Good morning all 😊 ☕️ More rain overnight 👍 however innards still a bit dodgy … perhaps I shouldn’t have had a pint of beer last night 🙄 Wonky had been in touch this morning … the builders doing some replastering seem to have bu$$ered the electrics and they were woken by the smoke alarm and buzzing from the meter cupboard. British Gas don’t deem this an emergency as they still have power … and suggested they call the Fire Brigade … Wonky is excessively pee’d off and her lovely hub is doing what needs to be done … presumably the landlords builders will be along as some stage … poor Wonky … not a good morning ((hugs)) 😞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks @Pat E and @Dovefromabove.... You have more faith in the builders and landlord than I do. But then I've seen them bodge our home for 25 years so I don't see why I should raise my expectations on past performance.
Maybe Wonky should switch off the power (as it obviously isn’t safe) then get back onto British Gas to let them know they don’t have power, and it therefore is an emergency.
The grim thing is that people are cutting back on things like paid gardeners etc so Wonky has to grab every bit of work she can … she can’t wait around for workmen to turn up …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Great news about your holiday @Hostafan1 - you so deserve it.
And hope you enjoy Corfu @D0rdogne_Damsel - another well earned break. We are off for a bit of Greek island hopping in a couple of weeks - but we are starting in Crete and working our way back to Athens, so won’t be able to wave at you.
We are getting rain of biblical proportions here. A cloudburst yesterday afternoon closed half the roads in Haslemere for a couple of hours. I hope the resevoirs are filling up nicely. Pleased to see that some of our sadder shrubs, that shed leaves in the drought, are now putting on new growth.
Bit of a courgette glut here (slow to get going, but really motoring now) so made a courgette cake last night. It went down very well 👌🏻. Only used one courgette though, so didn’t really make a dent in the glut.
Citizens Advice today. Finally finished my bookwork training - time to get talking to real people. Feeling a bit nervous 😬
Afternoon all. I'm thinking my next garden project should be building an ark. We had an amazing thunder and lightning session the other evening and are watching Haslemere drown today from our hilltop view. Once the rain dies down in a few days I will resume my Sisyphean task of sweeping the garvel back up my drive from the road.
I think my external backup hard drive has died, maybe a victim of lightning strikes as the lights had been flickering during storms. I will see if I can mount it in my PC first as it is usually the electronics in the enclosure that fails.
We have a strange and sad garden visitor today, a robin/dunnock sized brown bird covered with tumours. It was making a good attempt to find seed but I fear it can't last long.
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More rain overnight 👍
however innards still a bit dodgy … perhaps I shouldn’t have had a pint of beer last night 🙄
Wonky had been in touch this morning … the builders doing some replastering seem to have bu$$ered the electrics and they were woken by the smoke alarm and buzzing from the meter cupboard. British Gas don’t deem this an emergency as they still have power … and suggested they call the Fire Brigade … Wonky is excessively pee’d off and her lovely hub is doing what needs to be done … presumably the landlords builders will be along as some stage … poor Wonky … not a good morning ((hugs)) 😞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope it gets sorted quickly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are off for a bit of Greek island hopping in a couple of weeks - but we are starting in Crete and working our way back to Athens, so won’t be able to wave at you.
We are getting rain of biblical proportions here. A cloudburst yesterday afternoon closed half the roads in Haslemere for a couple of hours. I hope the resevoirs are filling up nicely. Pleased to see that some of our sadder shrubs, that shed leaves in the drought, are now putting on new growth.
Citizens Advice today. Finally finished my bookwork training - time to get talking to real people. Feeling a bit nervous 😬