Missed your post Busy. What a pain. Hope you can get your cable back and pics removed.
Today's painting done and drying. Next job is sanding down an old wooden door/gate we found in the ruin so I can oil it and then we're going to use it as a hat on a tallish tree stump in the garden so we can attach the weather station gizmos. OH thinks this is a good spot.
I'm not so sure cos previous owners used it as a base for a tree house (shed on legs and the trunk) and just sawed off the legs at the base so we need either to clear it all out and plant things or decide we can't plant things and do something else. Can't grow just grass as there are stumps and things to kill the mower. Ho hum.
Tree, tree house, Wendy house and play frame all gone and we have just a 2m stump of rotting tree left.
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)."
Have been cleaning the filthy GH, come in for a cuppa.
The housesitter is actually paid for staying here and feeding animals. I had a super couple once, but they moved back to England. They left the house clean and I had 2 dogs to walk then. They arrived with their car full of everything they needed and didn't touch any of my stuff, not even loo rolls. But in those days, pre 2nd OH, I only went away once a year for a summer holiday with my student children, after 1st OH died.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Much the same here Fairy, Put on a fleece as there's a chilly breeze.and, just about to get started, the drizzle started Remember how glorious it was, up here, last spring?
Soggy outside here now - been having a phone chat with a friend, putting the world to rights - now it's time for a mug of coffee and a(nother ) hazelnut and cranberry oat cookie,
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It was a great spring last year Joyce - very dry. I know it was hot in Braemar exactly this time, as I was up at Glen Callater and met a girl from there. It had been 18 degrees a couple of days before - a far cry from the dreadful flooding just a month or two before. Like a summer day on the hill but the loch was still frozen down in the glen. Beautiful, but the poor old hares were caught out again lower down as the snow had all gone on the south facing slopes. I can't believe it's a year since then either.
It looked a bit more settled, so I went out to do a few things and wished I hadn't. Found a dead blackbird behind the shed. Think it's the one who'd just found a mate as he had some white feathers at the base of his tail. I've buried him and fixed a baskety thing over the top in case anything tries to dig him up.
Feel very glum
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Missed your post Busy. What a pain. Hope you can get your cable back and pics removed.
Today's painting done and drying. Next job is sanding down an old wooden door/gate we found in the ruin so I can oil it and then we're going to use it as a hat on a tallish tree stump in the garden so we can attach the weather station gizmos. OH thinks this is a good spot.
I'm not so sure cos previous owners used it as a base for a tree house (shed on legs and the trunk) and just sawed off the legs at the base so we need either to clear it all out and plant things or decide we can't plant things and do something else. Can't grow just grass as there are stumps and things to kill the mower. Ho hum.
Tree, tree house, Wendy house and play frame all gone and we have just a 2m stump of rotting tree left.
Afternoon all.
With dense fog and visibility down to less than 50m in places. Why don't folk use headlights?
Cuppa and a bit of lunch then a lazy afternoon.
Oh, Hubby was late so I picked up 4 oriental poppies in Waitrose £10. Bargain.
I too love Sandi , and Noel, but have always thought Prue L a wee bit stuffy.
I fear it'll be like so many programmes on 4 with recaps after every ad break so you end up seeing the same thing over and over.
Have been cleaning the filthy GH, come in for a cuppa.
The housesitter is actually paid for staying here and feeding animals. I had a super couple once, but they moved back to England. They left the house clean and I had 2 dogs to walk then. They arrived with their car full of everything they needed and didn't touch any of my stuff, not even loo rolls. But in those days, pre 2nd OH, I only went away once a year for a summer holiday with my student children, after 1st OH died.
'Cos they're dense too Hosta
I went out, but it's flippin' cold and windy so I came back in after doing a little tidying and not much else. I'm becoming such a lightweight....
It keeps raining too - right after I put washing out of course. Figured the wind might still get it dry-ish in between...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Much the same here Fairy, Put on a fleece as there's a chilly breeze.and, just about to get started, the drizzle started
Remember how glorious it was, up here, last spring?
Soggy outside here now - been having a phone chat with a friend, putting the world to rights - now it's time for a mug of coffee and a(nother
) hazelnut and cranberry oat cookie,
Last edited: 18 March 2017 16:26:45
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It was a great spring last year Joyce - very dry. I know it was hot in Braemar exactly this time, as I was up at Glen Callater and met a girl from there. It had been 18 degrees a couple of days before - a far cry from the dreadful flooding just a month or two before. Like a summer day on the hill but the loch was still frozen down in the glen. Beautiful, but the poor old hares were caught out again lower down as the snow had all gone on the south facing slopes. I can't believe it's a year since then either.
It looked a bit more settled, so I went out to do a few things and wished I hadn't. Found a dead blackbird behind the shed. Think it's the one who'd just found a mate as he had some white feathers at the base of his tail. I've buried him and fixed a baskety thing over the top in case anything tries to dig him up.
Feel very glum
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy
((hugs))
Just watched the France - Wales match ... most peculiar
Welsh branch of the family will not be impressed by some of those decisions 
Now for Enlgand - Ireland ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The France:Wales match will go down in history... what a shambles! Gutted for the Welsh boys - they were 5 points up at full time!?!?