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HELLO FORKERS 😎 August 2019

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Its a lovely morning here in Norfolk ... bright sunshine and a stiff breeze ... I’ll put some towels on the line ... that would’ve scandalized the neighbours not so many years ago 😆On the farm the washing line was at the back of the big ‘T’ shaped farmhouse which was surrounded by an old orchard, fields (and the moat) and couldn’t be seen by anyone ... Ma was a Methodist but she was also very pragmatic ... if God sent her a good drying day on a Sunday who was she to refuse to use it ? ... after all, it wasn’t her doing the work ... it was the wind 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Morning, this is just grim isn’t it.  We are near the top of a hill but all those idiots who tarmac their driveways really ought to stop and think of where the water goes. In our case it’s our orchard the suffer
    if there is any consolation it’s that I can’t go out and do anything. Not allowed my happy pills (which I had just started so felt no benefit........Yet)
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh dear @Lily Pilly ... sounds wet up your way ((hugs))

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning.  We have wet bits bit it's a swizz.  Yesterday they reckoned on a good 24mm downpour this afternoon.  Today it's a muted 4mm drizzle for a few hours.   Humph!

    Sorry you're feeling crook still @Lily Pilly but it's going to take time.   I thought there were rules now about using porous paving for drives and so on, at least for new ones, but I guess everyone just assumes the run off goes down drains........ 

    @Lyn - maybe by the time the jute degrades the wisteria will have "wooded" up and will hold itself.     Ours does.
    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)."
    Plato
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    edited August 2019
    Morning all. I had a extra long lie in today. 

    Dove - I wonder how many people are ‘left’ who don’t do chores and washing on a Sunday? The tradition of the Sunday Roast/family meal can stay though - thank you MIL! Rain or shine (or 30 degree heat) - there will always be a cooked dinner there! 

    Fab to see you @Lily Pilly - keep positive you. 

    Have a lovley Sunday all, whatever you are up too. Catch you later. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I've just put in a wash.  Not exactly hard labour.   Roast shoulder of lamb for dinner tonight cos Possum likes the tradition and there'd be uproar if I didn't roast something.

    Have just checked the rain radar map and there's loads of it skipping past just to the south of us.   Looks wet for @Busy-Lizziehttps://www.meteo60.fr/radars-precipitations-pluie-france.php 


    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)."
    Plato
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    We lost a big bough of an oak tree - currently marooned in the middle of the meadow.  Made one h@#l of a noise when it came down - sounded like a train had crashed next door.  Spent most of yesterday cowering inside.  Better venture out and assess the damage now 🙄
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’ll be good for the beetles @chicky . Must’ve been a bit scary at the time tho ((hugs))
    A big dish of moussaka has been made while I was catching up with the Archers ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Yes, Obelixx, we have stolen your rain, lots of it.

    Shame I couldn't see Dove's photos on the Gallery, they just came out as big blocks of colour. My Internet has improved and I could see everyone else's, just spent some time there catching up.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s odd @Busy-Lizzie ... I didn’t do anything differently ... can other folk see them?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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