Hosta, am not sure the words "lovely and British Gas" can be used together,
Indeed so. I had the Ombudsman on the phone on Friday discussing my complaint againt BG for the 5 week and 5 days it took them to fix my fridge freezer last summer.
Yes @Dovefromabove my grandfather claimed to be teetotal except for his own made Elderberry wine. According to dad the wine was so strong one glass would knock most people off their feet 😁 We have been invited for our 2nd jab but there are no appointments available!
I don't do swimming pools either @Dovefromabove but it's all to do wit chlorine making my eyes water and not do with water worries. Only use cider for cooking pork.
Bright and sunny here but nippy this morning and signs of a frost in the shade of the chook shed when OH wend to let them out. I've been prepping leeks and mushrooms for a frittata and tidying the kitchen after Possum's cooking fest yesterday. OH is watching golf on TV so I'm off out to play.
Which hot cross bun recipe are you using @D0rdogne_Damsel and did you find the presentation boxes you needed?
Have a lovely sunny Sunday everyone.
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)."
Morning all, it's not sunny here Obelixx! In fact it's windy and overcast but so far not the drizzle that Hostafan has, that'll arrive no doubt in a few hours time. I need to get out and mulch the remaining roses before our predicted mini heatwave next week but feel very sleepy - got woken up at 8 am by a chap from my credit card company querying a transaction I tried to do yesterday - a cat deterrent sonic thingie. It seems computers don't like the combination of a new laptop, a new mobile number and a different email address so said no! All sorted over the phone so I'll have another go later. Have a good day folks wherever you are.
It's not the water that fills me with dread in indoor swimming pools @Obelixx ... it's the people ....... I'd probably be fine if I had a guarantee it would be just me and OH.
East Runton is a lovely beach @Busy-Lizzie ... the cliff-top part of the village has been rather swamped by caravans, but if you follow the lane inland you'll come across the village green and duckpond surrounded by flint cottages that were the homes of crab fishing families, and the railway to Sheringham passes overhead. If you turn seaward at Bernie's amusement and fish and chip place, and park in the Pay and Display (with good loos) you can walk down The Gap (it's quite steep and slippy because it's sand on a metalled roadway) to where there's still a few crab boats hauled up with their rusty old tractors ... when the tide is in it's mainly shingle, but when the tide goes out there are acres and acres of firm sand and rockpools with crabs and winkles. On a sunny summer's day the sand gets really warm and then when the tide creeps in the water is warm and stays the same depth for a large area and the waves are just ripples ... perfect for learning to swim and just splashing about. I used to stay there with my granny every summer ... she had one of the first caravans there right on the cliff top (her pitch has disappeared into the sea now) and I played with the local children, rode their ponies on the beach, collected winkles and took them back to the caravan to cook and eat, and learned to tell boy crabs from girl crabs. Heaven. The perfect seaside for families and one of the few places in East Anglia where you can watch the sun set over the sea.
If you walk a little way westwards along the coast you pass the spot where the West Runton Mammoth was found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Runton_Mammoth ... and your can walk the other way to Cromer ... it's not far, Granny and I often used to walk to Cromer along the beach and then catch a bus back with our shopping.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hooray for the cooker @Hostafan1 .....glad Liam sorted you out 👍🏻
Very excited at the prospect of going for an evening walk and still being out at 8pm 😀😀😀 And even more excited that I can finally meet up with my sisters and see my Dad next week 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Plus volunteer gardeners are being welcomed back to the garden where I “work” - I start back on Thursday 🌸🌸🌸. There is light at the end of that tunnel 🥳🥳🥳
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I had the Ombudsman on the phone on Friday discussing my complaint againt BG for the 5 week and 5 days it took them to fix my fridge freezer last summer.
We have been invited for our 2nd jab but there are no appointments available!
Bright and sunny here but nippy this morning and signs of a frost in the shade of the chook shed when OH wend to let them out. I've been prepping leeks and mushrooms for a frittata and tidying the kitchen after Possum's cooking fest yesterday. OH is watching golf on TV so I'm off out to play.
Which hot cross bun recipe are you using @D0rdogne_Damsel and did you find the presentation boxes you needed?
Have a lovely sunny Sunday everyone.
Have a good day folks wherever you are.
Glad I got some gardening done yesterday. Albeit not in my own garden
Very wet and wild overnight and it doesn't look much better this morning. Definitely not planter painting weather
East Runton is a lovely beach @Busy-Lizzie ... the cliff-top part of the village has been rather swamped by caravans, but if you follow the lane inland you'll come across the village green and duckpond surrounded by flint cottages that were the homes of crab fishing families, and the railway to Sheringham passes overhead. If you turn seaward at Bernie's amusement and fish and chip place, and park in the Pay and Display (with good loos) you can walk down The Gap (it's quite steep and slippy because it's sand on a metalled roadway) to where there's still a few crab boats hauled up with their rusty old tractors ... when the tide is in it's mainly shingle, but when the tide goes out there are acres and acres of firm sand and rockpools with crabs and winkles. On a sunny summer's day the sand gets really warm and then when the tide creeps in the water is warm and stays the same depth for a large area and the waves are just ripples ... perfect for learning to swim and just splashing about. I used to stay there with my granny every summer ... she had one of the first caravans there right on the cliff top (her pitch has disappeared into the sea now) and I played with the local children, rode their ponies on the beach, collected winkles and took them back to the caravan to cook and eat, and learned to tell boy crabs from girl crabs. Heaven. The perfect seaside for families and one of the few places in East Anglia where you can watch the sun set over the sea.
If you walk a little way westwards along the coast you pass the spot where the West Runton Mammoth was found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Runton_Mammoth ... and your can walk the other way to Cromer ... it's not far, Granny and I often used to walk to Cromer along the beach and then catch a bus back with our shopping.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.