Hot. Can't believe I will have to water plants this time of year. All the washing I put out this morning is dry. Went to the pool early this morning and it was nice, felt good to exercise and not think about stuff all the time. I am now lazying on the sofa. I doubt I'll do anything useful the rest of the day. Weekend even hotter they say. Take care.
33c here at 4 pm @Allotment Boy, it's too hot to think straight!
Done 3 lot of washing, mainly bed linen, as we have friends coming to stay next week. Picked more cherry toms and a handful of raspberries. There are also runners to be picked for our evening meal of salmon and baby potatoes. Stlll no news re poorly brother yet but will ring little sis soon as she's the go-between relay. No news is good news.
Wish we had a pool near us @coccinella, sounds ideal in this weather. Even a paddling pool would do!
What a week! Work is bonkers and then it’s home to continue sweating and feeling tired!
Loving the extended Summer though!
Just been baking a cake for Dad’s Birthday afternoon tea tomorrow. I’ve done, what I am calling, an Autumn Victoria Sponge - bit of (my) apple in the sponge and will do blackcurrant jam with some vanilla buttercream. I’ve also bought a plain cake that we will adorn with an ‘80’ decoration.
I hope everyone is ok. Have a lovely weekend all. I wonder if we’ll have thunderstorms when the heat leaves us next week?
Congratulations to your Dad on his 80Th @AuntyRach. Cake sounds very moreish!
Better news on my poorly brother, He's now been transferred from Lincoln to a rehab hospital in Gainsborough. It is a hairline fracture and he can't walk without intense pain so their job is to get him more mobile. We don't know how long that might take or whether they'll send him back to his home town of Stoke for further rehab. SIL is going to visit him tomorrow so we might know more then.
It’s b…. freezing here this afternoon. 🥶 you’d think by 4.30 pm it’d be comfortable. They’re predicting snow again ( after telling us that the snow had finished). 🤬
I’ve just counted 16 Roos outside the window, including two with very large bulging pouches. I suppose they expect to get plenty of green grass around the house instead of the dry rubbish amongst the trees out in the back area.
Not much news except that for the last two days and nights we’ve had very, very strong winds. We drove around the back this afternoon to check for fallen branches and trees, however all seem to have survived ( surprisingly).
Another sunny day ahead and warm. For the moment I am lounging with my cup of tea on the sofa with the window open. Nice fresh breeze for the moment. Some good news about your brother @Lizzie27. Let's hope the hospital closer to your Sil can do the same rehabilitation. Happy Birthday @AuntyRach dad! Enjoy your lovely cake. Have all a nice day.
Rather an odd night … I was just nodding off at about 9:50 when the daughter of the ndn who died some years ago, started using a circular saw out by her garage. I waited and it went on and on. As it didn’t seem to be a ‘one off’ I’m afraid I waited for a pause then yelled out of the bathroom window that some folk were trying to sleep! I saw her look at her watch and all went quiet for about ten minutes then there was one more piercing sound for about 15 seconds then everything was quiet again.
This is such a quiet neighbourhood … I mean there’s plenty happens in the way of DIY and children’s games and reasonable noise happening during the day, and I know we go to bed earlier than some folk, but I don’t think I’m being unreasonable by objecting to that sort of noise at almost ten o’clock am I? I mean, there’s quite a few families with young children living close by. It’s not even as if she’s restricted by going out to work in the daytime … she’s there all the time ‘getting the house ready to sell’ … it’s taken her 4 or 5 years … she has put it on the market … anyone want a nice detached house in a usually quiet area … with delightful neighbours?
Then at about 2am I turned over and somehow managed to knock the bedside lamp which then knocked several things (including as I found out my glasses) off the bedside table … they made such a clatter … I used the torch on my phone and put things to rights .,. OH continued to sleep totally oblivious
Now all is quiet apart from the sunbathing woodpigeons and house sparrows, and R3 is playing Satie … bliss 😎
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All the washing I put out this morning is dry.
Went to the pool early this morning and it was nice, felt good to exercise and not think about stuff all the time.
I am now lazying on the sofa. I doubt I'll do anything useful the rest of the day.
Weekend even hotter they say.
Take care.
Luxembourg
Done 3 lot of washing, mainly bed linen, as we have friends coming to stay next week.
Picked more cherry toms and a handful of raspberries. There are also runners to be picked for our evening meal of salmon and baby potatoes.
Stlll no news re poorly brother yet but will ring little sis soon as she's the go-between relay. No news is good news.
Wish we had a pool near us @coccinella, sounds ideal in this weather. Even a paddling pool would do!
Luxembourg
What a week! Work is bonkers and then it’s home to continue sweating and feeling tired!
Better news on my poorly brother, He's now been transferred from Lincoln to a rehab hospital in Gainsborough. It is a hairline fracture and he can't walk without intense pain so their job is to get him more mobile. We don't know how long that might take or whether they'll send him back to his home town of Stoke for further rehab. SIL is going to visit him tomorrow so we might know more then.
Much relief.
Another sunny day ahead and warm. For the moment I am lounging with my cup of tea on the sofa with the window open. Nice fresh breeze for the moment. Some good news about your brother @Lizzie27. Let's hope the hospital closer to your Sil can do the same rehabilitation.
Happy Birthday @AuntyRach dad! Enjoy your lovely cake.
Have all a nice day.
Luxembourg
keep warm @Pat E 🥶
Rather an odd night … I was just nodding off at about 9:50 when the daughter of the ndn who died some years ago, started using a circular saw out by her garage. I waited and it went on and on. As it didn’t seem to be a ‘one off’ I’m afraid I waited for a pause then yelled out of the bathroom window that some folk were trying to sleep! I saw her look at her watch and all went quiet for about ten minutes then there was one more piercing sound for about 15 seconds then everything was quiet again.
This is such a quiet neighbourhood … I mean there’s plenty happens in the way of DIY and children’s games and reasonable noise happening during the day, and I know we go to bed earlier than some folk, but I don’t think I’m being unreasonable by objecting to that sort of noise at almost ten o’clock am I? I mean, there’s quite a few families with young children living close by. It’s not even as if she’s restricted by going out to work in the daytime … she’s there all the time ‘getting the house ready to sell’ … it’s taken her 4 or 5 years … she has put it on the market … anyone want a nice detached house in a usually quiet area … with delightful neighbours?
Then at about 2am I turned over and somehow managed to knock the bedside lamp which then knocked several things (including as I found out my glasses) off the bedside table … they made such a clatter … I used the torch on my phone and put things to rights .,. OH continued to sleep totally oblivious
Now all is quiet apart from the sunbathing woodpigeons and house sparrows, and R3 is playing Satie … bliss 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.