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Dear Lady Ann

Hello

For you <3

Take gentle care
Love EOS
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Good afternoon Eilabeth I hope that you are having a good weekend.

Mandy the flowers had all gone, it was not brown a sort of silvery mauve but the flowers were finished and there were no bees around it atall, and have not been for several days. It was an early one to flower. The four small ones out there I have not done yet. I just couldn't bend down (they are quite low) after doing the big one.''I have just had a go at some of the weeds growing between the paving slabs. It seems that, when it rains it encourages the weeds to grow all over the patios and front drive I have a strong (it says) weed killer but it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. I will have to see what other people use with good results.

Dear All

Hello

For Lady Mel <3

For Lady Vera <3

May your afternoon be a contented one.

Take gentle care
Love EOS
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Afternoon all ,

Cloudy but the suns trying its hardest to shine and its quite warm out , family came this morning and went home with the cakes and four cucumbers.

Mel I hope you have a day of Happy Anniversary memories <3

Anng its a shame when the Lavender has to be cut as the bees love it but when it starts to go brown it has to go, I trimmed my small Lavender in the pot and its surprising how quickly its turned really green again so might get a few more flowers .
Glad you had a better night sleep last night .
You asked if I'd made those scones before with the date and walnuts no I just thought I would replace the fruit with date and walnut and hope for the best .

Vera I hope your feeling better ,your probably still tired from your weekend with the family it can be very tiring just chatting with people ,try and have a restful weekend .

Ann hope the plastering is drying out OK, you did a very good deed saving Mr bumble ,I've tried with some that have come in but sometimes it's just to late they just get worn out bumping against the window trying to get out ,I use to try and get them in an old fishing net that the children use to try and catch butterflies in but never did as they were to quick for them .

Just spent an hour trimming off all the dead 'flowers' of the large lavender out the front. Looks neater now but sad to see the end of the lavender. My garden bin smells lovely!!

I have to remember that I have a Tesco delivery this afternoon (4-5) If I am out in the garden I do tend to forget the time.

BIL came and has gone but he did empty the trailer for me. He came to change the oil on the mowers but after loking at the older one he decided to do it at the end of the season. He also got a punture in the new one. He will drive over branches I had cut off and Iv'e told him not to and the other day I had cut down a lot of sloe branches out the front. He went off with a nice freshly cut cuecumber.

Picked more toms today and cut some of the bottom leaves off the cue and the toms.

Morning girls, Cloudy but bright this morning and its not raining so thats good and its 18 degrees and pc says mostly sunny.

Thank you for thinking of me today its still going to be hard. I was awake till after three last night then I must have dropped off.

Not sure if BIL will turn up or not as you can never tell with him he'll say he's comimng just to keep my quiet I think.

Hope you feel better soon Vera its not nice being under the weather. Be careful cooking the roast too.

Good morning all. 13 degrees and sunny so maybe it is going to be a nice day, hopefully not too hot.

Thinking of you Mel, I do think that each year these 'days' do get easier to get through. I know that you will be sittinggoing through your memories when on your own, hopefully having BiL there will help.

I slept well last night so feel better today. Hopefully I can get a bit done in the garden, my problem is the aching legs and unstable ankly (which I do have strapped). I am hoping that, when I have the week at son's it will help the aches to ease. Unfortunately as most of that week, when not going out with son and DiL I am just sitting as there is nothing much to do there. I am happy reading but it doesn't help stiff legs.

Pleased that you feel a bit better Vera, but take it easy, don't overdo it.

Good morning all

Thinking of you today Mel. Remember the happy times <3.

I am still not feeling well but I am better than I was yesterday so onwards and upwards. I hope you all slept well and are OK this morning.

At the moment it’s cool and cloudy but there is no rain forecast for today so I am going to try and raise the energy to spend at least a short while in the garden. I’m also going to have our Sunday roast dinner today so I’ve got a chicken and veg to cook. Otherwise I have no plans.

Came in from the garden at 7.33pm has been out over an hour. It was so windy here today I had to put a oat on. I have cut down some of the brimbles and ivy off the potting sheds and taken most of a sycamore tree out on the end of the big old workshop out the front. Loaded the trailer and brought that down and parked it out the back by the chickens as I did'nt want to leave it out the front. Then I put the mower back in the garage and came in. I'm tired now and not very hungry so may just have a nice boiled egg or a poached one on toast, less hassle.

So sorry you are feeling unwell Vera and I do hope you get a better nights sleep tonight and you did'nt get that migraine. Is the library still in the old corn exchange in Sudbury? I think thats where it was when I lived in Suffolk.

Right feed myself or I shall have no energy for tomorrow. I think BIL is coming again tomorrow so will see if I can get him to help clear a bit more.

