Wot a fun 3hrs. I've done some things in my life but assistant rodder tops it.
Lily thank you so much for kind offer to re-house 85yr old gardener, I've decided to keep her, had her 55 yrs. She has promised ( yet again) no using stepladder and will alert me to problems pronto. Told her you were lovely and would look after her, but she looked so sad standing outside with hood up and little suitcase, just like Paddington bear, that I said she could stay.
Actually I have told her that I've offered her to any good home...made her laugh and she says thanks.
KEF - you're obviously a star!!! Rodding drains is never fun
Wonder how Panda's day has gone ....
I've done loadsa housework and there's a beef casserole in the oven for supper - there'll be enough to make a meat and potato pie for Wednesday too.
I'm pleased now that I'm getting myself organised - I've got my week sort of planned out - I've got a meal planned for each day, and a task that needs to be completed - during the first few weeks of retirement I just drifted - lovely for a while but I feel better now that I've got a bit of focus
Oh, hello Matty - didn't see you there
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove me thinks I need lessons in organisation. Stopped work 18months ago and I still feel ( at times ) that we are still on holiday.
Take away pizza tonight with a salad..best hope of eating Mum had a bowl of soup an hour after we left !! Think I was adopted, don't have her constitution. Had her wellies on out "inspecting". Enough on that score.
Well Dove, didn't achieve a lot work wise today but felt good in myself so I mark that up as a success
Kef, you're a braver Forker than I. Drains are for plumbers! I know we are all "strong independent women" but some things I refuse to do. The smell from our drain last spring made me want to so I called a man in (as my OH won't clean it out!). I would like to stress that it wasn't our mess, but the previous owner, who had amassed all sorts of junk down there which led to build up.
Am out tonight with some girlfriends (odd the easy use of this Americanism ). Not sure where we are off to but we always eat well
Years ago, in my previous existence, we had 'a drain problem'. It was a long Bank Holiday weekend and my now ex (a builder) had taken his men on a football trip to Holland - of course, he and they would usually have sorted the drains out, but they weren't available and the drains wouldn't wait. I rang a friend Roger, who I thought would know someone in the village who could help out - Roger turned up half an hour later with some drain rods and other pieces of equipment he'd borrowed and spent the morning rodding and generally saving the day.
When he'd finished he asked if he could use our shower room to clean himself up - he said he'd got some clean clothes with him because when I phoned he was just going to visit his father in hospital who'd had a heart attack the previous evening!!!!!!!!!!! I said something along the lines of 'why ever didn't you say - you should've gone straight away, not come here - we'd have managed somehow!' He replied that he was our friend, he knew my then OH was unavailable and anyway, that's what friends do.' What a friend!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He's a bit of a special chap Verdun - totally wild as a younger man - from an ex travelling family - needed several large constables to 'calm him down' - eventually tamed by the wonderful Tilly - they had an amazing wedding celebration in a field full of marquees - I've never seen so many leather-clad pairs of legs and braided hairdos, and that was on the menfolk!!! Dancing until dawn wasn't in it ............... it went on for days. He built on his love of motorbikes and developed a business importing and exporting specialist collector-type motorbikes all over the world and is more successful than he ever dreamed possible - he must be around 70 now, looks and acts like a man half his age and still lives in the home he grew up in on the edge of the village with his family's cobs and dogs and the wonderful Tilly. A complete star!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Wot a fun 3hrs. I've done some things in my life but assistant rodder tops it.
Lily thank you so much for kind offer to re-house 85yr old gardener, I've decided to keep her, had her 55 yrs. She has promised ( yet again) no using stepladder and will alert me to problems pronto. Told her you were lovely and would look after her, but she looked so sad standing outside with hood up and little suitcase, just like Paddington bear, that I said she could stay.
Actually I have told her that I've offered her to any good home...made her laugh and she says thanks.
Food not high on list here
BFN
Thanks Lily
KEF - you're obviously a star!!! Rodding drains is never fun
Wonder how Panda's day has gone ....
I've done loadsa housework and there's a beef casserole in the oven for supper - there'll be enough to make a meat and potato pie for Wednesday too.
I'm pleased now that I'm getting myself organised - I've got my week sort of planned out - I've got a meal planned for each day, and a task that needs to be completed - during the first few weeks of retirement I just drifted - lovely for a while but I feel better now that I've got a bit of focus
Oh, hello Matty - didn't see you there
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not a star Dove, first and blinking last time.
Dove me thinks I need lessons in organisation. Stopped work 18months ago and I still feel ( at times ) that we are still on holiday.
Take away pizza tonight with a salad..best hope of eating
Mum had a bowl of soup an hour after we left !! Think I was adopted, don't have her constitution. Had her wellies on out "inspecting". Enough on that score.
BFN next post without drains.
Late afternoon all
Well Dove, didn't achieve a lot work wise today but felt good in myself so I mark that up as a success
Kef, you're a braver Forker than I. Drains are for plumbers! I know we are all "strong independent women" but some things I refuse to do. The smell from our drain last spring made me want to
so I called a man in (as my OH won't clean it out!). I would like to stress that it wasn't our mess, but the previous owner, who had amassed all sorts of junk down there which led to build up.
Am out tonight with some girlfriends (odd the easy use of this Americanism
). Not sure where we are off to but we always eat well 
See you all later x
Years ago, in my previous existence, we had 'a drain problem'. It was a long Bank Holiday weekend and my now ex (a builder) had taken his men on a football trip to Holland - of course, he and they would usually have sorted the drains out, but they weren't available and the drains wouldn't wait. I rang a friend Roger, who I thought would know someone in the village who could help out - Roger turned up half an hour later with some drain rods and other pieces of equipment he'd borrowed and spent the morning rodding and generally saving the day.
When he'd finished he asked if he could use our shower room to clean himself up - he said he'd got some clean clothes with him because when I phoned he was just going to visit his father in hospital who'd had a heart attack the previous evening!!!!!!!!!!! I said something along the lines of 'why ever didn't you say - you should've gone straight away, not come here - we'd have managed somehow!' He replied that he was our friend, he knew my then OH was unavailable and anyway, that's what friends do.' What a friend!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He's a bit of a special chap Verdun - totally wild as a younger man - from an ex travelling family - needed several large constables to 'calm him down' - eventually tamed by the wonderful Tilly - they had an amazing wedding celebration in a field full of marquees - I've never seen so many leather-clad pairs of legs and braided hairdos, and that was on the menfolk!!! Dancing until dawn wasn't in it ............... it went on for days. He built on his love of motorbikes and developed a business importing and exporting specialist collector-type motorbikes all over the world and is more successful than he ever dreamed possible - he must be around 70 now, looks and acts like a man half his age and still lives in the home he grew up in on the edge of the village with his family's cobs and dogs and the wonderful Tilly. A complete star!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi all.
Glad you had a good day Panda, have a lovely evening, not too many sherbets, work tomorrow
Kef, sorry to hear she was sad, but glad she has promised to stay away from ladders. Give her some cream cakes from me
Good friends are hard to come by, their real treasures aren't they Dove
Dove, that man was a very true friend.
All I can say is ......skip that one.... I don't think I'll ever be the same woman again.
Panda have a lovely night out.
Nothing else to say, still traumatised.
See you all in the morning. Hope I don't have nightmares.