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HELLO FORKERS 🌽 Sept ā€˜20

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  • Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That made me laugh Dove. It's a current craze on social media I believe - he's not the only one who got stuck.

    I was annoyed too @Allotment Boy as I logged on earlier to do next weeks SM delivery and found all slots taken up to next Friday, so have had to settle for then instead of next Thursday. I suppose I should have got my act together yesterday but can't seem to get my brain into gear this week. Feel wuzzy headed and a bit dizzy most of the time.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    morning all
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Morning all/afties @Pat E if you're there.
    At least his parents would have known where he was @Dovefromabove :D
    Have a good day @Hostafan1. Hope there aren't too many idiots demanding 4,000 toilet rolls and thirty bags of pasta. Might even be some food left for the locals eh?
    Another pretty frost, coldest night so far. Hopefully the wee hill will be a bit drier underfoot too.Ā  :)
    Have a good day everyone, whatever you're doing.Ā 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2020
    Good morning all 😊 ā˜•ļøĀ 
    looks like there’s some clearing up to doĀ 

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weather/cars-and-streets-consumed-by-sand-in-walcott-and-bacton-after-high-winds-1-6857085

    And family news ... I am continually perplexed at a cousin’s excitement and desperation to re-establish his and my right to march our sheep across Westminster Bridge Ā because an ancestor was once a cordwangler or some such 🄓



    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.
    I spent the day with son 2 and family yesterday at his new house. He completed the day before but his furniture will be moved this week. The previous owner was still there as he wanted to explain things like the boiler and the garden tractor. He is elderly and obviously in love with his home but can't manage it any more. There are six acres and 5 bedrooms. His wife stayed at their hotel but he came to the house and talked and talked, actually a bit of a nuisance but they couldn't throw him out. I took a picnic lunch which we had in the dining room on garden furniture as it was cold, drizzly and windy.Ā 

    I played a lot in the garden with my 3 small grandsons and a football and gathered walnuts and tomatoes until I was too cold. My little granddaughter stayed behind with a babysitter, she needed her cot for a sleep.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2020
    @Busy-Lizzie I’m sure the elderly chap appreciates your kindness in allowing him to do a ā€˜proper handover’ ... it’ll put his mind at rest and he won’t feel that all his work over the years counts for nothing to the new owners ... it’s his legacy after all 😊 

    I’ve just realised that my usual repeat prescription meds haven’t happened. I’m sure it’s all a bit hectic down at the pharmacy ... I shall have to give them a ring at 10am. I have a few ā€˜spares’ that I keep in my handbag in case I have to stay somewhere Ā overnight unexpectedly (a legacy from when my Aged Ps were alive) but they’re probably a bit out of date and certainly my BP med is the old one not the one the GP changed me to at the start of COVID.
    Hey ho I expect I’ll survive ...

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    I am in my hibernaculum and may stay here till Spring, if my back doesn't ease.
    I have music, book, yesterdays paper and chocolate biscuits, what more does a man need.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • @punkdoc ... a comfy chair by a window and a good pair of binoculars kept Pa content during his incarceration ... and 🄃 of course

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good morning everyone.Ā  Ā Bright and breezy here today with grey bits and silver linings.Ā  Two more eggs this morning and the first chuck has ventured outside for a peck and a scratch.Ā  Ā The others scurried under the bench when I went to check their water.

    Mask sewing and Possum minding today - bit of a meltdown yesterday - and baking a cake for patch AGM tomorrow.  OH is golfing at Coëx in a Vendée clubs competition.

    6 acres is plenty of space for the grandkids to run around @Busy-Lizzie.Ā  Ā Lots of room in the house for family gatherings too?Ā  The grandson (our age) of the people who built this house in 1930 keeps popping back to chat too.Ā  His latest ruse is to take photos of the ruin before it collapses.Ā  They used to have major land holdings here with a windmill and lesser farms but they've been sold off or lost to minor branches as successive generations inherit and split it under the inheritance laws.Ā 

    @Dovefromabove I know someone with a certificate to say they have the ancestral right to drive sheep across the City of London - can't remember which Guild tho.

    Enjoy your hill @Fairygirl


    VendƩe - 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)."
    Plato
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