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Happy Birthday Vera <3 :-D <3

I hope you have a lovely day and are blessed with some sunshine too.

Good morning all. 9 degrees with expected 12 so quite mild but although it looks bright out there I think it will rain later as there are some heavy looking clouds around. anyway, nothing planned so see what the day brings.

Are you having a special meal or anything Vera?

<3 <3 <3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY VERA <3 <3 <3

hOPE TODAY IS A GOOD DAY. XXXX

Hope you all get a good nights sleep tonight especially Ann and G.

I was dropping of in the chair just nowso thought I better close the pc down and get ready for bed. Night night all. x

Just incase I don't get on early.............

<3 <3 <3 Happy Birthday Vera <3 <3 <3 Enjoy as much of your day as you can tomorrow. X

I do feel sorry for your OH Ann. As if suffering pain is not enough, not knowing the cause is enough to cause anybody anxiety. I can’t remember has he actually got an appointment or is he still waiting? I hope the doctor can help him. Probably too being tense through worrying may be exacerbating the pain. Hope you both have a better night tonight,

Evening All,

Awful rain and wind here too. It always seems to rain after I get my car washed. We both had another bad night as OH is suffering a lot of anxiety about what all of his pains and numbness could be. It is worrying and wearing both of us down with the lack of sleep with him getting up several times in the night as well, so I have persuaded him to see if we can get a GP appointment in the morning and see if they can give him something to calm him down till he sees a Rheumatologist.

That's a shame you have to cancel your 'do' Vera but I'm sure people will understand and I expect you will arrange it for another time. It will be good to get the problem fixed now you can get the loft boarded to the pipe.

AnnG I expect the birds will appreciate some nesting material from your brush. I must see if I need to cover that plant the Pigeon decimated for nest material last year.

I must start watching the Chapel restoration I have recorded as well as the Pottery Throwdown tonight. I loved the cottages they made.

It's eyedrop time.

Oh Vera one thing after another in an already not good time. Sending you a hug. What a shame that you have had to cancel your tea party. Hopefully you can have it on another day. I guess you will have to wait until you know when the plumber can do his bit.

It has been so dark this afternoon I have the lights on since lunch time.

Dull all day again with a little light rain but the wind is beginning to get a bit blowy now.

Cardiff sounds a good place to meet your friends Gwyn. I haven’t been there for many years but I remember liking it. I am sure your daughters appreciate the time spent with you. Like AnnG I wish my family lived nearer but at least they are close in spirit.

It’s not a good time for me at the moment. Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. Even though she died 51 years ago I still miss her. A few years later on this day it was the funeral of a very dear aunt and Thursday will be the anniversary of my father’s death 19 yers ago.

We got the quote for the partial boarding of our loft and accepted it. Then they told us that the only day soon that they can do it is Wednesday. We’ve had to agree to that as it needs to be done quickly so the plumber can come back but that was going to be my little tea party day. I now have to phone or text 10 ladies to say it’s cancelled. Grrr .

Oh well, things can only get better :-)

No I didn't the fluff was all on the stiff brush I was using and there was no dust in the air. I would soon have known that as it would make me sneeze. (doesn't take much). Normally I would do the stairs with a small hand held cleaner but I have to admit they have only had a cursory clean for quite a long time.

Its really windy here now and raining too pc says 10 degrees and light rain but the wind it whipping it around.

I hope you had a mask on when brushing the stairs if so much fluff came off of it.

When I put my wellies on to feed the chickens it did'nt feel so tight today.

I have vacuumed upstairs, always hard work as the upstairs cleaner, while very good, is heavy and is a 'plug in' one. I have also cleaned the stairs, and downstairs hall, not with a cleaner because I can;t easuly balance on the stairs with a cleaner so I did the stairs with a stiff brush on my hands and knees and then cleaned all down the wood at the sides with a clean cloth. Got a lot od fluff out of the stair carpet which I have put down the garden for any nest building birds. I actually need to dust upstairs now but that can wait while I get my breath back.

Thanks for the lecture Mandy and I shall do my miniatures but I walk around a lot more making them than I did standing in the garden cutting dead stuff off a raised stone edged bed. I was on the flat path and had the wheelbarrow next to me so was only standing in one place and cutting bit off. Left the barrow there and did'nt even attempt to move it. I think I have had too do the shoe thing up a bit tighter today so that would mean the swelling has gone sown a little. Its so hard to tell by just looking at it.

I shall be watching You Tube tonight as my Willie and Sarah are on at 6 pm Living the Skye Life. I watch others too.

I think Mel, re driving is because you actually raised the subject in a former post when you said you forgot to ask if you could drive in it. We are just answering that.

Morning all,

We've seen a little sun this morning but it's really clouded over now ,I think we should get rain late this afternoon.

Mel you need a good talking too ,rest that foot, I don't think you should be out there gardening even if it is on the flat ,you need to be careful for a little while suppose you slip in this boot thingy your not use to walking in it and could easily catch your footting and do more damage ,now you told me not to do anything silly when i broke both my wrists so now you must do the same , now is the time to get lots of your miniatures done , lecture over :-D

Morning all,

Pc is playing silly buggers again this morning and I have to keep correcting it.

