Morning all. Been feeling a bit yuck myself these last few days, think I could do with a few days of nice dry weather to get into kick start mode again. Welcome home Hosta hope your holiday has been a success and you now feel more relaxed and rested. Hugs for DD and pain soothing wishes to Punkdock. Have a peaceful Saturday everyone.
Rain forecast for today, but so far the sun has come up and the sky is clear. Mild again with 22°C predicted for this afternoon. (i wrote this, this morning. The days is bright and sunny and warm. Went out to do a couple of errands, met some friends - come and have coffee at the café - an hour later......
I emptied my wildlife pond yesterday - it drained out slowly as there is a massive amount of silt on the bottom. I will just have to scrape it out with a small plastic shovel as best as I can. Can't get it perfect - but it desperately needed some attention.
I am sorry to hear your news @D0rdogne_Damsel This happened to me in June, so I am on my tod. Mine became a controlling situation too. Sometimes you just have to know when to let go. (Even if it's hard).
Well the Black Ferns won - sorry - but isn't feminine rugby so up and coming - getting more and more coverage as is the soccer. It's great!
As women @Dovefromabove we always blame ourselves. The path of resentment is an easy path to take and it's usually steep and you can get to the bottom quite quickly.
I've clearly missed a LOT. Hugs to you @D0rdogne_Damsel, sounds like you need them. X Being alone is rubbish. I never thought I'd be widowed before my 60th Birthday, nor how much it hurts. Overwhelming waves of grief.
Sounds like you are much better off on your own with Charlie @D0rdogne_Damsel. My sister is in a controlling relationship but she lacked the ability, and finances, to leave so learnt to fight back or withdraw or take what pleasure she could from her relationship. But it has made her bitter and quite difficult to be with sometimes. You are a shining beacon of what a strong, independent woman can achieve.
Shortly after my now OH and I got together he appeared back from a trip to his ma and pa's with a brace of pheasant his dad had shot. We hung them and then ate them. What was unusual about this was that we were living temporarily halfway up a tower block in West London and the pheasants were hung on our balcony where normally only pigeons visited! But I'm not keen on pheasant. Partridge on the other hand...
That's a lovely story @Dovefromabove and I see now that Banksy has been visiting Ukraine...
Welcome home @Hostafan1 - but it is still early days; of course you are still grieving.
I have been occupying myself in sorting out the details of a raffle we are running in aid of our local foodbank, to be drawn at the Christmas Market I'm running in early December. I could now take an exam in small lottery licensing. But the printed raffle ticket books have arrived and they look fab. And the woman I am doing it with has collected up loads of lovely prizes. Off to meet her soon to finalise details - we'll be selling tickets at the Christmas Lights switch-on too.
Hello all, Hugs and more hugs to all in need. A beautiful very warm autumn day here. The trees are at long last turning, they looked their best that i have seen for a long time as I drove to the next village to pick up a couple of things that we forgot on our main shop this week. Bonkers weather for November. @tui34 are you still on strict drought regulations down there?
I love partridge too … but I will only eat the red-legged French partridge that are more or less ‘farmed birds’.
Our native English Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, are now really endangered, they’re on the Red List, and responsible guns and well-run shoots will not permit them to be shot … sadly there are still plenty of shooting folk who are either ignorant or irresponsible, and some shoots which are not well-run, and it is still legal to shoot them. 😢
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Welcome home Hosta hope your holiday has been a success and you now feel more relaxed and rested. Hugs for DD and pain soothing wishes to Punkdock.
Have a peaceful Saturday everyone.
Rain forecast for today, but so far the sun has come up and the sky is clear. Mild again with 22°C predicted for this afternoon. (i wrote this, this morning. The days is bright and sunny and warm.
Went out to do a couple of errands, met some friends - come and have coffee at the café - an hour later......
I emptied my wildlife pond yesterday - it drained out slowly as there is a massive amount of silt on the bottom. I will just have to scrape it out with a small plastic shovel as best as I can. Can't get it perfect - but it desperately needed some attention.
I am sorry to hear your news @D0rdogne_Damsel This happened to me in June, so I am on my tod. Mine became a controlling situation too. Sometimes you just have to know when to let go. (Even if it's hard).
Well the Black Ferns won - sorry - but isn't feminine rugby so up and coming - getting more and more coverage as is the soccer. It's great!
I hope you all are having a pleasant day.
Tui
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hugs to you @D0rdogne_Damsel, sounds like you need them. X
Being alone is rubbish.
I never thought I'd be widowed before my 60th Birthday, nor how much it hurts.
Overwhelming waves of grief.
Shortly after my now OH and I got together he appeared back from a trip to his ma and pa's with a brace of pheasant his dad had shot. We hung them and then ate them. What was unusual about this was that we were living temporarily halfway up a tower block in West London and the pheasants were hung on our balcony where normally only pigeons visited!
But I'm not keen on pheasant. Partridge on the other hand...
That's a lovely story @Dovefromabove and I see now that Banksy has been visiting Ukraine...
Welcome home @Hostafan1 - but it is still early days; of course you are still grieving.
I have been occupying myself in sorting out the details of a raffle we are running in aid of our local foodbank, to be drawn at the Christmas Market I'm running in early December. I could now take an exam in small lottery licensing. But the printed raffle ticket books have arrived and they look fab. And the woman I am doing it with has collected up loads of lovely prizes. Off to meet her soon to finalise details - we'll be selling tickets at the Christmas Lights switch-on too.
A beautiful very warm autumn day here. The trees are at long last turning, they looked their best that i have seen for a long time as I drove to the next village to pick up a couple of things that we forgot on our main shop this week. Bonkers weather for November.
@tui34 are you still on strict drought regulations down there?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2008/09/03/partridge_skinner_20080903_feature.shtml
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.