We're all smug and smiling up here after having a couple of dry days. We've had quite enough rain to be going on with, thank you very much Mind you - I drove home from Galloway through some torrential stuff, and it's heading this way, so I'm glad I set off to the hill early and got back without a drookin'.
I'm slightly curmudgeonly at myself for parking in the wrong car park initially, and found the right one after fannying around for quite a while before realising. On the plus side, the machine wasn't working in the first one, so at least I didn't waste 3 quid
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Orange alerts for wetaher here and up the west coast of France and it's heading your way. Winds of 135kph and rain too. Not complaining, you understand but do be careful of your plants and pots and greenhouses if you're in its path.
We've been up to Nantes today to do a raid on the Asian supermarket then IKEA to get the right feet for our new bed and replace the lamp which broke when they posted it. As it's pentecost weekend here we decided not to go to the enormous Leclerc there but get out fast (traffic) and shop nearer home.
Why, no matter which supermarket in whatever town, can none of them find a trolley which doesn't develop a mind of its own when you load it up with a week's shop?
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)."
Why did I pick the worst weather of the week to book all my outdoor meetings? It lashed down all day, I got through 2 coats and then 5 minutes after I was done for the day it stopped and the sun came out. Now I've been rushing about saving plants from drowning as I forgot to take all the trays away before the rain came.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You've convinced me Dove & B3, another hosepipe it is. I think I bought a soaker hose in a sale last year for the veg bed but if it's still in the shed - it's mine! Hope your bad weather's not heading here Obs, we've had quite enough today.
Lost my car at Bluewater. It wasn't worth nicking so I knew it had to be there somewhere. I also knew it was karma - the revenge of the masonry bee. I'd blocked it's access and watched it quartering the area looking for the hole. I then knew how it felt as I quartered the wrong carpark Found the car just before I ordered a taxi. NOTHING would induce me to go back there - ever.
Lost my car at Bluewater. It wasn't worth nicking so I knew it had to be there somewhere. I also knew it was karma - the revenge of the masonry bee. I'd blocked it's access and watched it quartering the area looking for the hole. I then knew how it felt as I quartered the wrong carpark Found the car just before I ordered a taxi. NOTHING would induce me to go back there - ever.
I had the same experience at the Trafford Centre in Manchester!
I thought I'd cracked it. I looked for landmarks and thought I was OK. The icons seemed to have a similar theme, but not the one I'd memorised. -maybe I'd got it wrong and it was a squirrel and not a beaver. They do look a bit similar when you've got other things on your mind. But, unfortunately, symmetry and architectural amazingness won out over practicality😕
Oh dear B3 -I think we've all been there and done that. Reminds me of the time we flew into Gatwick in a thick, thick fog about midnight and couldn't find our car - you couldn't make out anything, let alone a particular car but the courtesy bus driver went beyond the call of duty - we were the only ones left on the bus and he drove round and round and round - we did eventually find it. He deserved a medal!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mind you - I drove home from Galloway through some torrential stuff, and it's heading this way, so I'm glad I set off to the hill early and got back without a drookin'.
I'm slightly curmudgeonly at myself for parking in the wrong car park initially, and found the right one after fannying around for quite a while before realising. On the plus side, the machine wasn't working in the first one, so at least I didn't waste 3 quid
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We've been up to Nantes today to do a raid on the Asian supermarket then IKEA to get the right feet for our new bed and replace the lamp which broke when they posted it. As it's pentecost weekend here we decided not to go to the enormous Leclerc there but get out fast (traffic) and shop nearer home.
Why, no matter which supermarket in whatever town, can none of them find a trolley which doesn't develop a mind of its own when you load it up with a week's shop?
Found the car just before I ordered a taxi.
NOTHING would induce me to go back there - ever.