Citizens Advice today, but I have high hopes for finishing off my garden chores over the next few days - probably best to leave it for today anyway to allow the swamp (aka our garden) to drain a bit
We are having such a surprising autumn. Mild. To say the least. Again. Cloudy stratus sky with some blue. No rain. 16°C this morning with a high of 22°C. Naturally the heating nor the fire have been on. Best to leave the doors open in the afternoon or else the house is cooler than outside. What has winter in store for us?
Couldn't sleep last night but was engrossed in my book so didn't mind too much. But then I finished the book and was still awake. Found another I had started a while ago - Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins. Anyone here read it? @Allotment Boy? Of course I got more into it and before I knew where I was it was practically morning.
So a late start today which means I'm a bit out of sorts today. Giving myself the day off!
Your meal sounds lovely @Dovefromabove and so does your description. We are having sea bream. I'll make a sauce and choose some veg from the selection in the fridge that we bought yesterday.
It has been raining. We got up late and I cut OH's hair. CB the handyman is coming soon - to be paid.
I'm going to hem curtains this afternoon. I'll do it by hand as they are velvet, a soft grey. They are the same ones that I bought for the sitting room a while ago but they aren't really full enough for the front French windows and the shop had run out. Good thing I bought them yesterday as they were the last ones, shop is changing it's designs. I'm just going to add a third curtain to the other two. I had wanted rufflette tape pencil pleat ready made ones but they are unavailable here so they are the big metal eyelet sort. I only know of one fabric shop, which is half an hour from here, and they didn't have any nice curtain material.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon folks, just back from a lovely 2 day break in Winchester for OH's birthday. Good hotel right in the middle quite near to the Cathedral where we spent two hours yesterday doing a guided tour. Just as well as it poured with rain nearly all day. Today - brilliant sunshine and blue sky - isn't that always the way? I liked Winchester, had a different feel than Bath and had a good array of shops, unlike Bath now.
We made the swap to eyelet curtains a few years ago @Busy-Lizzie and now I much prefer them, so much easier not to faff about drawing the tape up to the exact size and thread all the curtain hooks. Ours hang nicely too, they're a kind of linen feel in duck egg blue and thermal lined which we need with our big 6 ft wide windows.
I'm not sure I even want to think about food at the moment @Dovefromabove, we ate very well in the hotel with a 3 course dinner one night and afternoon tea yesterday included in the price. Expecting DIL tonight though so it might just be a ready made lasagne.
The beech woods across from Winchester to Andover were all a blaze and looked stunning in the sunshine, we don't have so many round here, mostly ash, birch and horse chestnut.
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Citizens Advice today, but I have high hopes for finishing off my garden chores over the next few days - probably best to leave it for today anyway to allow the swamp (aka our garden) to drain a bit
We are having such a surprising autumn. Mild. To say the least. Again. Cloudy stratus sky with some blue. No rain. 16°C this morning with a high of 22°C. Naturally the heating nor the fire have been on. Best to leave the doors open in the afternoon or else the house is cooler than outside. What has winter in store for us?
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So a late start today which means I'm a bit out of sorts today. Giving myself the day off!
Your meal sounds lovely @Dovefromabove and so does your description. We are having sea bream. I'll make a sauce and choose some veg from the selection in the fridge that we bought yesterday.
It has been raining. We got up late and I cut OH's hair.
CB the handyman is coming soon - to be paid.
I'm going to hem curtains this afternoon. I'll do it by hand as they are velvet, a soft grey. They are the same ones that I bought for the sitting room a while ago but they aren't really full enough for the front French windows and the shop had run out. Good thing I bought them yesterday as they were the last ones, shop is changing it's designs. I'm just going to add a third curtain to the other two. I had wanted rufflette tape pencil pleat ready made ones but they are unavailable here so they are the big metal eyelet sort. I only know of one fabric shop, which is half an hour from here, and they didn't have any nice curtain material.
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Good hotel right in the middle quite near to the Cathedral where we spent two hours yesterday doing a guided tour. Just as well as it poured with rain nearly all day. Today - brilliant sunshine and blue sky - isn't that always the way? I liked Winchester, had a different feel than Bath and had a good array of shops, unlike Bath now.
We made the swap to eyelet curtains a few years ago @Busy-Lizzie and now I much prefer them, so much easier not to faff about drawing the tape up to the exact size and thread all the curtain hooks. Ours hang nicely too, they're a kind of linen feel in duck egg blue and thermal lined which we need with our big 6 ft wide windows.
I'm not sure I even want to think about food at the moment @Dovefromabove, we ate very well in the hotel with a 3 course dinner one night and afternoon tea yesterday included in the price. Expecting DIL tonight though so it might just be a ready made lasagne.
The beech woods across from Winchester to Andover were all a blaze and looked stunning in the sunshine, we don't have so many round here, mostly ash, birch and horse chestnut.
Hope all you poorly people are getting better.