When a labouring woman needs to go to hospital, her birth partner is not the best person to drive her there. When I worked in a maternity unit, I always advised expecting parents, "If you're owed any favours, now's the time to call them in," and to draw up a list of car-owning friends who were willing to be called on at unsocial hours. You want someone who can give the woman all their attention while a third person drives. They can then drop you off at the best place and drive away, thus avoiding the nightmare that is trying to park anywhere near a hospital.
I've booked her a taxi
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Very wise. I'm curmudgeonly tonight because it dried up just a bit to enable me to run round the garden to deadhead the roses, why oh why do we have to have torrential rain just when the roses were looking magnificent. Mine are so beaten down and bedraggled.
If you think it's tough for roses come round and look at my peonies.
Or just come round and look at my garden full stop. I woke up this morning and thought "Sod it" (polite version) "I'm going out there anyway", only to find it is now torrential, so l wimped out and had some more tea.
My peonies are only just coming out - I had thought the outer guard petals were 'stuck' so carefully prised them apart with a fingernail. On the other hand, my lovely Patty's Plum poppies were in full bloom but most are now beaten down, it's a bit disheartening.
I looked at my garden which has been @##£%%&- by the rain and it occurred to me that in other years it has equally been @#£&--+* by drought. Ho hum. At least it has encouraged me to do for most of the nigella and the garden is looking better for it. I've given the albertine a good shake and the buds are no longer obscured by damp dead petals. Apologies for positivity.😊
Pack it in with the positivity B3 😁 ! Looked out of the window at 3.30am to see clear skies, lovely moon. By 8am, cloudy skies and mizzle in the air. Maybe l should start gardening at night......
Can you get amazon delivery Obi, flea and wormer are much, much cheaper on there, and they work very well. I used to buy the same in a Farmers Store, but cheaper on the net. Even independent Pet stores on line are cheaper than the vets.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I usually do Lyn. It's the jabs that are the most expensive and need to be shown on their passports. I'll be googling shortly for supplies of the rest but needed wormers and co asap as I found we'd run out. We're dog-sitting from Tuesday - a 4yr old cocker spaniel called Rusty who will have the time of his life here with our pair. Better than going to the UK and spending most of his time in a cage in a car and certainly better than being n his own in kennels.
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)."
Just been round and checked the garden, not too bad at all. Luckily the peonies hadn't come out so they are OK. I've deadheaded the roses. Some of the blooms on Claire Austin are a bit battered (she doesn't like the rain). Mortimer Sackler has come out of it the best, it was in full flower but it's fine. It started quite sunny this morning but now it's clouded over and is looking like more rain.
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I've booked her a taxi
I woke up this morning and thought "Sod it" (polite version) "I'm going out there anyway", only to find it is now torrential, so l wimped out and had some more tea.
Ho hum. At least it has encouraged me to do for most of the nigella and the garden is looking better for it. I've given the albertine a good shake and the buds are no longer obscured by damp dead petals.
Apologies for positivity.😊
Looked out of the window at 3.30am to see clear skies, lovely moon. By 8am, cloudy skies and mizzle in the air. Maybe l should start gardening at night......
We got to 23C yesterday. Back on Arctic winds and chilly bits today.