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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • HouseFinchHouseFinch Posts: 328
    Chicken wasn't thawed in time for dinner, so I threw together some chicken burgers with fresh baked dinner buns. OH and kids played outside and started the chimnea while I finished putting supper together. We spent the evening together enjoying our meal under the pergola, then sat around the fire in lounge chairs while OH cooked marshmallows. Just shy of one week since outside exposure, but we are certainly making the best of it.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Sounds good @HouseFinch, it's not warm enough here to sit outside in the evenings yet - at least, it isn't for me!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Made me laugh when Johnnie played Ian Dury yesterday.
    But then he made me cry playing Fire and Rain, as I always do. Happy days.

    My RTBC at the weekend was, I'd picked up something in Sainsbury, and checked my Nectar points. 1 point short of being able to use them. I ordered some seeds on Saturday which earned me -1 point.
    I can now use them for petrol.
    I'm easily pleased  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I finally got the first cut off the lawn. My 10 year old push lawn mower made short work of it despite having had no more maintenance than the odd squirt of WD40. You can barely tell the lawn has been a paddy field for the last 6 months. The weeds have suffered more than the grass sadly so I'm going to have to sow more clover into there again.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Clover grown very happily here with no help from me except in the bits where I've stopped OH mowing and there it's saying Ta Very Much.

    I have learned a new word today.  One of my patch ladies who went to her home in Toulon 2 weeks ago to babysit her 2 school age grand-daughters for their early spring school hols told me she can't cos she's in the at risk group.  She's taken some patch and embroidery projects to keep her busy in the evenings and had spent a lovely day in the garden in the sunshine. 

    She used the verb bouquiner which I thought might be something to do with bouquets and flowers but no, it means reading.

    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)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Shoot me down for bad taste , but:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52000173
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostafan1 said:
    Shoot me down for bad taste , but:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52000173
    Not been practising social distancing eh?  Why am I not surprised? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I found my webcam! I can talk to the world! Well my family anyway.

    Sadly @Hostafan1 and @Dovefromabove I fear the good will suffer from Mr W's lack of morals as well as he does. 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hostafan1 said:
    Shoot me down for bad taste , but:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52000173
    Not been practising social distancing eh?  Why am I not surprised? 
    His appeal lawyers will the only folk hoping he gets better soon.
    Devon.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Obelixx said:
    [...]
    She used the verb bouquiner which I thought might be something to do with bouquets and flowers but no, it means reading.

    book -> bouquin -> bouquiner ;)

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