i can't believe this rain, the mud is horrid and still it keeps coming down. The hotel we had our beautiful Christmas lunch in yesterday is flooded and closed today. At least they got yesterday
Pat it was Lorne we experienced our fire terrors in 1985 ( I think) we were driving down thro the Wimera when it started chasing us. I will never forget. I think fires are just a big part of life in Australia, you hope each year will have fewer but I don't think it ever is.
the Boxing Day walk may have to be cancelled as its so wet, lots here to do tho and masses of food and refreshment!
Hope everyone had an enjoyable day yesterday I have only just caught up!
DD watch your back, don't let it get as bad as mine!
Fairy a beautiful poem, what talent !
being summoned. No1 gd wants me to teach her how to use a yo yo Heaps of money spent on toys and it's the cracker gift that's giving the pleasure!! Life stays the same!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Morning all! I don't usually post on here, but I do enjoy reading what everyone's been up to. Hoping for a peaceful relaxed day today, nibbling, grazing, nibbling some more, with sufficient liquid to wash it all down , then finishing with a cheese fondue, at daughter's request.
Yesterday was meant to be fairly relaxed too, but didn't go to plan. Just settled with a cup of coffee while waiting for the 'young ones' to surface when there was a strange noise and the dog began barking. Went to investigate and found the woman from the nearby cottage hammering at the door and completely distraught as she'd just found her partner dead in his bedroom. Phoned for an ambulance, tried to calm her and talk to the dispatch officer without losing phone signal (always a problem here!), trudged up the lane to check out the situation, while still on the phone to ambulance station, verified he was dead, went out to meet ambulance and help carry things. More ambulance men arrived and then they had to call the police for an unexpected death. Stayed with my neighbour and managed to help her contact her brother, who luckily lives not too far away, and then stayed some more as the young WPC went through all the necessary paperwork and the ambulance men did what they had to do. I was finally able to slip away after her brother arrived and took her into his care (his family Christmas abandoned too) and rejoin my family, but it was impossible to get the festive spirit back altogether.
It struck me how much better I know all you folk on here, your likes and dislikes, your troubles and cares, your sense of humour etc than I knew about my neighbours. They have lived in the cottage belonging to the farm next door for several years and while friendly have led semi-reclusive lives, hardly ever going out and only once or twice accepting invitations and we had not tried to push them beyond their comfort zone. I was glad to have been able to help a little but felt so sad for her, her world has fallen apart.
The emergency services were wonderful, amazing, quickly on the spot, even in our out of the way location and so kind, calming, supportive and unhurried, even though they were working on Christmas Day and doubtless under pressure from cuts and staff shortages. It is not easy for them either. The paramedic said, when I thanked him, that it is not unusual to have deaths at Christmas, of course, but it always seems extra sad, and it had impacted on him when he found my neighbour was only the same age as he was, only 49. We need to support them as much as they support us!
I'm off now to make some soda bread for lunch and do a glass wash so I can see the kitchen worktop again and will walk up to the cottage to see if there is anything I can do - brother, bless him stayed the night with his sister, I saw his car in the farm yard when I went to check last night. As Topbird said, for many people this is not the best time of year and it will never be the same again for my poor neighbour.
Buttercup - how dreadfully sad, and a reminder that, when we're all supposed to be happy and jolly, for many people it's a truly horrible time of year. It will always be that way for your neighbour now. Perhaps we don't count our blessings often enough - we're often too caught up in the day to day trivia that we all experience. When I was out yesterday, I saw two ambulances with their lights going - sad at any time - but always worse on Christmas Day.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I know how you feel BC the one fatality of the floods was our next door neighbor, and oh was involved in the recovery I wasn't able to talk about at the time, the funeral was on Wed
How awful for your neighbour and what a shock, Buttercup, and for you too. He can't have been that old if she was 49? I hope she has friends and family to support her, good that her brother came.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Do they all do the washing up BL? I think I'd insist....
