Morning Dove and Desi. Your welcome to hang your washing here Dove. 35 degrees is far hotter than I like. It was dry so quickly, I hardly had time to come in and cool down, before I went out to unpeg it all.
Morning all, damp and foggy here. Had a quiet weekend and haven't felt like posting. Daughter has had to cancel her house purchase, such a shame because it was a lovely little house with a small south facing garden. We're both gutted. Still, onwards and upwards.
That’s a shame @Lizzie27 ... our commiserations ... times are undoubtedly tough at the moment. Fingers are crossed for better days ahead for all of us 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pat E --morning! 35 degrees might be too hot even for me . I fondly look back on the days as kids ( in the Indian subcontinent) when it was our job to go outside and hold one corner/edge each of freshly washed sheets/ tablecloths etc so they were more or less taut and gently move them about in the midday-ish sun. Used to take no more than about a minute or so each to dry and barely any ironing needed. Oh @Lizzie27 sorry about your daughter's house -- i know how upsetting that can be especially once you have already started thinking about it as "mine". Hopefully means that something even more perfect for her awaits in the not too distant future.
Morning all grey & damp again here. I would much rather much colder but dry & bright. If we get Sun then we don't need heating in the day. Shame about the house @Lizzie27 my wife's second daughter gave up on trying to move earlier this year, people came to look but no sensible offers, even after they dropped the price.
I'm so sorry about your daughter's house @Lizzie27, how heart breaking for her. Is she still staying with you?
Phone is still playing up. Electrician is coming this afternoon. Not sure what to tell him, sometimes it works and other times it doesn't and Orange say it's not them and cable is OK.
I bought some organic bananas in the SM which are floury and tasteless so I shall make a banana cake and add cinnamon and sultanas. Then I'll cut it in thick slices and freeze them so I can have a slice a day for breakfast.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks for good wishes folks, much appreciated. I know others have worse things to deal with but I had so wanted her to have somewhere decent to live without worrying about renting again. She is staying with us until after Christmas at least. Not sure about her job yet. On a brighter note, I have snowdrops, Algerian irises and roses still in bloom.
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Daughter has had to cancel her house purchase, such a shame because it was a lovely little house with a small south facing garden. We're both gutted.
Still, onwards and upwards.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh @Lizzie27 sorry about your daughter's house -- i know how upsetting that can be especially once you have already started thinking about it as "mine". Hopefully means that something even more perfect for her awaits in the not too distant future.
Very frosty, but sunny, -5°.
I'm so sorry about your daughter's house @Lizzie27, how heart breaking for her. Is she still staying with you?
Phone is still playing up. Electrician is coming this afternoon. Not sure what to tell him, sometimes it works and other times it doesn't and Orange say it's not them and cable is OK.
I bought some organic bananas in the SM which are floury and tasteless so I shall make a banana cake and add cinnamon and sultanas. Then I'll cut it in thick slices and freeze them so I can have a slice a day for breakfast.
On a brighter note, I have snowdrops, Algerian irises and roses still in bloom.