I think the lifeboat and air ambulance crews are real heroes @didyw ... the air ambulance often flies over us as we're not that far from the N&NUH ... last year it landed on the open space just across between us and the Newmarket Road ... really impressive. I remember when my Aged Ps were in the Lovely Home near Swold Harbour there was a player injured on the rugby field outside their window ... the air ambulance arrived and landed very close to them ... it gave Ma something to talk about for days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well littlest Chicklet came home from Uni on Wednesday and brought Covid with her 😩. She did a test in the car on our driveway, so we knew before we had any contact with her. She went straight to her room, and has a bathroom next door, which luckily we don’t need to use. We are delivering her meals to the landing, and chatting to her through her first floor window from the garden. But we are all in isolation til next Saturday. Hampton Court Flower show tickets have happily been rearranged til Sunday. Sainsbury’s is keeping us fed. And the garden is getting our undivided attention ….long overdue.
Exactly the same has happened to my sister, with my niece returning from Uni. Her poor dog can’t work out why noone will take him for a walk 🥲
The most important thing is that neither girls are particularly ill with it yet - just headachey. Fingers crossed thats all it does to them. I’ve been a bit stressed 😫
Sorry to hear that @chicky ... hope you all escape it and that she feels much better very soon. That was certainly niece's experience of it (in her first week of her first year at uni) ... headachy and a bit grotty but otherwise nothing to write home about 🤞 If only it was the same for everyone
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Sorry to hear that @chicky - what a homecoming for your chicklet! But well done for being sensible and doing the right thing. If only our politicians did the same.
Just clearing the table ready to work on a jewellery repair I have to do. Mostly what I was clearing were dead pollen beetles which have dropped out of the sweet peas. Picked a bunch yesterday for my daughter and the blooms were covered in the little critters. Wondering if all the rape has now been harvested and they have swarmed here from the fields. They don't do any harm but they are a nuisance!
Just clearing the table ready to work on a jewellery repair I have to do. Mostly what I was clearing were dead pollen beetles which have dropped out of the sweet peas. Picked a bunch yesterday for my daughter and the blooms were covered in the little critters. Wondering if all the rape has now been harvested and they have swarmed here from the fields. They don't do any harm but they are a nuisance!
I've heard if you cut them and put the vase into a dark shed / garage or similar, and leave the door open, they'll fly towards the light . Then you can bring the indoors
No wonder you are stressed @chicky. I hope littlest chicklet is OK, but it will be such a waste of a week for her stuck in her room. Is she allowed in the garden?
The NGS garden was lovely. We were lucky, the sun came out when we arrived and it didn't rain until we started loading OH's mobility scooter into the car to go home. We had quiche and salad for lunch there and delicious moist orange cake. The garden was about an acre and there were lots of perennials, roses and clematis.
I've posted some photos on the Garden Visits thread.
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That sounds like a right royal PITA @chicky but at least she's home and you can keep an eye on her rather than stuck in student lodgings a long way from home. I hope the week passes quickly and without complications. Hugs all round.
That's a good tip about pollen beetles @Hostafan1 tho we've none here so far. It's all maize and wheat for cows here and occasional sunflowers and then mustard as a green manure over winter. I wonder would it work for ants on dahlias.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well littlest Chicklet came home from Uni on Wednesday and brought Covid with her 😩. She did a test in the car on our driveway, so we knew before we had any contact with her. She went straight to her room, and has a bathroom next door, which luckily we don’t need to use. We are delivering her meals to the landing, and chatting to her through her first floor window from the garden. But we are all in isolation til next Saturday. Hampton Court Flower show tickets have happily been rearranged til Sunday. Sainsbury’s is keeping us fed. And the garden is getting our undivided attention ….long overdue.
Exactly the same has happened to my sister, with my niece returning from Uni. Her poor dog can’t work out why noone will take him for a walk 🥲
The most important thing is that neither girls are particularly ill with it yet - just headachey. Fingers crossed thats all it does to them. I’ve been a bit stressed 😫
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The NGS garden was lovely. We were lucky, the sun came out when we arrived and it didn't rain until we started loading OH's mobility scooter into the car to go home. We had quiche and salad for lunch there and delicious moist orange cake. The garden was about an acre and there were lots of perennials, roses and clematis.
I've posted some photos on the Garden Visits thread.
Hugs to you all @chicky
That sounds like a right royal PITA @chicky but at least she's home and you can keep an eye on her rather than stuck in student lodgings a long way from home. I hope the week passes quickly and without complications. Hugs all round.
That's a good tip about pollen beetles @Hostafan1 tho we've none here so far. It's all maize and wheat for cows here and occasional sunflowers and then mustard as a green manure over winter. I wonder would it work for ants on dahlias.