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  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Good evening all.
    It's been another extremely wet day, we have yellow/orange alert for flooding. We are on a hill so unlikely to affect us. Annoyed at the EU decision to allowed another 10 years of glyphosate use. Happy Bayer then 🤬
    We need to redo our driveway, we are considering epoxy resin, guy gives us 20 yrs guarantee. And no removing the old slabs.
    We will be mulling over it for days to come, we are not known for quick decisions 🐌

    Hugs to @Badly_Maintained and @Lizzie27, difficult times for you. I am sorry.

    Luxembourg
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @coccinella France has already banned Glyphosate. I have a long drive and I'm afraid I miss it. It's hard to keep my hoggin drive free from weeds which make it quite slippy to drive down the slopey bit in wet weather.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks @Busy-Lizzie, enjoy the folk evening.

    I am pleased the ban on glyphosate has been put back - it's the only thing I find actually works, the substitutes don't work at all.Ā  I bought some online a few months ago to kill off some problematic ivy roots and will keep it for difficult weeds/shrubs etc. Could you get hold of some in the UK and take it back to France?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Good morning all!

    Bright and sunny this morning with autumn dampness.

    @Lizzie27 Ā What frightening news ! Ā  These damn cigarettes - and vaping seems to be just as bad. Ā Sending my best wishes to you. Ā I don't think it would be wise to bring glysophate from UK into France. Ā It's sorta smuggling!! Ā 

    I have to rest a bit more this morning after the cortisone injection so I have decided to make a start on the Christmas puddings. Ā I can cut up bits of dried fruit and still be sitting.

    Ā To the Elizabeths on this site: Ā Sainte Elisabeth nous montre, quel bonhomme l'hiver sera.
    Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā - but I doubt very much whether this mild weather will continue for much longer.
    It's a golden autumn with sunny afternoons - down here - not so for other parts of France. Ā We are in desperate need of some decent rain while other parts are mopping their floors.

    Enjoy the final day of the working week.

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Good morning all 😊 ā˜•ļøĀ 
    7C and grey here … but it’s quiet and still … the wind has dropped and the deep golden bronze oak trees across the rise look even more beautiful today.Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2023
    Listening to R2 instead of R3 this morning so we can hear Vernon Kay arrive in Bolton … over Ā£3m for Children in Need … just amazing and so heartwarming. 😁

    Mind you I still have an undercurrent of anger that so many children depend on charity for theirĀ necessitiesĀ in one of the richest countries in the world … a real demonstration that there’s something fundamentally wrong … some of you know that I used to work in a social work team supporting children with severe disabilities and life-limiting conditions … it seemed so wrong that I had to apply to charities for things that the children really needed, to have what the rest of us take for granted as a normal quality of life šŸ˜žĀ 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.

    Grey and still here too.

    My sister was a children's social worker and Daughter 1's French husband works for children's social services in France. It seems so wrong that there are wealthy people with millions and famillies who are struggling to make ends meet. I watched "Time" last night when we came back from the pub Folk Evening and felt so sorry for the single mother with 3 children who had gone to prison for electricity fraud and her children had been taken into care. I know it's only fiction but it happens in real life.

    @Lizzie27 I couldn't risk getting caught smuggling glyphosate.Ā 

    We are going to a musical play in a local village hall tonight.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ā€œā€¦Ā the single mother with 3 children who had gone to prison for electricity fraud and her children had been taken into care...ā€

    How do the economics of that even begin to make sense? … not to mention the psychological and emotional impact on the children which, trust me, will definitely have a financial impact on society in the future. 😢 šŸ˜–Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TeacupTeacup Posts: 31
    I agree @Dovefromabove it’s absolutely both horrific and very saddening that a lot of families can’t afford their basic needs. It’s worrying to think about what impact it will have on those children for years to come. It just all seems so wrongĀ 
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