Good morning all I woke really early this morning ... there was sunshine and blue sky and it was very still and beautiful ... felt like summer again ...
Clari ... I can only think he likes talking to himself ... we're obviously not intelligent or educated enough for him.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just woken up with a dose of man flue, so obviously I feel I am about to die.
raining again, so at least I am not missing anything.
Glad they are getting somewhere with what is wrong with you Hosta, in the unlikely situation that you may require any help with medical speak etc., I would be happy to try and help.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Morning chaps. Sorry to say that I'm on the list of the walking (well, hobbling) wounded today . Daytime TV is pants, isn't it?
Meh.
One consequence is having time to actually get around to writing here rather than just reading (which I do, honest, I'm just the quiet type )
That's really interesting about the cortisol and sleep patterns, Hosta. My Dad had disrupted sleep - it wasn't that he didn't sleep, he just rarely slept at night. It's easy to think that sleeping is a straight forward thing - what could be easier - but actually it's a complex interaction of chemical processes Fascinating if it isn't a problem, deeply frustrating if it is. Knees are just not fit for purpose and I would complain to the management if I thought there was one.
Clari - you go tell 'em. Use really big words, stamp your feet. Health and Safety is for once being seen as a Good Thing and about bloomin' time.
Dove - how's the foot? What on earth do you do to stop yourself being bored? I've only been off my feet 24 hours and I'm borderline psycho already. 24 hour TV news is a form a torture. I had to turn it off, the dogs were getting stressed by me yelling at it.
Punkdoc - my sympathies for your struggle for proper treatment. No sympathy at all for man flu though. Or the rain.
Hello Rebecca - don't think we've been introduced . I'm the one that hangs round at the back trying to look inconspicuous. Nice to meet you.
It's stopped raining here so better shuffle up to open the greenhouse door. Then I'm going to put the kettle on. Anyone want a biscuit?
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Raisingirl ... you have my sympathy ... what's keeping me sane? Don't think anything is ... can't you tell
Tennis on the telly has been a godsend ... plus knitting and recorded programmes about Japan and some repeats of Rick Stein travelling through France on a boat ...
There's room on the sofa here ....... you're welcome to join me
oh, coffee for me please ... I'd better not have a biscuit .... unless you insist .......
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Commiserations to PD, Raisingirl, Dove and anyone else feeling a bit below par today. We could do with a good film to drink coffee in front of... except I'm trying not to sit down for too long to keep my back from seizing up...
"Lush" is a good description for the garden after all this rain. Much more positive than "overgrown and slug-ridden".
Got 7 midge bites in the time it took me to hobble to the bird feeders yesterday and re-fill them. The little beasties are voracious at the moment!
Off to do some shopping once the drawer-mender / bag carrier has finished.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Joyce - I hate housework. Left to my own devices I'd never get round to it. I suppose it's fortunate we do have visitors from time to time to force me into it. Hope your OH is improving steadily - does cooler weather help him?
Liri - midges - pah. It's the horse flies I hate most. Bogging things really hurt for a start and then the bites swell up (well they do on me). Luckily we don't get them in the garden unless the wind is in the wrong direction (southerly). Have fun shopping but rather you than me. I'm in the Hosta school of thought when it comes to shopping, especially for clothes, with supermarkets a close second. If it's a garden centre you're going to on the other hand.....
BL - when my Mum died I asked her two grand daughters - my nieces - what of hers they would like to have as mementos. One chose her 'Thinking Cap' (ridiculous hat she used to wear to make them laugh when they were tiny) and the other chose a story book that Mum had read to me when I was little and then to them when they came to stay. She must have known it back to front and upside-down the number of times she had read it. But it is one of those rituals that stays, that comforts even adults looking back. You can't spend too much time doing it, IMO.
Hope the weather is suiting all our foreign correspondents today - a bit warmer for Pat, and bit cooler for DD and Obs
Anyone else for tea, coffee? I think there's some hot chocolate down the back of the cupboard somewhere.........
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Good morning all
I woke really early this morning ... there was sunshine and blue sky and it was very still and beautiful ... felt like summer again ... 
Clari ... I can only think he likes talking to himself ... we're obviously not intelligent or educated enough for him.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
Another rubbish day here. Cold , breezy and raining, again.
