Morning all. Thank you @Dovefromabove. I didn't sleep well though. We are staying with Daughter 1 for a couple of nights, French school holidays. She has bought new pillows for the guest room, memory foam. The are much too fat and felt hard on my cheek where my wisdom tooth was so I couldn't sleep. I eventually borrowed a cushion from the sofa. I have a feather pillow at home.
It's raining again. Daughter gave me 2 new shrubs for a late birthday present, a vitex agnus castus and a shrub with small pink flowers rather like a mallow. I'm not sure where to plant them and the garden is quite boggy so they will have to wait for a bit.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Oh @Nanny Beach - what rotten luck. So sorry to read all of this but hopefully your heart is all OK.
Off into town to meet a couple who live in Norwich but come to our town every week. Always nice to see them and to see her progress after a massive stroke she had a couple of years ago.
We were then going to go to Southwold to deliver some leaflets but I think we'll leave that until after this next storm has been and gone.
Stay safe everyone … keep away from water!!! coastal or inland … both can be treacherous!
I do hope you’re feeling better soon @Nanny Beach … you’ve had a tough time lately. ☕️ 🍪
Washing is done and draped, hoy se clean-ish and tidy-ish and I’ve put tonight’s supper of Butter Chicken to chunter in the slow cooker … I’ve used a Wrose jar of sauce … not used it before, usually being a ‘cook from scratch’ sort of girl, but if it’s ok it’ll be a handy store cupboard standby for choir days etc. in the future.
Now for a coffee ☕️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you @Dovefromabove. The cake is lovely, better than my overcooked brownies, and not the first time 🙃 We both have a cold now and the backache is worse, bank holiday today, all is very silent except airplanes. Nevertheless I had a productive morning, cleaned the house and hemmed the new jeans.
Lovely introduction @Dovefromabove as usual. Yes, we all need to have the support of our virtual friends. I think this is a nice site. Actually, it is my first and only site.
Quiet day being bank holiday but faffing around changing furniture around and still doing cupboards and making smaller piles.
Lots of patience and courage to you @punkdoc for tomorrow. I hope you have some good reading material.
Today's expression for the 1st of this month is: A la Saint Mathurin; des fruits rouges, c'est la fin. Yes sireeee!!
Poor @Nanny Beach, you could have done without that. Hoping you have a quick recovery from the immediate effects, and that there are no long term problems. You need to rest up. Very tasty cake, @Dovefromabove! Thinking of you, @punkdoc. Hope no last minute disruptions, tomorrow night, you should have hip 2 dealt with, and you can breathe a sigh of relief and start recovering. Ask for extra pain killers to take home! Its been beautifully sunny here all day. We got all our shopping done, copper pipe, drills and boring stuff, plus some bits and pieces from Dunelm and Ikea. Filled the car with cut price petrol from the big supermarket petrol station while we were passing. We’ve had a very late lunch, and OH has dozed off on the sofa. It felt like a long day, but we ticked a lot of boxes. @Badly_Maintained, your description of the firework display sounds like a scenario from an Ann Cleeves Shetland novel! Very atmospheric!
Afternoon all. It's been a mixture of lovely sunshine and then heavy showers. Waiting for the weather to worsen later tonight.
Had to have to blood test, BP, etc, etc this morning as still being monitored for the Polymalgia and have been booked in for telephone consultation next week with the GP to discuss the steroid dosage. I was rather put out when the nurse said my BP was high, I'm not surprised, she'd just made me walk up two flights of stairs! Her room had always been on the ground floor before which seems much more sensible to me.
I'd left two carrier bags of 'my' books by the front door to drop off at the charity shop on the way to the surgery, then found OH busy taking some books out claiming he wanted to read them again! I'll have to smuggle the next lot out when he's not around.
I love Dunelm as well @Ergates but thankfully our nearest is over in Bristol so I don't get there often. Far too dangerous to my finances.
Sympathies about the backache @coccinella, hope it stops soon.
@tui34 , I'm finding all sorts of things in my kitchen cupboards, yesterday it was two cocktail shakers, a rather nice cut glass bon bon dish, a Royal Doulton lidded vegetable dish and the cake decoration (vase and flowers) from our wedding cake - what on earth do I do with those? I don't actually mind giving them away but not sure if anyone would want them.
