Thanks @Busy-Lizzie, glad you liked the picture. We have done that river trip and enjoyed it a lot. I don't know who you have booked with but our trip was all inclusive, so although it seems expensive on the face of it, we found we didn't need to spend any other money on excusions food etc. Even the tea & coffee was all in, which is just as well as my wife drinks a lot of coffee 😅.
Grey with steely skies today but very little wind - a breeze. It is 14°C.
I'd like to do that Danube cruise one day too @Busy-Lizzie and @Allotment Boy whom I thank for you kind information on the trip. Definitely not one for the big cruise ships. I used to work for a travel agency in NZ (my first secretarial job) who were agent's for P & O which offered cruises around the Pacific Islands in "normal" cruise ships that played quoits and didn't have a swimming pool!!
I have been given a sourdough starter so today is bread making day. I haven't made bread since I was on the farm in NZ because the bread here in France is delicious and extremely varied. But I'll give it a go. We spent some time in the health food shop getting flour and I must say, that my hip and knee were more painful having stuffed around the shelves than digging in the garden.
Also have lots of egg whites in the fridge so they need to be made into a pav - I'll use the cooling down oven after the bread to do the pavvie!! As my friend is coming from Montpellier this weekend - I will do a Rajasthani Lamb Curry which I can prepare today in advance. He is bring duck breasts for a BBQ on Sunday - hope it's sunny.
May your Friday be a pleasant and fruitful one!!
This photos is from our local beach with the snow-capped Pyrenees in the background.
Hope everyone has had a restful night. I slept much better … didn’t wake until around 5 and even then I was able to get back to sleep. The exercises are really helping my neck. I have much more movement and much less pain/aching. 😊 I did gear heavy rain during the night, but it looks brighter out there now. 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I slept better too. Maybe the gardening in the fresh air yesterday helped. The bin men woke me up. Not sure about gardening today, it's been raining.
You're lucky that you have a good choice of bread where you are @tui34. So do my children who live in other parts of France. A lot of the bread where I am is the same dough, just made into different shapes and sizes or with sesame seeds on it. A lot is overcooked, brown and gum ripping. Also full of holes so that the butter and marmalade ends up on the plate.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks, @Bluejayway, I am already on a Serotonin agonist.
Slightly better nights sleep, 3 hours, although doped up on all sorts of stuff, which worries me. I have decided until I get a few decent nights, then I will keep taking everything I can think of.
At least it is a lovely day, so some gentle gardening is called for. I will probably leave the weeds and dig up the plants, hey ho.
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Grey with steely skies today but very little wind - a breeze. It is 14°C.
I'd like to do that Danube cruise one day too @Busy-Lizzie and @Allotment Boy whom I thank for you kind information on the trip. Definitely not one for the big cruise ships. I used to work for a travel agency in NZ (my first secretarial job) who were agent's for P & O which offered cruises around the Pacific Islands in "normal" cruise ships that played quoits and didn't have a swimming pool!!
I have been given a sourdough starter so today is bread making day. I haven't made bread since I was on the farm in NZ because the bread here in France is delicious and extremely varied. But I'll give it a go. We spent some time in the health food shop getting flour and I must say, that my hip and knee were more painful having stuffed around the shelves than digging in the garden.
Also have lots of egg whites in the fridge so they need to be made into a pav - I'll use the cooling down oven after the bread to do the pavvie!! As my friend is coming from Montpellier this weekend - I will do a Rajasthani Lamb Curry which I can prepare today in advance. He is bring duck breasts for a BBQ on Sunday - hope it's sunny.
May your Friday be a pleasant and fruitful one!!
This photos is from our local beach with the snow-capped Pyrenees in the background.
I did gear heavy rain during the night, but it looks brighter out there now. 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I slept better too. Maybe the gardening in the fresh air yesterday helped. The bin men woke me up. Not sure about gardening today, it's been raining.
You're lucky that you have a good choice of bread where you are @tui34. So do my children who live in other parts of France. A lot of the bread where I am is the same dough, just made into different shapes and sizes or with sesame seeds on it. A lot is overcooked, brown and gum ripping. Also full of holes so that the butter and marmalade ends up on the plate.
Just a thought @punkdoc , have you tried taking 5-HTP?
Slightly better nights sleep, 3 hours, although doped up on all sorts of stuff, which worries me. I have decided until I get a few decent nights, then I will keep taking everything I can think of.
At least it is a lovely day, so some gentle gardening is called for. I will probably leave the weeds and dig up the plants, hey ho.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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