Evening All,

Slept well last night and got everything sorted for the plasterer this morning then Ben the painter rang me to say the plasterer wouldn't be here till lunchtime as he still hadn't finished the job he was doing. OH went out and put the washing out and 20 minutes later the heavens opened! :-S. We decided to have a snack at lunchtime and have the tray bake later. Joe was still a bit later still but Ben the painter let me know and said he would still get the work finished today. The plasterer brought a long, wide roll of plastic with him and covered everything, even the walls in the ensuite so no plaster would get on them. He didn't need to board the ceiling after all and has made a really neat job, better than I expected and very little mess which he cleaned up. Now it has to dry out.

We both did a bit of weeding and some paperwork and I cleaned the back door which the window cleaner had left with dirty runs and drips from his cloth.

This morning when I went in the conservatory a poor Bumble Bee was slowly and weakly trying to climb up the window from the sill. I tried to move him away from the window to scoop him into something and he just lay still for ages, I think after a night in the conservatory he was weak and dehydrated as it was hot in there. I went and got an small old mustard spoon and dropped some grains of sugar in it with some water and took it to him. He slowly turned away from the spoon, then just stayed still so I dripped some of the mixture on the shelf so his front legs were in it. After a few minutes out came his tongue and he drank it and then slowly moved to the spoon and started drinking the rest. Then he just stopped and stayed still again for ages while we watched and we thought he was a gonner. After about a quarter of an hour he started cleaning his sugary legs, so OH fetched a glass and beer mat and scooped him in and took him outside to put on a flower. He didn't get chance as he flew out of the glass and over the fence at speed. My good deed for the day.

Sorry you haven't slept so well and not felt well AnnG and Vera and hope you are both feeling much better now nd will have a good sleep tonight.

Yes didn't some of them get a good fit with the dresses Mandy. I liked several of them too including the garment of the week and agree some need to speed up a bit. That's good Colin got his aids sorted. Yes, the dust is so fine and settles everywhere and reappears after damp dusting. I keep thinking there are bits of grit in the bed as well!

What a shame the broody hen managed to break two eggs Mel. I hope she doesn't break any more. I thought when you said BIL had got the mower out for you, you were going to do some mowing. I expect BIL will be glad those branches won't be hitting his head now and you have cleared them out of the way ready to be burned.

I'm off to bed soon to watch some TV.

Sorry to hear you didn't feel too good overnight AnnG. Losing sleep and feeling poorly does drag you down. I hope you get a better night tonight.

I had a bad night too and am having a "not feeling well" day. All I want to do is lie on top of the bed propped up with pillows. I can't even be bothered to read. I did make myself go into town with OH and picked up the stuff from the pharmacy that the nurse practitioner ordered for me yesterday.. Walking from there to the library the heavens opened and we were drenched. I did have an umbrella but not a coat so my head and shoulders were covered but the lower part of my cardi and my trousers got soaked. I stood in a queue at the library dripping water everywhere and then the weird shapes and lines and colours in my vision started - an ocular migraine; just what I needed. I would have fainted if I'd just stood there so I left , put my dark glasses on and looked very stupid walking through the rain back to the car which was in Roys but right next to Waitrose. I decided I would manage to go in and get some fish from Waitrose while it was 20% off. OH made me push a trolley for support even though a basket would have been fine. By then we'd both had enough so abandoned the rest of our plans and came home.

AnnG, it's good to see the book thread moving a bit again. I'm not going to look at the screen anymore tonight but will add my tuppence worth to the thread tomorrow.

Before lunch I pottered out in the garden for half an hour dead heading and cutting more ivy down and a few low branches on the buddleija.

Vera, quite busy on the book thread today.

Been cutting down the lower tree branches that get BIL on the head when he's mowing. and cut down the weeds along the edge of the sunflower garage. BIL got the mower out for me and the trailer and I drove the mower and he picked up all the branches and stuff I had cut off and stood on the trailer bar while I drove round to where I have a bonfire outside the wall. That was a good job done this morning before he left. He's coming tomorrow too or so he said.

I am now going to have a quick bite and then go and clean the nest box out as the broody has broken two eggs in there today. I was going to do it when I fed them but BIL came down so it did'nt get done.

Mandy the scones would be nice with walnuts and cheese I may have a go at those myself. Did you know that walnuts will digest anything. Thats why in olden days they had walnuts after a meal. I used to loved smoked Mackeral but they gave me indigestion but now having walnuts after eating the fish I am ok.

Don't feel too bad considering so I must have rested enough even if not sleeping. Strangely my leg is not too bad today but my ankle is playing up again, it all takes turns. Anyway I 'limped' slowly down to Irene to take a couple of books back and get my monthly quota of six. Do you know how heavt six books are to carry?

envied you the crumble Mel and Tony would have been your friend for ever, he loved plums. This time of year we used to visit the country Park at Evesham and round the outskirts were wooded areas with old plum trees that we used to pick plums from.

