Owner of the horse has been identified now and he went home by himself. 👍 it’s still cold and threatening rain, so I’m still inside sewing up knitted gloves and dolls.
Good morning Nothing to report really, yesterday I went to the pool, I try to go twice a week. I don't actually swim but do resistance exercises with a floater tube thing. It helps a bit with the arthritis especially the hot jacuzzi which I go in at the end. The tooth whose root got broken 2 months ago is bothering me so I have an appointment next Monday to have it pulled out. Better to do it now and not risk an infection later on especially as son's wedding is getting near. @Lizzie27 I would have done exactly the same! Waste not.
Finally had a decent sleep until 6.30am. Woke at 4.30 for about an hour and drifted off to a podcast - but oh! those REM early morning dreams! So vivid!!
Glad the horse went home @Pat E probably just popped in out of curiosity. That's interesting @coccinella about the resistance exercises for arthritis. I have a good dose in my thumbs and pinky - both hands - maybe a tennis ball will help. Thank you @Lizzie27 and @floralies for your encouraging words. I think they are working!!
I'm sure it is autumn here - the sky is different somehow. Cool nights - and warm afternoons. 28°C predicted this afternoon. Reminds me of the days when grape harvest starts - leaving at 7am fleeced and cosy, but by 10.30am after a "breakfast" of baguette and pâté and grapes , the clothes were discarded. Now my FIL is 87 and the vines are on wire and harvested by the harvester. (TG!!)
Painful night more or less with hip - 2nd day of rest today, but I feel positive about it all. I will take a painkiller tonight - for the hip, of course!
Today: A la Saint Fiacre, soleil ardent, pour huit jours encore du beau temps.
BUT we are forecast to have rain on Saturday which is a bummer because it is open day for clubs to present their programme for the coming months with a light meal in the park area. I have booked as my niece and nephew are coming down for the weekend. It is only Wednesday, so things could change.
A beautiful bright morning here in Norfolk … a bit cooler than of late but I read yesterday that the Iberian Plume is on its way here and we’ll have a heatwave in a few days’ time … maybe 🤷♀️
It was lovely to see MIL yesterday … she wanted to check out a couple of nearby country mansion-type hotels so we did that and then she came back here for lasagne and salad and went home.
Son arrived just before she did and we’d got him bathed and the first load of post-festival laundry😱 😂 on the line. So it was a busy but lovely day. 😊
Not a lot of plans for today … we need to pop out and buy milk but that’s all that’s on the Must Do List. Supper will be an easy mushroom risotto for us and there’s plenty of lasagne left for son.
Have a good day everyone 😊
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Glad you got your laptop working again @Lizzie27. And that the horse went home by himself @Pat E. So annoying when people switch from their landlines to their mobiles. My sister did that - I called and called her landline and when she eventually called me she told me she had stopped using it and it was now in a cupboard somewhere. One of the advantages of a landline is that when you phone a family member or friend and get their OH you can have a little chat with them as well. Sounds like yesterday went like clockwork @Dovefromabove - but very busy! Mushroom risotto is a great standby. Yes - those REM dreams @tui34! OH had a drs. appt. first thing and I asked him to bring me a cup of tea before he went. He didn't - he brought it when he returned. I should have woken up while he was out but I kept going in my dream to try and get a better resolution to whatever was going on!
After my awful nights sleep ( or lack of it) we went to the seaside for breakfast and a walk. Beautiful sunny day, so we had a lovely stroll on the prom, then home for some gardening. I’ve cleared a barrow full of brambles, and OH has been chopping down our forest of buddleia and Leycesteria, totally out of control and blocking the path, as well as sheltering lots of bramble roots. Dug out several baby beech trees as well.
Afternoon all, it's been a very nice day here, sunshine and dry with a light breeze so I walked down with OH as far as the roundabout again whilst he got the paper and then walked home through the orchard - usually very quiet and peaceful but today the local farmer was busy baling hay? He looks like he's got it all baled up and back to the farm tonight fortunately as heavy rain is forecast for us tomorrow.
That might well scupper our plans to have a day out with my daughter (if she arrives, I've not heard from her yet!).
Sounds a busy day @Dovefromabove. Mushroom risotto sounds good, we've having butterflied sea bass with rice and mixed veg tonight and probably going to polish off the remaining apple and blackberry crumble with clotted cream. Had a S/M delivery earlier so the fridge is now well stocked!
I spent an hour or so weeding the side bed which the gardener was supposed to do yesterday, she missed several weeds hiding under other plants and doesn't seem to recognise geum urbanum as a weed. She's very nice and quite chatty but I'm a trifle unsure of her as a gardener.
