I do quietly fancy a cruise with proper dancing but can't resolve the dress problem. It's quite an aerobic sport and one does get very warm so I wouldn't want to wear a frock or top and skirt or top and trousers more than once in the same week. Like hosta, I think those really big cruise ships look utterly unappealing.
Painting finished for the day. Now to see if I can find the sandpaper for the machine so I can prepare the worktop for oiling. OH has disappeared off to golf. Both dogs have had a busy barking morning and are flopalot on a sofa each. Kittens also sleeping off a busy morning
Our farmer's wife neighbour popped round this morning bringing a gift of home made local "beignets" which seem to be a cross between churros and madeleines. Can she please cut some of our mimosa for the house? Of course. We have two large trees in full golden bloom and in need of a serious trim when the flowers have gone over.
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)."
Topbird, Most children of school age helped out on farms or smallholdings, the holiday coincided with Hay making and Harvest, we got two weeks in September October to do the Potato and Root vegetable picking, To many it was a chore, the scrabbler drawn by Tractor or more usually Horses turn the root or potato's up and then you walked the rows with creels bending and picking the Potato's a two wheeled heavy cart called a Rully would come along the rows and you emptied your creel into the cart, you were glad to straighten your back to take the creel to the cart. We went to school as normal, busses then ran us out to the Farms and we would be among some of the locals mainly women who would pick on any lad shirking or missing too many potato's, it would very often be cold so we wrapped up, we would get a tea break always welcome and the farmers wife would bring sandwiches cake and tea to the barn for lunch, usually better food than some of the pickers normally saw. We then got back on the bus and back to school to be signed off, we got paid I think it was two shillings a day which to us was a lot of money, fish and chips were sixpence the Cinema or Dance one Shilling, tea and bun in the interval would be three pence or free if I gave the girl on the counter a dance, I never paid.
On my Uncles Farm I got to drive the Rully or the Hay Wain which ever we were doing at the time and in later years the Fordson Tractor, once I got it going, that big starting handle was lethal, it hated me. I loved the farm work or working with our own animals not all Town Kids did, manure mud smells, it was all part of the countryside we were used to it, hard luck on those who were not.
Pat, in your temperatures I think I'd hang around the freezer aisles in supermarkets!
Can imagine myself on a cruise ship.....more like floating internment camps! Not a fan of people on mass in a confined space could be risk of someone shouting man overboard as I pass by annoying folks
Been horrid rain and windy all day here today but thankfully I wasn't working in it, but thanks for thinking of me Fidget I'm sure I will be another day
Car mot done and tax done for another year, now OH fixed car doesn't want to start to bring him home from work....womble to the rescue!
Hubby says he could not do a cruise ship. Too many people. Then I remind him he doesn't do beach holidays either. Jamaica, grenada, St Lucia, Maldives, Mauritius, Sitting on the edge of a beach with a drink in hand errm. well they were diving holidays. He doesn't do boats much either... except for the liveaboards on the Barrier reef, and Papua New Guinea. ..
I want to do part of the Pacific and the only way is on a fairly big ship. It will happen, one way or another.
Back from a lovely if a bit damp and blustery day at the seaside. Squid n chips and passion fruit ice cream for lunch, and we've brought a lobster home to grill and have with salad for supper.
Currently flollopped on the sofa.
Sadly we've abandoned the plans for a snowdrop walk tomorrow as East Anglia has an amber weather warning. Not a good idea to go wandering in woodland
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
...Sadly we've abandoned the plans before a snowdrop walk tomorrow as East Anglia has an amber weather warning. Not a good idea to go wandering in woodland
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Hubby's sister goes on cruises regularly. If she and her husband are typical of the types, then that's a good enough reason to avoid them.
Those really big ones look like prison blocks with chimneys on top.
I do quietly fancy a cruise with proper dancing but can't resolve the dress problem. It's quite an aerobic sport and one does get very warm so I wouldn't want to wear a frock or top and skirt or top and trousers more than once in the same week. Like hosta, I think those really big cruise ships look utterly unappealing.
