till I get the radiator covers out of the way.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone. Watch out for the wind. Stay safe.
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)."
Sunshine here now. OH is digging my new rose and clem bed and the newly creamed olive green and turquoise room is looking positively luminous. That's a relief then.
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)."
Any pix fidget? I took some earlier, as I was trying to see if it was siskins on the feeder, but the snow was so heavy I don't think they'll be very clear! Did Stevie Wonder paint that house for them, Obs? I had a raspberry bathroom in a previous house - deliberately. I'd seen a pic of someone's house and they'd combined rasp and orange. It was really unusual, so I gave it a go in our cold bathroom, and it warmed it up enormously. The orange was just some towels and a few little bits and pieces. Ceiling done in white as it had a 'sauna' pine one, and all the other woodwork. It had a beige suite, and flowery tiles, which we couldn't have afforded to replace, but it worked with almost any colour. I painted it all beige again when selling
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They certainly had some strange ideas and a fixation with red and grey. The hall walls are a paint effect red which I rather like. Shame they didn't finish the white woodwork round the doors tho. The woodwork and end walls on the stairs and landing are a deep grey with stripy red, grey and white wallpaper that will have to go. The office is red with grey and red circles on a white wallpaper background and New York was very dark grey walls with black and white photo wallpaper. The boys' rooms were both blue white and orange painted stripes with one room having a lovely orange radiator and the other a strong mid blue. Not something I can live with.
Thank heavens she didn't get round to painting our current bedroom or the dining room and kitchen! The living room is a restrained greige on 2 walls and off white on the rest.
I think a bathroom is a great place for strong colours to warm things up. Ours is tiled in soft green and white "mosaic" tiles. Rather nice but cold which is fine in hot spells.
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)."
The French have some funny decorating ideas. OH's old house had a kitchen with big orange flowers and the sitting room was lime green at one end with the rest wallpapered in a square spiral pattern in orange and bright pink! One bathroom here had orange flowers on the walls with an orange bath and loo and an orange carpet.
Daughter and new baby went home yesterday afternoon.
Hugs and best wishes to Lily P.
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LilyP, love and hugs from me too. Glad your OH is on side, taking you out for Sunday lunch - could he email round the family, saying they're very welcome to come for Easter, but that they must make a rota for cooking meals etc, because Mum is under doctor's orders not to do too much? It might work...
We have snow too, though most has disappeared from the valley bottom. Stay warm and safe, folks.
And then I worked for Children’s Services solving problems for the families of children with severe disabilities and life-limiting conditions ... OH says that whenever he hears the Eurythmics song ‘I saved the world today’ he thinks of me ... 🙄
Now Im trying to de-activate my ‘auto-response setting’ ... after all, as Wonky says, if I get ill I’m making the problems worse rather than better ... and she’s right ... I’ve a feeling my little girl is probably grown up now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry to hear your news @Lily Pilly, take care.
All a bit miserable here, have been home alone for a few days, with another week to come.
Pleased to hear your news @WonkyWomble.
Love to all.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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LP - good luck managing the stress. Hard to switch off but must be done for their sake as well as yours. Share the load. Sow some seeds but not so many the pricking out becomes a chore. OH sounds lovely but maybe just forget Sunday roasts? Possum likes them so I got in the habit but she's not here now so tonight, for the first time in years, no roast.
Pdoc - I hope you're enjoying the calm and not feeling lonely. Busy time for gardeners so that should help keep you centred.
Wonky - hope you're having a relaxing day! Don't have to fill every minute. Take time to breathe.
FG - Love the idea of a blackcurrant wall for a Fairylet. No raspberry for me till I get the radiator covers out of the way.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone. Watch out for the wind. Stay safe.
I took some earlier, as I was trying to see if it was siskins on the feeder, but the snow was so heavy I don't think they'll be very clear!
Did Stevie Wonder paint that house for them, Obs?
I had a raspberry bathroom in a previous house - deliberately. I'd seen a pic of someone's house and they'd combined rasp and orange. It was really unusual, so I gave it a go in our cold bathroom, and it warmed it up enormously. The orange was just some towels and a few little bits and pieces. Ceiling done in white as it had a 'sauna' pine one, and all the other woodwork. It had a beige suite, and flowery tiles, which we couldn't have afforded to replace, but it worked with almost any colour. I painted it all beige again when selling
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank heavens she didn't get round to painting our current bedroom or the dining room and kitchen! The living room is a restrained greige on 2 walls and off white on the rest.
I think a bathroom is a great place for strong colours to warm things up. Ours is tiled in soft green and white "mosaic" tiles. Rather nice but cold which is fine in hot spells.
The French have some funny decorating ideas. OH's old house had a kitchen with big orange flowers and the sitting room was lime green at one end with the rest wallpapered in a square spiral pattern in orange and bright pink! One bathroom here had orange flowers on the walls with an orange bath and loo and an orange carpet.
Daughter and new baby went home yesterday afternoon.
Hugs and best wishes to Lily P.