DD, I'm so pleased you're moved and settled. Love to you both.
Very misty here, can't see the lake but the sun looks like it'll burn through.
Dove, we have a pair of buzzards which walk about on " the big bit of grass", near the allotment every night around 7 ish. No idea what they're after , but they can be there for over an hour.
Last night's washing retrieved from the machines and another two loads on.
Time for tea, then give Hubby a call to let him know I'm up.
thats us back from a week of glorious weather allowing us to do lots of beaches with dogs and gardens for us. Dogs couldn't move yesterday and we weren't much better! Garden looks not bad considering, just some dead heading and grass cutting will bring it back to tidy
so much going on here, sorry I can't remember all if I turn back I lose my post
Pat, take care with the wood, I am not allowed to help since my back
re all the talk of buzzards we have them and the crows mob them, crows usually win too!
Obelixx what a dreadful story, terrible for so many
Joyce you don't turn an offer like that down!
Fairy it's lovely here too, wonder if its across the country? Sorry you working,
DD I have a lovely picture if you sitting in your new house happy and peaceful. Charlie sounds as if he is adapting well too. Is he back at school yet? All good luck to you
must get on with the piles of laundry that inevitable accompany a holiday!!!
have a good day
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Welcome back LilyP - sounds like a wonderful (if exhausting) time.
And lovely to see you DD - hope this is the start of a new, positive and much calmer era for you. Stephen Fry reading HP reminds me of every holiday we have ever taken that involves a car. One particular one, in California, we finished 23 hours of the halfblood prince, and had to visit a Barnes and Noble to buy the Deathly Hallows ......the american version is read by an Englishman (who's name escapes me) but not Mr Fry ......it took a bit of getting used to
Last night's excursion was uneventful, so we were in bed and ??? by 2.30. Just been woken by littlest chicklet returning from Reading .....tired, dirty and very happy. She has now gone off to a) wash her hair and b) sleep. Her belongings are in quarantine outside the front door
we have buzzards (similarly mobbed by crows) here too - love to hear their cries. Occasionally see them perched in a far off tree, but never in the ground.
Weeding for me today, and trussing up my raspberries so that my early morning breakfast pick has less of an amazon feel about it
Crows mob buzzards here too but I've seen a heron mobbing crows that got too near its nest. Very noisy.
Glad you all had a good time LP.
Unfortunately, all too many little wayside memorials for pedestrians and cyclists. At the risk of making sweeping generalisations, Belgians don't like being "governed" - all those centuries of being invaded and occupied and ruled by the Burgundians, French, Spanish, Dutch and Germans in turn - and tend to obey rules that suit them so paying taxes, speeding, seat belts, drink driving and mobile phone behaviour improves slowly and the Walloons adapt slower than the the Flemish. That said, the Flemish are now quite strict on road behaviour and the Walloons have managed to reduce road accident deaths by 25% in recent years so just a few die hards left to convert to socially responsible behaviour.
Hosta - recorded it too but not seen it yet.
DD - Enjoy your day. Making yourself at home will be so good for both of you.
We are downsizing to a smaller house - 2 fewer beds and bath, no attic - and a bigger garden but half of that is pasture and the rest is blank canvas. Possum is going to an apartment in Namur to finish her studies so 2 moves and lots of sorting. Like you, the new house has shutters so no need for curtains but I will be taking nearly all ours as they are good for the acoustics and colour factor. Have had to adapt some old ones for Possum which took time and some new tape and thread but otherwise free.
Now to do a sort of plants for which to keep and take and which can be given away. As ever I have spares and backups from the divisions I took earlier....... Seeds to colect too and maybe one or two special clems to dig up and take. The new people are not gardeners and will have poultry. Heaven forfend!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I watched Victoria, Hostafan. I enjoyed it but I know it's not at all historically correct, so if you don't mind that it embellishes the facts somewhat then it's a good watch (her relationship with Lord Melbourne is amped up into an infatuation, whereas the facts show Victoria saw him as a father figure) . I love any period dramas and Jenna Coleman and Rufus Sewell are absolutely beautiful; however not in the slightest what Queen Vic or Lord Melbourne looked like.
Forgot to mention HP and Stephen Fry. When Possum was small we did beach holidays in Tuscany - 1100kms, 12 hours on the road with overnight stay and endless "Are we nearly there?" until we put discovered HP on CDs and it became "Can we stay in the car till the end of the chapter?
Brilliant reading by Mr Fry and excellent value. Highly recommended.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Morning all.
DD, I'm so pleased you're moved and settled. Love to you both.
Very misty here, can't see the lake but the sun looks like it'll burn through.
