Put in a good shift today at work, 8 hours. The joys of the Public Sector, you get Tuesday off as well as BH Monday!! Where's my 600ltrs of veg compost...You Garden??? Need to fill up those raised beds
Lovely morning here. Clear sky and warm sun after a foggy start. Not my favourite Friday of the year. I like going to town on Fridays, but they’re all closed. 😡
we’ve already had two early phone calls. The first because someone wants Hubby to check a fire trail behind their place ( not his responsibility but our fire captain hasn’t responded to the request, so Hubby is apparently the default option Grrr!). Then once he’d got his head around that, our friend who has the same ride-On mower as us, wants to look at something on ours to try to diagnose what’s wrong with his mower. They’re down in the shed now. We can’t complain about him because his wife was the one who drove me to Canberra yesterday. Wouldn’t take any money for petrol either. She regards it as a thank you for looking after their cat, Venus, when they’re away. Ho hum and so it goes. Isn’t life good. Life in a village!
I’ve spent the whole day sitting on the front veranda playing with my coloured pencils, 😃 and I don’t feel even a little bit guilty. I’m still tired from yesterday with having my you know what’s quashed as flat as pancakes. 😢 They’re still a bit sore.
Anyway, it’s a lovely sunny day in the mid 20s, I think, with no cold breezes to spoil it.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ I slept like a log and didn’t wake until OH nudged me ... he wants to get to Wrose before the rest of the village wakes up ... we’re rapidly running out of potatoes and onions ......... ... and toothpaste! How did that happen?!
So I’ll have another coffee and drive him down there ... that way he can get plenty of spuds and onions, rather than a few in his backpack.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning folks, went to bed At 10 so tired,knew it was a bad idea,was awake at 4, Got a long hot wash and the dishwasher done (economy 7) does mean I will get tired early to tonight though.I have never slept 8 hours in my life.Plenty e do in the garden and green house
We’ve returned with supplies ... OH will have his breakfast porridge then unload the car. I spent a very pleasant 35 mins reading and listening to a songthrush in the churchyard ... it didn’t stop singing all the time I was there 😊 Now it’s time to put the sourdough loaf that was proving all night into the oven.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning. OH has delivered Rasta to be shorn and then we both went to the builders' yard to fetch cement for more levelling in the Cave and some wooden posts so we can erect supports for blackberries and also so I can espalier the 2 pear trees. Chooks not impressed when we delivered 8 posts and no sweetcorn to the potager!
Bright and sunny here so I shall be playing with seeds and seedlings this pm. I need to stay clean this am so I can fetch Rasta at about 11:30.
Hot cross buns in the oven and smelling good. Yum! I stocked up on lots of fresh root ginger on the way home from the meeting yesterday as I passed the Vietnamese store. Going to have a go at preserved stem ginger in syrup. More yum!
I have stocked up on red onions already @Dovefromabove and some new potatoes from Noirmoutier - grown with lots of seaweed like Jerseys but not the same variety. Tasty tho. We'll have some with salmon fillets and PSB this evening.
Have a lovely day everyone. @Pat E good for you having a day doing not a lot. OH needs to practise saying No to some fire jobs.
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)."
Why is getting help so flippin awkward? Can't get carers allowance as I earn too much. Can't get attendance allowance as he's not over pension age. Can't get PIP because he'd not understand the questions and can't be relied on to give accurate answers. Until he qualifies for one of the above, can't get discount for "severe mental impairments" on council tax, nor any help via Universal Credit.
Cold wind here today but the sun's out so I'm hoping to get a bit done in the garden this afternoon. Might even put the potatoes in - how very traditional. And speaking of which, the fish man was in the village this morning so we've got fresh lemon sole for dinner.
I've had a stab at saffron buns this morning, now proving. Easter was always a Cornwall visit when my parents were alive - it would usually still be quiet enough to get in the car parks when OH was surfing or to walk the dogs on the beach. (This year it may be a bit different - probably going to be rammed) and Mum was particularly good at the pagan festivals. Lots of games with boiled eggs So hot cross buns were always saffron buns and I can't get decent ones here without soy in them, and haven't found a decent recipe yet. So I improvised. Probably won't be right but hey ho - likely to be edible at least and next year's will be better.
Hope you all have a lovely, peaceful weekend
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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we’ve already had two early phone calls. The first because someone wants Hubby to check a fire trail behind their place ( not his responsibility but our fire captain hasn’t responded to the request, so Hubby is apparently the default option Grrr!). Then once he’d got his head around that, our friend who has the same ride-On mower as us, wants to look at something on ours to try to diagnose what’s wrong with his mower. They’re down in the shed now. We can’t complain about him because his wife was the one who drove me to Canberra yesterday. Wouldn’t take any money for petrol either. She regards it as a thank you for looking after their cat, Venus, when they’re away. Ho hum and so it goes. Isn’t life good. Life in a village!
Last official day of work in my current job
So I'll be back bugging you all with my novice questions from this weekend onwards
The birds are really going for it this morning - no bank holidays for the dawn chorus!
I slept like a log and didn’t wake until OH nudged me ... he wants to get to Wrose before the rest of the village wakes up ... we’re rapidly running out of potatoes and onions .........
... and toothpaste! How did that happen?!
So I’ll have another coffee and drive him down there ... that way he can get plenty of spuds and onions, rather than a few in his backpack.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now it’s time to put the sourdough loaf that was proving all night into the oven.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Bright and sunny here so I shall be playing with seeds and seedlings this pm. I need to stay clean this am so I can fetch Rasta at about 11:30.
Hot cross buns in the oven and smelling good. Yum! I stocked up on lots of fresh root ginger on the way home from the meeting yesterday as I passed the Vietnamese store. Going to have a go at preserved stem ginger in syrup. More yum!
I have stocked up on red onions already @Dovefromabove and some new potatoes from Noirmoutier - grown with lots of seaweed like Jerseys but not the same variety. Tasty tho. We'll have some with salmon fillets and PSB this evening.
Have a lovely day everyone. @Pat E good for you having a day doing not a lot. OH needs to practise saying No to some fire jobs.
Can't get carers allowance as I earn too much.
Can't get attendance allowance as he's not over pension age.
Can't get PIP because he'd not understand the questions and can't be relied on to give accurate answers.
Until he qualifies for one of the above, can't get discount for "severe mental impairments" on council tax, nor any help via Universal Credit.
I've had a stab at saffron buns this morning, now proving. Easter was always a Cornwall visit when my parents were alive - it would usually still be quiet enough to get in the car parks when OH was surfing or to walk the dogs on the beach. (This year it may be a bit different - probably going to be rammed) and Mum was particularly good at the pagan festivals. Lots of games with boiled eggs
Hope you all have a lovely, peaceful weekend
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”