Grey and misty start here in Namur but the sun is doing its best and I can now see the citadel.
Lots of shopping today. Possum needs a camera for her course work and paper and paints and we'll stock up on bulky basics for her while we're here. Dinner out then cinema this evening - Fantastic Creatures in 3D.
Kittens are perched on the window sill watching the pigeons who roost in the rooftops opposite.
Sorry it's too hot for you Pat but good that you can keep busy.
Have a good day everyone and stay warm.
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)."
Liri, I could never live anywhere else , even if the weather is bad most of the time! Your visitors are lucky, some let's in the north are shocking and they always seem to get away with it.
Fidget hope OH makes quick recovery, gentle rotations will help
hello Glenys 2
Wonky your job sounds so much better than the last! Are we allowed to see some photos? Sadly no reductions for flying Friday13! Moscow visa office was empty so we were in and out in a jiffy. Sadly the Edinburgh traffic was as bad as ever. But we went to The Hidden Garden on the way home?
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Liriodendron that photo was absolutely stunning. The colours! Whereabouts is it?
Busy day today - various activities with the kids, I'm running a stall at a Christmas fair this afternoon and daughter is performing in a concert this evening. And I need to buy ingredients to make the Christmas puddings too - missed Stir Up Sunday this year and need to get on with it tomorrow. Plus a little bit of compost stirring (better not get the two muddled up) if there's time and the weather is ok.
Pat, I don't cope well with heat either, and I've never experienced Australian heat. When does it start to cool down?
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
We were having brekkies and a little dog was jumping up at the kitchen door. I rang the owner and it turned out to be the wife of my hay farmer, she came to fetch him.
We had planned to go to a horse rescue place Christmas fair today, good thing I looked at the website first - because it's tomorrow! http://www.brantomepolicehorses.com/ I went last year, good fun, bought English sausages and bacon, not the same here.
Cold again. Hope it warms up this afternoon, want to get on with the veg garden and spread the manure. Would like to do it before the horses go into the winter paddock which is where the manure is. They are so curious they would get in the way. The garden tractor already has teeth marks on it. Lena wanted to see what it tasted like!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Right, I'm up, showered, dressed, mascara on kitchen sorted, load in washing machine and now I'm sitting down with another coffee .......... I'll get some breakfast in a minute
... help yourselves ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, mild today bu I think I prefer the cold , crisp sunny weather.........no pleasing some!
Off to hit the shops for the final time before Christmas.....if anything gets forgotten then we will have to do without! Except for the final fresh food shop of course, hubs will sort that out nearer the day.
Putting up the decorations later and then planting up some cyclamen that I've had sheltered for the last couple of days as I only bought them last weekend and since then the ground has been frozen solid.
Hello flowers - good luck with the shops on a December Saturday!!! I'm keeping away ... it was bad enough on Thursday! I'll do the last presents and odds and ends shop one day next week. The last minute food shop will be from the farm shop up the road where OH works - I've ordered the cheese and I'll order a cockerel and piece of gammon later today. I suppose I ought to make a list ..........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning - what a difference a few days makes. Much milder and trying very hard to be sunny. Pulled my back a few days ago so gardening activities may be somewhat curtailed but I will try to do an hour's clear up a bit later on.
Think the rest of this morning will be spent cleaning upstairs windows and perhaps making a start on C cards. Need to at least do the overseas ones. Also need to do the last of the internet shopping so best get my skates on....
SYL
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Topbird ................. STEP AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS !!!
A few years ago I did a similar thing and then cleaned a window just a few days before Wonky's wedding ............. I spent her big day doped up on dihydrocodeine and was totally incapable of helping to clear up the next day following the BBQ and Icecream reception - I don't think her step-mother has ever forgiven me
The windows will wait until your back muscles are not strained!!!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
LG the L. Basically just adjust your climate brain by 6 months and the seasons are fairly close. We get cold winters and hot summers. Prediction tomorrow is 31c. We badly need rain.
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Grey and misty start here in Namur but the sun is doing its best and I can now see the citadel.
