Flurries here during the night, but nothing left this morning except a glacial north wind at 80kmph!! Need to cycle to markets for fresh eggs. It's going to be a nippy zippy run!!
Some HW today is on the cards. A nice curry for lunch to warm up!! A tuck up on the couch with my book and a breezy walk with the dog this afternoon. Day done and dusted!!
I hope you are all warm and safely inside. Work or home. Enjoy your day.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Lovely pic @Pat E … keep swinging those arms 🤸♀️ 😉 The weather app is talking of snow here @tui34 … but we have clear blue sky at the moment and 1C apparently.
I think a quick trip to the supermarket will do for this week … we have plenty in the freezer, but could do with some stuff that the farm shop doesn’t stock, like loo rolls and decaf.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning, It’s a lovely bright but frosty morning here again. So much better than the grey, wet days of course. Sorry to hear you are struggling @Pat E and hope it’s not too long before the medication begins to kick in. It must be so hard to move about when you feel so breathless, though, so well done for trying. Ive tweaked something in my back so it’s quite painful but I’ll also try to keep moving as it seems to seize up when I stop for too long. Don’t rate this getting older malarkey 😅. Well I’d better move a bit more, I’ve a stew to put in the slow cooker. OH, bless him, is cutting up the veg for me. Hope this Friday is a good one. Take care.
We've been for a drive out into the country ... very wet underfoot out there and some rutted snow/ice on a single track lane, but otherwise the roads were fine and the sun was shining ... then we went to the supermarket and did what turned out to be quite a big shop ... lots of things we needed that the farm shop doesn't sell, EVOO, balsamic, moisturiser ... that sort of stuff. We also got some Cornish Sardines ... I took all that they had left so we'll probably have about 6 each ... they're proper sardine size, not bigger like pilchards, so that'll be fine fir supper, grilled with a lovely lemony dressing, with a salad and sourdough toast. Looking forward to that.
Glad we're back now; the blue skies have gone and it's raining.
Sounds a very tasty meal @Dovefromabove. It’s making my tummy rumble 😅. We’ve got beef stew and dumplings tonight, the stew is bubbling happily in the slow cooker and I’ll add the dumplings nearer eating time.
Yes, our blue sky is fast disappearing and being replaced with cloud now.
Afternoon all, seems we must be lucky then, beautiful clear blue skies here and brilliant sunshine. We had another very hard frost overnight which was a trifle unexpected as we though the temps were supposed to rise.
I've not been outside as I'm busy painting the inside of the laundry cupboard prior to putting everything back in. I've done two coats of white emulsion, very old paint but it will have to do. It's drying quickly with the warmth from the new boiler. It's lovely to be warm again!
Glad you enjoyed having the boys over @D0rdogne_Damsel, sounds great fun.
We've just had our SM delivery Dove, we find it's so much easier than fighting our way through the traffic into town.
Right, I'd better go empty the washing machine as it's just clicked off and see whether I need to put a third coat of paint on the walls, I'm trying to cover the original blue paint.
Had a neighbour and her dog round for coffee this morning. Now in the local town for a seaside walk. It’s still cold but very sunny, quite a few people sitting outside the cafe on the front. I can collect a couple of library books I ordered, which I’m looking forward to. Thanks again, Pat E, for suggesting the Corinna Chapman books, I’m now on number 4 in the series! Good light reading, I suspect the Expanse science fiction series is going to be heavier going. No gardening planned in the near future, luckily nothing seems to be growing out of control, although I can see the snowdrop shoots poking above the ground, and a couple of clumps of daffodils are making progress. Hope all have a reasonable weekend. All this food talk is making me hungry. A bought Waitrose pie for us this evening, but I’m getting ambitious thoughts after reading all the discussion on slow cookers and air fryers! I did bake four ginger cookies in the airfryer this morning. I made a batch of dough before Christmas, cut it up and froze it. Only took about 10 minutes on the bake setting.
Sounds like you had a lovely time with Charlie and his chums @D0rdogne_Damsel - as Dove said, just what you needed.
Perhaps work up to more exercise gradually @Pat E, do a little bit more each day. OH has just returned from the shops, breathless because he forgot to do his inhaler before leaving. OCPD.
Lovely day today - I much prefer cold and crisp to milder and soggy. Walked to Fen Farm - not far from me - to talk about a new Food & Drink trail for our town, as of course we are home to the now very famous Baron Bigod cheese. Jonny, who owns Fen Farm and who makes it, is lovely and had lots of suggestions. And I found out from him that there is a secret sauna on the river about a mile out from the town centre! Checked it out online - it looks lovely, and for hardier souls than me, access to the river for a spot of wild swimming too. (When we were young we just called it swimming in the river).
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Flurries here during the night, but nothing left this morning except a glacial north wind at 80kmph!! Need to cycle to markets for fresh eggs. It's going to be a nippy zippy run!!
Some HW today is on the cards. A nice curry for lunch to warm up!! A tuck up on the couch with my book and a breezy walk with the dog this afternoon. Day done and dusted!!
I hope you are all warm and safely inside. Work or home. Enjoy your day.
Lovely pic @Pat E … keep swinging those arms 🤸♀️ 😉
The weather app is talking of snow here @tui34 … but we have clear blue sky at the moment and 1C apparently.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are going to lunch with a friend. She's a good cook.
It’s a lovely bright but frosty morning here again. So much better than the grey, wet days of course.
Sorry to hear you are struggling @Pat E and hope it’s not too long before the medication begins to kick in. It must be so hard to move about when you feel so breathless, though, so well done for trying.
Ive tweaked something in my back so it’s quite painful but I’ll also try to keep moving as it seems to seize up when I stop for too long. Don’t rate this getting older malarkey 😅.
Well I’d better move a bit more, I’ve a stew to put in the slow cooker. OH, bless him, is cutting up the veg for me.
Hope this Friday is a good one. Take care.
Glad we're back now; the blue skies have gone and it's raining.
Sweet dreams @Pat E
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've not been outside as I'm busy painting the inside of the laundry cupboard prior to putting everything back in. I've done two coats of white emulsion, very old paint but it will have to do. It's drying quickly with the warmth from the new boiler. It's lovely to be warm again!
Glad you enjoyed having the boys over @D0rdogne_Damsel, sounds great fun.
We've just had our SM delivery Dove, we find it's so much easier than fighting our way through the traffic into town.
Right, I'd better go empty the washing machine as it's just clicked off and see whether I need to put a third coat of paint on the walls, I'm trying to cover the original blue paint.
Hope all have a reasonable weekend. All this food talk is making me hungry. A bought Waitrose pie for us this evening, but I’m getting ambitious thoughts after reading all the discussion on slow cookers and air fryers! I did bake four ginger cookies in the airfryer this morning. I made a batch of dough before Christmas, cut it up and froze it. Only took about 10 minutes on the bake setting.
Perhaps work up to more exercise gradually @Pat E, do a little bit more each day. OH has just returned from the shops, breathless because he forgot to do his inhaler before leaving. OCPD.
Lovely day today - I much prefer cold and crisp to milder and soggy. Walked to Fen Farm - not far from me - to talk about a new Food & Drink trail for our town, as of course we are home to the now very famous Baron Bigod cheese. Jonny, who owns Fen Farm and who makes it, is lovely and had lots of suggestions. And I found out from him that there is a secret sauna on the river about a mile out from the town centre! Checked it out online - it looks lovely, and for hardier souls than me, access to the river for a spot of wild swimming too. (When we were young we just called it swimming in the river).