Got a decent walk on the Esplanade before the rain started. Now having coffee with a view of the seafront. Got a table before everyone started to pile in when the heavens opened. All good. Heading home to start on numerous house jobs. The new washing machine is doing a great job, but I still haven’t caught up with the backlog. Excellent nights sleep, Hostafan! Sorry, chicky, meant to congratulate you earlier on your well deserved exam success!
Back from the dentist. He popped my abscess and I now have antibiotics. Hopefully this will sort me out and I'll be bouncing around like a good 'un again soon.
that's good news @didyw, hopefully the antibiotics will kick in quickly. The plant fair sounds good too but it's a good job for my bank balance it's a bit too far from us!
@Ergates, if you've got rain, then we can expect some in a few hours time. Greatly needed here, the ground's absolutely solid. I've just pulled my potted olive tree out from under the eaves to catch the rain. Could do with one of those pot trollies, my last one broke.
Not sure what to do today, could always do some h/w I suppose and there's yet more ironing to be done.
Hello all. My handyman, C, came this morning. He's done strimmering along the hedge, started cutting the hedge and has put up my new flatpack bookcase. I have started stacking wood, will take ages as there is 6 m3 and I've put some books on the shelves.
P came to se if the donkey will go into my horse trailer, not quite there yet but was much better than expected. Donkey will be going to his new home on Friday, maybe. It's a long drive, in the Massif Central, middle of France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Beautiful day. Have been to see both new sets of neighbours, told them to come and see us if they need anything and that when they are both more settled, we will have them round for drinks. On first "inspection" they seem normal, whatever that is.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Sounds very promising @punkdoc ... and at least they've seen that you're pleasant and relatively normal (whatever that is) and will be able to judge any possible assertions to the contrary from an informed viewpoint
Do either of them have a large dog?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No dogs sadly. One of the couples had already seen my garden and were very complimentary about it, which was lovely. I have invited them to have a look round any time they fancy.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Perhaps they'll get a dog @punkdoc ... you never know .... and isn't it lovely that they seem to appreciate gardens ... someone to chat over the fence with about gardening, rather than feeling tense whenever you see someone there. Happy days ahead eh? ☀
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hot morning's garden work done, now applying antiseptic. Been removing bramble which had grown into the giant pampas grass patch so scratches and cuts from both of those thugs.
Picked up lots of trimmings from the last few days to build a bonfire. After lifting one bundle out of the wheelbarrow there was a slow worm at the bottom looking up at me. Tipped him out next to one of the compost daleks and he squirmed in.
Found another couple when clearing round the stems of some cherryplum offshoots I removed. I will need to wait for Winter now before strimming back all the weedy long grass in that area. Had a quick check in all the compost bins and found about 20 slow worms and one grass snake, it's all go out there!
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Excellent nights sleep, Hostafan! Sorry, chicky, meant to congratulate you earlier
on your well deserved exam success!
that's good news @didyw, hopefully the antibiotics will kick in quickly. The plant fair sounds good too but it's a good job for my bank balance it's a bit too far from us!
@Ergates, if you've got rain, then we can expect some in a few hours time. Greatly needed here, the ground's absolutely solid. I've just pulled my potted olive tree out from under the eaves to catch the rain. Could do with one of those pot trollies, my last one broke.
Not sure what to do today, could always do some h/w I suppose and there's yet more ironing to be done.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My handyman, C, came this morning. He's done strimmering along the hedge, started cutting the hedge and has put up my new flatpack bookcase. I have started stacking wood, will take ages as there is 6 m3 and I've put some books on the shelves.
P came to se if the donkey will go into my horse trailer, not quite there yet but was much better than expected. Donkey will be going to his new home on Friday, maybe. It's a long drive, in the Massif Central, middle of France.
Beautiful day.
Have been to see both new sets of neighbours, told them to come and see us if they need anything and that when they are both more settled, we will have them round for drinks.
On first "inspection" they seem normal, whatever that is.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Do either of them have a large dog?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of the couples had already seen my garden and were very complimentary about it, which was lovely. I have invited them to have a look round any time they fancy.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.