We have had some light rain - although it hasn't made an impact on the ground, the air is refreshed.
I may attack some weeding today - may!
Good that you're safely back in Blighty @Busy-Lizzie Driving in the rain is so tiresome - even if you are a passenger. How long are you staying this time?
@Nanny Beach What a little poppet you have there!! Good on you for getting up in the night for whizzes - my Border took months to get the hang of it. I can now make her run with the bike (well ahead of me but then...) but I am not on a busy road although there is one with the road alongside - Borders are so obedient and happy to please. And yes, we stop for neuron exercises or talk to another dog walker, so there's plenty of sniffing time too
I have a bone scan every 3 years too @Lizzie27 . I am on the cusp but seem to have been for the last 10 years.
Ooh la la - ooh la la, la la - says my dermatologist yesterday when he studied my nose. I have been seeing him for a number of years now, so he was aware of the dried skin. Anyway, he gave it a blast with his freeze stuff - oddly enough it hasn't blistered and feels a bit numb and I have to go back early New Year. I can always wear a mask as it seems people are, of late, sporting them. Covid returns!
We are mid-way through the week so enjoy your day wherever you are.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Just finishing my coffee before I help son get ready to set off for Broomfield Burns Unit outpatients clinic. Then I’ve got a visit to the dental hygienist … after that we’ll be preparing ourselves for the funeral and thanksgiving service tomorrow … it’s going to be a long day …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone, cooler at last, there were a few drops of rain yesterday but barely enough to dampen the paths, let alone water anything. Mondays funeral went as well as these things can , hope your service is good @Dovefromabove. OH has dentist this am, my turn on Monday. Hope to get something done on plots if it stays cooler, recently I have only had energy to water and gather crops.
Tomorrow’s proceedings will start with family and close friends at a funeral service and burial at the small village church … thence to the farm for a catered buffet lunch in the gardens … in the afternoon there will be a Thanksgiving service at a larger church in the local market town … apparently a large number of folk are expected. This will be followed by a Wake back at the farm.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hope it all goes well tomorrow, @Dovefromabove. It sounds quite a big affair.
I slept well. Good to be back with OH.
The sky is grey outside. The garden has grown. The David Howard dahlia is huge, taller than the 6ft fence. I think I will have to get rid of it before it destroys the poor Penelope rose behind it. The Delta Sarah fuchsia is gorgeous, much better than it's ever been. The grass is green, last year it was beige.
We are going to the SM this morning. I must control myself, no chocolate.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all. Well we have sun this morning after a few rainy days, but it really is quite cold - or is it because it has been so hot that now 18 feels like it's freezing? Glad you got home safely @Busy-Lizzie not an easy journey for you. Will be thinking of you over the next two days @Dovefromabove, I hope things go well and are not too distressing for you and his close family. I sent some old cine films away last week to get them transferred on to a doodah thingy. Got them back yesterday. Oh my, not seen for some ***** years, memories of the late 50's and 60's came flooding back. Some of the films were dark, some pitted with scratches (understandable after all these year of being packed (dumped) away in the attic), and some were beautifully clear. Not being a 'people' person they were all of animals - views of the little riding stables I used to run back then, a line of all the horses and ponies being ridden off to a local show (my regular customers all looking very smart for a change!), the horses enjoying time loose in the fields, dogs and various puppies generally getting up to mischief, my old German Shepherd playing wrestling games with her friend the cat, and oh so much more. And my future OH driving his old Sprite car directly at my Mother who was filming him at the time, naughty but lots of laughter at the time! Memories memories. Going to get another 5 cine films done this week to see what more I can dig up.
Hope all of you have a peaceful 'hump' day, not long now until the weekend.
Hello all! I have been looking in when the internet is working, which isn't very often at the moment. Orange said it was the heat a week ago but there is no excuse now. OH has been halving the height of conifers on our boundary with the help of a lovely Dutch chap who is cycling from the Netherlands to Spain so working as he goes, to buy food etc. We have both been in the wars!, OH was cleaning the sit on mower underneath but the ramp thingy collapsed and the mower fell, luckily he just had a gashed head. I took a tumble yesterday while dead heading the roses, I lost my balance and fell through the bushes and manged to fall on the opposite side to my new hip, my legs were running with blood from the rose thorns from top to bottom......I had shorts on! My legs aren't a pretty sight at the best of times....even worse now. Take care out there everyone!
Tui34, before we moved here,we had 2 borders and a Phalane. I used to walk to a local cycle track,3 leads in one hand, bike in the other,then off the leads, I cycled, they ran. We were doing amazing with the toilet lark, getting an hour later waking up each night, bearing in mind, we've only had her less than 2 weeks. Yesterday though she was peeing for England. She didn't wake me up last night, she had peed on the puppy pad,but there was a few different presents by the door. My neighbours border terrier puppy,slept through NINE hours a night after a week!!! The first border collie we had together, almost 30 years ago,no puppy pads then, carpet and newspaper everywhere,I remember her squatting, always on the titchy bit of space between the paper,and us going "no"!! We've taken her out a couple of times in a backpack,to the beach, because our old 2 borders before Luna were scared of the sea,and to a park,get used to the car, different noises,sights and smells.
