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HELLO FORKERS 🏖 ☔️ 🏖 ☔️ 🏖 July ‘21

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Hello everyone. We’ve been to town and then back to a nice warm house.👏👏 It’s our daughters 56 th birthday today. We’ve had a nice chat on the phone. Her son is taking her out to dinner tonight.
    S. E. NSW
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    S'cused @Dovefromabove  I'm next in!
    Glad to see that @Hostafan1 is getting some well-deserved rest and that @D0rdogne_Damsel is enjoying success.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Morning all,

    I've been out on patrol d-fab ;)

    Everything has had a good soaking overnight and I've emptied all the receptacles into the water butt. If Wickes' website is to be believed, I should be able to get the right size part to connect everything up today :)

    The garden waste bin is teeming with Brians and Cyrils awaiting collection on Wednesday and the damage caused by them in the garden has noticeably reduced of late :) 

    The potato plants are starting to flower, the blackcurrants are turning black and the strawberries are finally looking strawberry-sized ;) 

    I found no new corpses or 'deposits' although a little feathered friend appears to have been temporarily stunned by flying into a window. He eventually flew off so all is well with the world.
    East Lancs
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Morning all,  dry and bright for a change here, it did dry up yesterday,  but it rained on & off.  Got a bit done but not much.  Need to get to plots today. 
    AB Still learning

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Morning all, today marks a change in routine for us. OH's 91yo mum passed away yesterday so no more care home visits. We got the call yesterday morning to go in despite that being their closed day for deep cleaning. The home had asked on Saturday if they could phone at any time of day or night so we knew what to expect. We got there for her final hour so OH was with her at the end. Sadness is tempered with relief that she is no longer in pain.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Our condolences to your OH and family @steephill ... lovely that they could be together at the end.  I understand the sadness and relief.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Same here @Steephill tho it must feel odd for you to be torn between two such strong emotions.  Hugs to you and Mrs Steephill.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Sad news @steephill 😢.  It doesn’t matter how expected, it still leaves a gaping hole.  Hugs to you both.
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Thanks for your kind thoughts, funeral organisation is the next task which is made more complex by Covid of course. Italian relatives would have expected to come over for the funeral but that might not be possible.
    How is isolation going @chicky ? I imagine that you and MrC having had your jabs takes some of the anxiety out of it.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Sorry to hear your family sad news Steephill.

    S. E. NSW
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