Oh @Pat E - I am just the same with names of plants. Sorry to hear you are still feeling out of breath and lacking in energy. Slowly, slowly.
Today I have a gardener coming to give me a price on doing some work in the garden. It feels defeatist but I have realised that I am just not going to get some of the work that needs doing done by myself so he will look at the hedges, the climbing rose and the box that all need trimming.
Yes @Busy-Lizzie Snow is rare now except up in the high areas. The book of "dictons" that I have are sayings taken from early last century of people that worked the land.
Don't feel defeatist @didyw. I have someone to cut my hedge and I just feel relieved. You do masses of other stuff.
I enjoyed lunch at the village restaurant. First course was a delicious variant of cheese on toast. Aubergine and tomato purée topped with mozzarella dribbled with pesto grilled on baguette. Then a tender piece of pork with a selection of vegetables then chocolate fondant with pears and crême Chantilly. Followed by espresso coffee, all for 15.50€.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all, I was going to watch ETTC just now but realized the blasted football is on - again! Not a fan.
We had read about the turkey shortage prior to our 'do' but we think what had probably happened is that Trentham Gardens had a Christmas Craft Fair that weekend so the restaurant had been inundated, the lunchtime chef had used up all the turkey, leaving nothing for the evening bookings, which was unforgiveable. You could tell the evening chef was absolutely furious! We didn't mind having pork instead as we don't eat that often, but the others were a bit miffed.
What we did find highly amusing was at breakfast the next morning, when they offered us Yorkshire Puddings with Gravy! For Breakfast! together with the usual bacon, eggs, sausages etc. Never, ever, come across that before, is that a regional thing?
I'm taking it easy today as I feel quite tired, partly because I find being with lots of other people tiring. I've done a towel wash and walked to the shops and that's about it. DIL cooked a lovely meal of salmon plus parsley sauce, veg and mash followed by fresh fruit and chocs she very kindly gave us. I have a slight suspicion that perhaps she thinks our diet needs improving at our age!
Keep taking the pills @Pat E! Hopefully you'll soon pick up. My poor brother has to take about 13 pills every day, if not more. My SIL told us she spends an hour each week sorting them out (she's an ex nurse) into all the dated pill boxes.
I had a quick walk round the garden earlier after I'd refilled the birdfeeders and noticed we had more roses out plus one primrose.
Sending gentle hugs to @Pat E, hoping that your new pills help with sorting the thyroid problems. But please take plenty of rest at the moment as and when needed in case the possibility of long covid rears its ugly head. I caught covid whilst in hospital over Christmas 2020 and by March 2021 I wondered why my recovery simply wasn't happening. Long covid has bu**ered up my life completely since then, turning me from an active pensioner into a 'cant do a thing' without taking a long rest to recover. At our age (I will be 80 this Christmas) the medical folk tend to pat us on the head and tell us to realise that we are getting older! However I daily thank my lucky stars that I am alive, I know that two of the elderly ladies that I shared the ward with didn't make it. But your Doctor seems to be on the ball and hopefully getting your thyroid sorted will prove successful. Look after yourself. How's the lovely Pixel doing, any chance of another picture or two?
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Today I have a gardener coming to give me a price on doing some work in the garden. It feels defeatist but I have realised that I am just not going to get some of the work that needs doing done by myself so he will look at the hedges, the climbing rose and the box that all need trimming.
The seasons are changing.
I enjoyed lunch at the village restaurant. First course was a delicious variant of cheese on toast. Aubergine and tomato purée topped with mozzarella dribbled with pesto grilled on baguette. Then a tender piece of pork with a selection of vegetables then chocolate fondant with pears and crême Chantilly. Followed by espresso coffee, all for 15.50€.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We had read about the turkey shortage prior to our 'do' but we think what had probably happened is that Trentham Gardens had a Christmas Craft Fair that weekend so the restaurant had been inundated, the lunchtime chef had used up all the turkey, leaving nothing for the evening bookings, which was unforgiveable. You could tell the evening chef was absolutely furious! We didn't mind having pork instead as we don't eat that often, but the others were a bit miffed.
What we did find highly amusing was at breakfast the next morning, when they offered us Yorkshire Puddings with Gravy! For Breakfast! together with the usual bacon, eggs, sausages etc. Never, ever, come across that before, is that a regional thing?
I'm taking it easy today as I feel quite tired, partly because I find being with lots of other people tiring. I've done a towel wash and walked to the shops and that's about it.
DIL cooked a lovely meal of salmon plus parsley sauce, veg and mash followed by fresh fruit and chocs she very kindly gave us. I have a slight suspicion that perhaps she thinks our diet needs improving at our age!
Keep taking the pills @Pat E! Hopefully you'll soon pick up. My poor brother has to take about 13 pills every day, if not more. My SIL told us she spends an hour each week sorting them out (she's an ex nurse) into all the dated pill boxes.
I had a quick walk round the garden earlier after I'd refilled the birdfeeders and noticed we had more roses out plus one primrose.
Thank you RIP
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.