I get that (Raynauds) Hosta. So does my cello playing daughter, which is not so good.
Bitterly cold here (well, bitter for us southerners anyway), with earlier icy drops in the air and more recently horrible fine sleet. Was working anyway so not out in it too much.
Good news about all your bookings, Clari. Don't fancy the electricity-free period much, though you seem pretty hardy. Rather you than me!
Joyce I hope you're on the mend, and punkdoc too. I've still got my comedy cold (lots of loud sneezing and ridiculous nose-blowing but feel fine) - it's a lurgy but not The Dreaded Lurgy. Pat, don't worry, not *everyone* in Europe has it, thoughnit may look that way.
Hosta, I'm staying with M**l-reading, Br***t-voting, T***p admiring relatives next week. I will be adopting my usual tactic of refusing to discuss any interesting topics. No point.
Obelixx, your garden plans sound so exciting. Do you post any progress pictures on here? I confess I don't visit all the threads, but I don't think I've evr seen any.
And now I've forgotten what was on the previous pages. Sorry. Hello to everyone I've missed.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Liri (may I call you that?), I wonder if it's genetic? As the taste of coriander (whether you love it or it tastes like soap) is suposed to be genetic. Also whether Brussels sprouts taste bitter or not. Taste and smell are so linked.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I've had problems again with Internet, yet OH's laptop is working fine and so is his iPad. It's as though my laptop loses the WiFi signal and gets stuck. Haven't read back as every time I click on the previous page it gets stuck and nothing happens. So frustrating. Think my laptop might be dying. Yet it seems to work late in the evening.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Maybe it's just tired BL, and takes till evening to recover...
It's a painful thing Raynaud's. Very difficult for your daughter LG
Don't envy you with your visitors either ...double
I don't have a brilliant sense of smell. It seems to have decreased as I get older. I don't seek out scented plants for the garden the way many people do. I love my sweet peas, but I find a lot of scents overwhelming. It's the same reason I hate department stores with their perfume counters
Hoping for Glen Etive Liri. The front coming from the east is keeping all the usual crap from the Atlantic at bay. By crap - I mean weather, not Trump. Mind you.....
Rutting stags on the Lomond prog. For anyone who has never heard them in full flow - it's a very impressive noise 'in the flesh'
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Re Raynaud's. I've had it for years, but , on balance, pretty mild. Cold / numb from knuckles to finger tips when cold, the toes start to go too. I had pills once which raise the blood pressure to "force" the blood to the extremities , but not keen to take them.
When I'm loading my van for deliveries, I have to go the Gents, to run my hands under water to get them warm again.
I once me a lady who had it so bad ,she NEVER had feeling in her finger tips, which resulted in her cutting her finger tips off when chopping veg. Plus side, it didn't hurt.
My father's sister had Raynauds. She used to run hot water into the sink (plug in) and just hold her hands in the hot water until they had warmed up.
We slept well enough last night with the windows open and a fan going, but I can feel it warming up already at 8.25am. Prediction is for a cool change tomorrow, so we just need to get through today. No outside work for us again. Let's hope there isn't power failure as reported in some areas around the country.
Just back from dance class. Paso and rumba OK but decided not to risk the dodgy toe doing samba which means OH gets to dance with the teacher.......
Liri - I don't read UK papers for news anymore but I like the commentary pages and specialist columns and letters in the Times. It's a holiday treat for me anyway but clearly someone round here buys the Telegraph and Mail as that's all they stock and they're gone by the end of the day.
LG - No photos cos no progress really apart from clearing one bed under a tree and another small one at the front and cutting half the long grass. These photos are from July but the dwarf conifers have since died of drought and we've pulled those out - http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/1607%20Main-Roger?sort=9&page=1
Catching up with Loch Lomond now. Gorgeous scenery but summer up there is far too cool and short for me.
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)."
Laptop seems to be working now, just managed to read previous page, 11.20pm.
I bought a winter honeysuckle for the scent, but I can hardly smell it. There was something gorgeous in the GC today that smelt sweet and a bit honeyish, but I couldn't trace what it was.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I get that (Raynauds) Hosta. So does my cello playing daughter, which is not so good.
