Breaking Through, Travelling On

Morning!

Well, some washing is out on the line already - and I really doubt it will get any drier out there. The sky is blue and beautiful, but its *so* cold! Might do a little bit out there, just to get some of the grass out of the border, but it'll need to be fast :eek:

One thing this weather does confirm - I did not have, nor have I ever had, post-shingles pain. I had a really low level infection in a tooth for years, which masqueraded as post-shingles. After that extraction earlier this year, the shingles thingy has never recurred :j:j:j

Right. Something fun. Now, please





ETA - oh, thinking of slightly less-fun things, yesterday I dared to look at the gloryhole next to the back door _pale_ and found two things that should never have been there for these 5 years a load of shells that my sister gave me to use as landscaping plus some arty resin blocks ditto for the landscaping, and a supermarket bag practically full of broken eggshells to use on top of garden mulch . Bigger shells and all the resin blocks now distributed into a panel of the landscaping, and eggshells scattered hither and yon, whether to discourage slugs and snails or generally improve the mineral content of the soil, I don't care :rotfl::rotfl: Am very pleased to have done it, and it took me all of five minutes :cool:

greent wrote: »

Hi KC - just caught up on the past 10(?) days - one of the best things about my occasional AWOLs is reading a batch of posts in one go, where you can really feel the mood of the thread (not always obvious when reading a couple of posts at a time) - the positivity (is that a word?!) emanating from here is immense! - love it!

Thank you :j that's really nice! Thing is, I know I'm not permanently lurgified by CFS, I'll regain my health completely once I retire, my retirement is in spitting distance, it won't be smooth sailing but I have *tons* of options, most of which are extremely attractive to me and even now, I'm much healthier than I was earlier this year :j:j:j

Am also impressed by what you're achieving in the garden - I could do with spending some time in mine but it's so cooooold out there! (yep, I am a wuss! )


xx

I do a max of 45 minutes at a time out there, its taking ages - I'm a wuss right alongside you :rotfl: plus I have to take frequent breaks so that worms and woodlice can ooze off out of reach of my trowel, I hate accidentally harming them, so I make double sure I safeguard any that I see

Though I have to tell you that nearly all the fencing down each side of the garden is completely out of reach to me, because of overgrown hedging plants or rooted brambles :eek::eek::eek: my garden isn't exactly in tip top condition

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Sounds like a nice day in the warm, KC:coffee:. I had to go out first thing this morning and there had been a very hard frost. Took ages to scrape the car windscreens:(. Being MSE (and ecologically aware;)) we don't use chemical de-icer spray but I wish I'd had some this morning for convenience and speed.

I can well understand that, CBC - I'd hate to have to go out so early in such cold weather. Since I never planned my current career and just sort of fell into it, I consider myself very lucky in my travel situation.

I used to collect 'interesting' stones and small pieces of rock wherever I went on my travels when younger. Maybe I was weird but they always fascinated me. I just brought the odd few small ones from each trip (pre baggage-search days so didn't get any funny reaction at check-in). Found some lovely ones in the Alps, Pyrenees and Scandinavia. Never did anything with them, they've just languished for decades unseen and unloved:(. There's a sack of them in the shed which I nearly broke my toe on when I accidentally kicked it last year:eek:. My biggest regret was not marking them/putting some sort of sticker on them at the time to remind me of which wonderful trip I found them on.

Might follow your example and put them on the garden somewhere:j

I wish I knew where mine came from too! There are some red skimmers that I've picked up from Norfolk in the past few years, but thats all I can remember If I'd thought to write in indelible ink, or even paint, I'd have marked mine too I strongly advise you to get yours out onto the garden - at least you'd see them! And its a bit less in storage - that glory hole by the back door looks a lot better already :j