Glad you managed your trip out @punkdoc a little breath of fresh air is so good for the soul. Many congratulations to Mr and Mrs @coccinella will you be having a celebratory meal? Hope you are feeling a bit better today @D0rdogne_Damsel, I'm sure it wont be long before you and Charlie make the new house feel like home from home. Glad you made it home safely @Busy-Lizzie, a meal outside sound just the ticket - enjoy. Been busy today supervising daughter's cutting back of a huge Montana that has been making a bid for freedom. These plants do seem to enlarge in size as soon as one's back is turned.
Thank you all for the good wishes. We had lunch in a brasserie in the middle of a public parc, then a walk, then home. We rented a flat nearby before we bought the house 25 years ago. It was lovely weather, sunny but not too hot. Lots of memories about the kids playing here a long time ago.🙂 Merl Park
Bike/run, markets and then hairdresser on the cards this morning. I have guests this evening so have taken a flap of lamb out of the freezer to marinate. Will complete with some pork ribs and that should make a nice bbq.
@coccinella Very nice spot for lunch. Isn't it nice to mark the day? Congratulations. You are game @Busy-Lizzie doing all that work in the heat. Careful now! But glad that OH can participate in these jobs. You have done so much on your own. Glad the car excursion was successful @punkdoc I was advised against going into vehicle for a month after my hip operation - apparently the vibration of the vehicle is not good. I did get out to walk around the block though!
Today is Victor's Day!! Quite a common name here in France. And the expression goes:
Quand il pleut le jour de Saint Victor, la récolte n'est pas d'or.
Good morning everyone, bright but high cloud here. We are going to visit my neice who has a little place in Broadstairs, weather forecast keeps changing so fingers crossed 🤞.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ we had an early start this morning as son left just after 8 … it’s over an hour’s drive to his office and he has an early meeting with clients (well … early for the entertainment industry).
OH has a morning visit to hospital for them to change his dressing etc and then we’ll pop into the city and I’ll get some sewing supplies and hopefully some fresh fish for supper. We fancy trout … son doesn’t like freshwater fish so I’ll find something else for him.
We had unexpected heavy rain in the night … it woke us as the windows were wide … I’d left some jeans and shirts on the line …. hopefully they’ll dry without another spin … the next rain isn’t supposed to arrive until this evening … 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good luck with getting rid of the spindly spiders @Busy-Lizzie. When we had our kitchen rebuilt it was literally a complete new build - the old one (an extension) knocked down and a new one built with thick insulation on floors, walls and ceiling. Before we had even got the units in we saw a couple of spindly spiders up in the corner by the ceiling.
We had that heavy rain too @Dovefromabove. The pattern seems to be nice and sunny in the mornings getting darker as the day goes on then rain.
Right - gotta prep for all the stuff I am taking to the pop-up shop.
Morning all, so pleased, I've just had the best night's sleep I've had for over two months. We're were at my sister's overnight and she very kindly gave up her bed for us - and she's about to cook us a lovely brunch so we'd better get up pronto!
Congratulations @coccinella, glad you enjoyed your special day.
I had to get my DIL to get rid of all those long legged spiders, there were lots when we got back from our trip to Rye. She's much taller than us so had a better reach. I don't mind them too much. Enjoy your family visit @Busy-Lizzie.
Hope @D0rdogne_Damsel got over her first night nerves and is settling in, will take a while. Our house was still a building site when we had to move in, so we slept on a sofa bed crammed right in front of a large window with no curtains and piles of packing cases to the ceiling behind us. No carpets, no kitchen and just about a bathroom. I didn't mind camping out at all, our generation are used to make do and mend. We were in! The removal men though were horrified and tried hard to persuade us to go to a hotel.
The tip about the plastic on the car seat was a good one @Dovefromabove, wish I'd known about that a couple of weeks ago when I needed it! It's good to get out of the house, glad you enjoyed the trip @punkdoc, although I don't think my OH got into a car until his 2 weeks check up a the hospital.
Right, just had the breakfast shout, better get on.
