I'm hoping to start posting on here in the New Year - needed to give myself a long gap while OH has been unwell (he's been very depressed) so I could look after him. But I've missed the chat...
Just a quick note to @Dovefromabove: I think on p.96 you meant to say you were glad @Yviestevie was feeling better. I am too!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Whoops! 😒 well spotted @Liriodendron and thank you. 🤗 and I am glad you’re feeling better and hope your OH is too.
And sorry @Yviestevie … I tried to say I was glad you’re feeling better … and I failed miserably 😢 I could blame a phone call from my son being a distraction, but that’d be a cop out … it’s my fault … however I am glad you’re feeling better too. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello everyone. Wall to wall sunshine here and a very gentle breeze. Not as forecast but very welcome. Have done the weekly shop and just had lunch but need a snoozle - bad night with stupid knee - and then I shall go and see if I can find some shallots for planting in a day or so when he ground is less soggy.
Hope the X-rays go smoothly @tui34 and that you have no serious damage @Pat E. Feel for you @Busy-Lizzie . When Possum was small I always used to dread September as her school friends were always far too happy to share colds and tummy bugs picked up over summer. Pleased for you @Yviestevie and hope to see you soon @Liriodendron. Coping with depressed folk can be draining as well as seeming to be endless.
T'other pair have voted for Butter Chicken (murgh makhani) for NY Eve dinner and my medieval style salmon in pastry for NY and, just for a change, roast lamb for Sunday dinner. I shall do something vegetarian with home grown squash and kale for dinner tonight and maybe have a vegetarian week from Monday too and no naughty treats. Need to get back in form for getting back to being busy.
Have a lovely afternoon everyone, whatever you're up to.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Tentative plans for NYE now cancelled, friend who had positive LF and PCR tests, then negative has just had another positive test. So it will be another Zoom party for us all again this year. Thankfully she has no symptoms and she hasn't infected her partner either thanks probably to both being triple jabbed.
OH has just trawled round Guildford shops looking for masks, no stock anywhere. Not that we need to go anywhere in the near future but it is handy to have some available. We will just have to sit at home for a few days with the 90+ bottles of fizz I counted last week
No worries @Dovefromabove I had assumed you meant me. Sorry to hear about your OH @Liriodendron I'm prone to depression so can empathise. Hope he feels better soon. A bit of brighter weather usually helps. I often use a SAD lamp in the winter when I get down. It's surprising what a few hours of daylight can do.
Afternoon all, it's continuing very mild here - up to 15.4c by lunchtime. I've started walking down to the paper shop again as it was dryer this morning, wore my wellies but was surprised to find the farm lane dry enough not to need them. I'm very pleased to say that OH has received his Blue Badge this morning so that will make car trips out a bit easier for him. I need to read the instructions first. I did an hour in the garden just before lunch, mainly pruning roses again. I would have liked to continue the apple tree pruning but my shoulder is protesting after yesterdays efforts. Hope @tui34' x-ray goes ok and @Yviestevie continues to make good progress. Commiserations @Busy-Lizzie, colds are no fun at all and @Obelixx with your dodgy knee. Great to see you back @Liriodendron, I'm sorry your OH has been so depressed, I know from personal experience that's very hard to cope with. Maybe being back on here will help to cheer you up. We don't do much at NYE and usually stick to our usual bedtime and sleep through most of the fireworks. Last year there wasn't that many around here so we're hoping that will continue. I've put some prosecco in the fridge and will either do sea bass with herbs or a ready-meal curry for OH which is one of his favourites, haven't decided yet. We're really enjoying the RI Christmas lectures with Professor JVT on BBC 4 about the virus, quite eye-opening, the last one about the vaccines is tonight, well worth watching despite being aimed at children. I had a job keeping up last night!
Pots sorted - after a fashion. Discovered vine weevil grubs in one that had a heuchera in it (leaves just sitting on the top), alongside an offshoot of my red cordyline that I potted up and which has now developed a good root system. Pulled it all out of the pot, scraped away all of the compost and repotted the cordyline. Other pots with heucheras in seem to be OK. And finally got my tulips and alliums in the ground. Now for a nice shower. Glad everyone who was feeling poorly is now feeling better. Hope the x-ray goes/went well @tui34. Ouch @Pat E!
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Just finished making these elastic bands to attach mask. Now to get some clobber on that is easy to take off for my x-ray.
I'm hoping to start posting on here in the New Year - needed to give myself a long gap while OH has been unwell (he's been very depressed) so I could look after him. But I've missed the chat...
Just a quick note to @Dovefromabove: I think on p.96 you meant to say you were glad @Yviestevie was feeling better. I am too!
and thank you. 🤗 and I am glad you’re feeling better and hope your OH is too.
I could blame a phone call from my son being a distraction, but that’d be a cop out … it’s my fault … however I am glad you’re feeling better too. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope the X-rays go smoothly @tui34 and that you have no serious damage @Pat E. Feel for you @Busy-Lizzie . When Possum was small I always used to dread September as her school friends were always far too happy to share colds and tummy bugs picked up over summer. Pleased for you @Yviestevie and hope to see you soon @Liriodendron. Coping with depressed folk can be draining as well as seeming to be endless.
T'other pair have voted for Butter Chicken (murgh makhani) for NY Eve dinner and my medieval style salmon in pastry for NY and, just for a change, roast lamb for Sunday dinner. I shall do something vegetarian with home grown squash and kale for dinner tonight and maybe have a vegetarian week from Monday too and no naughty treats. Need to get back in form for getting back to being busy.
Have a lovely afternoon everyone, whatever you're up to.
I'm very pleased to say that OH has received his Blue Badge this morning so that will make car trips out a bit easier for him. I need to read the instructions first.
I did an hour in the garden just before lunch, mainly pruning roses again. I would have liked to continue the apple tree pruning but my shoulder is protesting after yesterdays efforts.
Hope @tui34' x-ray goes ok and @Yviestevie continues to make good progress. Commiserations @Busy-Lizzie, colds are no fun at all and @Obelixx with your dodgy knee.
Great to see you back @Liriodendron, I'm sorry your OH has been so depressed, I know from personal experience that's very hard to cope with. Maybe being back on here will help to cheer you up.
We don't do much at NYE and usually stick to our usual bedtime and sleep through most of the fireworks. Last year there wasn't that many around here so we're hoping that will continue. I've put some prosecco in the fridge and will either do sea bass with herbs or a ready-meal curry for OH which is one of his favourites, haven't decided yet.
We're really enjoying the RI Christmas lectures with Professor JVT on BBC 4 about the virus, quite eye-opening, the last one about the vaccines is tonight, well worth watching despite being aimed at children. I had a job keeping up last night!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Now for a nice shower.
Glad everyone who was feeling poorly is now feeling better. Hope the x-ray goes/went well @tui34. Ouch @Pat E!