I can do both Dove. Love watching the world go by but sometimes need a book or a Kindle. Depends on the views and the distance.
Cool again here but dry so far after a wet pm yesterday. OH is out there strimming. I'm on admin and then sewing and then weeding or planting later on - assuming it will be a bit warmer but not banking on it.
Why did no-one mention the CK programme? I've missed the Great Dixter one but found last night's is repeated in the small hours on Sunday and the others are set to record.
NB - I don't know why anyone thinks 60 is old. It's the new 40 isn't it?
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)."
Was on holiday for my 60th doing daft things like rainforest ziplining and night scuba-diving on coral reefs. Not everyone has the good health to do these things but the proportion who can is much higher than ever before.
@chicky ... I wish I could read on the train ... if I try I become nauseous very quickly 🤢 so it’s a windowseat and watching the world go by for me 😊
I get motion sickness on more or less anything but I can read on most trains - usually a newspaper so I can keep looking up, rather than a book. The new trains are much worse though - they have the gubbins under the carriages rather than the big engines front and back. Makes them higher so they swing more. I guess I'll get used to them, in time (and I think that is why I get on better on trains - familiarity in some way, like 'sea legs'). I was very sick on the Eurostar though - just too fast I know what Chicky means about the headphones. I tend to listen to classical music really quite loud (no tishh tch tch tishh to annoy fellow passengers).
We don't get terrestrial TV at all - I only watch online and I don't think Ch5 has a 'watch live' channel yet. The BBC iPlayer is so good, the other channels are way behind.
I've got a big jug of roses on my desk. All weather beaten and drooping but wonderful fragrance so I though I'd keep them for a day or two before they completely disintegrate. There's a few snapped off alliums in there as well. We needed rain, for sure, but could have done without the cold north wind. Ho hum. The weather's much like cats - it will do as it does and there's no doing anything about it.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We've enjoyed Carol Klein too. Thought we'd missed the Great Dixter one because the rain spoilt the picture, but most of it recorded OK.
I have gardening I have to do before we go to Norfolk on Sunday but it's wet and windy. Now Son 2 and Daughter 2 want me to babysit in the afternoons of Thursday and Saturday, the only days when the forecast says it won't rain. Starting to feel panicky.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cool again here but dry so far after a wet pm yesterday. OH is out there strimming. I'm on admin and then sewing and then weeding or planting later on - assuming it will be a bit warmer but not banking on it.
Why did no-one mention the CK programme? I've missed the Great Dixter one but found last night's is repeated in the small hours on Sunday and the others are set to record.
NB - I don't know why anyone thinks 60 is old. It's the new 40 isn't it?
When is the CK programme on?
I'll set my VHS for Sunday's repeat.
I know what Chicky means about the headphones. I tend to listen to classical music really quite loud (no tishh tch tch tishh to annoy fellow passengers).
We don't get terrestrial TV at all - I only watch online and I don't think Ch5 has a 'watch live' channel yet. The BBC iPlayer is so good, the other channels are way behind.
I've got a big jug of roses on my desk. All weather beaten and drooping but wonderful fragrance so I though I'd keep them for a day or two before they completely disintegrate. There's a few snapped off alliums in there as well. We needed rain, for sure, but could have done without the cold north wind. Ho hum. The weather's much like cats - it will do as it does and there's no doing anything about it.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We've enjoyed Carol Klein too. Thought we'd missed the Great Dixter one because the rain spoilt the picture, but most of it recorded OK.
I have gardening I have to do before we go to Norfolk on Sunday but it's wet and windy. Now Son 2 and Daughter 2 want me to babysit in the afternoons of Thursday and Saturday, the only days when the forecast says it won't rain. Starting to feel panicky.