I can well understand that @Pat E and hope the rains arrive sooner rather than later.
Had a brainstorm yesterday and reorganised my sewing room up to the point where I need to borrow OH's body to help shift bookcases and a wardrobe.Ā Ā Need to fix that before I can carry on sewing.
Have been online to order the fabric for sewing cub's Sashiko day in Feb and the perishers haven't got enough left and all the other sites have it at twice the price.Ā Ā Bums.
Birdy bush telegraph functioning well here - OH put out fresh loose seed this am and before he'd closed the back door we had 9 collared doves and a mess of sparrows swooping in.Ā Ā The chaffinches will come when it's quieter.Ā Ā Nobody else feeding at the mo apart from tits on the fat balls and blocks tho there are starlings, robins, blackies and buzzards about.
I looked out the window this morning and saw the sparrowhawk sitting in the magnolia tree right next to the bird feeders, no wonder it was quiet. Do you think it knows it's bird counting weekend?!!!Ā
Bad luck about the car @Busy-Lizzie. I thought third party only insurance had been phrased out though?
I went to put down some more loose seed about half an hour ago and there was a lot of very tuneful singing going on in the shrubs behind the house.Ā No idea who tho.Ā Ā All hiding.
Hello all ... a lovely day out in the countryside, met up with a friend, a picnic lunch in a village hall and a look around a village church and churchyard ... snowdrops, lichens and gorgeous hollies.Ā
Now Iām absolutely bushed ... good job I peeled the tatties and neeps before we went, Ā to go with the free range haggis for supper š½Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I looked out the window this morning and saw the sparrowhawk sitting in the magnolia tree right next to the bird feeders, no wonder it was quiet. Do you think it knows it's bird counting weekend?!!!Ā
Bad luck about the car @Busy-Lizzie. I thought third party only insurance had been phrased out though?
Not in France, Lizzie.
We've been to a French charity lunch. Quite fun but started with loads of speeches. Why do the French do that? Food wasn't brilliant. There were round brioche cakes which had tokens in them, with the fruit salad. The people who got tokens had to wear crowns and then had to sing a song. Our table, 8 English, didn't find a token as we didn't finish the cake so we sang a round of Frere Jacques instead, seemed to go down well, we were clapped.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good evening. Hope you all enjoyed your outings today.Ā
Had a boring but productive day sorting the study out. Found a fair few boxes that havenāt been opened for about 5-10 years! Mostly old paperwork and work stuff - so three piles on the go: keep (not much!), recycle, and shred/burn. Looks like a recycling depot in there now! Had a good laugh at a few old cards and letters. One was from a cereal company as I had found a metal bolt in the box and made a complaint:
āwe apologise for the great distress you must have experiencedā Ā (bit OTT!) Apparently āgreat distressā was worth Ā£5 !!!
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Had a brainstorm yesterday and reorganised my sewing room up to the point where I need to borrow OH's body to help shift bookcases and a wardrobe.Ā Ā Need to fix that before I can carry on sewing.
Have been online to order the fabric for sewing cub's Sashiko day in Feb and the perishers haven't got enough left and all the other sites have it at twice the price.Ā Ā Bums.
Birdy bush telegraph functioning well here - OH put out fresh loose seed this am and before he'd closed the back door we had 9 collared doves and a mess of sparrows swooping in.Ā Ā The chaffinches will come when it's quieter.Ā Ā Nobody else feeding at the mo apart from tits on the fat balls and blocks tho there are starlings, robins, blackies and buzzards about.
Bad luck about the car @Busy-Lizzie. I thought third party only insurance had been phrased out though?
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've been to a French charity lunch. Quite fun but started with loads of speeches. Why do the French do that? Food wasn't brilliant. There were round brioche cakes which had tokens in them, with the fruit salad. The people who got tokens had to wear crowns and then had to sing a song. Our table, 8 English, didn't find a token as we didn't finish the cake so we sang a round of Frere Jacques instead, seemed to go down well, we were clapped.
Had a boring but productive day sorting the study out. Found a fair few boxes that havenāt been opened for about 5-10 years! Mostly old paperwork and work stuff - so three piles on the go: keep (not much!), recycle, and shred/burn. Looks like a recycling depot in there now! Had a good laugh at a few old cards and letters. One was from a cereal company as I had found a metal bolt in the box and made a complaint:
āwe apologise for the great distress you must have experiencedā Ā (bit OTT!)
Apparently āgreat distressā was worth Ā£5 !!!
Have a lovley evening all.Ā