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Ferijen
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At my friend's son's funeral, we were told to bring balloons. Beautiful medieval church, the one my dad had been vicar at as a child (and, 10 years+ since we'd moved away, and my first visit back as an adult, I was still feeling 'vicar's daughter' ish...). Anyway, guess who let go of her large character balloon, which stayed in the rafters for many weeks...?
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I hope the ballons weren't released outside: balloons released into the air are a major hazard for wildlife, killing hundreds of birds and other creatures every year. Those that get into a river and end up at sea cause deaths among fish, turtles and other marine animals.
True, there isn't the fire risk you get with Chinese lanterns but balloons aren't a 'safe' option either.
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Gee D
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Having discovered the joys of having A/C in the Pigletmobile, the thought of being as far south as WW without it fills me with horror!
Talking of heatwaves, it's 11°C here today! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Time to break out the sandals methinks ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
11 degrees and still 6 weeks until your Midsummer Day! It might even reach 15 by then. Start buying ice now.
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Celtic Knotweed
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We'd totally forgotten about Ascension Day, and had been going to go to ringing practice as normal. So we drove to the polling station en-route, then whilst queuing up for ballot papers Sandemaniac got a call from the tower captain to apologise and cancel practice as he'd forgotten as well! So we had an evening off with chip supper instead.
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Sandemaniac
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...and got some light gardening done too. It's slowly becoming our garden (though several tons of concrete will have to go for that to be fully realised).
BTW, it wasn't me knocked off my bike at Sanebunny's roundabout this morning. JTYSK.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Gee D:
... 6 weeks until your Midsummer Day! It might even reach 15 by then ...
According to the forecast, it's going to reach that today.
Sandals at the ready* ...
* or maybe not - it's also supposed to p*ss with rain.
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Ariel
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Oh frack.
"The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for hail, lightning and rain across Oxfordshire tomorrow."
If it's just Oxfordshire, I might nip across the border, and laugh from the other side of the dividing line as I bask in the warm sunlight of an adjoining county.
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LeRoc
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I'd forgotten it was Ascension Day too.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I'd forgotten it was Ascension Day too.
Son and his bride, honeymooning in France, went into a small local church near Mont St Michel. To their surprise it was absolutely packed with an Ascension Day service. They stayed for Mass, not a familiar service to them, but they loved it.
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Piglet
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We're just back from researching another new restaurant, EVOO (as in extra-virgin olive oil) with the help of a couple of friends and it was very nearly unfaultable. D. had v. good minestrone and I had equally good bruschetta to start with, and then he had lamb shank osso buco and I had a really delectable oxtail-and-mushroom risotto. Our friends had margherita pizza and the EVOO burger, both of which were pronounced very good.
Definitely one to go back to (and fairly non-eye-watering prices - my risotto was only $19). ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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M.
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Ariel, I think I heard that your Met Office warning was a mistake - a test that accidently went live.
Did the weather bear out the warning?
M.
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Welease Woderwick
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BIG thunderstorm during the night, some of it right overhead but thankfully Himself had already turned off the mains power and we were running on the back up so no damage done.
Then the rain came! I was lying in bed thinking about heading up on to the roof for a bit of a soak but I couldn't get myself off the bed but I could hear that it was absolutely torrential.
Brilliant!
MiL will probably have been cowering under the bed as, despite having grown up here, she is terrified by storms.
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Humid here, and was yesterday but in essence Cumbria is looking stunning. Blossoms, limey green leaves on the trees, life life life. I have had a couple of boat trips - one on Windermere and one of Ullswater. I'm seeing people slowly return to flooded homes. The land is healing.
In the meanwhile, Duncan the Polo has lost his steering. Great to go in a straight line, otherwise not much use. It makes driving kind of interesting. So I've been looking at other cars. Jelly the car didn't make the grade, Poppy is still a contendor but the more expensive Taylor is coming up fast and furious and I think Taylor willl win. Going for another test drive today.
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LeRoc
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Rain here in Africa also today, although unfortunately not in a place where they really need it.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Oh frack.
"The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for hail, lightning and rain across Oxfordshire tomorrow."
If it's just Oxfordshire, I might nip across the border, and laugh from the other side of the dividing line as I bask in the warm sunlight of an adjoining county.
We had an overnight snow warning. I think M. must be right about it being issued in error as the television forecast showed 7 degrees on the map.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by M.:
Ariel, I think I heard that your Met Office warning was a mistake - a test that accidently went live.
Did the weather bear out the warning?
Well, the BBC is saying there's a weather warning out for isolated thunderstorms, lightning, hail etc this afternoon and evening. But who knows.
