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| This was a photo taken on the 3rd May last year. I can tell you this year everything is very much behind this. By at least a fortnight I reckon. |
There will be a couple more postings on Tredegar House, but the new Google layout is driving me nuts. Leave the curser in the wrong place and you get a photo where you didn't want it and you have to start over . . .And can I get line space in between photos? No . . . Anyone else struggling or am I just a dimwit? It really takes away half the pleasure of blogging, if I am honest.
I don't know what the weather is like for my friends across the Pond, but here it feels like we have returned to winter with a vengeance. Heavy rain and gale force winds which from the North-East which feel like they have come straight from Siberia (which I dare say is the case).
I had to retrieve one of our dustbins from where it was jammed up against one of the cold frames, and the lid yards away. My little plastic greenhouse has amazingly stayed put, but it is tied down - last autumn the top was ripped off it so this year I have tied the securing cords through the ripped holes and straight onto the frame.
I have just discovered a new Google blogger problem - I cannot move text from beneath a photo and replace it above. So now you have a photo of our newly-restored rocking chair where it wasn't intended to be!!! My clever husband has removed every speck of the white emulsion paint with which this was covered, stablilized the loose front legs and treated the few worm holes . . .
So, here we are back in winter. Once again we are low on heating oil so can't use the central heating, only now we are almost out of wood too, so are contemplating which of two dead - and large - Willow trees to fell to keep us going. I think I will put my money on the one in the paddock which, although smaller, is MUCH nearer the house!
Soups and stews are back in favour, and I have a real hankering for Pineapple Upside Down Cake - winter comfort food!
Your OH has done a good job on the rocking chair! What a lovely, rich coloured wood.
ReplyDeleteThe weather here is much like yours. Thankfully a bit drier this morning, but yesterday was one of wind, rain and flood from beginning to end. You must breathe a sigh of relief that you don`t have to go out to the horses any more ( much as you may miss them as individuals).
The chair is beautiful! Sounds like our weather here in Texas is just the opposite! We have missed spring altogether and gone straight into summer. It is supposed to be 91F today and no rain in sight-our grass is either dead or struggling since we're not allowed to water except for 2 hours one day a week! (The weeds, however are blooming and doing fine.)
ReplyDeleteJan - hmmm. Sun would be nice but I would be like a limp dishrag in 91 deg. F!! Weeds were born survivors : )
ReplyDeleteDW - He's a clever lad with anything made of wood, but I don't trust him in the garden! I think your weather was possibly worse as we have no flooding here.
When you are writing your blog posts and want to get line space in between photos, or move text, this is how I get round it. Click on the HTML tab at the top left.
ReplyDeleteYou can insert a line break between the code for each photo, or cut and paste text you want to move. Then click on Compose again to check all is as you want it.
Hope this is helpful.
Love your rocking chair!
Here is a little trick I learned. Go to your blogger overview page. See the little wheely thing over on the far right? Click it, and you'll see some options, one of which is 'old blogger interface' -I don't know if it will always be there but for now it still is.
ReplyDeleteKeith has done a great job on that rocking chair, it looks beautiful. I shall keep a note of Kathy's advice about text as I was having the same problem.
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