Hello, this is Moira (Nigel's other half); Nigel has asked me to post to let you know that he has been admitted to hospital, is not very well and so won't be on the forum for a while. Hope you are all enjoying your gardening and are continuing to stay safe.
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Hello all. Hot here too... but at least the washing is drying fast!
We were expecting the "renderers" back again today, but no sign of them. They took off yesterday as soon as they'd finished the main, white bit of the rendering, before we'd realised they were going, so didn't get a chance to ask when they'd be back. They've made a great job of it - extremely neat, and at the moment, dazzlingly white... it won't last though. The cobwebs and bird poo will soon see to that... As is traditional in Ireland (well, around here at least), the bottom of the house below the damp course will be a different colour, as will the windowsills and doorsteps (though we have to find a matching colour of paint for the steps). Terracotta, if we've managed to persuade them we don't actually want red...
Hubby dropped a can of paint on his bruised foot last night.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hello everyone. We are connected at last. Over a month of faffing and unhelpful engineers!!
Two chappies turned up this morning ahead of
schedule and fiddled with a box on a pole across the road and then a wee box on
a bendy stick up the side of the bigger pole in our hedge and Voilà!
They were supposed to come this pm so I headed out this am to do the weekly
shop which included several other errands – took the lifeless motor strimmer to
the doc’s and had fun with another catamaran transport on the way back. This
one was wider than the last and only just squeezed between the fancier lamp
posts in the little villages. As before there was a control vehicle
before and aft and a policeman on a motorbike to make sure that oncoming
traffic moved well to the side but when we met a couple of lorries coming the other way with big
loads – an earth mover and a portakabin type chalet/holiday home – the lorry
with the catamaran had a magic trick.
The support dooberry that was
holding the catamaran up by its belly tilts! Up went the port side till
the boat was tipped at 45° and the port hull was up and over the
obstacles. Genius, tho a bit alarming at first when your view of the
tilting machine is blocked by a high van and all you see is a catamaran
starting to capsize in mid air.
I've been able to read GW - when I could get past the unusual obstacles - but not post except one or two short messages so I'm more or less up to speed on the chat threads but not new threads.
Greetings to all. Good to be back. Hello to new posters and returners and old friends. Hope @Dovefromabove gets her neck and shoulder sorted soon. Great stuff @chicky for father and Wisley. Should have made a list of everyone else's news..........
Good luck To @D0rdogne_Damsel with that project and hope the plants recover. I moved some mature herbs a few days ago and they have coped but have needed watering every morning and evening and an occasional sprinkle over their foliage as the wind is very drying at the mo.
Hugs to Moira and hope @punkdoc picks up soon and can have hugs too.
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)."
Sorry to hear Punkdoc is unwell and in hospital. Thanks for letting us know Moira. Hope he gets better soon. Great to hear from you again Obelixx, the catamaran episode sounds amusing.
Oh Moira @punkdoc ... bless you both ... and you really have your hands full at the moment ((lots of hugs)) . I thought he’d been unusually quiet and was beginning to be a bit concerned. Please give him our love and tell him to get well soon. He is very missed. ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@punkdoc, Warmest wishes to you both Moira. Send Nigel my biggest Hosta Hugs. Just back from the coal face. Certainly more grockles around. 2 cars came into Waitrose car park , occupants got out , ran towards each other, kissing and hugging. Security went over and teld him if they couldn't keep 2m from each other they'd have to leave the car park.
Oh it’s so good to have you back @Obelixx 🥂 🥳 You had your suspicions about the box at the top of the pole before didn’t you 🙄 Thanks to you (and everyone else) for your kind wishes for my neck and shoulder ... I keep doing the stretches and neck rolls (gently) and it is getting better ... slowly ... but some days it feels like two steps forward and one back ... but at least it’s going in the right direction.
We went to the GC early this morning and picked up some more compost and potting grit. I sat in the car while OH did the shopping ... he said it’s all very orderly and seems as safe as it can be. He goes back to work on the same site on Monday.
I had a phone chat with our neighbour opposite ... she was singing the praises of Waitrose @Hostafan1 ... they’re both in their 80s and he has severe chronic COPD. She said they just couldnt get to grips with online ordering ... when a neighbour who works for Wrose told her manager he found a solution.
They phone in a weekly order and their delivery driver builds the half mile there and half mile back detour into another delivery journey so it doesn’t actually show up as a delivery 👍 , because as she said ‘we don’t eat much’ 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We were expecting the "renderers" back again today, but no sign of them. They took off yesterday as soon as they'd finished the main, white bit of the rendering, before we'd realised they were going, so didn't get a chance to ask when they'd be back. They've made a great job of it - extremely neat, and at the moment, dazzlingly white... it won't last though. The cobwebs and bird poo will soon see to that...
Hubby dropped a can of paint on his bruised foot last night.
Two chappies turned up this morning ahead of schedule and fiddled with a box on a pole across the road and then a wee box on a bendy stick up the side of the bigger pole in our hedge and Voilà!
They were supposed to come this pm so I headed out this am to do the weekly shop which included several other errands – took the lifeless motor strimmer to the doc’s and had fun with another catamaran transport on the way back. This one was wider than the last and only just squeezed between the fancier lamp posts in the little villages. As before there was a control vehicle before and aft and a policeman on a motorbike to make sure that oncoming traffic moved well to the side but when we met a couple of lorries coming the other way with big loads – an earth mover and a portakabin type chalet/holiday home – the lorry with the catamaran had a magic trick.
The support dooberry that was holding the catamaran up by its belly tilts! Up went the port side till the boat was tipped at 45° and the port hull was up and over the obstacles. Genius, tho a bit alarming at first when your view of the tilting machine is blocked by a high van and all you see is a catamaran starting to capsize in mid air.
I've been able to read GW - when I could get past the unusual obstacles - but not post except one or two short messages so I'm more or less up to speed on the chat threads but not new threads.
Greetings to all. Good to be back. Hello to new posters and returners and old friends. Hope @Dovefromabove gets her neck and shoulder sorted soon. Great stuff @chicky for father and Wisley. Should have made a list of everyone else's news..........
Good luck To @D0rdogne_Damsel with that project and hope the plants recover. I moved some mature herbs a few days ago and they have coped but have needed watering every morning and evening and an occasional sprinkle over their foliage as the wind is very drying at the mo.
Hugs to Moira and hope @punkdoc picks up soon and can have hugs too.
Hope he gets better soon.
Great to hear from you again Obelixx, the catamaran episode sounds amusing.
He is very missed. ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just back from the coal face. Certainly more grockles around.
2 cars came into Waitrose car park , occupants got out , ran towards each other, kissing and hugging. Security went over and teld him if they couldn't keep 2m from each other they'd have to leave the car park.
You had your suspicions about the box at the top of the pole before didn’t you 🙄
Thanks to you (and everyone else) for your kind wishes for my neck and shoulder ... I keep doing the stretches and neck rolls (gently) and it is getting better ... slowly ... but some days it feels like two steps forward and one back ... but at least it’s going in the right direction.
online ordering ... when a neighbour who works for Wrose told her manager he found a solution.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.