Lots of shopping today. Possum needs a camera for her course work and paper and paints and we'll stock up on bulky basics for her while we're here. Dinner out then cinema this evening - Fantastic Creatures in 3D.
Kittens are perched on the window sill watching the pigeons who roost in the rooftops opposite.
Sorry it's too hot for you Pat but good that you can keep busy.
Have a good day everyone and stay warm.
Looks as if it might be an ok day
Liri, I could never live anywhere else , even if the weather is bad most of the time! Your visitors are lucky, some let's in the north are shocking and they always seem to get away with it.
Fidget hope OH makes quick recovery, gentle rotations will help
hello Glenys 2
Wonky your job sounds so much better than the last! Are we allowed to see some photos? Sadly no reductions for flying Friday13! Moscow visa office was empty so we were in and out in a jiffy. Sadly the Edinburgh traffic was as bad as ever. But we went to The Hidden Garden on the way home?
A A Milne
Good morning, hope everyone is well.
Liriodendron that photo was absolutely stunning. The colours! Whereabouts is it?
Busy day today - various activities with the kids, I'm running a stall at a Christmas fair this afternoon and daughter is performing in a concert this evening. And I need to buy ingredients to make the Christmas puddings too - missed Stir Up Sunday this year and need to get on with it tomorrow. Plus a little bit of compost stirring (better not get the two muddled up) if there's time and the weather is ok.
Pat, I don't cope well with heat either, and I've never experienced Australian heat. When does it start to cool down?
Morning all.
We were having brekkies and a little dog was jumping up at the kitchen door. I rang the owner and it turned out to be the wife of my hay farmer, she came to fetch him.
We had planned to go to a horse rescue place Christmas fair today, good thing I looked at the website first - because it's tomorrow! http://www.brantomepolicehorses.com/ I went last year, good fun, bought English sausages and bacon, not the same here.
Cold again. Hope it warms up this afternoon, want to get on with the veg garden and spread the manure. Would like to do it before the horses go into the winter paddock which is where the manure is. They are so curious they would get in the way. The garden tractor already has teeth marks on it. Lena wanted to see what it tasted like!
Right, I'm up, showered, dressed, mascara on
kitchen sorted, load in washing machine and now I'm sitting down with another coffee .......... I'll get some breakfast in a minute
... help yourselves ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all, mild today bu I think I prefer the cold , crisp sunny weather.........no pleasing some!
Off to hit the shops for the final time before Christmas.....if anything gets forgotten then we will have to do without! Except for the final fresh food shop of course, hubs will sort that out nearer the day.
Putting up the decorations later and then planting up some cyclamen that I've had sheltered for the last couple of days as I only bought them last weekend and since then the ground has been frozen solid.
Have a good day x
Hello flowers - good luck with the shops on a December Saturday!!! I'm keeping away ... it was bad enough on Thursday! I'll do the last presents and odds and ends shop one day next week. The last minute food shop will be from the farm shop up the road where OH works - I've ordered the cheese and I'll order a cockerel and piece of gammon later today. I suppose I ought to make a list ..........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning - what a difference a few days makes. Much milder and trying very hard to be sunny. Pulled my back a few days ago so gardening activities may be somewhat curtailed but I will try to do an hour's clear up a bit later on.
Think the rest of this morning will be spent cleaning upstairs windows and perhaps making a start on C cards. Need to at least do the overseas ones. Also need to do the last of the internet shopping so best get my skates on....
SYL
Topbird ................. STEP AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS !!!
A few years ago I did a similar thing and then cleaned a window just a few days before Wonky's wedding ............. I spent her big day doped up on dihydrocodeine and was totally incapable of helping to clear up the next day following the BBQ and Icecream reception - I don't think her step-mother has ever forgiven me
The windows will wait until your back muscles are not strained!!!
Last edited: 03 December 2016 10:22:15
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
LG the L. Basically just adjust your climate brain by 6 months and the seasons are fairly close. We get cold winters and hot summers. Prediction tomorrow is 31c. We badly need rain.