Daydream fund challenge part 4

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Wretched watering.

Decided to chuck a couple of buckets over the windowboxes, only to spill a bit as I was walking towards the front door. And promptly started sliding very rapidly. The first attempt to not bash my head in resulted in doing front splits, so I dropped a knee, only to find that caused a rather extreme level of pain in my hip.

Still kept hold of the damned bucket, though.

After a night on hastily supplied gin and with the duvet bundled up underneath my knee to keep it raised and not lolloping to one side, I'm feeling battered but not actually broken (and yes, I did check out Dr Google for signs of a hip fracture, due to the massive Vitamin D deficiency and osteomalacia I've got going on again). It was fortunate that Himself didn't make the ferry for his booked gig due to a breakdown of their hire van, as he'd have been stranded on an Island for the next 48 hours and then probably stuck all night waiting for a replacement vehicle on the way back, rather than in through the front door by 6.30pm.

Everything is looking quite bleached now, except for here - the windowboxes have geraniums tumbling all over the place along with some peas and random plants, the storage heater front path is mostly covered with lavender, the woodbine smells delicious through the windows at night and the rambling rose out the back has finished flowering but is providing lots of insecty snacks for birds - it's shadier than the bleak concreted gardens of the area and the felines have melted into puddles inside rather than bother themselves with the inconvenience of going outdoors.


My plans of wandering a little further afield to an actual nursery whilst Himself was away have obviously been shelved again. And I'm wondering whether I should take a stick with me to work tomorrow, as it's stupid busy and in the absence of a genuine broken hip, I'm not convinced they would give me any leeway if I refused to do the lifting and carrying I know is required this week and next.

alfie_1

jo jo ..... please be carefull.. my mum thought she had "just bruised her hip", went on a coach holiday to York, got back, mumbled it still hurt and after a hosp visit ...had a fractured hip !!!


well its been hitting 30 for the last week. I have every window open at night and am still too hot ! shouldn't complain tho... my mum has said she is going to bat me if I say that we need a good downpour over night for a week to get the grass going again


I sold at a boot sale today , got up at 6am and it was 20 degrees !!! made £125 for the dolly daydream fund :j

Davesnave

Strange things happened today; big drops of watery stuff fell out of the sky for several hours, but it didn't make a lot of difference.

Pete came up on Friday night and finished shifting all the bales by Saturday morning. He'd heard about the possibility of 'thunder rain' over the weekend and was taking no chances. Turned out that he did the right thing. :A

I also managed to get 2/3 of the logs we made in the winter/spring out of their pile and into a shed before the rain. Thanks to the weather, many were very close to dry, although we won't use any until October 2019.

Having prepped the huge area at the back for sowing grass until we plant properly, the weather's meant we've been stuck with a mud desert now for months. I've re-named it 'Afghanistan.' It's still embarrassing, but at least I've not had to cut it.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

alfie_1 wrote: »

jo jo ..... please be carefull.. my mum thought she had "just bruised her hip", went on a coach holiday to York, got back, mumbled it still hurt and after a hosp visit ...had a fractured hip !!!


well its been hitting 30 for the last week. I have every window open at night and am still too hot ! shouldn't complain tho... my mum has said she is going to bat me if I say that we need a good downpour over night for a week to get the grass going again


I sold at a boot sale today , got up at 6am and it was 20 degrees !!! made £125 for the dolly daydream fund :j

Yeah. The fact that I'm only 45 doesn't hold much clout when I complete the sentence with '...and I've got osteomalacia as a result of insufficient Vitamin D and was on high dose steroids for about 7 years...'.

It is a bit galling to think I've essentially got Rickets for Grownups.

Been at work today with a crutch sourced from the loft and struggled, but it's the busiest week in the term for me and they wouldn't have been impressed if I'd decided to self certify for a week. I am going to see if I can get a GP appointment/advice from Rheumatology about it if it's still sore in a couple of days, as it doesn't actually feel particularly muscular on origin or bruised, it just hurts.


But rumours have come out at work today about falling rolls meaning gradual closure. So applying for new jobs in the next fortnight with am insouciant 'Oh, that? It's just the result of surgery for breaking my hip, nothing to worry about, I'll just be off sick for the first six months or so' might be a bit of a problem.


Himself has been waylaid at the pub as there is some sort of Sportball Tournament on at present.

