A darker shade of grey in Lux. A few speckles of snow while I went shopping, now none. I have physio at 11, better wrap up warm. Hi @CrankyYankee looking forward to pics in your part of the world especially in autumn. Take care all
Lovely frosty morning today. When we moved here, a bit more than ten years ago, we didn't see starlings in the winter fields. A couple of years ago there were a handful, this morning quite a sizeable flock. The only thing that I'm aware of has changed in that time is the local pheasant shoot has stopped. I'm wondering if that's a coincidence ...
Hope you're all keeping warm
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Thank you for the warm welcomes - I'm never sure if I'm interrupting.
@Pat E - I'm not entirely sure what your situation is, but I love that you're feeling better! I have a few health issues and when they're alleviated it's the best feeling. Are those photos from yesterday? It's completely dead and grey here!
Dove, I can't recall what they are sending...it was one of those 'send us a donation and we'll send you ten sticks that may or may not live to be trees' offers. I think a few evergreens, maybe a dogwood and a maple? Here I am paying a tree company to cut down the overgrown areas on the property and I'm buying more trees to plant.
@coccinella - careful what you wish for, lol! I'm a hobby photographer and could flood a thread with my photos.
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Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
Morning all. Welcome @CrankyYankee. Yes, we like the odd photo on here but there are also plenty of themed threads and photo-based ones, eg. Autumn Colours, so please post some as I too would love to see any Autumn/Fall ones in particular.
It’s blimmin’ freezing here! Thick, cold fog all night. We have an old, cold house so we usually abandon the lounge over Winter in favour of a little snug next to the kitchen and swap to sleeping in the ‘spare’ bedroom. Anyway, the time had come yesterday to evacuate the Master bedroom as it was really cold in there so not a comfortable place to try to rest and recover from this cough and virus. I just need to muster the energy to vacuum and tidy the vacated room at some point today.
So pleased you are feeling a bit more like it @PatE must be a relief.
So glad you are feeling better @Pat E. And nice to see pictures of elms. Sigh. Welcome to @CrazyYankee - it will be fun to find out what your sticks turn into. Do keep yourself warm @AuntyRach, to give yourself the best chance of getting over your horrid cough and cold virus. There's a lot of it about.
Massive last minute admin going on for Sunday's Christmas Market here! I hadn't factored in other people doing their own thing! The shopkeepers get the opportunity to have the pitch outside their shops but it does cause headaches when they then offer that to completely different traders and I only find that out at the last minute. No - you can't have your wine merchant selling wine outside your shop - they don't have a TEN licence to trade on the street - I have to let the local authority know who is selling alcohol and all of this year's quota of TEN licences are now taken! And this other trader needs to be included in the pitch plan - how else will the stewards know where to put them when they arrive and they are them and not you!
But the forecast is for dry weather, so fingers crossed.
In other news - we attended the last of the Thursday lunchtime concerts for this year yesterday. It was wonderful - a baritone, a baby grand and cello all sounding lovely in the great acoustics there are in the church.
Hope @Hostafan1 managed to extract some joy from his birthday and will pop in and see us soon.
Afternoon all, rather cold here but no frost I think. It was only 2.3c at 9.30 this morning when I left the house for my usual walk, so it was brisker than usual! Walking through the orchard I became aware of a lovely smell like mulled wine - presumably from the rotting apples on the ground. Worth a few deep sniffs!
So pleased you are now feeling better @Pat E. Go easy on the h/w @AuntyRach while you are still feeling poorly - it can wait. OH has just vacuumed and I'm waiting for the tumble dryer to finish another load, I've already done one lot of ironing.
I really don't like cold weather, I don't want to do anything at all and would much prefer just to hibernate for the next few months. The house is lovely and warm but I've got 4 layers on, 2 pairs of socks and a blanket over my legs. I well remember my old dad telling me I was insulating myself from the warmth, could well be true.
Welcome @CrazyYankee, hope you can tell which trees are which when you get them.
@Didyw, hope all goes well with the Xmas Market preparations. Don't forget to take a deep breath and relax occasionally!
When do you expect the gas works to finish @Dovefromabove?
I hope the Christmas Market is a big success @didyw and the weather is fine. Our church fair is next weekend. I'm helping to set it up and I shall make mince pies and a cake for it. I will make mince pies for the Carol Service on Sunday week too.
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.
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Hi @CrankyYankee looking forward to pics in your part of the world especially in autumn.
Take care all
Luxembourg
Hope you're all keeping warm
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@Pat E - I'm not entirely sure what your situation is, but I love that you're feeling better! I have a few health issues and when they're alleviated it's the best feeling.
Dove, I can't recall what they are sending...it was one of those 'send us a donation and we'll send you ten sticks that may or may not live to be trees' offers. I think a few evergreens, maybe a dogwood and a maple? Here I am paying a tree company to cut down the overgrown areas on the property and I'm buying more trees to plant.
@coccinella - careful what you wish for, lol! I'm a hobby photographer and could flood a thread with my photos.
my health problems have only been with me since I caught Covid in September. 🤬
Do keep yourself warm @AuntyRach, to give yourself the best chance of getting over your horrid cough and cold virus. There's a lot of it about.
Massive last minute admin going on for Sunday's Christmas Market here! I hadn't factored in other people doing their own thing! The shopkeepers get the opportunity to have the pitch outside their shops but it does cause headaches when they then offer that to completely different traders and I only find that out at the last minute. No - you can't have your wine merchant selling wine outside your shop - they don't have a TEN licence to trade on the street - I have to let the local authority know who is selling alcohol and all of this year's quota of TEN licences are now taken! And this other trader needs to be included in the pitch plan - how else will the stewards know where to put them when they arrive and they are them and not you!
But the forecast is for dry weather, so fingers crossed.
In other news - we attended the last of the Thursday lunchtime concerts for this year yesterday. It was wonderful - a baritone, a baby grand and cello all sounding lovely in the great acoustics there are in the church.
Hope @Hostafan1 managed to extract some joy from his birthday and will pop in and see us soon.
So pleased you are now feeling better @Pat E.
Go easy on the h/w @AuntyRach while you are still feeling poorly - it can wait.
OH has just vacuumed and I'm waiting for the tumble dryer to finish another load, I've already done one lot of ironing.
I really don't like cold weather, I don't want to do anything at all and would much prefer just to hibernate for the next few months. The house is lovely and warm but I've got 4 layers on, 2 pairs of socks and a blanket over my legs. I well remember my old dad telling me I was insulating myself from the warmth, could well be true.
Welcome @CrazyYankee, hope you can tell which trees are which when you get them.
@Didyw, hope all goes well with the Xmas Market preparations. Don't forget to take a deep breath and relax occasionally!
When do you expect the gas works to finish @Dovefromabove?
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.