It was very beautiful countryside @Dovefromabove, so a lovely place to grow up. OH's ancestors came from Suffolk so we've visited several times and love it. I 'waved' to @Didyw when we passed the sign to Bungay! Forgot also to mention that we'd been to Sutton Hoo on the Tuesday which we enjoyed, although the over the top covid precautions drove us mad. I thought it a shame that the hotel proprietors had allowed the Boston ivy to get out of hand seeing that the brickwork is so old, not a good idea. There was a wisteria on the corner in addition. It had extensive grounds as well but no flower borders as such. There is apparently a Seckford charitable trust still in existence which gives grants to local projects. The original owner also built a school and almshouses in Woodbridge.
Done some reading back and I am so very sorry to hear about your OH's situation @Hostafan1. Best wishes to you both. Congratulations to littlest chicklet on her well deserved 1st @chicky, presumably she wasn't too ill with covid. Big celebrations to tomorrow? Hope the knee jabs aren't too painful @Obelixx, that must have been a marathon journey for your OH though. Apologies if I've missed anyone out.
Thanks for waving @Lizzie27 - glad you enjoyed your visit to us here in Sunny Suffolk (ha!). Sutton Hoo is wonderful - we last went before Covid on a gorgeous sunny day (and before The Film) so have good memories. @Hostafan1 - my heart goes out to you both. x
Our lane was alive with fire engines at 4am and there's still a steady stream now, and of Electricity vans. The farm at the bottom of the lane has lost all their winter hay and I'm guessing power lines must have been damaged too. The air is still thick with smoke. I'm sure they've all had a pretty rotten day too. bless'em
That’s just awful @Hostafan1 … I really feel for your neighbours 😞
That happened to us when I was a small child … but it was straw not hay so not as valuable. The first thing we knew was a neighbouring farmer banging in the door … he’d driven past and seen the corrugated tin roof glowing red in the dark.
I can remember Ma making mugs of cocoa for the firemen. It was a lovely old red brick Victorian barn and cattle yard … totally destroyed. Thank goodness it was insured. I think we’d have been ruined if it wasn’t. Good old NFU.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That’s just awful @Hostafan1 … I really feel for your neighbours 😞
That happened to us when I was a small child … but it was straw not hay so not as valuable. The first thing we knew was a neighbouring farmer banging in the door … he’d driven past and seen the corrugated tin roof glowing red in the dark.
I can remember Ma making mugs of cocoa for the firemen. It was a lovely old red brick Victorian barn and cattle yard … totally destroyed. Thank goodness it was insured. I think we’d have been ruined if it wasn’t. Good old NFU.
NFU won't insure us because our lake " is a drowning risk" I said. "I suppose you don't insure anyone with a swimming pool, or a bath then?" Silence.
It is all a bit Springwatch here today. After the surprise appearance of a roe doe this afternoon it turns out she is an older doe than our regular. I saw our regular doe earlier this evening and thought she had settled down well from her afternoon adventure as she was browsing happily. An hour later I was about to draw the curtains and saw her settling down on the lawn. Got out my camera and thought I was seeing a reflection from the double glazing but there was the older doe sitting in a similar position just behind her.
As we watched something spooked them and they both stood up. I saw a tabby cat emerge from below the bird feeder and the younger doe saw it too and charged at it! The blackbirds joined in with alarm calls and it turned out there were two of our neighbours cats sneaking around. The older doe isn't moving as well as the younger but doesn't seem to have any obvious wounds.
A few minutes later I looked at the other side of the garden and thought one of the does had gone round there but it was the older buck which has also been around for a while. So we have three deer in the garden tonight as well as a couple of foxes which I saw while looking for the first doe this afternoon. Keep up at the back there!
Sadly hay barn fires used not to be uncommon … if the hay isn’t absolutely bone dry it can heat up in the stack and ‘spontaneously combust’. Now less hay is made, hay is more complicated to make and has too many risks, whereas silage and haylage are easier to make, easier and safer to store, and higher in protein so has more food value to the cattle.
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I thought it a shame that the hotel proprietors had allowed the Boston ivy to get out of hand seeing that the brickwork is so old, not a good idea. There was a wisteria on the corner in addition. It had extensive grounds as well but no flower borders as such. There is apparently a Seckford charitable trust still in existence which gives grants to local projects. The original owner also built a school and almshouses in Woodbridge.
Done some reading back and I am so very sorry to hear about your OH's situation @Hostafan1. Best wishes to you both.
Congratulations to littlest chicklet on her well deserved 1st @chicky, presumably she wasn't too ill with covid. Big celebrations to tomorrow?
Hope the knee jabs aren't too painful @Obelixx, that must have been a marathon journey for your OH though.
Apologies if I've missed anyone out.
@Hostafan1 - my heart goes out to you both. x
We bought lots of goodies in Morrisons and the freezer is stocked up again. Had a "Lite Bite" in the pub but we are still too full of dinner!
The farm at the bottom of the lane has lost all their winter hay and I'm guessing power lines must have been damaged too.
The air is still thick with smoke.
I'm sure they've all had a pretty rotten day too. bless'em
That happened to us when I was a small child … but it was straw not hay so not as valuable. The first thing we knew was a neighbouring farmer banging in the door … he’d driven past and seen the corrugated tin roof glowing red in the dark.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I said. "I suppose you don't insure anyone with a swimming pool, or a bath then?"
Silence.
What a dreadful thing to happen to Hosta's neighbours.
is more complicated to make and has too many risks, whereas silage and haylage are easier to make, easier and safer to store, and higher in protein so has more food value to the cattle.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.