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HELLO FORKERS 🌻 July ‘20

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Saw that @punkdoc ☹️  Amazing how quickly it descends to every man(or country) for himself.  However, atm it looks as though they need it over there.

    Having my first wobble for a long time .....much stop watching the news.

    We have sun here - intermittently- so think we are going to go somewhere new for a walk 🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏼
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.
    Ouch, @Obelixx, hope you haven't damaged anything, be careful.

    Heating is set to come on if it's below 18* indoors, it has come on.

    We are off to Tesco as soon as OH is ready.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yeh - but he's making America great again - remember?  :/
    I turn the thermostat on my controls to about 13 from about May. My heating would hardly be off if it was set at  18 @Busy-Lizzie.   ;)
    I've almost stopped watching the news altogether @chicky, but I have the radio on almost all day. That's bad enough....
    Think my bees may have 'finished' . I put the camera on again yesterday, so I'll check the footage just now to see what they've been up to - if anything. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Gosh, you are hardy @Fairygirl, but I'm used to summer temperatures outside at over 30* and inside between 20* and 25* in France.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No heating here, just extra layers when we need them.   Hen house can't wait cos when they do announce birds for sale or slaughter you only get short notice and I want it to be ready.   Arnica gel on the knees.   

    No idea what that stuff does @punkdoc but he also tried to buy up a German company researching a vaccine didn't he?   Can't bring myself to feel sorry for all those public minded US citizens who protected about lockdown in such public ways without any regard to virus transmission.   I expect half of them are Creationists and don't understand about natural selection.  I do feel desperately sorry for the ones who've had the virus  and all its health, social and economic ramifications thrust upon them thru such idiocy and ignorance.    

    We're avoiding the news at the mo to @chicky.  Hope the new walk does the trick for you.
    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
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I seem to be having almost daily blips, I just don't understand the human race anymore, if I ever did.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think what they need over there is a President who thinks the country is more important than golf and Twitter.
    Or just 'a President'....

    Totally agree with you @Obelixx
    I know what you mean @punkdoc . Give me birds and wildlife any day.
      
    I've had the heating on for the odd twenty minutes in the last few days @Busy-Lizzie, mainly when I've been getting up earlier to walk, and avoid the idiots. Other than that - an extra fleece. We've to get a few single fig temps overnight and not much better through the day, but that's quite normal here for July. Older fairlylet's birthday on Saturday. I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of warm days she's had! 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Just had a coffee outside after our SM outing, very quiet in there, the vacancieres haven't arrived yet - if they will this year, I don't know. Not good to be taking a tumble @Obelixx as I found out earlier in the year when I had seven stitches in my leg and dressings by the nurse for two months, so please take care!
    Weather is warm, and breezy with more thunder and rain forecast. The more I listen to the news the angrier I get, not good. I'm so glad to have a lovely house and garden to retreat to and "make the world go away" as the old song went! 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Obelixx I am sorry to hear about your fall.  I had one too, about a month ago.  Tripped over a 6d!  Luckily at home.  Knee swollen and now hairline crack, super bump on my eyebrow and then my eye went black and purple under it!   Thank goodness for sunglasses and masks.  Arnica is good to have in the cupboard as is the little Arnica pills you can get from the chemist.

    Our weather has now turned to sunny spells but very very humid.  Too hot for weeding.
    Yes, the weather is wrong for this time of year and so is the news.  All bad!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ouch! @Obelixx ☕️ 

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





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