Saturday, 3 October 2020

Into October and Strange Times Week 29

The weather forecast is pretty nasty for the whole of next week, more rain and more windy weather. Hopefully no more damage. This is the top of the Hedge Maple that came down in the strong winds on Friday of the week before last, the trunk that it came from is the one on the left behind it, I'm not quite sure how it came to be this way round and to start with I couldn't even see where it had come from, it was like it had mysteriously dropped from the sky.

Yesterday morning before it rained I was able to cut off some of the smaller bits - 4 wheelbarrows full -  with the loppers and add them to the bonfire heap, now it will have to wait for Brother-in-Law with chainsaw as the main bit is much too heavy to shift..
(The bare patches are where the raspberry and strawberry beds were)


 Flowers on the table this week are very Autumnal , small sprays of Michaelmas Daisies and Sedums and a few leaves  from one of the Senecio family (grey-ish soft evergreen leaves, yellow daisy like flowers, very hardy and fast growing).


The week has flown by again, but I've already written about most of the happenings.......swimming - twice, chipped windscreen, haircut and watching workmen, not a lot else except shopping and housework.

Look at this, found on my post from January 25th  while I was looking for something. This is BEFORE we knew about Covid............

Anyone else been watching the Indoor bowls championship on TV last week? I was half watching on Friday afternoon but ended up turning off as there were so many people in the audience cough, cough, coughing.  It sounded like a wonderful place for catching something nasty!

Well, well, well - an audience full of elderly people, from all parts of the country, all staying at a holiday complex and maybe some had  been on cruises through the winter visiting other parts of the world................ THIS must be where it all started! 


This week I'm grateful for

  • My sister calling in with a huge bundle of puzzle pages from the local paper
  • A little bit of fine weather in between the rain to get some gardening done
  • Tennis on TV for the wet afternoons

 

It will be too wet for a car boot sale on Sunday so I've not many plans for the weekend apart from swimming later today.

Have a good weekend, stay dry.
Back Monday
Sue


29 comments:

  1. Lovely flowers, Sue. It's a good job you weren't in the garden when that branch came down! Loved the woodpecker holes in the telegraph pole, I didn't get round to saying yesterday.

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    1. And I'm glad the raspberry cage was down and sold too!

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  2. Yes the flowers are lovely, I have nothing in the house and your flowers, will make me have a look in my garden today. Better for the purse and better me enjoying them as only the people passing by.

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    1. I go out thinking there isn't much to pick but usually find something - although not from the cutting garden this time

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  3. Whoever thought Indoor Bowls was so dangerous!!!

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    1. I'd completely forgotten about watching and turning off due to the coughing. Someone out to do a check on how many of the audience got Covid and took it home to share all round the country

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  4. Storm Alex seemed to pass us by. We had light rain most of the day with a small amount of slightly heavier showers. We shall see what today brings.

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    1. Today - Sunday - is dismal but thank goodness NOT extreme!

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  5. You could be right about the bowls championship, I guess there won't be a gathering like that next year.

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    1. They might have the bowls Championships without an audience perhaps but certainly a strange co-incidence

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  6. No chance of staying dry for me Sue - off for my winter flu jab shortly.

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    1. I didn't stay dry yesterday either - as I went swimming! Even more rain today - horrible day

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  7. Those flowers are beautiful, and I love that colour on your wall. Such a cheerful, sunny corner.

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    1. It's such a light, sunny room to live in - I'm very lucky

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  8. The flowers are lovely and I'm glad you can use the branch that fell from the sky.
    It's horrible here this morning; it's wet even under the tree that doesn't usually get rained on. I just hope it clears up by Monday. Lugging a suitcase around in the pouring rain will not be fun!
    xx

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    1. Oh dear the forecast isn't good. Hope there are lots of things to do indoors while you are on holiday

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  9. A friend went to her GP with a cough and extreme fatigue in early February. 80% of her office had similar symptoms. Hindsight is wonderful. I wish Lockdown had started earlier

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    1. It must have been around for much longer than everyone thought

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  10. I have also been watching the French Open - very disappointed that Mugurutha lost her match this afternoon! The last Canadian (Layla Fernandez) went out today also. I much prefer the womens' matches.

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    1. I prefer the mens tennis - there seems to be different women playing at each tournament and I can never remember their names!

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  11. What a lovely bouquet. The perfect brightening for the fall.

    God bless.

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    1. We are getting some wet grey weather here at the moment so it was good to find a few flowers to bring in

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  12. It's nice to have flowers from the garden to brighten up a room. I have similar offerings in my garden at the moment (this is, of course, the virtually no garden. It is very unkempt and needs considerable improvement in that respect" from the surveyor's report). I think he doesn't realize you don't cut back flowers until they have finished flowering? He certainly doesn't recognize the cottage garden style of border . . . I think you can tell I am still seething over that comment.

    Glad you have some more firewood, gratis. There is a huge dead ash tree in our top field - it has been dead many years - and the Council will fell this when they start taking out all the orange-ribboned ash trees hereabouts. Our buyer will have firewood to keep him going for years!

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    1. Ah yes - a good big Ash tree - just what's needed for a good fire

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  13. Gorgeous flowers, they are just the mix of wild looking flowers that I love. I imagine my coffin covered in flowers like this .... but not for a good few years hopefully ;-)

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