Grey and slightly damp here. Possum has an appointment with the employment psych and will drop off OH for golf practice on the way leaving me to carry on painting doors and frames and chair seats. We have 12 cast iron chairs I bought for our garden in Belgium on teh grounds that they wouldn't fly away like plastic ones do. Their teak seats have had to be replaced with beech and need painting.
My CDS are divided into 3 section @Dovefromabove - pop/rock by artist, compilations by name and then classical by composer. Old LPs ditto. DVDs are also alphabetical. That way I can go straight to what I want but still browse when the mood takes me. I prefer having I prefer having the LP/CD/DVD and their covers than intangible streaming or downloads.
Hope things go well with OH tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie. having your own device is a good idea.
Enjoy your day everyone. @punkdoc you can surely find something useful to do while Moira's away even if it's just staying out of trouble to reduce her worry levels. Clearing her mum's house is likely to be stressful for her.
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I hope you have a peaceful and enjoyable time @punkdoc even on your own. Have you been given a list of jobs to do? I had a ruthless cull of our CD's after lockdown, but still have a large cupboardful of them, mainly of the classical music variety. It is difficult, though as like all stuff we possess, memories are attached to them.
2 days into March and already on page umpteen! I've caught up. We went to the caravan to clean yesterday - it was lovely in the sunshine. Daffodils (real Welsh ones!), lambs (ditto), snowdrops and early primrose. Too cold to stay there, but we put the newly reupholstered seats in situ and scrubbed everything else! And had a picnic! I bought a pack of stylus tips for ease of typing on the phone, @Busy-Lizzie I find the news quite heartbreaking on so many counts.
Thanks to everyone who listened to my radio interview yesterday! I'm flattered that anyone would take the time. Our CDs are on shelves in no order and pretty much difficult to get to. OH is the only one who plays them and is incredibly careless with them. I found a couple tucked between the cookery books in the kitchen the other day, where he had been playing them on the CD player in there. But mostly he listens to music via his kindle Fire. I just listen to what he listens to - we do tend to like the same music - and if I'm on my own I like the peace and quiet. Sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday @Penny_Forthem.
Trying not to overload on news here as it is so depressing and worrying but can't stop thinking about the misery being inflicted on Ukraine, all because Putin is paranoid and power hungry and has his own domestic media in a tight grip.
Saw this eloquent cartoon on a French site:
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)."
Hello folks ... back from tennis ... it was great to be playing again and working up some steam ... during lockdown etc I seem to have put an amazing swerve on my serve ... if only I can control the direction it could be brilliant 🙄🤣
It seems we've all survived the last two years, with the exception of one chap (who'd already had some heart attacks) and he died a few days ago of heart related issues ... it was his funeral yesterday and his wife came to tennis today. Some folk have had Covid, and dear D has had breast cancer during the two years we've not been playing ... she's seeing the physio tomorrow and hopes she can start playing again soon.
We still listen to our cds via our music system ... the speakers although small are pretty good quality and probably better than any other system we could afford now (well that's what sound engineer son says anyway) ... if it ain't broke don't fix it ... makes sense environmentally as well as in other ways too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Friends, 2 couples, came for coffee this morning. It was a good chat session, they stayed for 2 hours. So nice to be able to have friends indoors again.
OH has gone to get petrol and bread so I have the Laptop! Done Wordle. Read the papers, but that's almost as bad as watching the News on TV at the moment.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all, it's been grey and cold all day starting with thick fog this morning. Nipped back to the SM to buy the 3 bags for £10 of compost I noticed yesterday. The bags were only 40 litres so perhaps not so much of a bargain.
Took my friend out for her belated birthday lunch at a GC which cheered us both up. It was packed and we even had a job to find a car park space. I presume that as it was both raining and cold, everybody had the same idea as us. I bought one of those pop-up green canvas bags as our old one is broken, I find them very handy and lightweight.
We made tentative plans to go to the Malvern Flower Show together but when I got home I realized I was already committed elsewhere - a great shame.
My OH enjoys playing his music very loud when I'm away, something he's not encouraged to do when I'm around. He also stays up late watching odd things on TV and eats lots of cheese! We both enjoy having some 'me' time and a rest from each other occasionally - keeps a marriage going I always think.
Busy day at the office as it were, I made a Bakewell Tart yesterday, a doubled up version of Paul Hollywood's recipe, sold out straightaway, did another this morning and only two pieces left this evening, a huge success, the French really enjoyed it. One lady took two pieces away to have after dinner this evening. I think I might try his pear frangipane recipe tomorrow, really happy to have found a new recipe for people to enjoy.
I have a couple of new Spring Specials going on at the week-end, Hot Cross Buns and Welsh Rarebit, made with Guinness. My French baker is making the Hot Cross Buns for me, it's too long a process for me to do whilst we are open, I did them for takeaways during lockdown, but with everything else going on I haven't the time. He is very good my baker, he'd never heard of them before and has taken the time to practice the recipe and be sure he's making what I am expecting. Pretty certain they will be a success.