DD - you should have got OH to do all the floors and the cleaning - that would have been good exercise for him
Be careful with your back - I'm so used to the aches and pains in mine, that I only notice it now if it isn't sore!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Good morning from very very wet Yorkshirr
i can't believe this rain, the mud is horrid and still it keeps coming down. The hotel we had our beautiful Christmas lunch in yesterday is flooded and closed today. At least they got yesterday
Pat it was Lorne we experienced our fire terrors in 1985 ( I think) we were driving down thro the Wimera when it started chasing us. I will never forget. I think fires are just a big part of life in Australia, you hope each year will have fewer but I don't think it ever is.
the Boxing Day walk may have to be cancelled as its so wet, lots here to do tho and masses of food and refreshment!
Hope everyone had an enjoyable day yesterday I have only just caught up!
DD watch your back, don't let it get as bad as mine!
Fairy a beautiful poem, what talent !
being summoned. No1 gd wants me to teach her how to use a yo yo Heaps of money spent on toys and it's the cracker gift that's giving the pleasure!! Life stays the same!
A A Milne
Morning all! I don't usually post on here, but I do enjoy reading what everyone's been up to. Hoping for a peaceful relaxed day today, nibbling, grazing, nibbling some more, with sufficient liquid to wash it all down
, then finishing with a cheese fondue, at daughter's request.
Yesterday was meant to be fairly relaxed too, but didn't go to plan. Just settled with a cup of coffee while waiting for the 'young ones' to surface when there was a strange noise and the dog began barking. Went to investigate and found the woman from the nearby cottage hammering at the door and completely distraught as she'd just found her partner dead in his bedroom. Phoned for an ambulance, tried to calm her and talk to the dispatch officer without losing phone signal (always a problem here!), trudged up the lane to check out the situation, while still on the phone to ambulance station, verified he was dead, went out to meet ambulance and help carry things. More ambulance men arrived and then they had to call the police for an unexpected death. Stayed with my neighbour and managed to help her contact her brother, who luckily lives not too far away, and then stayed some more as the young WPC went through all the necessary paperwork and the ambulance men did what they had to do. I was finally able to slip away after her brother arrived and took her into his care (his family Christmas abandoned too) and rejoin my family, but it was impossible to get the festive spirit back altogether.
It struck me how much better I know all you folk on here, your likes and dislikes, your troubles and cares, your sense of humour etc than I knew about my neighbours. They have lived in the cottage belonging to the farm next door for several years and while friendly have led semi-reclusive lives, hardly ever going out and only once or twice accepting invitations and we had not tried to push them beyond their comfort zone. I was glad to have been able to help a little but felt so sad for her, her world has fallen apart.
The emergency services were wonderful, amazing, quickly on the spot, even in our out of the way location and so kind, calming, supportive and unhurried, even though they were working on Christmas Day and doubtless under pressure from cuts and staff shortages. It is not easy for them either. The paramedic said, when I thanked him, that it is not unusual to have deaths at Christmas, of course, but it always seems extra sad, and it had impacted on him when he found my neighbour was only the same age as he was, only 49. We need to support them as much as they support us!
I'm off now to make some soda bread for lunch and do a glass wash so I can see the kitchen worktop again and will walk up to the cottage to see if there is anything I can do - brother, bless him stayed the night with his sister, I saw his car in the farm yard when I went to check last night. As Topbird said, for many people this is not the best time of year and it will never be the same again for my poor neighbour.
Buttercup - how dreadfully sad, and a reminder that, when we're all supposed to be happy and jolly, for many people it's a truly horrible time of year. It will always be that way for your neighbour now. Perhaps we don't count our blessings often enough - we're often too caught up in the day to day trivia that we all experience. When I was out yesterday, I saw two ambulances with their lights going - sad at any time - but always worse on Christmas Day.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I know how you feel BC the one fatality of the floods was our next door neighbor, and oh was involved in the recovery I wasn't able to talk about at the time, the funeral was on Wed
How awful for your neighbour and what a shock, Buttercup, and for you too. He can't have been that old if she was 49? I hope she has friends and family to support her, good that her brother came.
Buttercupdays and Little-ann ((hugs)) what difficult times you're both living through - thank goodness for good neighbours when times are tough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How awful for you both little ann an buttercupdays.
Warmest wishes for you both.