Good morning everyone we have sun😎. Thanks @Dovefromabove I realise the same, itseems we missed the actual day for @D0rdogne_Damsel so belated birthday wishes there and many happy returns to you for Sunday. BTW happy Australia day to @Pat E
Good morning all, we have sunshine again although it's a little colder, so just finishing my coffee and will then do some gardening. Going to construct a little rockery in a small, rather difficult bed on a steep slope near our car parking space.
Very windy walk today, on top of the moors, certainly blew a few cobwebs away. Up to 50 minutes now, so progress is being made. Sleeping is still terrible, and I am having horrible nightmares, probably due to the codeine, which I am reducing slowly.
Happy Birthday to all it applies to.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I pruned 5 shrub roses this afternoon, then it started to get dark.
The French farmers are furious. The government is going to put up the tax for their tractor diesel by around 10% and they are finding it hard to get grants for their equipment the way they used to. They don't get paid enough for their produce, the weather is being very difficult, the number of suicides is rising and 26% of farmers live below the poverty line.
A convoy of 40 tractors drove into Périgueux, the capital of the Dordogne, was my local town before I moved, today, most pulling trailers full of old tyres and manure. They've dumped a load in front of the Prefecture and the main roundabout into town on the north side where the big hypermarket is. I expect more will be dumped tomorrow.
The motorway north and south of Poitiers, near where my daughter lives, is blocked by tractors.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Happy birthday to @Allotment Boy, @D0rdogne_Damsel, @Dovefromabove. Hope I haven’t missed anyone? Lovely flowers, @D0rdogne_Damsel! Hope the date goes well, but don’t get carried away! Just because we are technically adults doesn’t mean there isn’t a giddy teenager still lurking inside! Well done, @punkdoc. Hope the nightmares goes away as you cut back on the codeine. I wish I had a reason for my bad dreams though. Spent half the night dreaming about undertaking an exhausting building project, and woke at 4am feeling as if I’d done it in real life! Lovely sunny day here, and met up with friends for breakfast. There was an enormous pothole right in the middle of the lane on our route, which I’ve managed to avoid driving into. I reported it last night, and got an automated response from the council to say I would be updated with progress. Headed out this morning to find road closed signs, and barriers round the hole, but along with several other local motorists, managed to squeeze past and avoid the miles of detour. However, when I got home, I received an email stating that a road inspector had been to assess the pothole and couldn’t find it! I wonder if that’s a ploy to avoid any claims I might make for possible damage to my car?
Thanks everyone, we went jnto town for lunch. Restaurant called Mere, chef patron is Monica Galetti. You may know her from master chef and other TV work, she used to work with Michel Roux Jr.
We’ve been running late all day because of various appointments … then a late supper … and then we stayed up much later than usual to watch the final of The Traitors 😶 Great fun 😆 (we normally record it so we’re a day behind). Thankfully we can have a lie in tomorrow … night night all … sleep tight 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Thanks @Dovefromabove I realise the same, itseems we missed the actual day for @D0rdogne_Damsel so belated birthday wishes there and many happy returns to you for Sunday.
BTW happy Australia day to @Pat E
It seems celebrations are in order all around.
Happy birthday whenever, @D0rdogne_Damsel and @Allotment Boy, enjoy the celebrations.
Very windy walk today, on top of the moors, certainly blew a few cobwebs away. Up to 50 minutes now, so progress is being made.
Sleeping is still terrible, and I am having horrible nightmares, probably due to the codeine, which I am reducing slowly.
Happy Birthday to all it applies to.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The French farmers are furious. The government is going to put up the tax for their tractor diesel by around 10% and they are finding it hard to get grants for their equipment the way they used to. They don't get paid enough for their produce, the weather is being very difficult, the number of suicides is rising and 26% of farmers live below the poverty line.
A convoy of 40 tractors drove into Périgueux, the capital of the Dordogne, was my local town before I moved, today, most pulling trailers full of old tyres and manure. They've dumped a load in front of the Prefecture and the main roundabout into town on the north side where the big hypermarket is. I expect more will be dumped tomorrow.
The motorway north and south of Poitiers, near where my daughter lives, is blocked by tractors.
Lovely flowers, @D0rdogne_Damsel! Hope the date goes well, but don’t get carried away! Just because we are technically adults doesn’t mean there isn’t a giddy teenager still lurking inside!
Well done, @punkdoc. Hope the nightmares goes away as you cut back on the codeine. I wish I had a reason for my bad dreams though. Spent half the night dreaming about undertaking an exhausting building project, and woke at 4am feeling as if I’d done it in real life!
Lovely sunny day here, and met up with friends for breakfast. There was an enormous pothole right in the middle of the lane on our route, which I’ve managed to avoid driving into. I reported it last night, and got an automated response from the council to say I would be updated with progress. Headed out this morning to find road closed signs, and barriers round the hole, but along with several other local motorists, managed to squeeze past and avoid the miles of detour. However, when I got home, I received an email stating that a road inspector had been to assess the pothole and couldn’t find it! I wonder if that’s a ploy to avoid any claims I might make for possible damage to my car?
Thankfully we can have a lie in tomorrow … night night all … sleep tight 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.