Another glorious day. We do definitely need some rainfall soon though @Ladybird4
Friday training is at a more sensible hour this morning so will probably do a couple of hours in the garden after that. Then it's 3 more games/Queens/US Open.
Hello all. I've arrived in Norfolk, great to see OH, but he looks thinner and lamer. He's bought smoked salmon and fillet steak for dinner. I hope there's wine, hardly had any since he left 3 1/2 months ago.
The journey was fairly horrendous, torrential rain up to Tours then just rain. Some of it wasn't too bad after that as the French have a motorway surface on some of the motorways that seems to stay dry in the rain so there's no spray. I slept about 6 hours on the ferry with one trip to the loo halfway. That was something I'd worried about as I usually find it hard to sleep on ferries. The bit from Portsmouth to Norfolk wasn't much fun either as heavy rain with a lot of spray from the lorries. Some parts of the motorways, especially M25, had speed limits of 50mph and flood warnings, but sometimes there were huge puddles with no warnings.
Google Maps said the journey was 5 1/2 hours for the French bit to the Caen ferry port at Ouistreham, but it took me 7 hours with 2 loo stops.
Anyway, I'm here now, quarantine for 10 days and 2 more Covid tests.
The garden looks fine but wet and rain bashed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Busy I’m glad your here to see oh, albeit a difficult journey. Time to relax for a few days. I hope the quarantine soon passes, you’ll be counting the days. Alfie’s relaxing on the bed, it’s raining at Queens instead of tennis an old Kong movie, maybe they’re expecting it to be interrupted soon.
Good afternoon all. Lovely to hear from you Busy. Yes, I'm sure that your journeys could have been much better but it must be so nice to be together again after such a big break. It seems that the south east of the UK are getting all the storms - coming up from the continent - so your Norfolk garden won't be short of water.
I got a phone call from Jack to say that the conservatory cleaners are back. He got a signature on the receipt I knocked up for him. So far so good. I rang his daughter for him to let her know the cleaners were there. I've done all I can do at the moment so I'll wait to hear what has been done and whether they are both happy with it. Still got my copy of the letter I did for them plus the 16 terrible pictures - my ammunition.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
I went to see what was happening with the tennis and was confronted with a black and white 1940's (?) version of Jurassic Park. Sadly the prescriptive 'if it charges shoot it and kill it' was glaringly obvious. Such c**p! It seems that the heavy rain has stopped play at Queens. Looks nice at the football though.
I've planted up 10 gaura plugs I got today, watered and fed the birds and watered the plants. No more aggro from the new tap.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Hazel, I forgot to say that yes, you were right, sandwich spread is the tangy spread with 'bits' in it. It has been a favourite of mine since I was very young.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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Another glorious day. We do definitely need some rainfall soon though @Ladybird4
Friday training is at a more sensible hour this morning
I've arrived in Norfolk, great to see OH, but he looks thinner and lamer. He's bought smoked salmon and fillet steak for dinner. I hope there's wine, hardly had any since he left 3 1/2 months ago.
The journey was fairly horrendous, torrential rain up to Tours then just rain. Some of it wasn't too bad after that as the French have a motorway surface on some of the motorways that seems to stay dry in the rain so there's no spray. I slept about 6 hours on the ferry with one trip to the loo halfway. That was something I'd worried about as I usually find it hard to sleep on ferries. The bit from Portsmouth to Norfolk wasn't much fun either as heavy rain with a lot of spray from the lorries. Some parts of the motorways, especially M25, had speed limits of 50mph and flood warnings, but sometimes there were huge puddles with no warnings.
Google Maps said the journey was 5 1/2 hours for the French bit to the Caen ferry port at Ouistreham, but it took me 7 hours with 2 loo stops.
Anyway, I'm here now, quarantine for 10 days and 2 more Covid tests.
The garden looks fine but wet and rain bashed.
@Busy-Lizzie will run them ragged up front. It's coming together!
Wonderful mental image to go to sleep on .Night night everyone .