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HELLO FORKERS 🌞 August ‘20

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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    Help yourself @Obelixx and anyone else in need ... 

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Feeling like a cold lasagne this morning [ if you remember the song ], so staying in bed.
    Be good everyone.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    B) punkdoc said:
    Hi all

    Feeling like a cold lasagne this morning [ if you remember the song ], so staying in bed.
    Be good everyone.
    Suspended in deep freeze eh @punkdoc ............ what you need is a steaming bowl of my minestrone ... 🍲    B)

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I heard that @Pat E - wondered if you'd be tuned in  :)
    How are they doing the distancing though? They certainly can't do it with the bikes, but are there spectators?
    Maybe they're going to be like that bloke the other day with the bag over his head, waving at the traffic  :D
    Are you getting more fan mail than the Pope though @punkdoc
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A heads up for @wild edges if you’re about ... there’s a full moon this Hallowe’en. Just thought I’d warn you 😉 

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





  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Thank you @Dovefromabove for that explanation of a Simpson's Sky.  Mum used to say "there's enough blue to make the sailor a pair of trousers".  

    @floralies and @Busy-Lizzie - not quite into the winter dressing gown yet (I probably wasn't up as early as you) but 17°C this morning from 27°C mornings and 37°C arvos certainly cuts the air.  The doors and windows were flung open - no dust, no flies.

    Vendanges started so the shaking of the vines brings the mosquitoes .

    Yes, it's been a long, very hot and very busy summer.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thank you @Dovefromabove for that explanation of a Simpson's Sky.  Mum used to say "there's enough blue to make the sailor a pair of trousers".  


    I remember a children's book  about going for a picnic, with that in it  :)

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My mum used to say that too.  :)
    We went from a clear blue sky, to a Simpsons' sky, to ...cloudy... :/
    Nice though. There's been a few flutterbies too. After @chicky mentioning the red admirals recently, I saw a couple a few days later. There was a peacock out earlier. It hasn't been great weather for them recently, so they've been a bit absent from the garden. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's clearly cloudier oop north because I learned to look for enough blue sky to patch a sailor's trousers!

    Beginning to hate bathrooms!  Had a brainwave for fixing the slightly loose shower head support.  Just need to go and buy some size 4 bolts that are 1cm longer than those I have.   Typical.
    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
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Yes!  @Dovefromabove and @Obelixx    It is from a book I had when I was young.  Was it a sort of Annual?  My brothers got Boy's Annual and my sister and I got something akin - I can't remember.  This book had many lovely short stories and poems in it.  Do you remember the name?   I adored it.   Funny how things stick in your mind.

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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