Good morning all. Today marks the anniversary of Hubby being given 2 months to live. He was weighed yesterday and is exactly 9 stone now . A bit thin for 6ft2. Thank you for the kind words re Grandson. I've no idea when I'll get to see him.
Just before tea last night my doorbell rang, nobody there when I went to the door but outside my garden wall I could see a stack of straw bales. On investigation there was lorry with drag outside my garden, it's a narrow road! Young female driving said the Sat Nav had sent her this way! A neighbour got cars moved and she eventually turned the corner but the drag mounted the grass verge outside and did this damage. It's so dry I don't think anything can be done at the moment. In the Spring it's usually a mass of primroses.
Morning all, Beautiful baby @Hostafan1   Nothing planned for today, would like to get in the garden but just don't have the energy. Still testing negative even though I have now lost sense of taste and smell.Â
Hope you soon feel better @Yviestevie ... get lots of rest. ☕ Â
I'm back from the farm shop and butcher ... nice ham and a jar of very good pickled onions to go in a roll for lunch, pork chops, Barnsley chops, sausages and chicken thighs will help to keep us fed this week, along with some salmon, Lincolnshire Red cheese, lovely ripe tomatoes, new potatoes, strawberries and a big tub of local ice cream with that lot and the veggies in the garden, we won't starve 😋
I drove home accompanied for part of the way by someone I'm sure was Rick Wakeman 😎 in a woolly hat driving a Caterham Seven ... he drove alongside me in the next lane off the roundabout at the top of the A11 and as far as my turn-off where I turned left and he turned right which would take him back to the roundabout .... he lives down the A11 near the Suffolk border and used to be a regular customer when OH worked in the farm shop ...Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can’t believe that is a year gone by, Hostafan. Hope the extra morphine is keeping Hubby comfortable, so you can both enjoy some quality time together.Â
Sorry you've had to miss out on the Arts Festival @Yviestevie - hope you feel better soon. Found out yesterday that one of our book group tested positive having attended a local wedding on Saturday. Quite a few of the people who attended are now positive, including the bride and groom who are actually honeymooning in Greece at the moment. I'm feeling OK but will do a test later and again tomorrow.
Bet you went to bed tired but happy yesterday @Allotment Boy.
Oo-er @Loraine3 - hope the primroses aren't done for.
You and your hubby have been gifted a whole year @Hostafan1. It sounds as if he landed in a really good nursing home after all that trouble and they are keeping him comfortable for however many more weeks or months you still have.
You've had a Rick Wakeman sighting Dove! He lives near Diss I believe. We don't see him here at all although I have spotted him in Southwold. (And Bill Nighy in Aldeburgh).
Trot around town this morning to decide where we should put the additional planters we are being given. 2mx2mx2m, so big. They will come with compost. But what to plant in them? Low maintenance, not phormium or cordylines - sick of those. Does anyone know what that prostrate conifer is?
No gardening today but I will have to venture out to water later tonight. Â I will need to dig around the base of my uchiki kuri squash (called Potimarron here because they have a chestnut taste to them) Â give them some fertiliser and snip off some ends. Â Â
The mercury has hit 44.5°C with a very very hot wind to boot.  The lounge here is cool so I can keep it this way with the overhead fan, but it will be aircon tonight - this is ridiculous - we are burning up!  Cold lemon tea and water are chilling in the fridge.  My oh my!!
On top of that, the southern hemisphere is experiencing a particularly cold winter with lots of storms and wild weather. Â I hope we don't follow this winter with the rise in heating costs.
I believe Blighty is getting this hot weather next week. Â Hunker down. Â
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Today marks the anniversary of Hubby being given 2 months to live.Â
He was weighed yesterday and is exactly 9 stone now . A bit thin for 6ft2.
Thank you for the kind words re Grandson. I've no idea when I'll get to see him.
Nothing planned for today, would like to get in the garden but just don't have the energy. Still testing negative even though I have now lost sense of taste and smell.Â
Hope you soon feel better @Yviestevie ... get lots of rest. ☕ Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.driving.co.uk/news/interview/motor-musician-rick-wakeman/
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Bet you went to bed tired but happy yesterday @Allotment Boy.
Oo-er @Loraine3 - hope the primroses aren't done for.
You and your hubby have been gifted a whole year @Hostafan1. It sounds as if he landed in a really good nursing home after all that trouble and they are keeping him comfortable for however many more weeks or months you still have.
You've had a Rick Wakeman sighting Dove! He lives near Diss I believe. We don't see him here at all although I have spotted him in Southwold. (And Bill Nighy in Aldeburgh).
Trot around town this morning to decide where we should put the additional planters we are being given. 2mx2mx2m, so big. They will come with compost. But what to plant in them? Low maintenance, not phormium or cordylines - sick of those. Does anyone know what that prostrate conifer is?
No gardening today but I will have to venture out to water later tonight. Â I will need to dig around the base of my uchiki kuri squash (called Potimarron here because they have a chestnut taste to them) Â give them some fertiliser and snip off some ends. Â Â
The mercury has hit 44.5°C with a very very hot wind to boot.  The lounge here is cool so I can keep it this way with the overhead fan, but it will be aircon tonight - this is ridiculous - we are burning up!  Cold lemon tea and water are chilling in the fridge.  My oh my!!
On top of that, the southern hemisphere is experiencing a particularly cold winter with lots of storms and wild weather. Â I hope we don't follow this winter with the rise in heating costs.
I believe Blighty is getting this hot weather next week. Â Hunker down. Â