I was a bit sad about Bake Off 😢. Love the presenters though 😀
Garden volunteering today. We sowed a lawn last week - will be interested to see if the green haze has appeared yet 🌱. They had a photoshoot for GW mag going on there last week (Frances T looking even more glam in real life than she looks on the telly). I will be watching out for myself in fuzzy background shots in future issues. Signed copies will be available 😉.
And tonight we are going to the cinema (both chicklets are at home this week).
Morning everyone, dry bright start here. Up sharp (for us) as OH is taking GD to college in Watford for 8.30 . We are all aches a sprains here, Tennis elbow in my left arm is not improving and now my right wrist is complaining. OH has hurt her leg so between us we're a couple of creaking gates. Might need to get the WD 40 out at this rate 😉
Tried to book my flu jab this morning, nothing doing as there is apparently a shortage of vaccine at present. That is a bit surprising after all the publicity about the need to get a flu jab and receiving an email and letter last week reminding me to book. Did no one think to ensure adequate supplies before starting the campaign?
That happened in France last year. I had my flu jab in December. This year I had it done yesterday in English village pharmacy. Arm is still a bit sore, but a lot better than yesterday.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Haven't watched Bake-Off either as we were out dancing. One hour of quickstep technique so tiring but good.
Have been to La Roche this pm to buy a new cozzy for Possum as her old one has given up the ghost. She's signed up for twice weekly workouts at a pool in Luçon and is not ready to be seen in a bikini. She's cooking prawn laksa tonight so we did a wee raid on the Vietnamese store that stocks other Asian goodies.
Have been down to the polytunnel and some bloody rodent has been seed diving in my bottom trays so they've been moved to what I hope is a safer place. More babies popping thru which is exciting. The chooks seem to be having a moultdown. Feathers all over the place and even pretty Polly is looking scruffy now. Nesting boxes cleaned out and fresh straw applied for their bedding. They were all out in the island bed eating weeds. Gotta love a chook.
You're right @Busy-Lizzie. We've had our flu jabs almost 2 months earlier than last year. Overheard a woman at dance class yesterday saying she didn't think she'd bother having her Covid booster. Just wait till she realises it's needed to keep her Pass Sanitaire valid for bars, restaurants, cinemas and club activities including dancing.
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've been fairly busy today. OH decided he needed to go into town so I walked with him to the nearest bus stop. He managed that okay so I left him to it with instructions to ring me if he needed a lift home. I walked on to collect the paper and back again, it was pleasant through the community orchard in the sunshine. The ground was a mass of bright yellow leaves. After lunch when OH returned, I swept up yet more leaves from the back garden, some are obligingly falling straight into the leaf bin. I also pruned the climbing rose 'New Dawn' on the shed as it's the first to shed all it's leaves. One down, 23 to go! I also pruned the cordon gooseberry bushes and cut back NDN's ivy overhanging them.
Now I'm looking forward to a glass of pink Pinot and Shetland tonight. Must remember to put the alarm on early for tomorrow, think I'll have to allow nearly an hour to drive across the city in the rush hour for my blood test.
@Lizzie27 that may have answered the question I asked recently about whether I can start pruning climbing roses now. Dove said it will start to get cold soon so I could start then, but I don't want to prune in the sleet
I watched Bake Off, that was a surprise. I thought that one could have won, but they are all so good now.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Garden volunteering today. We sowed a lawn last week - will be interested to see if the green haze has appeared yet 🌱. They had a photoshoot for GW mag going on there last week (Frances T looking even more glam in real life than she looks on the telly). I will be watching out for myself in fuzzy background shots in future issues. Signed copies will be available 😉.
And tonight we are going to the cinema (both chicklets are at home this week).
I will be watching Bake Off today so I'm glad you haven't said who left.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have been to La Roche this pm to buy a new cozzy for Possum as her old one has given up the ghost. She's signed up for twice weekly workouts at a pool in Luçon and is not ready to be seen in a bikini. She's cooking prawn laksa tonight so we did a wee raid on the Vietnamese store that stocks other Asian goodies.
Have been down to the polytunnel and some bloody rodent has been seed diving in my bottom trays so they've been moved to what I hope is a safer place. More babies popping thru which is exciting. The chooks seem to be having a moultdown. Feathers all over the place and even pretty Polly is looking scruffy now. Nesting boxes cleaned out and fresh straw applied for their bedding. They were all out in the island bed eating weeds. Gotta love a chook.
You're right @Busy-Lizzie. We've had our flu jabs almost 2 months earlier than last year. Overheard a woman at dance class yesterday saying she didn't think she'd bother having her Covid booster. Just wait till she realises it's needed to keep her Pass Sanitaire valid for bars, restaurants, cinemas and club activities including dancing.
Now I'm looking forward to a glass of pink Pinot and Shetland tonight. Must remember to put the alarm on early for tomorrow, think I'll have to allow nearly an hour to drive across the city in the rush hour for my blood test.
I watched Bake Off, that was a surprise. I thought that one could have won, but they are all so good now.