We will have sea bream with new potatoes and sugar snap peas. No, France hasn't ruled for quarantining.
We've been looking at my photos of the house I'm buying. I've been drawing the rooms to scale on graph paper and cutting out my furniture to scale on white paper to work out where things are going as it's quite a big downsize. The owners kindly sent me measurements, including between windows and doors.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've just had such a fright! My sister saw a small rat this morning running across the terrace so this afternoon I picked up the rat killer box I already had. Put it on the top of the patio table intending to refill it with bait, thought it was a bit heavier than it should be and maybe there was already a body inside, opened the box - and it jumped out at me! I screamed, swore, dropped the box and ran away, as did the rat.
I did all that too @Busy-Lizzie then glued the "furniture" to the "rooms" and put Post-It labels on every piece and wrote on every box to say which room it was going in. OH and Possum mocked me every time I did the furniture paper shuffle but the removal men loved it. Went like a dream.
I have spent my pm messaging with Possum who has handed in her Masters papers today and is now on a studio hunt. We'll be moving her in the first half of September......
@Lizzie! You wuss. Take a deep breath and set the thing properly and remember it will have pals. There's never just one.
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)."
I don't want to hear that @Obelixx! I really, really don't like rats! Don't mind mice or snakes but rats - no.
I also did the same as you and BL when we moved. Did floor plans and labelled each box and bin bag with what room it was to go in. As you say, the removal men were very grateful. I don't envy you though with your long trek to Possum and moving her into new place. Is quarantine going to be an issue in Belgium?
We sometimes used to get large rats in the feed bins at work [stables] . You could hear them scuttling around inside, and just had to go for it with the feed scoop I always labelled everything carefully too @Obelixx. I became very good at doing it as I moved several times within a few years. Breezier here now, and the weather front is coming in off the moor, but it turned out quite nice this afternoon. Breeze stopped it being too hot. I spent a while cleaning, sharpening and oiling my snips and secateurs. Very restful.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I ventured out in the pouring rain to check the greenhouse this afternoon and on the way discovered a poor little field mouse half drowned by the deluge. He was in such a state, absolutely wet through and shivering, he didn't even attempt to run away. I carefully picked him up and put him in the greenhouse where it is at least dry and warmer, he was hardly even able to stand up but several hours later has recovered sufficiently to have disappeared. I do hope I don't find a body among the tomato plants later. I am glad it wasn't one of Lizzies rats!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've been looking at my photos of the house I'm buying. I've been drawing the rooms to scale on graph paper and cutting out my furniture to scale on white paper to work out where things are going as it's quite a big downsize. The owners kindly sent me measurements, including between windows and doors.
I have spent my pm messaging with Possum who has handed in her Masters papers today and is now on a studio hunt. We'll be moving her in the first half of September......
@Lizzie! You wuss. Take a deep breath and set the thing properly and remember it will have pals. There's never just one.
I also did the same as you and BL when we moved. Did floor plans and labelled each box and bin bag with what room it was to go in. As you say, the removal men were very
grateful. I don't envy you though with your long trek to Possum and moving her into new place. Is quarantine going to be an issue in Belgium?
I always labelled everything carefully too @Obelixx. I became very good at doing it as I moved several times within a few years.
Breezier here now, and the weather front is coming in off the moor, but it turned out quite nice this afternoon. Breeze stopped it being too hot. I spent a while cleaning, sharpening and oiling my snips and secateurs. Very restful.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am glad it wasn't one of Lizzies rats!