Morning all , a beautiful morning here . My nostalgic smells.My maternal grandmothers Lavender perfume wafting from her crisp white lace bordered handkerchief . Also Jeyes fluid and Dettol which she used copiously every time she cleaned the path and the indoor floors .
Morning - see you were all wallowing in nostalgia last night🙂 We were posh 😉 and always had an indoor lavvy and bathroom - but I do have vague recollections of a bath in the big kitchen sink - mainly because I scraped my arm on one of the taps.
The clove smell of stocks and dianthus takes me straight back to a picnic in a park en route to Devon when I was about 5 - hard boiled eggs, tomatoes and cold sausages were on the menu - a favourite lunch even now!
We did really well on Uni C last night - several ‘hat tricks’. A bit different to last week when we didn’t get even close to double figures.
Best get on. This afternoon we’re hiring a little plane from the club where OH does some instructing. Going to fly over the house, my childhood home, the Norfolk Broads, up the Suffolk / Norfolk coast round to Wells-next-the-Sea and then back over Norwich. Should take about 2 hrs - would take all day in the car. Haven’t done that sort of thing for about 30 years - looking forward to it.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Back from SM - mission accomplished. Chive, I smiled when you mentioned your Mum's physio is called Luco. That is the name of Chey's cat! PF - glad to hear that you had a reasonable night's sleep. It makes a heck of a difference.
Joyce - I'm with you with the smell of leather. Glorious. The smell that lingers on your hands after you have nipped out the side shoots on your tomatoes always reminds me of my Dad.
T'Bird, I hope that you get a nice clear day to see all the sights during your flight. Very green with envy here
M-U - thanks for all the memories you triggered last night. Just got to nip to my neighbour's with her paperwork and then maybe garden. It DID rain on both my outgoing and incoming drive though. Fingers crossed.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Hmm - Jeyes fluid... sorry but that smell always reminds me of a particularly unpleasant public toilet we used to stop at in Newmarket if we were travelling overnight on holiday. (Before the days of by-passes and service stations.)
There were lots of dark and dirty corners in those toilets and the floor was always wet. The toilet seats were wooden and I distinctly remember my mother holding me over the loo so I didn't have to sit on the actual seat in case of germs. Lovely Izal toilet paper...
If they hadn't had a 5 year old on board with a bladder the size of a pea nothing, but nothing, would have induced my mother to go in those toilets. Probably paid 1d for the privilege too😁
MU - the hori hori knife is a traditional Japanese gardening tool. It's a cross between a trowel and a hunting knife (sort of!). Got a long, pointed, slightly dished blade, serrated down one side. Supposed to be good for cutting into hard ground for planting, getting out weeds with long tap roots and cutting through tree and hedge roots while you're planting.
Bearing in mind that my clay soil is often baked hard I thought it might be good for planting annuals in the summer or bulbs in the autumn, planting bulbs in grass (bulb planter doesn't cut into the soil at all) and for getting out all the brambles that are seeded in the concrete soil of the woodland border. Just wondered if anybody on here has one. Some people seem to swear by them as their go-to hand tool.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Hello again. Paperwork all done and dusted. Gardening now - I doubt it as there is wet stuff dropping from the sky. Sorry PF its my fault I 'didn't read the question'! Mea culpa.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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Rain and I have to go out for GP appointment.
My father had a saddler's shop and I loved the smell of leather.
The clove smell of stocks and dianthus takes me straight back to a picnic in a park en route to Devon when I was about 5 - hard boiled eggs, tomatoes and cold sausages were on the menu - a favourite lunch even now!
We did really well on Uni C last night - several ‘hat tricks’. A bit different to last week when we didn’t get even close to double figures.
Best get on. This afternoon we’re hiring a little plane from the club where OH does some instructing. Going to fly over the house, my childhood home, the Norfolk Broads, up the Suffolk / Norfolk coast round to Wells-next-the-Sea and then back over Norwich. Should take about 2 hrs - would take all day in the car. Haven’t done that sort of thing for about 30 years - looking forward to it.
There were lots of dark and dirty corners in those toilets and the floor was always wet. The toilet seats were wooden and I distinctly remember my mother holding me over the loo so I didn't have to sit on the actual seat in case of germs. Lovely Izal toilet paper...
If they hadn't had a 5 year old on board with a bladder the size of a pea nothing, but nothing, would have induced my mother to go in those toilets. Probably paid 1d for the privilege too😁
MU - the hori hori knife is a traditional Japanese gardening tool. It's a cross between a trowel and a hunting knife (sort of!). Got a long, pointed, slightly dished blade, serrated down one side. Supposed to be good for cutting into hard ground for planting, getting out weeds with long tap roots and cutting through tree and hedge roots while you're planting.
Bearing in mind that my clay soil is often baked hard I thought it might be good for planting annuals in the summer or bulbs in the autumn, planting bulbs in grass (bulb planter doesn't cut into the soil at all) and for getting out all the brambles that are seeded in the concrete soil of the woodland border. Just wondered if anybody on here has one. Some people seem to swear by them as their go-to hand tool.
Izal toilet paper used for tracing and to put over a comb to make a 'mouth organ'.
GP referring me to physio to see if that will help with weight bearing and balance on my weak leg.