This cat is not stuck. It is moving around the motor. It is not cold - today being 28°C and nights not below 22°C at the moment. It is just now scared and will probably come out when it is ready. A neighbour suggested hosing it!! But I think that would frighten it so much, it WILL become stuck.
Your plans for the paddock sound lovely @Busy-Lizzie and good news that your OH has the all clear for the op. Just need the date now! How lovely to be able to see kangaroos from your bedroom window @Pat E. It may be cold now but you have spring waiting in the wings. So glad you managed to spot the cat in the engine before things got too hot for both the car and the cat @tui34. Mmm to your breakfast @Ergates - and the view!
Have yet to investigate just how deep yesterday's rain penetrated the soil. I suspect not deep enough. OH is tackling the ironing pile, bless him, while I get more admin. done.
A few spiders around but nothing too big and hairy as yet. OH is good at picking those up and putting them outside. Garden spider had spun a web right across the path and I had to politely ask it to move as I disengaged one end of the web so I could pass this morning.
Stray/feral cats often behave as if nocturnal … my guess is that it’ll want to stay out until dark when silence and a dish of food within smelling distance mag help to tempt it out. 😊
We’ve just had a glimpse of sunshine … but it’s clouded over again …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all, warm and sunny thankfully this morning. Did our usual walk then OH went off for a haircut whilst I walked back home. Waiting for a washing load to finish then we'll have lunch. This afternoon I will start digging up and potting up plants to make way for my new hydrangea. @Pat E unfortunately we're on limestone here so they are always pink ones. I'd love a blue one. Love the kangeroos.
That's great news @Busy-Lizzie but as you say, how very frustrating and totally unnecessary the extra wait has been. Hope he gets sorted soon. We're hoping OH might know a bit more when he talks to the Physio this afternoon.
What a nuisance about the cat @tui34, can you entice it out with some sardines or something? Hope it isn't stuck.
Have a good day everyone and a safe journey home Dove. I gather the idiot protestors have been causing chaos on the M25 and may have indirectly caused a 4 car smash? I'd smash their heads together if I could get hold of them.
Getting brighter here and a bit warmer. I've cleaned out all the chooks' nesting boxes and am about to go and clean their shelf now that they're all wandering about the garden. After several weeks of no eggs at all we're now getting 1 or 2 a day. After looking tatty for a while they're now smartening up again. Scruffy is finally growing some proper feathers and may need a name change. Polly is still escaping on her own every morning despite having one wing clipped. Bess still tries to get into the annex every day to explore. Greta still likes to be alone more often than not and Fluffy still has fluffy thighs. All happy chooks tho and chatty.
Some sardines may well help @tui34 but you may also find yourselves with an adoptee.
I don't know if you have to be brave or really stupid to block the M25. Could be a terminal condition either way and absolutely criminal if accidents have resulted, with or without injury.
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)."
Afternoon folks. It's lovely and sunny outside now but after rushing around to opticians, phone repair shop and getting nails done I'm a bit too tired for gardening. Don't mind spider at all, even big hairy ones but I'm not enjoying this chatting about snakes much. Even typing the work makes me feel sick. Think I'll get the knitting out and finish Jonah's cardigan.
When I went to the SM I popped into the small GC as well. They've just had a delivery. Hydrangea Vanille Fraise on special offer, I couldn't find one in the spring, they also had several clematis viticella, so I bought Mme Julia Correvan, Etoile Violette and Mikelite as well.
Handyman was supposed to have finished cutting the hedge today but he couldn't come, serious problems with his septic tank.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I'm quite envious you've got the Hydrangea Vanilla Fraise as it does look lovely BL but I don't have quite enough space for that one. I've cut down the manky pink rose and the Black Lace elderflower (a cutting from my original one which I'm keeping). I also pulled off as much ivy as I could off the wall behind them. Tomorrow I'll have a go at digging them out together with astibles and iris sibirica. That bed, despite being very waterlogged a few years ago now seems too dry for them.
Can't do gardening if you've just had your nails done @Yviestevie!
