What are you like @Hostafan1?!? Hope that clears up fast. Nothing like a good throbbing digit to keep you awake at night. Love roasted veg but don't often do fish cakes cos we rarely have potatoes.
Love buttered leeks too @AuntyRach but Possum thinks she doesn't like leeks in any shape or form.
@chicky we haven't broached the subject yet. She's still pretty fragile and I'm trying to encourage her to work and be positive but without piling on pressure. She's cooking tonight - first time in a while so there are little glimmers. Lovely for you to have your chicklet since Xmas.
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Did anyone watch the excellent programme about the Blitz last night. I wasn't too keen to start with but found it very moving. My grandmother was bombed out of her flat and was left with nothing but the clothes she was wearing. Luckily she had been out shopping with a friend at the time otherwise she would probably been killed. The friend took her in. It beggars belief that anybody survived the onslaught. They had it really tough and for years and years.
We watched the Blitz programme, recorded, tonight @Lizzie27, found it moving and shocking.
That was silly @Hostafan1, God knows what was living, or dead, in the water butt. I hope the antibiotics work.
This morning we went to Périgueux to buy something nice for OH's birthday dinner tomorrow, "Le Grand Frais". We had Seabream tonight and the steak for Steak Diane is in the fridge.
Then we went to a lawnmower shop as I threw my old, dead mower into the skip and OH's has now died, both ancient. Tractor mower, also ancient, won't start again, man coming tomorrow. I have bought a self propelled Stihl battery mower, really good design and very easy to use, but rather pricey. If it lasts 30 years like my old Honda it will be well worth it.
This afternoon I finished removing the turf from the new flowerbed, dug and composted it and planted 4 shrub roses. It's 5m40 long and 1m10 deep. Now my knee is painful. I was hoping to plant the rest of the plants or it tomorrow, may not be able to. Back aches as well. One more bed to make for 2 shrub roses, a climber and some perennials. Rose arch is coming tomorrow. Then no more new beds until next year.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
You have been busy @Busy-Lizzie! Puts me to shame, I've hardly done anything all day apart from our usual walk. Enjoy the birthday celebrations tomorrow .
I am impressed with your new beds both @Busy-Lizzie, & @chicky. I am finding how worryingly unfit I have become over winter , it's taking me twice as long to do the new beds for my raspberries as it should. If I do a full day one day then I can't do it again the next.
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Love buttered leeks too @AuntyRach but Possum thinks she doesn't like leeks in any shape or form.
@chicky we haven't broached the subject yet. She's still pretty fragile and I'm trying to encourage her to work and be positive but without piling on pressure. She's cooking tonight - first time in a while so there are little glimmers. Lovely for you to have your chicklet since Xmas.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That was silly @Hostafan1, God knows what was living, or dead, in the water butt. I hope the antibiotics work.
This morning we went to Périgueux to buy something nice for OH's birthday dinner tomorrow, "Le Grand Frais". We had Seabream tonight and the steak for Steak Diane is in the fridge.
Then we went to a lawnmower shop as I threw my old, dead mower into the skip and OH's has now died, both ancient. Tractor mower, also ancient, won't start again, man coming tomorrow. I have bought a self propelled Stihl battery mower, really good design and very easy to use, but rather pricey. If it lasts 30 years like my old Honda it will be well worth it.
This afternoon I finished removing the turf from the new flowerbed, dug and composted it and planted 4 shrub roses. It's 5m40 long and 1m10 deep. Now my knee is painful. I was hoping to plant the rest of the plants or it tomorrow, may not be able to. Back aches as well. One more bed to make for 2 shrub roses, a climber and some perennials. Rose arch is coming tomorrow. Then no more new beds until next year.
Puts me to shame, I've hardly done anything all day apart from our usual walk.
Enjoy the birthday celebrations tomorrow
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