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🐣HELLO FORKERS 🐣 April ‘23 🐣🐇
Dovefromabove
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April is here … spring has really sprung at last and the birds are singing in the mornings; there really are lambs in the fields, and now we can take the brakes off and sow all those tender plants that last year we promised ourselves we wouldn’t sow too early …
outdoor tomatoes, squashes and runner beans …
however we all know that ‘life’s tricky times’ don’t wait until we have the time and energy to deal with them … over the past couple of months I’ve been reminded of how the loving care and kindness of friends, even those we’ve never met, can give us much needed strength when the Fates bowl us a curved ball … so this is where we can pull up a comfy chair, put the kettle on, hand around that tin of biscuits and wrap a metaphorical arm around our gardening friends … and chat away about anything from the bits and bobs of life to the stuff that keeps us awake at nights … our collective shoulders are very broad ☕️ 🍪
outdoor tomatoes, squashes and runner beans …
however we all know that ‘life’s tricky times’ don’t wait until we have the time and energy to deal with them … over the past couple of months I’ve been reminded of how the loving care and kindness of friends, even those we’ve never met, can give us much needed strength when the Fates bowl us a curved ball … so this is where we can pull up a comfy chair, put the kettle on, hand around that tin of biscuits and wrap a metaphorical arm around our gardening friends … and chat away about anything from the bits and bobs of life to the stuff that keeps us awake at nights … our collective shoulders are very broad ☕️ 🍪
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy belated birthday to @didyw.
Rain and rain and more rain forecast here. Last night the wind against the shutters kept me awake, I doubt I will be able to even walk in the garden as wet as it is.
I started a puzzle yesterday and that is what I will probably do today. Meh.
Take care all and have a good Poisson d'Avril. Any proverbs for today @tui34?
Luxembourg
Extremely strong violent winds here. It blew and blew during the night, I could hear banging somewhere. Anyway, all is good here but some parts of France have been badly hit. The sun has made an appearance thanks to the wind. You can't have it all!!
Quiet weekend forecast but there are lots of jobs need doing - I seem to have lost my mojo somehow to do some painting, spring cleaning - all of which "can wait" !!
In general @coccinella you probably know the general proverb for April: En avril n'enlève pas un fil. For today being the 1st April the expression is:
Pluie de Saint Hughes, remplit granges et fournils.
Enjoy your first day of April - and there's no fool like an old fool!!
Happy Birthday @didyw
Damp and cold again, when will it end.
I will start to pot up the Dahlia tubers today.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
No lambs here, piglets instead. There are a lot of fields around here with pigs. There are little huts in them full of straw, piggy houses.
Do you remember the April Fool about spaghetti growing on trees?
The newsreader David Pujadas is one of the best known and most trusted faces on French television.
On 1st April 2009, during the 20:00 news on France 2 he explained that scientists had discovered that there were so many wind turbines on the Earth that they were slowing down its normal rotation.
As a result, days would lengthen from 24 to 25 hours.
There is a coffee morning at church today. Some of our friends will be going. I've made a dozen cheese scones for it. It's in aid of the church roof. I don't know how they'll ever pay for it, estimate £250,000. Grade 1 listed building. When it rains hard there are buckets on the floor for the drips.
Thanks for the birthday wishes for yesterday! A quiet day. All I had to do was pick up my car with its new clutch. Driving back was a dream! I suppose peace of mind whilst driving is as good a birthday present as any.
yet another grey start to the day. It is dry for the moment, but for how long I’m not sure.
I hope you enjoyed your birthday yesterday, too, @didyw 🎂.
Theres always something needed with an old church, sit there @Busy-Lizzie? Good luck with the fund raising. Like yours, ours is listed and 2 of the 6 bells have recently been condemned and approx £16000 will be needed to repair them. The remaining 4 can be rung, but they sound so off key without the other 2. One wall needs attention, too, with damp seeping inside again. A dwindling congregation means there just aren’t enough funds coming in. I fear it will close before much longer, and it’s been such a constant of the village. So sad.
A clever April Fool by the French newsreader, I wonder how many fell for it? 😂.
Dwindling congregations in parish churches mean that many have diversified, using the space for other events, fairs & concerts and so on, and why not?