Another sunny morning, although it is supposed to cloud over later. We spent a few hours yesterday clearing back the plants by the fence along the roadside. Generated a huge pile of rhododendron prunings to be shredded, and I shifted all the assorted ferns, brambles and weeds that had crept along the bottom of the hedge. Very satisfying. Didn’t have the energy to do any shredding, but we have more than enough to fill the green bins for Wednesday. OH will be trying but failing to not watch the Grand Prix practice sessions this afternoon, so I am going to hop on the bus into Exeter and maybe buy a cardigan or two. I am going to have to tackle one of our mop head hydrangeas soon. It is well over twenty years old, has a few thick stems near the ground, but I have neglected it. So big and heavy now that it has partly broken some of its branches, all of which are still flowering beautifully. I shall have to bite the bullet and cut at least one stem back to near the ground. At least I’ll have some lovely cut flowers for the house. I’ve tried layering the longer stems but had no success with that. I do have some little cuttings I started off in water which are doing well, may be useful in the future. The shrubs are really not in a good place, it’s very shady there so bound to get leggy, but I can’t think what else to plant, and the pop of colour is so welcome in the summer when the rest of the garden is just green. Hope everyone continues to recover from their various ops, aches and pains. @punkdoc, we met a friend taking a walk on the prom, only a week post hip replacement. His wife confessed that he wasn’t supposed to be out in the car yet, but was desperate to see the sea. Seen him since and he is rock climbing again! Only complaint he had was it took him a long time to re learn how to walk normally, kept walking as if he was still protecting his painful hip as the habit had become so ingrained.
Hello all, overcast and cool here which is good as i have been up a ladder helping OH with guttering! I have plum comporte on the go but its a bit runny. Have to go as I'm needed up the ladder.
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Many congratulations to Mr and Mrs @coccinella will you be having a celebratory meal?
Hope you are feeling a bit better today @D0rdogne_Damsel, I'm sure it wont be long before you and Charlie make the new house feel like home from home.
Glad you made it home safely @Busy-Lizzie, a meal outside sound just the ticket - enjoy.
Been busy today supervising daughter's cutting back of a huge Montana that has been making a bid for freedom. These plants do seem to enlarge in size as soon as one's back is turned.
We had lunch in a brasserie in the middle of a public parc, then a walk, then home. We rented a flat nearby before we bought the house 25 years ago. It was lovely weather, sunny but not too hot. Lots of memories about the kids playing here a long time ago.🙂
Merl Park
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Bike/run, markets and then hairdresser on the cards this morning. I have guests this evening so have taken a flap of lamb out of the freezer to marinate. Will complete with some pork ribs and that should make a nice bbq.
@coccinella Very nice spot for lunch. Isn't it nice to mark the day? Congratulations.
You are game @Busy-Lizzie doing all that work in the heat. Careful now! But glad that OH can participate in these jobs. You have done so much on your own.
Glad the car excursion was successful @punkdoc I was advised against going into vehicle for a month after my hip operation - apparently the vibration of the vehicle is not good. I did get out to walk around the block though!
Today is Victor's Day!! Quite a common name here in France. And the expression goes:
Quand il pleut le jour de Saint Victor, la récolte n'est pas d'or.
Have a pleasant Friday everyone.
Not raining here@tui, but the golden veg aren't ready yet! Yellow courgettes and sweetcorn.
I have to do some HW, bedmaking, getting rid of spindly spiders (grandson is afraid of them) and cooking as Daughter 1 and family are coming tomorrow.
we had an early start this morning as son left just after 8 … it’s over an hour’s drive to his office and he has an early meeting with clients (well … early for the entertainment industry).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We had that heavy rain too @Dovefromabove. The pattern seems to be nice and sunny in the mornings getting darker as the day goes on then rain.
Right - gotta prep for all the stuff I am taking to the pop-up shop.
Congratulations @coccinella, glad you enjoyed your special day.
I had to get my DIL to get rid of all those long legged spiders, there were lots when we got back from our trip to Rye. She's much taller than us so had a better reach. I don't mind them too much. Enjoy your family visit @Busy-Lizzie.
Hope @D0rdogne_Damsel got over her first night nerves and is settling in, will take a while. Our house was still a building site when we had to move in, so we slept on a sofa bed crammed right in front of a large window with no curtains and piles of packing cases to the ceiling behind us. No carpets, no kitchen and just about a bathroom. I didn't mind camping out at all, our generation are used to make do and mend. We were in! The removal men though were horrified and tried hard to persuade us to go to a hotel.
The tip about the plastic on the car seat was a good one @Dovefromabove, wish I'd known about that a couple of weeks ago when I needed it! It's good to get out of the house, glad you enjoyed the trip @punkdoc, although I don't think my OH got into a car until his 2 weeks check up a the hospital.
Right, just had the breakfast shout, better get on.
Hope everyone continues to recover from their various ops, aches and pains. @punkdoc, we met a friend taking a walk on the prom, only a week post hip replacement. His wife confessed that he wasn’t supposed to be out in the car yet, but was desperate to see the sea. Seen him since and he is rock climbing again! Only complaint he had was it took him a long time to re learn how to walk normally, kept walking as if he was still protecting his painful hip as the habit had become so ingrained.