Good for you @Hostafan1 and well done on the flat pack cupboard @Busy-Lizzie, shame the corner broke, that's usually my result as well.
@Dovefromabove , Your peacock silk jacket sounds really nice, I'm a great fan of that colour - we have peacock coloured iridescent mosaic tiles as a border in our bathroom.
I too, am sad to hear of another senseless murder of a good person. I fear there's no easy answer. So sorry for his family.
I forgot to mention earlier that last night, I took a deep breath and completed a Cognitive Function Survey for UK Biobank. I was rather worried about doing it beforehand but feel I did okay. The questions were all time limited which added to the pressure somewhat. The only question I omitted was a mental arithmetic one, as a self diagnosed dyscalculic, I have always struggled with those. Did anybody else do the test and if so, how did you get on?
Hi everyone, gold star to @Lizzie27 yes it's a river cruise on the Seine. We are with friends and, her Hubby was keen to do today as he is interested in military history. We had seen the Bayeux tapestry some years ago but it was well worth seeing again. The war graves and the new British memorial were interesting, but these thing always leave me with a mixture of sadness and anger. Sad for the families, but anger at the stupidity of human kind. Then the news tonight, will the hatred ever end? On a brighter note we have Honfleur tomorrow and Giverny the next, a lovely garden to get us back to the important things in life.
Honfleur is lovely @Allotment Boy. I hope the market is on. I still have a leather handbag I bought there in 1991. Agree with you about war memorials. Ypres and associated cemeteries always have me in tears of both sorrow, frustration and anger at the losses.
We have been to see the new Bond film tonight. It was good but I think I must be getting jaded or cynical in my old age as Possum - 42 years younger - was on the edge of her seat for most of it and in tears for some of it.
@Busy-Lizzie - I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather go to a brocante or flea market for a piece of "brown" furniture I can revive than buy anything flat packed, even for the garden shed.
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)."
Dove, you could be describing my feet. Wide feet are bad enough but chuck in high insteps and it's hell finding shoes but harder to get boots. My last boots came from an outlet of Evans (they sell from size 14 clothes) which was in a branch of Dorothy Perkins in Portsmouth which made a nice trip down the M27. I bought shiny leather and suede. Surprisingly they only get slippers in for Xmas. Whether they survived the pandemic is another matter. I found a gorgeous pair of brand new (still labelled) slippers in a local charity shop and was told they had only been put out 5 mins earlier. Soft light brown sandals were found in Majorca. If only I'd known Covid was coming!
I have been looking at brocantes recently and not seen a single suitable wooden cupboard. Loads of tables, chairs, chest of drawers and bedside tables.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Talking of the War Graves, a friend of mine was on a school trip to Normandy with GCSE French students. At the cemetery one of the girls, very sensibly, asked if it was only dead soldiers buried there. The problem was she put the stress on ‘dead’ not ‘soldiers’. “No, they popped in a few live ones as well.”
What always moves me is the inscription on unidentified graves ‘A soldier known unto God’. That, and a stone from Israel placed on the Jewish graves. German graveyards, with headstones in sombre grey granite, are rarely visited, mournful places.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ good news @Pat E 😊 it seems quite a while since the border was closed. Its a very still autumnal morning here … I’ve not looked yet but I imagine the garden is full of dew laden webs made by the orb spiders. 🕸
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Posts
@Dovefromabove , Your peacock silk jacket sounds really nice, I'm a great fan of that colour - we have peacock coloured iridescent mosaic tiles as a border in our bathroom.
I too, am sad to hear of another senseless murder of a good person. I fear there's no easy answer. So sorry for his family.
Well done @AuntyRach, enjoy your days off.
I forgot to mention earlier that last night, I took a deep breath and completed a Cognitive Function Survey for UK Biobank. I was rather worried about doing it beforehand but feel I did okay. The questions were all time limited which added to the pressure somewhat. The only question I omitted was a mental arithmetic one, as a self diagnosed dyscalculic, I have always struggled with those. Did anybody else do the test and if so, how did you get on?
On a brighter note we have Honfleur tomorrow and Giverny the next, a lovely garden to get us back to the important things in life.
We have been to see the new Bond film tonight. It was good but I think I must be getting jaded or cynical in my old age as Possum - 42 years younger - was on the edge of her seat for most of it and in tears for some of it.
@Busy-Lizzie - I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather go to a brocante or flea market for a piece of "brown" furniture I can revive than buy anything flat packed, even for the garden shed.
I found a gorgeous pair of brand new (still labelled) slippers in a local charity shop and was told they had only been put out 5 mins earlier.
Soft light brown sandals were found in Majorca. If only I'd known Covid was coming!
What always moves me is the inscription on unidentified graves ‘A soldier known unto God’. That, and a stone from Israel placed on the Jewish graves. German graveyards, with headstones in sombre grey granite, are rarely visited, mournful places.
Here it is at night
Our son has arrived for a visit. The ACT border has been opened. 🙄😁
good news @Pat E 😊 it seems quite a while since the border was closed.
Its a very still autumnal morning here … I’ve not looked yet but I imagine the garden is full of dew laden webs made by the orb spiders. 🕸
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Foggy at the moment.
It looks great in the day @BenCotto, weird at night!
Time to crawl back to bed with coffee and my book.