Your evenings out sound just the ticket, @punkdoc and @Busy-Lizzie. We were at a rehearsal of the choir we've recently joined, also enjoyable. Particularly satisfying that hubby's back has eased enough for him to get in the car, then sit on a hard chair for a couple of hours during the rehearsal. Â
Hope the knitting gets un-knotted, @Dovefromabove. My project for today is wrestling with the cheap plastic "walk-in greenhouse" (well, I can walk in, being under 5ft tall, but others might find it tricky!) which came yesterday. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the plastic joiners for the metal tubes are poorly made, with bits of plastic needing to be pared away. In addition, the joiners aren't flexible enough, so quite a few joints will need repairing with tape... still, I suppose if it provides protection for my seedlings for a season, it will have been worth the €35 it cost. Â
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Hi everyone been reading but not posting much as not a lot to say. Sun trying to break through today but big black clouds keep rolling in. Just hoping for some dry days so we can get out and do something I'm feeling like a caged Lion at the moment.
been indulging in some advanced IT wrangling, updating PC from W7 to 10 which didn't go too smoothly Next on the list is OH's laptop which I don't dare screw up.
Got some gardening done, well garden destruction really with a big bank of gaultheria shallon cut down. Now I have to shift it all to the burn pile which is now 3 big piles. Plenty more of it to go plus loads of gaultheria mucronata to clear too. Then I will need to dig out the roots which run for miles and form mats of runners.
Slept 10 hours last night. Didn't know I was that tired. Late on parade then and off to shop - zip and thread for me, a new lawnmower for OH - turns out if we order at the shop it's delivered there for us to fetch but if we order thru their website it's delivered here direct. How to kill off your shop trade?.  Then SM raid and home for a late lunch.
Started lovely and sunny but we've had 2 heavy squalls of wind and serious rain since leaving the SM so it is still far too soggy to do any gardening. We're both getting a bit twitchy.
Pleased you've found a new choir @Liriodendron. Good that you enjoyed yourself last night @punkdoc. Hope the floor's done now @Busy-Lizzie so you still have time to raid a GC.  Maybe need to get that cough looked at @Dovefromabove. Been a long time now.
It is improving @Obelixx ... just tediously slowly  ... it seems most of East Anglia is coughing just the same ... it’s not a chest infection (gunk is clear). Just very annoying 😖 I’ve driven OH to the GC and he bought a sack of sunflower seeds, then we went to Wrose and he bought some salmon, noodles and spinach for supper, sushi for lunch and sausages for  tomorrow.Â
I spent one and a half hours gardening this morning, raking leaves off the lawn and main flower border and tidying up. It was mild and sunny, then sudden downpour, hair got wet and now it's very windy again, no sun.
Kitchen floor is coming along well, will be much lighter and is already making the kitchen look bigger.
I wanted to go to a GC to buy some orange wall flowers to plant around the 2 orange roses I planted in November, Westerland and Oranges and Lemons.
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Afternoon all . Glad you had a good night out @punkdoc, just what you both needed I'm sure.Â
Well !! Hospital visit this morning didn't pan out as I'd expected. My pain wasn't down to my gall bladder but my hiatus hernia in overdrive. 2 pills a day for 8 weeks ,then one a day thereafter. No surgery and I can go back to work as soon as I'm not in pain. Hurrah for that I say.
Afternoon all. I really like orange roses, and other blooms (except Marigolds - I just don’t like them) @Busy-Lizzie, but apparently they are not very popular.  Hope your knitting coming on ok @dovefromabove. I know what you mean about being keen to get out into the garden @Allotment Boy and @Obelixx. It’s going to be dry this weekend, but pretty cold, so may just have a potter about and start making lists. Hope the mini greenhouse behaves for you @Liriodendron - I had one of those once (didn’t last two Welsh winters though) but it was excellent for seedlings and then some tumbling tomatoes in the summer. Your meal out sounded like a pleasant change @punkdoc. I must arrange a work drink/eat/laugh evening soon, as I haven’t been out for a gathering since the Xmas party on Dec 6th. Right, late lunch is ready. Will tackle a few house jobs before the light goes then settle in for a cosy night.
