Try a Creole cake (Delia). Similar amounts of alcohol but soaked a couple of days to get the fruit drunk and then baked in the week before Xmas so none of that remembering to feed and going through all the unwrapping and re-wrapping palaver - or is just me that gets too busy to faff?
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)."
We arrived back in France this evening. Plane landed with a huge thump, I was a bit scared, but journey was good compared with Yvie's.
Hot here, 26° at 8pm. Housesitter said it's been very hot. Our room was like an oven, despite the shutters being shut. I opened the windows, then OH went up later and left the lights on, when I went back there where several hornets in there, attracted by the light.
We don't have a lawn to mow anymore and some of the shrubs have sunburn. Don't know when we last had a summer with so little rain.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Good morning Joyce and the rest of you as you arrive G'day Pat
Yes, red sky here first thing - maybe we're getting some rain The forecast says we should get some today, before another week of warm and dry weather here in the east at least
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Joyce and Dove. No Pixel decided to sleep on the bed our son uses when he comes down. I guess she was hoping to smell him. She's been very good though. Let out for an explore this morning and has slept all afternoon on his bed again. Son starts his overseas trip tonight. He has to catch a bus to take him to Sydney at 4am, would you believe. His sister has volunteered to collect him and take him to the bus. She lives on the opposite side of Canberra to him, so she'll be driving around for a couple of hours.
We've been waiting all day for a huge storm which is supposed to be coming in from the west, but all we've had so far is very strong winds and cloud. It'll probably hit tonight. Melbourne and Adelaide have already had it. Rivers flooding etc.
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Oberlix , we have been to Picton Castle & Gardens , wondered if it is the same ? It was very nice , have a good day
Try a Creole cake (Delia). Similar amounts of alcohol but soaked a couple of days to get the fruit drunk and then baked in the week before Xmas so none of that remembering to feed and going through all the unwrapping and re-wrapping palaver - or is just me that gets too busy to faff?
M-U Is baking bowl white inside and mustard-yellow out ?
I've got a big one like that
Time for bed
Sweet dreams all ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine was my grandmother's.
We arrived back in France this evening. Plane landed with a huge thump, I was a bit scared, but journey was good compared with Yvie's.
Hot here, 26° at 8pm. Housesitter said it's been very hot. Our room was like an oven, despite the shutters being shut. I opened the windows, then OH went up later and left the lights on, when I went back there where several hornets in there, attracted by the light.
We don't have a lawn to mow anymore and some of the shrubs have sunburn. Don't know when we last had a summer with so little rain.
Morning all
Afternoon Pat . . . . did son's cat keep you company during the night?
Red sky this morning. . . . doesn't auger well
Good morning Joyce
and the rest of you as you arrive 
G'day Pat 
Yes, red sky here first thing - maybe we're getting some rain
The forecast says we should get some today, before another week of warm and dry weather here in the east at least 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning Dove. You could do with rain to green your lawn but i don't need it. . . .
Hi Joyce and Dove. No Pixel decided to sleep on the bed our son uses when he comes down. I guess she was hoping to smell him. She's been very good though. Let out for an explore this morning and has slept all afternoon on his bed again. Son starts his overseas trip tonight. He has to catch a bus to take him to Sydney at 4am, would you believe. His sister has volunteered to collect him and take him to the bus. She lives on the opposite side of Canberra to him, so she'll be driving around for a couple of hours.
We've been waiting all day for a huge storm which is supposed to be coming in from the west, but all we've had so far is very strong winds and cloud. It'll probably hit tonight. Melbourne and Adelaide have already had it. Rivers flooding etc.