That's great news @Yviestevie. I'm very impressed with the speed and care they are taking with your OH. Not so good news Dove and Obelixx, both sound a pain, in Obelixx's case quite literally.
I haven't done much today apart from planting the dwarf French beans I'd forgotten about and walking round the garden taking photos. Â It has been very hot here so I retreated indoors to start packing ready for the new carpet job. We have a display cabinet which is halfway between two rooms and halfway on carpet one side and vinyl the other so it will have to be moved. I've managed to wrap all my treasures as I call them, small silver ornaments, antique china and glass into shoeboxes and put them elsewhere. Next job is OH's treasured childhood books and Jane Austins on the bottom shelf. It's all taking a long time.
I feel your pain @Obelixx, literally - my wobbly tooth now throbs and I suspect an ulcer. Can't get an appointment this week, try again 9am on Monday to try and get an emergency appointment. Dentist now deems me a private patient but will treat emergency as NHS. So that will be just whip the tooth out. In the meantime, I'm rinsing with warm salt water, which helps a bit. And like you I have loads to do! Plant stall on Thursday, sister and BIL (who I can't stand - such a boor!) coming on Friday. Luckily they are in self-catering accommodation, very near. Trying to get the garden to less of a work in progress and more of a nearly finished sort of thing. And the house is a mess! Need another day squeezed in this week. Â
Didyw, course normally when you buy a plant,it tells you what aspects to site it, this one didn't. I find that doesn't always work,outdoor varieties, damp, well drained soil,who has that,! I've bought plants that sami full sun and they wilt and wither in my north facing garden. Hubby days don't bother,he says e mail them, like either of us knows how to send a picture with an e mail,I don't have this phone set up for e mails,I do that on a PC,had a smartphone 2 months,he doesn't have any kind of mobile phone
Oh dear, @Obelixx, it sounds as though you've had a rubbish day. I hope you sleep better tonight.
What a nuisance @Dovefromabove about the car, you haven't had it very long.
OH went to Southwold today, drove down the promenade on his mobility scooter, ate a Cornish pasty on Gun Hill and paid a visit to the Harbour. It was a lovely warm day. I wish I'd been with him. I will be by the end of next week.
My friends, N and D came to help unpack the loft today. They usually help people clean gites and do maintenance work. It's been funny times with Covid and not many gites have been able to be rented, owners stuck in England etc. So I said if they would be able to come and give me a hand with moving house and putting stuff in and out of the loft I would pay them something. Doesn't seem fair for friends who need to work for a living should come and help me for free, they are younger and fitter than me and need the money. Anyway, they've been a Godsend.
The study is now full of boxes of books. I started unpacking but it will be easier when I've painted the 2 bookcases that N and D got out of the loft, then I will see what size book goes where. I've painted the undercoat, run out of the light grey topcoat. There is more stuff to unpack into the utility room too, sewing stuff etc.
We've filled my car and the small trailer with yet more stuff for the tip/recycling centre. I'll take it tomorrow. We moved the wooden garden table and chairs out of the big car port barn onto the terrace and D has put together my new outdoor sofa and chairs which are on the lower terrace where it's shadier.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That's a @Busy-Lizzie sort of day. Â Getting there! Â I hope you are getting this good weather so that you can sit outside and enjoy the weather before you fly out.
@punkdoc  A difficult day for you.  I wish you well.  Relaxtion for the next week (at least).  Are you looking after the admin?
Hot day here - over 30°C (saw the mercury at 33°C around 3pm) - all shutters are closed to keep the house cool.  Hopefully sleep tonight!
Im not at all peeved or worried about the car 😊 ... it’s under warranty and the garage I bought it from is standing by it ... you can’t really expect more from a second hand car .., even when I’ve bought brand new ones there’ve been things they’ve had to go back for. 😊 it’s nothing like the problems we had when son bought a much more expensive car from Car Shop 🤬
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hosta, there were other types alternifolia says you can grow indoors. The HASPAN it says pond or bog. Can we have a picture. I don't have room for anything else in my conservatory. It's north facing and gets up to over 40c,in summer, nothing likes it in there
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Not so good news Dove and Obelixx, both sound a pain, in Obelixx's case quite literally.
I haven't done much today apart from planting the dwarf French beans I'd forgotten about and walking round the garden taking photos.
 It has been very hot here so I retreated indoors to start packing ready for the new carpet job. We have a display cabinet which is halfway between two rooms and halfway on carpet one side and vinyl the other so it will have to be moved. I've managed to wrap all my treasures as I call them, small silver ornaments, antique china and glass into shoeboxes and put them elsewhere. Next job is OH's treasured childhood books and Jane Austins on the bottom shelf. It's all taking a long time.
And like you I have loads to do! Plant stall on Thursday, sister and BIL (who I can't stand - such a boor!) coming on Friday. Luckily they are in self-catering accommodation, very near. Trying to get the garden to less of a work in progress and more of a nearly finished sort of thing. And the house is a mess! Need another day squeezed in this week. Â
What a nuisance @Dovefromabove about the car, you haven't had it very long.
OH went to Southwold today, drove down the promenade on his mobility scooter, ate a Cornish pasty on Gun Hill and paid a visit to the Harbour. It was a lovely warm day. I wish I'd been with him. I will be by the end of next week.
My friends, N and D came to help unpack the loft today. They usually help people clean gites and do maintenance work. It's been funny times with Covid and not many gites have been able to be rented, owners stuck in England etc. So I said if they would be able to come and give me a hand with moving house and putting stuff in and out of the loft I would pay them something. Doesn't seem fair for friends who need to work for a living should come and help me for free, they are younger and fitter than me and need the money. Anyway, they've been a Godsend.
The study is now full of boxes of books. I started unpacking but it will be easier when I've painted the 2 bookcases that N and D got out of the loft, then I will see what size book goes where. I've painted the undercoat, run out of the light grey topcoat. There is more stuff to unpack into the utility room too, sewing stuff etc.
We've filled my car and the small trailer with yet more stuff for the tip/recycling centre. I'll take it tomorrow. We moved the wooden garden table and chairs out of the big car port barn onto the terrace and D has put together my new outdoor sofa and chairs which are on the lower terrace where it's shadier.
@punkdoc  A difficult day for you.  I wish you well.  Relaxtion for the next week (at least).  Are you looking after the admin?
Hot day here - over 30°C (saw the mercury at 33°C around 3pm) - all shutters are closed to keep the house cool.  Hopefully sleep tonight!
I hope @punkdoc is OK and the funeral went well.
worried about the car 😊 ... it’s under warranty and the garage I bought it from is standing by it ... you can’t really expect more from a second hand car .., even when I’ve bought brand new ones there’ve been things they’ve had to go back for. 😊Â
it’s nothing like the problems we had when son bought a much more expensive car from Car Shop 🤬
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.