Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 said:

Does she know she needs to make a new p*ssw*rd? Just a thought.

I think it's more to do with the device she uses not being set up to cope with this wondrous new Vanilla flavour board. I'll try to look in the site feedback area for clues regarding others' problems reported there.....

Don't worry Rummer, every bit of window ledge is going to be worth it if my instincts are accurate. I think the people growing their own will do particularly well this spring/summer, but I'm not talking weather. I'm already thinking our wedding isn't going to happen and everything will be on hold for 12 months. We'll have to make a lot of our own amusement and some may even be taking on community roles. I'm not too sure where I stand there; will I be a helper, or one of the oldies who needs protecting? I certainly felt like one when walking up the hill to collect the car from the little town today! It's a 1:5 and I've not walked it for a few years. Did I really go straight up it last time, without stopping??? Answers on the back of a ration card....Oh, hang on, we haven't got those yet!

Davesnave

Right, had a look in the  Site Feedback section and alfie may be having problems if she is still using Internet Explorer as a browser. She should change to Chrome or Firefox in that case, because even Microsoft say Internet Explorer isn't safe to use any more.

Or.. it might be she's on an iPad and hasn't an updated version of Safari, or has an old iPad that can't be updated to a high enough version of Safari....in which case she may be buggared in a fix!

Now I'm going back to bed!   Aren't these emojis rubbish?

Davesnave

Well, I wake up this morning to find my questions answered. I'm shortly to become a protected species, not allowed to go out into the dangerous big wide world.....Yeah, right, and how will they police that one?

Back at the other end of my life I remember wondering if people would think I was old enough, but I was only challenged once in a bar by a surly young man who looked at my stature and asked if I was really 18. I replied, "Well, you should know, you were in the same class as me at junior school!"  

More biblical rain in the night, so our stream is the highest I've seen it, but the rivers are OK, so when this clears in an hour or two there will be no flood. Things look set fair in the next week or so, so maybe I'll be able to move forward outdoors. The WI ordered 50 bare-root, wildlife-friendly trees through me to sell in the next couple of Markets, but if there is no Market I'm not sure what they'll do with those. Most of the WI members are over 70....well, put it another way, there's no chance many of them will pass for 65!

Suddenly, everything's off, including The Warning's tour of course, although they'll be fine and bounce back. Those who've been running small businesses, especially those relying on tourism, won't be able to cope and will go under, perhaps permanently. We were in Exeter on a hospital visit last Thursday and I've never seen it so quiet, or escaped during the rush hour so fast.

To end on a more cheerful note, the very aged lady whose fence DW demolished rang me yesterday. I'd replaced the damaged section mid-week, but said nothing, as I needed to get one more specialist fixing..... I therefore thought she might be ringing to thank me, but no:

"You haven't painted it!" was all I got.

"It's tanalised, so it doesn't need paint."

"But it doesn't match."

"No, well, it won't. It was looking quite weathered on Street View in 2010, so the original bit is positively ancient now! But, don't worry I'll put a coat of Creocote on it and it'll tone in better."

Grr, old people!!!!

choille

I copied your last post to Alfie Dave for her to read.
Well, yesterday was quite sunny - which made a change and did a little tidying up outside - so many branches and twigs lying around. I snap them up for kindling. I see that the brambles are encroaching again in a bit I thought I'd cleared. The ground is so wet that I just managed to tug them out - not all of them. 
I lost my dog last Saturday to a twisted gut thing - so I am bereft and feeling it - miss him so much it's sore. Haven't mentioned it before now as I couldn't. Not long since I lost my cat to a blood clot - so the house is weirdly quiet. 

Low drizzle today and quite grey so just pottering around inside - must shake a leg and actually do some listing on the bay.

The fence owner - I can just hear her whinging about the colour. She'll have you clearing out her gutters if you're not careful.

Davesnave

Oh choille, I'm so sorry that horrible thing happened to Pup-Pup. I know he could be a bit of a lad, but you and he obviously had a bond there, like alfie  had with Bimble. Maybe take a short, respectful time to remember him fondly and then look for another deserving case (with attitude?) A pal to walk you and keep you active will be invaluable in the months ahead. 