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It was a beautiful, spring-ish day here today. Still not enormously warm (13°C), but warm enough for socks to be discarded.
Death seems to have featured rather a lot today: we were at the funeral of a retired organ-builder this afternoon and his son (who's the organist of the church where the funeral was held) had asked D. to play for it. When I came home I logged on to Facebook and discovered that one of my former classmates had died last week, and another had just lost her husband.
It sort of makes you feel old (and reminds you of your own mortality) when you hear of people your own age dying; at least the organ-builder was just a few weeks off his 90th birthday, so he'd had a Good Innings, as they say.
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In Oxfordshire we had a brief thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Two claps of thunder sent the cats scuttling behind the couch. Today is lovely, however - at least so far.
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Lothlorien
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Son and DIL, honeymooning in France, seem to be having wonderful weather for a holiday, .certainly better than weather here. Currently in Nantes.
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Welease Woderwick
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I've had an annoying cough for a while and was passing the Dr's surgery the other evening and he was there so I popped in and cheered him up a bit - I feel fine, just got this annoying intermittent cough - and he was delighted that someone came to see him who actually felt ok!
Last time I went to see him, 2 years or so ago, I complained about the foul tasting "Strawberry Flavoured" cough mixture he gave me but the one he gave me this time is actually quite pleasant, or after a lifetime of chest infections I am inured to the stuff! Not unexpectedly after the medicine I am actually coughing a little more, but hopefully not for long.
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Mr Clingford
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As it hasn't been this warm (22) for over 6 months it doesn't feel like Britain. It is lovely but feels very odd.
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Ariel
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It's been a lovely balmy 75° this weekend with cloudless blue skies, strong hot sunlight, and the chance to finally dig out the light summer clothes from the bottom of the wardrobe, scorch my fingers on the car steering wheel and enjoy the breeze through the windows. Fantastic. More please. If it doesn't last, at least we've had a weekend of summer.
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Boogie
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I brought the hot sun back with me from Majorca - yay!!
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Well done, Boogie. Much appreciated. I visited the garden center and bought tomato, courgette and aubergine plants, also beans to plant, and bedding plants. Filling pots is hard work, but worth it. Sitting in the garden is even better.
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Spike
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Originally posted by Celtic Knotweed:
We'd totally forgotten about Ascension Day, and had been going to go to ringing practice as normal. So we drove to the polling station en-route, then whilst queuing up for ballot papers Sandemaniac got a call from the tower captain to apologise and cancel practice as he'd forgotten as well! So we had an evening off with chip supper instead.
Why weren't you ringing for the the service?
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Sandemaniac
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Our tower is silent for Ascension Day. Don't ask me why, 'cos I don't know.
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Piglet
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It reached a muggy 20° here today (breaking the record high for 8th May by more than a degree).
I don't think it's expected to last, but the snowflakes on the weather map do seem to be getting fewer and further in between ...
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It's cooled a bit today. Yesterday was just a bit too hot as it hit 26 degrees. 23 is fine and dandy, thank you very much; anything in excess of that is unnecessarily sweaty.
That said, I had been cooled by the wind of top of the south downs on Saturday and deceived by the hazy sunshine, resulting in my arms, neck and head being a distinctly different colour from that which typifies my legs and torso. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Thinking this weekend I may have to abandon my walking and do a spot of gardening as the weeds are varying in height between waist and head high.
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It's an absolutely glorious day here today - currently 18°C - although set to cool off a bit the rest of the week.
Sadly, the chillers in our building aren't normally turned on until the May long weekend (weekend nearest 24th May), so it's a tad tropical - my office thermostat is saying 24°, which really is too hot for this northerly little piglet.
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We’ve had glorious sunshine the last few days, although it’s clouded over now.
We spent our Saturday on the apartment dweller’s version of gardening – going to buy window boxes and plants to go in them. We now have geraniums and lavender (supposedly keeps mosquitos away) on the windows of the bedroom and living room, and edible herbs in the kitchen.
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On Sunday afternoon we went for a drive in the glorious blossomed East Anglian countryside, with a delightful short boat trip on the River Stour in Constable country. The only thing missing was a Cream Tea!
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One is always missing a cream tea, except when actually sitting in front of one.
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Luckily I like marmite, chip shop chips with salt and vinegar, and Wensleydale cheese, because if I had to prove my Englishness by eating a cream tea, I don't think I could do it.
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ArachnidinElmet
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I'll happily eat the scone, but somebody (anybody) else is welcome to my cup of tea.
