Hope I don't get told off for putting this on the wrong thread but it cheered me up seeing this this morning.
I read about the mysterious bangs too. Concord used to fly over here about 9.20 every evening and seconds before I heard it the pheasants used to call out.
Chicky I saw him when I went to Parham gardens doing a live radio thing for Surrey going around talking to different people and then stood smoking, he was just there for the morning
Good for the allotment programme coming back so early thought we would of have to wait for a while yet even if half of it is more about cooking
Friend came this morning and we made about 40 bunches to decorate the pews in the Abbey for Sunday's Carol Service. She's a new friend, lives in town but has been here about 11 years, only met her recently. She's an artist and English.
Must make 100 mince pies, shall cheat and use bought puff pastry and Robertson's mincemeat. Sunday morning I will be making 15L mulled wine, another friend will make another 15L. Then next week, Friday, there will be another English Carol Service in a local church. We'll have a cheap bubbly for that as local priest doesn't want wine stains on the stone floor.
The Gardening Club nearest me stopped for the winter. Think I will have to suggest a Christmas meal next year, Dordogne Damsel. Sounds fun.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Busy-Lizzy, yes use bought puff pastry I do now, you cannot taste the difference, another tip is buy a large jar of mince meat and small jar of Bramley apple or make your own and mix it with a few drops or even big spoon fulls of brandy, my lot are eating them as they come in the door and asking for more.
The snow vanished the sun came out as I drove back down the Durham Road I was blinded by it no matter where I put the sun visor, now the wind is back and it is bitter, that's me for the day, the garden can relax.
Back too late from shopping run to tackle the hawthorn. Left it in buckets soaking for the day, will heal in overnight and have a free day to put them all in tomorrow. Have a nice thick pair of welding gloves at the ready.
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Very blustery here now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all,
Hope I don't get told off for putting this on the wrong thread but it cheered me up seeing this this morning.
I read about the mysterious bangs too. Concord used to fly over here about 9.20 every evening and seconds before I heard it the pheasants used to call out.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Someone has left a packaged hydrangea on my doorstep. It must be an early Christmas present.
Hello all
Chicky I saw him when I went to Parham gardens doing a live radio thing for Surrey going around talking to different people and then stood smoking, he was just there for the morning
Good for the allotment programme coming back so early thought we would of have to wait for a while yet even if half of it is more about cooking
KEF did you not watch Wild Weather with Richard Hammond not hailstones at this time of year http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04v5lng/wild-weather-with-richard-hammond-2-water-the-shape-shifter
DD biscuits yummy maybe that will bring Bekkie back
GemmaJF same with weather you be careful with the hawthorn roots prickly, I am going to go in garden any way bits to sort out
Hello all to who I have missed saying anything
Friend came this morning and we made about 40 bunches to decorate the pews in the Abbey for Sunday's Carol Service. She's a new friend, lives in town but has been here about 11 years, only met her recently. She's an artist and English.
Must make 100 mince pies, shall cheat and use bought puff pastry and Robertson's mincemeat. Sunday morning I will be making 15L mulled wine, another friend will make another 15L. Then next week, Friday, there will be another English Carol Service in a local church. We'll have a cheap bubbly for that as local priest doesn't want wine stains on the stone floor.
The Gardening Club nearest me stopped for the winter. Think I will have to suggest a Christmas meal next year, Dordogne Damsel. Sounds fun.
Busy-Lizzy, yes use bought puff pastry I do now, you cannot taste the difference, another tip is buy a large jar of mince meat and small jar of Bramley apple or make your own and mix it with a few drops or even big spoon fulls of brandy, my lot are eating them as they come in the door and asking for more.
The snow vanished the sun came out as I drove back down the Durham Road I was blinded by it no matter where I put the sun visor, now the wind is back and it is bitter, that's me for the day, the garden can relax.
Frank.
100 mincepies
Hope Verdun doesn't hear about them Lizzie 
Frank I think yours are also in danger as Verdun is nearer to you than to Lizzie or he might not be if he has a boat if you know what I mean
Rain, hail, some wind and yucky here.
Back too late from shopping run to tackle the hawthorn. Left it in buckets soaking for the day, will heal in overnight and have a free day to put them all in tomorrow. Have a nice thick pair of welding gloves at the ready.
I think I ought to check a glass or six too RB, just to make sure
