Morning all. Had a busy day yesterday. Went to a local tractor rally, which was a hoot! More tractors than I ever seen in my life, ranging from flash modern ones to lovingly restored ancient ones. There was a tractor pulling contest, classic cars and motorbikes, and a huge exhibition of stationary steam engines, some over a hundred years old, with varied histories from running milking parlours to charging batteries for Second World War radios. The lawnmower racing was wild, and looked totally dangerous, much preferred the heavy horses who were parked in the shade eating hay. Great fun, first ‘event’ we’ve been to since lockdown. Followed that with a 90 minute Skype with daughter in California, so finished the day tired but happy. Many hugs to raisingirl, so sad for you. Best wishes to Moria, hope all goes smoothly and successfully. Also hope all the OHs continue to recover well from their various ops. Looks like a week of tidying for me. Son is coming to stay overnight at the weekend, and the spare room is full of displaced furniture and there are two rolls of loft insulation in the guest bath!
@Ergates, I passed 2 ancient tractors on our road last week with Land's End to John O Groats , written on them. I don't even think they were doing 15mph. No cabs and they looked freezing. They'll be lucky if they arrive by about November.
Cabs ... don't think Pa had a tractor with a cab for most of his working life ... and even then they weren't air tight or anything like that ... they kept some of the rain off, that's all ... and totally unsprung seats, driving over hard ground ... is it any wonder that his spine gave out ... and then of course there's the dust ... driving cabless combines, balers and tractors in the middle of a dusty harvest field ... all he had was a handkerchief over his nose and mouth ... of course he got COPD ... modern farm machinery is a million miles from the early stuff.
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Impressed you managed to pass them, Hostafan! Judging by the number of trailers parked around the show, I think most of yesterday’s exhibits didn’t have to make their way there under their own steam / fumes! Not as many of the gorgeous old steam traction engines as I’d have liked to see, but I suspect most were at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which was also on over the weekend.
Morning all, My mum and her brother used to love the Dorset Steam Fair and that's going back a fair bit. The news said that thousands of people had visited so I bet the traffic round Blandford Forum was awful.
Just phoned my DIL to wish her happy birthday. She's having to work today for the first time in years (her previous company gave everyone their birthday's off). She's reading her way through 250 emails, accumulated over her holidays. However did we manage before the web!
We have bats here as well @Dovefromabove, but they fly so fast it's difficult to track them. Haven't seen them lately though since it got so hot.
Best wishes to Moira, hope it's good news.
Hope @Busy-Lizzie is feeling better this morning and that @Didyw can get an emergency appointment at her opticians.
I just have a boring old summer cold. Feel a bit less down than yesterday, have hung out washing and washed the kitchen floor. Maybe I'll plant my new clematis this afternoon, before it gets too impatient.
Afternoon all. Waiting on a call-back from the opticians. The zigzags I saw didn't last very long at all the there is still a residual headache there. Fingers very firmly crossed for Moira @punkdoc. And glad your OH has his appointment for his second cataract op. - not long to wait. But so good that you were able to step up to the plate @Pat E and take over driving duties. Love seeing old tractors @Ergates. There is an annual steam fair here, at Henham, where they have the Latitude festival. Must go one year! Bit overcast here. No rain and no rain in the forecast, so the hose will be coming out again. I spot watered the ballerinas (the plants that flop dramatically with their hands to their brows, gasping) yesterday and they have perked up. Still waiting for flowers on some of the dahlias I planted this year. We have been watching Carol Klein on a Friday - last week she was walking about with huge pots of plants - rudbeckia, echinacea, and they were so big and bushy with masses of flowers I was really quite envious. Mine are just about alive.
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Followed that with a 90 minute Skype with daughter in California, so finished the day tired but happy.
Many hugs to raisingirl, so sad for you. Best wishes to Moria, hope all goes smoothly and successfully. Also hope all the OHs continue to recover well from their various ops.
Looks like a week of tidying for me. Son is coming to stay overnight at the weekend, and the spare room is full of displaced furniture and there are two rolls of loft insulation in the guest bath!
I don't even think they were doing 15mph. No cabs and they looked freezing.
They'll be lucky if they arrive by about November.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not as many of the gorgeous old steam traction engines as I’d have liked to see, but I suspect most were at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which was also on over the weekend.
Just phoned my DIL to wish her happy birthday. She's having to work today for the first time in years (her previous company gave everyone their birthday's off). She's reading her way through 250 emails, accumulated over her holidays. However did we manage before the web!
We have bats here as well @Dovefromabove, but they fly so fast it's difficult to track them. Haven't seen them lately though since it got so hot.
Best wishes to Moira, hope it's good news.
Hope @Busy-Lizzie is feeling better this morning and that @Didyw can get an emergency appointment at her opticians.
Now the stressful bit, waiting for the pathology, is it the big C.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fingers crossed for Moira.
I just have a boring old summer cold. Feel a bit less down than yesterday, have hung out washing and washed the kitchen floor. Maybe I'll plant my new clematis this afternoon, before it gets too impatient.
Tractor fair sounds fun @Ergates.
Fingers very firmly crossed for Moira @punkdoc.
And glad your OH has his appointment for his second cataract op. - not long to wait. But so good that you were able to step up to the plate @Pat E and take over driving duties.
Love seeing old tractors @Ergates. There is an annual steam fair here, at Henham, where they have the Latitude festival. Must go one year!
Bit overcast here. No rain and no rain in the forecast, so the hose will be coming out again. I spot watered the ballerinas (the plants that flop dramatically with their hands to their brows, gasping) yesterday and they have perked up. Still waiting for flowers on some of the dahlias I planted this year. We have been watching Carol Klein on a Friday - last week she was walking about with huge pots of plants - rudbeckia, echinacea, and they were so big and bushy with masses of flowers I was really quite envious. Mine are just about alive.