Congratulations for all the anniversaries! We were thinking of going out for coffee this morning, but not only is it half term, and likely to be crowded, but I think I’ve finally grown out of the habit. So it’s a quick drive to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. ( that’s taken over a week to filter across from the GP surgery. Very short staffed, I think) Maybe some gardening then, if the rain holds off. Gathered up all the twigs yesterday.
We're going to have a Chinese takeaway this evening ... we didn't have one on Valentine's Day 'cos it was a Monday and the takeaways are usually shut on Mondays.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We usually have a Chinese meal on our anniversary. Harks back to our wedding day. We left the reception hungrier than we realised, having been too busy circulating and chatting to remember to eat. Ended up in a little Chinese restaurant near our new home. Modern equivalent for us now is a Waitrose version, with something bubbly for me to drink. Have a lovely evening.
If we want Chinese or Indian or Thai or any other "foreign" food, including pizza and pasta, I have to cook it myself. Good job there are plenty of other choices tho, including excellent fish and seafood and even burgers made from real, local beef. Good job too that there's a Vietnamese shop in La Roche where I can get the spices and fresh herbs, veg and other ingredients too.
It is dull and grey and quiet here after a blustery and damp weekend. OH is clearing weeds in the potager accompanied by 3 helpful chooks. Polly is isolated in the polytunnel and being treated for a nasty dose of worms while the other 3 get a preventive dose a day. So much for healthy free range hens. We've scrubbed out their hen house and boxes with bleach and washed down the paths but can't treat the whole plot. Hoping the vet can offer us a vaccine but they're normally only offered to large commercial flocks. Cats and dogs have been wormed ahead of schedule too, just in case.
I have some painting to finish in the living room - door, frame and radiator cover - then measuring for new sofa covers.
I do hope all those affected by the recent storms are OK now and have managed to clear debris. It can be depressing but remember a fallen tree or shrub is a planting opportunity too.
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)."
We're very lucky here in Norwich ... lots of very good takeaways ... and because the UEA has always had a good number of Chinese students the takeaways over this side of the city at least do lots of traditional Chinese family dishes as well as the more usually found anglicised takeaway menu. Quite a few places doing very good dim sum too, even on the market in the city centre. We also have quite a few very good independent Thai family-run restaurants and some of them got into running a delivery service during lock-down and that seems to be really taking off. And then across the other side of the city we have the marvellous Magdalen Street ... Norwich's equivalent of Brick Lane, with lots of Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants ... sadly many of the Eastern European ones that had been doing well in Norwich have closed now as the families have returned home. We're very well catered for ....... plus of course there are several well liked Michelin rated restaurants too. Norfolk folk like their food
PS ... I wrote the above about an hour ago ... but got distracted by a phone call from my son to discuss the current political situation ... then I had laundry to attend to ...
Today we can read the date in the same way from left to right to left!!
And upside down!
Happy anniversary Dove. I have found that the later husbands tend to be the best.
Still busy here with town stuff. I have to give a little talk at a networking thing tonight. I don't mind public speaking but this event has been organised by someone else who is expecting it all to be very informal without realising that if she asks anyone to speak they can't do it from a standing position in the middle of a gathering with people holding canapes on plates. To be fair to her, she has been battling some serious health issues but remained insistent that the event should not be postponed.
Frenchified Asian food is a whole other ball game. When we first moved to Belgium in 1991 - OH assigned to a project at SWIFT - he asked some Indian programmers where the nearest good Indian restaurant was and they said Dover. Over here a curry is usually sweet, bland and they serve naan bread as apéro and bring rice with the main course anyway. We like Szechuan style Chinese so haven't even tried Chinese here tho we did find a good one in Brussels.
One thing Putin needs to remembers - as far as I recall NATO has never invaded a neighbour. It s a defence alliance. If former Soviet countries apply to join the EU and/or NATO Russian leaders, rather than feeling, or pretending to feel, threatened need to ask why those former occupied territories don't want to stick with Russia.
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)."
Back from the Allotments, various people have some damage, glass blown out of greenhouses, 1 shed wrecked, fruit and crop cages looking drunk. I have little to worry about, few things blown about, mostly rescued. Lost 1 panel of perspex from a cold frame. My plot neighbour below has a plum tree down though. Considering the site is always windy no too bad, since we became self managing, we have kept on top of the boundary trees so no issues there.
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We were thinking of going out for coffee this morning, but not only is it half term, and likely to be crowded, but I think I’ve finally grown out of the habit. So it’s a quick drive to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. ( that’s taken over a week to filter across from the GP surgery. Very short staffed, I think) Maybe some gardening then, if the rain holds off. Gathered up all the twigs yesterday.
And the sun's shining 🌞
We're going to have a Chinese takeaway this evening ... we didn't have one on Valentine's Day 'cos it was a Monday and the takeaways are usually shut on Mondays.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is dull and grey and quiet here after a blustery and damp weekend. OH is clearing weeds in the potager accompanied by 3 helpful chooks. Polly is isolated in the polytunnel and being treated for a nasty dose of worms while the other 3 get a preventive dose a day. So much for healthy free range hens. We've scrubbed out their hen house and boxes with bleach and washed down the paths but can't treat the whole plot. Hoping the vet can offer us a vaccine but they're normally only offered to large commercial flocks. Cats and dogs have been wormed ahead of schedule too, just in case.
I have some painting to finish in the living room - door, frame and radiator cover - then measuring for new sofa covers.
I do hope all those affected by the recent storms are OK now and have managed to clear debris. It can be depressing but remember a fallen tree or shrub is a planting opportunity too.
Yes, it's Twosday!!
PS ... I wrote the above about an hour ago ... but got distracted by a phone call from my son to discuss the current political situation ... then I had laundry to attend to ...
@tui34
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy anniversary Dove. I have found that the later husbands tend to be the best.
Still busy here with town stuff. I have to give a little talk at a networking thing tonight. I don't mind public speaking but this event has been organised by someone else who is expecting it all to be very informal without realising that if she asks anyone to speak they can't do it from a standing position in the middle of a gathering with people holding canapes on plates. To be fair to her, she has been battling some serious health issues but remained insistent that the event should not be postponed.
Frenchified Asian food is a whole other ball game. When we first moved to Belgium in 1991 - OH assigned to a project at SWIFT - he asked some Indian programmers where the nearest good Indian restaurant was and they said Dover. Over here a curry is usually sweet, bland and they serve naan bread as apéro and bring rice with the main course anyway. We like Szechuan style Chinese so haven't even tried Chinese here tho we did find a good one in Brussels.
Good luck with that event @didyw.
One thing Putin needs to remembers - as far as I recall NATO has never invaded a neighbour. It s a defence alliance. If former Soviet countries apply to join the EU and/or NATO Russian leaders, rather than feeling, or pretending to feel, threatened need to ask why those former occupied territories don't want to stick with Russia.