Its wet, windy and werry nasty out there today. Not been out yet but pc is saying 10 degrees but feels colder.

I don't know why you all keep on about driving as I am definately not going anywhere in the car only if someone else drives. If I sell someting I now always send it through Royal Mail parcel collection service where the postie brings the label and takes the parcel.

I think I will do minitures today I did do some varnishing yesterday on 5 things.

So enough about me and my problems how did you all sleep last night and s everybody bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning?

good morning all dry at the moment and looks dull, we have a yellow wind warning and 8 degrees expecting a high of 11 degrees.
Gwyn nice to spend one to one time with your daughters. You are so lucky to be able to spend time with them, living near. I do miss both daughter and son, next week she is out of the country for three weeks and I hate that. I feel sorry for parents left on their own when their children live in other countries. One of my friends has one daughter living in Canada and one in New Zealand. She does also though have one living just down the road and, I think, a son living e;sewhere in UK.

Ann reading about the possibility of looking under the car reminded me how, when driving in to work(in both military bases) in the 80s and 90s we sometimes had to stop at the gate and the guards would 'search' under our cars with a mirror on a stick handle.

Mel flat would be OK. It does sound as if your 'sandal' may be different to Vera and Ann's. If it has a thick, rigid sole though it might even be illegal to drive in it as, I seem to think it is, with flip flops. It certainly would not be safe as your foot needs to be flexible on the pedals, you could also do more damage to your foot. Good that BiL did the shop for you.
Good opportunity now to spend some time making your miniatures.

My gardening was on level ground along the side of the box hedge and on the raised bit so no bending just some clipping off of the leaves on the Hellibore and the dead stalks of kafia lillies and a few foxglove dead stalks. cut a bit off the Cottoniaster too.

BIL came with my shopping from the shop and he brought lunch with him from the shop, some ham and rolls and milk. I did'nt need the milk but have canceled it on my shopping list for Tuesday. I would'nt drive in this sandle thing but I expect it would be like driving in Scholl sandles which I used to do when young. Mine is not raise but completely flat with just a little dip at the front so you can walk in it.

I can't believe what you just wrote Mel. Those shoes are certainly not suitable for working in the garden, or were you even more silly and not wearing it? It's supposed to support and restrict movement in your foot to allow it to heal, not make it more comfortable to garden in. You should be resting it to start with like AnnG says. What if you had fallen again and would you still think it was a good job done in the garden if that hairline crack becomes a fracture and takes much longer to heal? I can't believe the hospital said to do gardening today.

AnnG that is a nuisance the wifi has been playing up again. I hope when you get your tech man back he can improve your signal for you. The pothole was at the back edge of the pavement where you can park in 2 what used to be gravelled spaces in front of a set back gate the trail leads off from. The back edge of the pavement had water like a puddle level with it and must have broken away. When I was younger and more bendy I would have had a look under the car and will make sure tomorrow that nothing has leaked onto the driveway. It was more a scrape than a bang, so I'm hoping it was just a wheel strut scraping on the edge of the rough tarmac. If in any doubt I will get the garage in the village to have a quick look.

Better a Dettol smell than fish Vera. It smelled a bit of fish in the study this morning, yet we ate ours at the dining table yesterday, but the smell managed to travel. I can just imagine you with one leg in smart evening footwear and the other more fitting for a carthorse in the clompy sandal! I'd forgotten about the difference in height and must have matched mine with something with a higher heel.

I forgot to say yesterday that we saw a teenage boy on an e scooter, wearing no helmet, going at such a speed along the road and faster than the cars behind him. He approached an island without even slowing and sped straight across. Apparently these e bikes are being modified to go faster, but despite it being illegal to ride them other than on private land we are seeing more and more of them around here, both on pavements and the road.

Not done a lot today, but sat with younger daughter, while she watched the Nations Rugby matches on TV. She used to enjoy watching with her dad, so once in a while I sit down to watch with her. She is watching the England / Scotland match at the moment, but I am only half watching.
I spend more free time with elder daughter, as she is often off work in some of the school holidays, whereas younger daughter is working then. Yesterday I met the elder one for light lunch and a look around a local town, so it's only fair to share some one to one time with her sister too.

Mel, I would echo what the others have said, You are not giving your foot the best chance of healing, when you work in the garden. It must be very frustrating, when you really want to get on with something, but time spent resting now should help the bones to heal quicker. Walking on uneven ground could set you back and mean the healing takes longer.

Pleasantly mild today, after a very wet night. It was good to open the window and get some fresh air indoors without freezing. A friend and I are hoping to find a dry day this coming week, so that we can go to look at the snowdrop display at a local country park. School starts back on Monday, so may be we can plan a visit round our various other activities.... and that will be another month gone.

I think Vera asked recently about where I planned to meet my friends for our reunion.We are looking at Cardiff, where we all first met all those years ago. It will be lovely to all be together again, although I have seen one of them in 2022 and another about 2019, with my daughters, when we were travelling near their home towns and arranged to meet for a short while.