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Dormouse

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  1. Lol, my kitchen windowcill looks like the jungle with tomato and chilli plants and a Lidl strawberry plant enjoying the sun.

    sooo cold outside, 6c early mornings, and a nasty cold breeze.  

    Oak trees are out in leaf before the ash this year.

    remember the old saying?   

    Still hoping for a good hot summer.

    ive lost all my tender plants this winter, they have survived our usually mild winters but not this last one.  Even mature palms have “spear pulled” now so will be in the bin shortly.   Even things put in the shed died.  Oh well,  back to growing hardy stuff from now on!

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  2. Burst water main up the road from me, only a single lane with passing places in and out of our tiny village, which is a dead end.

    they came to mend it, 3 huge deep holes in the road gushing water, but decided it would have to be road closed for 12 hours so have gone away to rethink the problem.

    theres no other way in to the village.

    should be interesting!

    the potholes that have opened up around here is really bad.

  3. As a diversion I’ve been reading about winter 1947, very interesting, I was 3 then and remember struggling through snow with my mum in Horley.

    what a winter that was, a good read.

    going to read about 1963 now, I remember that one well.  Living in South Brent  and snowed in for a long time.

    no supermarkets that I remember anyway, and no freezer for food storage.  No heating, only a Rayburn in the kitchen.   Dad made a sledge to go a mile to the village to get food!   That was after he dug out the 6 foot drift in the lane.

    well, he was brought up in Montreal!

    its solid ice outside now, the road is shiny, no gritters seen here!

    just very windy but dry.

     

     

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