Daydream fund challenge part 4

Yes, but I have caught her heavy cold, so I have been coughing most of the night - grrrr.

April shower day again but bright. Internet actually working okay so am trying to catch all those things that need doing on it & emails.

5 weeks Lucielle - you must be fed up to the teeth of it. Does your chest hurt when you cough? I'm finding it quite painful & I'm a newbie to it.

Congrats to OH - like the queen with his official birthday & his 'real' one?

Not a bad day here with no rain - how odd is that?

lucielle wrote: »

What's everybody else up to?
L

Still digging up the conservatory floor, getting the road hedge into shape, sowing seeds, pricking-out seedlings, re-potting, putting up blinds, sandpapering....:(

....and now watering almost daily in the poly.

Oh, and hiding from the sheep!

Yesterday, despite the mud, we managed to get a load of hardwood delivered in the bottom yard, just outside the barn. Brilliant! But then I saw much of it was sized for our old wood stove....:mad:

Hours of splitting later, I was lurching about the place like Quasimodo, but the wood pile by then looked like it had doubled in size!

Naturally, now that we have plenty of wood, it's turned very warm. 16c in Ilfracombe today and I'll bet our bottom yard was a few degrees above that. Some of the trees, like the medlars, are leafing-up. That's early!

Saw an estate agent at horse Woman's place yesterday. At first I thought it was a Mormon (we don't see many suits around here! ) and nearly made a run for the other end of the field, but then I saw he was alone.

Apparently, HW's comfortable enough, but asleep much of the time and off with the fairies when awake.

lucielle wrote: »

Not doing very much then Dave

Digging up the living room floor today.

The trouble is, DW knows if she suggests getting our builder back to do jobs I'm perfectly capable of, I'll be onto them straight away.

I don't resent paying when something is beyond my skill set, but when it's just laying a bit of concrete.....

Never mind, he's off to Oz in another week, so I'll be safe then.... for a while!

hi all


can anything else happen here !!


didn't get an answer from mum on the phone last night so assumed she was out, but left a message. when she didn't return the call I started to worry... but didn't want to roll up at 11pm and wake/scare the daylights out of her by letting myself in.. so 8am this morning rang again, no answer so shot over there and hey ho shed had a fall ! was 2 ft from the emergency chord but couldn't reach it .... turns out she fell FRIDAY EVENING !!! so been crumpled/wedged on bathroom floor for nigh on 36hrs.... called 999... she is now in hospital, corker of a black eye, wack on head, sore hip, sore shoulder, BUT no breaksthank goodness !
alas they found a small bleed on the brain which they think caused her faint/fall in the first place so she is in the stroke unit till they can confirm wether it was the hours laid on sore side or symptoms of stroke ....
all mum was worried about was that she was in her nightgown with NO KNICKERS on ....
she is such a toughie !!
im exhausted as got home 6pm and then had to ring "family" ad explain x 3 !!


and theres me thinking I was going to finally get a "do nothing" day...