Amazed to read about the snow in Bath. Grandson had his football match cancelled. We’ve had lots of sun here, one very short shower mid afternoon, but I was able to head out into the garden at 4.30 and worked till 6pm. Took the top off a couple of huge pittosporum and then attacked some more laurel bushes. There are a few conveniently placed to hide a neighbours windows, but I don’t need them higher than their eaves, so I used the telescopic lopper thing to reduce the height. Had a lovely time, and had enough energy left to drag all the cuttings down to the ever growing pile. OH has offered to help with the shredding, and I’m very happy to delegate that to him! You probably do recognise the cafe we were in, @Lizzie27. Right beside the zebra crossing and opposite the seafront. They serve some of the best coffee in Sidmouth, excellent fish and chips, and the cleanest ladies loo in town! Shame they don’t do pastries or porridge at breakfast time, I’d be in there more often!
Good morning everyone. No rain prospects for us in the foreseeable future. Lucky our tanks are full. There isn’t any town water supply in our village, so we have to catch all we can while we have rain.
Thinking of those of you with snow. I hope our winter doesn’t get that cold this year.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ hello @Pat E 😊 I’ve slept for ten hours! I was sooooo tired yesterday that I came up to bed just after 8 and slept for England (I recorded the athletics so I’ll catch up with the excitement this morning).
Hope everyone else has had a good night too … and at least it’s not raining … we’ll, not here anyway 🤞
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Morning all, happy to report we've got brilliant sunshine here which came with a heavy frost first thing. I got up early (well for me!) to avoid disturbing OH and had breakfast in on a tray in the sitting room. I thought I was watching a couple of deer on the hillside opposite but when I got the binoculars out, they turned out to be two very fat pheasants!
You obviously needed that sleep @Dovefromabove, probably did you a power of good.
@Pat E, I'm really surprised you've no mains water supply, are you miles away from a town? Can't help thinking that we've just had the wettest February on record but I bet most of it has gone to waste. We do need lots of new resevoirs to capture rainwater, especially in the south-east.
Don't remember a zebra crossing @Ergates, the one we used was called 'Mocha' I think, opposite the Elizabeth Hotel, which I thought was rather apt!
Woke to frost on the rooftops, but sunny, so we have headed out for a small veggie breakfast at the Donkey Sanctuary. Very pleased with myself for having done some gardening yesterday, green bin collection is on Wednesday so it’s very satisfying to have a decent pile of stuff almost ready to go. I do hate that last minute panic. Yes it was the Mocha cafe, @Lizzie27. There is a zebra crossing just outside! Quite a few people were sitting at the tables outside yesterday, quite nicely sheltered from the worst of the wind. Id find it very worrying, @Pat E, being quite so directly dependent on rainfall for a water supply. After the winter we have had, Ive heard reports that all our local reservoirs are completely full. Of course lots of that will be lost in inefficient supply systems, but at least it’s a better way to start the spring. Sounds like you are finally on the mend, @Dovefromabove, nothing like a decent nights sleep. I wonder how soon @rowlandscastle444 will be able to tell if the surgery has helped reduce his seizures. Hope the sore head is settling down now. Hope @punkdoc is enjoying his mini break.
I think I really needed it @Lizzie27 😊. Now I’m up and about I’ve peeled potatoes and carrots for roasting and made an apple, onion and rosemary stuffing for the belly of pork I’ll roast for supper. It was going to be apple and sage but after having been absolutely fine all winter with lots of young leaves for cooking, the sage is now looking tired, so I’ve used rosemary instead.
Like the rest of the garden, the herbs need a good overhaul after a year of neglect so when the weather picks up a bit more I’ll take some offshoots from the base of the sage and pot them up for new plants.
I’ve also waved the Vax around downstairs so that will do for now … I’ll run through the recording of last evening’s athletics and find the last event I watched and catch up with what I missed. I have a coffee ☕️
By the way, it’s just as well I’m feeling much better … son has eschewed his usual first double espresso of the morning and replaced it with a Lemsip, and OH has asked where though mixture for tickly coughs is 😱. I may have to transmogrify into Nurse Dove👩⚕️ 💊🤒
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You probably do recognise the cafe we were in, @Lizzie27. Right beside the zebra crossing and opposite the seafront. They serve some of the best coffee in Sidmouth, excellent fish and chips, and the cleanest ladies loo in town! Shame they don’t do pastries or porridge at breakfast time, I’d be in there more often!
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I’ve slept for ten hours! I was sooooo tired yesterday that I came up to bed just after 8 and slept for England (I recorded the athletics so I’ll catch up with the excitement this morning).
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You obviously needed that sleep @Dovefromabove, probably did you a power of good.
@Pat E, I'm really surprised you've no mains water supply, are you miles away from a town? Can't help thinking that we've just had the wettest February on record but I bet most of it has gone to waste. We do need lots of new resevoirs to capture rainwater, especially in the south-east.
Don't remember a zebra crossing @Ergates, the one we used was called 'Mocha' I think, opposite the Elizabeth Hotel, which I thought was rather apt!
Very pleased with myself for having done some gardening yesterday, green bin collection is on Wednesday so it’s very satisfying to have a decent pile of stuff almost ready to go. I do hate that last minute panic.
Yes it was the Mocha cafe, @Lizzie27. There is a zebra crossing just outside! Quite a few people were sitting at the tables outside yesterday, quite nicely sheltered from the worst of the wind.
Id find it very worrying, @Pat E, being quite so directly dependent on rainfall for a water supply. After the winter we have had, Ive heard reports that all our local reservoirs are completely full. Of course lots of that will be lost in inefficient supply systems, but at least it’s a better way to start the spring.
Sounds like you are finally on the mend, @Dovefromabove, nothing like a decent nights sleep.
I wonder how soon @rowlandscastle444 will be able to tell if the surgery has helped reduce his seizures. Hope the sore head is settling down now.
Hope @punkdoc is enjoying his mini break.
By the way, it’s just as well I’m feeling much better … son has eschewed his usual first double espresso of the morning and replaced it with a Lemsip, and OH has asked where though mixture for tickly coughs is 😱.
I may have to transmogrify into Nurse Dove👩⚕️ 💊🤒
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.