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Serendipitious

Good morning.

bubbs

Morning streetlights and seren oh better say it too aj too or will be on trouble:rotfl:
Off to work catch up later x

Serendipitious

bubbs wrote: »

Morning streetlights and seren oh better say it too aj too or will be on trouble:rotfl:
Off to work catch up later x

Have a nice day x

altojack

bubbs wrote: »

Morning streetlights and seren oh better say it too aj too or will be on trouble:rotfl:
Off to work catch up later x

No , that's ok you can ignore me :cool: I'm getting quite used to it now you know :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

diluvsdiscounts

Good morning everyone, looking good again outside

hornetgirl

Morning all

josie_ann57

Morning, hope you enjoyed your bank holiday weekend, is this the first BH where we've had decent weather in a very long time?
Quick visit to Chester zoo as soon as it opens to avoid the crowds this morning, I love the boat trip in the new section, Islands but you have to get there early.:)

davemorton

Terrific Tuesday today.

Enterprise_1701C

Good morning all, lovely blue sky out there

Sounds like I had better check on my strawberry patches later, struggling to keep up with the raspberries let alone factoring in more strawberries :eek:

mhoc

So we came back from a glorious week sailing up and down various Norwegian fjords on Saturday afternoon - 4 and a half hours on the train from Southampton before we got back to Cheshire so we were knackered.
We always pick the cats up from the cattery first as the house is never the same without the cats in it and a good thing we did the usual this time.
Eventually we got home, the garden looked like a jungle, I think it must have rained constantly while we were away. Firstly when we got into the house the dining room door was a bit stuck which was unusual but in our cotton wool headed state we thought nothing of it.
Next OH realised the electric was off and the RSD had been tripped, its high on the kitchen wall so then he turned to our fridge freezer – we have a matching set which are 6 foot high with LED control panels with the temperature on. The freezer instead of showing its normal minus 19 degrees showed plus 19 degrees
The first job then was emptying the entire contents of both. When we first got these we had a power failure which lasted about 20 hours and both held their temperatures so we knew the freezer had been off for days. The fridge was not so bad – I only had a few salad veg going mouldy, my yogurt and cheese collection and the milk but I still took every single thing out of the fridge including the chocolate collection.
The freezer was the worst. It has 6 deep drawers which I just carried out to OH who upended them all into the wheelie bin and then turned the hose on the draws to clean them down. The contents filled the wheely bin, very few yellow label stuff as we can never get them around here – fortunately its black bin day this week. OH saved the chocolate stash!
Eventually it was all done, fridge freezer cleaning and only then could we start the suitcase emptying and laundry sorting and the washing machine on. In the midst of this the cats were going demented, running in and out of the house with no idea what was going on except that they were not getting their usual level of post holiday adoration!
I then noticed a funny mouldy patch above the dining room door. Our dining room is in the original part of the house with the kitchen attached. Finally it dawned on us what had happened. Because it had rained so much last week water had seeped through a tiny crack in the flat roof above the kitchen, seeped through the joists and brick work, tripped the electric off, went through the former outer kitchen wall and through to the dining room, dripping onto the door which was why it was stuck.
We then went straight out to B & Q to get the flat tape for sealing and mending and the black bitumous stuff and brushes for painting the roof and OH worked on it on Saturday night – thankfully its easy enough to get onto the kitchen roof via eldest childs bedroom without getting ladders out. Sunday and Monday were sunny so he covered and painted with bitumen any possible place were water might have got in – with it being hot it went on very easily and stuck very well .
In the meantime we also had to nip into Aldi for pizza on Saturday night – usually its days before we can be bothered with supermarkets, people, noise, parking etc when we get back from hols.
With it being a nice sunny weekend every door and window in the house has been opened to cause a draught and fans have been blown on both sides of the wall in an effort to slowly dry it out. We also had the fire on so the radiator would warm up and warm air lift into the corner above the door. An ugly yellow patch has developed over the door and in the corner fortunately no plaster has come off. The dining room has needed doing for a long time anyway but it was low on the priority list but it now has a higher place on the list – it’s a year since we managed to trap our builder into coming to do some work, at this rate I think next time he comes I think he will have to move in altogether
Eldest child rang on Sunday morning and we face timed her, her and BF had a glorious week in the lakes while we were away.
OH took her on a tour, showed her the vast empty wasteland of the totally empty freezer and the nude and devasted fridge and the mould and damp patch over the dining room door.
Eldest childs face was a picture, it totally crumpled and I thought she was on the verge of tears – so shocked and appalled by it all – I think that was the worst bit, upsetting her.
So that’s been our first weekend back