I'm off down the to th epotager in a minnie to plant some brassicas
car or skirt? Seems fairly inappropriate either way
oh the fun we can have with auto-correct. Wretched thing
Got really, properly, thoroughly soaked on Wednesday. Cold too - it was hailing at one point. Greyhound was extremely displeased and sulked all the way back to the car. Waitrose yesterday and they'd run out of the things that I go there specially to buy because the other SMs don't sell them. Which was annoying. Had to hurry back to be in for BT Engineer coming to fix a problem with our phone line. BT engineer didn't turned up because BT forgot to tell him. OH has a migraine It's piddling down. Again
A week of petty annoyances.
On the upside, when I looked up from my desk yesterday, there was a heron sitting on the neighbours' roof. They look ever so big close up
Sorry about your Mum @Yviestevie . Hope you've got her settled back in the home again. I vividly recall all of that trauma, with both my parents. It's a horrible time you're going through.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@Dovefromabove , I meant to ask you earlier. When we were nearly into Kings Lynn on the A47 from Wisbech, there were lots and lots of big HGV's both ways and we wondered where they were all going. Kings Lynn is no longer a big port is it?
@raisingirl - just below knee shorts actually except I seem to have lost a cuple of kilos and they were dropping, unfetchingly. However, it was warm enoug to be in a strappy top and positively sweaty in the PT when I was hoeing one of the now emptied tomato beds. 28C in there.
Hope your OH comes round soon. Love herons and egrets too.
Brassicas planted and protected with butterfly netting and then the bl**dy knee went pear-shaped and started throbbing so I've spent the last couple of hours messing with another 1 litre pot of tomatoes to reduce down and composing an email to the 2 SILs.
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)."
That's a rubbish week you'vehad @raisingirl. Very frustrating. I vowed never to entertain BT again after the disgusting way we were treated when my Dad died. Love a heron too - they often fly overhead here as there's lots of sources of water around here suitable for them. One flew very low over me the other day when I was out for a walk. Your knee's not playing ball at all just now @Obelixx Got very little done today after all. Only a couple of hours dry again before more heavy rain/hail etc. Managed the other post in, and some deadheading. At least the gusty wind helped dry the washing quite well first!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
That's a good haul of toms Obs. I harvested the rest of my toms today, and once it's dry, I'll pop the spent compost into the borders etc. I think the sweet peas have managed well considering the most recent spell of weather too. They're a bit battered and bruised, but still performing well, with plenty of blooms. Cut a lovely bunch last weekend to take to the cemetery. Yeh - the weather's been a bit lousy for anything major, but such is the way of it here. Plenty of things to be grateful for, and I'll get the bulk done hopefully before winter sets in. I can always reorganise the shed
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening. Horrible rain today. Had a pre-weekend tidy round, bit of shopping, made a chicken soup, did some admin and just settling down for some Friday TV now. Have a good weekend all. Any exciting plans folks??
Hi folks, thanks for all your kind comments. I've had the boys today so not much of a rest but lots of cuddles to compensate. Moms back home and OK will go and see her over the weekend. I've got the boys again tomorrow while Secondborn catches up on work I'm taking one of them to Merry Hell to return some items while Hubby and SIL look after the other. Nothing planned for Sunday. Not sure if I'll get anything done in the garden as I haven't checked the weather forecast.
@Chicky you'll wonder how you ever found time for work. I have never regreted retiring early even though I don't get any sort of pension yet. Poor but happy suits me.
Hope everyone aches and pains improve and that you all enjoy the weekend.
@Dovefromabove , thanks for that link - mystery solved. The port sounds much bigger than we realized. We're fairly familiar with Ipswich as had friends there, but haven't been back to Norfolk for quite a few years. @Yviestevie , glad your mum's okay, enjoy your weekend (even if it's busy!).
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oh the fun we can have with auto-correct. Wretched thing
Got really, properly, thoroughly soaked on Wednesday. Cold too - it was hailing at one point. Greyhound was extremely displeased and sulked all the way back to the car.
Waitrose yesterday and they'd run out of the things that I go there specially to buy because the other SMs don't sell them. Which was annoying. Had to hurry back to be in for BT Engineer coming to fix a problem with our phone line.
BT engineer didn't turned up because BT forgot to tell him.
OH has a migraine
It's piddling down. Again
A week of petty annoyances.
On the upside, when I looked up from my desk yesterday, there was a heron sitting on the neighbours' roof. They look ever so big close up
Sorry about your Mum @Yviestevie . Hope you've got her settled back in the home again. I vividly recall all of that trauma, with both my parents. It's a horrible time you're going through.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
added to which the A47 runs to Lowestoft/Gt Yarmouth and Gt Yarmouth harbour is very busy https://www.peelports.com/ports/great-yarmouth
The A47 is always very busy with a lot of artics
etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope your OH comes round soon. Love herons and egrets too.
Brassicas planted and protected with butterfly netting and then the bl**dy knee went pear-shaped and started throbbing so I've spent the last couple of hours messing with another 1 litre pot of tomatoes to reduce down and composing an email to the 2 SILs.
Love a heron too - they often fly overhead here as there's lots of sources of water around here suitable for them. One flew very low over me the other day when I was out for a walk.
Your knee's not playing ball at all just now @Obelixx
Got very little done today after all. Only a couple of hours dry again before more heavy rain/hail etc. Managed the other post in, and some deadheading. At least the gusty wind helped dry the washing quite well first!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some progress for you too then? Little steps, as they say, but weather driven so frustrating I expect.
Yeh - the weather's been a bit lousy for anything major, but such is the way of it here. Plenty of things to be grateful for, and I'll get the bulk done hopefully before winter sets in. I can always reorganise the shed
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have a good weekend all. Any exciting plans folks??
@Yviestevie , glad your mum's okay, enjoy your weekend (even if it's busy!).