Builders are crooning Wonderwall outside my back door atm. I think they are now finished with the destruction part of the job. From now on things should start looking better every day 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good morning everyone. Late on parade as I've been reading and pottering. It's failry dull here but trying to be bright. Pity as we too had a starry sky and moonlight last night.
Possum has been "attending" a lecture by internet this morning and had a chat with her coordinator. Needs to make big decisions by Monday. i'm a great believer in letting the sub conscious churn such matters so will take her off to the SM with me after lunch and also a fabric shop to distract her and let things bubble away underneath.
Need photos @chicky! Builders, crooners and wonderwall.
OH does tax stuff here and says it's fairly simple and a lot less than we'd pay in Belgium. The bank chappy almost had heart failure when he saw the rates we'd paid on our income details when arranging the loan for the PVs - so cheap there was no point raiding our savings an dnot yet a full year in France so no tax and income details for here at that point.
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)."
Forecast looks like it may be overly pessimistic here. Evidence of blue skies and sunshine
I got back late last night and left some cuttings in the car along with a bag of compost precariously wedged in to prevent spillage Just that to sort but I'm sure I'll be able to faff and potter for a couple of hours this aft.
I generally do my tax return on Jan 31st and have been known to finish and submit at 11.58pm
However, as I'll be due some back for 19/20, I really ought to have done it early this year. I'm putting off painting in the bathroom at the moment but, once I've done that, putting off the tax return will move to the top of the Jobs To Do That Won't Get Done For Ages list
Morning all, feel a bit better today so hoping yesterday's treatment might have worked. Managed a walk to get the paper in the sunshine, got home, then put some washing out only to find it raining five minutes later as soon as I sat down with a coffee - typical.
Enjoy your time together Dove and Wonky, I'm hoping to see my son and his family over the weekend. Thought of you @Hostafan1, our Gardening Club did a Zoom meeting with the Bowden Hosta chap last night but unfortunately I couldn't cope with screens just then.
Any further restrictions shouldn't stop you from doing bike rides and walks surely @chicky? If they do, then we'll be ignoring them.
Hope Possum is able to make decisions @Obelixx, is there no way she could transfer to a Uni nearer to you? Haven't heard from my daughter lately despite me leaving messages so I do hope she's not having a wobble. It's very worrying.
Hi everyone. I’ve been weeding etc today. Luckily the rain had loosened the soil around their roots. 👏👏 we’ve got a friend with huge machinery redoing our driveway with gravel. Looks good so far. More tomorrow.
Can you send that bloke up to me @Pat E? I need to redo our parking at the back, but I need a new bit of edging first, and it would be too difficult for me to dig out what's there and re do it. One of those jobs I'd hoped to do this year., although I expect I could still get a man in for that bit. You don't want spillage in the car @Biglad - of any kind Distraction is always good @Obelixx, even if it's just putting off something inevitable. My area falls under Greater Glasgow and Clyde as a health board @chicky, which is how they're dividing it up, although I'm very close to two others which are also in the firing line, so it doesn't really matter. We're being 'asked' not to travel outside of our health board area, which means no hills. My conscience won't allow me to try and 'get round it'. There's already been a lot of debate about it on walkhighlands, and I can see the way that conversation's going - just like it did in spring I managed not to get too wet when I was out, but it looks like I was quite lucky. I doubt it'll get into double figs here today though. I have a couple of things I can do though, in between the wet spells.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry sorry Fairy, he’s going to be too busy here. He hasn’t started the difficult bit yet. Not sure how he’s going to tackle it. It’s a stony ridge which keep pushing up through the soil and it’s like driving over a grill, only sharper.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Possum has been "attending" a lecture by internet this morning and had a chat with her coordinator. Needs to make big decisions by Monday. i'm a great believer in letting the sub conscious churn such matters so will take her off to the SM with me after lunch and also a fabric shop to distract her and let things bubble away underneath.
Need photos @chicky! Builders, crooners and wonderwall.
OH does tax stuff here and says it's fairly simple and a lot less than we'd pay in Belgium. The bank chappy almost had heart failure when he saw the rates we'd paid on our income details when arranging the loan for the PVs - so cheap there was no point raiding our savings an dnot yet a full year in France so no tax and income details for here at that point.
Forecast looks like it may be overly pessimistic here. Evidence of blue skies and sunshine
I got back late last night and left some cuttings in the car along with a bag of compost precariously wedged in to prevent spillage
I generally do my tax return on Jan 31st and have been known to finish and submit at 11.58pm
However, as I'll be due some back for 19/20, I really ought to have done it early this year. I'm putting off painting in the bathroom at the moment but, once I've done that, putting off the tax return will move to the top of the Jobs To Do That Won't Get Done For Ages list
Enjoy your time together Dove and Wonky, I'm hoping to see my son and his family over the weekend. Thought of you @Hostafan1, our Gardening Club did a Zoom meeting with the Bowden Hosta chap last night but unfortunately I couldn't cope with screens just then.
Any further restrictions shouldn't stop you from doing bike rides and walks surely @chicky? If they do, then we'll be ignoring them.
Hope Possum is able to make decisions @Obelixx, is there no way she could transfer to a Uni nearer to you? Haven't heard from my daughter lately despite me leaving messages so I do hope she's not having a wobble. It's very worrying.
@Biglad , you have been busy, lucky sister.
we’ve got a friend with huge machinery redoing our driveway with gravel. Looks good so far. More tomorrow.
You don't want spillage in the car @Biglad - of any kind
Distraction is always good @Obelixx, even if it's just putting off something inevitable.
My area falls under Greater Glasgow and Clyde as a health board @chicky, which is how they're dividing it up, although I'm very close to two others which are also in the firing line, so it doesn't really matter. We're being 'asked' not to travel outside of our health board area, which means no hills. My conscience won't allow me to try and 'get round it'. There's already been a lot of debate about it on walkhighlands, and I can see the way that conversation's going - just like it did in spring
I managed not to get too wet when I was out, but it looks like I was quite lucky. I doubt it'll get into double figs here today though. I have a couple of things I can do though, in between the wet spells.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...