Notes from the week..............
An accident waiting to happen - but thankfully it didn't. I could hear several car horns hooting as I approached a big Ipswich roundabout that has two lines of traffic on each road, and wondered why. When I got to the junction I could see why .........an elderly lady in a small car going THE WRONG WAY round the roundabout. Luckily she'd been noticed and everyone had come to a halt to let her get out of the way. She turned into the retail park that I was coming out of. ..........when you stop and think about it - it could have been really nasty.
Almost as frightening as the time I was waiting at the railway gates right by the station in Saxmundham and watched horrified as a woman climbed over the gates to cross the track to get to the other station platform almost in front of the train coming in. The train hooted loudly too! The thought of what I almost witnessed haunted me for days.
Flowers on the table this week have been some more (whoops out of focus) roses
As it was too wet last Saturday for the first Saturday car-boot sale I decided to visit the first Wednesday one instead. Not many there as rain was threatening but several of the really good plant stalls were there, I looked at and coveted lots of things but this time just bought a Fern which will be a replacement for the Heebie-Geebie that's under the trees in the corner. The only other thing bought was a big bunch of small beetroot for £1.
On my way home from a visit to a Suffolk Church (post about that sometime next week) I sneaked into this garden while the owner was away and picked the last of their strawberries and a cucumber from the greenhouse. It was OK..................I had permission! More Hollyhocks have appeared in BiL's garden than ever before - and none have rust. I have Hollyhock envy!
This week I'm grateful for
- The accident that Didn't happen
- Enough hours without rain to get the grass cut
- Getting through the 3rd of 5 dentists visits without trauma!
- Gift of strawberries and a cucumber
Hope you all have a good weekend whatever your plans. Don't think I shall go far. I'm not too bothered about watching the Ladies finals at Wimbledon
today but will settle down to watch the Men's finals tomorrow and of course THAT football match, which I will watch from behind a cushion!
Back Monday
Sue
Oh gosh, I'll be behind the sofa for THAT match - it will be on a par with seeing the Daleks for the first time, nerve-wise!! (My kids still laugh when I tell them how scared kids were, but we had seen nothing like it had we?)
ReplyDeleteThat poor old lady - I hope she got home safely, but perhaps someone took her number and have been in touch with the Police as she really shouldn't be on the road. And to think I worry about my parallel parking skills, which have gone to pot here as it is such a busy High Street (main through road North to South) and I get flustered when I haven't got in perfectly the first time and there's a queue of traffic behind me.
Our spuds in sacks have good tops on (but not as good as your bil's.) Hoping we will have a good haul of Kestrels and the one I've forgotten, in due course.
Enjoy your fern. We have dozens here, all over the place, and almost a Fernery on the Bank. They are lovely.
I remember how different Dr Who was too. I wasn't allowed to watch it at home but saw it at a friends house where she had older brothers. I think me and Sally hid behind the settee too!
DeleteI've seen on the news that people are taking selfies whilst lying on railway tracks and one stupid parent took a selfie of her child in a buggy on the lines! Should be prosecuted for child neglect in my opinion. Anyway, I'm glad the lady was OK, but like Bovey Belle says, she shouldn't be driving.
ReplyDeleteOh good grief, I didn't know about those idiots - crazy
DeleteI never have much luck with hollyhocks, the best we’ve seen were actually just growing on the beach in Aldeburgh when we visited a few years ago. There were loads of them and they looked beautiful 😃
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take some seed heads from BiL and throw them everywhere in my garden and hope for the best
DeleteI love a nice Heebie-Geebie... so do the bees 🙂
ReplyDeleteEven though 2 are going there are still 4 Hebes left so still something for the bees as well as all the other things
DeleteMaybe the lady was here from the USA. When I was visiting there ages ago, I always shut my eyes at roundabouts (I wasn't driving, I hasten to add). Very frightening, I agree, and as for crossing in front of a train - how stupid can you get!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness the worst didn't happen.
The garden photos look wonderful. So lush and green.
xx
BiL always waters his garden a lot- he has good water pressure and can sit in the middle and water all of it with a spray hose - thats probably why he doesn't want a water meter!
DeleteWe came across a car (we thought tourists from a country that drives on the right) going the wrong way round a roundabout just down the road. As in your case everyone just waited for them.
ReplyDeleteIt was a worrying sight.