Bitterly cold here (well, bitter for us southerners anyway), with earlier icy drops in the air and more recently horrible fine sleet. Was working anyway so not out in it too much.
Good news about all your bookings, Clari. Don't fancy the electricity-free period much, though you seem pretty hardy. Rather you than me!
Joyce I hope you're on the mend, and punkdoc too. I've still got my comedy cold (lots of loud sneezing and ridiculous nose-blowing but feel fine) - it's a lurgy but not The Dreaded Lurgy. Pat, don't worry, not *everyone* in Europe has it, thoughnit may look that way.
Hosta, I'm staying with M**l-reading, Br***t-voting, T***p admiring relatives next week. I will be adopting my usual tactic of refusing to discuss any interesting topics. No point.
Obelixx, your garden plans sound so exciting. Do you post any progress pictures on here? I confess I don't visit all the threads, but I don't think I've evr seen any.
And now I've forgotten what was on the previous pages. Sorry. Hello to everyone I've missed.
Liri (may I call you that?), I wonder if it's genetic? As the taste of coriander (whether you love it or it tastes like soap) is suposed to be genetic. Also whether Brussels sprouts taste bitter or not. Taste and smell are so linked.
I've had problems again with Internet, yet OH's laptop is working fine and so is his iPad. It's as though my laptop loses the WiFi signal and gets stuck. Haven't read back as every time I click on the previous page it gets stuck and nothing happens. So frustrating. Think my laptop might be dying. Yet it seems to work late in the evening.
Maybe it's just tired BL, and takes till evening to recover...
It's a painful thing Raynaud's. Very difficult for your daughter LG
Don't envy you with your visitors either ...double
I don't have a brilliant sense of smell. It seems to have decreased as I get older. I don't seek out scented plants for the garden the way many people do. I love my sweet peas, but I find a lot of scents overwhelming. It's the same reason I hate department stores with their perfume counters
Hoping for Glen Etive Liri. The front coming from the east is keeping all the usual crap from the Atlantic at bay. By crap - I mean weather, not Trump. Mind you.....
Rutting stags on the Lomond prog. For anyone who has never heard them in full flow - it's a very impressive noise 'in the flesh'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
nice to have you back Lizzie.
Re Raynaud's. I've had it for years, but , on balance, pretty mild. Cold / numb from knuckles to finger tips when cold, the toes start to go too. I had pills once which raise the blood pressure to "force" the blood to the extremities , but not keen to take them.
When I'm loading my van for deliveries, I have to go the Gents, to run my hands under water to get them warm again.
I once me a lady who had it so bad ,she NEVER had feeling in her finger tips, which resulted in her cutting her finger tips off when chopping veg. Plus side, it didn't hurt.
will read back in a min - I've been watching Loch Lomond, now I'm sewing Wonky's jumper together - hope everyone's had a good day
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My father's sister had Raynauds. She used to run hot water into the sink (plug in) and just hold her hands in the hot water until they had warmed up.
We slept well enough last night with the windows open and a fan going, but I can feel it warming up already at 8.25am. Prediction is for a cool change tomorrow, so we just need to get through today. No outside work for us again. Let's hope there isn't power failure as reported in some areas around the country.
Hope people are feeling better.
Just back from dance class. Paso and rumba OK but decided not to risk the dodgy toe doing samba which means OH gets to dance with the teacher.......
Liri - I don't read UK papers for news anymore but I like the commentary pages and specialist columns and letters in the Times. It's a holiday treat for me anyway but clearly someone round here buys the Telegraph and Mail as that's all they stock and they're gone by the end of the day.
LG - No photos cos no progress really apart from clearing one bed under a tree and another small one at the front and cutting half the long grass. These photos are from July but the dwarf conifers have since died of drought and we've pulled those out - http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/1607%20Main-Roger?sort=9&page=1
Catching up with Loch Lomond now. Gorgeous scenery but summer up there is far too cool and short for me.
Laptop seems to be working now, just managed to read previous page, 11.20pm.
I bought a winter honeysuckle for the scent, but I can hardly smell it. There was something gorgeous in the GC today that smelt sweet and a bit honeyish, but I couldn't trace what it was.
Sweet dreams all
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.