Oh, @Biglad and there was I imagining you so handsome!
Morning all.
It's rained quite a bit in the night, showers forecast for today. I'd planned to do the gardening I didn't do yesterday but I think I might start with ironing instead. There are 18 pillow cases, also clothes, duvet covers, lots of tea towels. DIL, told me yesterday that in France a duvet is a sleeping bag and a couette is a duvet. I think our word "quilt" could have the same origins.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Our small utility room was also where the rabbit hutch lived during bad weather. The hutch is now in the shed waiting to be recycled so no excuses not to do all the washing now!
Morning all. The promised thunder and rain didn't arrive here last night as forecast, i was expecting it to be quite wet this morning but nothing. Being near to the mountains the weather can be very hit and miss here. I'm going to spend more time in the garden today to try and keep myself on an even keel, I'm fed up with all the bad news in the family at the moment. BIL has now been diagnosed with liver cancer and given only about fifteen months to live, DIL has a bone scan later to see if her cancer has spread, son is now on beta blockers. Sorry for the moan, I never seem to have any happy news at the moment! Have a good day everyone whatever you are up to.Â
@floralies I should think a bit of moaning in a quiet corner of the internet is the very least you're entitled to with so much bad news. It's the thing about these forums - you can vent here where the people for whom you have to be brave and calm can't see you and those of us who can all understand.Â
Hey Pat - hope the bluebells 'take'. They usually do.
We've now got 3 canine graves in the garden - two have a pergola to share, with some monster hostas and a rather glorious little azalea. The third one still has just a post to mark his place - we're planning a little stone seat and a small tree when we get round to it.Â
Hello @Biglad - I don't think we've been introduced. Nice to meet you. I can be a bit intermittent on here.
Morning Dove, Hosta.
We all think with so much violence on tv and films that we're 'used' to it, but up close and in person, it's very shocking. Poor chicklet - hope she's regained her equilibrium.
Hi Fairy - I'd rather take on a doberman than a yorkie, to be honest. Apart from my own dog in severe distress, I've only ever been bitten by one dog and that was a dachshund. Napoleon complex, little dogs - all of 'em.
Speaking of Napoleon - archaic inheritance laws. I'm glad your daughter let you do with your own home as you wish, BL. Ridiculous idea that you should have to ask. I am not an only child but as my one sibling walked away from his entire family some years back, when my parents died, all the probate, etc fell on me. There are similar rules in England, Fairy - dispositions can be challenged but only within a set period of time from grant of probate. After that, the whole Will challenged as invalid, but not individual provisions within it, I believe.
Weather - I read Metcheck. It has a lot of 'discussion' information about how the forecasts are made and therefore what the uncertainties are. From reading that, I think the reason the new BBC forecasts seem to be so wonky is that 'the' forecast is actually view taken by a meteorologist on the average outcome from at least 3 different computer models each run many dozens of times. There are inherent uncertainties at times, especially as now when the atmosphere is basically unstable (hence thunderstorms) and therefore uncertain. These 'feedback' into errors, so if rain is forecast but doesn't fall, the whole thing goes out of whack. Therefore the meteorologist has to use some art as well as science to take a view on whether the weather will be as the models predict or not. The Met Office are better at it - more experience of our weather than the new ones. I guess they may learn, in time.
Hope everyone is OK. We're fine - we've had rain, a fabulous lightning storm, rain barrels are still pretty low though. Must go and feed my pots and the veg in the PT. Have a lovely week!
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
Good morning everyone. Lots of flash bang and some rain in the small hours followed by clear skies, loads of stars and flash bang all round the horizon. You will gather I didn't get a lot of sleep. Bonzo doggy, who hates electric storms, was very pleased to hide in his newly cleaned and cosied cage at bedtime.Â
Very calm and cloudy now but the radar shows more rain in the way. Good.
@floralies your family seems to be having more than its fair share of troubles so go ahead and vent on here as much as you like. I hope you get some good news soon.
@Pat E I'm surprised you're allowed Spanish bluebells in Oz as they can be so invasive over here but maybe your drought habit will contain them and they will be pretty.
No idea what UK weather is supposed to do today as I am avoiding the news.  Too many stoopid people complaining about quarantine.  Left their brains in "Park" before they set off for France then.
