There are a couple of primroses out in my new garden. No daffodil shoots , previous owner said his pygmy goats ate daffodils. I will have to plants lots this autumn.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Yviestevie, glad to hear your family is no worse than yesterday. Worrying times.
I've just had my jab early as it was snowing heavily here. Lansdown Racecourse is the highest in the country so gets treacherous in bad weather. Very efficient set-up, loads of volunteers but very cold up there. So pleased to have had it but they couldn't do OH so he will have to wait.
Like most of us, I'm also pleased January is over, I can cope with February. That wiring looks positively dangerous Obelixx. Can you call the chap back? Good on you for moving the bookcase Busy-Lizzie, where there's a will, there's a way, eh?
Well, it's taken a while but I've solved the problem of a curtain pole on that wall. We're going to put shutters on the outside! My stud and leccy detector had kittens all over that bit of wall above the window and I now recall the leccy man having a moan about the builders/carpenters who were doing the stud wall and were a bit cavalier about his cables. Apart from that black one for the sockets there's another, hidden one for the light over the mirror so I'm not going there.
Miserable weather again so lots of cleaning done here. Belly pork in the oven now for a slow roast and Possum is going to make chocolate fondants for pud.
Well done with the book case @Busy-Lizzie. Apart from cookery and gardening books in the kitchen all our books are upstairs too. The only spring daffs we found here were in what had been the donkey paddock and is now the potager so we dug up as many as we could to plant elsewhere before it was ploughed and levelled.
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)."
I have hundreds of books, hardbacks and paperbacks. I had a large study full of bookcases, but here the study is yet to be built in the garage. I will have to clear the garage for the builders, utility room being made too. Utility room was full of all my art and sewing stuff. Now it's all in boxes. A lot will have to go in the loft until the work is done. Loft is over the garage, have to climb a ladder. Think I need help.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Quite a long day today. 4-mile plod this morning followed by a 10-hour work shift. Then did my tax return despite the extension that's been given. I've known since last April that I was owed tax but was putting it off on the hope that I could get a computer fixed that had spreadsheets of info that I needed. Anyway, Covid has meant the computer hasn't been looked at so I recreated what I needed and got it done tonight.
Was hoping to break up the tedium with an hour of trench digging this afternoon but I hadn't banked on how cold it was - the ground was a bit firm for digging so I only lasted 20 mins before I got back to the dining table desk
Hope this week (and month, really) settles down work-wise. 80 hour weeks are no fun even if I am at home
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Just started snowing - not impressed. It’s just a hassle all round what with work, staffing, family vaccines etc.
Doing the last of the house jobs, washing, etc before back to work tomorrow. Might do a chicken dinner later.
Have a good day all. Thoughts to those having a difficult time.
well done with the bookcase 🏅 🏅
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've just had my jab early as it was snowing heavily here. Lansdown Racecourse is the highest in the country so gets treacherous in bad weather. Very efficient set-up, loads of volunteers but very cold up there. So pleased to have had it but they couldn't do OH so he will have to wait.
Like most of us, I'm also pleased January is over, I can cope with February.
That wiring looks positively dangerous Obelixx. Can you call the chap back?
Good on you for moving the bookcase Busy-Lizzie, where there's a will, there's a way, eh?
Miserable weather again so lots of cleaning done here. Belly pork in the oven now for a slow roast and Possum is going to make chocolate fondants for pud.
I hope your snow hasn't stuck @AuntyRach.
Well done with the book case @Busy-Lizzie. Apart from cookery and gardening books in the kitchen all our books are upstairs too. The only spring daffs we found here were in what had been the donkey paddock and is now the potager so we dug up as many as we could to plant elsewhere before it was ploughed and levelled.
Snow did stick but then sleety rain came so the paths and roads look ok, just hope not too icy in morning.
Chicken dinner cooking...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quite a long day today. 4-mile plod this morning followed by a 10-hour work shift. Then did my tax return despite the extension that's been given. I've known since last April that I was owed tax but was putting it off on the hope that I could get a computer fixed that had spreadsheets of info that I needed. Anyway, Covid has meant the computer hasn't been looked at so I recreated what I needed and got it done tonight.
Was hoping to break up the tedium with an hour of trench digging this afternoon but I hadn't banked on how cold it was - the ground was a bit firm for digging so I only lasted 20 mins before I got back to the dining table desk
Hope this week (and month, really) settles down work-wise. 80 hour weeks are no fun even if I am at home