No danger of me doing the old lady's gutters; it's a thatched wreck about 3-400 years old and it has none!

choille

He was such a character - a right wee !!!!!! at times but he went everywhere with me. I will need to get another but not right now. The house is so quiet - no one following me to the toilet!
Just had a social meeting thing cancelled in Inverness due to the plague. Expect this will be the new norm for a while.
Local Facebook page is good in that everyone is volunteering to get stuff and pick things up for those who cannot. Or don't want to venture out.
B-I-L who is not well has been taken into hospital - which he didn't want to go to but he's got a pre existing condition and has not been too well. We live quite a distance away - few hundred miles and I don't think we will go visit him just yet. Which feels mean but you know what I mean.
Oh, well - onwards & upwards I suppose.

Davesnave

Woke up to a frost and blue skies yesterday, so it was down to the road hedge where I managed to lay three oak trees single-handed without them falling into the road or landing on me. Still have 3 to  go, but I need to check out exactly which ones. Once you're up there it's hard to tell the best shape and spacing. Thursday the wind's supposed to go round to the east, so it could be big bonfire day for that job. Then it's just a matter of inserting some new saplings and we're done.

No idea when or if the sheep are coming back.....

choille

I had sheep pre booked into the rare breed sale this week but I don't know if I want to be at a packed mart - don't  think it's a good idea that it is going ahead at all. 
They are talking of restricting access to people into the hall to 500 but that will not make any difference other than to the price at hammer. Ridiculous.

Good on you with the trees Dave. I just manage taking weeny willows down - usually coz they've split or are crowded and half leaning Rowans & birch. 
Miserable and wet here - grey days again. Absolutely Biblical rain in the night. We are normally quite wet but this is abnormal this year so far. 

Feel at sixes and and sevens - two steps forward, four backwards. Hay Ho.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm also apparently an endangered species, so once the 10lb invisible barbell that's sitting on my chest abates (perfect timing, the last day before It All Kicks Off), I shall be sort of working from the kitchen table. Which means I'll need to find somewhere to put the avocado stone that decided to become a little tree whilst nobody was watching. And all the other crud Himself has dumped on there. And the Idiot Cat.

I've chopped the bits of rose back that I could reach and I'm hoping the rest, along with the Pyracantha I've lopped the 'poke your eye out when legitimately in the garden' branches off will deter any would be raiders in search of our five rolls of Andrex over the coming weeks.

Have tried and failed to get deliveries of groceries for the last fortnight, no suitable delivery spots thanks to work, then no delivery spots at all until about a month's time, if you even get onto them, so I've given up and am resigning myself to the horror that is Himself doing all shopping without a list.

The darned fool came in from his last day at work for the foreseeable and told me that I needed to give him a list - when I pointed out I'm not in a position to know what five things are still in the shop, he suggested I had a look in the fridge and told him what's in there. 'From the looks of it, mostly Salmonella' wasn't the correct answer, so he's now silently keeping the heck out of my way and probably considering a new career as a plague medicine tester..

Once I've cleared enough of his nonsense to have somewhere to work, I'll do a bit of that and then start ordering compost, as there is no way either of us will make it through the next three months in one piece without my being able to potter about usefully in the weedpatch.

If they'd only told me to beggar off last Friday, I wouldn't be vaguely wondering if I'm going to reach my expiry date significantly earlier than expected, as it was the obviously virulently infectious kid whose mother loudly berated me for telling her to come and fetch her clammy and fainting vector of disease transmission - 'she's fine, she's just a bit under the weather, you're creating panic when she hasn't even really got that much of a temperature' - that I blame for this current bad mood.


Never mind, I have an angry Wren nesting behind the shed by the sounds of it. So I'll be able to concentrate upon that when dealing with a million emails about workbooks and Google classroom access codes.

Davesnave

I didn't say anything before, but I've been in self isolation now for 5 days now. Against my better judgement, DW went off to London last weekend to do wedding organising with the Hindu branch of the family, who aren't exactly noted for their social distancing. One of their number wasn't well with a high temperature, but has subsequently recovered. DD2 and husband, who were also present, got colds and sore throats, so they're are both in 2 weeks solitary, though SiL can work from home.

What a barney for something that they're going to postpone, though no one has admitted it yet. Thanks to DD2's common sense, they have insurance, otherwise it would be a catastrophe. I think it might be that anyway, imagining how things will go in India.

In mundane other news, the fence is finally finished and painted, so I can walk past it cheerfully now, hopefully with my 9 years no claims discount intact.

Wind and weather at last look right for a burn-up today. Last time I was down there, I heard Mr Dog coughing; he sounded so awful I felt quite sorry for him. We must remember that ordinary flu is still about too.

I've not long woken from a dream that I'd been drafted-in to help run the local secondary school, as all the staff were off with Covid. It was very like the 'turned up for work and forgot to put on my trousers dream'......I expect you know what I mean.