Hope you don't get another river running thru it @punkdoc. Same for anyone else threatened by excessive rainfall.
That's a lot of meat @Dovefromabove! Thai fish cakes for us for dinner.
Pottering sort of morning making a big frittata for our lunches, cleaning out chook beds and water, watering the toms and pots in the veggie plot, working out angles to cut a cable channel for the kitchen TV.
Just relaxing over a post lunch cuppa and then a paint fest for me.
We have just had the 3rd lot of family visitors - family being the one that built this place in 1930 and then sold it and the land off when the last of that generation died. All curious to see it but the last 2 lots haven't wanted to come past the gate. The first one - a grandson - is writing a history and wants to come and take photos of the ruin and its "features" and show his grandkids. They don't co-ordinate either as apparently there's bad blood between the historian and his brother who produced the other two visitor groups.
Nowt so queer as folk.
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)."
Too hot to paint last year @Busy-Lizzie and too dark in winter with the clouds and rain we had. Looks like being cool next week too. maybe I should tackle the living room.
We'll see. Lots of patch projects I need to get done for tutorials and workshops during our 21-22 season. I hope we get more than 4 meets this coming year!
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)."
Lots of chicken here too @Dovefromabove. And pork and lamb and salmon and prawns and fruit and a wee draw just for marrow bones for the doggies. The butcher at the SM slices them about 2cm thick from shin bones. I expect the French use them in rich sauces but we use them as doggy treats when we leave them home alone for a day.
I didn't buy any meat or poultry or fish this week - cheap SM raid!
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)."
Dovefromabove said: and then a carton of fresh raspberries and some of their very good local ice cream managed to leap into the trolley when I wasn't looking I know it happens in garden centres, but has that ever happened to you in a farm shop?
Yes, all the time! We have an excellent farm shop in Topsham, not far from Junction 30 on the M5. There is an RSPB shop upstairs where we get our seeds and suet sprinkles for the bird feeders. However, it is impossible to get out of the food shop without a full basket of things we didn’t know we needed. Fruit and vegetables from the farm, plus locally sourced meat and cheese. I have to avoid the chocolate displays, but usually weaken while passing the bakery section. Fantastic when we have gluten intolerant visitors, as they have deliveries from a local GF bakery, all sorts of lovely home made style goodies, just too tempting. And of course, when we are there, it’s too hard to resist stopping at their restaurant for lunch! Always an expensive trip out!
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Its like night here and wet wet wet.
Flood warnings out for later, fingers crossed we will be alright here.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
That's a lot of meat @Dovefromabove! Thai fish cakes for us for dinner.
Pottering sort of morning making a big frittata for our lunches, cleaning out chook beds and water, watering the toms and pots in the veggie plot, working out angles to cut a cable channel for the kitchen TV.
Just relaxing over a post lunch cuppa and then a paint fest for me.
We have just had the 3rd lot of family visitors - family being the one that built this place in 1930 and then sold it and the land off when the last of that generation died. All curious to see it but the last 2 lots haven't wanted to come past the gate. The first one - a grandson - is writing a history and wants to come and take photos of the ruin and its "features" and show his grandkids. They don't co-ordinate either as apparently there's bad blood between the historian and his brother who produced the other two visitor groups.
Nowt so queer as folk.
Snap @Obelixx! We are having Thai fishcakes this evening, too.
I'm having a quiet day, watched quite a lot of Olympics this morning.
I've already painted most of what needed painting in this cottage. Did quite a bit after we moved here then more last year during the lockdown.
We'll see. Lots of patch projects I need to get done for tutorials and workshops during our 21-22 season. I hope we get more than 4 meets this coming year!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't buy any meat or poultry or fish this week - cheap SM raid!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fruit and vegetables from the farm, plus locally sourced meat and cheese. I have to avoid the chocolate displays, but usually weaken while passing the bakery section. Fantastic when we have gluten intolerant visitors, as they have deliveries from a local GF bakery, all sorts of lovely home made style goodies, just too tempting.
And of course, when we are there, it’s too hard to resist stopping at their restaurant for lunch! Always an expensive trip out!
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.