I'm wondering whether he will be back early enough to water the plants for me tonight. Because I certainly don't want to do it.

alfie_1

hiya peeps...


im guessing like me, you are all p**ped by this heat !


our fields are now yellow tumble weed.. we have got in rounds of last years hay for them to nosh on ..


watering the garden front and back alternate days is time consuming ..


my dad was 91 yesterday !! thing is where he had a triple by pass a few years back plus being tube fed the exact nutrients [scientifically] is keeping him healthier than the average 91 year old BUT he is definitely losing the plot mentally slowly. last 4 visits was no response...yesterday he was talking away albeit goobeldy gook ! he told us that ESSO was in receivership ... [ he worked most of his life for them] and that a whole housing estate near mum was unsafe and had to be demolished... we just agreed , bless him.


mum is doing much better now. have to rein her in now and then tho !


I am getting an ESSE ? cooker installed here .. an electric one , 3 oven , [about 1 and 1/2 times wider than normal cooker] friend has taken it out of part of a house she owns as she never used it and she is now absorbing the "annex" back into the main house... she did ask me if it would fit ? id take down a wall to make it fit !!
dogs are going to love it in the winter..


well its 34 degrees at this moment and im flagging ...


oh, if you can be bothered, google..... bbc JOSH AND HIS FLAGS
josh is autistic and his passion is flags. his parents put up a garden flag pole and every day he flies a flag . he is a lymington celeb .. xx hes been interviewed for the bbc

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

hiya peeps...
im guessing like me, you are all p**ped by this heat !

We are a bit cooler over here, but even so, it seems we've moved to the Spanish day. After lunch has become siesta time, then we get up around 4-5pm and work till 8pm. Seems to work.:D

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

We are a bit cooler over here, but even so, it seems we've moved to the Spanish day. After lunch has become siesta time, then we get up around 4-5pm and work till 8pm. Seems to work.:D

I was out checking the horses water troughs last evening .. almost daylight at 10.15pm !!


im dog sitting 3 extra's this weekend and then 1 of them for 2 weeks. the other 2 are going to the owners mum then .
she cant "cope" with the cockerpoo ....who just happens to be dolly daydreams offspring !!


it is SO hot here ! no breeze and hitting the 30's .. it was 21d over night .. I like the heat but like a bit of AIR to help breath


have a good weekend peeps xx

Fay

Hello day dreamers, haven't had chance to catch up but hope you're all well. I'm coming to the end of my current day dream and looking to move on. My house has now sold and I've started looking for my new one. There isn't much about it has to be said. I live in an expensive area (warwick) so things are expensive and typically need work. I would prefer to stay here but I'm scoping out other options too.
Sadly my budget just isn't great for round here but I've seen a few. As always if I had 20k more it would be easier lol
I have seen one that has potential and have booked a viewing for next weekend. It's been on a while and reduced once but I can't find out when it was originally listed, which is frustrating. So please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Davesnave

I've been doing the foundations for the patio and now I'm on more of the same by making the base for a pathway across 'Afghanistan'.....only 24 metres!


Got out our old pop-up sales shelter for shade today, but I could still only manage 2 hours of digging this morning. When it hit 25c, I decided to have a long lunch.:o


Anyway, there's some sort of football match on this afternoon, apparently, so I may watch that....or sleep.



Yesterday, driving through the little town, it was like High Noon.....and that was just France v Uraguay! The only person doing anything that looked like work was Pete. There were two old biddies wandering about who looked "mazed with th' eet," but nothing else moving, not even traffic, and at present we're part of the main road diversion route, while they spend 5 weeks digging it up.....


Whassat? Holiday time? Oh, that's always when they do the more major repairs! :rotfl:

Davesnave

Fay wrote: »

My house has now sold and I've started looking for my new one.....Sadly my budget just isn't great ...... As always if I had 20k more it would be easier lol
...So please keep your fingers crossed for me!

We almost cross-posted. I pushed 'submit' and went to a football match.....didn't sleep a wink either! :cool::):beer:

Well done on the sale. :T

I know all about that missing £20k, which was exactly our shortfall on the first house we tried to buy in Wales. However, the Crash intervened, we were saved from an embarrassingly expensive/unwise potential purchase and the property has not sold since then. You never know how things will turn out!

Anyway , fingers duly crossed, though now the footie's over I can uncross my legs! :rotfl: