Good morning all, not had chance to read back properly but I had to smile at the cute baby rabbits. Gatsby thought a large dead rat in the hallway was a more appropriate first of the month greeting!
Work has been manic and I have done lots of extra hours but the bonus is I have today off in lieu! Very excited to start my Christmas decorating! Cold and damp here a real murky day.
Fiancé off catering a wedding and son has started his new job working away so I have the house to myself. I can really get on now.
Morning all. Ante enjoy your walk with Max. LB I slept well and was well wrapped up and woke up without an alarm. Enjoy your festive lunch, have fun. Covid jab today. So fingers crossed. Have a good day all.
Morning all. I have a hair appointment late this afternoon so I'm hoping I can just make it home before it gets dark. Don't like driving in the dark but with the anti-glare coating I have on my glasses it certainly do pies the job of stopping glaring /blazingcar lights shining in my eyes. Going to finish wrapping my xmas presents today too and then I can relax. Rubee, hope you managed to get back to sleep. Nothing worse than waking up wide awake in the middle,of the night. Rosie, good luck with covid jab, you're getting your fair share of jabs these days,poor you. At least they will all be done then and you will be covered. Debs,nice to see you. Have a lovely peaceful day getting on with your decorations. Son and fiancée will get a nice surprise when they return home. LB, enjoy your christmas lunch and catchup with friends. Have a good time too with friend from Crewe and enjoy her company overnight. Ante,hope you have a decent day and what a relief the wind has dropped. I don't like wind,as you know, so at least your walk with Max won't be too hard battling against wind. Busy, enjoy your lunch out too and the catch up with your friend.
Good morning Just got back from helping to set up the tables and loading them with goodies for the church Christmas fayre tomorrow. It was very cold in church,it’s an old stone building and the heating wasn’t on (trying to reduce costs where possible). So at the moment I’m warming myself up with a nice hot coffee before going out again to collect some wreaths for the cemetery and one for the front door. Managed to post all the Christmas cards on the way home from the church. Luckily the post box was not too full and fingers crossed that it will be emptied today after the last two days of strike action. It’s in the hands of the gods now as to whether they reach the recipients before Christmas, but 🤞. LB enjoy your lunch with your friends. 🤞that you make it home before it gets too dark @Songbird-2 . Enjoy the walk with your dog this afternoon, @Ante1.
Well, the sun has come out and it is ,unexpectedly, quite nice outside. OH has planted out the yew tree and I've potted up some new grape hyacinths we've recently bought. It was so pleasant to be outside and see all the little bulbs popping up all over the place, it was very uplifting and we really enjoyed it. Well done @Red maple on getting the tables up and loaded. If I lived nearer to you, I'd be there tomorrow! I do miss having a Christmas fayre to browse around at this time of year.I hope it's a roaring success for you all.
Thank you @Songbird-2. To say that we don’t usually get many coming to our fayres anymore, the ones who do are very generous, so we usually raise a decent amount for our church funds, so 🤞that tomorrow is the same. Like you, the sun is attempting to shine this pm, and we had a brief spell of blue sky - perhaps just enough to make a pair of sailors trousers 😂, but it’s gone all shy again and disappeared. Well done with getting some gardening done.
I will be helping with our church Christmas Fayre too next weekend. Will have to make some mince pies and a cake for it this week.
I posted my Christmas cards to English friends and family this morning. Will write the French ones this week.
My friend gave us fish pie for lunch which had yummy big fat prawns in it. I went to first OH's grave in the afternoon which needed more than just tidying up. I left OH with F in front of her woodburner.
A horrid wild weed cornus had grown into the rose that I'd planted on the grave years ago. I should have dug the cornus out last year when it was young but I hadn't got my fork so I cut it down. Son cut it down again this year. I dug it up today, had to dig the rose up with it. The cornus had huge roots some had gone sideways and had new plants growing on them. It took just over an hour to dig it up. I had to prune off some of the roots. I hope they don't grow into new bushes.
I will plant the rose in the garden here. It wasn't watered during the heatwave and is very spindly. I planted it in 1999, the year after OH died. It was a present from his sister for our 25th wedding anniversary in July 1998, called Silver Anniversary. OH died that November, heart attack. He was 53, I was 47. I hope it survives, it's old now, has a big lumpy root and rather feeble stems, but it was lovely in the past.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Red maple, I’ve never heard of that saying before about making sailors trousers,,I'll have to try and remember that one. Such a shame that visitors to these events are dwindling these days, I remember them very well from my childhood and youth. Busy,,you will be busy too come next week. I hope all goes well. Such a shame about the overgrowth st your first Oh's grave but good that you've managed to get a lot of it out. Keep your eyes open for those bits of roots which may start to grow again. It will look much better now after your hard work and attention.
Got my hair cut after a mad dash around town for some bits of shopping....car parks full but town centre mainly empty so don't know where the folks were. The shops I visited weren't that busy either. Have gone very tired so will sign out for tonight. Looking forward to the Gardeners World Winter Special programme tonight. Have a good evening all.
Watching the reframe about Agatha Christie’s life later. I had my covid jab. It was one I’d had before thankfully. Laying on the bed for a little while as rather an exhausting day. Hope you all sleep well.
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Going to finish wrapping my xmas presents today too and then I can relax.
Rubee, hope you managed to get back to sleep. Nothing worse than waking up wide awake in the middle,of the night.
Rosie, good luck with covid jab, you're getting your fair share of jabs these days,poor you. At least they will all be done then and you will be covered.
Debs,nice to see you. Have a lovely peaceful day getting on with your decorations. Son and fiancée will get a nice surprise when they return home.
LB, enjoy your christmas lunch and catchup with friends. Have a good time too with friend from Crewe and enjoy her company overnight.
Ante,hope you have a decent day and what a relief the wind has dropped. I don't like wind,as you know, so at least your walk with Max won't be too hard battling against wind.
Busy, enjoy your lunch out too and the catch up with your friend.
Just got back from helping to set up the tables and loading them with goodies for the church Christmas fayre tomorrow. It was very cold in church,it’s an old stone building and the heating wasn’t on (trying to reduce costs where possible). So at the moment I’m warming myself up with a nice hot coffee before going out again to collect some wreaths for the cemetery and one for the front door.
Managed to post all the Christmas cards on the way home from the church. Luckily the post box was not too full and fingers crossed that it will be emptied today after the last two days of strike action. It’s in the hands of the gods now as to whether they reach the recipients before Christmas, but 🤞.
LB enjoy your lunch with your friends.
🤞that you make it home before it gets too dark @Songbird-2 .
Enjoy the walk with your dog this afternoon, @Ante1.
Well done @Red maple on getting the tables up and loaded. If I lived nearer to you, I'd be there tomorrow! I do miss having a Christmas fayre to browse around at this time of year.I hope it's a roaring success for you all.
Like you, the sun is attempting to shine this pm, and we had a brief spell of blue sky - perhaps just enough to make a pair of sailors trousers 😂, but it’s gone all shy again and disappeared. Well done with getting some gardening done.
I posted my Christmas cards to English friends and family this morning. Will write the French ones this week.
My friend gave us fish pie for lunch which had yummy big fat prawns in it. I went to first OH's grave in the afternoon which needed more than just tidying up. I left OH with F in front of her woodburner.
A horrid wild weed cornus had grown into the rose that I'd planted on the grave years ago. I should have dug the cornus out last year when it was young but I hadn't got my fork so I cut it down. Son cut it down again this year. I dug it up today, had to dig the rose up with it. The cornus had huge roots some had gone sideways and had new plants growing on them. It took just over an hour to dig it up. I had to prune off some of the roots. I hope they don't grow into new bushes.
I will plant the rose in the garden here. It wasn't watered during the heatwave and is very spindly. I planted it in 1999, the year after OH died. It was a present from his sister for our 25th wedding anniversary in July 1998, called Silver Anniversary. OH died that November, heart attack. He was 53, I was 47. I hope it survives, it's old now, has a big lumpy root and rather feeble stems, but it was lovely in the past.
Busy,,you will be busy too come next week. I hope all goes well. Such a shame about the overgrowth st your first Oh's grave but good that you've managed to get a lot of it out. Keep your eyes open for those bits of roots which may start to grow again. It will look much better now after your hard work and attention.
Have gone very tired so will sign out for tonight. Looking forward to the Gardeners World Winter Special programme tonight. Have a good evening all.