@punkdoc It might be worthwhile to check whether you can fill some of the gaps in your pension record via voluntary contributions if you can spare the cash. It is probably one of the best investments you could make.
Afternoon everyone, grey and dull here tho the sun has tried to break through a couple of times. Sod's law just as my arm improves a bit I have come down with a 5* streaming cold so feeling carp at the moment. We managed a bit in the garden yesterday but loads to do and I haven't even started on the plots. One step forward 2 back at the moment.
News from the local historical society's committee meeting - our Chair is also this year's Town Reeve (we are the only town in the UK to still have one). Each year the Reeve has a special cause he or she raises money for and this year the Reeve has decided to raise money to help our local theatre. It always needs money! He has had the brilliant idea of a Harry Potter readathon with 100 people getting £100 each sponsorship to read aloud all the books from 10am to 10pm over a period of time in the autumn. The books were printed here - people may remember that there was some hooha a few years back when one of the proofs was found on the Common having been stolen from the printworks. When books like this are printed there, they go into lockdown and security is really tight so no idea how that proof escaped! Really excited about this idea - and fervently hope we can get a well-known celebrity who lives in the region to start the readathon!
Morning everyone. Another very warm day predicted here. 34 I think.
We’ve been having late nights because we have decided to go back to the Lucifer episodes. It’s easy to forget how many laughs we had when we first saw the series. What a character! 😀
another grey day on the horizon. If it stay dry I will carry on clearing the periwinkles. I have finished the cross stich sampler, but I have a bunting project to start. Must keep busy. Hope you are all going to have a nice Sunday. What's in your pot for Sunday lunch/dinner? I have some gnocchi which will need a meaty tomato sauce, so off to make that now.
It’s @WonkyWomble’s Lovely Hub’s birthday today … they had friends visiting yesterday evening so I expect theyll not be awake yet.
Our meal today will be Barnsley Chops, roasted potatoes and carrots with purple sprouting broccoli, mint jelly and gravy … that’s one of our favourite Sunday meals for just the two of us.
Son plans to be at work today and not sure what time he’ll be back … I’ve got some tasty local ham from the butcher so I’ll make him a stack of sandwiches … I made a fresh wholemeal loaf yesterday … there’s also homemade courgette chutney and salad, plus I’m going to make some Suffolk rusks when the oven is on and there’s some Shropshire Blue cheese he can have with those so he won’t go short 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have just seen some type of raptor in the garden!!! Trying to I.D. with no clear result… bigger than a sparrow hawk, quite brown against the sky in flight, big. It swooped in to apple tree and dived down to behind the compost bin area (secluded) and emerged about 10 mins later, possibly with something in mouth. All this without my glasses on mind! Kestrel? Buzzard?
Sorry to moan, but I am at my wits end, my sleep is absolutely rubbish again, only managing a couple of hours a night, so am having to sleep during the day, which annoyingly seems really easy. This seems to be really affecting my recovery.
Rant over.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
The behaviour you describe sounds like a sparrow hawk too.
Kestrels are smaller and more lightly built than sparrow hawks and buzzards are pretty huge compared to either. Peregrines tend to take their prey in the air and kites usually go for carrion.
Are you near woodland or cliffs (or very high buildings)?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Sod's law just as my arm improves a bit I have come down with a 5* streaming cold so feeling carp at the moment. We managed a bit in the garden yesterday but loads to do and I haven't even started on the plots. One step forward 2 back at the moment.
I did nearly 2 hours gardening this afternoon.
another grey day on the horizon. If it stay dry I will carry on clearing the periwinkles. I have finished the cross stich sampler, but I have a bunting project to start. Must keep busy.
Hope you are all going to have a nice Sunday. What's in your pot for Sunday lunch/dinner? I have some gnocchi which will need a meaty tomato sauce, so off to make that now.
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It’s @WonkyWomble’s Lovely Hub’s birthday today … they had friends visiting yesterday evening so I expect theyll not be awake yet.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have just seen some type of raptor in the garden!!!
Trying to I.D. with no clear result… bigger than a sparrow hawk, quite brown against the sky in flight, big. It swooped in to apple tree and dived down to behind the compost bin area (secluded) and emerged about 10 mins later, possibly with something in mouth. All this without my glasses on mind! Kestrel? Buzzard?
Sorry to moan, but I am at my wits end, my sleep is absolutely rubbish again, only managing a couple of hours a night, so am having to sleep during the day, which annoyingly seems really easy. This seems to be really affecting my recovery.
Rant over.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://birdfact.com/articles/female-sparrowhawks#:~:text=What%20Does%20A%20Female%20Sparrowhawk%20Look%20like?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.