Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Sounds a lovely idea for the picnic @D0rdogne_Damsel 😊
Much excitement and activity outside … we have a primary school at the top of the rise … every year the top class go on a trip to the IoW … the bus is parked at the bottom of the rise and there’s lots of chattering from excited youngsters as their wheeled suitcases rumble past … don’t think they’re listen to the last minute instructions from anxious parents 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a lovely idea @Dovefromabove, the IoW holds many childhood memories for me as we always spent our summer holiday there in a house in one of the small villages. Went back in the 90's with my Mum, daughter and G/children for a short visit, the house was now privately owned and there were no animals that I could see in the farm next door, but the little single pump garage opposite was still operational. Wonderful place. So sorry to hear about the lady who passed away @didyw , so very sad. Cloudy here yesterday but still very warm, looks to be the same today. More watering of the garden and pots today I think, not looking forward to the weekend.
Hi all Another beautiful day, but I am laid up with a bad back, probably from moving all the pots. Builders should finish today, messy bit still to be done, cleaning out the valleys, we have a very odd shaped roof.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Oh dear @punkdoc ... better see if you can get someone else to put the pots back later ... hope back's easier soon.
Update on earlier excitement ...
As the bus headed for the IoW moved off and parents and grandparents were waving, the younger children were arriving for school ... Year 5 will be the seniors for a few days ... this was obviously the cause of much happiness for a couple of boys who, in an effort to express their jubilation, marched up the rise, singing at the tops of their voices ... the words I could hear as they passed my open bedroom window were "... happy and glorious ... long to reign over us ... God save the Queen" ... I think that rarely has our national anthem been sung with such enthusiasm 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all, thankfully it's cooler today with a breeze so I've done my usual daily mile and a half walk to get the paper and I've done the housework and some washing, DIL is coming to stay tonight.
The Green Thumb chappie has just arrived but I've had to tell him this will be the last visit. Not due to finances but because the front lawn is in a terrible state, full of moss from the shade of the large trees alongside and the fairy circle fungus is spreading. It needs a special, rather expensive fungicide to kill it and I don't think it's worth it. We do have an electric scarifier but that will have to wait until OH is better after his op. It's rather a shame because they've looked after the lawn for at least ten years now and it always looked good before last year.
Gosh @Dovefromabove, do the primary school children have a week's holiday on the IOW? How times change, we only had day outings when I was a youngster - but that was a long time ago!
Don't fancy the idea of baking 100 scones in this kind of weather @D0rdogne_Damsel but like the Maire's idea of a community picnic.
Our local Moravian church has just installed four bright purple benches with Platinum Jubilee plaques on a paved square outside. Not sure if they are for the congregation to use or the general public - it's open to the pavement. There was talk of them creating a community garden so perhaps it's part of that. We could do with more public benches for us 27 year olds to use!
Bad backs are very painful so sympathies @punkdoc.
Thanks for your hugs and commiserations. The whole town is in shock as L. was such an active part of the community. Walking around in town last night and this morning I realised just how much she had touched people's lives. It occurred to me that it would be nice if everyone who wanted to, got together to raise a glass to her, so have arranged for that to happen in the bar of the local theatre on Saturday, which will be opened especially. Feeling drained now, so I think it might be feet up in front of the TV then out with the hose after supper.
I don’t think it’s a whole week @Lizzie27 … I’ve a feeling that other years they’ve returned over the weekend … I’ll have to keep my eyes open. I think it’s a brilliant idea … they actually go ‘over the sea’ to give a sense of separate-ness from parents/carers and to learn to cope with new experiences and encourage a sense of independence before they move up to high school. Some youngsters are very sheltered these days.
I remember doing it before I left primary School and we went to the IOW as well.
Builders have finished, not really caused any mess, we are due to have them back later this year to re tile one of the valley gutters, which leaks. Pots will have to stay where they are, until back is better, but we are borrowing a sack trolley which should make things easier. Right off to see whether I can comfortably hold a hosepipe whilst sitting down.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Sounds a lovely idea for the picnic @D0rdogne_Damsel 😊
Much excitement and activity outside … we have a primary school at the top of the rise … every year the top class go on a trip to the IoW … the bus is parked at the bottom of the rise and there’s lots of chattering from excited youngsters as their wheeled suitcases rumble past … don’t think they’re listen to the last minute instructions from anxious parents 😆
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So sorry to hear about the lady who passed away @didyw , so very sad.
Cloudy here yesterday but still very warm, looks to be the same today. More watering of the garden and pots today I think, not looking forward to the weekend.
Another beautiful day, but I am laid up with a bad back, probably from moving all the pots.
Builders should finish today, messy bit still to be done, cleaning out the valleys, we have a very odd shaped roof.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Update on earlier excitement ...
As the bus headed for the IoW moved off and parents and grandparents were waving, the younger children were arriving for school ... Year 5 will be the seniors for a few days ... this was obviously the cause of much happiness for a couple of boys who, in an effort to express their jubilation, marched up the rise, singing at the tops of their voices ... the words I could hear as they passed my open bedroom window were "... happy and glorious ... long to reign over us ... God save the Queen" ... I think that rarely has our national anthem been sung with such enthusiasm 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The Green Thumb chappie has just arrived but I've had to tell him this will be the last visit. Not due to finances but because the front lawn is in a terrible state, full of moss from the shade of the large trees alongside and the fairy circle fungus is spreading. It needs a special, rather expensive fungicide to kill it and I don't think it's worth it. We do have an electric scarifier but that will have to wait until OH is better after his op. It's rather a shame because they've looked after the lawn for at least ten years now and it always looked good before last year.
Gosh @Dovefromabove, do the primary school children have a week's holiday on the IOW? How times change, we only had day outings when I was a youngster - but that was a long time ago!
Don't fancy the idea of baking 100 scones in this kind of weather @D0rdogne_Damsel but like the Maire's idea of a community picnic.
Our local Moravian church has just installed four bright purple benches with Platinum Jubilee plaques on a paved square outside. Not sure if they are for the congregation to use or the general public - it's open to the pavement. There was talk of them creating a community garden so perhaps it's part of that. We could do with more public benches for us 27 year olds to use!
Bad backs are very painful so sympathies @punkdoc.
Feeling drained now, so I think it might be feet up in front of the TV then out with the hose after supper.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Builders have finished, not really caused any mess, we are due to have them back later this year to re tile one of the valley gutters, which leaks.
Pots will have to stay where they are, until back is better, but we are borrowing a sack trolley which should make things easier.
Right off to see whether I can comfortably hold a hosepipe whilst sitting down.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.