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Well done, Millie, you've cracked it there. Grand shots of the lovely plants.
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Lovely photos, Flyte is looking well Nellie👍 I am going to treat myself to a new Wisteria Millie, our local council managed to kill mine, spraying weed killer around on a windy day. I was seriously annoyed😡
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I bet you were TDA. I would have been seriously angry as well. Ours was given to us by my cousin's husband who is a seriously talented gardner. He said it would take 7 years to flower and he was right. We nearly lost it a few years ago but we have managed to nurse it back to health.
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Yes, they can take some looking after, which was why I was so annoyed. Mine didn’t flower for a couple of years, but was doing very well when this happened.. Rocky mentioned a particularly lovely example, Black Dragon I think, so might treat myself to one of these.
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Welcome to the photo club Millie and Nell. When I saw Millies wisteria and clematis pics, thought she had been in our garden.
This is the first year, despite active service, working abroad and offshore, in 47 years that I haven't been able to get Mrs One an anniversary card. Got her a pressie but it's the card that counts with her. Wonder how she will react to the internet card
When she comes downstairs I will play her the Anniversary waltz, I'm grovelling already
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Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Oneputt.
Sadly a lack of a card is a sign of the times, certainly playing the anniversary waltz would make up for it in my eyes. It's not the actual card, its the love that's included within it. The choosing the writing and the giving, BUT if you were mine you'd be forgiven in these times, after all you'll be expressing your love with the music and the way you do things together and for her.
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I had a foray into our towns Wilko yesterday. I'd tried online and Tesco and friends but I needed bits from there. Planned like a military operation, mask, gloves, clothing, shopping bags(had to be washable!), re-entry back indoors clothes removal etc probably OTT and OCD but only 3rd outing in 46 days and first to a shop. I knew there'd be plenty of stuff and it'd be heavy so took the car as far as I could.
I was incredibly impressed, very well organised, 1 in 1 out strictly monitored as 3 folk who waltzed into the precinct and into the store found out 🤣, the lady might not have been right in the door but was very aware - brilliant. I'd say only a dozen or so folks in the whole store all obeying social distancing. In fact on one aisle where I needed to linger and contemplate much, folk hung back rather than pass me. I moved out and back into the aisle to accommodate them. As I feared the stuff I needed was rather limited but I got the basics.
I did use the underpass and the one or two folk I encountered were keeping their distance. Just a youngish lady chatting on her phone overtook me very close, in fact the only overtaker and one coming towards me.
I'd planned the return to the car too, all went very smoothly.
I used my homemade mask, didn't have cause to touch it throughout shopping or walk back to the car - didn't put mask or gloves on until I reached the precinct, had to use the window to check appearance once mask in place 😉, and didnt remove until shopping unloaded 😯. But leaning over to empty the basket meant it went up to my eyes, but was annoying more than anything!
Didn't realise that something once considered so simple, easy and straightforward could change in the blink of an eye.
Milliehull you garden looks lovely. I'd love a wisteria but much work and long wait for results- I'm too lazy. I do hope it'll be a good while before you get another wobbly day, they're horrible but it's nice to know we're not alone and others get them too. The weather certainly helps as does my garden. On the whole I'm actually enjoying this slower pace of life and reappreciating nature and time to do things - it takes a while to turn off from always being busy, but it is nice. To me it's the nearest to the freedom of childhood I'll ever get again 🤣🤣. But I miss the company and chatter of friends, having got used, reluctantly, to the kids living away i have acceptance and because their lives arent as full on as usual there's time for extra calls 😀 so I'm a winner. Although eldest granddaughter was missing from our video call last night, apparently she finally surfaced wide eyed and bushy tail at 0915 🤣🤣🤣. Back to school in the next few weeks will come as a shock to them all. Daddy is back at work so 6am start in the dark 😂😉😭
Takethedogalong I'd be furious with the council but little you can do 😡🤬
Right I must get moving. Enjoy your day stay safe folks
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Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs One. I have discovered that you can buy personalised cards online from The Card Factory. I would post the link if I knew how🤔. They are not expensive but at the moment you have to allow quite a while for them to arrive. I have just ordered our eldest grandson's 13th birthday card. His birthday is at the end of the month. A teenager alteady 😱.
We watched Fisherman's Friends via Amazon Prime last night. What a brilliant film. People had kept telling me how good it was but we didnt seem to find the time to go to the cinema. An advantage of lock down - time 😊
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I've been using online cards like Moonpig for some of the family and put photos on them etc. Happy Anniversary to the Oneputts.
Nice to see all the photos on here too.
B2 that sounds like an epic shopping trip. I've only been out to the PO since lock down. I've been ordering everything on line, even the SR flour is on the way and our local farmshop came up trumps with flour too which our neighbours can have.
Our little street often celebrates national events so Friday we'll put some flags out for the VE anniversary. I wasn't a war baby but can remember the rationing and I've got my Dad's diaries where he described digging the pit for the garden air raid shelter with a neighbour. Like a lot of people he turned the corrugated roof into a lean to shed after the war. As children we had no real idea of what our parents had been through.
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After cycling around the doors for the last couple of weeks hubby persuaded me to push myself today. Being somewhat inspired by Cornersteady's local adventures I agreed.
Just got back from cycling to the Millennium Bridge in Newcastle (an "undulating" 11 mile round trip) and now collapsed on sofa for at least the next hour😊
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Not sure what setting are needed but if I take a photo on my iPhone it automatically appears on my iPad and vice versa.
