Oh dear, just heard that my poorly brother has suffered a fall at the Bomber Command Centre in Lincs which he was visiting and has been taken to Lincoln hospital with a suspected hairline fracture of the pelvis which isn't good news in his condition. My SIL will ring us tomorrow with an update.
I didn't post this morning as I wanted to get out into the garden before it was too hot. I weeded the donkey fence bed with clematis and foxgloves and I finished weeding the veg garden.
CB, the French chap who looks after the garden while I'm away, called round. He saw the dead silver birch tree that I planted 2 years ago and saw his strimmer damage around the bottom of it. He was full of apologies. OH has promised to buy me another one. That one had been damaged by the hail storm last year anyway, although it had recovered. CB will cut back the brambles from the patch of land the other side of the fence that are trying to invade my veg garden and orchard. That's a horrid job - his punishment! He said he didn't mind.
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Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Our very best wishes to your brother @Lizzie27 … I hope he’s soon well recovered and enjoying regaling you with his adventure. 🤞 OH has an 8:30 start today, and as the school at the top of the rise is back this week after the summer break we’ll have to leave here well before that to drive him through the anxious parents delivering new four year olds … it’ll be less chaotic in a few weeks as parents and children settle, but the start of term has a tendency to mayhem as we and the school are in a cul de sac off a cul de sac off a No Through Road … 😂 that means that wherever parents park they’ll all be doing three point turns (at the very least) after dropping their little ones off, just as more parents and little ones are arriving … and they’ll all be preoccupied with school thoughts and not concentrating on what they’re doing 😱 … as I said, they do get better at it as time goes on 😎 well, most of them do anyway … of courses there’s always one or two 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have haze here at the moment and I don't like the look of it. I suspect when it burns off I'll have to retreat to some cool shadows if I can find any. 😎 Yesterday I got my grass cut...finally. There are still places where I could get bogged in would you believe but I was circumspect as Mellors was using next door's mower and I would have had to wait to get pulled out! My intention was to strum (yes I know, but we know someone who says that and now it's stuck!) but the thunder and lightening and pouring rain put paid to that! My earlier mown, left out to dry, lawn cuttings sat and merrily rehydrated as I watched helpless! I'm hoping they'll get vacuumed up later when the dew has lifted.
I'm going to strum and clear the wildflower-border-to-be (again!) and prep it for sowing and planting. I was at my ex SIL's on Wednesday and a small roundabout in her village has been sown with wildflowers and it is gorgeous! Can't wait!
I think my NDN had a lady visitor last night. 🤐 Well... he asked me to keep an eye on the place, in fact he pays me to do just that! 🤓
Good morning folks, thanks for your best wishes. No bad news overnight so that's good. Don't expect to hear from SIL till later this morning when she's spoken to the hospital and the cardiac unit at Stoke. We're hoping my brother will be able to be transferred back down to his home town as soon as he's stable. We are hoping we might be able to go up and visit him soon.
It's a tad cooler but still humid here and very overcast. Do hope the weather breaks soon, can't cope with this level of heat for long.
Having lived in a cul de sac once, we swore never to do it again so you have my sympathy Dove. We have a primary school near us and our lane is so narrow the school ask the parents to observe a voluntary one way system - which many of them don't! Many of the young mums in their Chelsea tractors feel entitled to attempt a 3 point turn which inevitably they can't do - and the language!
We love living on a cul de sac … sooo quiet … except at school time and that’s not a real problem. Once some children walking past noticed I’d left my keys in the front door and rang my bell to let me know. 👍 there’s always an outlet for excess courgettes 🤣 and elderly folk living on their own know that for an hour twice a day there’s always someone going past who’ll have a job at opening a jar with a stuck lid, or call for help if there’s a bigger problem 😊
To be fair a lot of ‘our’ children have legs … lots of the older ones have bicycles too (hence even more chaos 😂) … however the catchment area for this school is very large, and nowadays its usual for both parents to work full time … how are they supposed to get their children to school and get themselves to work without using a car? Long gone are the days when a five year old Dove waited on her own at the end of our farm drive for ten year old Brenda Harvey to walk past and collect and escort me the half mile down a road with high banks and no pavements to get to my primary school.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all. Hope you get some good news soon regarding your brother @Lizzie27 it must be very worrying for you all. Another hot day it seems, yesterday was quite cloudy here but that just seemed to make everywhere very muggy, I was sure we were going to have a thunder storm, but no such luck. I was busy watering garden pots at 10pm last night and by the time I had finished the grass was covered with dew. Strange weather. Stay cool everyone.
