Cards and presents posted this afternoon. Very convenient having the post office in the village Co-op - it's open whenever the shop is open - 6am to 10pm 6 days a week and slightly shorter hours on a Sunday. It's only been there about 2 months & a lot of people still don't know it's such a flexible facility - so there was no queue today
I love silver jewellery BL - generally prefer it to gold. My OH likes it that way too (cheaper!)
Hope you don't catch your friends' colds Runny. I'm really struggling to throw off this cough / cold-like virusey thing I've had on and off since the summer - felt lousy yesterday but much better again today.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Been for a little walk. Took the GPS to see how far it is and it's just 6 miles, so not bad for an hour and a half round the doors to keep the legs going. Lovely bullfinches in a tree at one of the farms, and the usual buzzards etc. Came home and saw a little pied wagtail out in the garden
BL - which was best though - sausages or earrings?
I found this photo and thought of you - this is what the Falls of Dochart at Killin looked like yesterday!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have stayed all snug and wrapped up Christmas pressies. Few left to do but will leave those for another day now.
Love silver jewellery and gold Saw a really lovely silver necklace Friday, went in and looked Topbird........this one wasn't cheap £275.00!!............its still there lol.
Forced myself outside in the mizzly drizzle ....and had a lovely time. Had forgotten that gardens can be fun even in grotty weather. My hellebore bed is now weeded and mulched with leaf mould. It is on the way from the car to our front door, so it always pleases me when I finally get round to sorting it each year.
So many treasures flowering out there - all at the wrong time. Both my chanomelese (spelling? - japanese quince in English), the daphne, the winter honeysuckle, even 2 hellebores in flower, and the snowdrops already poking their noses above the soil. Guess that's what happens if there is not a cold autumn
I went to Morrisons today for a small trolley of things. 15mins to get shopping 20 mins to pay Went to find a suit to ask why only 8 of the 18 tills open No manager but a lady filling the fridge said no staff available, not shop managers fault head office directive. Man on till relief from Fish counter said 14 extra Xmas staff were due to be employed but head office have cancelled them. I won't be shopping there at run up to Christmas if it was that bad on the 6th !!!!
Killin looks scary in your photo Fairygirl. I've only seen it in summer.
The sausages will last for several meals but the earrings will last forever - unless I lose them or they get nicked!
Gosh that's a good price for salmon, RB, never that cheap here.
My snowdrops are just peeping out too, but none of the plants like winter honeysuckle that Chicky mentioned is flowering.
Have just stacked 2 more trailers, with OH, of logs by the sitting room door. That's the end of the big pile, should last into April. Then I planted 15 pansies in the middle bed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That's quite sad KEF. They seem to have real issues at Morrisons. I like their food, but I don't often go there as it's further away and young fairy still has a part time job at Asda so I get discount. Glad it's topped raining with you. Has doc gone boating down his stream do you think? Perhaps he's built an ark just to be on the safe side.
RB - I got that pic from the online Scottish news. You can just about see the stone wall forming the side of the bridge ( looks like it's sitting on the water just at the foot of the trees) which is normally about twenty or thirty feet above the water.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hello folks Cornish friend arrived just after breakfast - we spent a day nattering, drinking coffee, eating homemade soup and mince pies and also spent a couple of ours at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts which is just up the road - luvvit! We've just waved her off and collapsed on the sofa
Hosta ((hugs)) that's what knees do - they pretend to be better so you go around behaving as if you're seventeen again, and then they let you down - you don't have to tell me, I've been there - I'll never trust my knee again
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Cards and presents posted this afternoon. Very convenient having the post office in the village Co-op - it's open whenever the shop is open - 6am to 10pm 6 days a week and slightly shorter hours on a Sunday. It's only been there about 2 months & a lot of people still don't know it's such a flexible facility - so there was no queue today
I love silver jewellery BL - generally prefer it to gold. My OH likes it that way too (cheaper!)
Hope you don't catch your friends' colds Runny. I'm really struggling to throw off this cough / cold-like virusey thing I've had on and off since the summer - felt lousy yesterday but much better again today.
Been for a little walk. Took the GPS to see how far it is and it's just 6 miles, so not bad for an hour and a half round the doors to keep the legs going. Lovely bullfinches in a tree at one of the farms, and the usual buzzards etc. Came home and saw a little pied wagtail out in the garden
BL - which was best though - sausages or earrings?
I found this photo and thought of you - this is what the Falls of Dochart at Killin looked like yesterday!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi everyone,
Drizzly day today.
Have stayed all snug and wrapped up Christmas pressies. Few left to do but will leave those for another day now.
Love silver jewellery and gold
Saw a really lovely silver necklace Friday, went in and looked Topbird........this one wasn't cheap 
£275.00!!............its still there lol.
Sorry to hear you're in pain Hosta, hugs.
Hope all poorly peeps are on the mend, take care.
Time for a cup of tea, anyone want one
Oh dear Hosta - what a pain (quite literally)
Forced myself outside in the mizzly drizzle ....and had a lovely time. Had forgotten that gardens can be fun even in grotty weather. My hellebore bed is now weeded and mulched with leaf mould. It is on the way from the car to our front door, so it always pleases me when I finally get round to sorting it each year.
So many treasures flowering out there - all at the wrong time
. Both my chanomelese (spelling? - japanese quince in English), the daphne, the winter honeysuckle, even 2 hellebores in flower, and the snowdrops already poking their noses above the soil
. Guess that's what happens if there is not a cold autumn
Nothing to report here other than the rain stopped.
I went to Morrisons today for a small trolley of things. 15mins to get shopping 20 mins to pay
Went to find a suit to ask why only 8 of the 18 tills open
No manager but a lady filling the fridge said no staff available, not shop managers fault head office directive. Man on till relief from Fish counter said 14 extra Xmas staff were due to be employed but head office have cancelled them. I won't be shopping there at run up to Christmas if it was that bad on the 6th !!!!
Killin looks scary in your photo Fairygirl. I've only seen it in summer.
The sausages will last for several meals but the earrings will last forever - unless I lose them or they get nicked!
Gosh that's a good price for salmon, RB, never that cheap here.
My snowdrops are just peeping out too, but none of the plants like winter honeysuckle that Chicky mentioned is flowering.
Have just stacked 2 more trailers, with OH, of logs by the sitting room door. That's the end of the big pile, should last into April. Then I planted 15 pansies in the middle bed.
That's quite sad KEF. They seem to have real issues at Morrisons. I like their food, but I don't often go there as it's further away and young fairy still has a part time job at Asda so I get discount. Glad it's topped raining with you. Has doc gone boating down his stream do you think? Perhaps he's built an ark just to be on the safe side.
RB - I got that pic from the online Scottish news. You can just about see the stone wall forming the side of the bridge ( looks like it's sitting on the water just at the foot of the trees) which is normally about twenty or thirty feet above the water.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Think I'll be at ASDA next week Fairy. Doc might have gone to London to help SIL
Hello folks
Cornish friend arrived just after breakfast - we spent a day nattering, drinking coffee, eating homemade soup and mince pies and also spent a couple of ours at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts which is just up the road - luvvit! We've just waved her off and collapsed on the sofa 
Hosta ((hugs)) that's what knees do - they pretend to be better so you go around behaving as if you're seventeen again, and then they let you down - you don't have to tell me, I've been there - I'll never trust my knee again
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.