The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

FairyPrincessk

Evening all,

Nursemaggie welcome home! I hope you had a lovely trip away. I've had a nightmarish time with Man airport taxi pickups. £80??:eek: That will certainly wake you up!

Ivy, I don't know how much rain we've had but over the past two days it just hasn't seemed to stop. Sometimes it slows down to a 'normal' rain pace only to pick back up again. I'm hoping it is dry tomorrow so I can get washing out.

Well, the shop no longer had the coat in stock so I tried on the same brand in a different style and ordered online. I can always nip back into the shop to return it if I'm not keen. About half of the kitchen is packed and I've done a few other boxes here and there. I've got radio dramas on to keep me entertained, turned up very loud so I can hear them over the newspaper while I'm wrapping things. I'm exhausted. I'll do the same tomorrow morning and then make some big sandwiches with the rest of the chicken and some veg and pack that up to take with us for tea. OH is nipping out a couple of hours early and we'll load the car with cleaning stuff and whatever boxes we can fit in and head over to pick up the keys. We'll do the inventory/photos/read meters and any initial cleaning we can. We'll do similar Thursday, but won't start until after normal quitting time for OH and then Friday he has a part day I think.

The wind has really picked up this evening, I hope that means the weather is going to change for the better!

Hugs to all who need them.xx

Floss

FPK best wishes for your move out to the country - I'm very jealous, but could never replace the flexible space and future-proofing that our home of 2 adjoining terraced houses has, never mind be able to fund it, so my allotment is my very own bit of the countryside

Hard_Up_Hester

Welcome back Nursemaggie.

We had our solar panels fitted today, hubby was holding the panels down in almost gale force winds, but they are fitted and up and running, all we need now is some to charge them up.

I call the engineers out regularly to my machines, I phoned again this morning and the recorded music was the Ride of the Valkyries, very war like, so when the engineer I was speaking to said 'We can't keep attending site to repair your machine, you need to change the paper you are using'.
I roared down the phone 'We have 5 of your copiers here and only 2 of them have a recurring fault, it's not the bloody paper, get over here now!'
When he eventually arrived he had a right cob on, lol, but don't care I cannot do my job the way things are, and breathe!!

From work I caught 2 buses to get to the nearest hospital to collect hearing aid batteries for us both, from now on I can collect them from the Dr's surgery which will be easier.

I then went back to the house and manhandled a queen sized bed base and a chest of drawers down the stairs into the front garden so they can be collected tomorrow, DS & his GF came over for half an hour and helped me with 2 mattresses and a wardrobe.

I finally got back to the boat at 7pm, 12 hours after I left this morning having not stopped all day, to find my tea was ready so all I had to do was eat it and collapse into my chair.

Floss

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

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I finally got back to the boat at 7pm, 12 hours after I left this morning having not stopped all day, to find my tea was ready so all I had to do was eat it and collapse into my chair.

So CHS is saved from being pushed in the cut for another week :rotfl:

nursemaggie

Not really had a good holiday. Flight was like transferring from M&S to cheapest ever rubbish shop, e.g. clothes that would disintegrate on first wash not sure who.

Family just recovering from Nora virus. Either I have developed the severe allergy they all have to Malta or we all had very bad colds. we all slept on and off the first weekend too ill to do anything. I have not yet recovered.

Flight back even worse. Will never travel with Jet 2 again.

FPK the taxi fare did not wake me it it probably leaves us with little to eat the next week as we cannot afford to spend that much on food.

Hester do take some time off before you end up in Hospital. I can speak from experience I ended up in hospital after my Mother died.I was doing too much but all had deadlines. My brother's help? only added to the work.

ivyleaf

Oh nursemaggie, i'm so sorry it wasn't the relaxing holiday you needed

Hester I hope the machines will behave themselves for a while now!

camelot1001

Good to see you back nursemaggie, sorry you were poorly and the flights weren't up to standard.

monnagran

Oh dear, nursemaggie. There we were, imagining you puttering happily in the sun and all the time you were suffering. So sorry, you really needed that break and now, it seems, you need another one to get over it.

Life here is interesting. I had an offer on my house and as soon as it was made our potential buyer lost her potential buyer........the curse of the chain! Moving house is not for wimps.

My family are all in Greece for a weeks holiday with DIL's father. I had this reported to me this morning -

Pickle: Gramps, can I have this comic?
Gramps: You won't understand it, it's in Greek.
Pickle: It's all right. I can't read.

Got comic.

In the meantime, back at the ranch, Big, Old, Arthritic Dog had an operation to remove a lump on her head. This on the day before they all flew off on their hols. Said dog now sports impressive stitches and a 'lampshade' round her head.
You know how dogs love those things. My job is to administer medication and keep her calm.
This does not sit well with the lunatic Dalmatian who has not taken kindly to the disappearance of the three-ring circus that usually surrounds her and is frankly bored.
Never mind, yesterday she had endless amusement hooking books off my bookshelf and shredding them while I was out for an hour surveying yet another unsuitable bungalow.
She was amazed at my ingratitude when I returned.

Yesterday evening I let them both out into the garden while I got their meal ready.
Big mistake! Old dog appeared in the kitchen sans lampshade but plus a great cut down her cheek and copious amounts of blood everywhere.

We are booked in at the vets again this afternoon.

Hard_Up_Hester

Oh monna, what a nightmare.

karcher

Monna..sorry to hear about the buyer. You are right buying and selling houses is not for the faint hearted.

Pickle made me laugh though