Do you get the same summer dross effect as us then @Pat E?
We have been to a beach again for walkies. Le Phare at La Trance-sur-Mer this time with lovely clean, golden sands and then a line of flat rocky "pavement" at low tide. Windsurfers' beach apparently but no wind today so just one lonely soul out there with a paddle board and almost no-one on the beach. Skies till blue but some wispy stuff creeping in ahead of rain clouds later. Â
Now OH is playing with Xmas lights too check if any need replacing when Possum and I go shopping tomorrow. The perisher's decided he wants some outside lights up at the weekend after all.
Glad your mum's OK @punkdoc.  Good idea to get someone in to sweep/hoover up leaves if you can.  It'll make it look so much better and less daunting and leave you to do stuff that needs skill rather than energy.
Hair is done, I've popped to superkarket to pick up a few things I need for the Christmas pud. A very nice chocolate fudge yule log fell into my shopping basket. Not sure it will last until Christmas though.😋
Hello everyone, had a busy day today which makes a change. Walked for paper first thing then daughter and I popped over to a PCWorld/Curries to collect a Xmas presie for my grandson which my son had ordered. Bit of a palavva because you had to sit in the Collections car park, text them to say you had arrived, received a text back wanting all sorts of details, inputted all that, put the car boot lid up and waited for someone to come out and put the parcel in the boot. Good job daughter was with me, I couldn't have coped otherwise, still not quite au fait with my smartphone. We then braved B & Q to get some steel mesh panels/fencing as a rat deterrent over a small door in our undercroft, which I'm hoping might work. Both shops now in a Tier 3 area so mixed feelings about that, fortunately we're in the lower Tier 2 so allowable I believe. Back home for a quick lunch, then off for a much needed shoulder & back massage - absolute bliss. DD - you'll be making Xmas cakes in your sleep soon. @Punkdoc, so pleased to hear your Mum's home and feeling better. Best to clear up leaves little and often we've found, we're still doing about half an hour a day or so but think we're nearly finished now. @Busy-Lizzie, sounds as though the end is in sight, time to give yourself a few days off? @Yviestevie, lucky you, my hairdresser is fully booked until the 18th and I'm not sure I want to go into town that late - it will be heaving. How's your sister & BIL feeling now? @Dovefromabove, your area sounds delightful, I don't know it at all. @Obelixx, it would be so nice to live nearer the coast, glad you enjoyed it.
Hi, bright start here but soon went grey again . Spent most of the day doing little fiddling jobs while waiting for my new tripod ladder to come. It did come in the pm so I unwrapped it to get rid of the excess packaging as tomorrow is bin day. Then a quick dash to the plots to check on things there before it got too dark. Best wishes to all.
I tried to order presents for grandchildren on French Amazon but it insists my password is incorrect and I know it isn't. I tried to change my password but it sends a link to click on to my mobile phone. I can't click on it because I don't have a Smartphone. So I tried to open a new account but it said someone with my email address already has an account, me obviously. Stuck. I didn't want to go out and catch Covid in an overcrowded toy shop. They have only just opened after being locked down.
I swept out the outbuilding that houses the pool pump and filter, full of concrete dust. I'd already cleared it, apart from the pool cleaning equipment that I'm leaving for the buyers.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Poor Flatters, probably the best solution, hope @WonkyWomble won't be too upset.
Forgot to add -Â This evening the President de la Chasse (Hunt) from the village came round with another man who has opened a gun shop in the village. The village is small and doesn't even have a baker but now it has a gun shop! I'd asked the Mairie what to do with 1st OH's guns and rifles, he had 5 of them, I think 2 are antiques. They were locked in a tall cupboard with imitation drawers in the study and I'd forgotten about them. Sons didn't want them. I found the keys when clearing out OH's desk to give to Benny. Anyway, the chaps have taken them away, he'll try to sell them. If I get any money I think I'll give it to charity.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie try creating anew email on gmail or similar. Free and should get your round Amazon altho we have endless troubles with my Kindle cos OH registered it in his name in Belgium and now we're in France they can't/won't transfer it to me and won't let us do Kindle Unlimited on their French site or thru my Amazon account so I have to go on his Notebook to order books in English via Amazon.com. mad.