Good morning everyone we got back yesterday around 6pm but had to go straight into watering the garden. Should have set up the automatic drip system but it hasn't been needed so far this year. We had diverted off to deepest Carmarthenshire, to see friends there, we haven't seen for ages. Went to Aberglasney Gardens before coming back had lunch there and drove back in the afternoon. House was very hot and stuffy having been closed up for a week. Difficult to sleep last night, big contrast after two nights in a stone built cottage that was wonderfully cool at night. Have only skimmed back so apologies if I missed anything significant, have a comfortable day if possible.
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I didn't post this morning as I wanted to get out into the garden before it was too hot. I weeded the donkey fence bed with clematis and foxgloves and I finished weeding the veg garden.
CB, the French chap who looks after the garden while I'm away, called round. He saw the dead silver birch tree that I planted 2 years ago and saw his strimmer damage around the bottom of it. He was full of apologies. OH has promised to buy me another one. That one had been damaged by the hail storm last year anyway, although it had recovered. CB will cut back the brambles from the patch of land the other side of the fence that are trying to invade my veg garden and orchard. That's a horrid job - his punishment! He said he didn't mind.
luck for him.
Our very best wishes to your brother @Lizzie27 … I hope he’s soon well recovered and enjoying regaling you with his adventure. 🤞
OH has an 8:30 start today, and as the school at the top of the rise is back this week after the summer break we’ll have to leave here well before that to drive him through the anxious parents delivering new four year olds … it’ll be less chaotic in a few weeks as parents and children settle, but the start of term has a tendency to mayhem as we and the school are in a cul de sac off a cul de sac off a No Through Road … 😂 that means that wherever parents park they’ll all be doing three point turns (at the very least) after dropping their little ones off, just as more parents and little ones are arriving … and they’ll all be preoccupied with school thoughts and not concentrating on what they’re doing 😱 … as I said, they do get better at it as time goes on 😎 well, most of them do anyway … of courses there’s always one or two 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have haze here at the moment and I don't like the look of it. I suspect when it burns off I'll have to retreat to some cool shadows if I can find any. 😎
Yesterday I got my grass cut...finally. There are still places where I could get bogged in would you believe but I was circumspect as Mellors was using next door's mower and I would have had to wait to get pulled out! My intention was to strum (yes I know, but we know someone who says that and now it's stuck!) but the thunder and lightening and pouring rain put paid to that! My earlier mown, left out to dry, lawn cuttings sat and merrily rehydrated as I watched helpless! I'm hoping they'll get vacuumed up later when the dew has lifted.
I'm going to strum and clear the wildflower-border-to-be (again!) and prep it for sowing and planting. I was at my ex SIL's on Wednesday and a small roundabout in her village has been sown with wildflowers and it is gorgeous! Can't wait!
I think my NDN had a lady visitor last night. 🤐 Well... he asked me to keep an eye on the place, in fact he pays me to do just that! 🤓
Don't expect to hear from SIL till later this morning when she's spoken to the hospital and the cardiac unit at Stoke. We're hoping my brother will be able to be transferred back down to his home town as soon as he's stable. We are hoping we might be able to go up and visit him soon.
It's a tad cooler but still humid here and very overcast. Do hope the weather breaks soon, can't cope with this level of heat for long.
Having lived in a cul de sac once, we swore never to do it again so you have my sympathy Dove. We have a primary school near us and our lane is so narrow the school ask the parents to observe a voluntary one way system - which many of them don't! Many of the young mums in their Chelsea tractors feel entitled to attempt a 3 point turn which inevitably they can't do - and the language!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Another hot day it seems, yesterday was quite cloudy here but that just seemed to make everywhere very muggy, I was sure we were going to have a thunder storm, but no such luck.
I was busy watering garden pots at 10pm last night and by the time I had finished the grass was covered with dew. Strange weather.
Stay cool everyone.
We had diverted off to deepest Carmarthenshire, to see friends there, we haven't seen for ages. Went to Aberglasney Gardens before coming back had lunch there and drove back in the afternoon.
House was very hot and stuffy having been closed up for a week. Difficult to sleep last night, big contrast after two nights in a stone built cottage that was wonderfully cool at night.
Have only skimmed back so apologies if I missed anything significant, have a comfortable day if possible.