Funnily enough Dove, when we lived in Harrow I took to making my own bread and sausages but the quality and variety we found in Belgium meant I didn't need to, except for soda bread. These days we don't eat much bread at all but I still have to make soda bread when I want it - best thing with winter soups I find.
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)."
Very nice round Loch Quoich, hasn't one of the roads there been closed for some time?
Are you thinking of the old road from Tomdoun that goes to Cluanie, via the loch? As far as I know, the road into the dam is fine - it had better be! Haven't been there since doing Glenshiel Ridge and the two on the north side of Loch Quoich, but there are walk reports from last autumn so it looks fine. Shame about your other planting, but could be worse, as you say. A blue tit creche sounds lovely Dove
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have some very good bakers in Norwich so if I’m going near them I’ll buy from them (got to support local businesses) but otherwise it’s quicker and easier to make our own although Wrose is only half a mile away. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our garden seems a bit like a crèche at the moment too 😀. Never seen so many diminutive tits, nuthatches and our (possibly only one) baby woodpecker darting around in swarms ..... it’s lovely to see. When I think back to January and garden birdwatch time it is quite a contrast ❄️
According to Tinternet, @Fairygirl, there was a km-long landslip over the Kinloch Hourn road from Invergarry, north of Loch Quoich, last November. The road reopened in late April.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
It has stopped raining here, just in time for OH to try out his new Hyundai. four speed gearbox. two cup holders, nice shade of blue. Well he cracked the chassis on the old one, so we ordered a new one on Sunday and a TNT man bought it this morning.
The lawn is a bit wet but he still had a whizz round it. The old lawnmower has a perfectly good engine, so he think he will try and make me an electric siever with a revolving barrel. I think he is turning into my dad with his contraptions.
Ar eyou renaming him Heath Robinson, fidget? Thanks for reminding me of that Liri. I'd forgotten about that landslide. It was a cracker. The only other closure I could think of was resurfacing in autumn on the south side of Fort Aug,but it was finished last year too. Last thing I need is another fifty miles added on Been quite nice here today, so I got the bark distributed and a couple of minor things done. Should really make some dinner....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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As far as I know, the road into the dam is fine - it had better be! Haven't been there since doing Glenshiel Ridge and the two on the north side of Loch Quoich, but there are walk reports from last autumn so it looks fine.
Shame about your other planting, but could be worse, as you say.
A blue tit creche sounds lovely Dove
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for reminding me of that Liri. I'd forgotten about that landslide. It was a cracker. The only other closure I could think of was resurfacing in autumn on the south side of Fort Aug,but it was finished last year too. Last thing I need is another fifty miles added on
Been quite nice here today, so I got the bark distributed and a couple of minor things done. Should really make some dinner....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Upcycle update...
Finished!
Top picture is finished, bottom left is sanded and bottom right is the ‘before’ surface.
I used natural Danish oil then a beeswax.
I was falling asleep on the sofa ... I’ve been sent to bed so that OH can watch The Planets without me fidgeting and yawning beside him
Now I’m in bed listening to the Evening Chorus 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, my evening chorus today is 3 hot, panting dogs. Very loud. Walkies is always very early or else late when it's this hot.