Oooh @D0rdogne_Damsel ... what have you done???? 🤣 Sometimes it does that just very occasionally ... Refreshing the page or whatever seems to do the trick ... or sometimes it's because you've just Reported or Flagged a couple of posts in quick succession ... or I think that sometimes the internet gods have just got out of bed on the wrong side .. or whatever ... Anyway you're back with us now.
If I remember to do it when that happens, I press the back arrow top left (what's it called? not enough coffee had yet) and that brings back what I've written, then I highlight and copy it, so that when I've refreshed the page I can just paste it and press Post.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Punkdoc ... if you've nothing better to do you could spend a few hours helping me to clean my aged chalk pastes ... they're all dusty and grimy ... you're supposed to clean them in a box of ground rice but the local shops don't seem to stock it any more so I'm going to have to clean them very gently with very fine glass paper ... it'll be messy and a bit tedious, but we can watch the blackbirds in the laurel in the next garden getting their underwear in a twist 'cos their family are fledging and there's a cat on the prowl.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone, we slept in a bit today. After our 2hour walk round Lambeth yesterday we went back to the garden museum (which we saw on our walk round). It's somewhere we have meant to visit for ages. I'm glad we didn't do it a a special trip as there is not that much to it, but it was very interesting all the same. One highlight was they have reopened the tower, 134 narrow stone spiral steps phew, but the view was well worth it. We then walked back to Waterloo stn to come home. I was literally a bit foot sore last night.
Talked to the garage this morning, where my car has been for the past few days. They were able to replicate the occasional fault and diagnose the problem. Something to do with the clutch slaves and the upshot is that I need a new clutch. And the dual mass flywheel (?) it attaches to. It is going to cost £1,166, including VAT. Ouch.
The fault manifested in my not being able to get into gear if I had to stop with my foot on the clutch in, for example, stop-start traffic, at traffic lights, getting onto a roundabout or waiting on a side road to get into traffic on a main road. It didn't always happen but it happened too often for me not to feel nervous about it as invariably I would have to pull over, pump the clutch and then get going again - until the next time I had to stop. The garage confirmed that it only did this after the engine had warmed up.
And as I had to take the car out whether I wanted to or not to ensure the battery remained charged, I had to make quite a few scary journeys. But I'm relieved that it was not (as my SIL, who sold me the car seemed to think) my poor driving skills that caused the problem. But, once I get it back with its new clutch I must learn to love this car as it now has to last me a long time.
@Allotment Boy. Lovely photo, lots of history in Lambeth, goes back a long way. As does it neighbour Balham. Bal-ham gateway to the South. If anyone’s old enough to remember 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We’re about a mile from the park but from the sound check that’s going on at the moment we’ll be able to go to bed early and open the windows and enjoy the show … what a lineup!!! https://letsrocknorwich.com/ 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I just can't help it - the plant lady had a pink Salvia Amistad which they were talking about at the Chelsea flower show, so I bought it. It's hardier than the purply Amistad and a bit shorter. I've been around the garden and it will be a very tight fit.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Wore myself out yesterday, so a gentle planning sort of a day today.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
If I remember to do it when that happens, I press the back arrow top left (what's it called? not enough coffee had yet) and that brings back what I've written, then I highlight and copy it, so that when I've refreshed the page I can just paste it and press Post.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Talked to the garage this morning, where my car has been for the past few days. They were able to replicate the occasional fault and diagnose the problem. Something to do with the clutch slaves and the upshot is that I need a new clutch. And the dual mass flywheel (?) it attaches to. It is going to cost £1,166, including VAT. Ouch.
The fault manifested in my not being able to get into gear if I had to stop with my foot on the clutch in, for example, stop-start traffic, at traffic lights, getting onto a roundabout or waiting on a side road to get into traffic on a main road. It didn't always happen but it happened too often for me not to feel nervous about it as invariably I would have to pull over, pump the clutch and then get going again - until the next time I had to stop. The garage confirmed that it only did this after the engine had warmed up.
And as I had to take the car out whether I wanted to or not to ensure the battery remained charged, I had to make quite a few scary journeys. But I'm relieved that it was not (as my SIL, who sold me the car seemed to think) my poor driving skills that caused the problem. But, once I get it back with its new clutch I must learn to love this car as it now has to last me a long time.
As does it neighbour Balham. Bal-ham gateway to the South. If anyone’s old enough to remember 😀
https://letsrocknorwich.com/ 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.