Morning all, well, we survived! Not to be recommended perhaps but I was too tired to care. Looking stormy over the hills so expecting rain soon. Hope you enjoy your time with your neice @AuntyRach.
The knee injection should work quite quickly @tui34, and shouldn't be painful, good luck anyway. Good photos @Pat E, little and often walking is the key. I'm trying to rebuild my stamina after months of inaction and it's not easy, is it.
I felt so sorry for all those folks delayed at the airports yesterday, hideous if you've got tiny tots. One of the reasons we don't fly anymore.
Thanks Lizzie for confirmation of what I planned. Might get mucked up on Thursday. We’ve been advised that we won’t have electricity from 9 til 3.3. We plan on hiding in town. 😒
What fun @tui34! Hope the knee injection goes well.
Good to get those steps in @Pat E. And glad you had a bit of rain.
We've had more overnight but today is an admin day, not gardening. Even though I succumbed to plant buying yesterday. We were supposed to visit the sculpture trail but it was closed so went for coffee & cake instead to a plant centre. I bought a fatsia, hosta and trailing ceratostigma which looked lovely together in the trolley but only the fatsia and hosta will be together in the bed.
Luckily the Niwaki secateurs my daughter and I clubbed together to buy for her partner for his birthday arrived in time and he was very chuffed with them.
Hello all, the weather cant make it's mind up today, not too bad when the sun's out but a thick cardie needed when the wind blows, such a change from the 40 degree heat of a few days ago. I hope the knee is feeling OK @tui34, take it easy! We have no water today due to works somewhere but at least we had prior warning which usually we don't. I have three very large bottles of Sodium Chloride to wash my nose out with for three months.....lovely not! We are down to one garden fork which OH is always using so I must find another one tomorrow when we go shopping, so that I can try and keep on top of the bindweed a bit better!
Right, bread is out of the oven and a Courgette and raisin cake is cooking. son will be home win about 30 mins (please can we help him unload all his 'stuff' 'cos his PA/gofer went home this morning?) ... just as well MIL isn't due here until 1ish as she want to take us out to lunch ... when OH has finished his physio I'll wave Vernon the Vax around the sitting room and nip upstairs to change into something that doesn't have cake mixture down the front ... OH will have to listen out for the oven timer and give me a shout.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Quick update - my laptop has come back to life! I was so embarrassed when I rang the Helpline and she asked me just to double check by plugging the charger back on - oops, it worked straight away. Now why didn't it do that yesterday when we kept trying it?
Very relieved as I was lost without it yesterday and am now going to back up everything up with the memory stick OH bought me recently.
I baby sat for Son 2 last night so that his wife could take him out for a meal and the night in a lovely hotel.
The grandchildren were fine until it came to bedtime. Two yr old Charles is now in a bed, not a cot, so he kept getting up, then did a poo in his night time nappy. 4 yr old Eléonore howled every time I mentioned bed. Son rang at 10.15pm and she was still up. He mentioned bed on the phone to her and she howled again. He suggested giving her a baby bottle with hot chocolate in bed, seemed to do the trick. She was first up this morning too.
On the way home I stopped to look at wood burners. I'd like one for the sitting room fireplace. The wood burning shops near Périgueux were very expensive and the stoves were too big for the space. I went to the DIY place in my small local town and they had just what I wanted on special offer. It will be delivered this week. The chimney sweep said he could fit it and line the chimney at the end of October.
I also stopped at the glass and window place as the dining room window has a big crack. I couldn't get them on the phone the last 2 weeks. They had been on holiday. A man is coming to measure up tomorrow.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It's such a battle when grandchildren won't go to sleep when you're babysitting. I remember well my grandson when he was a baby. I'd looked after him all day and he just howled when I put him to bed about 6 pm. He was still at it by 8.30pm despite numerous trips upstairs to try to settle him and I was desperate for my dinner. In the end I just left him to cry himself to sleep, goodness knows what the neighbours thought and I didn't ever dare to tell his mum!
We thought about a woodburning stove for our sitting room when we moved in but decided our room was just a bit too small. We settled on an open fire and burnt logs at first but they made me wheeze too much. Can't be bothered now.
The neighbours on both sides have horses, but I don’t know which one this is from. 😏. The trouble for me is working our which one this horse is from. They all seem to have got rid of land lines and changed to mobile phones which we haven’t been told their new numbers so they’ll have to work it out themselves. Der!
We have rain promised for today, but only cloud so far. Still a bit cool.
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Hope you enjoy your time with your neice @AuntyRach.
The knee injection should work quite quickly @tui34, and shouldn't be painful, good luck anyway.
Good photos @Pat E, little and often walking is the key. I'm trying to rebuild my stamina after months of inaction and it's not easy, is it.
I felt so sorry for all those folks delayed at the airports yesterday, hideous if you've got tiny tots. One of the reasons we don't fly anymore.
Good to get those steps in @Pat E. And glad you had a bit of rain.
We've had more overnight but today is an admin day, not gardening. Even though I succumbed to plant buying yesterday. We were supposed to visit the sculpture trail but it was closed so went for coffee & cake instead to a plant centre. I bought a fatsia, hosta and trailing ceratostigma which looked lovely together in the trolley but only the fatsia and hosta will be together in the bed.
Luckily the Niwaki secateurs my daughter and I clubbed together to buy for her partner for his birthday arrived in time and he was very chuffed with them.
We have no water today due to works somewhere but at least we had prior warning which usually we don't.
I have three very large bottles of Sodium Chloride to wash my nose out with for three months.....lovely not!
We are down to one garden fork which OH is always using so I must find another one tomorrow when we go shopping, so that I can try and keep on top of the bindweed a bit better!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Very relieved as I was lost without it yesterday and am now going to back up everything up with the memory stick OH bought me recently.
The grandchildren were fine until it came to bedtime. Two yr old Charles is now in a bed, not a cot, so he kept getting up, then did a poo in his night time nappy. 4 yr old Eléonore howled every time I mentioned bed. Son rang at 10.15pm and she was still up. He mentioned bed on the phone to her and she howled again. He suggested giving her a baby bottle with hot chocolate in bed, seemed to do the trick. She was first up this morning too.
On the way home I stopped to look at wood burners. I'd like one for the sitting room fireplace. The wood burning shops near Périgueux were very expensive and the stoves were too big for the space. I went to the DIY place in my small local town and they had just what I wanted on special offer. It will be delivered this week. The chimney sweep said he could fit it and line the chimney at the end of October.
I also stopped at the glass and window place as the dining room window has a big crack. I couldn't get them on the phone the last 2 weeks. They had been on holiday. A man is coming to measure up tomorrow.
We thought about a woodburning stove for our sitting room when we moved in but decided our room was just a bit too small. We settled on an open fire and burnt logs at first but they made me wheeze too much. Can't be bothered now.
We have
rain promised for today, but only cloud so far. Still a bit cool.