Morning. Seems extremely windy out today. The max gale force may be less than Eunice on Friday, but today’s wind is more constant.
Was planning a big lie in, but cats, a full bladder and a text message from work all resulted in me getting up at 730. I say up, I took tea back to bed and have been reading here since.
Have a lovely Sunday folks and take care if you venture out.
Morning. Everything is so depressing, from the news, to the choice of TV programmes, to the economy...and don't mention the weather! Oh, I just did... OH says he fancies going out for a ride in the car (he doesn't drive!) but I don't really fancy that in the wind and rain. And Tesco will be here between 3 and 4, so we're limited anyway. Enjoy your day everyone.
Hang on in there @Penny_Forthem …….with a bit of luck the current “weather” will soon be behind us, and spring will be just round the corner 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻. The rest of it won’t go away, but a bit of warmth and sunshine always helps round here.
Morning everyone, grey, wet, and blustery here. We are "busy" watching the antics of the birds at the various feeders, I think they are stocking up after the last couple of days hunkered down.
Ooh @chicky a new puppy! What breed is it? Enjoy your time with your sister. @Dovefromabove I get my croissants from Aldi, they are really large ones and I am a greedy guts... don't forget your shopping, by the way (you told us to remind you?).
It's a bit 'like that' isn't it @Penny_Forthem ... I'm totally ignoring the news ... there's nothing I can do about it and everyone seems to be being so obtuse it's just frustrating. For the time being, Que sera sera as the song says. So, we're not putting the tv news on at all. I listen to the Today programme and the hourly news on R2 and R4 that's enough for me ... I'm trying to ignore most of the news websites ... except the local ones for weather and stuff. We've got lots of 'feel good' comfort type programmes recorded ... Death in Paradise, Father Brown, Miss Marple etc and when we feel like this we have a wallow in them, even when we've seen them before ... I often don't remember 'who dunnit' anyway Oh, and Vera ......... we've got so many of those recorded that it's perfectly easy to go back to the beginning and watch them as if they were new. This morning in bed I was listening to a reading of Wind in the Willows on BBC Sounds ... blissful ... and all about spring and the world waking up. I've always been very politically aware and active ... I suppose that may explain why both my children are very 'political' ... my son in particular ... virtually every phone conversation contains a fair bit of 'politics' and as he studied European political history, speaks Russian quite well and has travelled extensively and spent a lot of time in Russia and has a Russian ex-wife with whom he's on good terms, and a lot of Russian ex relatives and friends in and from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Liithuania and other former Soviet areas he is very well informed about how many of the populations of those countries feel .......... he's also spent time in the US and is on some political messageboards ... so I really get quite enough 'politics' at the moment without watching the tv news or reading the papers 🤯😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Had to sign in again, so we’ve been watching Vera for the past hour or so. Now I’m confused because there was a bloke on it that I remember but can’t remember from which show. Grrr. I really get fed up with my ageing brain.
Would love to know what your son thinks of the current situation @Dovefromabove. I'm with you on that one @Pat E - always saying - "where do we know him from?" and "what was she in"? We can catch up on TV programmes we've missed through taking my laptop into the living room and attaching a scart lead to it from the telly. Last night - WILTY and 2 QIXLs and the last episode of part 1 of the final season of Ozark. (Probably a bit too violent for most on here!). Still blowy. But I am tied to my laptop anyway - working on how we should redesign the main website for the town to be more visitor friendly and less business association-y. (I chair the local business assoc. and we run the website).
Hello all, Continuing wet and windy here and unfortunately one of our decorative fence panel posts on the front drive has snapped, probably rotted at the base, so two of the panels are leaning over the drive. Good job we don't need to get the car out today. Too wet to do anything at the moment. Might see if I can rope the post to the NDN hedge temporarily when it stops raining.
Marlborough's lovely @Busy-Lizzie, we often drive through there to Hungerford and over to Wantage on the way to visit my Mum's grave near Didcot. I'm trying to think what village we go through has a very old pub in it. Most of them do! Did you go up to the M4 or across country to get home?
I'd have loved that garden with snowdrops @chicky. A few years ago we went to Colesbourne Park near Cheltenham for their snowdrop opening day. Snowdrops as far as the eye could see. I bought a pot of S. Arnold bulbs from there and they're lovely.
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Everything is so depressing, from the news, to the choice of TV programmes, to the economy...and don't mention the weather! Oh, I just did...
OH says he fancies going out for a ride in the car (he doesn't drive!) but I don't really fancy that in the wind and rain.
And Tesco will be here between 3 and 4, so we're limited anyway.
Enjoy your day everyone.
Enjoy your time with your sister.
@Dovefromabove I get my croissants from Aldi, they are really large ones and I am a greedy guts... don't forget your shopping, by the way (you told us to remind you?).
I've always been very politically aware and active ... I suppose that may explain why both my children are very 'political' ... my son in particular ... virtually every phone conversation contains a fair bit of 'politics' and as he studied European political history, speaks Russian quite well and has travelled extensively and spent a lot of time in Russia and has a Russian ex-wife with whom he's on good terms, and a lot of Russian ex relatives and friends in and from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Liithuania and other former Soviet areas he is very well informed about how many of the populations of those countries feel .......... he's also spent time in the US and is on some political messageboards ... so I really get quite enough 'politics' at the moment without watching the tv news or reading the papers 🤯😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm with you on that one @Pat E - always saying - "where do we know him from?" and "what was she in"?
We can catch up on TV programmes we've missed through taking my laptop into the living room and attaching a scart lead to it from the telly. Last night - WILTY and 2 QIXLs and the last episode of part 1 of the final season of Ozark. (Probably a bit too violent for most on here!).
Still blowy. But I am tied to my laptop anyway - working on how we should redesign the main website for the town to be more visitor friendly and less business association-y. (I chair the local business assoc. and we run the website).
night all.
Marlborough's lovely @Busy-Lizzie, we often drive through there to Hungerford and over to Wantage on the way to visit my Mum's grave near Didcot. I'm trying to think what village we go through has a very old pub in it. Most of them do! Did you go up to the M4 or across country to get home?
I'd have loved that garden with snowdrops @chicky. A few years ago we went to Colesbourne Park near Cheltenham for their snowdrop opening day. Snowdrops as far as the eye could see. I bought a pot of S. Arnold bulbs from there and they're lovely.