Lovely baby @Hostafan1 and today will be difficult so let's hope for lots more visits to come. Gorgeous photos @Pat E . I have autumn daffs (steenberghia) in full bloom in the bed around the well but nary a sign of the clump by our front wall - rain shadow altho none lately anyway and none in view so they may not show till October. Agree @chicky - still want to spend time with kids in their 20s and no doubt older too.
Feeling a bit bleugh today after a very busy week so just gentle pottering for me today while OH plays golf. Not much gardening as the soil is bone dry but I will tend to mt pots and maybe harvest more toms for passata. Expecting 26C today but getting cold around dawn now so we brought in the big houseplants yesterday. They'll need some tweaking cos they've really enjoyed their hols on the terrace.
Have a good Sunday everyone and all the hugs and chocolate you may need.
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)."
More sorting and throwing out today. Hardly started on books yesterday as I went to look at old Christmas cards, which I'd already started and thrown a lot away. In the same chest of drawers I found old birthday cards, letter from friends and the birthday and Mother's Day cards my children had made and drawn for me when they were small. You can imagine it took ages going threw them all. Most are now in a moving box.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning everyone - hear that? No me either, they have gone home, well nearly. It will be odd just us two again but as they have no kitchen my wife will still be cooking for 7 for a good while yet it seems. Their house is nowhere near ready but as school & college is about to restart their ma insists they must come home even though they will be camping out in the Annex, and more literally, tent in the garden. I have a feeling at least one will want to come back overnight when there is no college next day (they only do 3 days a week anyway). Her twin will be at her Aunty's as this year she is on a different college campus and it's much nearer to No 2 daughters house. The youngest will not want to come as school is right across the road about 50 M down, & she's emphatic she does not want to have to get up early to commute from here. The rebuilding has begun but knowing how these things go I recon it will be best part of a month before it's all done but at least more of their house should become habitable gradually as the weeks go by.
Thanks for the tec help folks ... I'd been swiping down as if my life depended on it but nothing appeared ... then I swiped upwards and as if by magic there was the torch icon ... got there in the end
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I often switch on the torch on my phone by accident @Dovefromabove. Like @Biglad mine is a very basic phone, as I loathe the things, but can I ever remember how to turn it off? Can I *************. I have to go into the settings and look in there. I've no idea how I manage to switch it on in the first place
Hasn't your family heard of teakeaways @Allotment Boy How big a job is the building work? It's surprising how quickly it goes once things are watertight, assuming materials are available. I think that's been one of the tricky things this year. I hope your children are going to suitably reward you and your wife for all the extra care. At the very least - a few decent dinners Enjoy a bit of a rest today anyway - if you can You too @Obelixx . I think we sometimes forget that it's fine to have a rest. It's really lovely here now. Sunny, cool and no wind. It would have been perfect hill weather, so I think I'll have to start sorting myself for some proper walks. Should be a bit quieter now - she said hopefully. I've had a shower and a cuppa, so I should really go and get on.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm resting @Fairygirl! Just had a half hour potter and now flopping so am pacing myself. Hope you can get some decent hill walks soon. It's been a long time!
Good luck to your wife and for all the building work @Allotment Boy. Takeaway isn't an option round here - pizza in July and August - but when we had our new kitchen here we did all the demolition, cleaning and decorating ready for the new one and we moved the outgoing cooker into the dining room.
In our last house the only things we kept were the brick walls, roof, attic beams and front door so we cooked upstairs on a 2 burner Camping Gaz stove for months before we had a kitchen. We had a ladder to get upstairs while downstairs was plumbed, wired, plastered, windowed, doored and floored. Not something I'd take on now I'm 27!
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)."
Having a lazy Sunday watching the deer having a lazy Sunday. She is lying in the garden digesting windfall apples again, been there for the last 5 hours. She gets up now and then for a quick browse round the wild rasbperries and other herbage before returning to the same spot for another bout of intensive digesting and nodding off.
Thought for @Busy-Lizzie - you could photograph the birthday cards and letters before you dispose of them. It doesn't take long to do it as you go through them and digital images don't take up much room
Hi folks, Another busy day at Secondborn's, had a bit of family get together for Gabriel's birthday. The children had a lovely time but it was a bit awkward with everything going on. Tomorrow I'm up at the crack of dawn as the boys beds are being delivered between 7 and 11 even though it was arranged for between 1 and 3. As a teacher Secondborn can't get the time off although she is allowed a day of on Tuesday for moving house. Hubby's back home from his travels.
Lovely sunset @Pat E I took a couple of photos of one we had here two or three days ago.
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Lovely baby @Hostafan1 and today will be difficult so let's hope for lots more visits to come. Gorgeous photos @Pat E . I have autumn daffs (steenberghia) in full bloom in the bed around the well but nary a sign of the clump by our front wall - rain shadow altho none lately anyway and none in view so they may not show till October. Agree @chicky - still want to spend time with kids in their 20s and no doubt older too.
Feeling a bit bleugh today after a very busy week so just gentle pottering for me today while OH plays golf. Not much gardening as the soil is bone dry but I will tend to mt pots and maybe harvest more toms for passata. Expecting 26C today but getting cold around dawn now so we brought in the big houseplants yesterday. They'll need some tweaking cos they've really enjoyed their hols on the terrace.
Have a good Sunday everyone and all the hugs and chocolate you may need.
He sounds the ideal baby @Hostafan1
More sorting and throwing out today. Hardly started on books yesterday as I went to look at old Christmas cards, which I'd already started and thrown a lot away. In the same chest of drawers I found old birthday cards, letter from friends and the birthday and Mother's Day cards my children had made and drawn for me when they were small. You can imagine it took ages going threw them all. Most are now in a moving box.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've no idea how I manage to switch it on in the first place
Hasn't your family heard of teakeaways @Allotment Boy
How big a job is the building work? It's surprising how quickly it goes once things are watertight, assuming materials are available. I think that's been one of the tricky things this year. I hope your children are going to suitably reward you and your wife for all the extra care. At the very least - a few decent dinners
Enjoy a bit of a rest today anyway - if you can
You too @Obelixx . I think we sometimes forget that it's fine to have a rest.
It's really lovely here now. Sunny, cool and no wind. It would have been perfect hill weather, so I think I'll have to start sorting myself for some proper walks. Should be a bit quieter now - she said hopefully.
I've had a shower and a cuppa, so I should really go and get on.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good luck to your wife and for all the building work @Allotment Boy. Takeaway isn't an option round here - pizza in July and August - but when we had our new kitchen here we did all the demolition, cleaning and decorating ready for the new one and we moved the outgoing cooker into the dining room.
In our last house the only things we kept were the brick walls, roof, attic beams and front door so we cooked upstairs on a 2 burner Camping Gaz stove for months before we had a kitchen. We had a ladder to get upstairs while downstairs was plumbed, wired, plastered, windowed, doored and floored. Not something I'd take on now I'm 27!