Disturbed night last night with strong winds howling about the house. OH is going deaf and slept right thru, of course.  Bright and sunny this morning but cold and still very windy so I shall confine my outdoor activities to an inspection and then carry on indoors. Patch homework to do.
I hope everyone is safe and well. HUgs to those worrying about floods or colds and other bugs.
Lovely sunny day, garden still flooded and the higher areas have a couple of inches of snow. Am starting to seriously doubt how the garden will survive what has happened this winter. Plan today is to sit outside and raise my Serotonin levels, if I don't get frost bite first.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Busy morning so far so late on parade and scurrying around to get stuff done before tennis ... I've had a chat with Mrs Neighbour this morning ... Mr Neighbour's COPD is what's landed him in hospital again ... she said he's already phoned her this morning and sounded a bit better so she's hopeful that he won't be there too long ... at least it's not the aneurysm ... as she said, Phew!
I had an email from my bank yesterday ... well, I had several, but one aroused my suspicious nature ... it was telling me that in all the upheaval of moving house, I mustn't forget to take out Home Owner's Insurance ............... Hmmmm I thought, what makes them think I'm moving house? Â
Then I pondered some more and realised that my Debit Card expires next month ...... what if someone had contacted them purporting to be me to change the address on my account and then my new Debit Card would go to them and not me  ........ I phoned their fraud line this morning and spoke to a nice young man who was very impressed with my suspicious nature  Â
He said it was just one of a batch of advertising guff but agreed with me that they usually target their advertising guff a bit better than that, so there may have been a glitch and I was included in the wrong batch ... I told him to make a note on my file that I have no intention of moving house in the near future ... I'm not sure if there's a box to tick on their system for that but at least I told him  Â
Anyway, he assured me that before any changes were made to my account I would be contacted by snail mail and text ... so all should be well ......... but as he said, it's as well to check these things .... and I found the system to report suspected fraud to work quickly and well, so that's reassuring. Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning. We have had all weathers in the last 24 hours! No sleet/snow here, but is and will be just further up the valley. Day off today, just taken MIL to physio. We have a self-referral walk in (pun not intended) service locally, so hopefully that will avoid a GP appointment etc.Â
Have a a good day all. Take care all those with snow, floods or other nuisance weather.Â
I hate all these advertising cold calls. Had one this morning wanting to come and see me about burglar alarms because of the high number of burglaries in the village. The village is small and there haven't been any burglaries. Worries me that they want to look around the house to see how easy it would be to rob. If they have my phone number they probably have the address too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
So far we've just been getting them for insulation and health cover for OAPs.  If you're worried, consider installing some security lights or CCTV cameras. Not expensive these days or complicated.
OH managed to take a pic of "our" egrets yesterday, fossicking about the pond edge.
Lovely photo. We have cameras already that work with OH's iPad so we can look whenever we want, same for the Norfolk cottage. They can ring an alarm when movement is detected, wish it had been on when the deer ate the violas on the terrace! Also lights that work from the iPad.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lovely picture Obelixx Good day at work, home in time to spend an hour in the garden planting some donated iris and dotting Narines through the long bed. Lots growing due to get destroyed by up and coming weather. Crocus crushed by pigeons, wallflowers in bud, impatient to see the results of my rejigging in the boarder, but some time to wait I fear! I must be grateful I'm not under water, I feel for you Pdoc! Hubby has requested a slap up fry up for dinner, little does he know it will be grilled!Â
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Patch homework to do.
I hope everyone is safe and well. HUgs to those worrying about floods or colds and other bugs.
Lovely sunny day, garden still flooded and the higher areas have a couple of inches of snow. Am starting to seriously doubt how the garden will survive what has happened this winter.
Plan today is to sit outside and raise my Serotonin levels, if I don't get frost bite first.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Day off today, just taken MIL to physio. We have a self-referral walk in (pun not intended) service locally, so hopefully that will avoid a GP appointment etc.Â
Have a a good day all. Take care all those with snow, floods or other nuisance weather.Â
OH managed to take a pic of "our" egrets yesterday, fossicking about the pond edge.
We have cameras already that work with OH's iPad so we can look whenever we want, same for the Norfolk cottage. They can ring an alarm when movement is detected, wish it had been on when the deer ate the violas on the terrace! Also lights that work from the iPad.
Good day at work, home in time to spend an hour in the garden planting some donated iris and dotting Narines through the long bed. Lots growing due to get destroyed by up and coming weather. Crocus crushed by pigeons, wallflowers in bud, impatient to see the results of my rejigging in the boarder, but some time to wait I fear!Â
I must be grateful I'm not under water, I feel for you Pdoc!Â
Hubby has requested a slap up fry up for dinner, little does he know it will be grilled!Â
Daffodil made from bank notes, at the Bank Of England Museum.Â
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats-on/2019/325-years-exhibition/specimen-florae-britanniae-by-justine-smith-2019