Good morning all 😊 ☕️ hello @Pat E … my app says you may get some rain today 🤞 our news just spoke about the possibility of bad wildfires south of you in Victoria … that’s the last thing you need.
We have a busy morning ahead … my car’s being picked up at 8 which is the time I need to leave here to go to the doctors. I’ll have to leave OH in charge … I’d better get a move on …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well … the lorry came early and my little car has gone … I shall miss it 😢 … Ill have a hire car for a short while but it’ll probably take longer than that to find a replacement … thank goodness we’re on a good bus route 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everybody, it's raining again which is a nuisance, especially after yesterday's sunshine. Forecast is for heavy rain arriving soon so I might take the car as I need to pop into Tesco's for pancake ingredients - it's a bit further away than our local papershop. Cheekily my OH has just asked me if I'd like to pick up my Valentine flowers and chocs whilst I'm there!!!
Wish we had some of your hot weather @Pat E but the warning of bush fires is a worry.
I was quite tearful when I said goodbye to my old Fiesta. I'd had it for nearly 20 years and loved it, it was such a good 'doer' and never broke down. I gave it to my daughter when she needed a car in a hurry for her new job, she kept it for another two years before it finally bit the dust with 152,000 miles on the clock. They don't make them like that any more.
I had planned more gardening today but I think that idea's been rained off so not sure what I'll do today. Got two lots of washing to do and some ironing - oh dear.
The border outside my back door faces south too @Lizzie27 - so everything looks away. With just the two of us, and one not liking them, we don't bother with pancake day. I'm not the one who doesn't like them! For those of you enjoying pancakes today - save a bit for me!
It was a lovely day yesterday - perfect for gardening or a nice walk. Sadly I could do neither but lovely for those of you that did.
Hamnet went down well with most of those at book club. There are some who just want a decent plot though so our next book is a Jeffrey Archer. I shall pretend I am on holiday and have run out of material and someone left it in the bar.
It won't be long before my tete-a-tetes are blooming. But sadly the blimming star of bethlehem shoots are as abundant as ever, despite my digging out a bucketful of those horrible little bulbs a couple of years ago.
Meeting this afternoon to see if we can involve them in the coracle building we are planning for the festival. A charity that works with homeless people. Fingers crossed.
Always sad when my cars die. They are so much part of my life and take me to all sorts of places from the SM to my children and going on holiday. I hope @Dovefromabove finds a replacement that she feels happy with soon.
We went to the local town to look at paving blocks to replace our crumbling front path. Saw and ordered some from J....n that were half the price OH had seen on the Internet and we liked the colour better too. OH is well pleased. Then we went to Tsco to get a few bits. I don't think we'll need to do a proper weekly shop this week. Then, the highpoint for me, we went to the small family run GC, my favourite, and I bought violas, 2 delphiniums and a variegated aubretia for the gravel slope bed.
Why don't you like Star of Bethlehem @Lizzie27? I think they are pretty.
It's raining so I'll do the ironing pile this afternoon in front of the TV, maybe the Great Pottery Throwdown.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Snow on the mountains is becoming sparse. Cloud had cleared by 10am to reveal a fairly decent day. I haven't given up on my snowdrops or winter aconites just yet, however results so far are distinctly unpromising (my own fault entirely for inadequate grit in the pots of course).
Sorry about the loss of your car @Dovefromabove . Hopefully you will soon get another which you love just as much.
I hope whoever was upsetting you has now stopped @coccinella
Hope everyone making them enjoys their pancakes.
Best wishes to all as always.
"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
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( as well as pea and ham soup).
hello @Pat E … my app says you may get some rain today 🤞 our news just spoke about the possibility of bad wildfires south of you in Victoria … that’s the last thing you need.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pancakes will be cooked later by OH, some savoury and then pudding with lemon and sugar.
A friend asked if I could go to see her this afternoon. I hope all is well 🤞and if not I hope I can be of help.
Be well, be safe.
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Wish we had some of your hot weather @Pat E but the warning of bush fires is a worry.
I was quite tearful when I said goodbye to my old Fiesta. I'd had it for nearly 20 years and loved it, it was such a good 'doer' and never broke down. I gave it to my daughter when she needed a car in a hurry for her new job, she kept it for another two years before it finally bit the dust with 152,000 miles on the clock. They don't make them like that any more.
I had planned more gardening today but I think that idea's been rained off so not sure what I'll do today. Got two lots of washing to do and some ironing - oh dear.
With just the two of us, and one not liking them, we don't bother with pancake day. I'm not the one who doesn't like them! For those of you enjoying pancakes today - save a bit for me!
It was a lovely day yesterday - perfect for gardening or a nice walk. Sadly I could do neither but lovely for those of you that did.
Hamnet went down well with most of those at book club. There are some who just want a decent plot though so our next book is a Jeffrey Archer. I shall pretend I am on holiday and have run out of material and someone left it in the bar.
It won't be long before my tete-a-tetes are blooming. But sadly the blimming star of bethlehem shoots are as abundant as ever, despite my digging out a bucketful of those horrible little bulbs a couple of years ago.
Meeting this afternoon to see if we can involve them in the coracle building we are planning for the festival. A charity that works with homeless people. Fingers crossed.
The fire warning is for Victoria, not here thank goodness. We’ll, so far anyway.
Always sad when my cars die. They are so much part of my life and take me to all sorts of places from the SM to my children and going on holiday. I hope @Dovefromabove finds a replacement that she feels happy with soon.
We went to the local town to look at paving blocks to replace our crumbling front path. Saw and ordered some from J....n that were half the price OH had seen on the Internet and we liked the colour better too. OH is well pleased. Then we went to Tsco to get a few bits. I don't think we'll need to do a proper weekly shop this week. Then, the highpoint for me, we went to the small family run GC, my favourite, and I bought violas, 2 delphiniums and a variegated aubretia for the gravel slope bed.
Why don't you like Star of Bethlehem @Lizzie27? I think they are pretty.
It's raining so I'll do the ironing pile this afternoon in front of the TV, maybe the Great Pottery Throwdown.