Keep meaning to mention ......have heard sooooo many cuckoo calls this year. Can’t work out if there are more about, or whether it is just easier to hear them now there’s less ambient noise.
And more insects and butterflies 🦋🦗🕷🐜🦋. And the sky looks more blue 💙. Maybe I should be on the “silver linings” thread .....
Morning all/afties Pat. Good to see a bit of new growth for you, but you really could do with rain there. Surprising how you haven't had much updating on your news etc. I suppose they just move onto the next thing eh? Yesterday's fish&chip wrapping... Frosty here overnight but all gone and lovely now after the cloudier, cooler day yesterday. I hope it doesn't get too hot though. Rain for later in the week for us. Took daughter to work at half 7, and then went for a walk to avoid the hordes who've suddenly discovered they have legs. Still didn't stop a woman running right past me who clearly thought she owned the entire road, and two men with dogs who made no attempt to move over, while I was practically in the hedge. I'm considering taking a large pole with me....with a spike on it... Bread looks lovely. Another thing I never make, as I could easily eat a whole loaf at one sitting. I'm hoping daughter eats some of that banana bread I made yesterday Fairylets both fine thanks @Obelixx. Hope Possum is ok too. B*gger about the toothache. Glad chicklet is on the mend too @chicky Splitting basil pots later I think, as they're getting big enough. The pond liner is coming today, so I should hopefully get the new little pond done for the water lily the girls gave me. Dad's big pot was just too small for all the foliage.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Glad that chicklet is improving. I wouldn't worry about Ibuprofen, as I mentioned earlier, it is now being used in a trial, as a treatment for the virus.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@punkdoc@chicky I though ibuprofen was only a problem with Covid too but the dentist got very excited when I told her paracetamol on its own wasn't doing the trick after just 2 to 3 hours and I would really like to sleep the night away rather than read and writhe. Anyway, all stocked up now with mouthwash, antibiotics and codeine stuff so hoping for improvements soon.
We've just had a very brief shower. OH's fault for saying it was decent rainfall! Frightened it off. The radar shows it should come back and may have thundery bits. Bonzo won't like that.
We have jealous dogs at the mo. Rusty spaniel has come to stay because his mum and dad are worried about the neighbours - Parisians who say he has been aggressive to their DIL. They have a shared drive and I expect he just ran up and bounced a bit but he's threatening lawsuits and euthanasia so we've taken him in while things calm down. He's a wee cocker spaniel with a very waggy tail, not a huge great mastiff or rottweiler with big jaws. Handed over with due regard to social distancing and already hoarding our dogs' toys.
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)."
I've been and collected my summer bedding plants from the newly transformed 'Drive Thru' greenhouse: ordered and paid online, simply drive thru and collect from a counter made from pallets, no contact. It's great to see them selling stuff, the g/h is packed full of plants, obviously their busiest time of the year. Upside/downside is no spontaneous purchases or things jumping into the trolley. 🤭 They built website in a week so not everything on it yet, I'll have to keep checking it - or not! 😁 It's only 5 minutes from me, very tempting.
Rocket seed in veggie patch had shot up overnight, Charlie very impressed, unfortunately so have the weeds, so a bit of work for him there. 😅
Heavy rain for an hour last night, garden looks great for it, everything green and perky.
Hope the meds fix the toothache @Obelixx , good news on Chicklet's progress @chicky .
Have a good day all 🙂
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
another one on codeine at bedtime. 🙄 That being said I had a much better night last night, not waking at all until the blackbirds started competing for who can sing the loudest!
Glad Chicklet (phone changes it to chuckles ... bet that’s a misnomer at the moment) can get about a bit ...
Glad Fairylets and Possum etc are ‘surviving’. Wonky etc were still ok as of yesterday 👍 as was niece ... she’s revising cos as she sensibly said, even if she’s not got to do the A levels she’s still got to know the stuff once she gets to uni.
The Under Gardener slipped up a bit last night and forgot to put the poly cloche over the French beans bit they seem to have survived being out at night without exclaiming Zut alors! and shrugging in a Gallic fashion. He is now making remarks about them being ‘Francoise Hardy’.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad that chicklet is improving. I wouldn't worry about Ibuprofen, as I mentioned earlier, it is now being used in a trial, as a treatment for the virus.
