Rainy day amusements

[chillithyme]

Apart from imagining that I have a huge garden split into two, one with a massive greenhouse and numerous veg beds fenced off (but still easily accessible, with underground irrigation), and the other half for leisure all the year round, I ended up baking banana bread when it rained, as I was stuck indoors and there were a lot of bananas sat in the fruit bowl. Oh and also looking at all the cute dog and cat photos on this thread

[veggiechicken]

Whilst the dogs are sleeping, I search the cheap online book sites for gardening books and test myself on whether I already have them or not, by roaming around the house looking for the books. This usually leads to spotting a book that I don't remember buying and reading it.
At the moment, its "How to grow food in wartime" by Doreen Wallace. Its supposed to be a friendly guide to novice gardeners who have just moved to the country to escape the bombing and need to obey orders to grow food.
The 2 novices, Mr and Mrs B, are advised by their busybody but knowledgeable neighbour "the Weatherbeaten Lady" or WL.
I reached the point where they have decided that keeping a pig is not for them!!

[nickdub]

Whilst the dogs are sleeping, I search the cheap online book sites for gardening books and test myself on whether I already have them or not, by roaming around the house looking for the books. This usually leads to spotting a book that I don't remember buying and reading it.
At the moment, its "How to grow food in wartime" by Doreen Wallace. Its supposed to be a friendly guide to novice gardeners who have just moved to the country to escape the bombing and need to obey orders to grow food.
The 2 novices, Mr and Mrs B, are advised by their busybody but knowledgeable neighbour "the Weatherbeaten Lady" or WL.
I reached the point where they have decided that keeping a pig is not for them!!

The Good Life commissioned by the War Ag Ministry eh ? :-)

[SarrissUK]

My rainy day indulgment is to look for property abroad too, not in Spain, but in Sweden! Look at these beauties

https://www.husmanhagberg.se/alla-bi...890_1711173366
This one is about 85K.

https://www.fastighetsbyran.com/sv/s...jektID=1962817
This one is about 40k, house is 98 m², garden is 2 136 m².

[SarrissUK]

.... and on days like today, I leave work a bit early to beat the traffic, heading to the farm shop for more cardboard. The rain starts absolutely pouring down, heavens opened. Well... I figured I might as well get out in the rain and tell the ladies in the shop that I'm there for the cardboard (they don't usually work on weekends when I show up) and I still heard their laughter as I was heading back out into the rain to throw soaked through cardboard into my van. In fact, I heard them outside too LOL

[nickdub]

never hurts to cheer up other people by acting like an idiot - that's my excuse anyway, and I'm sticking to it. :-)

[nickdub]

While here's one of my "castles in Spain" research picks - in this case an old stone house in Central Portugal


Construction Area: 250m2

Land Area: 3.680m2

for under £70,000

- no harm in dreaming :-)

https://www.green-acres.pt/en/proper...6913-tz257.htm