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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I'm not sure if this should be here or on RTBC.  My wife is working from home, but has Friday off.  This morning she said "Can we go out somewhere, but not into town".  The second part of that is a new development.  I asked where she wanted to go and after much waffling on her part (that's not a new development) said we could go to the garden centre to get a bit of fresh air.  Fast forward 2 hours and the back of the car is stuffed with plants and our bank balance is considerably lower.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    OH has spent most of the morning grumping about my hen house project and he's eaten the last of his very ripe Chaource cheese with some apple to complete his lunch.  I had to leave the room.   
    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
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    12 degrees, dark, rainy and very windy. I love July :|
    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
    It's the first week of the Belgian summer school hols so I learned to expect cr*p weather.   They've brought it with them, the many who come to the coast here but it's fine for gardening so I don't mind and the plants love it.   
    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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I remember, as a child, most of our day trips to the seaside involved torrential rain.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We were farmers .... me ..."Mummy, can we go to the seaside on Sunday?"
    Ma ... "Yes, if it's raining."

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😂
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Lyn said:
    When I move again it will have to be similar to here, plot in the middle of a field and no neighbours for miles. 
    I don’t think I could be doing with people next door, cars kids, bikes, radios, dogs, weeds. 

    Lyn, I dream of such a place almost daily. Need a long lost uncle to pop his clogs somewhere and leave a large wedge. :(

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Dovefromabove said:
    We were farmers .... me ..."Mummy, can we go to the seaside on Sunday?"
    Ma ... "Yes, if it's raining."
    Exactly what Roland’s parents used to say, and even then his dad would start getting edgy in the afternoon, anticipating milking.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Kili said:
    Lyn said:
    When I move again it will have to be similar to here, plot in the middle of a field and no neighbours for miles. 
    I don’t think I could be doing with people next door, cars kids, bikes, radios, dogs, weeds. 

    Lyn, I dream of such a place almost daily. Need a long lost uncle to pop his clogs somewhere and leave a large wedge. :(
    I have been extremely lucky over the years,  my parents had absolutely nothing, a terrible childhood of poverty, if my dad and his brothers wanted dinner they had to go out and catch it,  my mum didn’t even have that option, they worked extremely hard to get this place and now I’ve inherited it and give thanks every day.  When I think back to my 40’s and 50’s childhood, this is such a dream. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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