Hi folks. News is a bit better this morning. Firstborn is feeling better the antibiotics have started to work their miracles. Mind you SIL is still very poorly he has started antibiotics today but as he is allergic to almost all of them we will have to see how he reacts. Merri is much better so fingers crossed for SIL we could finally be over the worst. I’m on nanna duty today looking after the boys.
Hugs to everyone who needs them. Every little problem feels huge at the moment.
Hello Forkers. It's been a wild, wet and blowy night so not a lot of sleep till the small hours. The forecast says the winds are only 70kph but they feel and sound a lot stronger than that and the trees and hedgerows are doing a lot of alarming bending and swaying.
I am normally the most optimistic, positive, can do person (irritating I know) but am definitely feeling stir crazy, frustrated, fed up, worried about family, especially Possum, and missing chat and play with pals old and new so extra hugs to people like @punkdoc who have health worries on top of all this confinement crap. Just have to hang in there and know that people on here are sharing the same burdens and can offer moral support when needed.
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 all, got some gardening done this morning despite the grey days. Well, potted up a small rhubarb crown I bought last week but I am still counting it as gardening. A small act of optimism as it will be a couple of years before we get decent crops from it.
The crocuses are beginning to flower adding a bit of colour to the lone daffodil now showing. Must keep an eye on the one's in troughs as the mice ate the flowers from those last year.
So pleased about your news @Yviestevie. Hope things continue to improve. I have been cheered up by the sight of a Mandarin duck landing on the pond. Needless to say it had gone by the time I fetched my camera. We get the odd one fairly frequently, although I have no idea where they come from.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Afternoon everyone. Blowing a gale here too @Obelix and @floralies - blew all night long as well and we had some rain. Sunny spells and not so cold. Not much use putting a comb through your hair today!! @Yviestevie Good news! Onwards you go! @Chicky - beautiful iris. A spot of colour. My garden has been demolished by the frosts and cold. The agapanthus (agapanthi?) are yellow and limp and other shrubs are just drying up. The garden looks terrible. I'll have to get out with the secateurs - one fine day!! @punkdoc Even down here in the South of France despite the sunny days, the feeling is the same. "It's been long enough now. Can we get on with life again?" I have got as far as looking at the vegetable seeds, but I don't feel very motivated this year. I hope it passes as I have lots of different varieties of tomatoes to grow this year.
It's only the first today. Maybe by the end of February things will be moving in a better direction.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am normally the most optimistic, positive, can do person (irritating I know) but am definitely feeling stir crazy, frustrated, fed up, worried about family, especially Possum, and missing chat and play with pals old and new so extra hugs to people like @punkdoc who have health worries on top of all this confinement crap. Just have to hang in there and know that people on here are sharing the same burdens and can offer moral support when needed.
I have been cheered up by the sight of a Mandarin duck landing on the pond. Needless to say it had gone by the time I fetched my camera. We get the odd one fairly frequently, although I have no idea where they come from.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@Yviestevie Good news! Onwards you go!
@Chicky - beautiful iris. A spot of colour. My garden has been demolished by the frosts and cold. The agapanthus (agapanthi?) are yellow and limp and other shrubs are just drying up. The garden looks terrible. I'll have to get out with the secateurs - one fine day!!
@punkdoc Even down here in the South of France despite the sunny days, the feeling is the same. "It's been long enough now. Can we get on with life again?" I have got as far as looking at the vegetable seeds, but I don't feel very motivated this year. I hope it passes as I have lots of different varieties of tomatoes to grow this year.
It's only the first today. Maybe by the end of February things will be moving in a better direction.
I bid you all well.
Tui