Morning folks. Well what a night!! Normally I strip grandkids beds when they've been get all week I didn't.Daughter came to collect them,had booked a table at our usual carvery for 6. They all got their meals,veggi option wasn't available,they'd had a run,had to re order and wait. Asked daughter if she wanted to stay the night,no,she wanted to get home. 9.30, landline rings,NO ONE rings landline, know it's nothing good.half way home she hit a huge deer.shes in a terrible state. Police, ambulance,they asked if I was medical background because of the way I reported incident. (,told you I was posh,!!)air bags deployed,so burns,bruising,shock.hubby (vauxhall tech) and police checked car, safe to drive. Lucky neither of them drink,I'd had a glass of wine,he drove her car,she drove mine. He's stripping car as we speak. Thankfully no bad injuries,damage not bad. Unfortunately car although mint,she would only get £600 for it.
There is a beer festival and hog roast today at a nearby community pub, so we'll go to that at lunchtime. The pub was in a bad state and closed when the village took it over and they've made a great job. The inside has been renovated, lots of character, beams, fireplaces, and the garden is well cared for and re-planted. It's the sort of pub where people talk to each other and include people they don't know.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
So sorry, Nanny Beach, but so glad no one received more than bruises. Maybe daughter will take you up on overnight stays in future! Always a worry when the offspring head off home. I never rest until I’ve got the safely arrived text. It would be good if someone got to eat the poor deer though, shame to think of the waste.
I know someone who frequently worked in a wooded area alongside a long stretch of main road. He said there were ‘a lot’ of deer carcasses in varying states of decomposition in the woods … they may appear to ‘saunter off’ … but if they’ve been hit hard enough to have damaged a car they will have been injured … and an injured deer rarely survives.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was no way look for it,it was dark, bank and thick woods on each side of the road.middle of no where. I don't know whether they were collected up,I was hit by a deer on ashdown forest,I walked my dogs there for years never saw a dead deer. Other grandparents,friend in a transit van,hit a deer it went through the windscreen and killed him
The deer will no doubt provide some welcome meals for the local wildlife, no way it would survive for long. There is a stretch of the A35 east of Dorchester which always worries me. One of the only places I’ve been, where you pass a beware of deer sign, and then see loads of them grazing by the side of the road during daylight. Thankful that your daughter and family escaped relatively lightly, could have been so much worse. That phone call must have been a real shock.
Oh my it's only 14 deg down here, i'm frozen, at least it's stopped raining. We rummaged in the freezer for soup and found some pumpkin in there from last year and had that at lunch time.
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I didn't.Daughter came to collect them,had booked a table at our usual carvery for 6. They all got their meals,veggi option wasn't available,they'd had a run,had to re order and wait. Asked daughter if she wanted to stay the night,no,she wanted to get home. 9.30, landline rings,NO ONE rings landline, know it's nothing good.half way home she hit a huge deer.shes in a terrible state. Police, ambulance,they asked if I was medical background because of the way I reported incident. (,told you I was posh,!!)air bags deployed,so burns,bruising,shock.hubby (vauxhall tech) and police checked car, safe to drive. Lucky neither of them drink,I'd had a glass of wine,he drove her car,she drove mine. He's stripping car as we speak. Thankfully no bad injuries,damage not bad. Unfortunately car although mint,she would only get £600 for it.
well, no one except the deer presumably. Hope I didn't talk it up the other day ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Rain has stopped for now, not nearly as bad as forecast.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Looks rather grey outside.
What a horrid shock @Nanny Beach
There is a beer festival and hog roast today at a nearby community pub, so we'll go to that at lunchtime. The pub was in a bad state and closed when the village took it over and they've made a great job. The inside has been renovated, lots of character, beams, fireplaces, and the garden is well cared for and re-planted. It's the sort of pub where people talk to each other and include people they don't know.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There is a stretch of the A35 east of Dorchester which always worries me. One of the only places I’ve been, where you pass a beware of deer sign, and then see loads of them grazing by the side of the road during daylight.
Thankful that your daughter and family escaped relatively lightly, could have been so much worse. That phone call must have been a real shock.