Chitchat thread #24

[Nicos]

Morning n’alln’all
My daughter and granddaughter have a real fairy tree in the lane next to their farmhouse. It’s basically a tree with a hollow split at its base.
It’s decorated with bunting, shells, decorated stones , sea glass, pretty leaves….They walk past it most days, and over the past couple of weeks some of their neighbours have added to it! Isn’t that sweet?
I bought some bamboo picinic spoons yesterday so we can decorate them ( when she’s over this summer) as fairies so she can leave them there! ( that of course is IF the real fairies in there are happy with intruders)

More weeding today. I’m clearing them from the gravel in front of the front doors and all the pots at the front.

Enjoy your day peeps- and fingers crossed my fellow insomniacs finally get some sleep!

[greenishfing]

Morning
It's not that warm is it. Also showery

No, it is not that warm and it is raining. I am snuggled inside one of Mr GF's oversized fleeces.

The postman has just been and delivered something that I had ordered as part of my sister's birthday present.

I have already done a few duolingo lessons. Sometimes I seem to be able to zap through them and it tells me that I have got 100 or even more exercises in a row correct. Other times I can't seem to get one right without multiple attempts. No rhyme, reason or logic to it.

My sister was very happy with the books that I took her yesterday. We have very similar tastes in authors. She was very sad that she is working this weekend.

Depending on the weather, and whether I think the field it is held in will be waterlogged, I would like to go to a car boot sale tomorow morning. It is a rescheduling of one that was cancelled due to rain a few weeks ago. The swelling on my knee has now gone down and the bruise has faded to a fetching shade of yellow/green.

[Nicos]

Glad to hear your knee is improving GF… sounds like you’ll be up for a bit more of a wander around the car boot sale!
Its our village one tomorrow - a very small event but it looks like the weather won’t be kind for the stallholders.
The last time we had a stall there the heavens opened…what a mess trying to cover everything up and pack away. I think, all day, we got about 30€
Not really up for a wander yet…especially after the gite preparations. Pah.
Well done with you Italian!…might the difference be due to lack of sleep?

[Nicos]

I was just thinking….its the D-Day ‘celebrations/memorial’ today…..it’s really windy and gusty here- I hope it’s not this bad near the coast or the parachutists will be cancelled.

[Jay22]

Afternoon all, gosh it feels like winter today!
I saw the reports on TV this morning Nicos on the D-Day celebrations, weather doesn’t look too good at all. Such a shame.
Glad to hear your knee is getting better GF, enjoy the car boot sale if you decide to go. Not something you see here anymore.
Enjoy your day folks, whatever you’re doing! x

[greenishfing]

Good morning.

I can hear the pre-dawn chorus already. I have tried several times to drop to sleep. All were unsuccessful. I have now given up, wandered into the kitchen and made a coffee and brought it back to bed. If I'm still awake shortly before 6 am, I'll get up and go to a car boot sale. I don't know why sleep has been so elusive tonight. I've not even been yawning. I've tried reading and watching a boring programme on TV. To no avail. I 'm not hungry, thirsty, too hot or too cold, just wide awake. It will be daybreak soon.

I hope nobody else is sharing my insomnia. It is so annoying.

I'll be back later.

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Joining you in the crocked knee group, GF. Not last night but the night before I tripped over a piece of wood somewhere it shouldn't have been. My fault for not seeing it, but I was really lucky it was just my knee and not my head. I'm walking OK, just about, but it's a big bruised lump at the moment. Jack's long walks are curtailed as well, which is doing neither of us any good.

Off out to do a bit of watering now. Catch you later.

Have a great day, everyone.

Edited to add: Hope you get a better night's sleep tonight, GF.