You all seem to have had a good day, well done on the tennis @Dovefromabove, hope you're not too achy tomorrow, @punkdoc enjoy your pottering around the garden, if not the supermarket. It is nice to hear everyone is enjoying eating out and meeting up with friends again, it's been a long time coming.
Off to make homemade burgers for dinner now, Charlie's favourite, especially when he drowns them in pepper sauce.
Have a good evening all.
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My CDS are divided into 3 section @Dovefromabove - pop/rock by artist, compilations by name and then classical by composer. Old LPs ditto. DVDs are also alphabetical. That way I can go straight to what I want but still browse when the mood takes me. I prefer having I prefer having the LP/CD/DVD and their covers than intangible streaming or downloads.
Hope things go well with OH tomorrow @Busy-Lizzie. having your own device is a good idea.
Enjoy your day everyone. @punkdoc you can surely find something useful to do while Moira's away even if it's just staying out of trouble to reduce her worry levels. Clearing her mum's house is likely to be stressful for her.
Have you been given a list of jobs to do?
I had a ruthless cull of our CD's after lockdown, but still have a large cupboardful of them, mainly of the classical music variety. It is difficult, though as like all stuff we possess, memories are attached to them.
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We went to the caravan to clean yesterday - it was lovely in the sunshine. Daffodils (real Welsh ones!), lambs (ditto), snowdrops and early primrose.
Too cold to stay there, but we put the newly reupholstered seats in situ and scrubbed everything else! And had a picnic!
I bought a pack of stylus tips for ease of typing on the phone, @Busy-Lizzie
I find the news quite heartbreaking on so many counts.
Our CDs are on shelves in no order and pretty much difficult to get to. OH is the only one who plays them and is incredibly careless with them. I found a couple tucked between the cookery books in the kitchen the other day, where he had been playing them on the CD player in there. But mostly he listens to music via his kindle Fire. I just listen to what he listens to - we do tend to like the same music - and if I'm on my own I like the peace and quiet.
Sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday @Penny_Forthem.
Saw this eloquent cartoon on a French site:
It seems we've all survived the last two years, with the exception of one chap (who'd already had some heart attacks) and he died a few days ago of heart related issues ... it was his funeral yesterday and his wife came to tennis today. Some folk have had Covid, and dear D has had breast cancer during the two years we've not been playing ... she's seeing the physio tomorrow and hopes she can start playing again soon.
We still listen to our cds via our music system ... the speakers although small are pretty good quality and probably better than any other system we could afford now (well that's what sound engineer son says anyway) ... if it ain't broke don't fix it ... makes sense environmentally as well as in other ways too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Friends, 2 couples, came for coffee this morning. It was a good chat session, they stayed for 2 hours. So nice to be able to have friends indoors again.
OH has gone to get petrol and bread so I have the Laptop! Done Wordle. Read the papers, but that's almost as bad as watching the News on TV at the moment.
Took my friend out for her belated birthday lunch at a GC which cheered us both up. It was packed and we even had a job to find a car park space. I presume that as it was both raining and cold, everybody had the same idea as us. I bought one of those pop-up green canvas bags as our old one is broken, I find them very handy and lightweight.
We made tentative plans to go to the Malvern Flower Show together but when I got home I realized I was already committed elsewhere - a great shame.
My OH enjoys playing his music very loud when I'm away, something he's not encouraged to do when I'm around. He also stays up late watching odd things on TV and eats lots of cheese! We both enjoy having some 'me' time and a rest from each other occasionally - keeps a marriage going I always think.
Busy day at the office as it were, I made a Bakewell Tart yesterday, a doubled up version of Paul Hollywood's recipe, sold out straightaway, did another this morning and only two pieces left this evening, a huge success, the French really enjoyed it. One lady took two pieces away to have after dinner this evening. I think I might try his pear frangipane recipe tomorrow, really happy to have found a new recipe for people to enjoy.
I have a couple of new Spring Specials going on at the week-end, Hot Cross Buns and Welsh Rarebit, made with Guinness. My French baker is making the Hot Cross Buns for me, it's too long a process for me to do whilst we are open, I did them for takeaways during lockdown, but with everything else going on I haven't the time. He is very good my baker, he'd never heard of them before and has taken the time to practice the recipe and be sure he's making what I am expecting. Pretty certain they will be a success.
You all seem to have had a good day, well done on the tennis @Dovefromabove, hope you're not too achy tomorrow, @punkdoc enjoy your pottering around the garden, if not the supermarket. It is nice to hear everyone is enjoying eating out and meeting up with friends again, it's been a long time coming.
Off to make homemade burgers for dinner now, Charlie's favourite, especially when he drowns them in pepper sauce.
Have a good evening all.