Morning all afternoon Pat The house sounds perfect @BusyL so glad you have found somewhere you love. Shutters are a must with the heatwaves! @Chicky... Chicklets sea view is so gorgeous.... bucket, spade, ice cream..... oh yes.... and text books! @Yvie glad your daughter knows her own mind and is resolute in her decisions for the future @Hosta glad you had a nice customer show you some appreciation! @Dove I'll have mine with marmite and butter and 3 coffees please! @Pdoc, welcome back, glad your safe and well! Please don't make us worry anymore!
Sorry been Awol.... been tending cat with bad kidneys, sourcing vet approved food at great cost! Then more as he goes off it if it gets repetitive.... then supervision of meal times to ensure greedy other cat that simply must have what the other one is having doesn't eat his special food. Then trying to work, shop, cook and clean..... haven't seen the days go by! SO Glad it's cooler!!!!
Morning all, Glad to see the landscape slowly recovering @Pat E. Nature is amazing.
I've just back from dropping Hubby off at the airport. The next three weeks will be quiet at home but I dare say First and Secondborn will keep me busy.
No real plans for the day. The home called and said Mum had to go to hospital with a suspected DVT yesterday. Luckily it's not, but she does have cellulitis so has been put on a course of anitbiotics and sent back home. I'm just thankful she hasn't had to stay in hopsital. Still can't visit due to Sandwell's spike re Covid.
Morning all. I'm really surprised at that tree fern in @Pat E's photo. It survived the fire and now it will have to survive the snow.
I was just about to hang out the 4th load of bedding and towels after the family visits and the heavens opened. Then I was going to do some gardening. Bother.
I've been drawing the rooms of the new house on graph paper and cutting out shapes of my furniture to scale. It will need quite a bit of juggling to fit things I want to take. Dining table will have to go in the downstairs bedroom and our very big bed will have to go in the biggest room upstairs which they use as a study, but there is an A frame beam in the way of my bedside table. Think I will have to learn to live with the beam.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
No text books @WonkyWomble .....she is now earning a living 😱🤪🤣
Lovely to see green shoots returning @Pat E .....seeing wombats and echidnas In the wild in Tasmania were two of the most exciting moments of our trip earlier this year. Both exceptionally cute creatures. Kamikaze wallabies were less fun - glad Mr C was driving 😳
Trip to town today to pick up my serviced sewing machine. Then will make a second batch of cucumber soup - it was good and used them up - they have rather taken over the fridge 🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
The tree ferns are hardier that people realise. The biggest worry for them is drought I think. They need water on the top, so living under trees and in bushy areas seems to suit them best. I know it sounds weird, but they are just part of “the bush” to me. 🤗
I’m very pleased at the recovery so far Yvie and Buzyl. I hate to think of it all giving up. Next summer might be as bad, but the damaged area goes for miles and miles.
During the wee small hours our chances of rainfall were apparently massively lower than during my sun-drenched run last evening. So, obviously, it tipped it down! Overflowing gutter, veg patch swamp and potato plants splattered all over the place are what I can see from inside. I'll do the click and collect shop and then check out the damage in more detail. Hopefully, it will have stopped by then.
Shame precipitation can't be distributed (locally and globally) more evenly isn't it?
I remember seeing a whole understorey of tree ferns driving thru the forest to get from Bateman's Bay to Canberra and thinking how right they looked @Pat E Lost all urge to have one in my own garden. Wouldn't do here anyway tho fold do have bananas out all year and they look wrong too.
The grandson of the people who built our house has given us photos of it early on with 2 huge palm trees on the east side. Can't tell you how pleased I am that they have gone.
I have a big 15l preserving pot of big fat yellow beef tomatoes and Lemon something all boiling down to make passata. More yellow than red this year and we've only just used up the last of the jars of red passata from last year's crop so good timing.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The house sounds perfect @BusyL
@Chicky... Chicklets sea view is so gorgeous.... bucket, spade, ice cream..... oh yes.... and text books!
@Yvie glad your daughter knows her own mind and is resolute in her decisions for the future
@Hosta glad you had a nice customer show you some appreciation!
@Dove I'll have mine with marmite and butter and 3 coffees please!
@Pdoc, welcome back, glad your safe and well! Please don't make us worry anymore!
Sorry been Awol.... been tending cat with bad kidneys, sourcing vet approved food at great cost! Then more as he goes off it if it gets repetitive.... then supervision of meal times to ensure greedy other cat that simply must have what the other one is having doesn't eat his special food. Then trying to work, shop, cook and clean..... haven't seen the days go by!
SO Glad it's cooler!!!!
I'm really surprised at that tree fern in @Pat E's photo. It survived the fire and now it will have to survive the snow.
I was just about to hang out the 4th load of bedding and towels after the family visits and the heavens opened. Then I was going to do some gardening. Bother.
I've been drawing the rooms of the new house on graph paper and cutting out shapes of my furniture to scale. It will need quite a bit of juggling to fit things I want to take. Dining table will have to go in the downstairs bedroom and our very big bed will have to go in the biggest room upstairs which they use as a study, but there is an A frame beam in the way of my bedside table. Think I will have to learn to live with the beam.
Lovely to see green shoots returning @Pat E .....seeing wombats and echidnas In the wild in Tasmania were two of the most exciting moments of our trip earlier this year. Both exceptionally cute creatures. Kamikaze wallabies were less fun - glad Mr C was driving 😳
Trip to town today to pick up my serviced sewing machine. Then will make a second batch of cucumber soup - it was good and used them up - they have rather taken over the fridge 🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wet, wet, wet!!!
During the wee small hours our chances of rainfall were apparently massively lower than during my sun-drenched run last evening. So, obviously, it tipped it down! Overflowing gutter, veg patch swamp and potato plants splattered all over the place are what I can see from inside. I'll do the click and collect shop and then check out the damage in more detail. Hopefully, it will have stopped by then.
Shame precipitation can't be distributed (locally and globally) more evenly isn't it?
The grandson of the people who built our house has given us photos of it early on with 2 huge palm trees on the east side. Can't tell you how pleased I am that they have gone.
I have a big 15l preserving pot of big fat yellow beef tomatoes and Lemon something all boiling down to make passata. More yellow than red this year and we've only just used up the last of the jars of red passata from last year's crop so good timing.
I expect there'll be some cucumbers tha need souping too altho I did this last week and it was good with Asian spiced burgers - https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cucumber-salad