Just checking in here. Is your OH's surgery at the N&N @Busy-Lizzie? I hope you can travel from France OK. My SIL has a place in the Dordogne and they were there when lockdown happened last year and spent all summer there, in the searing heat. Not that they complained! Hope you get some rain soon - we need it too. Good news just heard - my BIL in the US will be out of hospital in a day or so and is, according to his sons, in good spirits. Wonder if the jab he had the day his covid symptoms started will have any affect? V. impressed by the early starts so many of you have! If I'm up by 8.30 I think I'm doing really well.
I’m feeling very sad too @Busy-Lizzie 🥲. I know he had reached a good age, but its so sad for the Queen. Her lonely job just got even lonelier.
But delighted to hear your OH has an op date.
Teeny tiny plants all in their new homes, plus a few others moved on to give them room to grow. Need this coldspell to be over....I’m running out of room and the big shuffle needs to start. It looks like Monday night could be tricky, then we are hopefully over the worst for a while.
Thank you. There is a man who mows and the donkey's owner will deal with him. He may have gone by then anyway. Lockdown is what is preventing his departure now. Hopefully I'll have harvested some of the vegetable garden and the rest will just have to take care of itself. Maybe the mowing man can do some watering.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good news @Busy-Lizzie for the operation date. Perhaps, I am not sure, but your travel could be put down as imperative. It is still a bit off yet too, so hopefully things will be better by then. I hope you manage to get your vaccine by then too.
Achieved quite a lot of silly (but necessary) jobs in the garden today. My new plants arrived (the ones bought with the credit note), not in brilliant condition, one lot looked like a handful of grass, but hopefully (now I have had some advice from here) they will get better. I'm not sure I will buy of Promesse de Fleurs again, that is two orders that have been a bit ropey, plus one delivery lost in transit. They were good about the refund, but I would rather just have good plants and no hassle.
Managed another ride on my bike, I had to go to CdeG to do my regular Friday night suppers, so I went on the bike, cooked the orders, delivered to my 'old lady' using a special pannier and then took the long route home down the country lanes. Another 20km done and work at CdeG done too. I am planning, if we ever get to open again to go to work as often as possible on the bike, it's only 30 minutes and at least it means I will keep up the exercise - time will be the thing though, so we'll have to wait and see. I do believe the thinking time on the ride home though will be good for me, I have always struggled to unwind after a busy day and this might help.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good news just heard - my BIL in the US will be out of hospital in a day or so and is, according to his sons, in good spirits. Wonder if the jab he had the day his covid symptoms started will have any affect?
V. impressed by the early starts so many of you have! If I'm up by 8.30 I think I'm doing really well.
Teeny tiny plants all in their new homes, plus a few others moved on to give them room to grow. Need this coldspell to be over....I’m running out of room and the big shuffle needs to start. It looks like Monday night could be tricky, then we are hopefully over the worst for a while.
There is a man who mows and the donkey's owner will deal with him. He may have gone by then anyway. Lockdown is what is preventing his departure now. Hopefully I'll have harvested some of the vegetable garden and the rest will just have to take care of itself. Maybe the mowing man can do some watering.
Achieved quite a lot of silly (but necessary) jobs in the garden today. My new plants arrived (the ones bought with the credit note), not in brilliant condition, one lot looked like a handful of grass, but hopefully (now I have had some advice from here) they will get better. I'm not sure I will buy of Promesse de Fleurs again, that is two orders that have been a bit ropey, plus one delivery lost in transit. They were good about the refund, but I would rather just have good plants and no hassle.
Managed another ride on my bike, I had to go to CdeG to do my regular Friday night suppers, so I went on the bike, cooked the orders, delivered to my 'old lady' using a special pannier and then took the long route home down the country lanes. Another 20km done and work at CdeG done too. I am planning, if we ever get to open again