Previous post should have read reported on some foxgloves.....🥴 Ante, what a shame about the spruce trees. Any chance of survival do you think? Hope you're having a relaxing day. Topbird, well done for getting into top spot and upgrading. Don't eat too many nibbles, you may be sick😲 Safe journey across.
It's dry but still quite dark and fresh. I had relaxing day so far, and hope it will stay like that.
Hazel, blue spruce are now just dry twigs, but Canadian spruce next to the are well. Really don't know what is the reason, because I watered them all equally. I read about your Mum, and really hope she is well. It might upset her that your brother will not be visiting her when he isolate himself.
T'bird, I hope you had a nice holiday, except upset stomach. I meant to warn you about purchasing honey, but I saw you made a right choice. We mostly use sage honey, and many tourist doesn't like it, because it has very strong flavor. Floral honey is much milder. Safe journey, you are almost at home.
LB, how is your busy weekend progressing, or you just watch rugby. 😉
We had a really good evening last night. We arrived in the nick of time, journey took longer than Google maps said and we were stuck at a level crossing in Stowmarket for over 10 minutes. We were shown into the big renovated barn hurriedly buying Prosecco at the bar on the way. The barn is used for wedding receptions and musical events with big round tables set out in it. We were on the gallery though, which was quite good as we could see everything below. It started with songs from operas, like Tosca and La Boheme. There were 4 singers, soprano, contralto, tenor and baritone, they were really good. They moved around the tables and came up to our gallery as well. Then there was a break while the audience, about 75 people went to fetch their buffet meals, cold salmon, ham, quiche, hot new potatoes and salads. After that the singers returned, then another break for desserts, cheese and coffee. Then the singers sang some lighter songs from Gilbert and Sullivan, Lehar etc. Lots of the women wore evening dresses and there were men in dinner jackets. The owner of the place went round and talked to everyone. It started at 6.30pm and finished about 10.15pm.
It has been a busy day today as well. We were up early to go to the monthly farmers' market in the village hall. I bought fruit and veg, sweetcorn for dinner tonight, sausage rolls, local sausages and gammon. Then we went, bearing the cake I made yesterday, to the church coffee morning in aid of Morocco and Libya because of the earthquake and flood. We met friends there.
When we got home we met men from BT Open Reach who said the cherry picker had been and they couldn't find anything wrong with our phone line. They had looked up the wrong telegraph pole! We showed them the pole and the cherry picker came back and it's now repaired and we now have a stronger signal than we have ever had here. 34Mbps, though nothing like as fast as @Ladybird4's. We don't have fibre.
After that we went to the village fete in the local pub garden. There were Morris Dancers and an Elvis impersonator. I had a burger and OH had a sausage in a roll with onions. It was a lovely afternoon, sunny, but a slight chill in the air. There were quite a lot of people there, it seemed quite a success. I was glad for the new owners of the pub who had organised it.
The last good thing is that I met NDN but two, G, at the fete and he told me that as we were speaking the tree surgeons were cutting down his huge, horrible, leaning over our fence, goat willow. There is a lot more light over the long border now and we won't have all those leaves to clear up in the autumn. Tomorrow I will wash the sawdust off my plants with the hose.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good afternoon all. Ante, you got it in one (= guessed correctly) I have been watching the rugby. One more match to go tonight and its a big one. South Africa v Ireland.
England beat Chile 71-0. Still making basic handling errors in the first half but soon sorted themselves out.
@Red maple, my tomatoes are done for this season and I'll be putting the plants into my compost bin this week. As I said earlier, I always find this a bit sad.
T'Bird, talk about lucky!
I expect that you will be excited looking forward to getting back into the swing of things at home. Holidays are wonderful but it is nice to get back. My John Downie crab apple has been quite good this year. I planted another eating apple (least I think it is!) tree but will have to wait a few years and the JD will make a good pollinator.
Hazel, I thought you had a new plant in your garden!
Busy, what a lovely description of your evening. Now Gilbert and Sullivan I like. When I was working I used to take part in the school musicals and I played the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance. I used to know the whole of H.M.S. Pinafore too. I also played Potiphar's wife in an adaptation of Lloyd Webber's 'Joseph'. I'm glad that your internet has been sorted - despite the twonks looking at the wrong telegraph pole. It must have been a huge relief to know that the goat willow was being cut back - as you said, it will save you another task in the late Autumn. Hopefully my tree surgeon does a good job on Monday.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Meant to say that I enjoyed my walk to the village this morning. I had gone deliberately early but the queue was still mahoosive! I reckon some had camped there over night. The lady in front of me and I had a really nice natter the whole time we waited and once the doors opened at 09:30 we were processed very rapidly indeed. As usual, I never felt a thing. I made a birthday cake for Jack when I got home as he is 93 tomorrow. I'll bob it across the road once I estimate he may be up.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
I met my OH whilst preparing for a Gilbert and Sullivan performance. I was singing, he was doing the scenery. The rest, as they say, is history🙂 l hope Jack has a good birthday tomorrow LB, he will appreciate the cake.Fingers crossed you'll have no side effects from the jab. We're off in the morning for our covid ones. Signing out for now. Night all.