Dove, we have a pair of buzzards which walk about on " the big bit of grass", near the allotment every night around 7 ish. No idea what they're after , but they can be there for over an hour.
Last night's washing retrieved from the machines and another two loads on.
Time for tea, then give Hubby a call to let him know I'm up.
That's the first non-manic post we've had from you in a while DD. It's lovely to hear. Onwards and upwards.
Buzzards include slugs and worms in their diet Hosta, so they're probably tucking into your supplies
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's really nice to catch up with your news DD. I hope you and Charlie gave a lovely day.
I recorded the Victoria programme last night. Did anyone watch it and is it worth devoting an hour and a half to?
Good morning all
thats us back from a week of glorious weather allowing us to do lots of beaches with dogs and gardens for us. Dogs couldn't move yesterday and we weren't much better! Garden looks not bad considering, just some dead heading and grass cutting will bring it back to tidy
so much going on here, sorry I can't remember all if I turn back I lose my post
Pat, take care with the wood, I am not allowed to help since my back
re all the talk of buzzards we have them and the crows mob them, crows usually win too!
Obelixx what a dreadful story, terrible for so many
Joyce you don't turn an offer like that down!
Fairy it's lovely here too, wonder if its across the country? Sorry you working,
DD I have a lovely picture if you sitting in your new house happy and peaceful. Charlie sounds as if he is adapting well too. Is he back at school yet? All good luck to you
must get on with the piles of laundry that inevitable accompany a holiday!!!
have a good day
A A Milne
Welcome back LilyP - sounds like a wonderful (if exhausting) time
.
And lovely to see you DD - hope this is the start of a new, positive and much calmer era for you. Stephen Fry reading HP reminds me of every holiday we have ever taken that involves a car
. One particular one, in California, we finished 23 hours of the halfblood prince, and had to visit a Barnes and Noble to buy the Deathly Hallows ......the american version is read by an Englishman (who's name escapes me) but not Mr Fry ......it took a bit of getting used to
Last night's excursion was uneventful, so we were in bed and ??? by 2.30. Just been woken by littlest chicklet returning from Reading .....tired, dirty and very happy. She has now gone off to a) wash her hair and b) sleep
. Her belongings are in quarantine outside the front door
we have buzzards (similarly mobbed by crows) here too - love to hear their cries
. Occasionally see them perched in a far off tree, but never in the ground.
Weeding for me today, and trussing up my raspberries so that my early morning breakfast pick has less of an amazon feel about it
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Crows mob buzzards here too but I've seen a heron mobbing crows that got too near its nest. Very noisy.
Glad you all had a good time LP.
Unfortunately, all too many little wayside memorials for pedestrians and cyclists. At the risk of making sweeping generalisations, Belgians don't like being "governed" - all those centuries of being invaded and occupied and ruled by the Burgundians, French, Spanish, Dutch and Germans in turn - and tend to obey rules that suit them so paying taxes, speeding, seat belts, drink driving and mobile phone behaviour improves slowly and the Walloons adapt slower than the the Flemish. That said, the Flemish are now quite strict on road behaviour and the Walloons have managed to reduce road accident deaths by 25% in recent years so just a few die hards left to convert to socially responsible behaviour.
Hosta - recorded it too but not seen it yet.
DD - Enjoy your day. Making yourself at home will be so good for both of you.
We are downsizing to a smaller house - 2 fewer beds and bath, no attic - and a bigger garden but half of that is pasture and the rest is blank canvas. Possum is going to an apartment in Namur to finish her studies so 2 moves and lots of sorting. Like you, the new house has shutters so no need for curtains but I will be taking nearly all ours as they are good for the acoustics and colour factor. Have had to adapt some old ones for Possum which took time and some new tape and thread but otherwise free.
Now to do a sort of plants for which to keep and take and which can be given away. As ever I have spares and backups from the divisions I took earlier....... Seeds to colect too and maybe one or two special clems to dig up and take. The new people are not gardeners and will have poultry. Heaven forfend!
I watched Victoria, Hostafan. I enjoyed it but I know it's not at all historically correct, so if you don't mind that it embellishes the facts somewhat then it's a good watch (her relationship with Lord Melbourne is amped up into an infatuation, whereas the facts show Victoria saw him as a father figure) . I love any period dramas and Jenna Coleman and Rufus Sewell are absolutely beautiful; however not in the slightest what Queen Vic or Lord Melbourne looked like.
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Forgot to mention HP and Stephen Fry. When Possum was small we did beach holidays in Tuscany - 1100kms, 12 hours on the road with overnight stay and endless "Are we nearly there?" until we put discovered HP on CDs and it became "Can we stay in the car till the end of the chapter?
Brilliant reading by Mr Fry and excellent value. Highly recommended.