It is still raining and looks set for a few more hours and getting heavier at midnight with squalls of 100kph. They reckon it will be the heaviest single rainfall since 1945 in Loire-Atlantique and the Vendée. Fine by me but not so good for people with low-lying homes and businesses such as those further north near the coast, the marais breton and along rivers.
OH has taken Bonzo Labrador out for wet walkies but not Rasta whose coat is more woolly sheep and whose old bones are a bit too arthritic now to appreciate a soaking. She's 14.5 now. Minstrel pussy is touring the house looking out of every window hoping to find a dry one. She's not good at being cooped indoors when awake. Cosmos pussy just sleeps thru it all. The chooks are all playing in the polytunnel.
I've been cleaning and also processing tomatoes. Running out of space now to store all the passata and I've done some semi-dried cherry and pear toms for bruschetta. Now for a shower and then maybe a nice apéro.
Hope everyone's been able to make the most of their day.
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)."
I did thanks @lyn … I’ve not had a chance to check the music out yet tho. There’s several pieces/artists there we know well so that’s probably why it was familiar. I’ll listen when I get a chance … thanks 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh dear Dove! But I can top that. My daughter used to live in Spain and we were setting off to visit her, flying from Norwich (used to be a direct flight to Malaga which is near where she was living). When we got to the airport I asked my OH where my bag of meds was - he had it to bring out to the car. He had stopped to use the outside loo, put the bag on the garden table near it then walked straight past it to me waiting impatiently in the car. Luckily the only ones that were vital were my levothyroxine and we were able to get some from a Spanish pharmacy after they kindly got through to our pharmacy here. But OH was in doghouse for a while!
A friend of mine headed off to a country house to spend Christmas with extended family. Made the mistake of packing most of the Christmas food into black bin bags to go in the boot of the car. You can imagine the rest, someone kindly put the rubbish out before they left.... luckily they still had the turkey and plenty of potatoes, but she described her dad knocking on the kitchen doors of local hotels on the way to midnight mass, managed to scrounge enough trimmings to put together a decent meal! Ive forgotten things so often that I always put a list on my seat in the car, including things like getting the picnic out of the fridge.
I've had a good day with Son 1 and family. We went to the market in Joigny this morning, then to a lovely restaurant by the river for my 3rd birthday lunch. After lunch we went to a GC as son said he wanted to buy daffodil bulbs for his garden. He bought me alliums and tulips for my new jewel bed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie Despite that she was 16 years leader of the country, she lives in a normal rented 2 bedroom apartment with her husband, a professor at the university, in Berlin. She did the shopping for herself like you and I do. Suddenly, she appeared in shops and supermarkets queueing like we all do. The county around Berlin is called Brandenburg, and the region where she goes back is called Uckermark (NE of Berlin and next to the Polish border). The houses are normal houses in a village, nothing what you can compare with the English countryside. Her garden shouldn't be bigger than 20x20 meters, I would guess. The structure of the houses are like these. Life in these villages used to be pretty boring. I can hardly find images in the internet of the "village green", because these villages used to have hardly anything to offer. History-wise, the entire region is not much older than 300 years, when life started. Berlin used to have 40.000 residents in 1840. There was not much going on beyond the Limes (the "Hadrian Wall" in Germany). She was definitely not the big reformer that was needed, but she has always been a honest person with no attitude to be impressed by useless things like money and wealth. She is a East-German, like me. We want to live a life when we can say we have done the best and have worked the hardest. The East German Protestantism is like Calvinism and Puritanism.
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OH has taken Bonzo Labrador out for wet walkies but not Rasta whose coat is more woolly sheep and whose old bones are a bit too arthritic now to appreciate a soaking. She's 14.5 now. Minstrel pussy is touring the house looking out of every window hoping to find a dry one. She's not good at being cooped indoors when awake. Cosmos pussy just sleeps thru it all. The chooks are all playing in the polytunnel.
I've been cleaning and also processing tomatoes. Running out of space now to store all the passata and I've done some semi-dried cherry and pear toms for bruschetta. Now for a shower and then maybe a nice apéro.
Hope everyone's been able to make the most of their day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ive forgotten things so often that I always put a list on my seat in the car, including things like getting the picnic out of the fridge.
She was definitely not the big reformer that was needed, but she has always been a honest person with no attitude to be impressed by useless things like money and wealth. She is a East-German, like me. We want to live a life when we can say we have done the best and have worked the hardest. The East German Protestantism is like Calvinism and Puritanism.
I ♥ my garden.
We have sun after a night of torrential rain.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border