Weather has been really good here the last few days. Yesterday, around midday, it was actually warm in the sunshine! I cracked on with my raised beds, filling the last one (well, the current last one!) with soil, and planted some seeds in some of the beds. Spring onions, beetroot, spinach and carrot...

Oh, I had a lovely walk in the sunshine this morning! It was cool, but not very cold. Loads of primroses out and some violets. Loads of birds singing. really did me good!

What Sumption says is totally irresponsible,pointing out the advice given is not law so by the look of it folks we can all go wherever we want to and wave two fingers at the police. Well maybe not actually wave as that might get you into trouble! They swiftly enacted legislation here, so that the r...

Thank you Tim!! Nearly had a meltdown yesterday afternoon, when I couldn't get on the forum at all, until I realised you must be working on it! Lovely bright sunny morning here! Cold though. Is anyone else finding themselves craving things that they don't have on hand? This morning, I would have jus...

We have 2 food stores here; one tiny Tesco with a little post office counter and a medium-sized Coop. Which is now supplying most of the food to the 6000 or so people who live here. It was broken into last night rammed by a gang with a white van trying to get the cash dispenser out from inside the ...

I get to hear my brother doing "live gigs" on FB live several times a week now. He's a musician in Singapore, and with all the venues closed at the moment, he has time on his hands (and no income!) so he's broadcasting gigs, just to contribute to keeping spirits up. Good to hear him. :) If anyone wa...

Ha, how typical! I didn't get it that time!

I assume this is the message everyone is seeing? [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions_messenger.php on line 506: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 1836: Cannot mo...

I've been getting that error message too, regularly. Yet when I go back to the thread I was posting on, the post is there.

Is it the isolation? (although, in fairness, I'm not as isolated as many, as I will still be working, and still going to take care of mum) Is it just me? Or is anyone else getting the idea that they are getting sick, even though they have zero symptoms? I find myself swallowing more often, just to s...