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HELLO FORKERS 🌷🌷🌷May ‘21

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.
    Looks cold, grey and gloomy. Taking coffee back to bed.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 
    That’s really great to have on his CV @Pat E 😎 Bright and sunny here ... so far ... but the coffee maker is still asleep ... hence my whispering 🤫 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Good idea Dove.  I’ve been washing my hair before the temperature get down again. Otherwise I’ll be going to bed tonight with wet hair. 🙄
    S. E. NSW
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Good morning all,  awol at the moment but just wanted to pop in to send my sympathy and hugs to you and Moira @punkdoc x
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    That’s one for the family archives @Pat E .....what a thrill 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    I’ve woken up to sunshine, but don’t think its meant to last 🙄.  Doesn’t bother me today as I will be in a classroom, learning about hard landscaping 🤣.  Mr C is the hard landscaper round here .....I just do the frilly, frothy stuff.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    You’ve brought back memories to me Chicky. In our 3 year horticulture certificate course we had to lay bricks for steps as well as control tractors and various diggers. I’ve forgotten all of it now. Very enlightening for we females. 🙄😁
    S. E. NSW
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Morning folks,oh Chicky,frilly frothy stuff!!! Don't let my neighbour hear you say that. In my time, before I retired,I did a 12.5 hour night shift,had a 50 mile commute by road,and barrowed I don't know how many tons of shingle 200 feet, carried 6 by 6 fence panels etc my neighbours said I was like his wife,only doing the pretty fluffy stuff,I was fuming. 
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited May 2021
    Anyone who’s a gardener knows that achieving the frilly, frothy stuff can be hard graft.  Plus you have to do it all again next year.  That’s why Mr C leaves it to me .....no stamina and a low boredom threshold 😉

    Wish we were actually laying some bricks @Pat E.....but sadly, I predict we will just be looking at pictures of other people doing it.  Next year I’ve enrolled for the practical course, so might get to try my hand then 🧱 🧱 
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Good luck with that Chicky. 😁
    Have you done surveying as well.  We went out with a surveyor who took us to a hill where the road had been put through and he told us (hmmm,  taught us) how he had to estimate how much soil/rock needed to be removed and therefore how many truck loads had to be organised.  I was cross eyed by the end. 😁
    S. E. NSW
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Back downstairs for breakfast.

    I've been trimming my hair. It was cut much shorter than I like in January, now it's back to normal. Look forward to going to my girl in Norfolk, I hope she's still there.


    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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