Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

hope all has gone well with "uvver half's " op choille xxx
its been raining best part of the day here..


took dolly daydream to vets and its scar tissue thickening where they had to cut out the tumour ....phew
but she has lumps down the other side and hes put an oct/nov time scale to do next op. she has to lose a bit more weight so the skin isn't too stretched !


my son has cooked dinner the last few evenings [joyous!] and I got in tonight to a blank kitchen so looks like im back at the oven tonight ...

Davesnave

Good, that's positive news about Dolly.:) Let's hope choille has had some good medical news too.

My medical problem's gone downhill since yesterday; the conjunctivitis spreading to my other eye, as I expected it would. Luckily, when I asked about appointments, tomorrow/next week, the surgery squose me in at the end of the day. Seems it was just as well. I knew it wasn't good but the quack took one look and said "If the anibiotics don't kill this in 3 days, you're off to the NDDH, Monday. You didn't bloody drive here, did you? (He's from NZ)

No, I bloody didn't!

To add to our woes here, one of the cats brought in and killed some rodent in the kitchen during Monday night, but we could only find small trails of blood. Now, we can smell it, but for the life of us we can't locate it. This morning, I had all the kick-boards off and fished under the huge fridge-freezer, but nothing. The only places left are in the service ducts behind the units or inside the F/F motor housing, neither of which is accessible. Aaarrrggghh!:mad:

I guess it's open windows in the day and scented candles, joss sticks etc at night till it mummifies! :(:(

alfie_1

the times ive said "noooo ,I haven't driven here " on my visits to local A&E ..... fractured foot, sawn hand, dislocated thumb, branch thumped eye, :rotfl:
thing with living rural is ...no bu**ar to give you a lift when you have blood running down your arm !!
I do hope your eyes clear up dave x


I do hope mr choille is ok ...


im doing a boot sale tomorrow at a steam fayre event. I have masses to take and hope as its opposite a large camping site there will be plenty of "customers" to buy my carp
need to start the dolly day dream fund with gusto now !
I AM taking my pop up gazebo ...just incase!


sun is back here today so fingers crossed [ive done a lot of finger crossing this week ! will need a&e at this rate ...:rotfl: ]

choille

Do hope Dolly is going to be okay Alfie - glad son has been looking after you re cooking.
I do hope the car boot sale is a success. Ebay is flat lining.

Dave the eye thing sounds really painful. If you can get some Elderflower water it really really is marvellous for eyes. Really magical stuff but I know that the season is over for the flowers. The antibiotic eye stuff can cause problems which seems strange but it can.

OH had his op eventually yesterday & should be home later today on crutches all plastered up but he is raring to get out. He ate nothing yesterday bar a cheese sandwich they gave him last night & a bowl of rice crispies this morning so he is starving poor thing.

On a sad note the community woodland that is nearish here has had another window broken at it's hide & a wood carving has been damaged and thrown into undergrowth. Thought it had been stolen but seems it is still there. it was a few weeks back that there was initial vandalism done so it seems it could be a local. There has been a few new builds so me have a yob in our midsts in would seem.

The upstairs build is going well & we have a taper & jointer coming tomorrow so that should be our early alarm call.

I tried hacking at some shrubs that have crowded everything else out and you can't see the glorious hydrangas - well you can now but the fushia & variegated other thingumigig and the escalonia look rather like scalped punks - quite perculiar in a twiggish way.

Just waiting for OH to come home in the hospital car.

lucielle

Hope his recovery goes speedily and he does as he's told!
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choille

OH is fine just very tired now he's eaten his dinner - massive helping of rhubarb crumble for afters. Collie Wobble was so pleased to see him - too enthusiastic really as he is a bit bouncy.

He has his foot on the window sill as he has to keep it up - goodness knows how he's going to get to bed. They didn't have any aspirins at the hospital - how desperate is that? He has to take them for a month for blood clots. The hospital car had to stop at Tescos in Inverness on the way home & the driver went in for some.

Glad he's home. Didn't feel right at all him not being here & me not able to visit.

Davesnave

That's good news about OH, choille.:beer: I suppose the proof of the pudding will come a little later....I don't mean the crumble!


I'm better in the sense that horrible gunk isn't pouring from my eyes and I can see again :j, but I have a sore throat now and I tire easily. DW told me I'd missed loads of docks in the top field, so I went back with the sprayer and proper eyesight to find she was right.:( Sprayed those, did a couple of smaller jobs and then slept most of the afternoon.


Re the community woodland; it's the summer holidays, so I suppose bored, mindless yoofs are probably roaming free.....

I can't remember anyone vandalising anything when we were kids, unless it was stuff already on the dump. I know kids put ink into the coin return slots in phone boxes until the PO drilled those out to stop it. I never did that, but I did stuff crumpled paper up there, then fish it and the coins out after school with a bendy blade and modified sea fishing hook attached. Oh, the naughtiness! Much more profitable than Mother Theresa May running through the farmer's corn, though! :rotfl:

choille

Glad your eyes have cleared up Dave but the sore throat is not good. It's probably all connected? Hope you get it seen to as it sounds like an infection.

The wind is gusting outside - woke Collie Wobble up & he wanted to check OH is still here. Quite cute to see him get excited at OH's jacket still being on the chair.
Definitely an Autumnal nip in the air.

Davesnave

Yes, eyes and throat thing are all connected and I'm far from better yet, but I can see.....

It's the village Market this morning, but I won't go in case I pass this on, and besides, I have huge bags under my eyes. We haven't enough plants to do a full stall, and we can't sell produce there because we'd be competing with friends who do that.

Horse Woman 2 brought her new dog here yesterday to see if it could locate the dead rodent in the kitchen. The results were inconclusive, but I had an idea which seems to have pinned it down...:D

There's a filler panel where one unit meets the wall, and although it looks solid, it's only 50mm deep by 20mm wide. The way the worktop goes over it makes one assume its a full panel, like at the exposed end....and there's a hole above the kick board just large enough. I stuffed a tissue into the hole last night, and this morning the smell's decreased, so I'm sure it's up there, jammed between the unit and the wall........

Will have to concoct something bendy with a hook on the end, just like the thing we kids used on those old telephone boxes, to see if we can get the little blighter out. How funny....it must've been in the back of my mind last night and made me think about the telephnes of yore!:rotfl:

Fay

Morning everyone, sounds like adventures have been had.
Glad Dolly and Mr Choille are both ok.
Sorry about your eye/throats Dave and hope you find th dead thing-my cat has done this lots of times but prefers to bring them alive to me. 2 years ago I humanely trapped a whole family, must have bought a pregnant one in!

I don't have much to report, I'm still house hunting and losing the will to live with it. I didn't get the house I liked, with an awful smell in it, apparently someone offered more (fine, I wasn't going to), but the executors decided it had to go to a family and said therefore they wouldn't sell to me anyway. I find a business decision based on that ludicrous and told the EA so, who I have complained about as he didn't put my increased offer forward anyway.
Today I am viewing two in the heart of Shakespeare country. I love Stratford but have never fancied living there, too many tourists (way more than Warwick and it can be bad here). But these are both the right side of the town for me so I can get out easily without having to go through th centre. Both have good potential so please keep fingers crossed I like them and can do a deal. Market is dead but sellers seem to think it's thriving.
In other news, all the plants I potted up are doing well. Including the angels finshing rod. I've planted some at my parents house, verbena bonariensis and penstemon garnet, so can just take self seeders and cuttings from there too.
Better get up,and get started for the day ahead. The weather is rather cloudy and cooler here now, boo.