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HELLO FORKERS 🍦 - June 2020

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Did anyone watch the Sewing Bee final? I thought the right one won.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Definitely the right one, can't understand how the other two made the final.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I had to come in. Too hot for me.
    Tables are lovely @D0rdogne_Damsel - take a breath, and sit at one with a cool drink for ten minutes  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Absolutely the right result 😊 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I thought that too.  Even OH got opinionated as he thought they might choose one of t'other pair.   It's been a good series and I didn't always agree with who went each week but the end result was right so that's OK.   That said, I really don't get the transformation challenges except the last one.  If you can sew clothes you're already saving a packet and don't need to make clothes out of laundry bags or old jumpers.

    Some of the pattern challenges have been bizarre too and, apart from one or two of those tea-dance dresses there really hasn't been anything I would or could wear given my hourglass shape - even more so now I've lost 7 kilos and 10 of the 20cms gone are from my waist - not to mention being 27 and all.

    SM raid done, no probs.   Staying cool for the rest of the afternoon.

    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
    edited June 2020
    Loved Sewing Bee, every single minute of it. , well deserved winner. 
    It got to 30.5C this morning. I went crazy and removed my ( optional ) tie, but didn't succumb to Air Con, not warm enough for that.
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Big excitement here.....a White Admiral just landed on our patio.   Had to get the books out to identify it ......never seen one before 🦋


  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Been out in the garden all day. OH has organised a socially distanced meet up with a couple of our friends in our garden tomorrow evening. So while I was tidying up all the ivy I had taken off the front of the house yesterday she told me I needed to mow the grass around the front to allow safe passage to the sunset side of the garden. It is a narrow access at the top of a steep slope and I wouldn't want our friends falling down that. The grass is about 90% moss as it is on the north side and permanently shaded and is a bit of a sod to mow, it just clogs the mower.

    Then I found that the azalea on the corner had somehow expanded to about 3 times its normal width and would push anyone trying to pass down the slope so out with the pruning saw.

    Next I had to mow the flat bit we can sit on but first had to move the big swing seat and the rest of the garden furniture. All in about a dozen barrow loads of ivy and grass clippings now filling the big compost bins. Felt like a wrung out dishcloth when I got finished - far too hot for a pale blue Scot. The good news is the fridge is cooling the beers for this evening. :p
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Lovely butterfly @chicky, never seen one of those.
    Beautiful in the garden today, just glad I wasn't able to do anything.
    Salad Nicoise for dinner tonight, just got to cook the Tuna.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @chicky that’s really exciting ... I’ve never seen one ... dead jealous 😉 

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





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