6 more eggs today so I went and gave some to our new neighbours in a new build on a field just the other side of the crossroads.  I dropped off a welcome card after they moved in this summer and she stops and chats at the gate when she's out walking their baby son in his pram.
Rasta has been shorn today and I have booked to be shorn next Wednesday. Haven't had a haircut since last December and it's down to my waist again so 25cms at least so it can go for a wig and I can still tie the the rest back out of the way when gardening.
You'll be wanting a chocolate pud or something completely different come Xmas day @D0rdogne_Damsel . Possum too. She doesn't do dried fruit in any shape or form.
@Lizzie27 my mobile phone is dumb and it's staying that way as long as possible.Â
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It’s interesting that your sky is similar to ours Biglad.Â
We have been to a beach again for walkies. Le Phare at La Trance-sur-Mer this time with lovely clean, golden sands and then a line of flat rocky "pavement" at low tide. Windsurfers' beach apparently but no wind today so just one lonely soul out there with a paddle board and almost no-one on the beach. Skies till blue but some wispy stuff creeping in ahead of rain clouds later. Â
Now OH is playing with Xmas lights too check if any need replacing when Possum and I go shopping tomorrow. The perisher's decided he wants some outside lights up at the weekend after all.
Glad your mum's OK @punkdoc.  Good idea to get someone in to sweep/hoover up leaves if you can.  It'll make it look so much better and less daunting and leave you to do stuff that needs skill rather than energy.
Back home for a quick lunch, then off for a much needed shoulder & back massage - absolute bliss.
DD - you'll be making Xmas cakes in your sleep soon.
@Punkdoc, so pleased to hear your Mum's home and feeling better. Best to clear up leaves little and often we've found, we're still doing about half an hour a day or so but think we're nearly finished now.
@Busy-Lizzie, sounds as though the end is in sight, time to give yourself a few days off?
@Yviestevie, lucky you, my hairdresser is fully booked until the 18th and I'm not sure I want to go into town that late - it will be heaving. How's your sister & BIL feeling now?
@Dovefromabove, your area sounds delightful, I don't know it at all.
@Obelixx, it would be so nice to live nearer the coast, glad you enjoyed it.
Best wishes to all.
I swept out the outbuilding that houses the pool pump and filter, full of concrete dust. I'd already cleared it, apart from the pool cleaning equipment that I'm leaving for the buyers.
Think @WonkyWomble will be taking poor old Flatters on a last trip to the vet tomorrow ... he’s deteriorated very quickly. 😢Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Forgot to add -Â This evening the President de la Chasse (Hunt) from the village came round with another man who has opened a gun shop in the village. The village is small and doesn't even have a baker but now it has a gun shop! I'd asked the Mairie what to do with 1st OH's guns and rifles, he had 5 of them, I think 2 are antiques. They were locked in a tall cupboard with imitation drawers in the study and I'd forgotten about them. Sons didn't want them. I found the keys when clearing out OH's desk to give to Benny. Anyway, the chaps have taken them away, he'll try to sell them. If I get any money I think I'll give it to charity.
I have been playing with my Scandinavian style Xmas tree for the hall as it needs a re-jig to make it more stable and cleaning Xmas brass ornaments.  OH has left Xmas lights in tidy piles all over the spare bed. Possum is cooking dinner and her parents are enjoying an apéro.
6 more eggs today so I went and gave some to our new neighbours in a new build on a field just the other side of the crossroads.  I dropped off a welcome card after they moved in this summer and she stops and chats at the gate when she's out walking their baby son in his pram.
Rasta has been shorn today and I have booked to be shorn next Wednesday. Haven't had a haircut since last December and it's down to my waist again so 25cms at least so it can go for a wig and I can still tie the the rest back out of the way when gardening.
You'll be wanting a chocolate pud or something completely different come Xmas day @D0rdogne_Damsel . Possum too. She doesn't do dried fruit in any shape or form.
@Lizzie27 my mobile phone is dumb and it's staying that way as long as possible.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.