Good job I glanced at the calendar as I wiped down the facilities in the downstairs loo ... tennis this week has been cancelled 'cos the Blood Donor sessions are being held in the hall. I've been upstairs and changed out of my tennis togs 🙄 I would love to go to the blood donor session but every time I do it I keel over randomly some time later, often the next morning ... the doctors told me I caused more trouble than I was worth
Hey ho ... a bit longer to struggle with today's Wordle then ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Overcast sky this morning with a watery sun. It is very mild and no wind. A few gardening duties today on the agenda.
@Pat E Cute bats - maybe their new lodgings. Are they still active at night? With April well on the way, they could be hibernating.
@Busy-Lizzie Walking is meant to be good for bad backs! Hope your walk helps!!
Marinated some lemon slices in warmed olive oil with garlic cloves, capers and green olives overnight, and of course a sprinkling of my crumbled padron dried peppers. Will fry a piece of cod then drizzle the "sauce" over it. That should be lunch solved.
A bit of dusting and a whisk round with the broom will round up the morning!
Have a pleasant Wednesday.
Au jour de Saint-Prudence, s'il pleut, s'il vente, peu après le mouton danse.
When my OH complains of a bad back I send him into town to pick something up. The walk does him good and I'm sure your walk will do you good to @Busy-Lizzie.
We had fun and games yesterday - a sudden appearance of flies in the living room had us puzzled. We eventually realised they were coming from the fireplace - which in all the 20 years we have been here has simply been blocked off by a moveable board (an old picture frame, filled in and painted). We clean out the debris that falls down from time to time and have noticed sacking stuffed up the chimney, but that's it.
OH was the intrepid one, poking at the sacking when out popped a dead pigeon. And a helluva lot more flies. We are surprised we hadn't smelt it as it decomposed - maybe too high up the chimney (and I do have things in the hearth too). We had a dead mouse once, that our old cat had brought in and secreted behind a bookcase. We smelt that all right - a smell never to be forgotten which is why we were surprised not to even get a hint of the pigeon in the chimney.
So - a deep clean of the living room and all downstairs areas where a fly might have gone and all the windows and doors in the house open!
It's nice and fresh and clean now with not a single fly in sight. Phew.
Good afternoon all. It's been a very wet morning, but a brighter, drier afternoon so far has enabled me to be out in the garden for a while. it always cheers me up. I hope your storm has ended now, @Dovefromabove. My mum wouldn't have had her knitting needles out with lightening about!
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Our swallows are back too. They appeared in the garage at the weekend
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hey ho ... a bit longer to struggle with today's Wordle then ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How lovely about the bats Pat. I hope they find a new home. I haven't seen bats here, there were quite a lot a my last house, long eared ones too.
I'm a bit achey after yesterday's efforts in the veg garden, had to take painkillers last night.
My neighbour has just rung to ask me to go for a walk with her this afternoon. I hope it doesn't rain, it's forecast.
Overcast sky this morning with a watery sun. It is very mild and no wind. A few gardening duties today on the agenda.
@Pat E Cute bats - maybe their new lodgings. Are they still active at night? With April well on the way, they could be hibernating.
@Busy-Lizzie Walking is meant to be good for bad backs! Hope your walk helps!!
Marinated some lemon slices in warmed olive oil with garlic cloves, capers and green olives overnight, and of course a sprinkling of my crumbled padron dried peppers. Will fry a piece of cod then drizzle the "sauce" over it. That should be lunch solved.
A bit of dusting and a whisk round with the broom will round up the morning!
Have a pleasant Wednesday.
Au jour de Saint-Prudence, s'il pleut, s'il vente, peu après le mouton danse.
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Better keep moving gently @Busy-Lizzie ... you don't want to stiffen up for your travels.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When my OH complains of a bad back I send him into town to pick something up. The walk does him good and I'm sure your walk will do you good to @Busy-Lizzie.
We had fun and games yesterday - a sudden appearance of flies in the living room had us puzzled. We eventually realised they were coming from the fireplace - which in all the 20 years we have been here has simply been blocked off by a moveable board (an old picture frame, filled in and painted). We clean out the debris that falls down from time to time and have noticed sacking stuffed up the chimney, but that's it.
OH was the intrepid one, poking at the sacking when out popped a dead pigeon. And a helluva lot more flies. We are surprised we hadn't smelt it as it decomposed - maybe too high up the chimney (and I do have things in the hearth too). We had a dead mouse once, that our old cat had brought in and secreted behind a bookcase. We smelt that all right - a smell never to be forgotten which is why we were surprised not to even get a hint of the pigeon in the chimney.
So - a deep clean of the living room and all downstairs areas where a fly might have gone and all the windows and doors in the house open!
It's nice and fresh and clean now with not a single fly in sight. Phew.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hope your storm has ended now, @Dovefromabove. My mum wouldn't have had her knitting needles out with lightening about!