Spectacular view @Uff! Sorry to hear about the probs. with your septic tank @Busy-Lizzie. When we had our new kitchen built (with the drainage on the outside this time, rather than under the kitchen floor as previously) our builder was forced by the planning inspector to redo an area where he had put a pipe at a right angle to make it more curved. He was cursing (as he couldn't charge us for this work) and so were we as the kitchen build took months! But he was a brilliant builder and I would have him back with no hesitation - if I could get him; so busy.
I'm tempted by the postcode lottery @Penny_Forthem but I never win anything. I've had £5 worth of Premium Bonds since the 60s (when £5 was nearly a week's wages) and never won anything at all with them. I very rarely win anything in a raffle. Good luck getting your £3,500 (now £3,000!) back @punkdoc. A tidy sum.
Walked to the meeting last night - missed the showers in both directions so that was lucky. Lively meeting but concerns raised over the frequent discharge of effluent into the river. Seems our whole town (and many, many towns are the same as us) is built on a Victorian sewage system that carries both clean water and sewage in the same pipes. When it rains, rather than having sewage coming up through the manhole covers it gets discharged into the river. And it is perfectly legal for the water companies to do this. No standard fixes here either @Dovefromabove.
I know we sometimes complain about delivery drivers but I've just checked when my delivery from Taylors Clematis will arrive and Yodel tells me that the driver is north of me and doing number 19 of 60 drops and will be here at 19:00 - 21:00hrs. I haven't been out but the state of the lane outside of my house is atrocious.
Xmas decs now safely back in the loft and tree wrestled out into the garden to await the shredder. It will get its revenge by scattering ghost needles about the floor for a few day yet though.
Interesting prog on R4 this morning about fungi By Tim Hayward (who is a Kitchen Cabinet regular) with contributions from Merlin Sheldrake and others. Link to BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00132xm
Do you have a laptop and use 'libreoffice'? ...and a printer? I knocked up a spreadsheet to create a calendar each year. Takes a few minutes to insert new images/photos and update the dates.
Yes I have both those and qualifications in using them … all the traditional skills of a fully qualified secretary/PA. 😉
Plus they’re all in my phone which updates automatically and updates my laptop too.
But a free paper calendar from GW in the downstairs loo works and is less faff 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Couldn’t put it better myself.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Xmas decs now safely back in the loft and tree wrestled out into the garden to await the shredder. It will get its revenge by scattering ghost needles about the floor for a few day yet though.
Interesting prog on R4 this morning about fungi By Tim Hayward (who is a Kitchen Cabinet regular) with contributions from Merlin Sheldrake and others. Link to BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00132xm
I enjoyed that steephill thank you. The more Learn about fungi, the more I want to learn. I found the research from Cambridge particularly interesting. He mentions Mark Williams from SW Scotland, I attended a fungi foraging course that he did 2 years ago last September at Newton Stewart in Galloway and I think that's when I became hooked on the subject. See pic below of the fungi we collected. See his website here. https://gallowaywildfoods.com/
Good afternoon all, Hope you are all well. Currently procrastinating as the spreadsheet from hell keeps shouting at me!! Managed to get out for a walk again at lunchtime before the gloom set it. Awful weather forecast for tomorrow but Sunday looks hopeful. Tomorrow a trip to the garden centre for seed compost and seeds is planned to break up the January blues and then Sunday is dierama thinning and tidying up day!! Just wanted to share the light from my walk today and todays little friend that joined me What's everyone else's garden plans? Hope people with snow are managing to keep warm!!
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I'm tempted by the postcode lottery @Penny_Forthem but I never win anything. I've had £5 worth of Premium Bonds since the 60s (when £5 was nearly a week's wages) and never won anything at all with them. I very rarely win anything in a raffle.
Good luck getting your £3,500 (now £3,000!) back @punkdoc. A tidy sum.
Walked to the meeting last night - missed the showers in both directions so that was lucky. Lively meeting but concerns raised over the frequent discharge of effluent into the river. Seems our whole town (and many, many towns are the same as us) is built on a Victorian sewage system that carries both clean water and sewage in the same pipes. When it rains, rather than having sewage coming up through the manhole covers it gets discharged into the river. And it is perfectly legal for the water companies to do this. No standard fixes here either @Dovefromabove.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He mentions Mark Williams from SW Scotland, I attended a fungi foraging course that he did 2 years ago last September at Newton Stewart in Galloway and I think that's when I became hooked on the subject. See pic below of the fungi we collected. See his website here. https://gallowaywildfoods.com/
Hope you are all well.
Currently procrastinating as the spreadsheet from hell keeps shouting at me!!
Managed to get out for a walk again at lunchtime before the gloom set it. Awful weather forecast for tomorrow but Sunday looks hopeful. Tomorrow a trip to the garden centre for seed compost and seeds is planned to break up the January blues and then Sunday is dierama thinning and tidying up day!!
Just wanted to share the light from my walk today and todays little friend that joined me
What's everyone else's garden plans? Hope people with snow are managing to keep warm!!