Going on holiday is a risky business atm 🥺. Feel very sorry for the travel industry, and all those places who rely on a good summer income to get them through the rest of the year. Desperate.
We’re having a family Bbq in my Dads garden, so I’ve just been making cous cous and potato salads to take down there. Thankfully the rain has moved on or our plans would have run amok.
It is cool and grey today, such a relief. But when I go outside to clear stuff up in the garden it rains, makes me wet but not enough to water anything properly.
Going to tea with F in the village this afternoon.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good morning ) just! We've had 4mm of rain overnight so a disturbed night with damp pussycats needing drying off. Doesn't occur to them to lick themselves dry. Sunny spells now and cooler than it's been.
Been feeling a bit off for a few days now so have decided to have a quiet day just quietly pottering indoors altering some clothes and staying clean. Hope your toes heals quickly @Pat E and that you do get your rain.
I'm afraid that was predictable @Hostafan1 and don't understand people leaving the country at the mo or even their region if they don't have to when there are all sorts of hot spots reappearing all over the place. It doesn't matter how sensible we are, someone else is always going to be stupid and there's also the problem of non symptomatic transmission. We all just need to be careful and patient and respectful of each others' health and safety for a long time to come.
re your last para. They quarantined all the islands as soon as this started. They all have a high percentage of old folk so the danger of just one infection in a small place? When they reopened to Irish folk, yep tourists wandering about with no masks and no social distancing. I keep a big gate locked and SIGN UP. Post is left there. I am still watching the calendar in case ...
I think I heard rain overnight here too @islandanchoress ... probably not as loud as yours tho 😉 @Hostafan1 ... best laid plans eh? 🙄 hope you have a good day at the coal face 😎
I love my home dearly but it is basically an aluminium shell ( Demountable dwelling) so hail and hard rain. But the silence out here is so deep in between that it is forgiven
Just back from a lovely weekend with son and family in Bournemouth, celebrating three July birthdays. An extra birthday surprise for me was the arrival of my daughter as well, which actually made me cry, I've missed her so much. We all went out for a super dinner at The Bistro on the Beach at Southbourne, where you can sit and watch the waves roll in (well worth a visit @chicky), then daughter drove all the way home to Devon. So good of her to come all that way.
That is such a shame about the house @Busy-lizzie but perhaps it wasn't meant to be.
Your fish haul sounded good @Dovefromabove, OH and my son had red snapper last night and said it was excellent.
Hello. We got drenched walking the dogs yesterday and today. The runner beans will be glad of it though. More rain forecast tomorrow.
I'm surprised actually that quite a lot of my garden is doing alright. I've had no time for it this year, so it's been sadly neglected but, apart from one area which is a mess, most of it is looking OK. Sweet peas, sown late, growing beautifully, flowering profusely. Garlic harvested today - totally neglected since I planted them last autumn - lovely big fat cloves and quite spicy (I used some 'green' in the bolognese). The crocosmia needed dividing but they're flowering anyway. Penstemons cut back late but flowering well. Fruit bushes moved far too late in the year, blueberries are still coming thick and fast, Amazing glamorous black flowered gladioli has appeared from nowhere. Dahlias I should have lifted in the winter but didn't, flowering well. Clearly I'm basically superfluous.
And so many birds around this year. No hornets though, the only notable absentees. Perhaps those two things are connected.
Live Aid. I was with a group of friends on a train travelling home from a study visit as it started. We were all huddled round the radio, trying not to disturb everyone else in the carriage. I saw the end of it on TV when I got home. Freddie was amazing that day - just got it absolutely right for the moment.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Well @Hostafan1 😊 I suppose that’ll be just about manageable for them ... could be worse.
Hope you’ve had a reasonable shift today. I’ve been asleep on the sofa for at least an hour and have been woken up and sent to bed. Night night all ... sleep tight 🛌 🐑 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We’re having a family Bbq in my Dads garden, so I’ve just been making cous cous and potato salads to take down there. Thankfully the rain has moved on or our plans would have run amok.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It is cool and grey today, such a relief. But when I go outside to clear stuff up in the garden it rains, makes me wet but not enough to water anything properly.
Going to tea with F in the village this afternoon.
That is such a shame about the house @Busy-lizzie but perhaps it wasn't meant to be.
Your fish haul sounded good @Dovefromabove, OH and my son had red snapper last night and said it was excellent.
I'm surprised actually that quite a lot of my garden is doing alright. I've had no time for it this year, so it's been sadly neglected but, apart from one area which is a mess, most of it is looking OK. Sweet peas, sown late, growing beautifully, flowering profusely. Garlic harvested today - totally neglected since I planted them last autumn - lovely big fat cloves and quite spicy (I used some 'green' in the bolognese). The crocosmia needed dividing but they're flowering anyway. Penstemons cut back late but flowering well. Fruit bushes moved far too late in the year, blueberries are still coming thick and fast, Amazing glamorous black flowered gladioli has appeared from nowhere. Dahlias I should have lifted in the winter but didn't, flowering well. Clearly I'm basically superfluous.
And so many birds around this year. No hornets though, the only notable absentees. Perhaps those two things are connected.
Live Aid. I was with a group of friends on a train travelling home from a study visit as it started. We were all huddled round the radio, trying not to disturb everyone else in the carriage. I saw the end of it on TV when I got home. Freddie was amazing that day - just got it absolutely right for the moment.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.