Well nearly. What a hammering we got @punkdoc The Boks had the game from the start and the Blacks were nervous throughout. We'll get our revenge but you could practically hear the French commentators licking their lips at the prospect of playing the Blacks.
No sign of rain on the horizon but the temperature has gone down to 23°C so someone is getting it!! No wind, no sun, no snails either!!
I doubt whether there are any Caesars where you are, but I know of one in our neighbourhood - but if you are, then it's your day: A la Saint Césaire, la dernière forte chaleur en l'air.
Enjoy your Saturday family day @Busy-Lizzie I hope the rain holds off for you.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Framlingham Castle figures huge in my life @Busy-Lizzie … I played there for many many hours as a child and so did Wonky and her brother. I’ve had school history lessons within the walls, performed Shakespeare’s plays there with the Outside Seating Company, attended concerts, had picnics and all sorts of fun. My son had birthday celebrations there with his friends, sledging down the steep slopes of the snow-covered mound … I knew every inch of it like other children know their own back gardens. It’s part of my soul. Your OH must’ve been so pleased as those steps up to the ramparts aren’t easy! Very pleased for him. 😀
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you, @coccinella and @tui34. I slept really well, until 8.15am. I did know a Caesar, the previous owner's donkey that I looked after for 9 months after I moved here until he was re-homed.
Did you pay to get in in those days @Dovefromabove? Entrance was £16. They sound happy memories.
Off at 10.30am to Son2's birthday. I'll come home tonight but the rest of the family are staying. They are bringing a couple tents for the older children who want to camp, but it may rain tonight.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, we had a rude awakening at 5 am with a huge storm and torrential rain, the plants are all looking much chirpier despite the rain being so heavy. Lovely pictures @Pat E Pixel looks very comfortable! Enjoy your family day @Busy-Lizzie and i will catch up with you all later.
Morning all, looks like it had rained hard but is sunny now, although we're forecast thunderstorms by lunchtime.
We went to Framllngham Castle a couple of years ago and enjoyed a cream tea there. Couldn't manage the steps to the rampart though as it was before OH's hip op and I don't like heights. A very atmospheric place.
Hope the big birthday lunch goes okay and the rain stays away @Busy-Lizzie.
We've got another contractor coming this morning to give us a quote for the new drive so I'd better go and get washed and dressed!
No charge to access the huge area around the Inner Court, including the mound, the Bailey and the Lower Court @Busy-Lizzie and I’m pretty sure that’s still the situation … and that was the favourite spot for family picnics, games of cricket or rounders and all sorts of fun and games as well as staging plays etc. We played in the base of a ruined tower, imagined steps down to dungeons and galloped our horses across the huge grassed Lower Court surrounded by earthworks and the remains of huge stone walls and ramparts … it’s the sort of place where children can let their imagination fly free and we were knights in armour, Robin Hood, Lancelot and Guinevere … you name it … the stone walls hold memories of them all. 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH is at work and I’ve got a ragú simmering for a spag Bol this evening (lots of small homegrown tomatoes were whizzed in the liquidiser instead of using tinned ones). I’ve picked courgettes for Wonky and her Lovely Hub who will be calling in later to pick up tickets on their way to the festival. The floors have been dealt with by ‘Vernon the Vax’ and watering has been done … the athletics in Budapest await me …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Those steps to the ramparts at Fram. Castle are very tricky! Hats off to C. for managing them @Busy-Lizzie!
About to go into town with daughter so we can jointly buy a 50th b'day present for the niece who is coming up with her family and my sis and bro-in-law at the weekend to celebrate. What with that, daughter's OH's 50th and g'daughter's 18th all in the same week - I really ought not to be buying plants as well. Oops.
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Well nearly. What a hammering we got @punkdoc The Boks had the game from the start and the Blacks were nervous throughout. We'll get our revenge but you could practically hear the French commentators licking their lips at the prospect of playing the Blacks.
No sign of rain on the horizon but the temperature has gone down to 23°C so someone is getting it!! No wind, no sun, no snails either!!
I doubt whether there are any Caesars where you are, but I know of one in our neighbourhood - but if you are, then it's your day:
A la Saint Césaire, la dernière forte chaleur en l'air.
Enjoy your Saturday family day @Busy-Lizzie I hope the rain holds off for you.
Framlingham Castle figures huge in my life @Busy-Lizzie … I played there for many many hours as a child and so did Wonky and her brother. I’ve had school history lessons within the walls, performed Shakespeare’s plays there with the Outside Seating Company, attended concerts, had picnics and all sorts of fun. My son had birthday celebrations there with his friends, sledging down the steep slopes of the snow-covered mound … I knew every inch of it like other children know their own back gardens. It’s part of my soul. Your OH must’ve been so pleased as those steps up to the ramparts aren’t easy! Very pleased for him. 😀
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you, @coccinella and @tui34. I slept really well, until 8.15am. I did know a Caesar, the previous owner's donkey that I looked after for 9 months after I moved here until he was re-homed.
Did you pay to get in in those days @Dovefromabove? Entrance was £16. They sound happy memories.
Off at 10.30am to Son2's birthday. I'll come home tonight but the rest of the family are staying. They are bringing a couple tents for the older children who want to camp, but it may rain tonight.
Lovely pictures @Pat E Pixel looks very comfortable!
Enjoy your family day @Busy-Lizzie and i will catch up with you all later.
We went to Framllngham Castle a couple of years ago and enjoyed a cream tea there. Couldn't manage the steps to the rampart though as it was before OH's hip op and I don't like heights. A very atmospheric place.
Hope the big birthday lunch goes okay and the rain stays away @Busy-Lizzie.
We've got another contractor coming this morning to give us a quote for the new drive so I'd better go and get washed and dressed!
… and that was the favourite spot for family picnics, games of cricket or rounders and all sorts of fun and games as well as staging plays etc. We played in the base of a ruined tower, imagined steps down to dungeons and galloped our horses across the huge grassed Lower Court surrounded by earthworks and the remains of huge stone walls and ramparts … it’s the sort of place where children can let their imagination fly free and we were knights in armour, Robin Hood, Lancelot and Guinevere … you name it … the stone walls hold memories of them all. 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well it was sunny for at least an hour this morning, now it is grey and cold.
Never mind, plenty of sport on the TV to keep me occupied.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
About to go into town with daughter so we can jointly buy a 50th b'day present for the niece who is coming up with her family and my sis and bro-in-law at the weekend to celebrate. What with that, daughter's OH's 50th and g'daughter's 18th all in the same week - I really ought not to be buying plants as well. Oops.