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Welcome to my world!....chilly easterly winds are an almost everyday occurrence up here and have ruined many a sunny day for me! We also live very close to the Tyne, where the wind does this strange "swirling" thing straight across our back garden....😂
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Brrr.... it’s an Easterly here as well. We are hoping to wrap up warm and cut back some shrubs in garden later. But I am going to clean and lay stove for tonight first!😁
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Lovely sunny morning with that easterly that everyones complaining about.
MiL decided not to accompany us on our trip to M&S in the car. She didn't want to feel embarrassed. So she's strolling around the village later with Mrs.WN.
Wanted to amend our delivery with Tescos next week so went onto the site about 9.30 pm last night. Thought I'd se if we could book another slot for the week after. Couldn't but it showed just 1 slot available for tonight!! So we are having all of the heavy household goods stuff delivered. Mrs WN prefers to choose our own Perishables but it will cut down the time and area she has to spend in there.
We're lucky for cards a MiL has loads of home in boxes that she's made over the years for all occasions, except Sympathy cards!! Hope we don't need any more of those.
Happy Anniversary Oneputts. Shame that expensive restaurant is closed.
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Thanks, Tda, it's all the exercise that he's getting...up to 10 mls a day and plenty of time off the lead too, as there's no livestock on the majority of our walks.
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Yes it is, Goldie, so I'll give that a try, thanks. Will it copy them to a Kindle do you think?
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It's looking like tomorrow will be the best day of the week this week, so we'll be getting the old Cadac out for tea tomorrow night. I say 'Old' Cadac, as we have two! The Old Cadac now lives in the shed, and we use in the garden. The New Cacac is for the Caravan.
This 'lockdown' has actually been quite an enlightening experience. For the first time in years, I have started to grow some simple salad items. I'm even thinking of getting some yeast and trying to make some bread again...
David
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But then I'd have to work out how to transfer them into the gallery on here.....oh the joys of photography!! Good to hear that you're getting slots for home delivery, not something we've bothered trying yet.
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I must say that I've not had any problems with being in lockdown, and it's given bus lots of time to get jobs done which we would not do as we'd normally be away in the van. At least we've had 8 weeks away already this year, probably more than most will do in 2020 as a whole. We finally got round to getting an electrician to come and fit a new consumer unit today, so I had to stay in all morning while he did the work. It cost less than I anticipated, at a touch over £450, so very pleased. Managed to keep to the required social distancing requirements too.
We too had a rather cynical NE wind for much of the day but fortunately it died down during the afternoon while I was out with Flyte. Beautiful clear sky tonight with a red sunset again.
Happy anniversary to you both, OP.
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David, I bet you are missing your organ playing. I love organ music, especially if I am in a big church. I still have lovely memories of quietly wandering into the big church at St Buryan in Cornwall, sitting down and listening to the organist practising. He was very good.
Don't suppose you have any of your playing recorded and able to post a link on here?
It is good to be learning new things, and revisiting old ones.😁
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Happy anniversary Oneputts, hope you have/had a lovely day
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Ooh you made me reminisce.
Early in our France exploration days we were visiting Orleans and went to see the cathedral. An impressive structure and very atmospheric. A scruffy looking young man in jeans and a t-shirt wandered in, opened his mouth and produced 10 minutes of plain Chant and his voice belonged in that space. Everyone stopped, entranced by this voice and music.
We realised why it was only 10 minutes. It was 5 to 12. Sacre Bleu. Lunch calls for the French. We soon realised you had to be quick to nab a place. We ate a lovely lunch around the corner sitting outside in the sun looking at the cathedral. It was a magical day but I can still hear that plain chant now.
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Its been a lovely day here today, no cold easterly, makes a change.
Been outside for most of the day in T shirt and scruffy bottoms as I was working in the garden to start with then decided to do a bit of painting. I gave 1 side of the utility room, the outside, a coat of paint. Looks lovely and fresh now, will probably do other side tomorrow if its not to hot.
OH had his conference call with the rest of the Men's shed this morning, they have stopped making the face shields as non required here.
This afternoon he cut the small hedge between us and next door neighbour, their hedge but they never cut it, so OH does our side and the top.
Then he cleaned the old paint off the concrete fence posts and rails at the front of the house, I'll probably paint them tomorrow as well.
Off first thing to get some shopping though I'm getting low on salad, fruit + milk and veg. Shopping for 3 households as usual.
We've been watching programmes from the BBC i player, much better than what's on the main channel.
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DSB wrote " I'm even thinking of getting some yeast and trying to make some bread again..."
Why is everyone so obsessed with home bread making? DSB, of all people, should know that 'man shall not live by bread alone'
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The skies cleared last night and I went out side around 10pm to have a clear view of the star link satellites. Once seen now forgotten, they were much more spaced out than I realised! So before I developed a crick in my neck I went back inside.
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WN. We also paid a visit to Orleans Cathedral many years ago and there was a wedding taking place (French cathedrals don't seem to mind people visiting during weddings and other events). The bridegroom was a well known local rugby player and after the wedding there was a guard of honour by the rugby team - big burly men in their rugby kit - outside the cathedral! Just occasionally at Evensong at Peterborough Cathedral the choir will consist of just the Lay Clerks (no junior choir) and they will sing plain song. I could listen for hours.
TDA. I love organ music as well. On Tuesday mornings, which is my volunteer day at the Peterborough Cathedral, the organ scholar practices for an hour. I so miss hearing it at the moment.
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