Morning folks. Went back to bed with a cuppa and the cats this morning. They love a Saturday lie in as much as me, but they insist on breakfast first!
Cloudy here but will do some gardening later as rain is forecast tonight and tomorrow. I need to check out the ‘wild’ area and although I want to keep some brambles for the wildlife, any bindweed or very thick bramble can be culled. (Must find my extra thick gloves…)
I've no idea how they work, but mine has changed my life ... one sign of an itchy bite and I give it around 6 zaps and then another 6 a few minutes later, and the itch has gone ... for good! Wonderful thing. I used to have such problems.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks @Dovefromabove, I think I will try that. I am a real martyr to all bitey insects, it's amazing I ever survive in Scotland, I end up looking like the elephant man.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
My friend/GP had never seen anything like my back covered in mozzie bites after an evening sketching willows by a river… I was wearing a linen shirt and was bitten all over through it. The only bit that wasn’t covered in lumps and fluid filled blisters was where my bra-band was. He said that he thought I was making a fuss until he saw them but he regarded it as potentially a problem worthy of a GP appointment. He was amazed that I’d had problems like that since I was a child (growing up on a farm with a moat and ponds).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone. We seem to have a very fine drizzle here at the moment, the sort you cant see but it makes you a bit damp if you venture out. I thought the rain was due here tomorrow? Another brilliantly successful evening DD, I am full of admiration for all that you do and love seeing your pictures. Sorry to hear that you are having such cold weather PatE, surely by now your temperature should be slowly climbing not falling, but glad to hear that the lovely Pixel is doing her best to keep you warm. Go steady with that log pile Busy, you dont need a bad back again and that is a very large pile. Off shortly to fire up the old Landy and make the weekly trundle down to the village stores to top up supplies (and catch up on any local gossip - ooops I mean local activities!). After that the day is my own so maybe a little more weeding or maybe I'll just grab a cuppa and go sit by the pond to watch the fishes and, if lucky, have a little chat with my friendly robin. Humm decisions decisions ........ Have a lovely day/weekend folks.
We're back, with the new car. OH is just trying to log in to it . That's not a typo. We do often put logs in our car, but that's not what I meant, unfortunately. I pity anyone trying to live a normal life without a smartphone. Why do I need an app to drive a car? Nuts
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Worra lotta logs @Busy-Lizzie! Everyone looks so relaxed and happy at your Caribbean Evening @D0rdogne_Damsel - congratulations! That mozzie bite zapper looks amazing @Dovefromabove - wish it had been invented when we used to holiday in Greece. I swear that the mosquitos all competed with each other to give me bites in the shape of the Greek islands. Login to the car @raisingirl? That would be too much for me! I just want to know how much fuel I've got left, how many miles I've done and how fast I'm going. And a dial that goes from C to H. I don't even have the radio on in my car for fear of it draining the battery. @AnnaB - get one of Dove's bite zappers if you are going to be sitting by the pond! We had fun and games last night - the electricity went off just as we were settling down to watch 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. It wasn't just us. Neighbours either side of us and a couple over the road were also off. No idea why. Another friendly neighbour was on, so he checked and reported that they (whoever they are!) knew about it and were working to fix it but it wouldn't be back on until around 1.30am. We had one working torch so used that to locate the other 2 torches, then the spare batteries and wended our way to bed to read by torchlight. I awoke in the middle of the light and checked - it was back on. Most bizarre. This afternoon I shall be watering the veg patch with cans of water with seaweed food in them, hopefully that will give them a bit of oomph.
Hi folks, Just ordered one of those zappas @Dovefromabove Bitey things love me at home and away. I got about 10 of them yesterday while I was in the garden and they drove me mad last night even though I had taken antihistamines and put bite cream on them. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves in your photos @D0rdogne_Damsel Ive mowed the back lawn this morning and edged it. Also cleaned up a lot of leaves and weeds that seem to be loving the drought.
Login to the car @raisingirl? That would be too much for me! I just want to know how much fuel I've got left, how many miles I've done and how fast I'm going. And a dial that goes from C to H. I don't even have the radio on in my car for fear of it draining the battery.
