The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ivyleaf

Hi burtha! Sending best wishes x

Mar Thinking of you and hoping the ME behaves itself! I'm very low on energy too atm, so not posting much, but I do think of you all and am reading along.

nursemaggie

mar and ivyleaf I hope you are both feeling much better soon.

mardatha

When I'm low on energy I knit. Getting through the xmas socks just fine lol

camelot1001

Hope the poorlies feel better soon. I seem to have got into the habit of waking at 4 and not really going back to sleep, maybe a little doze but need to break this cycle, I'm exhausted!

The builders have put the skirting boards and door frames on so I have been waxing those, varnishing the window frame and generally tidying up. After 2 months of 'camping' in the kitchen DD and I have moved the sofa to the living room along with the tv - so much space now in the kitchen! The new sofas arrive in about a month, hopefully DDs sofa (delivered here as she hasn't got the keys to her flat yet) will have gone - it's all wrapped up in the living room. I have hidden the bathroom suite behind the sofa for now, I am hoping that gets fitted tomorrow.

Still waxing to do in the hall and a lot of cleaning but so glad to be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

I have had some produce from the garden - the carrots are delicious. I actually forgot they tasted as they do when they are so fresh.

ivyleaf

camelot I hope your bathroom suite gets fitted today. I keep imagining your living room when the new sofas arrive if your DD's sofa is still there.....interesting!

Just realised it's only a month until our new mattress should arrive :j We ordered one of the new Premier Inn ones, having had to spend a couple of nights at the then newly-opened local one last winter due to a "domestic emergency" (gas leak) and it was bliss. I did think of bringing the bed home with me but I suppose they'd have noticed us bringing it through Reception......

mcculloch29

I have an adjustable bed with memory foam mattress and it's the best mattress I've ever had, so comfortable.
I Googled to find out which beds Premier Inn use and found this:
http://www.premierinn.com/en/faq/your_stay/Buy_Our_Bed.html

nursemaggie

I am very tempted by that offer it is very reasonable for a memory foam bed. DS bed cost nearly twice that and it was much reduced as it was the last one in stock. He does not moan about his back as much as he used to do.

Well I need to think about it as it is quite a lot of money and I don't have big savings. One thing it is no way near as much as insurance companies were wanting to insure me for one weeks holiday, because of my cancer. I went without.

Popperwell

Interested to read up on the beds. Something I may very well consider. Not a luxury but if it helps with long standing health issues, its a win win and unlikely the DWP(in my case will see as a questionable items to spend some of Mum's estate)


Making Thursday my gardening day because I can't go far as I have something on in the evening on the town. But this may allow me to go out Tuesday/Wednesday.


Talking of gardening...I have splashed out on £28 worth of bulbs:eek:a mixture tulips, crocus, hyacinths, bluebells, snowdrops and others which will give me colour year after year in the garden/tubs. I think I will need more but as I can buy/plant until December so any extra can be purchased as and when required and so I won't need to buy in one big spend.

nursemaggie

Yes good idea bulbs are so easy to look after and provide colour at times when they is not much colour otherwise. I have lots to put in my small garden mostly what I had in pots last year.

Popperwell

That's a good idea...using them in tubs/pots, then moving them to the garden and at the right time...lifting/dividing. So far 78 tulips, 30 crocus, 15 snowdrops, 15 hyacinths, 15 bluebells and 15 chioneka. Not many of some but I already have some planted already over the years. So they are adding to others.


Thinking I may plant many in a sort of group designs rather than spread out.