Morning all. I rather enjoyed the garden programme. Monkey Puzzle was classic example of wrong plant wrong place. My only negative observation is that they have lost all their privacy after losing the "Monster Hedge" More rain here today.
Greetings. It's grey again and going to get very wet for the weekend and then very cold. Not a good combo.
@D0rdogne_Damsel if I had to eat porridge I'd be feeling sorry for myself too. I like oats in flapjacks, crumbles and bread but yuk to porridge.
Haven't seen the new gardening programme but it's recorded for when t'other pair are otherwise occupied. Monkey puzzle trees need a huge amount of space so are not good subjects for an urban garden.
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)."
Hello everyone. Sorry I’ve been rather preoccupied lately, but love catching up with you all. Glad Wonky’s hubby had a good birthday. Yvie, thoughts going to you and yours.
DD, I’ve been waiting to hear how you got on with the dental visit. That’s the same tooth that I had extracted a couple of weeks ago. I’m still miserable with it, but the hole seems to be closing at long last. I keep rising with salted water (warmed) a few times each day as my dentist suggested. I suspect if she ever suggests having the left molar removed I’ll refuse until I don’t have any choice. 😡
I am not in too much pain, it's more tender than painful. Just had a soft poached egg and grilled tomato for lunch, all very soft. I think, I may be wrong, it's where the 2 injections went in that is more sore, the tooth more or less fell out. I hope it doesn't go on a long as yours.
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DD just got your message as I was signing off. Mine was a very big old tooth and the X-ray showed that the root had started to grow around and below the jawbone, so took quite a bit of wriggling to get it out. 😡. Left a large hole. I lost count of how many injections she used.
Ive had a productive morning here, sourdough is made, salad stuff has been prepped for lunch, video watched showing me how to do my Covid swab test tomorrow (courier may be here from 8am!! ) paperwork query sorted for a S/E gardener I know 😉, bird feeders filled with suet and mealworm pellets so they can keep their energy levels up during the forthcoming promised snowy spell.
Jacket potatoes scrubbed and rubbed with butter paper to put in the oven this afternoon for a sausage and baked bean supper 😋 and a box of printmaking equipment sorted in the studio. Oh, and my usual middling Popmaster score achieved. 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have been making lentil and mushroom slice for lunch except that, no matter what I do, I have never in 40 years of following and tweaking the recipe, achieved a slice. It's always just a bit too wet but very tasty so I persevere. Great way to hide mushrooms from Poss who thinks she doesn't like the texture.
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 mentioned the downstairs loo being blocked. When I went to bed the upstairs loo was also blocked. Downstairs loo had starting filling with beige water. I couldn't sleep so got up at 1am to find downstairs loo overflowing. It's in the garage in the bit that will become the utility room. I emptied it using a saucepan and a bucket and plunged it with a plunger. Yucky water kept coming, emptied 8 or 9 buckets, but, at least it stopped overflowing. Terrible night.
Rang the previous owner who came round with a pump and a Karcher. He emptied a lot of the septic tank into the ditch by the road and unblocked it with his Karcher. He said a load of limescale came out. He said he'd just had the septic tank emptied before the move but the ground is so saturated with water at the moment and local town was flooded, that it was full again. I thought that was weird as it's a waterproof tank. Anyway, it's OK now. I have washed the whole area with disinfectant and the nice English couple have been putting boxes in the loft so that the garage will be less cluttered for the builders. But some of the boxes with books in them were on the floor and books have been damaged by smelly water. The washbasins empty into the loo pipe so when we washed last night it filled the loo as the pipe was blocked.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That all sounds like a nightmare @Busy-Lizzie and I agree your septic tank should not be filling from anywhere except your loos, shower, basins and washing machines. Most of the rivers in the Vendée have burst their banks and there was plenty of flooding on my way to Luçon for the weekly SM raid yesterday but it looks as tho things are even worse in the Lot and Garonne areas with villages and homes under water. Must be similar in the Périgueux area.
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)."
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I rather enjoyed the garden programme. Monkey Puzzle was classic example of wrong plant wrong place.
My only negative observation is that they have lost all their privacy after losing the "Monster Hedge"
More rain here today.
@D0rdogne_Damsel if I had to eat porridge I'd be feeling sorry for myself too. I like oats in flapjacks, crumbles and bread but yuk to porridge.
Haven't seen the new gardening programme but it's recorded for when t'other pair are otherwise occupied. Monkey puzzle trees need a huge amount of space so are not good subjects for an urban garden.
DD, I’ve been waiting to hear how you got on with the dental visit. That’s the same tooth that I had extracted a couple of weeks ago. I’m still miserable with it, but the hole seems to be closing at long last. I keep rising with salted water (warmed) a few times each day as my dentist suggested. I suspect if she ever suggests having the left molar removed I’ll refuse until I don’t have any choice. 😡
Best wishes to everyone. Bed time for us.
I am not in too much pain, it's more tender than painful. Just had a soft poached egg and grilled tomato for lunch, all very soft. I think, I may be wrong, it's where the 2 injections went in that is more sore, the tooth more or less fell out. I hope it doesn't go on a long as yours.
Ive had a productive morning here, sourdough is made, salad stuff has been prepped for lunch, video watched showing me how to do my Covid swab test tomorrow (courier may be here from 8am!! ) paperwork query sorted for a S/E gardener I know 😉, bird feeders filled with suet and mealworm pellets so they can keep their energy levels up during the forthcoming promised snowy spell.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I mentioned the downstairs loo being blocked. When I went to bed the upstairs loo was also blocked. Downstairs loo had starting filling with beige water. I couldn't sleep so got up at 1am to find downstairs loo overflowing. It's in the garage in the bit that will become the utility room. I emptied it using a saucepan and a bucket and plunged it with a plunger. Yucky water kept coming, emptied 8 or 9 buckets, but, at least it stopped overflowing. Terrible night.
Rang the previous owner who came round with a pump and a Karcher. He emptied a lot of the septic tank into the ditch by the road and unblocked it with his Karcher. He said a load of limescale came out. He said he'd just had the septic tank emptied before the move but the ground is so saturated with water at the moment and local town was flooded, that it was full again. I thought that was weird as it's a waterproof tank. Anyway, it's OK now. I have washed the whole area with disinfectant and the nice English couple have been putting boxes in the loft so that the garage will be less cluttered for the builders. But some of the boxes with books in them were on the floor and books have been damaged by smelly water. The washbasins empty into the loo pipe so when we washed last night it filled the loo as the pipe was blocked.