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HELLO FORKERS 🌞 August ‘20

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    chicky said:
    let wall building commence 🤣


    you have those strange things called "shadows". I seem to have vague memories of  what creates them
    Devon.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Morning all, Microwave has been delivered and unpacked.  Have looked round the windswept garden and put a few plant supports in place.  Doesn't look like anything is damaged but it's still really windy out there so I wont count any chickens.
    I'm planning on taking things easy today, just catching up on the laundry.  Glad Flatters is improving @WonkyWomble.  Hope you manage to rescue some of your crops Liri.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just back from our usual walk, a bit later than usual as we overslept again. OH is having such trouble sleeping well, it affects me as well. Very stormy overnight but fortunately no damage that I can see., I battened everything down yesterday, just in case. Lots of tree debris around though and it's still very windy out there. Looks like I'll just have to do the ironing instead!


    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I've been clearing drawers of papers dated in the 1990s and found a letter for my birthday from my mother about the day I was born. My parents were staying with my grandparents in Southwold while they house hunting, they actually lived on a boat at the time but my mother was very pregnant. I should have been born in a maternity home very near Southwold but there was an infection so my mother was taken to Ipswich hospital instead. I had forgotten that. I realise that I never throw papers away, just shove them in a drawer or a filing cabinet. I now have nearly 30 years worth that I'm chucking out. I must be a hoarder. I had to look up the French Government advice on how long to keep stuff.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I don't envy you @Busy-Lizzie, my OH is much the same and it's not only paperwork!

    I'm looking out the front window and it's absolutely torrential rain out there and so dark - very depressing.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Torrential rain here too. Satellite TV has lost its signal. Put GW on to record on Sunday morning.

    OH has had a brilliant idea! I wasn't sure how to deal with things like bank statements, I don't have a shredder and it would take ages anyway. He has suggested I put my old papers into the now unused horse water butts until they are soggy then leave them to dry in the sun and they will be illegible. Then throw away or put in the compost.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Busy-Lizzie, I just tear stuff up and mix it all up and compost it. I can't see anyone taking it all out and jigsawing it back together
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I do the same as Hosta. Anybody who wants to fish out half eaten, soggy, smelly receipts from my compost bins is welcome!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    More rain tonight and a poor forecast for tomorrow. Can't complain too much though as I got a dry round of golf in yesterday afternoon. 
    East Lancs
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hello everyone.   The snow missed us last night.😃. It apparently it was in town though as flakes, but not heavy. 

    Took a photo of my miniature daffs to cheer the house up. 


    S. E. NSW
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