Aye - you're not 27 any more @Pat E Think it's to be good all day @Dovefromabove, so I'll get my walk now that the washing's done. Could have done with a hill, but I made the decision to wait until all the a***holes have all gone away. I can't be doing with this nonsense of abandoned cars blocking roads etc. The R and be T is going to be ages for reopening too. What an unholy shambles it all is. That reminds me - you mentioned the name of that a while ago @Obelixx - it's to do with the old road, and that was the high point for drovers etc moving stock, hence the name. There was a wee article on the online news yesterday, and it reminded me https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53922077 Temps aren't that unusual for us for this time of year - it's the warm stuff we had in the previous couple of weeks that were unusual, especially overnight.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've had to put my dressing gown on this morning, what a shock to the system this drop in temperature is! Showers forecast for later so must get out in the garden this morning and then a nice hot chilli con carne to make later.
We went from just a sheet to a very light duvet (4.5 tog) a few days ago ... last night I put a very light throw over it ... and I've got socks on again this morning ... but it's still the summerweight duvet with the windows open ... and the big glass wall in the studio is half open as are the windows in here ... I can 'feel' the static air when I come downstairs in the morning and all the windows are closed ... if it's at all possible at least one has to be open. It's probably what comes of growing up in a draughty old timberframed farmhouse dating back at least to the 1500s
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. We have our summer duvet back too. I sleep better with a duvet than just a sheet. Window still open, was 12° outside when I woke. @tuikowhai34 it sounds drier where you are than Dordogne, we've just had rain but we had rain a couple of weeks ago too. Been hot though in August, up to 39°.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That's OK @Pat E it's well away from here this year and OH is in Belgium so it's not on TV either.
No duvet yet but I have put the thin patchwork bedspread back on over the duvet cover. Very little rain but enough showers to have turned the weeds in the grass greener. When you get close the grass is still straw.
Busy cleaning the bathroom and hanging a mirrored wall cupboard in there but it's slow going as Cosmos and Rasta insist on "helping". Want to hang a couple of hooks for dressing gowns too but can I find them? Course not.
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)."
Downstairs 'cloakroom' has been cleaned and tidied 😇... I'll just finish this next coffee and then get on with the bechamel for the lasagne ... anyone want one ... coffee that is ...☕
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Think it's to be good all day @Dovefromabove, so I'll get my walk now that the washing's done. Could have done with a hill, but I made the decision to wait until all the a***holes have all gone away. I can't be doing with this nonsense of abandoned cars blocking roads etc. The R and be T is going to be ages for reopening too. What an unholy shambles it all is.
That reminds me - you mentioned the name of that a while ago @Obelixx - it's to do with the old road, and that was the high point for drovers etc moving stock, hence the name. There was a wee article on the online news yesterday, and it reminded me
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53922077
Temps aren't that unusual for us for this time of year - it's the warm stuff we had in the previous couple of weeks that were unusual, especially overnight.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I put the heating on last night
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have our summer duvet back too. I sleep better with a duvet than just a sheet. Window still open, was 12° outside when I woke.
@tuikowhai34 it sounds drier where you are than Dordogne, we've just had rain but we had rain a couple of weeks ago too. Been hot though in August, up to 39°.
No duvet yet but I have put the thin patchwork bedspread back on over the duvet cover. Very little rain but enough showers to have turned the weeds in the grass greener. When you get close the grass is still straw.
Busy cleaning the bathroom and hanging a mirrored wall cupboard in there but it's slow going as Cosmos and Rasta insist on "helping". Want to hang a couple of hooks for dressing gowns too but can I find them? Course not.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.