Ah well. It's electric you see. Apparently you need to know when it's charged because you probably won't sit in the car while it's doing it so the app tells you when it's 'full'. It also tells you if you locked it, whether the boot is shut, what the tyre pressure is and how to get to the address of any person on your phone contacts list. The first one I can understand. The rest feels a trifle superfluous. It's all very well sitting in a boring meeting in London and being able to check the pressure of my car tyres in the station car park in Devon but it doesn't feel essential.
At least it's possible to turn the lane assist off. That's a bit freaky.
It's a nice shiny car though and my much loved old one, despite being nursed carefully for the last couple of years, had gone beyond the point of being usable - I just can't rely on it to work and ultimately, that's all I need from a car. So we had no option but to buy a new (that is second hand) one. All the now standard gizmos have so far passed me by because my 15 year old car predates it all. I am used to having a handbrake lever and key you put in the ignition and a map on the back seat (no sat nav). It feels a bit like driving a Christmas Tree. I expect I'll get used to it.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Grey, damp and very humid here, far too many bitey insects.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Have a decent weekend folks.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ZAP-IT-Mosquito-BITE-Relief/dp/B00E1MKX9G/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3268VPY5WHCES&keywords=mosquito+zapper&qid=1659171034&sprefix=mosquito+z,aps,77&sr=8-5
I've no idea how they work, but mine has changed my life ... one sign of an itchy bite and I give it around 6 zaps and then another 6 a few minutes later, and the itch has gone ... for good! Wonderful thing. I used to have such problems.
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
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Another brilliantly successful evening DD, I am full of admiration for all that you do and love seeing your pictures.
Sorry to hear that you are having such cold weather PatE, surely by now your temperature should be slowly climbing not falling, but glad to hear that the lovely Pixel is doing her best to keep you warm.
Go steady with that log pile Busy, you dont need a bad back again and that is a very large pile.
Off shortly to fire up the old Landy and make the weekly trundle down to the village stores to top up supplies (and catch up on any local gossip - ooops I mean local activities!). After that the day is my own so maybe a little more weeding or maybe I'll just grab a cuppa and go sit by the pond to watch the fishes and, if lucky, have a little chat with my friendly robin. Humm decisions decisions ........
Have a lovely day/weekend folks.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That mozzie bite zapper looks amazing @Dovefromabove - wish it had been invented when we used to holiday in Greece. I swear that the mosquitos all competed with each other to give me bites in the shape of the Greek islands.
Login to the car @raisingirl? That would be too much for me! I just want to know how much fuel I've got left, how many miles I've done and how fast I'm going. And a dial that goes from C to H. I don't even have the radio on in my car for fear of it draining the battery.
@AnnaB - get one of Dove's bite zappers if you are going to be sitting by the pond!
We had fun and games last night - the electricity went off just as we were settling down to watch 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. It wasn't just us. Neighbours either side of us and a couple over the road were also off. No idea why. Another friendly neighbour was on, so he checked and reported that they (whoever they are!) knew about it and were working to fix it but it wouldn't be back on until around 1.30am.
We had one working torch so used that to locate the other 2 torches, then the spare batteries and wended our way to bed to read by torchlight. I awoke in the middle of the light and checked - it was back on. Most bizarre.
This afternoon I shall be watering the veg patch with cans of water with seaweed food in them, hopefully that will give them a bit of oomph.
Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves in your photos @D0rdogne_Damsel
Ive mowed the back lawn this morning and edged it. Also cleaned up a lot of leaves and weeds that seem to be loving the drought.
At least it's possible to turn the lane assist off. That's a bit freaky.
It's a nice shiny car though and my much loved old one, despite being nursed carefully for the last couple of years, had gone beyond the point of being usable - I just can't rely on it to work and ultimately, that's all I need from a car. So we had no option but to buy a new (that is second hand) one. All the now standard gizmos have so far passed me by because my 15 year old car predates it all. I am used to having a handbrake lever and key you put in the ignition and a map on the back seat (no sat nav). It feels a bit like driving a Christmas Tree. I expect I'll get used to it.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”