Home a bit early. More time to make the pancake batter!
@Lizzie27 - I wonder if you need a test as you could have the virus with those symptoms, as a bit late for the usual post jab reaction. The delayed red area around injection site is a known side effect - “COVID arm”, and is often a week or so post jab however ??
Thanks AuntyRach - don't think I've got the virus however, haven't been anywhere since I've had it or met anyone for the last fortnight. Covid arm is more likely I suspect. Feel a bit better now anyway. Think the headache was more to do with the stress of a broken laptop! Glad you're okay Dove.
I've just had my first proper bit of gardening since early December. Nothing much, just watering and weeding the pots in the polytunnel and rinsing the dust from stems and leaves - hens and dust baths. Lots of wee buds showing on fuchsias and nectarines.
Did the same for the pots sheltering along the outer, west facing wall of the PT and was followed by chooks, crooning all the way. Buds on clematis and roses and other shrubs.
I've had to rescue the rhubarb from the chooks by watering it and covering so they can't peck what's left - if anything - of its roots.
All very mucky so jeans and jacket now in the wash.
Hope all Covid arms are healing well and the jabs are doing the trick.
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)."
Hi everyone, Feeling a bit tired today after my day in the garden so I've taken it easy apart from washing some spare bedlinen. It was quite a nice morning but raining now. Having Fish and Battered Chips for tea, bit of treat.
Did some more weeding this afternoon but didn't finish as P, the previous owner of my house, came round to try to catch his donkey, Caesar, and put a headcollar on it. Caesar led him a merry dance! P isn't a horsey person and I had to show him which way round the headcollar went. He had a bag of stale bread and I left them to it but when I next looked Caesar was still galloping round the paddock with P running after him I went and got a rope and a bucket and P managed to fling the rope around his neck and wind it round a fence post. I pulled Caesar closer to the fence, using bread bribery, and P put the headcollar on him. P is planning to take him for a walk around the big paddock tomorrow, bet that'll be fun. Donkey is totally untrained.
P gave me a huge bunch of Mimosa from his MIL's garden, the house now smells of it, gorgeous.
I, no, the bread maker made a loaf today. I thought it hadn't risen, but, on cutting it, I think it overrose and collapsed. Tastes OK, it's a grain loaf.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I actually broke the habit of Possum's lifetime and made pancakes except that they were galettes made with buckwheat flour and folded over into an open square filled with mustardy grated cheese, toasted lardons and an egg to finish off in the oven. Very rich but yummy. We finished the mix off with lemon and sugar on small galettes.
Bed time here too now.
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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Glad you're okay Dove.
Did the same for the pots sheltering along the outer, west facing wall of the PT and was followed by chooks, crooning all the way. Buds on clematis and roses and other shrubs.
I've had to rescue the rhubarb from the chooks by watering it and covering so they can't peck what's left - if anything - of its roots.
All very mucky so jeans and jacket now in the wash.
Hope all Covid arms are healing well and the jabs are doing the trick.
P gave me a huge bunch of Mimosa from his MIL's garden, the house now smells of it, gorgeous.
I, no, the bread maker made a loaf today. I thought it hadn't risen, but, on cutting it, I think it overrose and collapsed. Tastes OK, it's a grain loaf.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Bed time here too now.