I'm sorry about your OH @Rubee, I hope something can be done to relieve his leg problem.
I went to our gardening club rose group tea yesterday. There were 12 of us. Everyone brought a sample of beautiful roses from their gardens, but mine aren't out yet. It is always at a member's house. This time a lovely old French manor house with a beautiful garden. Our hostess had made sandwiches and 3 cakes. After tea we strolled around her garden.
Today we are going to lunch with a friend.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I was spitting feathers this morning tried unscrew the wall bracket for the curtain pole where pole meets bracket and there is something there without a screw head holding it in place on both brackets. Not strong enough to turn it will try pliers tomorrow it has a fine thread. Oh damn and drat plans scuppered.
Good afternoon It has now turned wet after a pleasant morning. It feels cooler, too. Took a trip to a well known electrical store this morning to buy a new printer. The other one ceased working, something to do with the printer heads apparently. Anyway, after checking it would cost more to repair it than buying a new one. So much for encouraging us to reuse, recycle. Fortunately, the store takes old products so happily took our old printer off our hands. Now OH is having fun (😡) trying to set up the new one. Not straightforward, despite it being the same make (though different model). He’s not a happy bunny. Typically, we’d not long since bought inks for the old printer, but couldn’t get a new printer that used the same model inks. We now have several inks to try to pass on. I don’t, for one minute, expect that will be easy. Hey ho. I hope you are able to get your curtain pole free @wfnp5bk4spsSNFYKh1. So frustrating for you. Your gardening club tea and garden visit sounds very nice @Busy-Lizzie.
Rubee, sorry to hear that you OH again has problem with pain in the legs. Hope pain can be somehow eased.
Red Maple, hope your OH finished with set up new printer
LB, Let 3 🤣🤣🤣. They are from city near to me where I go to GC and shopping. Believe me, it's quite modest for them.
Sorry for me absent last three days, but I have good reason. It was nice and dry weather, so I decided to plant potatoes. Forecast for next few days is heavy rain, so I didn't have much time. My neighbor doesn't have tractor anymore, so I plowed my fields with my cultivator. Only problem is that cultivator can't make rows for planting, and I made them by hand and my trusty hoe. It was heavy, but I'm finished and now can rain, and it's raining of course. Next few afternoons wil be just for resting
I am so fed up with rain. Was just beginning to rejig some pots and the heavens opened again. I have so much to swap about in the garden now things are growing, they are outgrowing where I have put them. Our ferns seem to growing upright and then spreading some huge leaves. Everything seems to be as twice as big as last year.
Rosie, have you tried a trick that my OH sometimes uses when he can't unscrew a screw- with screwdriver in place, you tap the top of the screwdriver ( with a hammer) as you turn it ( the screwdriver ) and that, somehow, loosens it. Mind you, there are some youtube videos of tricks to do the same. Also, Rosie, I managed to buy a small pot of parsley this morning, on your recommendation, which I will plant out ( when it stops raining) ,in its pot( as it can get a bit invasive?) next to the Apple Crisp Heuchera so thank you for that tip. Pesky slugs....
Ante, quite understand that working when the sun is out , is important, much as it is here right now.What a shame and what hard work you've had though without your friends tractor. Definitely time for a rest now.
Red Maple, my OH is the same with new printers etc - Nothing is the same when you buy new and it always seems more complicated......so that we buy new instead of repairing. Hope he gets it sorted out.
Afternoon all. It's a lovely sunny day here and I'll go outside for an hour or two in a bit - just waiting for something to finish cooking.
New hob arrived this morning and OH's mate will fit it tomorrow. Fingers crossed it all works ok. The camp stoves have been a blessing but it's not the same....
Hazel - parsley shouldn't become invasive. It'll probably last through to next year and then go to seed so, if you're lucky, it might seed around a bit but I wouldn't bet on it. I struggle to grow parsley in my garden - it's normally too dry. Have to grow it in a pot or somewhere next to a tap.
Rubee - sounds as though you and your OH are really struggling at the moment - thoughts are with you both.
Rosie - You've been busy! I wonder if there's a little grub screw holding the pole in place on the bracket (so it doesn't slide along when you draw the curtains). You will probably need either an allen key or a small flat headed screw driver to get it out.
BL - that picture is a lovely reminder of a friend🙂
LB - had a look at your garden pictures. I have no idea how you manage to do so much - you're only little!!
Lily - one of our neighbours died while we were away. The family have had to wait 5 weeks to get a funeral date - such a long time to be waiting and in limbo. It sounds as though you are in the same situation. Thoughts are with you and the family.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Hello all. I have had a great day in Ambleside - and the weather was kind to us as well. Saw lots of teeny tiny lambs - fantastic.
Ruby, so, so sorry to hear about your OH. I don't know how he manages. How nice to have some paeonies arrive. Do you know which ones they are?
Hazel, pleased to hear that you got the parsley plants you wanted for your garden and I agree with T'Bird in that parsley is not invasive. I believe that rings of sand around your plants deter slugs as do wool pellets.
