Thanks everyone. I expect the insurers will send an expert to check everything and we'll certainly get the house roof checked. We suspect the chaps who did the roof on our shower room may not be equipped to clear all the crud and rebuild the roof trusses etc so have asked our farmer neighbours if they can recommend anyone who's good with agricultural buildings.
Crikey @Obelixx hope you can get that lot sorted ok, it certainly looks like someone has been tossing the caber! It's very windy down here this morning but no damage.Â
@Obelixx, wow đźđČ A bit scary but such a relief no-one or no chooks came to any harm.Â
We're very wet and windy here too, my basement is very wet, but that's normal, it runs down the walls from the street, we all have the same problem but it does run away out the other side of the house. I have read back, but have little time to comment now, work to do. Despite weather and Covid19 fears the Macmillan Coffee Morning was well supported, we raised 200⏠@Lizzie27. Not as much as last year, but it all counts I suppose. We went for dinner at a 'friends' last night. I'd be trying to get out of it and because of Covid19 the original date early in June had been postponed, but last night I ran out of excuses and had to go. It was all a bit surreal, a group of people with not much in common, some with complicated ' back stories' all sat socially distanced having dinner in an empty gĂźte.... Charlie was the most entertaining, the food was delicious, but I just couldn't help wondering how I got myself into that situation. đ @Busy-Lizzie January seems a long way off at the moment but I'm pretty sure it'll be upon you faster than you know, especially with Christmas in-between, then new home, new garden and a new chapter. I would imagine you're feeling very nostalgic at the moment with a lot of emotions running high. Cake with a friend is an ideal solution. Right must go. Have a good day all and stay safe in this horrible weather. đ
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Scary stuff @Obelixx ....I hate wind most of all the weather đł. Â Hope the insurance guys play nicely.
Indoor stuff here for the forseeable. Â Got an embroidery project to start and Montyâs book to finish, so will be happy inside whilst the rain lashes down out there.
Was at Dadâs yesterday. Â He decided he wanted to go upstairs ......first time for two years đ. Â We have banned him from doing so unless there is someone else in the house though đ±
Crikey @Obelixx I hope the insurance pays without any problems and you manage to get it sorted without too long a wait. Hopefully the new roof will be better and more storm resistant than the old one.
@Fairygirl, that was a lovely article about the granddaughter and grandmother.
@Pat E the recipe sounds delicious, I've never thought of putting the dill in the pancake mixture, only in the sauce. I must try it, OH loves dill. This is the first year I haven't had it in the garden, it's been a strange year.
Wet and windy outside. I'll be inside doing more sorting. I burnt a box full of my old bank statements on the woodburner last night, dating from 2002 to 2008. Internet nowadays saves so much paper but it hasn't helped the Post Office and employment. I must bag up the rest of the baby and children clothes for the charity Emmaus, then do some more emptying of 1st OH's huge desk. The desk will be going to Son 1, it's a beautiful old fashioned one in yew with a tooled green leather top.
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That sounds like a lovely desk @Busy-Lizzie so good that it's being kept in the family. Never been that keen on dill except for making gravadlax tho I'll probably try fennel next time I do it as I can't get the dill in sufficient quantities here but am happy to grow fennel. In Belgium I could get dill if I went to the Brussels outdoor markets with a heavy North African/Middle Eastern clientÚle.  Mint and coriander by the handful too and not just a few measly sprigs like you get in SMs.
We have moved some of the sheets of corrugated stuff and a couple of beams and moved taller plants from my "nursery" by the barns to the side of the polytunnel but have come in as it's persisting down.  Hens not impressed by the rain.
It's amazing how far some heavy beams have flown, even without the added "sails" of corrugated sheets.  We have a lone poplar which irritates the pants off me and it has survived unscathed.  Why?
