Hope you lot in the northwest have got your hatches well battened down and your climbers tied in - Abigail is on her way. - take care everyone ((hugs))
Coffee anyone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow - I'm first on this morning! That doesn't often happen.#
This is why:
They're digging up the cycle track right outside the front door to put in new electrical cables throughout the town. I wouldn't mind so much but they've also cut down all the gingko trees along the road.
Edit: Ah - cross posted with Dove. Morning Dove - how's yer head? Tea, please, at this hour, if it's all the same to you.
"First you gink and then you go". Ginkgo. Steve . The easy way to remember. My plant teacher had interesting ways to teach us. I've never forgotten the difference between the African and French marigolds after she taught us that the French is T. patula (and she bent down and said you pat it on the head)
Mind you, I've been told, sadly, that she now has dementia, but she was sure sharp in the 70s.
Very calm and benign here - for now. Glad I'm not further north....
Doubt I'll be walking anywhere this weekend apart from to the kitchen and back. Temps are sub zero on summits now anyway, but the wind now takes them to between -10 and -15. There will be a lot of the white stuff and too many whiteouts for me. H****work, tea drinking and lounging may be the order of the day!
What shame about the trees Steve. Will they replace them though?
Bon voyage LP
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks for the tea Dove. Just the job. Not only can you not get proper tea here (I brought some bags with me) but the milk's pretty disgusting too. No wonder they all drink coffee.
OH (who works in the town planning department) assures me that the trees will be replaced with 'something more suitable'.
Ah - yes - ginkgo. Not a word I often have cause to spell.
I ought to go and drown out the pneumatic drill with the vacuum cleaner
My hatches will be well and truly battened Pat. I'm not in the north of Scotland so we'll get off lightly - just 50/60 mph winds.
There's a chance we might get some snow mixed in with the rain, but we're used to wild weather at this time of year. I just looked at the predicted wind speeds for Friday on my favourite hill (in Glencoe) - gusts of over 100 mph. That ain't funny!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Good morning all
G'day Pat 
Hope you lot in the northwest have got your hatches well battened down and your climbers tied in - Abigail is on her way. - take care everyone ((hugs))
Coffee anyone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow - I'm first on this morning! That doesn't often happen.#
This is why:
They're digging up the cycle track right outside the front door to put in new electrical cables throughout the town. I wouldn't mind so much but they've also cut down all the gingko trees along the road.
Edit: Ah - cross posted with Dove. Morning Dove - how's yer head? Tea, please, at this hour, if it's all the same to you.
Good morning Steve - shame about the gingko trees
Will they replant with something else?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"First you gink and then you go". Ginkgo. Steve . The easy way to remember.
My plant teacher had interesting ways to teach us. I've never forgotten the difference between the African and French marigolds after she taught us that the French is T. patula (and she bent down and said you pat it on the head)
Mind you, I've been told, sadly, that she now has dementia, but she was sure sharp in the 70s.
morning Dove and Steve.
Morning all and afties Pat
Very calm and benign here - for now. Glad I'm not further north....
Doubt I'll be walking anywhere this weekend apart from to the kitchen and back. Temps are sub zero on summits now anyway, but the wind now takes them to between -10 and -15. There will be a lot of the white stuff and too many whiteouts for me. H****work, tea drinking and lounging may be the order of the day!
What shame about the trees Steve. Will they replace them though?
Bon voyage LP
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks for the tea Dove. Just the job. Not only can you not get proper tea here (I brought some bags with me) but the milk's pretty disgusting too. No wonder they all drink coffee.
OH (who works in the town planning department) assures me that the trees will be replaced with 'something more suitable'.
Ah - yes - ginkgo. Not a word I often have cause to spell.
I ought to go and drown out the pneumatic drill with the vacuum cleaner
I just googled Abigail - wow, sounds very serious. Hope all in the north are OK tomorrow.
My hatches will be well and truly battened Pat. I'm not in the north of Scotland so we'll get off lightly - just 50/60 mph winds.
There's a chance we might get some snow mixed in with the rain, but we're used to wild weather at this time of year. I just looked at the predicted wind speeds for Friday on my favourite hill (in Glencoe) - gusts of over 100 mph. That ain't funny!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all
Looks nice out, but I know it won't last
Not sure if I'm pleased to be at the mine all day 