Yes, Busy, you did have that wonderful afternoon I see. Tea and cakes as well. Bonus!
Rosie, I sometimes think that DIY does its very best to thwart us. I find that usually all screws bar the very last come out easily and then the last one will defy nature to stop us undoing it.
Red maple - try putting them on Vinted. Its amazing what goes on there.
Ante, you have been so busy but I am glad that despite not having the tractor to help, you managed to get your potatoes planted and this time God bless the rain!
Going back to Let 3, I did start to get twitchy when they started to take their clothes off but they didn't go 'the full monty'. I had heard about their liking to perform naked!
T'Bird, you had me guessing until I saw Hazel's comment and your explanation Fingers crossed all goes well with the hob fixing tomorrow.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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I'm sorry about your OH @Rubee, I hope something can be done to relieve his leg problem.
I went to our gardening club rose group tea yesterday. There were 12 of us. Everyone brought a sample of beautiful roses from their gardens, but mine aren't out yet. It is always at a member's house. This time a lovely old French manor house with a beautiful garden. Our hostess had made sandwiches and 3 cakes. After tea we strolled around her garden.
Today we are going to lunch with a friend.
It has now turned wet after a pleasant morning. It feels cooler, too.
Took a trip to a well known electrical store this morning to buy a new printer. The other one ceased working, something to do with the printer heads apparently. Anyway, after checking it would cost more to repair it than buying a new one. So much for encouraging us to reuse, recycle. Fortunately, the store takes old products so happily took our old printer off our hands. Now OH is having fun (😡) trying to set up the new one. Not straightforward, despite it being the same make (though different model). He’s not a happy bunny. Typically, we’d not long since bought inks for the old printer, but couldn’t get a new printer that used the same model inks. We now have several inks to try to pass on. I don’t, for one minute, expect that will be easy. Hey ho.
I hope you are able to get your curtain pole free @wfnp5bk4spsSNFYKh1.
So frustrating for you.
Your gardening club tea and garden visit sounds very nice @Busy-Lizzie.
Rubee, sorry to hear that you OH again has problem with pain in the legs. Hope pain can be somehow eased.
Red Maple, hope your OH finished with set up new printer
LB, Let 3 🤣🤣🤣. They are from city near to me where I go to GC and shopping. Believe me, it's quite modest for them.
Sorry for me absent last three days, but I have good reason. It was nice and dry weather, so I decided to plant potatoes. Forecast for next few days is heavy rain, so I didn't have much time. My neighbor doesn't have tractor anymore, so I plowed my fields with my cultivator. Only problem is that cultivator can't make rows for planting, and I made them by hand and my trusty hoe. It was heavy, but I'm finished and now can rain, and it's raining of course. Next few afternoons wil be just for resting
Rosie, have you tried a trick that my OH sometimes uses when he can't unscrew a screw- with screwdriver in place, you tap the top of the screwdriver ( with a hammer) as you turn it ( the screwdriver ) and that, somehow, loosens it. Mind you, there are some youtube videos of tricks to do the same.
Also, Rosie, I managed to buy a small pot of parsley this morning, on your recommendation, which I will plant out ( when it stops raining) ,in its pot( as it can get a bit invasive?) next to the Apple Crisp Heuchera so thank you for that tip. Pesky slugs....
Ante, quite understand that working when the sun is out , is important, much as it is here right now.What a shame and what hard work you've had though without your friends tractor. Definitely time for a rest now.
Red Maple, my OH is the same with new printers etc - Nothing is the same when you buy new and it always seems more complicated......so that we buy new instead of repairing. Hope he gets it sorted out.
New hob arrived this morning and OH's mate will fit it tomorrow. Fingers crossed it all works ok. The camp stoves have been a blessing but it's not the same....
Hazel - parsley shouldn't become invasive. It'll probably last through to next year and then go to seed so, if you're lucky, it might seed around a bit but I wouldn't bet on it. I struggle to grow parsley in my garden - it's normally too dry. Have to grow it in a pot or somewhere next to a tap.
Rubee - sounds as though you and your OH are really struggling at the moment - thoughts are with you both.
Rosie - You've been busy! I wonder if there's a little grub screw holding the pole in place on the bracket (so it doesn't slide along when you draw the curtains). You will probably need either an allen key or a small flat headed screw driver to get it out.
BL - that picture is a lovely reminder of a friend🙂
LB - had a look at your garden pictures. I have no idea how you manage to do so much - you're only little!!
Lily - one of our neighbours died while we were away. The family have had to wait 5 weeks to get a funeral date - such a long time to be waiting and in limbo. It sounds as though you are in the same situation. Thoughts are with you and the family.
BL's garden and LB's picture was what I meant to say!
We've just had a lot of thunder but only about 2 minutes of rain. Blue sky again now.
Hazel, don't worry about parsley, it's not invasive at all. They rarely self seed all around.