Morning everyone Phewwww it was unbearably hot last night. And its already 30° outside. Having my haircut this morning, I'm going to have a temperature by the time I've walked there🤭 Have a good day everyone, take care in this heat
Morning - yet another over 30C day. I am wilting. On the plus side the tomatoes have gone into overdrive.😎
Sorry I've not really looked in for the last couple of days so - as I remember -
Rubee - hope you and your OH are ok.
Lily & Rosie - think we'll all sleep better when it cools down. I keep getting up to look at the thermometer & have a moan about how hot it is. 24C at 3am is too hot!
SGL - glad the headache's gone - a mix of stress & heat for you probably.
Debs - well done for keeping on at work. Hope things work out for your son.
LB - I LOVE your new gate - super colour. Is it painted or stained? Which brand of paint / stain? What colour? Sorry for the questions but that looks like the colour of our new windows and doors and I could do with a new side gate to match...
Hazel - poor insulation man crawling around the loft in this heat.
Chive - well done on the decorating (not the best week to start it though!) and many belated congratulations for yesterday.
Island - hope the midges aren't too bad today. It's the one reason OH and I didn't move to the west coast of Scotland when he retired.
Hello to anyone I've missed. You all did well on the dingbats - Peace Be With You indeed!!!!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
ie the yarn arrived! The box is waist high and as well as the ordered yarns, two full bin bags of the most wonderful oddments. I am like a kid in a sweet shop at these times. Picking up ball after ball! So many colours and textures! God bless that man; he sent me an Easter egg in one box and two weatherproof jackets when I moved to "deep rural". So many lovely folk I was a latecomer to knitting. When we were at infant school ( all those centuries ago!) we were taught to knit. The teacher was an older one, very strict and fond of using the ruler on small hands.. She cast stitches on so tight I could not move them and I sat there in sheer terror. Much later I was sent round every class in the school to show off my "holey" doll's scarf. Needless to say it put me off knitting. All women knitted then. I was a teenager before I did any more - and that was a full Aran sweater.
The sun is out but too weary to cut any more. Will gather in the cut hay later, And lie out in the sun on the cut area
island I’m pleased for you that the yarn has now arrived. LB enjoy your time with your handy brother. Debs enjoy your meal tonight cooked by your very own chef. Chive I hope you can keep cool. Hazel hope the insulation is soon sorted. Lily hope you are both well. I’m waiting for a sm delivery and watching a magical movie.
Hi Topbird, good to see you. Really pleased with my haircut, definitely going back there again. Infact already booked the next one. Cheaper than my usual hairdressers too. I couldn't believe how much hair was on the floor 🤣 I feel like me again and much cooler now I haven't got hair hanging down my back. I'd love to know the colour too LB, think it would look good when we eventually change the window for a door at the back of our garage.
Some busy folk here! All sounds good...out there over the water. In "the old country".
Did a bit of shearing and hay gathering, else would not have been able to settle, but seriously knackered after the last two days and crawled back to bed! The combination of M.E and old age is as they say, really something. And I was running into serious nettles and was not wearing the right gear.t
At least there is a fresh breeze out there by the north shore but it is building up to that sultry feel. YOU know! My hands are shaking with the effort of the work. Old saying, " There are always two men in my bedroom; Arthur Itis and Will Power." Gets quite crowded!
And OH! The view out there. Even after four years it never ceases to awe and delight. I notice more detail every time. Next stop America
I allow myself a couple of pretty freelance items with some of the exotic yarns before starting the orders etc. As I used to tell folk as I knitted at my market stall when they asked what I was knitting, " Baby milk!" as that is where the earnings go. And I love knitting! So blessed I am!
PS just checked the forecast and the thunder has moved forward and may hit tonight. It feels like that outside.
Afties all. I have had a lovely meal out with handy brother. No pressure, very relaxed and the pub was very welcoming. We will do that again before the end of August. Guess what though, I was in lovely sunshine down there but as I drove home the sky went blacker and blacker and when I left the motorway there were big puddles along the sides of the road - there had obviously been a downpour. And its spitting!
Glad your yarn has arrived Island. By the way, why are you cutting hay? Have you got creatures?
