I hope your Sister-in-law continues to recover and regain her strength @didyw
I've been trying to sort out the situation with my Mother's mobile phone.Ā She pays for a bundle of unlimited minutes every month using a debit card.Ā The old debit card has expired and the bundle provider won't accept the new card.Ā Been on the phone to the provider and the bank most of the morning, but got nowhere.Ā For some reason they won't accept payment by direct debit, it has to be using the card.Ā As a stop-gap measure I have topped up the account using cash at the village shop, but the whole point of a constantly renewing monthly bundle is to avoid having to do that every month.Ā C'est la vie.
Best wishes to all, especially those dealing with floods.
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Weather is so changeable here at the moment. OH would love to go out somewhere after a couple of days at home. We get some beautiful sunshine, which makes it very tempting to ignore the forecast, but then itās raining minutes later.
I did get out in the garden for nearly an hour and filled another bag with brambles before it started raining. Only a few more square yards to go before Iāve managed to clear the area. There are still roots of nettles which Iāll take up, plus lots of ivy, but at least I wonāt need so much protective clothing!
We have badgers visiting regularly, but donāt have problems with them digging up the grass ( actually mainly moss at the moment) We do put food out for them every night, cheap peanut butter on brown bread sandwiches, which they or the foxes eat, whoever turns up first. Weāve been doing that for twenty years, and the previous owners before that, and never had the lawns bulldozed. Too full, probably, is our theory!
How frustrating @Badly_Maintained!Ā Hate it when the computer says no.
That sounds like a lot of hard work @Ergates.Ā And you never get all those blasted brambles out!Ā I've noticed more popping up from a previously cleared area.Ā And I daresay the nettles will be making a reappearance soon, despite bucketsful of roots dug out last year. Edited to add: but a summer spent during lockdown clearing the ground elder has paid dividends - just the odd bit easily removed now.Ā
A muntjac has just eaten all the leaves on the geraniums in the front garden š¤¬
We had a delicious lunch out, as usual. The rivers on the way had overflowed, but the roads were OK. The fields looked like lakes. I feel really sorry for the farmers.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
This will make you laugh @Busy-Lizzie, I read your post and thought to myself, they go to Suffolk quite a lot so I asked OH whether Suffolk was to the south or north of Norfolk thinking of the journey times, he laughed and said think of the names - the penny did eventually drop!!! Thick or what!
Glad you enjoyed your meal. We're just having a ready meal Indian tonight, Jalfrezi for him and Korma for me, it's nearly ready now, just got to do the naan breads.
I advise you to keep away from me ā¦ I am not at all pleasant .., this is a proper snotty chesty cough and cold. Ā I am sitting here surrounded by tissues and Vicks. Ā I may hibernate ā¦ Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I did get out in the garden for nearly an hour and filled another bag with brambles before it started raining. Only a few more square yards to go before Iāve managed to clear the area. There are still roots of nettles which Iāll take up, plus lots of ivy, but at least I wonāt need so much protective clothing!
We have badgers visiting regularly, but donāt have problems with them digging up the grass ( actually mainly moss at the moment) We do put food out for them every night, cheap peanut butter on brown bread sandwiches, which they or the foxes eat, whoever turns up first. Weāve been doing that for twenty years, and the previous owners before that, and never had the lawns bulldozed. Too full, probably, is our theory!
Just had a hail shower!Ā
When you don't even know who's in the team
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That sounds like a lot of hard work @Ergates.Ā And you never get all those blasted brambles out!Ā I've noticed more popping up from a previously cleared area.Ā And I daresay the nettles will be making a reappearance soon, despite bucketsful of roots dug out last year.
Edited to add: but a summer spent during lockdown clearing the ground elder has paid dividends - just the odd bit easily removed now.Ā
We had a delicious lunch out, as usual. The rivers on the way had overflowed, but the roads were OK. The fields looked like lakes. I feel really sorry for the farmers.
Glad you enjoyed your meal. We're just having a ready meal Indian tonight, Jalfrezi for him and Korma for me, it's nearly ready now, just got to do the naan breads.
I advise you to keep away from me ā¦ I am not at all pleasant .., this is a proper snotty chesty cough and cold. Ā I am sitting here surrounded by tissues and Vicks. Ā I may hibernate ā¦ Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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