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HELLO FORKERS 🍂 NOVEMBER ‘22 🍂 🍂 🍂

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  • The gas men and their big suction excavation machine and some small jcb type machines are digging up the pavement outside.

     We were asked if we need to use the car today …  we don’t … now we can’t … we have a moat across the driveway. 

    Lots of noise and some very cheery chaps. 👷🏼‍♂️ They’ve draped protective blankets over my car 😎 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    edited November 2022
    We had to go to Leclerc as well as The local Lidl doesn't do fresh milk ☹️
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Never really understood why the French are happy with UHT milk?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Nor do I, @GardenerSuze, but it keeps better in hot weather. They also tend to drink black coffee.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Evening. 

    I would have to seek out fresh milk too. Anyone who has ever had the unfortunate experience of having to drink tea with UHT milk 🤢 will be with me in the queue when the fateful phrase “don’t panic buy” is mentioned for some expected weather or transport issue. 

    I am one point improved on the poorly scale tonight! I’ve done an online SM delivery for tomorrow. They will definitely be able to tell from my order that a poorly, and slightly delirious, person has made the order. Paracetamol will be the first clue, then lemons, chicken soup and 3 types of chocolate biscuits. They will probably deliver in a Haz-Mat suit. 

    Have a good evening all. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • I’m glad to hear that at least you’re moving in the right direction @AuntyRach

    Here you are …
    💊  🍲 🍪 
    and this’ll help you sleep 🥃 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnnaBAnnaB Posts: 524
    Like many of you we have a blanket of fog/mist surrounding us all day. We usually have an 'either or' here, if we are blanketed then two miles down the hill our little village is clear, but many times I have driven out of our drive in brilliant sunshine only to find the village sitting comfortably under a cosy foggy blanket. 
    Glad to hear that you are feeling a bit better @AuntyRach, little steps in the right direction. Sending healing thoughts to the others of you not feeling tip top right now.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Evening all, got back from our trip away to Stoke to meet up with family. Lovely to see my brothers and sister again, but the Xmas meal was a disaster. We had been asked to prebook our selections the week before but were told when we got there that they had run out of turkey! We were gobsmacked to say the least! In the end they agreed to waive the bill so we only paid for drinks. Don't think we'll be going there again somehow. Quite surprised the next morning to find it heaving with customers coming in for breakfast, with some of the children still in their pyjamas.  Odd. No sign of a recession there seemingly, nor in the gridlocked roundabout outside Trentham Shopping Village later on.

    We left on Sunday to go and stay with old friends for a couple of days who lived fairly near.  Very enjoyable. They live in a very old, very large, 5 bedroomed farmhouse and were having trouble with their woodburner (and heating bills!) so warm woolly clothes were the order of the day. The journey home today across country was foggy most of the way but got very bad within 7 miles from home. Not nice at all and some idiot cyclist was on the main road, in heavy traffic and very thick fog, wearing black clothes and had no lights on his bike! A fatal accident just waiting to happen.

    Pleased to hear that you're feeling a little bit better @AuntyRach and hope you get to your Xmas do. 

    Hope the gas works don't go on too long @Dovefromabove.

    Time for an early night I think.

    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Morning all. 

    Dr visit yesterday. Not much news but I’m now on Prednisolone tabs, Carbimazole and Escitalopram.  😡 it never ends, does it! Talk about confusing.   Give me strength. 
    S. E. NSW
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Well, it’s taken me the whole day to read back through November, but at least I’m up to date now - just in time for Dove’s next month. 😁. 

    This last month has been awful for me. I have absolutely no energy and shortness of breath if I try to do anything. My Doc says it’s because of the thyroid problem, but she is hoping that the new medication regime will help bring things back to normal.  I really miss pottering in my garden. I spent three years (part time) studying for my Horticulture Certificate. As well as working Saturdays in a garden shop to get hands-on experience.  

    Currently, my head is so fuzzy, I have trouble remembering the names of my roses, etc.   A couple of days ago I was looking at one of my roses flowering below the veranda and could NOT remember its name. Hubby was of no use as he isn’t really into plants like I have been.  In the end, it irritated me so much that I went into my garden bookshelf  and found it. - “Peace”.    Doh!   

    S. E. NSW
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