Needless to say, it is wet here, have resorted to sowing some seeds. Have to keep reminding myself that we are lucky here, although the garden floods regularly, we are fairly high up the moor, so only have a couple of tributaries feeding the stream. 3 or 4 miles further towards town, many tributaries join up, so they get the real problems.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Not wet here at present but the lawn is a quagmire. I'm about to go out and clear up the remaining bits of plastic, since the insulating team have finished using expanding foam and insulating blocks. It'll be such a relief when they've finished the top coat of render and have reconnected the outflows from sink, shower and washing machine to the soak pits... at present the sink has a cobbled-together set of pipes leading to the only working drain, but everything else is relying on DIY solutions - a section of gutter to direct shower water to the same drain works reasonably well, but the washing machine is a different matter, since the utility is a long way from that drain. I have to be around while the washing is on, to change the trugs and buckets under the outflow pipe and pour the water down the kitchen sink... the builder doesn't seem to understand that I don't want the already-waterlogged back garden soaked with soapy water.   However, on the plus side is that even before the upgraded loft insulation has been installed and the central heating fired up, the house is appreciably warmer. Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hi everyone, How come the holiday was cancelled Hosta,Â
To cut a long story short, I've been having pains and they reckoned my gall bladder had to come out, so I cancelled the holiday, then the surgeon decided it wasn't my gall bladder and I didn't need surgery. Now I'm fighting with the insurance company's dogma. Wish me luck.
Did the surgeon decide what it was in the end @Hostafan1? If so, I must have missed it.
I dug "The Fairy" out of her pot this morning and planted her and I dug Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Falstaff out of their trough this afternoon. They are in plastic sacks in the stable waiting to be given to my daughter with more roses that I shall dig out of their pots. It's quite hard work.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
it turned out to be acic burn of the esophagus, but because I'd had the gall bladder infection, they were going down that line. Endoscopy showed up the damage.Â
It was a lovely sunny and warm morning here but turned horribly wet and windy by lunchtime. I had hoped to be able to potter in the garden after lunch. I'm hoping son and his family are ok in their rented yurt somewhere north of Dartmoor @Hostafan1 but I fear not after your weather report. More woe because daughter has now gone down with heavy cold which probably means we'll get it as well.Â
@Liriodendron, glad the house is now warmer, hang on in there, it will all be worth it in the end.
Hi everyone, hope none of you got blown away today I nearly did get blown over on a brief trip to allotments. Though the main gates are covered in chainlink it is surprising how much wind they catch when it's blowing hard, just as I tried to push one back to get the car through the wind gust decided to take me in the other direction- serves me right for being such a skinny lightweight I guess. No harm done just a comical "moment" not that there was anyone else to see. @Liriodendron glad you are warming up too. New system seems odd as it's so quiet after the old one roaring away, the only way we know its on is because we are warm- great.
I did ask him if they were packing wellies and a dinghy @Hostafan1. It doesn't have electricity or something else I can't remember! I know the feeling @Allotment Boy, I'm only small so have had to cling onto OH many times over this very gusty winter.Â
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Needless to say, it is wet here, have resorted to sowing some seeds.
Have to keep reminding myself that we are lucky here, although the garden floods regularly, we are fairly high up the moor, so only have a couple of tributaries feeding the stream. 3 or 4 miles further towards town, many tributaries join up, so they get the real problems.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Not wet here at present but the lawn is a quagmire. I'm about to go out and clear up the remaining bits of plastic, since the insulating team have finished using expanding foam and insulating blocks. It'll be such a relief when they've finished the top coat of render and have reconnected the outflows from sink, shower and washing machine to the soak pits... at present the sink has a cobbled-together set of pipes leading to the only working drain, but everything else is relying on DIY solutions - a section of gutter to direct shower water to the same drain works reasonably well, but the washing machine is a different matter, since the utility is a long way from that drain. I have to be around while the washing is on, to change the trugs and buckets under the outflow pipe and pour the water down the kitchen sink... the builder doesn't seem to understand that I don't want the already-waterlogged back garden soaked with soapy water. Â
Now I'm fighting with the insurance company's dogma.Â
Wish me luck.
I dug "The Fairy" out of her pot this morning and planted her and I dug Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Falstaff out of their trough this afternoon. They are in plastic sacks in the stable waiting to be given to my daughter with more roses that I shall dig out of their pots. It's quite hard work.
@Liriodendron, glad the house is now warmer, hang on in there, it will all be worth it in the end.
I know the feeling @Allotment Boy, I'm only small so have had to cling onto OH many times over this very gusty winter.Â