Lovely photos, @Pat E , @Fairygirl and @Hostafan1 .Ā So glad hubby has finished his chemo, Pat.Ā Hope you both get back on an even keel very soon.
It was still 27C when we left Liverpool last night, after a farewell "do" for the choir my hubby's conducted for the past 5 years.Ā A young girl is taking over as conductor - she's 52 years younger than OH... which should shake them up a bit!Ā We ate scouse, which I hadn't encountered before (but which seems rather like Irish stew), with red cabbage.Ā Ā
I had a great time in/around London with lovely Forum friends last Friday & Saturday, enjoying Kew and Wisley, then Sunday morning strolling around gardens in Regent's Park before catching my bus back north.Ā Now I'm trying to catch up with everything, without overdoing things in this heat... must pick more raspberries & peas this afternoon, if I do nothing else outdoors...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Glad you liked the pic, although I thought I'd be lucky to get any yesterday - cloud was down almost the whole way, and the crags were distinctly Mordor-like. The weather gods smiled on me as I got to the lochan, and by the time I was up top, it had all cleared, apart from over Ben Lomond. I'll stick a few better views on the Camera thread. You'd have been too tired for tennis anyway Dove, after your skateboarding doon the hillĀ Ā That's a pain Yvie. Hope your mum is ok. I don't envy any of you that heatĀ Had a walk earlier on - overcast and breezy, but dry, so I might get a few things done outside before any of the clouds open. All the rowan berries are looking very orange.Ā
BL - I forgot to say, sorry about your horse. We used to use sugarbeet, but didn't feed it every day. It's also better to make it in small amounts, because it can 'ferment' a bit, with slightly unpleasant consequencesĀ Ā
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
37C out there in the shade just now with a peak usually at around 4 or 5pm.Ā Ā We're all hiding inside but I will go and check my treasures for who gets the spare shower and veg washing water this evening.
Love those photos, wobble or not.Ā Maybe a mountain bike or a pogo stick would be better than a skateboard @Fairygirl?Ā Ā Ā
Phew another scorcher so I am hiding in the shade catching up. Will go to plots to water greenhouse later. Thunder & lightening woke us up at about 1:10, then the humidity hit at 5am when the sun got going. We had the pigeons woo wooing then too @Dovefromabove. SoĀ areĀ we all off to hell in a handbasket then with our new leader? Well done to you & hubby @Pat E hope it has done the trick then it will have been worth the struggle, the fact he got through without a pause is a positive.
Thanks everyone for the support for Hubby and I. In a couple of weeks heāll be having scans to see if the chemo has done the job or not. Iām almost scared to think about it. š³Ā
best wishes to Everyone.Ā
TV was very boring tonight so Iāve gone to bed with a good story to read. Ā Night all..
Love those photos, wobble or not.Ā Maybe a mountain bike or a pogo stick would be better than a skateboard @Fairygirl?Ā Ā Ā
Might be no worse than my luge down the neighbouring hill last year! At least I came down it the conventional way a couple of months ago, and not on my faceĀ
Now I think of it, you'd never get a mountain bike up and down that hill either, unless you carried it....
I had a new hose thingy to put up recently and the instructions were beautifully illustrated, but you couldn't see the bits you needed to see in any of them.Ā Nothing's ever straightforward , doc - especially the things that should be simple IMEĀ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We once bought blinds to fit to Velux windows and the instructions were all in diagrams but so easy to follow and everything was so well designed and fitted to mm precision that I wrote to Velux and told them what wonderful designs the blinds, and instructions were.Ā A week later I got a letter from their manufacturing plant in Denmark thanking me for taking the time to contact them.Ā
I donāt use the BBC anymore, it was never right whereas this one is accurate to the hour. Hereās ours for the coming week, and you can deduct 2c because of the altitude, so not looking that good.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
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Lovely photos, @Pat E , @Fairygirl and @Hostafan1 .Ā So glad hubby has finished his chemo, Pat.Ā Hope you both get back on an even keel very soon.
It was still 27C when we left Liverpool last night, after a farewell "do" for the choir my hubby's conducted for the past 5 years.Ā A young girl is taking over as conductor - she's 52 years younger than OH... which should shake them up a bit!Ā We ate scouse, which I hadn't encountered before (but which seems rather like Irish stew), with red cabbage.Ā Ā
I had a great time in/around London with lovely Forum friends last Friday & Saturday, enjoying Kew and Wisley, then Sunday morning strolling around gardens in Regent's Park before catching my bus back north.Ā Now I'm trying to catch up with everything, without overdoing things in this heat... must pick more raspberries & peas this afternoon, if I do nothing else outdoors...
You'd have been too tired for tennis anyway Dove, after your skateboarding doon the hillĀ
That's a pain Yvie. Hope your mum is ok.
I don't envy any of you that heatĀ
Had a walk earlier on - overcast and breezy, but dry, so I might get a few things done outside before any of the clouds open. All the rowan berries are looking very orange.Ā
BL - I forgot to say, sorry about your horse. We used to use sugarbeet, but didn't feed it every day. It's also better to make it in small amounts, because it can 'ferment' a bit, with slightly unpleasant consequencesĀ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Love those photos, wobble or not.Ā Maybe a mountain bike or a pogo stick would be better than a skateboard @Fairygirl?Ā Ā Ā
SoĀ areĀ we all off to hell in a handbasket then with our new leader?
Well done to you & hubby @Pat E hope it has done the trick then it will have been worth the struggle, the fact he got through without a pause is a positive.
best wishes to Everyone.Ā
TV was very boring tonight so Iāve gone to bed with a good story to read. Ā Night all..
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now I think of it, you'd never get a mountain bike up and down that hill either, unless you carried it....
I had a new hose thingy to put up recently and the instructions were beautifully illustrated, but you couldn't see the bits you needed to see in any of them.Ā
Nothing's ever straightforward , doc - especially the things that should be simple IMEĀ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A week later I got a letter from their manufacturing plant in Denmark thanking me for taking the time to contact them.Ā
Hereās ours for the coming week, and you can deduct 2c because of the altitude, so not looking that good.