I'm sorry about your brother @Dovefromabove, I hope the doctors can some something about the cancers. Sad about Neighbour.
I slept badly again, seem to have got into the habit of waking at 3 or 4am. Then I slept until well after 9am.
All is quiet here now, no grandchildren and not allowed to see anyone, even family, for the next month. Even if OH does manage to find a plane I don't think I'm allowed to meet him. Have to take an "attestation" certificate and only allowed to go food shopping, pharmacy, doctor, take children to school or go to work if permitted and work has a safe environment. Allowed to go for a walk up to one hour within 1 km of home. They have done an online map to show where 1 km is but the map is wrong and shows my house in the wrong place.
I can't print an Attestation as my Laptop says the the printer is switched off. It isn't. I've tried everything that Google advises to no avail.
But the sun is shining at last and washing is optimistically pegged on the line.
I cut my hair this morning with the help of the wardrobe mirrors, 2" off all round, layered it at the back, think it's OK. Haven't been to a hairdressers since July in Diss. Got fed up with it and anyway no one will see it for a month, except the oil delivery man next week.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I'm sorry to hear the news about your brother @Dovefromabove, there's never a good time to hear about these things, and at the moment with everything else going on it seems even more stressful (hugs). We are having some gorgeous weather at the moment, very warm 29 deg on our terrace. OH is busy cutting grass as it is growing at pace with the sun and morning dew. I wanted to buy some garlic for planting soon but I'm not sure I will be able to, are the garden centres open over here @Obelixx, @Busy-Lizzie, @tuikowhai34 do you know or are they classed as non essential? Made more tomato sauce this morning with the last of the toms, I was savouring the smell of them as I cut them up and thought that I won't have a tomato that smells that good or at all until late next year!
I've just looked on the website for Jardiland in Bordeaux @floralies and it says they are staying open. I don't know what the rules are for garden centres at the moment though.
Daughter 1 says she is fed up with clothes shops shutting during lockdowns. She has fast growing teenage boys and it's time to buy clothes for winter.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all, Hugs @Dovefromabove so sorry to hear about your brother and neighbour. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the news is OK. I must check up on my nephew and see how he is doing.
I've been to Merry Hell this morning, hopefully the last visit before Ch******s Picked up a parcel for Secondborn and some family cards to go with the general cards and wrapping paper I have from last year. Any other pressies I need to get will be ordered on-line. The weather forecast for next week looks better so hopefully I'll be able to do some tidying in the garden and plant the rest of the bulbs. I've had a clem delivered today so will need to get that in soon.
Missed your post @Dovefromabove. I do hope things go well for your baby brother and they can fix him.
@floralies during the first lockdown France Rurale stayed open here but just in the mornings as it has feed supplies and fencing and tools and so on for small holdings as well as edible and ornamental plants. CAVAC which is an agricultural cooperative stayed open too as it sells things for farms and smallholdings as well as gardens and veg plots. The other garden centres opened nearer Easter but supposedly only to sell edibles plants and seeds and related products. They had a sign up in one saying "buy ornamentals and pots at your risk if stopped". Can't tell you how many people were strolling out with "edible" azaleas and such for their spring gardens.
Yesterday I bought some patch fabric for a lockdown project and asked the shop owner if she would be staying open as there was a loophole last time about shops selling fabric for making masks. Oh yes, she says, and I can sell sewing machines and arrange repairs too so am an essential service! I asked so I could tell my patch ladies - before I knew about the 1km limit - and she said with a wink that even if she has to close she's just upstairs in the flat and probably working in the shop anyway organising her fabrics so would let people in.
@Busy-Lizzie surely your daughter can order clothes online?
@Fairygirl is Dave's clock slow? Our entire plot is roughly rectangular and 100m x 140m and 1/3rd or more is fenced off as paddock and then a 25 x 29m section is fenced off as a donkey paddock so it's now our potager with polytunnel and hen house. We can, just about, do a 50 minute circuit using the back lanes to walk the dogs and let them off the leads for most of it while we stay within the 1km limit.
I let the chooks out of their pen and it took all of a minute for the first to go and explore. Eventually all 6 were out while I cleaned and scrubbed their boxes and nesting shelf and cleaned their water dispenser and raked the floor clean. 2 came back to check what I was doing. The most hen pecked has found the polytunnel and is in a blissful state pecking for insects and grubs. She has no tail at all but there are signs of new feathers there. Another has found the raised strawberry bed. Lots of happy hen noises.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Sorry to hear your news @Dovefromabove hope your brother is ok. Just caught up again we actually managed a couple of hours in the garden this morning, just pottering renewing some of the pot displays. . Sleep is improving the clock change never used to affect me but it seems now I'm over 27!!
