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HELLO FORKERS 🍂 September 2019

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    Make sure you bump up the lumbar support of the seat when you’re driving @Hostafan1 ... don’t want you with a bad back 🙁
    too late m'lovely. I've had a bad back for decades. It's more of a damage limitation exercise. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yeah! That’s sort of what I meant ... I come from a family of ‘bad backs’ as does OH ... we shout ‘bend your knees’ at each other ... thing is I’ve managed to pretty much protect my back but my knees are kn@ckered đŸ„Ž

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





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Late to the party, but LOVE your new border @Hostafan1 😍😍😍.   What is giving it the pops of white all along?

    Exciting evening today .....been invited to a “do” where Alan Titchmarsh and Mary Berry are having an onstage chat....littlest chicklet is coming with me (Mr C doesn’t do socials if he can possibly avoid them).  So a nice evening out with my baby before she heads off to Australia on Sunday.   Making the most of having her around whilst I can đŸ‘đŸ»

    Hope Bonzo is feeling comfortable today.  Sooo sweet that Rasta knows that “pig” is the answer to most problems 😇
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Morning all/afties Pat if you're around  :)
    Hope you don't have any other probs with the car @Dovefromabove. Fingers crossed.
    Exciting times for little chicklet @chicky. Enjoy your talk tonight. I could cope with MB but not AT any more I think. Probably better when he's not on a tv show though.  :)
    Glad all went well with the op @Obelixx. More expensive than children.... :D
    I know what you mean about those shorts... :#
    My back's hopeless too @Hostafan1, has been since my late teens. I used a little back support in the old car [from one of those cheapo shops] which helped enormously. The new car has been good so far though. 
    I'm almost scared to say it's dry here. Single figs again last night.  I know there's some rain to come, but I hope I can finish some jobs done that I started yesterday. The sunny, dry spells were rather short lived. We had some fabulous black clouds interwoven with clear pinky sections of sky last night though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    edited September 2019
    Morning all, slower start on a Thursday which is nice by the time it comes!
     Dove, best of luck with the car fan repair!! X
    Hosta, I can sympathise with the back although mine it's my hands, but like the back you need then for everything!!
    Enjoy the talk Chicky, hopefully Alan won't try to be sexist with Mary or she will bake him into shortbread!
    Morning Obellixx, morning Fairy, chilly here too compared to recent temps but glad considering the night flushes!! Not even sure if it's shorts or jeans today! đŸ€”
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Morning chaps. I'm feeling very virtuous having spent most of the week sorting and clearing boxes and boxes of 'stuff' - mostly paper. It's all now sorted away or set aside for firelighters. I've also done all my backlog of filing while I was at it - email as well as paper - caught up with my expenses and invoices, sorted the rags from the useful material oddments and had a very long shower to wash off all the dust. (green-faced emoji). This was all kicked off by OH finally getting around to making the hole in the wall and having to move all the boxes of stuff we stored 'temporarily' 6 years ago.

    @Obelixx do you have any option for hydrotherapy for Bonzo? Would he swim? I've heard really good reports of it as a way to help rebuild strength after a cruciate repair (I think that's what he had to have?). It's so sweet the way they try to 'heal' each other with presents of toys  :)  best wishes for his recovery, anyway.

    off to read back...


    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning.   3 jars of dried tomatoes in oil done this morning and a pot of yellow tomato passata cooking down.   Bonzo has had a good night and is so happy to be home - trying to bounce which isn't allowed.    Has to go out to pee on a lead for the next few days.    Thanks for all the good wishes for him.

    OH is down the garden picking more toms for me to process and then, no doubt, he'll tackle more of the gravel area which he's clearing by hand......   Huge job but then I can get some "dry" beds done. 

    Enjoy your outing @chicky.   Possum goes back to Namur on Friday so I can empathise with you when Chicklet goes. 

    @Busy-Lizzie I'll send you a PM about La Rochelle.

    Hope your car gets fixed OK @Dovefromabove .

    Sunny here and going to be warm again but the sun is noticeably lower.   I hope you all have a good day.

       
    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
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Not enough toms here for making sauces, but I picked a bowl yesterday and fairylet is going to make some bruschetta later. Hopefully  ;) 
    What plans do you have for the gravel garden @Obelixx?
    Always satisfying doing those jobs @raisingirl, even if no one else notices the effort!
    Hot flushes at any time are a bit hideous @WonkyWomble.  :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    My lovely Talla who won’t leave me, it as if she is saying “you looked after me, now I will look after you

    the growth in the garden is totally untamed i hate to think what is under it all!


    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Your garden is still looking lovely, Lily P. Most gardens look a bit overgrown at this time of year though, having reached maturity by the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

    Thank you for the message, Obelixx.

    It rained a little in the night, filled up the water butt at the end of the garage, hurray, wasn't expecting rain. I did some watering in the dark last night, very limited now we have restrictions.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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