Lucky I’d had lunch before I started catching up on this thread, all sounds and looks delicious. Wonkywomble, how do you make lemony pasta? Have a good rest, all who need it. Feeling a bit chirpier today, one good thing about the dreary weather is that it has forced us to stay home and get some jobs done. Lighting inside kitchen dresser is now finished, so worktop below is no longer covered in temporary flexes. Side panels going on the last cupboard after lunch. ( OH doing all that, not me. I’m strictly in a supporting role) Ive moved my kalanchoe ‘convalescent ward’ to the garage windowsill, so I can now clean the windowsill in the guest bathroom, ( still have my rooting in water jars there) Feels like progress.
Afternoon all, gloomy here now but was surprisingly warm this morning when I went for a blissful pedicure.
It poured with rain nearly all day yesterday so the garden's had a good soak and I now need to mulch all the beds with homemade compost/leafmould. Still got quite a few roses in bloom.
We've just been invited in for our flu jabs (missed the last two sessions) and I've been notified that I can have my covid booster precisely 182 days after my 2nd dose, so around the middle of November then.
Went to the SM and the GC. One of the things on my list was a bird feeder or two to hold fat balls. Both had just had a delivery of fat balls but nothing to put them in. I left mine behind at the old house.
Putting clean sheets on the bed before going to Norfolk, wanted the autumn duvet, couldn't find it anywhere. Wondered if I'd left it at the cleaners. Found it, cleaned, in a plastic bag under one of the spare beds. Obvious really, why didn't I look there? Duvets lived in cupboards, not enough cupboards here.
I've weeded flower beds and mowed the fiddly bits with the smaller mower.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
As you all know I am just back from France, and I can confirm the restrictions are much tighter, and more strictly enforced. Masks, covid passes, checked even to sit outside a cafe.
I think that is the big mistake we have made @Allotment Boy. We should have continued with other protective measures. It is one of the reasons we are seeing an increase in cases again.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@Busy-Lizzie I now buy fat balls and blocks online from a company called VIVARA. They do all sorts of bird food and also feeders.
@Allotment Boy and @punkdoc I find the use of the pass sanitaire here re-assuring and sensible, as is the early decision to vaccinate school kids.
Our visitors are late. Should have been here at 7pm but delayed owing to problems getting the right Covid docs from UK govt whatever for their return to the UK. I don't understand it but no doubt all will be clear when they do arrive. I have made Delhi butter chicken, Gujerati cabbage and home-made roti for when they do get here. Also home-made spelt bread for breakfast with home-made jams and marmalade. Quite a cooky fest after all that cleaning!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Up at 5am .
Visited Hubby, came home and went back to bed. Just up again now.
My mood matches the weather.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have a good rest, all who need it.
Feeling a bit chirpier today, one good thing about the dreary weather is that it has forced us to stay home and get some jobs done. Lighting inside kitchen dresser is now finished, so worktop below is no longer covered in temporary flexes. Side panels going on the last cupboard after lunch. ( OH doing all that, not me. I’m strictly in a supporting role)
Ive moved my kalanchoe ‘convalescent ward’ to the garage windowsill, so I can now clean the windowsill in the guest bathroom, ( still have my rooting in water jars there)
Feels like progress.
It poured with rain nearly all day yesterday so the garden's had a good soak and I now need to mulch all the beds with homemade compost/leafmould. Still got quite a few roses in bloom.
We've just been invited in for our flu jabs (missed the last two sessions) and I've been notified that I can have my covid booster precisely 182 days after my 2nd dose, so around the middle of November then.
Putting clean sheets on the bed before going to Norfolk, wanted the autumn duvet, couldn't find it anywhere. Wondered if I'd left it at the cleaners. Found it, cleaned, in a plastic bag under one of the spare beds. Obvious really, why didn't I look there? Duvets lived in cupboards, not enough cupboards here.
I've weeded flower beds and mowed the fiddly bits with the smaller mower.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
@Allotment Boy and @punkdoc I find the use of the pass sanitaire here re-assuring and sensible, as is the early decision to vaccinate school kids.
Our visitors are late. Should have been here at 7pm but delayed owing to problems getting the right Covid docs from UK govt whatever for their return to the UK. I don't understand it but no doubt all will be clear when they do arrive. I have made Delhi butter chicken, Gujerati cabbage and home-made roti for when they do get here. Also home-made spelt bread for breakfast with home-made jams and marmalade. Quite a cooky fest after all that cleaning!