Good morning all š āļøĀ my goodness @Pat E š² that mustāve been some storm. Iām so glad we had our tree pollarded. Itās too close to the house to be allowed to grow unrestricted.Ā
We have a dull damp morning here ... the weather app describes it as āhazeā again. I think itās just ālow cloudā. šĀ
Itās OH ās last day of furlough today, so Iām going to make a soup for his lunch flask tomorrow ... I think itāll be red lentil and coconut. Weāll have roast belly of pork with roast potatoes, green beans and sage and cider gravy for supper. Thatāll set him up for the week. šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Roast belly pork for us too @Dovefromabove cooked slowly on a bed of onions and cider which will be blitzed for the gravy, the last of our beetroot roasted with garlic and thyme and steamed broccoli.Ā Ā
It is bright and clear and will be very sunny when the sun gets up over the trees across the road.Ā Same tomorrow so we're heading off to a beach for our first walkies away from the house since October.Ā Want to see the sun glistening on the sea and hear the waves.Ā Ā Cloudy on Tuesday and for the rest of the week.Ā Ā Hen house cleaning and some bulb planting for me later.
@Pat E is it not a fire risk for your neighbour to leave storm damaged trees lying about?
We had the last of our beetroot yesterday @Obelixx ... gorgeous little golden balls shaved thinly into slivers and tossed in a mixed salad with slivers of radish. Really yummy šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Dove. Your menu plans sound very good. Ā Yes, yesterdayās storm took out power for much of the district, hence our early night.Ā
Then, we received a phone call at 5am this morning from the police looking for a bloke who had been missing for a couple of weeks and they said they were getting occasional signals from his phone on or near our place. Hubby got in the Ute and looked all over, but no sign of him. Ā Later today he found out that the bloke had been found and was heading home. I donāt suppose we will ever hear the full story of where he was.Ā
I donāt think anyone would know what people do on their properties, Obelixx. He never does anything on his place and I suspect many property owners are the same.Ā
Goodness me @Pat E ... youād think his phone battery wouldāve run down, unless he has a solar charger. Ā I know cousin talks about folk still āgoing walkaboutā on Tas ... I sāpose thereās still folk who do it ... a way of dealing with āstuffā. Itās been done for many years all over the world, ā40 days and 40 nights in the wildernessā eh? šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. In France I live in a forest down a 1km long drive, most of which doesn't belong to me. After the huge storm of 1999 the drive was impassable for fallen trees. The Mairie sent members of the hunt to clear it, helped by my brother in law, who lived in France then, and my son. Apart from that, only one of the owners did any clearing. The main owner of the top half lives in Paris. In winter you can still see the eerie trunks and branches of fallen trees lying on the ground. They are covered by bracken in summer.
I suppose @Obelixx the whole forest around me is a fire risk. I own nearly 60 acres of it, no way could I manage it or afford someone to. The same case for a lot of the forest here. It's a glorious wild life park for deer, red squirrels, pine martens, wild boar, badgers, foxes, pheasants, European dormice etc. There wild mushrooms of many sorts, including ceps and wild flowers in the grassland around the edges, orchids, cowslips. There was a red helleborine one year.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
At this time of my life, no longer young, I am relieved to be leaving it all and moving someone a bit closer to civilisation! No longer will I be stuck when a tree falls on the drive blocking my exit and wrecking the phone line. Not much mobile phone signal here. In the past I have had to walk to the village for help, 4kms away.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Remote beauty is wonderful ... but you need a lot of money to pay an entourage in order to make it viable to live safely once you reach 27Ā Ā I'm glad you've found a lovely new home @Busy-Lizzie ((hugs))
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can quite understand your position @Busy-Lizzie but assumed that @Pat E's neighbours would, like her, have the machinery and motivation to clear dangerous timber.Ā Ā Here we have miles of hedgerow with occasional small stretches of woodland that are managed for hunting and wood production.Ā No idea about ceps but there are wild boar and roe deer.
Mobile phone signal is lousy but we do have neighbours and a pretend fixed line that works through our Orange modem.Ā Ā Your new home sounds ideal and I hope you will enjoy the adventure of settling in, making it your own and getting to know the new neighbours.
In Belgium we had no immediate neighbours and lived on the road between the village, nearly 2 kms away and the town, 5kms away.Ā When trees or telegraph poles came down in storms or the road was blocked by heavy snow it was our farmer neighbours who got out their tractors and cleared stuff.Ā Ā When storm Alex lifted our barn roofs she also tore down a large oak and left it lying across the road.Ā Ā Farmer Luc got out his tractor and chain saws and shifted it.Ā
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my goodness @Pat E š² that mustāve been some storm. Iām so glad we had our tree pollarded. Itās too close to the house to be allowed to grow unrestricted.Ā
Itās OH ās last day of furlough today, so Iām going to make a soup for his lunch flask tomorrow ... I think itāll be red lentil and coconut. Weāll have roast belly of pork with roast potatoes, green beans and sage and cider gravy for supper. Thatāll set him up for the week. šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is bright and clear and will be very sunny when the sun gets up over the trees across the road.Ā Same tomorrow so we're heading off to a beach for our first walkies away from the house since October.Ā Want to see the sun glistening on the sea and hear the waves.Ā Ā Cloudy on Tuesday and for the rest of the week.Ā Ā Hen house cleaning and some bulb planting for me later.
@Pat E is it not a fire risk for your neighbour to leave storm damaged trees lying about?
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In France I live in a forest down a 1km long drive, most of which doesn't belong to me. After the huge storm of 1999 the drive was impassable for fallen trees. The Mairie sent members of the hunt to clear it, helped by my brother in law, who lived in France then, and my son. Apart from that, only one of the owners did any clearing. The main owner of the top half lives in Paris. In winter you can still see the eerie trunks and branches of fallen trees lying on the ground. They are covered by bracken in summer.
I suppose @Obelixx the whole forest around me is a fire risk. I own nearly 60 acres of it, no way could I manage it or afford someone to. The same case for a lot of the forest here. It's a glorious wild life park for deer, red squirrels, pine martens, wild boar, badgers, foxes, pheasants, European dormice etc. There wild mushrooms of many sorts, including ceps and wild flowers in the grassland around the edges, orchids, cowslips. There was a red helleborine one year.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mobile phone signal is lousy but we do have neighbours and a pretend fixed line that works through our Orange modem.Ā Ā Your new home sounds ideal and I hope you will enjoy the adventure of settling in, making it your own and getting to know the new neighbours.
In Belgium we had no immediate neighbours and lived on the road between the village, nearly 2 kms away and the town, 5kms away.Ā When trees or telegraph poles came down in storms or the road was blocked by heavy snow it was our farmer neighbours who got out their tractors and cleared stuff.Ā Ā When storm Alex lifted our barn roofs she also tore down a large oak and left it lying across the road.Ā Ā Farmer Luc got out his tractor and chain saws and shifted it.Ā