How lovely to have those memories back @AnnaB. I daresay there will be a fair bit of reminiscing for @Dovefromabove too. Funerals can, oddly enough, be quite joyous affairs through the sadness.
I admire your fortitude @tui34. Hope all the freezing works and you can go about maskless soon.
Seems quite a few of us have bone issues. I discovered I have osteoporosis when I broke my wrist a few years ago. (Still gives me gyp from time to time). So I no longer help with putting away the collapsible tables after meetings. But I do carry a chair or two.
Ah yes - the peeing - one of the many reasons I won't get a dog @Nanny Beach.
It rained really quite heavily here yesterday and the garden was glad of it. I was just considering the drop in temperature and realised - yes! Gardening weather! But not today alas. I have been asked to sit on yet another committee, this time to help administer a fund to be donated by the father of my friend who died last year to reward people who make a positive impact on our town, as she did. I've said I would but I do hope it doesn't develop into something bigger like a Trust or a Charity.
OK - now to proofread the upcoming Food & Drink Trail leaflet.
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We have had some light rain - although it hasn't made an impact on the ground, the air is refreshed.
I may attack some weeding today - may!
Good that you're safely back in Blighty @Busy-Lizzie Driving in the rain is so tiresome - even if you are a passenger. How long are you staying this time?
@Nanny Beach What a little poppet you have there!! Good on you for getting up in the night for whizzes - my Border took months to get the hang of it. I can now make her run with the bike (well ahead of me but then...) but I am not on a busy road although there is one with the road alongside - Borders are so obedient and happy to please. And yes, we stop for neuron exercises or talk to another dog walker, so there's plenty of sniffing time too
Any respite @coccinella ?
I have a bone scan every 3 years too @Lizzie27 . I am on the cusp but seem to have been for the last 10 years.
Ooh la la - ooh la la, la la - says my dermatologist yesterday when he studied my nose. I have been seeing him for a number of years now, so he was aware of the dried skin. Anyway, he gave it a blast with his freeze stuff - oddly enough it hasn't blistered and feels a bit numb and I have to go back early New Year. I can always wear a mask as it seems people are, of late, sporting them. Covid returns!
We are mid-way through the week so enjoy your day wherever you are.
Just finishing my coffee before I help son get ready to set off for Broomfield Burns Unit outpatients clinic. Then I’ve got a visit to the dental hygienist … after that we’ll be preparing ourselves for the funeral and thanksgiving service tomorrow … it’s going to be a long day …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hope it all goes well tomorrow, @Dovefromabove. It sounds quite a big affair.
I slept well. Good to be back with OH.
The sky is grey outside. The garden has grown. The David Howard dahlia is huge, taller than the 6ft fence. I think I will have to get rid of it before it destroys the poor Penelope rose behind it. The Delta Sarah fuchsia is gorgeous, much better than it's ever been. The grass is green, last year it was beige.
We are going to the SM this morning. I must control myself, no chocolate.
I’ve just done two long shifts so didn’t have time to call in. Sorry if I’ve missed anything.
I’ve had car issues, wasp issues and work issues all in the last 2 days so I’m having a chill day today.
Glad you got home safely @Busy-Lizzie not an easy journey for you.
Will be thinking of you over the next two days @Dovefromabove, I hope things go well and are not too distressing for you and his close family.
I sent some old cine films away last week to get them transferred on to a doodah thingy. Got them back yesterday. Oh my, not seen for some ***** years, memories of the late 50's and 60's came flooding back. Some of the films were dark, some pitted with scratches (understandable after all these year of being packed (dumped) away in the attic), and some were beautifully clear.
Not being a 'people' person they were all of animals - views of the little riding stables I used to run back then, a line of all the horses and ponies being ridden off to a local show (my regular customers all looking very smart for a change!), the horses enjoying time loose in the fields, dogs and various puppies generally getting up to mischief, my old German Shepherd playing wrestling games with her friend the cat, and oh so much more. And my future OH driving his old Sprite car directly at my Mother who was filming him at the time, naughty but lots of laughter at the time! Memories memories. Going to get another 5 cine films done this week to see what more I can dig up.
Hope all of you have a peaceful 'hump' day, not long now until the weekend.
Take care out there everyone!
I admire your fortitude @tui34. Hope all the freezing works and you can go about maskless soon.
Seems quite a few of us have bone issues. I discovered I have osteoporosis when I broke my wrist a few years ago. (Still gives me gyp from time to time). So I no longer help with putting away the collapsible tables after meetings. But I do carry a chair or two.
Glad you are having a chill day @AuntyRach.
Ah yes - the peeing - one of the many reasons I won't get a dog @Nanny Beach.
It rained really quite heavily here yesterday and the garden was glad of it. I was just considering the drop in temperature and realised - yes! Gardening weather! But not today alas. I have been asked to sit on yet another committee, this time to help administer a fund to be donated by the father of my friend who died last year to reward people who make a positive impact on our town, as she did. I've said I would but I do hope it doesn't develop into something bigger like a Trust or a Charity.
OK - now to proofread the upcoming Food & Drink Trail leaflet.