OH is outside raking and re-seeding bits of the lawn. The blackbirds keep pecking up the brown grass so there is no chance that bits of it will grow again. I ought to go and help but my knee aches and I've been chatting for ages to an old school friend on the phone.
@Hostafan1, I'm sure you aren't very old, very fat or very ugly. I'm sure you are younger than quite a few of us here. Your grandsons are good looking and they have your genes. The alone bit is hard, I remember that bit. Are there any group evening things to do? I remember in Spain, years ago, there was a flamenco dancing evening. We all sat on long tables so no one was physically alone. It was the same for my French village, long tables for all the events that included meals. Once I stayed on my own in a hotel and they put me at a little table on my own next to the main dining room. That was awful, I felt like an untouchable.
It's still chilly here today.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Hostafan1 - those old gay couples you used to see? In each of those one of them would have died first. Would the other have been brave enough to return to their favourite holiday destination without the other - as you have?  I'm a bit of a melancholic soul and even whilst on holiday with my husband on our favourite Greek island I would imagine returning there, alone, after he had gone, gazing wistfully out to sea, writing in a journal under the shade of an olive tree and generally being all romantic. But in my vision I was still young and slim! Not the fat old thing that gets easily out of breath walking up a slight incline as I am now! Neither of us will return to that island. @Dovefromabove - I am so jealous of all of your beans. I constructed a lovely sturdy frame earlier in the year, above a trench filled with loads of organic matter and planted French climbing beans, 2 per station. One - ONE - came up! We had a good meal from it but that was it. Glad you and @Busy-Lizzie had a nice time yesterday. We are still resisting the heating going on - but I am now having a hot water bottle in bed!
Hi folks, Managed to talk myself into doing some gardening today. Lots of deadheading and cutting back. Topped up the pond and the bird bath. Must say I'm glad I did a lot of tidying before I went on holiday. The cucumbers have finished and there are only a few toms left to ripen on the vine. Still have a lot of carrots and beetroot to pick though.
Hello again, I did manage to cut the lawn and yes, @Dovefromabove, it was green (ish) and definitely needed doing before any wet weather sets in. It's actually in a terrible state, lots of thatch and mostly moss, together with a fairy circle which is gradually getting larger and larger. I can't manage the scarifier machine we've got and OH won't be able to do it either. It will have to wait till to the spring. After lunch, I did another stint, deadheading and cutting back so I'm quite pleased.
OH woke up feeling much better so I'm very relieved, thought we'd end up in A&E again. Relaxing now with a nice glass of pink pinot. Decided not to cook the lamb joint tonight so am quickly defrosting some left-overs for a light dinner at OH's request.
Good evening, we spent most of the day at SDS garden . I did a tidy up of a lot of Acers, mainly talking off dead and a bit of gentle shaping . SIL got up at 3am and went to join the queue  for Westminster Hall, he got back home about 5pm, he looked exhausted but said it was worth it. Â
Good for him @Allotment Boy. I just couldn't contemplate even trying to queue that long although I would have liked to and I'm astounded at the sheer variety of people making their way through the hall.
My OH queued for hours many years ago when he was still a schoolboy to see Winston Churchill's lying in state.
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@Hostafan1, I'm sure you aren't very old, very fat or very ugly. I'm sure you are younger than quite a few of us here. Your grandsons are good looking and they have your genes. The alone bit is hard, I remember that bit. Are there any group evening things to do? I remember in Spain, years ago, there was a flamenco dancing evening. We all sat on long tables so no one was physically alone. It was the same for my French village, long tables for all the events that included meals. Once I stayed on my own in a hotel and they put me at a little table on my own next to the main dining room. That was awful, I felt like an untouchable.
It's still chilly here today.
I'm a bit of a melancholic soul and even whilst on holiday with my husband on our favourite Greek island I would imagine returning there, alone, after he had gone, gazing wistfully out to sea, writing in a journal under the shade of an olive tree and generally being all romantic. But in my vision I was still young and slim! Not the fat old thing that gets easily out of breath walking up a slight incline as I am now! Neither of us will return to that island.
@Dovefromabove - I am so jealous of all of your beans. I constructed a lovely sturdy frame earlier in the year, above a trench filled with loads of organic matter and planted French climbing beans, 2 per station. One - ONE - came up! We had a good meal from it but that was it.
Glad you and @Busy-Lizzie had a nice time yesterday. We are still resisting the heating going on - but I am now having a hot water bottle in bed!
OH woke up feeling much better so I'm very relieved, thought we'd end up in A&E again.
Relaxing now with a nice glass of pink pinot. Decided not to cook the lamb joint tonight so am quickly defrosting some left-overs for a light dinner at OH's request.
My OH queued for hours many years ago when he was still a schoolboy to see Winston Churchill's lying in state.