Hire car people had got the booking wrong, they changed the airport but not the date. Has taken ages trying to get hold of them.
Odd job man has come to put in new fence posts in the summer paddock. I went up there with him to discuss it and saw that a lot of the roof of the horses' summer shelter had blown off.
Going off to get some milk and more fence posts.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hello everyone. Brighter here - all the better for seeing patchiness in pesky chalky paint so yet another coat of terracotta then lunch followed by a raid on the supermarket.
Buys- I hope you get your shelters repaired OK. Better go and check ours this pm. Oddly, the donkey shed has a proper terracotta tiled roof but its walls are thin and draughty. Baffles me but it will make a good potager shed.
Wonky - good work with the pergola. Are you planning to sit out there in cold weather? Do you really need evergreen if you're mainly going to need the privacy in clement weather? I'd go for colour and perfume myself and do repeat ramblers and clematis.
Dove - enjoy your sketching. Will you do paintings from them later?
Chicky - glad the talk was good. Once we have enough material I'd like to go no dig but that will take some time and I need to investigate other sources of composted material. Neighbour's horses will help but not enough. Enjoy your reunion.
LP and Joyce - take it easy. Plenty of good weather on its way soon and you need to be fit.
Hosta - hope the bonus is good this year. Every little helps.
Really must go and paint. Have a good one everyone whatever you're doing.
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)."
Wonky: your comment about delicate reminded me about the number of times I must have changed wheels on vehicles (from vans to the managers company cars) or beaten the fork lift truck into submission so it would work... at a time when the only other female in the office was the receptionist. It never occurred to me to ask one of the many men there for help because I was female, more rather they were the ones coming to me for help because they were too delicate / feeble minded to know how to change a wheel without making such a scene you'd have thought they were trying to change the cambelt through the oil filter.
Silly men with their delicate hands and pretty little heads not knowing how to change light bulbs in their car.
Mind you half the time I wasn't sure myself but that's no excuse for not ploughing on and giving it a go anyway! Eventually you'll work it out
I do take the Michele out of men sometimes, and as much as yesterday was about the struggles and strengths on women, there are plenty of men out there who have to fight to live in a female dominated life. Take nursing and midwifery for instance. A bloody brilliant job and as far as I'm concerned the more people who CAN and WILL do it the better but yet even though I like to think I am the ultra modern live and hug who you want type of person something in the back of my brain pings when you hear the nurse who will be caring for you is male.
Right, enough nonsense from me! There are tomato seeds to be gazed upon because seed time is hitting Yorkshire and I don't know which ones to grow!
Yes PD. Mine certainly has his uses and is generally a life enhancing person to have hanging about the place. At the mo he's messing with recycling old kitchen units and sorting out his screws. They always used to be my screws and DIY tools but he's appropriated them since he retired. Just have to teach him about what spirit levels are used for and rawl plugs appropriate to purpose and surface...
It's turning sunny here too but with only a mild breeze. We have discovered lovely pale daffs growing through the tussocky grass in the donkey paddock. Fortunately they've shown themselves after I sprayed.
We've had to tie Rasta up so she can sunbathe and guard the garden. She's been lifting up the metal mesh fence to next door's garden in order to get to a hedgehog and insists on gong back every time we drag her away. Let Bonzo out too! And she's roleld in something smelly. Horrible dog. Fence fixing to add to the list now.
Clari - changing wheels is a job for the Man who Can as they're bolted on far too tight for me to loosen the nuts. I used to be able to do a full tune up and service of my old Vauxhall Chev estate engine but drew the line at brakes and beyond. Nowadays it's all computerised and I haven't a clue except for checking oil and brake fluids and windscreen washer.
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)."
Punkdoc, I reckon people are people, and we are each good at some things and less good at others. Nothing to do with being male or female, black or white, British or foreign. We liberated women have to be careful not to adopt the put-down attitude against men, which women suffered for centuries.
But respect to Clari, for breaking through her particular glass ceiling.
Must look up no-dig gardening. Sounds like a plan...
Best wishes to the patchy paint, Obelixx.
Will we get a look at your sketches, Dove? Hope you have a lovely day!
Must make OH lunch - he's feeling delicate... hope it's not a return of the Lurgy...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
.Last week I asked two chaps who were working across the road if they would carry three bags of compost and one of grit down the steps and round to the back of the house.......they picked up two bags each. . . . . men certainly do come in very useful I also enjoy male company.
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Morning all.
Hire car people had got the booking wrong, they changed the airport but not the date. Has taken ages trying to get hold of them.
Odd job man has come to put in new fence posts in the summer paddock. I went up there with him to discuss it and saw that a lot of the roof of the horses' summer shelter had blown off.
Going off to get some milk and more fence posts.