Well that’s really good news @Hostafan1 (I think 🥴) but why didn’t they think of that before?
We’ve discovered why next doors’ taxi to Heathrow didn’t wake us at 3am .... it was because it came at 3pm this afternoon ... but he definitely told me am cos he said he hoped hhey didn’t wake us. His wife probably told him 13 hours early 😂  ... he’s not the best at keeping to a schedule when he’s onshore (he’s captain of a support ship for oil rigs).Â
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Your evenings out sound just the ticket, @punkdoc and @Busy-Lizzie. We were at a rehearsal of the choir we've recently joined, also enjoyable. Particularly satisfying that hubby's back has eased enough for him to get in the car, then sit on a hard chair for a couple of hours during the rehearsal. Â
Hope the knitting gets un-knotted, @Dovefromabove. My project for today is wrestling with the cheap plastic "walk-in greenhouse" (well, I can walk in, being under 5ft tall, but others might find it tricky!) which came yesterday. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the plastic joiners for the metal tubes are poorly made, with bits of plastic needing to be pared away. In addition, the joiners aren't flexible enough, so quite a few joints will need repairing with tape... still, I suppose if it provides protection for my seedlings for a season, it will have been worth the €35 it cost. Â
Started lovely and sunny but we've had 2 heavy squalls of wind and serious rain since leaving the SM so it is still far too soggy to do any gardening. We're both getting a bit twitchy.
Pleased you've found a new choir @Liriodendron. Good that you enjoyed yourself last night @punkdoc. Hope the floor's done now @Busy-Lizzie so you still have time to raid a GC.  Maybe need to get that cough looked at @Dovefromabove. Been a long time now.
I’ve driven OH to the GC and he bought a sack of sunflower seeds, then we went to Wrose and he bought some salmon, noodles and spinach for supper, sushi for lunch and sausages for  tomorrow.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Kitchen floor is coming along well, will be much lighter and is already making the kitchen look bigger.
I wanted to go to a GC to buy some orange wall flowers to plant around the 2 orange roses I planted in November, Westerland and Oranges and Lemons.
Glad you had a good night out @punkdoc, just what you both needed I'm sure.Â
Well !! Hospital visit this morning didn't pan out as I'd expected. My pain wasn't down to my gall bladder but my hiatus hernia in overdrive.
2 pills a day for 8 weeks ,then one a day thereafter. No surgery and I can go back to work as soon as I'm not in pain. Hurrah for that I say.
I really like orange roses, and other blooms (except Marigolds - I just don’t like them) @Busy-Lizzie, but apparently they are not very popular. Â
Hope your knitting coming on ok @dovefromabove.
I know what you mean about being keen to get out into the garden @Allotment Boy and @Obelixx. It’s going to be dry this weekend, but pretty cold, so may just have a potter about and start making lists.
Hope the mini greenhouse behaves for you @Liriodendron - I had one of those once (didn’t last two Welsh winters though) but it was excellent for seedlings and then some tumbling tomatoes in the summer.Â
Your meal out sounded like a pleasant change @punkdoc. I must arrange a work drink/eat/laugh evening soon, as I haven’t been out for a gathering since the Xmas party on Dec 6th.Â
Right, late lunch is ready. Will tackle a few house jobs before the light goes then settle in for a cosy night.
We’ve discovered why next doors’ taxi to Heathrow didn’t wake us at 3am .... it was because it came at 3pm this afternoon ... but he definitely told me am cos he said he hoped hhey didn’t wake us. His wife probably told him 13 hours early 😂  ... he’s not the best at keeping to a schedule when he’s onshore (he’s captain of a support ship for oil rigs).Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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