A very good morning Ante. I am still working out what is good about it as it is still raining! Watching quite shocking news from Rhodes this morning. I just couldn't bear that extreme heat. I feel very sorry for all those people.
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Busy, I did smile reading your post about your hungry grandsons. It sounds like you have been descended upon by a cloud of locusts.Hope they all enjoyed their swimming and canoeing.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Good morning all. Dry this morning after heavy rain last night. I put Graham in the greenhouse overnight he has a little shelter in the garden but I don’t think it’s enough.
More ho******rk today and maybe some garden tidying. My poor petunias all need dead heading. They do hate the rain don’t they?
@Busy-Lizzie I remember when my 3 boys were younger all skinny lads but they could really eat! Particularly carbohydrates so we always had bread in the house. And cereals by the ton! Girls are not quite as bad although I remember a friend saying “Claire,always making toast!”
Good morning everyone. Rain hasn’t stopped for several hours .Feeding growing children is never ending . I remember the constant smell of toast . I think indoor activities today for me . Enjoy your day folks .
Morning all. Garden got a good watering yesterday - hurrah! If we can have one or two days a month like that it will be perfect. Have no idea how people are coping with the heat in southern Europe.
Ante - Hope you and your small holding are bearing up ok. Can you read Latin? Presumably there is quite a lot of it in old Croatian buildings? I can already do a bit and it's often a relief when I find Latin inscriptions in churches etc when I'm abroad. They're much the same wording as those in English churches so often easier to translate.
LB - Think my Latin is at about the same level as yours. Seems we both learned about love and tables.... Did the boy run to the school in your book as well? My school text books were printed before WW1 so tiny print and fairly arcane language. Dry as heck. Trying to get my head around cases and declensions yesterday was making my brain implode.
BL - the description of feeding your family made me smile. We always said my brother had hollow legs when he was about 13. Seemed impossible to fill him up and he was skinny as a rake.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Good afternoon, another wet day. I think July is heading for one of the wettest in some time. I wonder if we’ll get any summer weather back in August (though if we do, I hope the not blistering temps Europe is experiencing, it’s dreadful for them, especially now all the fires are breaking out). Indoor tasks for me, too, I think as it’s too wet to go into the garden. Baked the banana loaf today rather than yesterday, so will sample some later.
The family have gone canoeing on the river, they left after an early lunch. OH and I had a quiet late lunch after they'd gone. I've been doing some pruning and dead heading.
Confit de canard tonight which is a speciality of the region. Slow cooked duck. With roast potatoes, carrots and broccoli. That should fill them up!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good afternoon all. It has never stopped raining all day today which is most frustrating. The lane is flooded in 3 areas. Probably blocked up road drains. Friends of mine who are rabid Wigan Warriors supporters have gone across to Headingly for the second semi final match this weekend. They will be like drowned rats.
T'Bird, I don't remember a running boy (was boy puer?) but I do remember lots of Latin 'maidens' which in my naivety (well I was only 13!) I translated as 'virgins'. I totally despised my Latin teacher - his name was Vincent Kelly. Any mistake had to be written out 10 times as a punishment and I filled many many exercise books in that subject. I seem to remember a book called 'From Ur to Rome' which may have been a 'reader'.
@Red maple, I think I may have said the other day that it feels more like Autumn now than Summer.
Busy, how long are your family staying? You might have to make a mega shopping session tomorrow.
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Debs, I know what you mean about rain battered petunias. They sort of droop and sulk. I haven't grown them for a while but I do remember how delicious they smell.
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I think indoor activities today for me . Enjoy your day folks .
Ante - Hope you and your small holding are bearing up ok. Can you read Latin? Presumably there is quite a lot of it in old Croatian buildings? I can already do a bit and it's often a relief when I find Latin inscriptions in churches etc when I'm abroad. They're much the same wording as those in English churches so often easier to translate.
LB - Think my Latin is at about the same level as yours. Seems we both learned about love and tables.... Did the boy run to the school in your book as well? My school text books were printed before WW1 so tiny print and fairly arcane language. Dry as heck. Trying to get my head around cases and declensions yesterday was making my brain implode.
BL - the description of feeding your family made me smile. We always said my brother had hollow legs when he was about 13. Seemed impossible to fill him up and he was skinny as a rake.
another wet day. I think July is heading for one of the wettest in some time. I wonder if we’ll get any summer weather back in August (though if we do, I hope the not blistering temps Europe is experiencing, it’s dreadful for them, especially now all the fires are breaking out).
Indoor tasks for me, too, I think as it’s too wet to go into the garden.
Baked the banana loaf today rather than yesterday, so will sample some later.
Confit de canard tonight which is a speciality of the region. Slow cooked duck. With roast potatoes, carrots and broccoli. That should fill them up!