Sunny at the moment.but quite cold and we are having internittant heavy showers.
Dove...you will start with lots of intentions of a proper wash day etc,then you wake up it the summer,its a beautiful day and you rush out to the garden,jobs forgotten..........but that the joy of not working,you can please yourself what you do and when you do it
Dove, I expect after the initial quiet you will be surprised by how much you will have to cram into a day after retirement. I volunteer for things and time just vanishes. Didn't have any time to garden last week.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
KEF - missed you there - you must've snuck in behind me Now you're making me feel guilty too, talking about dusting and vac-ing. That reminds me, I shall really have to get to grips with the Dyson - ever since we got it two years ago OH has taken charge of it
BusyL - I am determined to sit very firmly on my hands when volunteers are asked for. When the children were growing up and I was at home full-time helping to run the family business, the then OH was on every committee etc going and he volunteered me for everything - cricket teas, Jubilee street parties, youth club outings, etc etc etc - once - in my role as 'wife of school governor' I even had to show a new young teacher how to iron a shirt - he arrived at our house with a laundry basket full of shirts - his mother had always done them before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shall cast no aspersions but he told me that his mother was a traditional Welsh Mam and would have been appalled at the thought of her son with an iron in his hand. I told him that my Welsh Aunt would have been mortified and embarrassed if her two boys had ever asked a 'stranger' to iron their shirts - showed him how to do one then left him with the iron, ironing board and the pile of shirts he'd arrived at my house with
Think I've done my fair share of volunteering for a while
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone. What a beautiful sunny day. Will get out into the garden today, rake more acorns and the few bits blown off the oak tree. Nothing bad thank goodness . We did have trees across some roads nearby but thank goodness our road ok. Hope you all have a good day, see you later.
Sunny here as well. Need to get outside but still feeling under the weather.
Dove when I was a junior doctor the lady who cleaned the hospital residences where we worked used to take our shirts home and ironed them. [ but only if she liked you] She also used to knock on your door in the morning to ask whether you wanted a cuppa and then ask will it be one cup or two today!!!!
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Today I was going to take mum shopping, but she is feeing stiff, so is going swimming instead. Tomorrow we will brave meadowhell for the autumn mooch round the shops.
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Morning all,
Sunny at the moment.but quite cold and we are having internittant heavy showers.
Dove...you will start with lots of intentions of a proper wash day etc,then you wake up it the summer,its a beautiful day and you rush out to the garden,jobs forgotten..........but that the joy of not working,you can please yourself what you do and when you do it
Morning all.
Dove, I expect after the initial quiet you will be surprised by how much you will have to cram into a day after retirement. I volunteer for things and time just vanishes. Didn't have any time to garden last week.
KEF - missed you there - you must've snuck in behind me
Now you're making me feel guilty too, talking about dusting and vac-ing. 
That reminds me, I shall really have to get to grips with the Dyson - ever since we got it two years ago OH has taken charge of it 
BusyL - I am determined to sit very firmly on my hands when volunteers are asked for. When the children were growing up and I was at home full-time helping to run the family business, the then OH was on every committee etc going and he volunteered me for everything - cricket teas, Jubilee street parties, youth club outings, etc etc etc - once - in my role as 'wife of school governor' I even had to show a new young teacher how to iron a shirt - he arrived at our house with a laundry basket full of shirts - his mother had always done them before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shall cast no aspersions but he told me that his mother was a traditional Welsh Mam and would have been appalled at the thought of her son with an iron in his hand. I told him that my Welsh Aunt would have been mortified and embarrassed if her two boys had ever asked a 'stranger' to iron their shirts - showed him how to do one then left him with the iron, ironing board and the pile of shirts he'd arrived at my house with
Think I've done my fair share of volunteering for a while
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone. What a beautiful sunny day. Will get out into the garden today, rake more acorns and the few bits blown off the oak tree. Nothing bad thank goodness . We did have trees across some roads nearby but thank goodness our road ok. Hope you all have a good day, see you later.
Sunny here as well. Need to get outside but still feeling under the weather.
Dove when I was a junior doctor the lady who cleaned the hospital residences where we worked used to take our shirts home and ironed them. [ but only if she liked you] She also used to knock on your door in the morning to ask whether you wanted a cuppa and then ask will it be one cup or two today!!!!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Chuckle
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Beautiful here, mind you I haven't been out so don't know about the temperature.
Will be heading home later today- no sure what I will do first
Have a great day all
Today I was going to take mum shopping, but she is feeing stiff, so is going swimming instead. Tomorrow we will brave meadowhell for the autumn mooch round the shops.
I s'pose I could do some housework today.
Meadowhell!! I would rather have all my teeth pulled out with pliers.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Root canal surgery preferred here. But will have to go at some point. Good luck fidget.
Dove I don't currently do any volunteering, busy with M.