I was due to fly back to Stansted on the 15th September but the French air traffic controllers are going on strike. The tickets was more expensive than usual and there weren't many flights, winter timetable, my flight was the cheapest. I looked at the timetable yesterday and Ryanair had added another flight on the 12th, a bit later than the usual one, and it was about a third the price I'd paid. They must have done it because of the strike. Anyway I booked it. Problem is that my printer doesn't work and I need to print a ticket. I'll have to find a friend with a printer.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
that's very annoying @Busy-Lizzie. I take you don't have a smart phone, I do but always print the boarding pass anyway, I hate fumbling with the thing while I have a queue behind me.
At 7.45 sharp two young strong fellas knocked on the door. I was pleased to see them as they are pruning the hedge and trees and other odd jobs. I can't believe the speed going up and down a ladder; were we like that too? It seems impossible. Anyway, they are doing well and so far they are obeying instructions but better not leave them alone too long. 👀
OH had to go shopping this morning as I am busy with the young men😁. I gave him a list but I already know that he will buy lots more stuff, 🤷♀️ so long as he brings back chocolate croissants he will be forgiven.
I do have a Smartphone @coccinella, but, like you, I prefer to keep it simple and have it on paper. Anyway, the printer is now working! Simple really. Son 2 told me to find the printer in the computer and cancel the print queue. Bingo!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning all, glad you managed to book another flight @Busy-Lizzie. My son and family are due to fly home tonight from France so I do hope there are no holdups for them.
All is quiet here, the other two are having a lie-in. It's raining hard which I hadn't expected after the sunshine yesterday so we were lucky then. Daughter's going home later so I expect we'll have a quiet day.
OH is quite excited as he has had confirmation of an appointment in October with the consultant about his left hip, although it does say that the waiting list is 42 weeks! Maybe he'll be lucky and get an earlier cancellation like last time.
Love chocolate croissants @coccinella, although we don't have them very often.
Good morning everyone from Somerset. We are here with OH'S sister, going to a nephews 50 th birthday do. We came down Thursday night, yesterday went to Bovey Tracey to look up some old hunts, and visited mum and brother's graves. We are diverting off to Wales next week to see friends that live there now. Then home for mid week.
I must try that cake recipe, @Dovefromabove, sounds delicious. I keep my new bars of soap in my underwear drawer ( and put the empty but still scented wrappings back in there- can be annoying though, when looking for a new bar, to find only empty packaging! ) Sun came out yesterday afternoon, so I pulled up loads of ferns and brambles that were blocking the view down into the woodland. I appear to have a bramble thorn stuck in my finger, but don’t have anything with me to deal with it. Will have to wait till I get home and attack it with a sewing needle. Maybe time to splash out on a new pair of welding gloves from Screwfix, I felt a few sharp things getting through. It started sunny this morning so we are out for a walk, but the cloud has swirled round so it doesn’t look so nice now. No gardening planned today, the green bins are already full, and the tip is too busy at weekends. I’m planning to pop into town and have a browse round some shops, leave OH to watch the goings on at the Italian Grand Prix. I don’t actually need any shopping, but it’s often entertaining to see the latest fashions for the coming season, and note how many I already have in my wardrobe! It’s not so much the styles - I just stick to those that actually suit me- but more the colours. I tend to stock up on my favourite colours when they are available, to make up for those years when the ‘fashion industry’ has dictated that we all have to wear orange or brown, and I don’t need to do more than look into the door of the shop and walk away.
There’s an idea @Ergates … I s’pose there’s a chance I may have put the soap in a drawer or the blanket chest or something like that … that sort of routine has been rather disrupted since son moved in with us after the explosion … double the bedlinen, towels etc … as for the quantities of toothpaste and loorolls etc 😮 When I ran a family household I had a bigger house with much more storage space ….
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Popped to GC for some Birthday gifts for people* and my oil light came on. Like the modern woman I am, I have a bottle of oil in my boot… could I get the cap off the engine though… nope! I regret to say I had to ask for help to get the cap off from someone in the car park. The (quite robust looking)man said it was on very tightly. What a good egg! Thank you stranger.
Brought it home and OH has done an oil change for me 👍🏼 another legend.
*Edit: I bought myself a lovely Crysanth and some Cyclamen ‘Victoria’ (white with crispy pink edges). Just potted-up now, so cue an hour of patio pot shuffling!
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Stop it @Dovefromabove! I miss cake. Lost half a stone.
I was due to fly back to Stansted on the 15th September but the French air traffic controllers are going on strike. The tickets was more expensive than usual and there weren't many flights, winter timetable, my flight was the cheapest. I looked at the timetable yesterday and Ryanair had added another flight on the 12th, a bit later than the usual one, and it was about a third the price I'd paid. They must have done it because of the strike. Anyway I booked it. Problem is that my printer doesn't work and I need to print a ticket. I'll have to find a friend with a printer.
that's very annoying @Busy-Lizzie. I take you don't have a smart phone, I do but always print the boarding pass anyway, I hate fumbling with the thing while I have a queue behind me.
At 7.45 sharp two young strong fellas knocked on the door. I was pleased to see them as they are pruning the hedge and trees and other odd jobs. I can't believe the speed going up and down a ladder; were we like that too? It seems impossible. Anyway, they are doing well and so far they are obeying instructions but better not leave them alone too long. 👀
OH had to go shopping this morning as I am busy with the young men😁. I gave him a list but I already know that he will buy lots more stuff, 🤷♀️ so long as he brings back chocolate croissants he will be forgiven.
Have a nice day all.
Luxembourg
And now the autocorrect wants me to have a cavalier hero for supper 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I do have a Smartphone @coccinella, but, like you, I prefer to keep it simple and have it on paper. Anyway, the printer is now working! Simple really. Son 2 told me to find the printer in the computer and cancel the print queue. Bingo!
All is quiet here, the other two are having a lie-in. It's raining hard which I hadn't expected after the sunshine yesterday so we were lucky then. Daughter's going home later so I expect we'll have a quiet day.
OH is quite excited as he has had confirmation of an appointment in October with the consultant about his left hip, although it does say that the waiting list is 42 weeks! Maybe he'll be lucky and get an earlier cancellation like last time.
Love chocolate croissants @coccinella, although we don't have them very often.
Sun came out yesterday afternoon, so I pulled up loads of ferns and brambles that were blocking the view down into the woodland. I appear to have a bramble thorn stuck in my finger, but don’t have anything with me to deal with it. Will have to wait till I get home and attack it with a sewing needle. Maybe time to splash out on a new pair of welding gloves from Screwfix, I felt a few sharp things getting through.
It started sunny this morning so we are out for a walk, but the cloud has swirled round so it doesn’t look so nice now. No gardening planned today, the green bins are already full, and the tip is too busy at weekends. I’m planning to pop into town and have a browse round some shops, leave OH to watch the goings on at the Italian Grand Prix.
I don’t actually need any shopping, but it’s often entertaining to see the latest fashions for the coming season, and note how many I already have in my wardrobe! It’s not so much the styles - I just stick to those that actually suit me- but more the colours. I tend to stock up on my favourite colours when they are available, to make up for those years when the ‘fashion industry’ has dictated that we all have to wear orange or brown, and I don’t need to do more than look into the door of the shop and walk away.
When I ran a family household I had a bigger house with much more storage space ….
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.