Hi all, and nice to meet you, @Badly_Maintained.Ā Managed a couple of hours in the garden, and filled the green bins for tomorrow. Just did a hack and shred session, cut back loads of overgrown gaultheria and some rhododendrons. I was very pleased with myself for digging out quite a few baby oak and beech trees, but now I am back in the house, I can see several more, hiding in plain sight on the bank. OH swept the leaves and pine needles off the drive. We got back in just before the rain started, so having a lazy afternoon. Waitrose curry for me, a big slice of turkey and chips for OH. Ought to get up off my backside and do some indoor jobs. Washing to go on, and we need to put together a Screwfix order to collect tomorrow. Ā Weather is forecast to be awful tomorrow.Ā Hope your op goes ahead as planned this time, @punkdoc. Keep those nerves under control, you will scare the rest of us! I had a phone call this morning from the hospital to check if I still wanted to be on the waiting list for some gynae surgery. Almost six months to the day since I had it done privately. I had filled in a form telling them some months ago, but obviously hadnāt filtered through.
Thanks very much for that advice @steephill, much appreciated. Microphones now turned off! I'll be interested to see what now pops up in my news feed.
Started to watch ETTC this afternoon and promptly fell asleep again so missed the ending. Must be listening to Jules's warm treacly voice. He's the best presenter on ETTC.
No heavy rain yet and hopefully no trick or treaters either. I've turned our outside light off so the long drive is dark and forbidding - usually works!
Daughter arrived safely back from her Sussex trip yesterday evening in spite of rather a 'wet' journey. This morning I set off to run down to the village shop for a few more supplies. Our little lane is just about wide enough for two cars to pass with care, it slopes steeply down from us most of the way to the village (we are 800 ft up), and curves round the 'mountain' side. With the steep tree covered forestry bank rising on my left and the 'fall away' edge to my right (straight down several hundred feet to the valley below) it is not a road to give you a safe feeling. But in the 17 years we have lived here it has not really caused a problem as that drop on the right hand side of the road has always been covered with large forestry trees densely planted so that if by chance you accidently slipped off the side when coming up the road, you would find yourself up against a nicely protective big tree before you went more than a couple of feet into the abyss below. However the Forestry Commission in their wisdom decided that the time was right to fell all the trees off this area from top to the bottom of the hillside early this summer, which left us with approximately 12 inches of squishy grass verge between the tarmac road and oblivion on the passenger side of the car every time we come back up the road. But, hey! It's ok now as the council in THEIR wisdom trotted up here a couple of months later with some marker posts - those little flimsy ones with a red reflector on them that shine if they catch in your headlights.Ā They plonked them in every so often to mark the road edge but to be honest most of them are now leaning this way and that as there is simply not enough spare ground to hammer them into. I used to love driving up the road as it wend its way up through the forest especially at this time of year with the glorious colour of the Autumn leaves, but now it really freaks me out and I seriously wonder at times how longer a road, originally carved out of the side of a hill, can last without collapsing when its lower side has been cleared of all its support. Sorry folks, rant over, just feeling a bid sad and angry about thoughtless and stupid action by others.
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Managed a couple of hours in the garden, and filled the green bins for tomorrow. Just did a hack and shred session, cut back loads of overgrown gaultheria and some rhododendrons. I was very pleased with myself for digging out quite a few baby oak and beech trees, but now I am back in the house, I can see several more, hiding in plain sight on the bank. OH swept the leaves and pine needles off the drive. We got back in just before the rain started, so having a lazy afternoon. Waitrose curry for me, a big slice of turkey and chips for OH. Ought to get up off my backside and do some indoor jobs. Washing to go on, and we need to put together a Screwfix order to collect tomorrow. Ā Weather is forecast to be awful tomorrow.Ā
Hope your op goes ahead as planned this time, @punkdoc. Keep those nerves under control, you will scare the rest of us! I had a phone call this morning from the hospital to check if I still wanted to be on the waiting list for some gynae surgery. Almost six months to the day since I had it done privately. I had filled in a form telling them some months ago, but obviously hadnāt filtered through.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Started to watch ETTC this afternoon and promptly fell asleep again so missed the ending. Must be listening to Jules's warm treacly voice. He's the best presenter on ETTC.
No heavy rain yet and hopefully no trick or treaters either. I've turned our outside light off so the long drive is dark and forbidding - usually works!
I used to love driving up the road as it wend its way up through the forest especially at this time of year with the glorious colour of the Autumn leaves, but now it really freaks me out and I seriously wonder at times how longer a road, originally carved out of the side of a hill, can last without collapsing when its lower side has been cleared of all its support.
Sorry folks, rant over, just feeling a bid sad and angry about thoughtless and stupid action by others.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
iwas totally worn out by the time we got home from town today. Ā Donāt know why. Crashed on the lounge and slept when we got home.
im glad some of you enjoyed my photos yesterday. Ā Thanks for the comments.Ā
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.