Made a decision mid to late morning that we couldn't really do what we wanted today because of the weather - so we decided to drive 3 hrs up to Birmingham to break up the journey so we only have to do 2-3 hrs tomorrow. Stopped at a farm shop for some nice butties for lunch. A chocolate tart may also have jumped into our basket🤭
Debs - I have been following the football but the devil in me would insist on finding a Danish shirt to wear to work tomorrow. Maybe you should take in some pastries?😜
Bluebells - hope Alfie is ok after his bad landing.
BL - what a nightmare for you and your OH. Are you going to stay in the UK this summer or will you have to go back to France? At least it might get a bit easier to flit back and forth over the coming weeks. As for that cockerell. I once told my neighbour (we're friends!) that if he ever got a cockrell to keep his chickens company that I'd get a shotgun. I was only half joking - the noise is very intrusive.
Hi to everyone else. Hope you all enjoy your evenings.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
What awful weather today. Grey skies, really windy and lashing with rain. How awful @Busy-Lizzie that's a long wait for your OH. And the cockerel! That would drive me bonkers. @Topbird shame you had to change your plans, but sounds like you had a good day anyway 😉 @bluebellsinthewild hope Alfie is ok. @Chivetalking garden doesn't look too bad, except everything is growing like mad 😂 especially the grass! Another football match tonight ⚽️
Hi folks, A very dull day here but I did manage to get some gardening done. I was quite despondent when I saw it this morning. Everything was soggy and bedraggled. I spent a couple of hours deadheading, weeding and raking petals off the lawn. It looks better now but I do wish we would get some drier weather. Massage went well yesterday, the physio said I would dislike her today and hate her tomorrow and the following day I would love her. She's not wrong, everything aches today it feels like I have been weightlifting but the muscles are definitely looser and I didn't wake up with a tension headache this morning. It's looking like I will have lots of child minding to do for the rest of the week. There are over 200 children off isolating (including Merri and Mabel at Secondborn's school and loads of staff. Firstborn's school is in a similar situation.
Evening all. I bet that there is a hush round the country as the Italy Spain match gets under way. Hazel, if your coreopsis are perennials you can move them somewhere where they have space to develop. They are so pretty.
Busy, your poor OH's treatment (and lack of) just goes from worse to nightmare. As T'Bird alluded, will it mess up any arrangements you had made for going back to France? At least, despite all the pain he must be in he is getting out and about which is very positive. Its good that he has his next cardiologist appointment so now he needs to try deep breathing exercises to calm him before any tests are done. My brother (not the handy one) has a cockerel living fairly near to him - despite local byelaws saying you mustn't keep chickens. It never stops crowing when I am visiting on a Sunday. I'm not sure what o'clock in the morning he starts but I don't think the neighbourhood is very happy.
RosieBB I hope that Sherpa Alfie has fully recovered from his fall. I now have to 'fess up Chive and RosieBB that I never got out to pull any rhubarb as it has been Marti here virtually all day. That is going to be tomorrow's task. I've made a note Chive! I made some chocolate brownies instead. I see that I wasn't the only chocaholic today T'Bird. Aren't farm shops wonderful? I bet the butties were scrummy too. Sorry that you had to make a slight alteration to your travel plans.
Biglad - even the molluscs draw the line at deep water - well deep to them anyway. I want to know why the Brians slime up and into my watering cans and I only become aware of their presence when the water flow from the can comes out as a trickle and not a rush because a Brian has got himself stuck up the spout.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
SGL, did you see the little psychic sausage dog - think he was called R2D2 - who was predicting the football result on TV this morning? He had been given a plate of Serrano ham and a plate of lasagne to choose from. He chose the lasagne which means an Italian victory.
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Made a decision mid to late morning that we couldn't really do what we wanted today because of the weather - so we decided to drive 3 hrs up to Birmingham to break up the journey so we only have to do 2-3 hrs tomorrow. Stopped at a farm shop for some nice butties for lunch. A chocolate tart may also have jumped into our basket🤭
Debs - I have been following the football but the devil in me would insist on finding a Danish shirt to wear to work tomorrow. Maybe you should take in some pastries?😜
Bluebells - hope Alfie is ok after his bad landing.
BL - what a nightmare for you and your OH. Are you going to stay in the UK this summer or will you have to go back to France? At least it might get a bit easier to flit back and forth over the coming weeks.
As for that cockerell. I once told my neighbour (we're friends!) that if he ever got a cockrell to keep his chickens company that I'd get a shotgun. I was only half joking - the noise is very intrusive.
Hi to everyone else. Hope you all enjoy your evenings.
How awful @Busy-Lizzie that's a long wait for your OH. And the cockerel! That would drive me bonkers.
@Topbird shame you had to change your plans, but sounds like you had a good day anyway 😉
@bluebellsinthewild hope Alfie is ok.
@Chivetalking garden doesn't look too bad, except everything is growing like mad 😂 especially the grass!
Another football match tonight ⚽️
Massage went well yesterday, the physio said I would dislike her today and hate her tomorrow and the following day I would love her. She's not wrong, everything aches today it feels like I have been weightlifting but the muscles are definitely looser and I didn't wake up with a tension headache this morning.
It's looking like I will have lots of child minding to do for the rest of the week. There are over 200 children off isolating (including Merri and Mabel at Secondborn's school and loads of staff. Firstborn's school is in a similar situation.