BL
, I think you need to borrow Fairy's magic wand 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It never rains but it pours BL. Hope you can get things sorted out. If not, I recommend gin
Seriously though, I hope you can get things arranged so you can enjoy a relaxing few days in Norfolk.
Waiting for the hairdresser at the moment.
Oh she's here SYL
Hello everyone. Brighter here - all the better for seeing patchiness in pesky chalky paint so yet another coat of terracotta then lunch followed by a raid on the supermarket.
Buys- I hope you get your shelters repaired OK. Better go and check ours this pm. Oddly, the donkey shed has a proper terracotta tiled roof but its walls are thin and draughty. Baffles me but it will make a good potager shed.
Wonky - good work with the pergola. Are you planning to sit out there in cold weather? Do you really need evergreen if you're mainly going to need the privacy in clement weather? I'd go for colour and perfume myself and do repeat ramblers and clematis.
Dove - enjoy your sketching. Will you do paintings from them later?
Chicky - glad the talk was good. Once we have enough material I'd like to go no dig but that will take some time and I need to investigate other sources of composted material. Neighbour's horses will help but not enough. Enjoy your reunion.
LP and Joyce - take it easy. Plenty of good weather on its way soon and you need to be fit.
Hosta - hope the bonus is good this year. Every little helps.
Really must go and paint. Have a good one everyone whatever you're doing.
Wonky: your comment about delicate reminded me about the number of times I must have changed wheels on vehicles (from vans to the managers company cars) or beaten the fork lift truck into submission so it would work... at a time when the only other female in the office was the receptionist. It never occurred to me to ask one of the many men there for help because I was female, more rather they were the ones coming to me for help because they were too delicate / feeble minded to know how to change a wheel without making such a scene you'd have thought they were trying to change the cambelt through the oil filter.
Silly men with their delicate hands and pretty little heads not knowing how to change light bulbs in their car.
Mind you half the time I wasn't sure myself but that's no excuse for not ploughing on and giving it a go anyway! Eventually you'll work it out
I do take the Michele out of men sometimes, and as much as yesterday was about the struggles and strengths on women, there are plenty of men out there who have to fight to live in a female dominated life. Take nursing and midwifery for instance. A bloody brilliant job and as far as I'm concerned the more people who CAN and WILL do it the better but yet even though I like to think I am the ultra modern live and hug who you want type of person something in the back of my brain pings when you hear the nurse who will be caring for you is male.
Right, enough nonsense from me! There are tomato seeds to be gazed upon because seed time is hitting Yorkshire and I don't know which ones to grow!
Hi all
Are we of any use for anything Clari?
Sunny and very windy here, am enjoying some light weeding and tidying, trying to identify planting spaces for a greenhouse full of plants.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Yes PD. Mine certainly has his uses and is generally a life enhancing person to have hanging about the place. At the mo he's messing with recycling old kitchen units and sorting out his screws. They always used to be my screws and DIY tools but he's appropriated them since he retired. Just have to teach him about what spirit levels are used for and rawl plugs appropriate to purpose and surface...
It's turning sunny here too but with only a mild breeze. We have discovered lovely pale daffs growing through the tussocky grass in the donkey paddock. Fortunately they've shown themselves after I sprayed.
We've had to tie Rasta up so she can sunbathe and guard the garden. She's been lifting up the metal mesh fence to next door's garden in order to get to a hedgehog and insists on gong back every time we drag her away. Let Bonzo out too! And she's roleld in something smelly. Horrible dog. Fence fixing to add to the list now.
Clari - changing wheels is a job for the Man who Can as they're bolted on far too tight for me to loosen the nuts. I used to be able to do a full tune up and service of my old Vauxhall Chev estate engine but drew the line at brakes and beyond. Nowadays it's all computerised and I haven't a clue except for checking oil and brake fluids and windscreen washer.
Afternoon everyone, hi Pat!
Punkdoc, I reckon people are people, and we are each good at some things and less good at others. Nothing to do with being male or female, black or white, British or foreign. We liberated women have to be careful not to adopt the put-down attitude against men, which women suffered for centuries.
But respect to Clari, for breaking through her particular glass ceiling.
Must look up no-dig gardening. Sounds like a plan...
Best wishes to the patchy paint, Obelixx.
Will we get a look at your sketches, Dove? Hope you have a lovely day!
Must make OH lunch - he's feeling delicate... hope it's not a return of the Lurgy...
All is well with the world, a pair of Mallards flew onto the pond this morning and they are looking quite amorous, maybe ducklings again this year.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
.Last week I asked two chaps who were working across the road if they would carry three bags of compost and one of grit down the steps and round to the back of the house.......they picked up two bags each. . . . . men certainly do come in very useful
I also enjoy male company.