I can heartily recommend the handy ignore button .
Np pretentious ramblings on any of my threads. 
Hi all.
Just woken up with a dose of man flue, so obviously I feel I am about to die.
raining again, so at least I am not missing anything.
Glad they are getting somewhere with what is wrong with you Hosta, in the unlikely situation that you may require any help with medical speak etc., I would be happy to try and help.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Morning chaps. Sorry to say that I'm on the list of the walking (well, hobbling) wounded today
. Daytime TV is pants, isn't it?
Meh.
One consequence is having time to actually get around to writing here rather than just reading (which I do, honest, I'm just the quiet type
)
That's really interesting about the cortisol and sleep patterns, Hosta. My Dad had disrupted sleep - it wasn't that he didn't sleep, he just rarely slept at night. It's easy to think that sleeping is a straight forward thing - what could be easier - but actually it's a complex interaction of chemical processes Fascinating if it isn't a problem, deeply frustrating if it is. Knees are just not fit for purpose and I would complain to the management if I thought there was one.
Clari - you go tell 'em. Use really big words, stamp your feet. Health and Safety is for once being seen as a Good Thing and about bloomin' time.
Dove - how's the foot? What on earth do you do to stop yourself being bored? I've only been off my feet 24 hours and I'm borderline psycho already. 24 hour TV news is a form a torture. I had to turn it off, the dogs were getting stressed by me yelling at it.
Punkdoc - my sympathies for your struggle for proper treatment. No sympathy at all for man flu though. Or the rain.
Hello Rebecca - don't think we've been introduced
. I'm the one that hangs round at the back trying to look inconspicuous. Nice to meet you.
It's stopped raining here
so better shuffle up to open the greenhouse door. Then I'm going to put the kettle on. Anyone want a biscuit?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Pdoc ... allow me to prescribe a little something
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Raisingirl ... you have my sympathy ... what's keeping me sane? Don't think anything is ... can't you tell
Tennis on the telly has been a godsend ... plus knitting and recorded programmes about Japan and some repeats of Rick Stein travelling through France on a boat ...
There's room on the sofa here ....... you're welcome to join me
oh, coffee for me please ... I'd better not have a biscuit .... unless you insist .......
Last edited: 30 June 2017 10:50:48
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone!
Commiserations to PD, Raisingirl, Dove and anyone else feeling a bit below par today. We could do with a good film to drink coffee in front of... except I'm trying not to sit down for too long to keep my back from seizing up...
"Lush" is a good description for the garden after all this rain. Much more positive than "overgrown and slug-ridden".
Got 7 midge bites in the time it took me to hobble to the bird feeders yesterday and re-fill them. The little beasties are voracious at the moment!
Off to do some shopping once the drawer-mender / bag carrier has finished.
Morning all.
Still raining. My garden was looking battered yesterday. My Open Garden is on the 9th, hope it recovers in time.
Granddaughter's school play tonight.
I do
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Joyce - I hate housework. Left to my own devices I'd never get round to it. I suppose it's fortunate we do have visitors from time to time to force me into it.
Hope your OH is improving steadily - does cooler weather help him?
Liri - midges - pah. It's the horse flies I hate most. Bogging things really hurt for a start and then the bites swell up (well they do on me). Luckily we don't get them in the garden unless the wind is in the wrong direction (southerly). Have fun shopping but rather you than me. I'm in the Hosta school of thought when it comes to shopping, especially for clothes, with supermarkets a close second. If it's a garden centre you're going to on the other hand.....
BL - when my Mum died I asked her two grand daughters - my nieces - what of hers they would like to have as mementos. One chose her 'Thinking Cap' (ridiculous hat she used to wear to make them laugh when they were tiny) and the other chose a story book that Mum had read to me when I was little and then to them when they came to stay. She must have known it back to front and upside-down the number of times she had read it. But it is one of those rituals that stays, that comforts even adults looking back. You can't spend too much time doing it, IMO.
Hope the weather is suiting all our foreign correspondents today - a bit warmer for Pat, and bit cooler for DD and Obs
Anyone else for tea, coffee? I think there's some hot chocolate down the back of the cupboard somewhere.........
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Oh and Chicky - well done to you and the chicklets for getting through exam season. Time for everyone to relax at last
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”