The bell used to be rung when there was an air raid over Sheffield, to warn the locals as sometimes they would try to blow up the railway tunnel which runs near the house.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Been hot, we went to the SM for supplies when it was the hottest. But now it's clouded over and is windy, looks as though rain is coming.
This morning I had a huge GH shuffle. Took plants out of cold frames, put them on weed sup. fabric in veg garden, refilled cold frames with plants from the GH. Now the GH will be ready for tomatoes when I've removed the trestle table.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
LOL Hosta It was an incredibly old farmhouse, bits of it semi-derelict with bits possibly dating from the late Middle Ages ... Listed 'cos of the huge fireplace and chimney with two bread ovens, one Victorian one Tudor. When we moved in there were mice and rats in many rooms and plants (a very pretty old rose, kerria and ground elder) growing through the bottom of the walls into the rooms as they had no foundations and the floors were old pamments just laid loose onto sandy soil.
The layout of the house was like a lop-sided 'T' and the back wing was the oldest part and had an old dairy downstairs and a couple of very ramshackle rooms above ...the floors sloped so much that there was a difference of over two feet from one side of the room to the other These were the rooms that we were given as 'play rooms' ... Bro and I had one each ... we kept most of our toys there and do could do messy stuff there and even draw on the walls with our wax crayons ... we used to climb out of the windows and lower ourselves down to the ground and go out and play without Ma knowing There were other bedrooms where the floorboards were rotten and crumbling with holes in ........ don't think it was Posh
The reason it had a moat was like most large houses of a similar age in that part of Suffolk where the water table was very high ........ dig a moat around an area and it lowers the water table and dries out an area enough to erect a building ... no foundations 'cos if you dig foundations they fill with water, and as these were timber framed houses the timbers would rot if they were in water. The upright posts were just rested on a dry-stone style brick plinth.
Oooh, I've rambled on a bit there ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
swallows are back, I thought they had left but since the rain they are sucking up from the gutters and back into home improvements! Love them but it does mean we will be divebombed each time we go through the garage!
hope everyone well and had a good day, midweek now!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Posts
Clari, good news re the new job
Yes it does Joyce.
Sounds promising Clari.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Punkdoc , how many Bells ?, in the tower ?
Sadly only the one.
The bell used to be rung when there was an air raid over Sheffield, to warn the locals as sometimes they would try to blow up the railway tunnel which runs near the house.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Internet went today, just come back.
Been hot, we went to the SM for supplies when it was the hottest. But now it's clouded over and is windy, looks as though rain is coming.
This morning I had a huge GH shuffle. Took plants out of cold frames, put them on weed sup. fabric in veg garden, refilled cold frames with plants from the GH. Now the GH will be ready for tomatoes when I've removed the trestle table.
LOL Hosta
It was an incredibly old farmhouse, bits of it semi-derelict with bits possibly dating from the late Middle Ages ... Listed 'cos of the huge fireplace and chimney with two bread ovens, one Victorian one Tudor. When we moved in there were mice and rats in many rooms and plants (a very pretty old rose, kerria and ground elder) growing through the bottom of the walls into the rooms as they had no foundations and the floors were old pamments just laid loose onto sandy soil.
The layout of the house was like a lop-sided 'T' and the back wing was the oldest part and had an old dairy downstairs and a couple of very ramshackle rooms above ...the floors sloped so much that there was a difference of over two feet from one side of the room to the other These were the rooms that we were given as 'play rooms' ... Bro and I had one each ... we kept most of our toys there and do could do messy stuff there and even draw on the walls with our wax crayons ... we used to climb out of the windows and lower ourselves down to the ground and go out and play without Ma knowing
There were other bedrooms where the floorboards were rotten and crumbling with holes in ........ don't think it was Posh 
The reason it had a moat was like most large houses of a similar age in that part of Suffolk where the water table was very high ........ dig a moat around an area and it lowers the water table and dries out an area enough to erect a building ... no foundations 'cos if you dig foundations they fill with water, and as these were timber framed houses the timbers would rot if they were in water. The upright posts were just rested on a dry-stone style brick plinth.
Oooh, I've rambled on a bit there ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds idyllic Dove.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It was Pdoc
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
what's happened to it now Dove? Has it had a hideous modern "makeover", or sympathetically kept?
Clari, delighted to hear it. You deserve this!
swallows are back, I thought they had left but since the rain they are sucking up from the gutters and back into home improvements! Love them but it does mean we will be divebombed each time we go through the garage!
hope everyone well and had a good day, midweek now!
A A Milne