Good morning everyone. I really dislike these dark mornings - dawn chorus started at just after 05:00, with one of the resident robins, and woke me up but it was so beautiful I don't mind and it made the dark outside more tolerable. It was close enough to my surfacing time anyway.
Hazel, arm is a bit stiff this morning but that's all. Nothing major and it will wear off.
Think I fell asleep quite early last night. Michael McIntyre is the last thing I can remember
I'll watch the repeats of motd and GW and then decide on a plan of action for the day. I'm thinking of expanding my limited repertoire by making a rhubarb crumble
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Ante, what a shame about the spruce trees. Any chance of survival do you think? Hope you're having a relaxing day.
Topbird, well done for getting into top spot and upgrading. Don't eat too many nibbles, you may be sick😲 Safe journey across.
It's dry but still quite dark and fresh. I had relaxing day so far, and hope it will stay like that.
Hazel, blue spruce are now just dry twigs, but Canadian spruce next to the are well. Really don't know what is the reason, because I watered them all equally. I read about your Mum, and really hope she is well. It might upset her that your brother will not be visiting her when he isolate himself.
T'bird, I hope you had a nice holiday, except upset stomach. I meant to warn you about purchasing honey, but I saw you made a right choice. We mostly use sage honey, and many tourist doesn't like it, because it has very strong flavor. Floral honey is much milder. Safe journey, you are almost at home.
LB, how is your busy weekend progressing, or you just watch rugby. 😉
That's a lovely view @Ante1. Shame about the spruce trees.
I hope your journey home goes smoothly @Topbird.
We had a really good evening last night. We arrived in the nick of time, journey took longer than Google maps said and we were stuck at a level crossing in Stowmarket for over 10 minutes. We were shown into the big renovated barn hurriedly buying Prosecco at the bar on the way. The barn is used for wedding receptions and musical events with big round tables set out in it. We were on the gallery though, which was quite good as we could see everything below. It started with songs from operas, like Tosca and La Boheme. There were 4 singers, soprano, contralto, tenor and baritone, they were really good. They moved around the tables and came up to our gallery as well. Then there was a break while the audience, about 75 people went to fetch their buffet meals, cold salmon, ham, quiche, hot new potatoes and salads. After that the singers returned, then another break for desserts, cheese and coffee. Then the singers sang some lighter songs from Gilbert and Sullivan, Lehar etc. Lots of the women wore evening dresses and there were men in dinner jackets. The owner of the place went round and talked to everyone. It started at 6.30pm and finished about 10.15pm.
It has been a busy day today as well. We were up early to go to the monthly farmers' market in the village hall. I bought fruit and veg, sweetcorn for dinner tonight, sausage rolls, local sausages and gammon. Then we went, bearing the cake I made yesterday, to the church coffee morning in aid of Morocco and Libya because of the earthquake and flood. We met friends there.
When we got home we met men from BT Open Reach who said the cherry picker had been and they couldn't find anything wrong with our phone line. They had looked up the wrong telegraph pole! We showed them the pole and the cherry picker came back and it's now repaired and we now have a stronger signal than we have ever had here. 34Mbps, though nothing like as fast as @Ladybird4's. We don't have fibre.
After that we went to the village fete in the local pub garden. There were Morris Dancers and an Elvis impersonator. I had a burger and OH had a sausage in a roll with onions. It was a lovely afternoon, sunny, but a slight chill in the air. There were quite a lot of people there, it seemed quite a success. I was glad for the new owners of the pub who had organised it.
The last good thing is that I met NDN but two, G, at the fete and he told me that as we were speaking the tree surgeons were cutting down his huge, horrible, leaning over our fence, goat willow. There is a lot more light over the long border now and we won't have all those leaves to clear up in the autumn. Tomorrow I will wash the sawdust off my plants with the hose.
I still enjoy your Snoopy cartoons. 😊
l hope Jack has a good birthday tomorrow LB, he will appreciate the cake.Fingers crossed you'll have no side effects from the jab. We're off in the morning for our covid ones.
Signing out for now. Night all.
Think I fell asleep quite early last night. Michael McIntyre is the last thing I can remember
I'll watch the repeats of motd and GW and then decide on a plan of action for the day. I'm thinking of expanding my limited repertoire by making a rhubarb crumble