I've had quite a busy day, starting with leaf sweeping. Almost filled a very big "big bag". Then I've been moving logs in the barn to make room for the metal Ikea cupboard I bought second hand to put small gardening tools in. I've swept out the barn, which is also the garage. The washing machine was busy too and I managed to get the dry washing off the line before the rain started this afternoon.
Tree man came, quoted 400€ to pollard the lime tree which is too near the house and coppice the scruffy, unfruitful hazelnut tree. He said the other lime tree, which is huge and near the donkey paddock, was beautiful. It is and it is in the right place. He said not to touch the other hazelnut tree which has lots of hazelnuts as it's beautiful too and quite old but has never been pruned.
Window man came, will send a quote. It's double glazed so the whole unit will have to be replaced. He will also quote for changing 2 kitchen windows to double glazed ones.
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it’s still cold and threatening rain, so I’m still inside sewing up knitted gloves and dolls.
Nothing to report really, yesterday I went to the pool, I try to go twice a week. I don't actually swim but do resistance exercises with a floater tube thing. It helps a bit with the arthritis especially the hot jacuzzi which I go in at the end.
The tooth whose root got broken 2 months ago is bothering me so I have an appointment next Monday to have it pulled out. Better to do it now and not risk an infection later on especially as son's wedding is getting near.
@Lizzie27 I would have done exactly the same! Waste not.
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Finally had a decent sleep until 6.30am. Woke at 4.30 for about an hour and drifted off to a podcast - but oh! those REM early morning dreams! So vivid!!
Glad the horse went home @Pat E probably just popped in out of curiosity.
That's interesting @coccinella about the resistance exercises for arthritis. I have a good dose in my thumbs and pinky - both hands - maybe a tennis ball will help.
Thank you @Lizzie27 and @floralies for your encouraging words. I think they are working!!
I'm sure it is autumn here - the sky is different somehow. Cool nights - and warm afternoons. 28°C predicted this afternoon. Reminds me of the days when grape harvest starts - leaving at 7am fleeced and cosy, but by 10.30am after a "breakfast" of baguette and pâté and grapes , the clothes were discarded. Now my FIL is 87 and the vines are on wire and harvested by the harvester. (TG!!)
Painful night more or less with hip - 2nd day of rest today, but I feel positive about it all.
I will take a painkiller tonight - for the hip, of course!
Today: A la Saint Fiacre, soleil ardent, pour huit jours encore du beau temps.
BUT we are forecast to have rain on Saturday which is a bummer because it is open day for clubs to present their programme for the coming months with a light meal in the park area. I have booked as my niece and nephew are coming down for the weekend.
It is only Wednesday, so things could change.
May you all have a good day.
It was lovely to see MIL yesterday … she wanted to check out a couple of nearby country mansion-type hotels so we did that and then she came back here for lasagne and salad and went home.
Son arrived just before she did and we’d got him bathed and the first load of post-festival laundry😱 😂 on the line. So it was a busy but lovely day. 😊
Not a lot of plans for today … we need to pop out and buy milk but that’s all that’s on the Must Do List. Supper will be an easy mushroom risotto for us and there’s plenty of lasagne left for son.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One of the advantages of a landline is that when you phone a family member or friend and get their OH you can have a little chat with them as well.
Sounds like yesterday went like clockwork @Dovefromabove - but very busy!
Mushroom risotto is a great standby.
Yes - those REM dreams @tui34! OH had a drs. appt. first thing and I asked him to bring me a cup of tea before he went. He didn't - he brought it when he returned. I should have woken up while he was out but I kept going in my dream to try and get a better resolution to whatever was going on!
That might well scupper our plans to have a day out with my daughter (if she arrives, I've not heard from her yet!).
Sounds a busy day @Dovefromabove. Mushroom risotto sounds good, we've having butterflied sea bass with rice and mixed veg tonight and probably going to polish off the remaining apple and blackberry crumble with clotted cream. Had a S/M delivery earlier so the fridge is now well stocked!
I spent an hour or so weeding the side bed which the gardener was supposed to do yesterday, she missed several weeds hiding under other plants and doesn't seem to recognise geum urbanum as a weed. She's very nice and quite chatty but I'm a trifle unsure of her as a gardener.
Tree man came, quoted 400€ to pollard the lime tree which is too near the house and coppice the scruffy, unfruitful hazelnut tree. He said the other lime tree, which is huge and near the donkey paddock, was beautiful. It is and it is in the right place. He said not to touch the other hazelnut tree which has lots of hazelnuts as it's beautiful too and quite old but has never been pruned.
Window man came, will send a quote. It's double glazed so the whole unit will have to be replaced. He will also quote for changing 2 kitchen windows to double glazed ones.
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