Morning everyone, A gorgeous sunny morning again. A quick hello, as I want to pop to the GC this morning after I've done a few indoor jobs. Will read back later. Hope you're all well. Have a lovely day and hope you have sunshine too.
Good morning Busy and Ruby. Gosh Busy you do right to be proud of your Mum. That is a wonderful and fascinating story. In the days that your Mum would have been doing that awesome work Sri Lanka would have been Ceylon. It would have been an exciting and possibly frightening time for her being so far from home and having to keep everything secret from her family. Such a wonderful, brief glance into your Mum's life. Another one of the unsung heroes slowly being revealed. Marvellous!
Could it be a gardening day for you Ruby? I might be pottering there later.
p.s. morning to you SGL, you snuckered in there. Enjoy your trip to the GC.
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Hello all .... looks like you've all had an interesting weekend ... hope aches and pains are mending @Busy-Lizzie glad you enjoyed the garden visit (and cake) ... isn't it fascinating what our parents got up to and coped with. OH's landlady when he was at college was at Bletchley ... she may have known your mother ... but she hardly ever spoke about it either. My son helped his grandfather write his wartime memoirs ... they were already close but it brought them closer still and gave my father a lot of pleasure in his old age ... the book was published, sold quite a few, and is in various museum collections. He was so proud of it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Still getting a 'The service cannot be connected' message regarding my flu injection so I've sent a message to the surgery. What's the point of asking you to book an appointment if you cannot get through on the telephone number they give you! Rant over.
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@Busy-Lizzie what a wonderful story about your mum. Such a lovely thing find out about her, I can understand that you are so very proud.
Went to GC and managed to get the hydrangea I wanted. A beautiful big one too, it's called Runaway Bride. There was another I spotted in the sale section, but I couldn't carry two.......i went on the bus and the one I bought was bigger than I thought it would be. So the lady has reserved the other one for me (till the end of the week) but I'll go back and get it tomorrow. It's smaller than the one I got today, so I might get something else too 😉
@Songbird-1 hope your back is better today. Those grape Hyacinths seemed rather expensive to me too. @Ladybird4 & @Songbird-1 My OH got a phone call from our Drs surgery a few weeks ago telling him not to forget to make an appointment for his flu jab. So he said he would make it then......she then told him they weren't doing flu vaccines at the surgery this year so he would have to travel to our nearest town where he had his Covid jab. Which was in a building purposely used at the time for vaccines! 🤷♀️ We can't possibly book up as we have no idea when they will be doing them.....if actually at all. I expect he'll go to a chemist. Bit of a pointless phone call really 😂😂
Busy there were some very brave people who acted that way in difficult times and the human link for peace all joining together through various countries and many sacrifices giving us the freedom we have today. Very interesting to know what our families and others wert through during those years, although many have kept their secrets. There was an article in the small local hospital where I was having physio sessions talking about a lady who had been a brave heroine during the Second World War and made it home, but had lived her life as a recluse and not spoken of it until it was discovered after her passing. Dove it will be interesting for many years to come to happen upon the museum collections where the information your father provided in his book will be noted down in history for future generations.
LB is your surgery local to you. It’s a nuisance when you can’t get through. Hazel I hope your back is better today. Years ago I moved a wardrobe and felt quite sick and then the pain, although you don’t always realise you’ve done something until the following day.
Well I visited the rellies this morning and we had lunch together. I’ve washed my hair and ironed the towels and just about to put the kettle on. My boiler service is due in the next week or so so that’s been arranged. Lily I hope you and oh are more rested now. I hope oh can get his flu jab at the chemist.
Good afternoon all. I've had a bit of a pottering in the garden day - after I took half a dozen coat hangers across the road to Jacks's. Dead headed my buddlejas, broke up some clean cardboard to put in my compost bin, planted some Jerusalem artichokes - saw them at Sizergh and loved their screening properties and watered some of my baby semps in the GH. I've taken my two small lemon trees into the GH too as something was decimating the leaves on one of them and I do not want to lose them.
I have also just had a nice phone call from my surgery (in the village RosieBB) explaining the weird phone message. Apparently they had sent out all of the texts on the MyGPApp and then got the news we have all heard, about the difficulties experienced by flu vaccine suppliers and deliveries. I have been asked to phone in again next Monday or Tuesday to have another attempt at booking my flu vaccination appointment. At least I know that there is a real person checking the emails sent through!I feel so sorry for them.
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Good to hear that your legs are less painful now Hazel. Its sensible to keep a little gentle moving about though. I found it oppressive and very muggy earlier when it was overcast and it wasn't pleasant working outside but its improved since the sun broke through - now too hot
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Hello all. Got the acer for kids dad, over £50 but a fair size, about 6 foot tall called Crimson King. It’s going in a half barrel for a few years then he has a garden big enough to plant it out. It’s his 60th so they all put together. I am going on Sunday with oldest son to plant it at his garden. I can be trusted apparently. He lives about 40 minutes away in the countryside it wouldn’t suit me.
Feeling rather stressed as daughter has some results on Wednesday. Trying not to worry but not easy.
Fascinating story about your mom Busy, what a heroine.
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A gorgeous sunny morning again.
A quick hello, as I want to pop to the GC this morning after I've done a few indoor jobs. Will read back later.
Hope you're all well. Have a lovely day and hope you have sunshine too.
@Busy-Lizzie glad you enjoyed the garden visit (and cake) ... isn't it fascinating what our parents got up to and coped with. OH's landlady when he was at college was at Bletchley ... she may have known your mother ... but she hardly ever spoke about it either. My son helped his grandfather write his wartime memoirs ... they were already close but it brought them closer still and gave my father a lot of pleasure in his old age ... the book was published, sold quite a few, and is in various museum collections. He was so proud of it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Went to GC and managed to get the hydrangea I wanted. A beautiful big one too, it's called Runaway Bride. There was another I spotted in the sale section, but I couldn't carry two.......i went on the bus and the one I bought was bigger than I thought it would be. So the lady has reserved the other one for me (till the end of the week) but I'll go back and get it tomorrow. It's smaller than the one I got today, so I might get something else too 😉
@Songbird-1 hope your back is better today. Those grape Hyacinths seemed rather expensive to me too.
@Ladybird4 & @Songbird-1
My OH got a phone call from our Drs surgery a few weeks ago telling him not to forget to make an appointment for his flu jab. So he said he would make it then......she then told him they weren't doing flu vaccines at the surgery this year so he would have to travel to our nearest town where he had his Covid jab. Which was in a building purposely used at the time for vaccines! 🤷♀️ We can't possibly book up as we have no idea when they will be doing them.....if actually at all. I expect he'll go to a chemist. Bit of a pointless phone call really 😂😂
LB is your surgery local to you. It’s a nuisance when you can’t get through. Hazel I hope your back is better today. Years ago I moved a wardrobe and felt quite sick and then the pain, although you don’t always realise you’ve done something until the following day.
Well I visited the rellies this morning and we had lunch together. I’ve washed my hair and ironed the towels and just about to put the kettle on. My boiler service is due in the next week or so so that’s been arranged. Lily I hope you and oh are more rested now. I hope oh can get his flu jab at the chemist.
wishing you all a good day.