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Well that has really cheered me to know that you are all well and have just been busy, i was starting to think it might have been something i had said.

Dear Lizzie, i hope you soon feel a whole lot better.

Hi OH and everyone else too
I am around but more often found on the Lotus Seven Club message board.
Like others here I am a learner and at this time of the year work becomes crazy and I have little time (shame). Contrast two billable days in August with 23 billable days in September.

Meanwhile

The thought of two Liverpool lasses on the lurk is more than i can comprehend.

This makes me think of my time at The Everyman in Hope Street!

This week I are mostly bin too busy to post much, but I am please to see all my old friends are still lurking here.

House, extension now complete, the leaking shower caused us to have a 3'x4' section of stud wall refaced. Carpet for the living room is awaiting spare £ and the spring sales.

Garden, the second terrace out the back is now, hopefully, germinating grass seed after being built with concrete gravel boards and slotted concrete posts. Had to relocate the soakaway to fit the last post.

Greenhouse, unheated, but still producing a standard seed tray of tomatoes per week, thinking about what to plant once they are done, lettuce and salads perhaps?

Allotment, very poor this year, have a couple of carrier bags of spuds, two butternut, six dumpling and some carrots, plus a few sweetcorn. Only some kale for over the winter.

I must make better plans and efforts this coming year.

Hi OH, Haven't you noticed there are far fewer posts when the sun is out.

I've been out there trying to catch up with everything I should have done while my torn ligaments have been healing. Six weeks' weed growth and hedges that need a machette.

To some this may come as a great surprise but my old, and sadly now departed, friend Allan Day and myself used to reserve flat spots on the forum, like we have just experienced, to have a God awful row.
It worked several times and very soon kick-started things.
I miss Allan dreadfully, although I sometimes simply couldn't agree with him, his knowledge was vast and never unsound, out-dated maybe, but never the less very sound.
Today I have been to the Malvern Show and that has brought it all back to me.
I met Heyjude and her neighbour with the most wonderful little daughter. What a little sweetheart!
We had lunch together and again went our separate
ways. A far cry from last year with a great many people at the picnic. This year it was quality and not quantity. It was the perfect day weather-wise.
It was a very good show and wonder if that was the last one I will be able to manage. Who knows.
I shall be away for the next few days and hope that by Friday morning things will have returned to completely normal.
JB.

Well today is a whole new day, lets all try and make the most of it.

oldherbaceous wrote:Well today is a whole new day, lets all try and make the most of it.

Good morning OH,

It's back to the grey clouds here today. No rain yet though.

Good morning OH and PJ. I was going to do some digging in the allotment but when I got up this morning the weather forecasters seemed to have got it a bit wrong and it is raining so I am sneaking a rare day off. I am going to visit my sister and a friend in Bolton which is about an hour from here. They are having rain too. So enjoy your day.

It's still lovely and sunny here at the moment, with just the odd cloud interupting the gloriousness.

We had a few spots of rain earlier, but it's turned out quite pleasant now.

Stephen wrote:
Meanwhile

The thought of two Liverpool lasses on the lurk is more than i can comprehend.

This makes me think of my time at The Everyman in Hope Street!

I was up that end of town a few weeks ago for the Hope Street Festival. Love it in that area. The buildings are wonderful. The Everyman is still going strong with Pete Postlethwaite making a welcome return in a play very soon. The Bistro is still there too, and very tasty it is as well.

I've been mostly reading the posts recently, it would seem that since I received my lovely shiny new laptop, I have nothing much to say!! (apart from the odd ugly veg picture post!)

sorry, not even been lurking lately, though when I do manage to pop on I do try to post. even now typng with wiggly baby, not much time to myself.

try to pop on once in a while tough, you guys are a good laugh and fonts of knowledge.

Dear Malk, the forum feels very privileged to have your presence.

Hope the two young ones are doing well, and yourself of course.

Hi Lizzie
Good news, pleased for both the theatre and for Dave and Paddy in the Bistro