Good luck and fingers crossed for tomorrow @punkdoc, tomorrow evening it will all be over!
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Thank you @Dovefromabove. I didn't sleep well though. We are staying with Daughter 1 for a couple of nights, French school holidays. She has bought new pillows for the guest room, memory foam. The are much too fat and felt hard on my cheek where my wisdom tooth was so I couldn't sleep. I eventually borrowed a cushion from the sofa. I have a feather pillow at home.
It's raining again. Daughter gave me 2 new shrubs for a late birthday present, a vitex agnus castus and a shrub with small pink flowers rather like a mallow. I'm not sure where to plant them and the garden is quite boggy so they will have to wait for a bit.
Off into town to meet a couple who live in Norwich but come to our town every week. Always nice to see them and to see her progress after a massive stroke she had a couple of years ago.
We were then going to go to Southwold to deliver some leaflets but I think we'll leave that until after this next storm has been and gone.
@Badly_Maintained ☺️ 🙏
I’m very glad there were no mishaps down at the harbour.
I do hope you’re feeling better soon @Nanny Beach … you’ve had a tough time lately. ☕️ 🍪
Washing is done and draped, hoy se clean-ish and tidy-ish and I’ve put tonight’s supper of Butter Chicken to chunter in the slow cooker … I’ve used a Wrose jar of sauce … not used it before, usually being a ‘cook from scratch’ sort of girl, but if it’s ok it’ll be a handy store cupboard standby for choir days etc. in the future.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We both have a cold now and the backache is worse, bank holiday today, all is very silent except airplanes.
Nevertheless I had a productive morning, cleaned the house and hemmed the new jeans.
Take care everyone with these predicted winds.
All the best for tomorrow @punkdoc! 💪
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Lovely introduction @Dovefromabove as usual. Yes, we all need to have the support of our virtual friends. I think this is a nice site. Actually, it is my first and only site.
Quiet day being bank holiday but faffing around changing furniture around and still doing cupboards and making smaller piles.
Lots of patience and courage to you @punkdoc for tomorrow. I hope you have some good reading material.
Today's expression for the 1st of this month is:
A la Saint Mathurin; des fruits rouges, c'est la fin. Yes sireeee!!
Very tasty cake, @Dovefromabove! Thinking of you, @punkdoc. Hope no last minute disruptions, tomorrow night, you should have hip 2 dealt with, and you can breathe a sigh of relief and start recovering. Ask for extra pain killers to take home!
Its been beautifully sunny here all day. We got all our shopping done, copper pipe, drills and boring stuff, plus some bits and pieces from Dunelm and Ikea. Filled the car with cut price petrol from the big supermarket petrol station while we were passing. We’ve had a very late lunch, and OH has dozed off on the sofa. It felt like a long day, but we ticked a lot of boxes.
@Badly_Maintained, your description of the firework display sounds like a scenario from an Ann Cleeves Shetland novel! Very atmospheric!
Had to have to blood test, BP, etc, etc this morning as still being monitored for the Polymalgia and have been booked in for telephone consultation next week with the GP to discuss the steroid dosage. I was rather put out when the nurse said my BP was high, I'm not surprised, she'd just made me walk up two flights of stairs! Her room had always been on the ground floor before which seems much more sensible to me.
I'd left two carrier bags of 'my' books by the front door to drop off at the charity shop on the way to the surgery, then found OH busy taking some books out claiming he wanted to read them again! I'll have to smuggle the next lot out when he's not around.
I love Dunelm as well @Ergates but thankfully our nearest is over in Bristol so I don't get there often. Far too dangerous to my finances.
Sympathies about the backache @coccinella, hope it stops soon.
@tui34 , I'm finding all sorts of things in my kitchen cupboards, yesterday it was two cocktail shakers, a rather nice cut glass bon bon dish, a Royal Doulton lidded vegetable dish and the cake decoration (vase and flowers) from our wedding cake - what on earth do I do with those? I don't actually mind giving them away but not sure if anyone would want them.
Good luck and fingers crossed for tomorrow @punkdoc, tomorrow evening it will all be over!
You go easy @Nanny Beach and pace yourself.