Were these people customers you need to keep happy @D0rdogne_Damsel ? Maybe plead early starts and late finishes next time? Â
Wet here too @punkdoc, but we aren't getting the wind, for a change. Wasn't it lovely @Busy-Lizzie? We're so used to emailing and the internet now, and no one uses letters any more, but older people love them. When you think of the horrible situation people have been in re older relatives, it's such a beautiful and simple thing to do. Glad dad is ok @chicky. Definitely worrying about the stairs though. We were the same with our dad, and he didn't need to go upstairs, but all his paperwork was up there, so I had to tell him I'd get anything down that he needed. He was so independent though, so always a worry that he'd just go himself. Â
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I used to write to my Aged Ps when they were alive ... although I saw them most weeks, sometimes more, Ma especially didnât always remember visits so a letter in her red handbag, to take out and read again (and to show others and brag about getting a letter) counted for a lot. Now I write to my slightly batty Aunty B on the Gower ... sheâs the last of that generation left now, one son is in Tasmania so the load is on his younger brotherâs shoulders. A picture postcard or a newsy letter lasts so much longer for her than a phone call from someone whose identity sheâs probably confused about.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Blimey @Obelixx and I've been whining about preventing my mini greenhouse blowing over againÂ
Good luck with the insurance and repairs - hope it all goes smoothly.
@Obelixx, wow đźđČ A bit scary but such a relief no-one or no chooks came to any harm.Â
We're very wet and windy here too, my basement is very wet, but that's normal, it runs down the walls from the street, we all have the same problem but it does run away out the other side of the house.Â
I have read back, but have little time to comment now, work to do.Â
Despite weather and Covid19 fears the Macmillan Coffee Morning was well supported, we raised 200⏠@Lizzie27. Not as much as last year, but it all counts I suppose.Â
We went for dinner at a 'friends' last night. I'd be trying to get out of it and because of Covid19 the original date early in June had been postponed, but last night I ran out of excuses and had to go. It was all a bit surreal, a group of people with not much in common, some with complicated ' back stories' all sat socially distanced having dinner in an empty gĂźte.... Charlie was the most entertaining, the food was delicious, but I just couldn't help wondering how I got myself into that situation. đ
@Busy-Lizzie January seems a long way off at the moment but I'm pretty sure it'll be upon you faster than you know, especially with Christmas in-between, then new home, new garden and a new chapter. I would imagine you're feeling very nostalgic at the moment with a lot of emotions running high. Cake with a friend is an ideal solution.Â
Right must go. Have a good day all and stay safe in this horrible weather. đ
Indoor stuff here for the forseeable. Â Got an embroidery project to start and Montyâs book to finish, so will be happy inside whilst the rain lashes down out there.
Was at Dadâs yesterday. Â He decided he wanted to go upstairs ......first time for two years đ. Â We have banned him from doing so unless there is someone else in the house though đ±
@Fairygirl, that was a lovely article about the granddaughter and grandmother.
@Pat E the recipe sounds delicious, I've never thought of putting the dill in the pancake mixture, only in the sauce. I must try it, OH loves dill. This is the first year I haven't had it in the garden, it's been a strange year.
Wet and windy outside. I'll be inside doing more sorting. I burnt a box full of my old bank statements on the woodburner last night, dating from 2002 to 2008. Internet nowadays saves so much paper but it hasn't helped the Post Office and employment. I must bag up the rest of the baby and children clothes for the charity Emmaus, then do some more emptying of 1st OH's huge desk. The desk will be going to Son 1, it's a beautiful old fashioned one in yew with a tooled green leather top.
Very wet and windy, I will not be opening the door today.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We have moved some of the sheets of corrugated stuff and a couple of beams and moved taller plants from my "nursery" by the barns to the side of the polytunnel but have come in as it's persisting down.  Hens not impressed by the rain.
It's amazing how far some heavy beams have flown, even without the added "sails" of corrugated sheets.  We have a lone poplar which irritates the pants off me and it has survived unscathed.  Why?
Were these people customers you need to keep happy @D0rdogne_Damsel ? Maybe plead early starts and late finishes next time? Â
Wasn't it lovely @Busy-Lizzie? We're so used to emailing and the internet now, and no one uses letters any more, but older people love them. When you think of the horrible situation people have been in re older relatives, it's such a beautiful and simple thing to do.Â
Glad dad is ok @chicky. Definitely worrying about the stairs though. We were the same with our dad, and he didn't need to go upstairs, but all his paperwork was up there, so I had to tell him I'd get anything down that he needed. He was so independent though, so always a worry that he'd just go himself. Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.