DeleteI,ll be joining you behind that cushion. I have a Magnum (icecream, not champagne) waiting for the result I want.!!!!
ReplyDeleteI may well wander to the shop tomorrow for another mock magnum!
DeleteI won't be bothering with the football, but the cushion may be required for the men's tennis final. I don't see it happening but I will have fingers and toes crossed for Matteo.
ReplyDeleteFor those of us who engage our brains is is completely incomprehensible the way people will take chances at level crossings. Thank goodness nothing terrible happened for you to witness. I still remember the signal man shouting out of the box at Saxmundham at people doing the same thing.
Sadly I'm expecting another win by Djokovic - hope I'm wrong.
DeleteI can't imagine arriving so late to catch a train that someone would have to climb over the gate - and of course once the train stopped in the station then the gates always opened anyway so people could cross
Serious hollyhock envy here too. We've never managed in over 30 years and about 6 different gardens to grow hollyhocks without rust.
ReplyDeleteSeveral of those Hollyhocks are growing in cracks in the path - they are amazing
DeleteMy husband jinxes the football just by watching it so has been banned and will watch the highlights at night.
ReplyDeleteWe were told by a couple of Americans that they don't understand roundabouts as they don't have any. When we go abroad we always hire a car for a few days and it is scarey going the 'wrong' way round a roundabout. My husband manages okay, but I put that down to him being a Pisces - two fish swimming in the opposite direction (smile).
I didn't know that Americans didn't have roundabouts.
DeleteDon't they? I wonder what my memory is then? How weird. xx
DeleteHave just planted a hollyhock in the garden...and hoping that the slugs don't find it too tempting. x
ReplyDeleteHope the slugs avoid your Hollyhock!
DeleteWhen it comes to dangerous driving, it isn't always the elderly at fault. Around here (US), the idiots drive my winding, hilly two lane country roads with their mobiles perched on top of their steering wheel so they can text someone. Can't count the number of times I've almost been hit head on because of inattentive drivers crossing into my lane. No where to escape either as the verges are tree lined with no shoulders. Yes, it is illegal, but it doesn't seem to matter. One of my favorite sayings: You can't fix stupid.
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the finals, England!
Yes it's the same here, there's always someone on the phone when driving even though its banned unless hands free
DeleteHollyhocks are terrible for rust. I squirt ours with a precautionary dose of fungicide several times so it doesn't happen. Looking at others, it seems this year is not so bad.
ReplyDeleteOnly inherited one plant here and thats done nothing - sadly
ReplyDeleteYour bil's Hollyhocks are beautiful! In recent years we have started getting a few roundabouts and I hate them because I have little experience driving on them. I suppose if we would have had them when I learned to drive I would feel differently.
ReplyDeleteI love hollyhocks too. That said, I have not had much luck with them. Year 1, I get great 5-6 ft. height and flowers. Year 2, (2021) half disappear entirely and the remaining are no more than 1-2 feet tall. Very disappointing. Your BIL grows fantastic hollyhocks. (What is his secret for success?) The US does have roundabouts. The US calls them rotaries. Fortunately, nobody got hurt when the woman entered the roundabout incorrectly. Very scary indeed.
ReplyDeleteRoundabouts are fairly new in the US, at least past the east. Most people hate them; I think they are brilliant.
ReplyDeleteHi Sue, for the 1st time ever last year I grew fig leaved hollyhocks as they are rust resistant so this year is their first time of flowering and no rust on the leaves. I will collect the seed and if you would like I could send you some or you could collect as I am in Ipswich. Veronica
ReplyDeleteyour bIL hollyhocks are impressive. I think elderly people should be asked to retake their driving test when they retire.
ReplyDeleteI have told my children that they MUST take away my car keys if I ever get like that. I have known too many older folks who really should not be at the wheel any longer. When we lived in London and had to park on the road as we had no drive (it was a quiet cul-de-sac) an elderly gentleman drove into Bob's parked car - it was almost a write-off. Four weeks later he reversed into mine. That WAS a write-off. Our neighbour who witnessed the accidents said it was good it was "a nice Christian Rev like Bob - anyone else might have punched him!"
ReplyDeleteOh my, Hollyhocks are one of favorites, I have a hard time raising them. So sad. Today I picked up some bee balm, the flower was a deep pink, can't wait to get them in. My MIL is 93, just can see over the steering wheel. I want her keys, but thats up to the others, daughters. I pray you have a wonderful day.
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