Mandy, as you said not like you to run out of milk. Walnut and date scones sound rather nice, very unusual have you made them before?

All I have done so far besides the walk to Irene's is to print off the bank details so that I can balance the monthly accounts and to update the shopping list for Tesco tomorrow. A bigger shop this week as I want some stuff in hand for when I return from son's.

Morning,

Raining here and earlier it just tipped out of the sky ,oh well its good for the garden,
We were hoping to walk the cakes over to the school as son is working then son could take them home today but they will have to wait until tomorrow as they are coming for coffee.
I can't make the scones as we haven't got a lot of milk when I went to the shops the other day they didn't have the one I wanted and then I forgot to get some somewhere else .

Sorry you had a bad night with not much sleep Anng have an easy day today and hopefully you'll get a better night tonight .

Oh Mel did you do the Tinker,Taylor, Soldier, Sailor with the plum stones :-) always did that at home when we had stewed plums , as soon as I read about the stones I thought of it .

Vera sorry no scones instead of the fruit I was going to do date and walnut for a change ,but not enough milk ,not like me to run out.
Thats a good idea putting the doughnuts in the freezer as they soon go stale I shall have to remember that

Ann Hope the plaster has turned up and is beavering away ,soon be finished so you can get back to normal.

Just gave the upstairs bathroom a clean and did the ironing and I think Colin has just put the kettle on , oh yes here comes my coffee .

Morning girls a pinch and a punch and all that.

Mostly grey and white clouds here this morning with a little blue here and there and its 16 degrees pc says partly sunny.

Sorry you had a bad night Anng its not like you to not get enough sleep. I hope you feel better now your up and about. Take it easy today and let the day go by without much help from you.

Mandy sorry no crumble left we had half each as it was only a small one I think it had 10 plums in it and Stu had the most stones.

Not sure if BIL is coming today but the grass dos'nt really need cutting so he may give it a miss.

Tomorrow will or would have been our 28th anniverary so a sad day for me and also it would have been my ads birthday. :-(

Good morning all 13 degrees light cloud, no rain.

I had a really bad night last night, hardly slept at all, no reason at first but the longer I laid there because I was so tired I felt queasy. Can't see much being done today, luckily nothing planned. I hate those nights and have not had one for ages. Got up at seven ish in the end because I was feeling worse laying there.

I'll have a fruit scone please Mandy. You are so good to do all this cooking for your family. I bet they all love your cakes. You are doing really well with your cues this year and it sounds as though your tomatoes are coming along nicely too.

Your bathroom is dragging on a bit Annx but there must be a lot of waiting for bits to settle or dry before the next bit can be done. It sounds as though you are on the last leg now but you might find it's a week or two before the dust finally stops settling.

Although we were on a yellow warning for thunderstorms all we have had was a very heavy downpour about 10 am when they rain just fell down in sheets. The rest of the day has been dry. It would have been a good afternoon for gardening for with one thing and another I didn't get out there.

At one minute to 8 am I dialled the doc's number and the lines weren't yet open. I redialled immediately and was 49 in the queue! To be fair the receptionists were getting through the queue quickly and I only had to wait about 15 minutes for my turn. I was offered an appointment with the advanced nurse practitioner for 11 am at our local surgery which suited me fine. I only needed a prescription which she could write. In fact she was very thorough and cleared up another query for me as well.

This meant we didn't get to our coffee meet till 11.45 and I had to do a bit of shopping after that so it was a very late lunch. I then had a hassle sorting out a Tesco order (I won't bore you with the problems there). I seem to have been chasing my tail all day. Now mentioning lunch I've remembered I bought a pack of 5 doughnuts and we had 1 each at lunchtime. I meant to put the other 3 straight in the freezer and forgot. I'd better go and do that now as they can go stale quite quickly, so I'll say goodnight, sleep well and sweet dreams.

Oh the Holly was tall then Ann sounds like a good job done .
Yes thank you Colin's aids are working again ,the lady took them and put new tubes and buds on them ,we had taken them in and they had put new buds on and we're wondering if the tubes were nipped when that was done as he's had trouble with them since then but all good now.
I think they are all good on the sewing bee but some need to speed up a bit ,I thought this weeks made to measure was a good one some of the dresses were lovely .
That's good the plasterer is coming a bit later gives you time to get up and get with it and hopefully you'll soon be all back to normal and be able to get your bedding changed ,I now have a vision of you getting into bed and a cloud of dust goes up lol

Oh swap you a cheese scone for some crumble and cream Mel :-D