Hi Obelixx. Yes I know theyâre invasive, but I was unaware of that when I bought them from a âreputableâ garden centre several years ago. đ€đ€đ€  Iâm stuck with them now, so I might as well grin and bear it. They DO make a good display.  Iâm hoping they will look pretty on her grave.
Morning all, afternoon Pat  Biglad, I'm really sorry to hear  you are having bad health news in your family.  Best wishes to you all. I hate to add more bad news for you but I'm afraid you will have to have a rethink in your career change too, as my hubby adores carol kirkwood ands won't stand for you replacing her! Also.... It wasn't me that made the shroud.... in fact I knew nothing! Dove.... what did my brother do to my cat??????
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Morning all.
It's rained quite a bit in the night, showers forecast for today. I'd planned to do the gardening I didn't do yesterday but I think I might start with ironing instead. There are 18 pillow cases, also clothes, duvet covers, lots of tea towels. DIL, told me yesterday that in France a duvet is a sleeping bag and a couette is a duvet. I think our word "quilt" could have the same origins.
Our small utility room was also where the rabbit hutch lived during bad weather. The hutch is now in the shed waiting to be recycled so no excuses not to do all the washing now!
Sorry for the moan, I never seem to have any happy news at the moment!Â
Have a good day everyone whatever you are up to.Â
@floralies I should think a bit of moaning in a quiet corner of the internet is the very least you're entitled to with so much bad news. It's the thing about these forums - you can vent here where the people for whom you have to be brave and calm can't see you and those of us who can all understand.Â
Hey Pat - hope the bluebells 'take'. They usually do.
We've now got 3 canine graves in the garden - two have a pergola to share, with some monster hostas and a rather glorious little azalea. The third one still has just a post to mark his place - we're planning a little stone seat and a small tree when we get round to it.Â
Hello @Biglad - I don't think we've been introduced. Nice to meet you. I can be a bit intermittent on here.
Morning Dove, Hosta.
We all think with so much violence on tv and films that we're 'used' to it, but up close and in person, it's very shocking. Poor chicklet - hope she's regained her equilibrium.
Hi Fairy - I'd rather take on a doberman than a yorkie, to be honest. Apart from my own dog in severe distress, I've only ever been bitten by one dog and that was a dachshund. Napoleon complex, little dogs - all of 'em.
Speaking of Napoleon - archaic inheritance laws. I'm glad your daughter let you do with your own home as you wish, BL. Ridiculous idea that you should have to ask. I am not an only child but as my one sibling walked away from his entire family some years back, when my parents died, all the probate, etc fell on me. There are similar rules in England, Fairy - dispositions can be challenged but only within a set period of time from grant of probate. After that, the whole Will challenged as invalid, but not individual provisions within it, I believe.
Weather - I read Metcheck. It has a lot of 'discussion' information about how the forecasts are made and therefore what the uncertainties are. From reading that, I think the reason the new BBC forecasts seem to be so wonky is that 'the' forecast is actually view taken by a meteorologist on the average outcome from at least 3 different computer models each run many dozens of times. There are inherent uncertainties at times, especially as now when the atmosphere is basically unstable (hence thunderstorms) and therefore uncertain. These 'feedback' into errors, so if rain is forecast but doesn't fall, the whole thing goes out of whack. Therefore the meteorologist has to use some art as well as science to take a view on whether the weather will be as the models predict or not. The Met Office are better at it - more experience of our weather than the new ones. I guess they may learn, in time.
Hope everyone is OK. We're fine - we've had rain, a fabulous lightning storm, rain barrels are still pretty low though. Must go and feed my pots and the veg in the PT. Have a lovely week!
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
Very calm and cloudy now but the radar shows more rain in the way. Good.
@floralies your family seems to be having more than its fair share of troubles so go ahead and vent on here as much as you like. I hope you get some good news soon.
@Pat E I'm surprised you're allowed Spanish bluebells in Oz as they can be so invasive over here but maybe your drought habit will contain them and they will be pretty.
No idea what UK weather is supposed to do today as I am avoiding the news.  Too many stoopid people complaining about quarantine.  Left their brains in "Park" before they set off for France then.
 Biglad, I'm really sorry to hear  you are having bad health news in your family.  Best wishes to you all.
I hate to add more bad news for you but I'm afraid you will have to have a rethink in your career change too, as my hubby adores carol kirkwood ands won't stand for you replacing her!
Also.... It wasn't me that made the shroud.... in fact I knew nothing!Â
Dove.... what did my brother do to my cat??????