Weâre having a slow start this morning ... think Iâve caught up with my lost sleep, and OH is at home for the next three days.Â
Iâll make a ragu today and use some of it for a spag Bol ... we have a supermarket delivery coming between 7 and 8 this evening.Â
My other job for today is to varnish the new birch plywood top for my studio workbench, Â which arrived the other day. Â Itâs a waterbased âindoorâ varnish so hopefully isnât too smelly. Â Itâs a beautiful piece of wood so Iâm really quite excited. Itâll also give me a higher working surface which should be better for my dodgy neck.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tier 3 from tomorrow, build the wall. The number of COVID cases in ICU's is growing fast. Doing less, but getting more breathless. There is a big black dog following me.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I seem to have missed a number of birthdays and anniversaries, so Happy Unbirthday to anyone who'd like one.    Are we all having an Unbirthday today? That would call for lots of Cake...
Hope the cat enjoys her holiday with you, @Pat E. Clever of her to hide!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Huge hugs @punkdoc ... I think this pandemic is giving us all more intimations of mortality than we would wish for ... and for those who already had received more than a hint that that weâre not going to last for ever, Â itâs bound to keep worming its way into your thoughts. Do your best to ignore it ... and do at least one enjoyable thing every day ((hugs)) xx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have some chocolate @punkdoc - great for seeing off the dementors and black dogs.
Sunny here so heading off outside to plant and play as it'll be wet, wet, wet by Sunday if the forecast is correct. Just a few showers by Tuesday when I'm meeting @D0rdogne_Damsel
Spag bol was our quick fix for Thursdays before dance class @Dovefromabove but we haven't had it since early March. Korean dumplings for dinner tonight after finding a range on offer yesterday - pork and kimchi, chicken ad veg, beef bulgogi. Possum will cook some stir fry veggies too.
Glad you had a good day @chicky and how lovely for you to have a visitor for a bit longer @Pat E.  Our Cosmos is taken to sleeping on Possum's bed which she finds comforting except when he insists on active cuddles at dawn.
Morning everyone. Your visitor looks gorgeous @Pat E and so at home, enjoy her/him while you can. Hope Hosta's recovering this morning, at least he's got his OH to wait on him. I'm pleased that the dentist didn't find anything wrong yesterday, typically it had stopped hurting by the time I went! What a palaver though, I had to wait outside the locked front door, until I was let in, wearing my mask of course and sanitised. Had a full medical history taken (new dentist) which took a long time, even though we've been going there for twelve years. Signed my life away on a tablet using a stylus in a plastic bag. Teeth checked, X-rays taken (horrible) and then paid £70 for the privilege. I liked the new dentist though and think we'll be in good hands which is a relief.
Botheration ... the varnish that was delivered isn't what I thought I ordered and it's not water-based so it's stinking the studio out ... the decision was taken to press ahead regardless as it needed to be done to enable me to get on with a piece of work next week, so the big glass wall has been slid open and OH out of there has come into the sitting room and is noodling on his laptop rather than painting.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello again everyone. Her name is Pixel. Â We love her. I gave her a different tin of food tonight and she was very impressed.
A strange thing happened a little while ago. I canât stop thinking about it. She was lounging on the headrest of the chair beside me and I said something to her. She looked up and suddenly spotted our sonâs photo on the wall behind me. She froze and just kept staring at it. Do cats see photos the same way that we do? Â Spooky! Â I wonder what she thought? Â Surely she knows that he isnât here.Â
I don't know @Pat E. When he was a kitten Cosmos was fascinated by TV but these days it's just the dogs that get excited if there are dogs barking on TV or a doorbell rings.
There may be a cabbage shortage here too @Dovefromabove as the chooks are really enjoying the ones I've hung up for them.  In this case however, the kimchi is already in the dumplings but you've reminded me I have some home-made kimchi in the fridge. Should be well ripe by now I made it in September.
I think I'd have oiled that birch worktop and let it dry a few days before applying a water based varnish. Too late now tho. Hope the smell fades soon.
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Weâre having a slow start this morning ... think Iâve caught up with my lost sleep, and OH is at home for the next three days.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tier 3 from tomorrow, build the wall.
The number of COVID cases in ICU's is growing fast.
Doing less, but getting more breathless.
There is a big black dog following me.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hugs @punkdoc - and gentle hugs @Hostafan1 too. Â
I seem to have missed a number of birthdays and anniversaries, so Happy Unbirthday to anyone who'd like one. Â
Hope the cat enjoys her holiday with you, @Pat E. Clever of her to hide!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have some chocolate @punkdoc - great for seeing off the dementors and black dogs.
Sunny here so heading off outside to plant and play as it'll be wet, wet, wet by Sunday if the forecast is correct. Just a few showers by Tuesday when I'm meeting @D0rdogne_Damsel
Spag bol was our quick fix for Thursdays before dance class @Dovefromabove but we haven't had it since early March. Korean dumplings for dinner tonight after finding a range on offer yesterday - pork and kimchi, chicken ad veg, beef bulgogi. Possum will cook some stir fry veggies too.
Glad you had a good day @chicky and how lovely for you to have a visitor for a bit longer @Pat E.  Our Cosmos is taken to sleeping on Possum's bed which she finds comforting except when he insists on active cuddles at dawn.
Enjoy your visitors @Busy-Lizzie.Â
Stay safe everyone.Â
I'm pleased that the dentist didn't find anything wrong yesterday, typically it had stopped hurting by the time I went! What a palaver though, I had to wait outside the locked front door, until I was let in, wearing my mask of course and sanitised. Had a full medical history taken (new dentist) which took a long time, even though we've been going there for twelve years. Signed my life away on a tablet using a stylus in a plastic bag. Teeth checked, X-rays taken (horrible) and then paid £70 for the privilege. I liked the new dentist though and think we'll be in good hands which is a relief.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/crisis-fermenting-as-cabbage-shortage-hits-south-koreas-kimchi-culture
Botheration ... the varnish that was delivered isn't what I thought I ordered and it's not water-based so it's stinking the studio out ... the decision was taken to press ahead regardless as it needed to be done to enable me to get on with a piece of work next week, so the big glass wall has been slid open and OH out of there has come into the sitting room and is noodling on his laptop rather than painting.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A strange thing happened a little while ago. I canât stop thinking about it. She was lounging on the headrest of the chair beside me and I said something to her. She looked up and suddenly spotted our sonâs photo on the wall behind me. She froze and just kept staring at it. Do cats see photos the same way that we do? Â Spooky! Â I wonder what she thought? Â Surely she knows that he isnât here.Â
but these days it's just the dogs that get excited if there are dogs barking on TV or a doorbell rings.
There may be a cabbage shortage here too @Dovefromabove as the chooks are really enjoying the ones I've hung up for them.  In this case however, the kimchi is already in the dumplings but you've reminded me I have some home-made kimchi in the fridge. Should be well ripe by now I made it in September.
I think I'd have oiled that birch worktop and let it dry a few days before applying a water based varnish. Too late now tho. Hope the smell fades soon.