I'm feeling rather miserable. I've seen that travelling from England to abroad is banned until the end of June, penalty £5000. French Covid figures are the highest in Europe and France may be put on the red list. Don't know when I will see OH again.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Oh dear, this is the problem, it's all very well us being proud of our vaccine roll out, but as several experts have said, none of us is safe till we all are. All you can do is look at the positives, and staying safe so you can get together as soon as it's allowed.
Battleship grey here, but plant delivery expected, which is always exciting, particularly when you can't remember what's coming. To be fair, it was an order I placed in the Autumn.
Sorry to hear your news @Busy-Lizzie, I think foreign travel is unlikely for some time.
It’s lucky that you can’t smell that cheese. Even though the whole lot has been eaten, there is still toasted cheese odours around the room. I hope it’s dissipated by morning or I’ll be looking for cheese on toast as well Desi.
Watching bake off now. I’m not sure how I’ll take to the new bloke.Their humour is hard to take at the best of times. 🤭
Cold start again but sunny. I've been lazing about in bed finishing a book but am about to go out and weed when I've had cuppa 2. OH is digging over that last bit of what will become a small, proper lawn in the rose garden while he waits for his new mower to be delivered.
All our other grass is ex cow pasture and lush with lots of apple mint and docks and or self seeded and scrubby over old farm tracks and demolished buildings and full of clover, apple mint, wild yarrow, malva, plantain and even the odd wild orchid plus all the usual white and yellow daisy suspects. I didn't let him cut the scrubby area down last year and we had an insect fest for the swallows, house-martins and swifts but no bats. How do we get bats?
That's hard @Busy-Lizzie but at least you have your offspring and all those grandchildren and the new house to keep you distracted. I don't suppose there's any news of your OH getting his new hip yet? OH is 70. I am not but we're also both happy to have the AZ, unlike many French people. Just have to wait and see.
I hope they get organised soon as I'd really like to be able to go out, spontaneously, and just have a coffee overlooking the ocean. Lunch would be even better. I can feel another walk on the beach coming on.......
Planting first tho. Managed to get two clematis planted to grow along the potager fence yesterday. The chooks helped again. Their need to inspect a hole as it deepens and to pick over spadeful is quite comical. Fed and tweaked the Lambton Park clem and Ghislaine de Féligonde rose I have planted against their pen and they got inspected too.
Polytunnel exclusion measures are in hand for when I have tomatoes and chillies to plant in there.
Love your Kangaroo pic @Pat E. Never have pizza cravings tho I love cheese on toast
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Morning all, sorry to hear the news @Busy-Lizzie, that is tough, I thought about you whilst watching the news yesterday. At least you are not quite alone with family around and you are not rattling around in your old place. Hope you enjoy your college day @Chicky, you'll soon get used to it and you will have the lessons to concentrate on. Hope you don't have to wear a mask all day though, I couldn't cope with that. The chooks are keeping you well amused @Obelixx. @SamBevington, I'm retired but used to work from home running my own business. The important thing is to keep to a routine and try to keep to office hours. It can sometimes be lonely if you're on your home, so make time for breaktime chats with friends/family if you can. Can't help you on Zoom though!
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Battleship grey here, but plant delivery expected, which is always exciting, particularly when you can't remember what's coming. To be fair, it was an order I placed in the Autumn.
Sorry to hear your news @Busy-Lizzie, I think foreign travel is unlikely for some time.
Keep that finger safe, @Hostafan1
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Watching bake off now. I’m not sure how I’ll take to the new bloke.Their humour is hard to take at the best of times. 🤭
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56292809
All our other grass is ex cow pasture and lush with lots of apple mint and docks and or self seeded and scrubby over old farm tracks and demolished buildings and full of clover, apple mint, wild yarrow, malva, plantain and even the odd wild orchid plus all the usual white and yellow daisy suspects. I didn't let him cut the scrubby area down last year and we had an insect fest for the swallows, house-martins and swifts but no bats. How do we get bats?
That's hard @Busy-Lizzie but at least you have your offspring and all those grandchildren and the new house to keep you distracted. I don't suppose there's any news of your OH getting his new hip yet? OH is 70. I am not but we're also both happy to have the AZ, unlike many French people. Just have to wait and see.
I hope they get organised soon as I'd really like to be able to go out, spontaneously, and just have a coffee overlooking the ocean. Lunch would be even better. I can feel another walk on the beach coming on.......
Planting first tho. Managed to get two clematis planted to grow along the potager fence yesterday. The chooks helped again. Their need to inspect a hole as it deepens and to pick over spadeful is quite comical. Fed and tweaked the Lambton Park clem and Ghislaine de Féligonde rose I have planted against their pen and they got inspected too.
Polytunnel exclusion measures are in hand for when I have tomatoes and chillies to plant in there.
Love your Kangaroo pic @Pat E. Never have pizza cravings tho I love cheese on toast
Hope you enjoy your college day @Chicky, you'll soon get used to it and you will have the lessons to concentrate on. Hope you don't have to wear a mask all day though, I couldn't cope with that.
The chooks are keeping you well amused @Obelixx.
@SamBevington, I'm retired but used to work from home running my own business. The important thing is to keep to a routine and try to keep to office hours. It can sometimes be lonely if you're on your home, so make time for breaktime chats with friends/family if you can. Can't help you on Zoom though!
Yes @Hostafan1 we read that the other day ... there's a beautiful Benin head just up the road at the Sainsbury Centre ... I love it ... but again, huge moral issues that need to be addressed.
https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-objects/head-of-an-oba/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.