We like soup too but not so much when it's this hot.  My favourite is tomato, orange and ginger - light, fresh, warming.   Funnily enough, now we live in France I never see chervil on sale yet in Belgium it was sold fresh in bunches, already chopped in pots and frozen too. Can't even get the plants in a GC here.
Good to see @islandanchoress especially if you are the knitting lady but fine either way.
Plans for a day out sound good @Dovefromabove but not for us yet. Far too many tourists around at the coastal resorts and especially our favourite fish markets.  I'm off to do the weekly SM run once I've had another coffee but will pop into LIDL first in case they have any plants I fancy. I trust my usual SM staff will be properly attired. They did this last week to encourage clients to wear their mask.
We rarely go to seaside places that have many/any people around at the best of times @Obelixx ... let alone now ... tiny muddy  harbours and bleak windswept beaches are our ideal spots đ Ive not been in a shop since the beginning of March!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've preferred to shop rather than use click and collect @Dovefromabove and people have generally behaved properly till last week when there were significantly more tourists not following distancing rules or mask advice.  Compulsory now so we'll see.
You snuck in @chicky - have watched that programme a few times and do wonder at the expectations of some people upping sticks to the sun. Hope your new oil tank goes in with no bovver.  The one at our old house was 5000 litres and buried underground at the side of the house - not fun to replace when the regs change.  The one here is half the size, plasticky so I can see how low it's getting and is perched on a flat concrete base at the top end of our cave. Wouldn't much fancy changing that either.Â
We rarely go to seaside places that have many/any people around at the best of times @Obelixx ... let alone now ... tiny muddy  harbours and bleak windswept beaches are our ideal spots đ Ive not been in a shop since the beginning of March!
I could not replace my old car, so I have not been offisland ( no shop here) for nearly two years. And we have bleak and windswept - and I love it. Oh I am not counting my very recent excursion by air ambulance. Â
Good morning @Hostafan1 and everyone else as you arrive ... and good to see you @islandanchoress đ think weâve met before? Hope youâre having a good summer. Howâs the knitting? Â
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For the kind welcome; thank you.Â
Diversification where the knitting applies. These are Aran face masks, orders,. they will be double lined, with densely woven cloth, with a pocket for a disposable filter. Also we are replacing the ear savers which tend to pull the mask down, with an all round band. I just do the knitting!Â
We are only a couple of miles as the helicopter flies from a big hospital so we see the air ambulance flying over and descending quite frequently ... we wish them well as they fly over us ... fortunately Iâve never needed their services ... I hope you werenât too poorly @islandanchoress were you able to feel that at least it was a bit of an adventure?Â
Glad to see youâre still knitting. đÂ
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We are only a couple of miles as the helicopter flies from a big hospital so we see the air ambulance flying over and descending quite frequently ... we wish them well as they fly over us ... fortunately Iâve never needed their services ... I hope you werenât too poorly @islandanchoress were you able to feel that at least it was a bit of an adventure?Â
Glad to see youâre still knitting. đÂ
OH yes! Something so surreal about dialling 999 and when they hear your address, being out through to the helicopter. And the sheer speed of their response.Â
I have just written it all up on my weblog; am I allowed to post that here please? www.islandanchorhold.blogspot.com
Plants have all had a good dunking, I've had lunch and now I need to clean the car. Some flipping sparrows are nesting in the garage walls and pooing all over the cars.
Home at last after a nightmare shift. 3 nightmare customers out of 10 deliveries. Every one a holiday maker. The first couldn't give me directions to where she was staying " it's at the end of a single track lane" Oh that narrows it down in these parts. Second was unspeakably rude to a guy working outside the house The third just pointed and said " there !"Â
We never go to the seaside either. Too busy and the water is too cold to swim, so no point. Holiday types are always puzzled when I answer the question " which is the best beach" with " No idea, I never go to any of them "
@Hostafan1 ... I think that should be qualified ... the water is too cold for you to swim ... a large proportion of the rest of us enjoy it immensely. đââïž đÂ
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Good to see @islandanchoress especially if you are the knitting lady but fine either way.
Plans for a day out sound good @Dovefromabove but not for us yet. Far too many tourists around at the coastal resorts and especially our favourite fish markets.  I'm off to do the weekly SM run once I've had another coffee but will pop into LIDL first in case they have any plants I fancy. I trust my usual SM staff will be properly attired. They did this last week to encourage clients to wear their mask.
places that have many/any people around at the best of times @Obelixx ... let alone now ... tiny muddy  harbours and bleak windswept beaches are our ideal spots đÂ
Ive not been in a shop since the beginning of March!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You snuck in @chicky - have watched that programme a few times and do wonder at the expectations of some people upping sticks to the sun. Hope your new oil tank goes in with no bovver.  The one at our old house was 5000 litres and buried underground at the side of the house - not fun to replace when the regs change.  The one here is half the size, plasticky so I can see how low it's getting and is perched on a flat concrete base at the top end of our cave. Wouldn't much fancy changing that either.Â
Diversification where the knitting applies. These are Aran face masks, orders,. they will be double lined, with densely woven cloth, with a pocket for a disposable filter. Also we are replacing the ear savers which tend to pull the mask down, with an all round band. I just do the knitting!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH yes! Something so surreal about dialling 999 and when they hear your address, being out through to the helicopter.Â
And the sheer speed of their response.Â
I have just written it all up on my weblog; am I allowed to post that here please? www.islandanchorhold.blogspot.com
Here is my "taxi" ..
Shopping delayed cos I discovered all my nursery pots were thirsty and some desperate.  However, @D0rdogne_Damsel, I did get to LIDL in time to find they still had some nepeta, a campanula carpatica, a white gaura and another scabious.  Checked their wines but no Pécharmant.  None in Leclerc either.
Plants have all had a good dunking, I've had lunch and now I need to clean the car. Some flipping sparrows are nesting in the garage walls and pooing all over the cars.
3 nightmare customers out of 10 deliveries. Every one a holiday maker.Â
The first couldn't give me directions to where she was staying " it's at the end of a single track lane" Oh that narrows it down in these parts.Â
Second was unspeakably rude to a guy working outside the house
The third just pointed and said " there !"Â
We never go to the seaside either. Too busy and the water is too cold to swim, so no point. Holiday types are always puzzled when I answer the question " which is the best beach" with " No idea, I never go to any of them "
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.