@Busy-Lizzie - 1 km is only just over half a mile, so it's hardly anything, but it's barely ten minutes walking, even at a fairly sedate pace. You could just time it if you went out. Which clem did you get @Yviestevie? I was hoping to get one of my new ones in today, but I decided to bite the bullet, and dig the rowan out that's round the back of the shed instead. Not sure how well it'll take, but it's in the wheelbarrow getting rained on, and will get plenty more over the next few days I'm considering putting it in a more prominent place. I love them, and it was a freebie that had seeded in - not long before I moved in here, by the size of it. I don't think Dave has a clock at all @Obelixx. Just as well or he'd be at the back steps every day, tapping his 'wrist' and looking expectantly at the door.... Lovely here this morning, but a bit cloudier and showery this afternoon. Nice to have a little blue sky and sun, and we had one of these just when I came back in
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I slept badly again, seem to have got into the habit of waking at 3 or 4am. Then I slept until well after 9am.
All is quiet here now, no grandchildren and not allowed to see anyone, even family, for the next month. Even if OH does manage to find a plane I don't think I'm allowed to meet him. Have to take an "attestation" certificate and only allowed to go food shopping, pharmacy, doctor, take children to school or go to work if permitted and work has a safe environment. Allowed to go for a walk up to one hour within 1 km of home. They have done an online map to show where 1 km is but the map is wrong and shows my house in the wrong place.
I can't print an Attestation as my Laptop says the the printer is switched off. It isn't. I've tried everything that Google advises to no avail.
But the sun is shining at last and washing is optimistically pegged on the line.
I cut my hair this morning with the help of the wardrobe mirrors, 2" off all round, layered it at the back, think it's OK. Haven't been to a hairdressers since July in Diss. Got fed up with it and anyway no one will see it for a month, except the oil delivery man next week.
We are having some gorgeous weather at the moment, very warm 29 deg on our terrace. OH is busy cutting grass as it is growing at pace with the sun and morning dew. I wanted to buy some garlic for planting soon but I'm not sure I will be able to, are the garden centres open over here @Obelixx, @Busy-Lizzie, @tuikowhai34 do you know or are they classed as non essential?
Made more tomato sauce this morning with the last of the toms, I was savouring the smell of them as I cut them up and thought that I won't have a tomato that smells that good or at all until late next year!
Daughter 1 says she is fed up with clothes shops shutting during lockdowns. She has fast growing teenage boys and it's time to buy clothes for winter.
@floralies during the first lockdown France Rurale stayed open here but just in the mornings as it has feed supplies and fencing and tools and so on for small holdings as well as edible and ornamental plants. CAVAC which is an agricultural cooperative stayed open too as it sells things for farms and smallholdings as well as gardens and veg plots. The other garden centres opened nearer Easter but supposedly only to sell edibles plants and seeds and related products. They had a sign up in one saying "buy ornamentals and pots at your risk if stopped". Can't tell you how many people were strolling out with "edible" azaleas and such for their spring gardens.
Yesterday I bought some patch fabric for a lockdown project and asked the shop owner if she would be staying open as there was a loophole last time about shops selling fabric for making masks. Oh yes, she says, and I can sell sewing machines and arrange repairs too so am an essential service! I asked so I could tell my patch ladies - before I knew about the 1km limit - and she said with a wink that even if she has to close she's just upstairs in the flat and probably working in the shop anyway organising her fabrics so would let people in.
@Busy-Lizzie surely your daughter can order clothes online?
@Fairygirl is Dave's clock slow? Our entire plot is roughly rectangular and 100m x 140m and 1/3rd or more is fenced off as paddock and then a 25 x 29m section is fenced off as a donkey paddock so it's now our potager with polytunnel and hen house. We can, just about, do a 50 minute circuit using the back lanes to walk the dogs and let them off the leads for most of it while we stay within the 1km limit.
I let the chooks out of their pen and it took all of a minute for the first to go and explore. Eventually all 6 were out while I cleaned and scrubbed their boxes and nesting shelf and cleaned their water dispenser and raked the floor clean. 2 came back to check what I was doing. The most hen pecked has found the polytunnel and is in a blissful state pecking for insects and grubs. She has no tail at all but there are signs of new feathers there. Another has found the raised strawberry bed. Lots of happy hen noises.
Just caught up again we actually managed a couple of hours in the garden this morning, just pottering renewing some of the pot displays.
Sleep is improving the clock change never used to affect me but it seems now I'm over 27!!
Which clem did you get @Yviestevie? I was hoping to get one of my new ones in today, but I decided to bite the bullet, and dig the rowan out that's round the back of the shed instead. Not sure how well it'll take, but it's in the wheelbarrow getting rained on, and will get plenty more over the next few days
I'm considering putting it in a more prominent place. I love them, and it was a freebie that had seeded in - not long before I moved in here, by the size of it.
I don't think Dave has a clock at all @Obelixx. Just as well or he'd be at the back steps every day, tapping his 'wrist' and looking expectantly at the door....
Lovely here this morning, but a bit cloudier and showery this afternoon. Nice to have a little blue sky and sun, and we had one of these just when I came back in
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Which-shops-and-stores-can-stay-open-and-which-must-close-during-lockdown-confinement-in-France
Jardiland will probably stay open as it supplies food for animals.
Bit of a bummer about travel for comings and goings!