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  • Morning all. image  Hope all gardens are above water and that everyone and their loved ones are safe and warm ((hugs))

    i shall look at the Sarah Raven website when I'm downstairs with my laptop. At the moment I'm still snuggled under the duvet with my first mug of coffee image

    Last edited: 22 November 2016 08:22:24


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Morning all.

    I hope no one is flooded.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Morning BL image

    Today has been declared Oven Cleaning Day image  OH says he'll give me a hand cos of my shoulder - he doesn't want me to undo the good the physio has done by doing things at odd angles. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Morning all/afternoon Patimage

    Overnight rain so not freezing today, thankfully.

    I hope those of you affected by yesterday's very wet weather are drying out and don't have any damage.

    SW Scotland
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Hi all.

    I might be mistaken, but I think a friend of ours might have won an award for her museum in Sheffield. If so congratulations, if not you should have!

    Force of the water when the stream flooded has ripped out a lot of plants, but easier to deal with than a flooded house. Water levels going down, but a lot of Sheffield is badly affected.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Dry here today but it won't last.  Set to be soggy again tomorrow.   We are assured by our neighbours plus the official survey that has to be done for house sales here that we don't get flooded, ever, but it seems a chap round the corner has water running through his home in bad weather after the local agency "improved" the flow of surface water nearby but carefully left his escape drain blocked.

    Things seem pretty bad in several parts of the country with local flooding and transport problems.  I hoep everyone is OK.

    No oven cleaning here but I will be calling in an doctor and an electrician.  I've decided I can't cope with a bottle gas oven except for family stuff so we're getting an electrician to supply a cable so I can use my trusty Rangemaster and a doctor to re-calibrate its gas hobs and check the fan in the oven.  Then I can do proper baking again and crispy roast potatoes.

    Lantana - tell him if he wants his Xmas feast he has to clean the oven first............

    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)."
    Plato
  • punkdoc says:

    Hi all.

    I might be mistaken, but I think a friend of ours might have won an award for her museum in Sheffield. If so congratulations, if not you should have!

    Force of the water when the stream flooded has ripped out a lot of plants, but easier to deal with than a flooded house. Water levels going down, but a lot of Sheffield is badly affected.

    See original post

     Pdoc, glad you're ok - can you salvage the plants or will you have to get some new ones?

    Looks like she's been Highly Commended  http://www.emergencymuseum.org.uk/  

    Brilliant!   image  Maybe that'll help firm up their funding. image

    Last edited: 22 November 2016 10:48:27


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Good morning all , hope everybody is safe and no flood damage 

    Rain has stopped hear , lots of leaves on the grass 

    Have a good day image

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Morning all. 

    Another warm ( 27C ) day ahead. Slept well again last night. Long may that continue. 

    Beach sunbed beckons for us again today. It's a hard life but someone has to do it. 

    Haven't caught up with the weather back at home but , from what you guys are saying, it looks pretty rubbish.

    A friend of mine has just arrived in Mongolia, -33C I think that's too cool even for you Pat eh?

    Devon.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    That's good news for Clari image  I hadn't realised that the museum relied on donations.

    The sun is out now so I'll maybe tackle some more leaves. . . . preferable to oven cleaningimage

    SW Scotland
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