He usually works on Sundays ... and I think he has his gall bladder op coming up soon ... good luck @Hostafan1 ((hugs)) ... Maybe he'll see this and pop in ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all. I donât feel like venturing out today.  Had a lovely walk yesterday - saw my friendâs puppy whilst out. Just doing some âhomeworkâ before back to work tomorrow đ€ Will do a roast chicken later.Â
Hope you've enjoyed your week off. As long as you don't have a 'wee cough' @AuntyRach.... The old jokes are the best. We had a roast chook last night [sorry @Obelixx] so stock is being made today. We have 'the smirr' now. Pleasant enough when I was out though. It's always a debate as to when low cloud stops being cloud, and becomes rain. The fog/mist is similar. Hope it's clearing a bit for all you lot who have it. Talking about blackbirds the other day, there was a lovely female grubbing around in the tree behind the shed when I came back. There's some rowan and cotoneaster berries there, so maybe that's what she was eating.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No worries @Fairygirl. We're having roast chook tonight but don't tell the girls. I always spatchcock it these days and am just wondering whether to go herby or spicy.
Last night when I went to shut them in they were all snuggling in a box except the one which still prefers to wobble on the ladder so today I have cleaned up their mess and removed the 3 nesting boxes from their corner as no-one is using them and put all the boxes on the perch side so they can all have one if they want.
Sunny here and not to cold after a chilly start. OH has finished cutting the grass this morning and has now gone off to practise for a golf comp on Tuesday leaving me to play with Possum.
I hope it clears up for all of you with mist or fog or rain.  Â
Hope you've enjoyed your week off. As long as you don't have a 'wee cough' @AuntyRach.... The old jokes are the best.Â
If anyone says âweek offâ, in our house, the other one does a pretend cough into hand gesture - itâs a tradition! I did it in work once, but nobody appreciated it (and not just because coughing is a no no!).Â
Finished my teaching prep, so will have a catch up, read, check news, message people etc before itâs oven time.Â
It cleared up a little later on here, so I've planted one of the clems. I won't tell @Obelixx It's the only roast I do because of young fairylet's prob with red meat. I don't like lamb or roast beef anyway, so it wouldn't make any difference even if I was on my own @AuntyRach  We have a terrible forecast for tomorrow into Tuesday, and they're closing the R and be T again from 6pm. I can see another landslide happening there.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I enjoyed seeing my family and we had BBQ roast chicken for lunch, Brussels sprouts, mash and salads.Â
When I came home Internet wasn't working and the red light was flashing on the box. I tried unplugging it and re-plugging it and red light disappeared but it wouldn't connect to my laptop. I rang Orange and a man guided me through various things and eventually it worked. He said my laptop had a blockage, but if it was my laptop I wonder why the box had a red light when my laptop was switched off while I was out?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I suspect the Orange man was saying "You're a woman, so you'll believe anything I say" @Busy-Lizzie... Â
I heard an item on Radio 4 about Rest & be Thankful, @Fairygirl, including an interview with a nursery owner near Berwick who was growing thousands of seedling trees to help with stabilising the mountain side. They were starting by putting up miles of deer fencing to protect the young trees. Definitely a long-term solution but it could work eventually, I suppose.
Not a bad day so I've been sorting my little plants and putting them out of harm's way for the winter, protected from the wind and covered with netting to keep leaves off. Then I decided I really had to clean out the gutters, some of which were beginning to grow willow herb. It came on to rain before I'd finished, but most of them are now clean, ready to fill up with birch leaves... I love having a birch tree close to the house, but clearing up the leaves is a bit of a task, and they don't "hoover" up with the mower as readily as the beech leaves do. Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I donât feel like venturing out today.  Had a lovely walk yesterday - saw my friendâs puppy whilst out. Just doing some âhomeworkâ before back to work tomorrow đ€ Will do a roast chicken later.Â
The old jokes are the best.Â
We had a roast chook last night [sorry @Obelixx] so stock is being made today.Â
We have 'the smirr' now. Pleasant enough when I was out though. It's always a debate as to when low cloud stops being cloud, and becomes rain. The fog/mist is similar. Hope it's clearing a bit for all you lot who have it.Â
Talking about blackbirds the other day, there was a lovely female grubbing around in the tree behind the shed when I came back. There's some rowan and cotoneaster berries there, so maybe that's what she was eating.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Last night when I went to shut them in they were all snuggling in a box except the one which still prefers to wobble on the ladder so today I have cleaned up their mess and removed the 3 nesting boxes from their corner as no-one is using them and put all the boxes on the perch side so they can all have one if they want.
Sunny here and not to cold after a chilly start. OH has finished cutting the grass this morning and has now gone off to practise for a golf comp on Tuesday leaving me to play with Possum.
I hope it clears up for all of you with mist or fog or rain.  Â
Finished my teaching prep, so will have a catch up, read, check news, message people etc before itâs oven time.Â
I won't tell @Obelixx
It's the only roast I do because of young fairylet's prob with red meat. I don't like lamb or roast beef anyway, so it wouldn't make any difference even if I was on my ownÂ
@AuntyRachÂ
We have a terrible forecast for tomorrow into Tuesday, and they're closing the R and be T again from 6pm. I can see another landslide happening there.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When I came home Internet wasn't working and the red light was flashing on the box. I tried unplugging it and re-plugging it and red light disappeared but it wouldn't connect to my laptop. I rang Orange and a man guided me through various things and eventually it worked. He said my laptop had a blockage, but if it was my laptop I wonder why the box had a red light when my laptop was switched off while I was out?
I suspect the Orange man was saying "You're a woman, so you'll believe anything I say" @Busy-Lizzie... Â
I heard an item on Radio 4 about Rest & be Thankful, @Fairygirl, including an interview with a nursery owner near Berwick who was growing thousands of seedling trees to help with stabilising the mountain side. They were starting by putting up miles of deer fencing to protect the young trees. Definitely a long-term solution but it could work eventually, I suppose.
Not a bad day so I've been sorting my little plants and putting them out of harm's way for the winter, protected from the wind and covered with netting to keep leaves off. Then I decided I really had to clean out the gutters, some of which were beginning to grow willow herb. It came on to rain before I'd finished, but most of them are now clean, ready to fill up with birch leaves... I love having a birch tree close to the house, but clearing up the leaves is a bit of a task, and they don't "hoover" up with the mower as readily as the beech leaves do. Â