Morning all. After feeling a bit cheated that the weather for my half week off was forecast as rain, yesterday afternoon was really pleasant and today’s thundery showers seem to have disappeared off the menu too.
Have a good day all - whether you are in, out or something in between.
Hi folks, Weather doesn't know what to do here, huge rain clouds and sunny intervals. Popped into the town to pick up some bits and bobs, not sure what to do with the rest of the day. Will probably do some sketching and a bit of pottering in the garden. Enjoy your day everyone.
Morning folks or perhaps I should say afternoon! We really overslept this morning so haven't really got going yet. Washing's on though and OH sprinted (hobbled) down to get the paper. Just waiting for our Sainsbury's delivery then we've got sticky Danish pastries for lunch as our once a week treat. Did quite a bit in the garden yesterday which was a relief, as it was raining heavily earlier this morning - brightening up now hopefully. Watched a really good programme the other night about wildlife and landscapes around the M25 - slow TV - such a pleasant change, did anybody else see it?
Have a good day all - whether you are in, out or something in between.
The latter here - come in for a second, hoping that this shower will soon pass. Made a good start on making our semi wild buddleja bed a little less wild, nettles, bracken and brambles have been banished. The rest of the grasses and creeping things can stay. Not changing out of gardening gear just yet though - need to get back out there on a clearing mission ......Mr C has been hedge cutting and “pruning” ......always a messy business 🙄
I was late going to the SM this morning cos OH said I'd "arranged" Harry's car keys. Checked every bag and pocket I might have used for the last 2 weeks but no. Then he remembered he'd had both sets for something or other. Ha! Took advantage of having Sally - a very sensible car - to buy 7 panels of particle board for the hen house. 70€. OH had wanted me to buy woodworm product so we could recycle old planks and what have you but that was 40€ for 6 litres, 5 of which I hope we won't ever need.
Quiet in the SM by the time I got there and they've stopped disinfecting of trolleys between users but still have the hand gel at the entrance and all staff and most customers wearing masks.
Staying dry so far, warming up a bit and looking brighter. Good. Not in the mood for indoor jobs tho I have a long list of those 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)."
Wet again. Thought it was very funny @chicky. Lou Macari wrote 9 pages in his autobiography about him.
I served Lou Macari at the garden centre where I worked, a million years ago. I had not the faintest notion who he was until colleagues asked if I'd got his autograph.
I’m having an in and out day so far - it’s classic sun one minute and a shower the next. Just taken all my house plants outside for a drink/feed/re-pot. Hoping my Bourgainvillea will flower again after it’s spa treatment.
We've got the same weather pattern @AuntyRach, it's very frustrating. It did dry up enough for me to sprint to the pharmacy in the village to collect a new prescription, which is now no.7 - how on earth did that happen? I regard myself as being fairly fit and healthy but it seems to be an insidious medicine creep. I may well have broken the law on the way back as I tugged up some dried wild poppy plants from the pavement cracks - oops. In my defence I want to scatter them on my own wild flower verge outside our fence so hopefully that's okay. I keep trying to get poppies to take but not having much success so far.
We went for a walk around Diss today and around the Mere (small lake) for my exercise and OH's buggy ride outing. Spoilt the effect of the walk by stopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream It poured with rain on the way back but when we got home our village was bone dry.
Then this afternoon I edged the front path with the half moon edger.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Well, you've all been very busy apparently, popping in and out like yo-yos. For a change it's been dry all day, and I've been attacking the gravel drive, scraping out soil deposited by builders' vehicles and digging out weeds. Not finished but it looks a lot better. Might not be able to stand up now I've sat down, though...
Grandchild no.4 was due yesterday. DIL is enormous (she is very small boned so the baby sticks out in front) and fed up, but relieved to be having a home birth after all. She and our son weren't looking forward to having to be separated while she was in labour in hospital, but the rules have changed recently so she's able to give birth at home. We're trying not to worry...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Have a good day all - whether you are in, out or something in between.
Watched a really good programme the other night about wildlife and landscapes around the M25 - slow TV - such a pleasant change, did anybody else see it?
Quiet in the SM by the time I got there and they've stopped disinfecting of trolleys between users but still have the hand gel at the entrance and all staff and most customers wearing masks.
Staying dry so far, warming up a bit and looking brighter. Good. Not in the mood for indoor jobs tho I have a long list of those too.
I may well have broken the law on the way back as I tugged up some dried wild poppy plants from the pavement cracks - oops. In my defence I want to scatter them on my own wild flower verge outside our fence so hopefully that's okay. I keep trying to get poppies to take but not having much success so far.
Then this afternoon I edged the front path with the half moon edger.
Grandchild no.4 was due yesterday. DIL is enormous (she is very small boned so the baby sticks out in front) and fed up, but relieved to be having a home birth after all. She and our son weren't looking forward to having to be separated while she was in labour in hospital, but the rules have changed recently so she's able to give birth at home. We're trying not to worry...