Very warm here, cooled only slightly by the strong wind. Went wandering around a local sort-of-outdoor shopping piazza-style place for birthday presents for my 3-year-old twin Niblings. Came back with a couple of CDs and some dried mango. A shopping list is just a suggestion, yes?
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
We’ve had glorious sunshine the last few days, although it’s clouded over now.
We spent our Saturday on the apartment dweller’s version of gardening – going to buy window boxes and plants to go in them. We now have geraniums and lavender (supposedly keeps mosquitos away) on the windows of the bedroom and living room, and edible herbs in the kitchen.
Lavender oil is good for itchy bites and i also discovered it acts as a repellent for mosquitoes too. It was all i had with me when we stopped in an area infested with them. I rubbed it in on my arms and face and was not longer bothered.. I use the type already diluted although I can also buy the pure oil down here. Dearer and smaller bottle and the diluted oil works well.
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Welease Woderwick
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...and real lavender smells so fab! It always reminds me of my gran.
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jacobsen
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The tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes I planted all seem to have survived. A little overnight rain will have helped. But please, could the rain just keep to overnight watering?
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It hasn't. Grey skies and persistent drizzle this morning.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
...and real lavender smells so fab! It always reminds me of my gran.
My gran always used to douse herself in lavender water if we were going out anywhere. I could never tell her but the smell made me feel queasy and never helped at all in car journeys where we were in a confined space together. For years I avoided lavender, then someone brought me back a bunch from a holiday in the south of France.
I was converted. I absolutely love it now. Essential oils for sleepless nights and dried lavender to scent the room. Still haven’t found a perfume that replicates it properly without coming across as sickly, though.
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Piglet
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D's mum has a lovely lavender plant in her garden, and we always rub the flowers between finger and thumb on the way into the house.
A while back I bought a little wooden thing called an eco-cube which was supposed to grow lavender, but despite my being much more diligent in watering it than I'd usually be, it didn't thrive. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
We were at a bash last night with some of D's colleagues from the theological college (plentiful wine, not quite so plentiful food). We were talking to the Provost's wife, who's a keen gardener, about growing herbs and suchlike; when we move I'd really quite like to get some herby window-boxes going. I love the idea of going to the window and snipping off a few sprigs of rosemary to stick in a leg of lamb for roasting, bay leaves for soups and casseroles, oregano for a Greek salad or basil leaves for a tomato salad.
Not sure whether lavender would grow in Fredericton or not ...
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Welease Woderwick
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Posting from my hotel room in Calicut, presumably the word calico is derived from it somehow. Spent the day travelling, train much delayed, then meeting friends, was going for a stroll in the park but then decided if I did that I'd end up eating ice cream so I've come back; off to Kannur tomorrow to see more friends.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'd really quite like to get some herby window-boxes going. I love the idea of going to the window and snipping off a few sprigs of rosemary
You'll need a big window. Of all the herbs I've grown over the years, that is the one which I still have - in the form of a thumping great bush.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'd really quite like to get some herby window-boxes going. I love the idea of going to the window and snipping off a few sprigs of rosemary
You'll need a big window. Of all the herbs I've grown over the years, that is the one which I still have - in the form of a thumping great bush.
We have a fennel patch too. Some herbs need serious pruning.
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I'm going to try my hand at growing a few different varieties of lavender outside this summer. There are at least two that can reliably be called perennial in this zone and others that may be able to overwinter. Apparently the key is to neglect the plants and I am totally up for that challenge.
Right now, the nine plants I have purchased are living in my garage and come out to the driveway during the day. I'll plant them in another few days and hope for the best. They will be in an area where we had lots of mosquitoes last summer.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Piglet:
A while back I bought a little wooden thing called an eco-cube which was supposed to grow lavender, but despite my being much more diligent in watering it than I'd usually be, it didn't thrive.
Not to turn this into the gardening thread, but that might be why. Neither lavender and rosemary like wet conditions, hence the spiky leaves to prevent water loss in dry conditions.
Ours are getting a good watering today. It hasn't stopped raining here since midday.
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Or here. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Ariel
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Originally posted by lily pad:
I'm going to try my hand at growing a few different varieties of lavender outside this summer. There are at least two that can reliably be called perennial in this zone and others that may be able to overwinter. Apparently the key is to neglect the plants and I am totally up for that challenge.
I had seven lavender plants in my allotment, all different varieties. They were easy to grow and the bees loved them.
(So unfortunately did some evil-minded allotment thief, but if ever I get my own garden, I'll try again.)
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Boogie
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Yesterday, for the first time in all my years, I discovered a type of chocolate I do NOT like ~ sea salt, yuk!
I still feel like I can taste it ~ bleugh.
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