OH had a conflab with the Physio who's now suggested various exercises to do (which could have been organised 4 weeks ago!), he will ring again in 2 weeks and then in 6 weeks time. No idea of course when they might arrange an actual face to face with the orthopaedic consultant. I want OH to go private which they could probably do before Xmas, giving him the chance to get over the op before the Spring but he's still resisting. I don't see the point of enduring worsening pain over many months but it's his decision.
Did the cat move out from under the engine @tui34?
Love Vanille Fraise @Busy-Lizzie - it makes such a good show for such a long time.
Home from volunteering, exhausted but happy as usual. Need to go and get myself clean as we are taking littlest Chicklet for a pub dinner to celebrate the fact that she is over half way through her first week of her new job. Think she is heading into Londinium tomorrow for her first day in the office (all been remote so far) …. she also wants to view a few flats in the evening. She has found two friends to share with (knows both from Uni) …..now they just need to find a place. All very exciting for her 😃😃😃.
Don’t think I mentioned that Chicklet has a new job too - starting November. She is Very excited too. Means moving to Reading - so no more lovely days out in Bournemouth for us 🥲
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This cat is not stuck. It is moving around the motor. It is not cold - today being 28°C and nights not below 22°C at the moment. It is just now scared and will probably come out when it is ready. A neighbour suggested hosing it!! But I think that would frighten it so much, it WILL become stuck.
How lovely to be able to see kangaroos from your bedroom window @Pat E. It may be cold now but you have spring waiting in the wings.
So glad you managed to spot the cat in the engine before things got too hot for both the car and the cat @tui34. Mmm to your breakfast @Ergates - and the view!
Have yet to investigate just how deep yesterday's rain penetrated the soil. I suspect not deep enough. OH is tackling the ironing pile, bless him, while I get more admin. done.
A few spiders around but nothing too big and hairy as yet. OH is good at picking those up and putting them outside. Garden spider had spun a web right across the path and I had to politely ask it to move as I disengaged one end of the web so I could pass this morning.
We’ve just had a glimpse of sunshine … but it’s clouded over again …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's great news @Busy-Lizzie but as you say, how very frustrating and totally unnecessary the extra wait has been. Hope he gets sorted soon. We're hoping OH might know a bit more when he talks to the Physio this afternoon.
What a nuisance about the cat @tui34, can you entice it out with some sardines or something? Hope it isn't stuck.
Have a good day everyone and a safe journey home Dove. I gather the idiot protestors have been causing chaos on the M25 and may have indirectly caused a 4 car smash? I'd smash their heads together if I could get hold of them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some sardines may well help @tui34 but you may also find yourselves with an adoptee.
I don't know if you have to be brave or really stupid to block the M25. Could be a terminal condition either way and absolutely criminal if accidents have resulted, with or without injury.
Think I'll get the knitting out and finish Jonah's cardigan.
Handyman was supposed to have finished cutting the hedge today but he couldn't come, serious problems with his septic tank.
Can't do gardening if you've just had your nails done @Yviestevie!
OH had a conflab with the Physio who's now suggested various exercises to do (which could have been organised 4 weeks ago!), he will ring again in 2 weeks and then in 6 weeks time. No idea of course when they might arrange an actual face to face with the orthopaedic consultant. I want OH to go private which they could probably do before Xmas, giving him the chance to get over the op before the Spring but he's still resisting. I don't see the point of enduring worsening pain over many months but it's his decision.
Did the cat move out from under the engine @tui34?
Home from volunteering, exhausted but happy as usual. Need to go and get myself clean as we are taking littlest Chicklet for a pub dinner to celebrate the fact that she is over half way through her first week of her new job. Think she is heading into Londinium tomorrow for her first day in the office (all been remote so far) …. she also wants to view a few flats in the evening. She has found two friends to share with (knows both from Uni) …..now they just need to find a place. All very exciting for her 😃😃😃.
Don’t think I mentioned that Chicklet has a new job too - starting November. She is Very excited too. Means moving to Reading - so no more lovely days out in Bournemouth for us 🥲