That's a new thing for me - an aggressive cocker spaniel. Maybe the city idiots are worried it would lick them to death. Or use its tail like a swan's wing and break their delicate limbs.
I wouldn't worry too much about the passersby @Fairgirl - if you've survived living in the same house as your two girls when they had it, it's not likely you would catch it now out in the fresh air surely?
Who knows @steephill? He's a very funny, friendly wee boy who loves to play and cuddle. Happen the Parisians have not adapted to country life yet. There's a famous case of some who moved to a village in the Charente-Maritime and took their new neighbours' cockerel to court. The judge - yes it got that far - ruled in favour of the country cockerel.
I don't think @Fairygirl is in much danger either @Lizzie27. Social distancing only works if everyone observes it and who knows who's carrying and who's receptive and vulnerable? Getting too close is not on.
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)."
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And more insects and butterflies 🦋🦗🕷🐜🦋. And the sky looks more blue 💙. Maybe I should be on the “silver linings” thread .....
Frosty here overnight but all gone and lovely now after the cloudier, cooler day yesterday. I hope it doesn't get too hot though. Rain for later in the week for us.
Took daughter to work at half 7, and then went for a walk to avoid the hordes who've suddenly discovered they have legs. Still didn't stop a woman running right past me who clearly thought she owned the entire road, and two men with dogs who made no attempt to move over, while I was practically in the hedge. I'm considering taking a large pole with me....with a spike on it...
Bread looks lovely. Another thing I never make, as I could easily eat a whole loaf at one sitting. I'm hoping daughter eats some of that banana bread I made yesterday
Fairylets both fine thanks @Obelixx. Hope Possum is ok too. B*gger about the toothache. Glad chicklet is on the mend too @chicky
Splitting basil pots later I think, as they're getting big enough. The pond liner is coming today, so I should hopefully get the new little pond done for the water lily the girls gave me. Dad's big pot was just too small for all the foliage.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wouldn't worry about Ibuprofen, as I mentioned earlier, it is now being used in a trial, as a treatment for the virus.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We've just had a very brief shower. OH's fault for saying it was decent rainfall! Frightened it off. The radar shows it should come back and may have thundery bits. Bonzo won't like that.
We have jealous dogs at the mo. Rusty spaniel has come to stay because his mum and dad are worried about the neighbours - Parisians who say he has been aggressive to their DIL. They have a shared drive and I expect he just ran up and bounced a bit but he's threatening lawsuits and euthanasia so we've taken him in while things calm down. He's a wee cocker spaniel with a very waggy tail, not a huge great mastiff or rottweiler with big jaws. Handed over with due regard to social distancing and already hoarding our dogs' toys.
I've been and collected my summer bedding plants from the newly transformed 'Drive Thru' greenhouse: ordered and paid online, simply drive thru and collect from a counter made from pallets, no contact. It's great to see them selling stuff, the g/h is packed full of plants, obviously their busiest time of the year. Upside/downside is no spontaneous purchases or things jumping into the trolley. 🤭 They built website in a week so not everything on it yet, I'll have to keep checking it - or not! 😁 It's only 5 minutes from me, very tempting.
Rocket seed in veggie patch had shot up overnight, Charlie very impressed, unfortunately so have the weeds, so a bit of work for him there. 😅
Heavy rain for an hour last night, garden looks great for it, everything green and perky.
Hope the meds fix the toothache @Obelixx , good news on Chicklet's progress @chicky .
Have a good day all 🙂
another one on codeine at bedtime. 🙄 That being said I had a much better night last night, not waking at all until the blackbirds started competing for who can sing the loudest!
Glad Chicklet (phone changes it to chuckles ... bet that’s a misnomer at the moment) can get about a bit ...
Glad Fairylets and Possum etc are ‘surviving’. Wonky etc were still ok as of yesterday 👍 as was niece ... she’s revising cos as she sensibly said, even if she’s not got to do the A levels she’s still got to know the stuff once she gets to uni.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't think @Fairygirl is in much danger either @Lizzie27. Social distancing only works if everyone observes it and who knows who's carrying and who's receptive and vulnerable? Getting too close is not on.