Painting finished for the day. Now to see if I can find the sandpaper for the machine so I can prepare the worktop for oiling. OH has disappeared off to golf. Both dogs have had a busy barking morning and are flopalot on a sofa each. Kittens also sleeping off a busy morning
Our farmer's wife neighbour popped round this morning bringing a gift of home made local "beignets" which seem to be a cross between churros and madeleines. Can she please cut some of our mimosa for the house? Of course. We have two large trees in full golden bloom and in need of a serious trim when the flowers have gone over.
Topbird, Most children of school age helped out on farms or smallholdings, the holiday coincided with Hay making and Harvest, we got two weeks in September October to do the Potato and Root vegetable picking, To many it was a chore, the scrabbler drawn by Tractor or more usually Horses turn the root or potato's up and then you walked the rows with creels bending and picking the Potato's a two wheeled heavy cart called a Rully would come along the rows and you emptied your creel into the cart, you were glad to straighten your back to take the creel to the cart. We went to school as normal, busses then ran us out to the Farms and we would be among some of the locals mainly women who would pick on any lad shirking or missing too many potato's, it would very often be cold so we wrapped up, we would get a tea break always welcome and the farmers wife would bring sandwiches cake and tea to the barn for lunch, usually better food than some of the pickers normally saw. We then got back on the bus and back to school to be signed off, we got paid I think it was two shillings a day which to us was a lot of money, fish and chips were sixpence the Cinema or Dance one Shilling, tea and bun in the interval would be three pence or free if I gave the girl on the counter a dance, I never paid.
On my Uncles Farm I got to drive the Rully or the Hay Wain which ever we were doing at the time and in later years the Fordson Tractor, once I got it going, that big starting handle was lethal, it hated me. I loved the farm work or working with our own animals not all Town Kids did, manure mud smells, it was all part of the countryside we were used to it, hard luck on those who were not.
Frank.
Oh mimosa obelixx how gorgeous! We used to be able to buy it in the spring but I haven't seen it for years.
wish our local farmer had a wife! Mind you it's no surprise. He's a miserable old b....r
just heard next little one to be a pink one! thrilled to bits.
A A Milne
Sorry Frank, we crossed there
enjoying your shared memories.
A A Milne
Afternoon folks
Pat, in your temperatures I think I'd hang around the freezer aisles in supermarkets!
Can imagine myself on a cruise ship.....more like floating internment camps! Not a fan of people on mass in a confined space
could be risk of someone shouting man overboard as I pass by annoying folks 
Been horrid rain and windy all day here today but thankfully I wasn't working in it, but thanks for thinking of me Fidget
I'm sure I will be another day 
Car mot done and tax done for another year, now OH fixed car doesn't want to start to bring him home from work....womble to the rescue!
Hideous weather here so I spent a while in the tunnel splitting water lilies. I even found a label with the name Gloriosa on it.
https://www.watersidenursery.co.uk/shop/pond-waterlily-nymphaea-gloriosa.html
Rather lovely it is too, especially as I've managed to make about 20 plants.
Hubby says he could not do a cruise ship. Too many people. Then I remind him he doesn't do beach holidays either. Jamaica, grenada, St Lucia, Maldives, Mauritius, Sitting on the edge of a beach with a drink in hand errm. well they were diving holidays. He doesn't do boats much either... except for the liveaboards on the Barrier reef, and Papua New Guinea. ..
I want to do part of the Pacific and the only way is on a fairly big ship. It will happen, one way or another.
Back from a lovely if a bit damp and blustery day at the seaside. Squid n chips and passion fruit ice cream for lunch, and we've brought a lobster home to grill and have with salad for supper.
Currently flollopped on the sofa.
Sadly we've abandoned the plans for a snowdrop walk tomorrow as East Anglia has an amber weather warning. Not a good idea to go wandering in woodland
Last edited: 22 February 2017 17:32:00
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Never mind Dove - we'll go and see some bluebells in a few weeks!
Would have been lovely to catch up with you and Wonky - but I suspect the estate will be closed tomorrow for 'elf & safety reasons.
Lobster for supper sounds good - very good indeed....
