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HELLO FORKERS 🎃 October ‘20 🎃

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Whew!  I’ve been watering some of the garden beds. Not pleasant out there. 27 and windy. 

    S. E. NSW
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    hiya @Pat E, 27 and windy sounds divine. We've got 12 and windy and pouring rain
    Devon.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    I told Hubby a few days ago that my dill plants needed to be harvested. He got out one of our old favourite recipes and wow, I’m full now. Couldn’t manage another. 
    The recipe comes from an Australian Women’s Weekly Dinner Party book.  He used a slice of purple onion instead of the shallot. 



    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 
    I hope the daylight doesn’t reveal too much damage @Obelixx and that your insurers etc are helpful. Lots of taking stock and coffee ☕️ this morning I imagine 🤗 Glad it’s ‘just buildings’ affected. 
    Although we knew there’d been a lot of trees/branches down here in Norfolk the other weekend, our trip to the coast yesterday revealed a surprising amount of damage to woodlands and hedgerows hereabouts. Wind is scarily powerful. 

    Hope your wind drops too @Pat E ... not nice. 🙄 

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





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Our wind has disappeared now thank goodness.

    Obelixx, sorry you’ve had that experience with your weather. I’m glad the chooks are ok. What a lovely idea it is to give them a better life.  I haven’t heard of it being done here, but we don’t want to have any livestock to worry about nowadays.Been there and done that. 

    I’m too full to move after Hubby’s dinner. Lovely after taste though with the lemon and fish. 😜

    S. E. NSW
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Morning all/afties @Pat E
    Pretty hellish @Obelixx. Frightening when bits start coming off roofs. Hope the insurers don't drag their heels though. I expect there'll be lots of folk with similar problems.
    The butterflies have been thin on the ground this year, as the weather really hasn't favoured them at all, which is a pity.
    Rain hasn't quite arrived here yet, but it's the north east which is to get the worst of it up here. Just normal wet/windy stuff for us. 
    I was looking at our news the other day, and I thought this was the most beautiful thing I'd seen in ages 
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-54368314
    Those dreadful young folk eh?  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well, the damage is impressive!  This landed just by the annex door which is our main doggy and shopping and after gardening entrance.


    This bit of barn roof and carpentry was stopped by the big bay tree.  Underneath it now is the squished stone store.

    This beam was impaled - impressive so tempted to keep it as a feature

    And these are the two barns whence came all this stuff

    Some damage to contents too including machinery stored in OH's barn.   Now we wait to see what the insurance has to say.

    Other than that, bit of carpentry and slabs of corrugated roof all over the place including a  huge chunk on what was the wildflower meadow this summer.   No trees down, no visible damage to the house roof tho that needs checking and the hens are fine.

    Stay safe everyone.
    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)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    flippin' 'eck @Obelixx. Alarming, but mercifully no injuries to any of you.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh! @Obelixx!!!😱 but that could have been so much worse ... thank goodness it wasn’t 🤗. 
    Speaking as someone who was involved in the building business at the time of the ‘87 storm here ... get your gable ends, ridges and chimneys checked before you put in your final insurance claim. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Jeez. Thankfully, you're all fine. That's really all that matters @Obelixx.
    I rather like the impaled beam too. Like a failed caber toss  :D
    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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