Lemon biscuits Ante? Yum yum. Hope it cools down for you soon. T'Bird and SGL my gate is painted with Cuprinol Weatherproof paint (6 year guarantee) and the shade I picked is called Seagrass. I love it too. Nephew has left me some so that I could paint planters etc.
Chive, I hope that your Mum is fine and that you have a good catch up. Debs, I love the sound of 'burnt ends'. Sounds like a bad hair day! Speaking of which, its great to hear that you are pleased with your haircut SGL. Its nice when you can find a good cutter.
Hazel good to hear you'll be snug as a bug in a rug this 'getting ever nearer' cold season.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Ladybird; Cutting hay! I have no real garden but there is a patch at the back I would love as a garden, where the border has been made. Only it was part of a field and grew swiftly back into hay length. So I am cutting hay! Trying to make it look neat. Sitting on the grass with my rechargeable shears.. More than one way to get a job done, necessity being the mother of invention.
I cannot dig so grow potatoes under a thick layer of hay. Good yield and clean.
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Phewwww it was unbearably hot last night. And its already 30° outside.
Having my haircut this morning, I'm going to have a temperature by the time I've walked there🤭
Have a good day everyone, take care in this heat
Sorry I've not really looked in for the last couple of days so - as I remember -
Rubee - hope you and your OH are ok.
Lily & Rosie - think we'll all sleep better when it cools down. I keep getting up to look at the thermometer & have a moan about how hot it is. 24C at 3am is too hot!
SGL - glad the headache's gone - a mix of stress & heat for you probably.
Debs - well done for keeping on at work. Hope things work out for your son.
LB - I LOVE your new gate - super colour. Is it painted or stained? Which brand of paint / stain? What colour? Sorry for the questions but that looks like the colour of our new windows and doors and I could do with a new side gate to match...
Hazel - poor insulation man crawling around the loft in this heat.
Chive - well done on the decorating (not the best week to start it though!) and many belated congratulations for yesterday.
Island - hope the midges aren't too bad today. It's the one reason OH and I didn't move to the west coast of Scotland when he retired.
Hello to anyone I've missed. You all did well on the dingbats - Peace Be With You indeed!!!!
ie the yarn arrived! The box is waist high and as well as the ordered yarns, two full bin bags of the most wonderful oddments. I am like a kid in a sweet shop at these times. Picking up ball after ball! So many colours and textures! God bless that man; he sent me an Easter egg in one box and two weatherproof jackets when I moved to "deep rural". So many lovely folk
I was a latecomer to knitting. When we were at infant school ( all those centuries ago!) we were taught to knit. The teacher was an older one, very strict and fond of using the ruler on small hands.. She cast stitches on so tight I could not move them and I sat there in sheer terror. Much later I was sent round every class in the school to show off my "holey" doll's scarf. Needless to say it put me off knitting. All women knitted then. I was a teenager before I did any more - and that was a full Aran sweater.
The sun is out but too weary to cut any more. Will gather in the cut hay later, And lie out in the sun on the cut area
Hope all are well and that it is not too sultry
Really pleased with my haircut, definitely going back there again. Infact already booked the next one. Cheaper than my usual hairdressers too. I couldn't believe how much hair was on the floor 🤣 I feel like me again and much cooler now I haven't got hair hanging down my back.
I'd love to know the colour too LB, think it would look good when we eventually change the window for a door at the back of our garage.
Did a bit of shearing and hay gathering, else would not have been able to settle, but seriously knackered after the last two days and crawled back to bed! The combination of M.E and old age is as they say, really something. And I was running into serious nettles and was not wearing the right gear.t
At least there is a fresh breeze out there by the north shore but it is building up to that sultry feel. YOU know! My hands are shaking with the effort of the work. Old saying, " There are always two men in my bedroom; Arthur Itis and Will Power." Gets quite crowded!
And OH! The view out there. Even after four years it never ceases to awe and delight. I notice more detail every time. Next stop America
I allow myself a couple of pretty freelance items with some of the exotic yarns before starting the orders etc. As I used to tell folk as I knitted at my market stall when they asked what I was knitting, " Baby milk!" as that is where the earnings go. And I love knitting! So blessed I am!
PS just checked the forecast and the thunder has moved forward and may hit tonight. It feels like that outside.
I cannot dig so grow potatoes under a thick layer of hay. Good yield and clean.