Yay!!! Just finished over-seeding and raking the lawn and the heavens have opened and we have soft steady rain falling ... can't put the washing out, but this is just what the front lawn needs - perfect timing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
France Telecom can't mend our line until the 6th October. Fed-up. OH is going to England for a few days and I will be on my own in the middle of a forest, no near neighbours, with no phone or Internet. Feel rather vulnerable.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lizzie can you get a friend or member of the family to stay with you while he's away. It would help to stop your imagination from running riot. What a long time to wait.
Congratulations on your rain dance Dive.
Have spent a while in the garden today trying to clear next door's brambles and buttercups from creeping through the fence. Lots of weeding and clipping done too. I can hardly move now.
Hazel I had my mil's hyacinth vase and gave it to my sil. Wish I hadn't now.
Can you not grow them in a pretty Xmassy pot in bulb fibre? Jim was doing it on Beechgrove on Sunday.
Sounds like you and Lesley have been busy. I have been distracted by admin and gathering documents needed for the signing ceremonies next week so not a lot of progress in teh attic but much thinking about conifers and brambles and maybe a pergola.... On the whole, I think they conifers we have there can go as they're in the wrong place and not too big to dig out. Brambles are tricky as OH loves the fruit so might just delegate their control to him.
BUsy - good idea to get a friend over if you can or just make sure you lock up tight every evening. We tried t get a phone line and, more importantly, an internet connection in August but they couldn't do it at 8 days' notice and the first week of October was too far ahead for the system. I shall end up camping in the Leclerc car park at Luçon as they have a hotspot.
Dove - mobile phone fixed. I'd inadvertently hit a language button on the keyboard screen. Normal service is now resumed and Possum is scathing about my technical incompetence - but I can drive a serious cooker and a food processor and a sewing machine which are better life skills IMHO. She's about to learn in a big way.
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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)."
That was very good timing Dove. 'I love it when a plan comes together.....'
Could have done with getting outside after work but we'd have been eating toast for dinner if I didn't go to the dreaded supermarche...
Hate mobiles phones too, although there's a good reason for that. I think using a cooker etc is far more useful obelixx, but maybe we're just dinosaurs! My sister texted me today to say I hadn't replied to the text she sent on Saturday. Tricky when you're half way along a glen and there's no signal. They just tend to disappear into the ether forever if you don't get them at the time. Don't think she believed me though
BL - I can understand you feeling vulnerable. Is there somewhere you can go instead, if no one can come to you?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hazel - I'll be able to take time out once it's all packed up and the house is clean. Kind of on a deadline here.
FG - have made Possum cook prawn Jalfrezi from scratch with me this evening so at least I know she can do that one now. Noticed that there's not a lot of signal in the Malvern Hills either.
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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Yay!!! Just finished over-seeding and raking the lawn and the heavens have opened and we have soft steady rain falling ... can't put the washing out, but this is just what the front lawn needs - perfect timing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pretty sure I've seen hyacinth vases in the Sarah Raven catalogue
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
France Telecom can't mend our line until the 6th October. Fed-up. OH is going to England for a few days and I will be on my own in the middle of a forest, no near neighbours, with no phone or Internet. Feel rather vulnerable.
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Lizzie can you get a friend or member of the family to stay with you while he's away. It would help to stop your imagination from running riot. What a long time to wait
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Congratulations on your rain dance Dive
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Have spent a while in the garden today trying to clear next door's brambles and buttercups from creeping through the fence. Lots of weeding and clipping done too. I can hardly move now
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Hazel I had my mil's hyacinth vase and gave it to my sil. Wish I hadn't now
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Can you not grow them in a pretty Xmassy pot in bulb fibre? Jim was doing it on Beechgrove on Sunday.
Sounds like you and Lesley have been busy. I have been distracted by admin and gathering documents needed for the signing ceremonies next week so not a lot of progress in teh attic but much thinking about conifers and brambles and maybe a pergola.... On the whole, I think they conifers we have there can go as they're in the wrong place and not too big to dig out. Brambles are tricky as OH loves the fruit so might just delegate their control to him.
BUsy - good idea to get a friend over if you can or just make sure you lock up tight every evening. We tried t get a phone line and, more importantly, an internet connection in August but they couldn't do it at 8 days' notice and the first week of October was too far ahead for the system. I shall end up camping in the Leclerc car park at Luçon as they have a hotspot.
Dove - mobile phone fixed. I'd inadvertently hit a language button on the keyboard screen. Normal service is now resumed and Possum is scathing about my technical incompetence - but I can drive a serious cooker and a food processor and a sewing machine which are better life skills IMHO. She's about to learn in a big way.
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That was very good timing Dove. 'I love it when a plan comes together.....'
Could have done with getting outside after work but we'd have been eating toast for dinner if I didn't go to the dreaded supermarche...
Hate mobiles phones too, although there's a good reason for that. I think using a cooker etc is far more useful obelixx, but maybe we're just dinosaurs! My sister texted me today to say I hadn't replied to the text she sent on Saturday. Tricky when you're half way along a glen and there's no signal. They just tend to disappear into the ether forever if you don't get them at the time. Don't think she believed me though
BL - I can understand you feeling vulnerable. Is there somewhere you can go instead, if no one can come to you?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hazel - I'll be able to take time out once it's all packed up and the house is clean. Kind of on a deadline here.
FG - have made Possum cook prawn Jalfrezi from scratch with me this evening so at least I know she can do that one now. Noticed that there's not a lot of signal in the Malvern Hills either.