Get a grip woman!

rtandon27

Suffolk_lass said:

...My Mother is staying in and doing as she is told...

Thank heavens for small mercies!😁
Mine actually said thank-you for the groceries that arrived yesterday!  No moans (yet)!

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat said:

Wow to the 0.7"!  Quicker to wash, it has to be said Are you happy you've done it?  Do you like the look of it?  Very cool, in all senses of the word!

That's an interesting question. I am happy until I see this older-than-my-head person with the start of jowls in a mirror. It feels fine and quite different running my hand through it. I'm due to Zoom my bookclub on Tuesday night so the news will be out then. Perhaps if I fast until then... (no chance)

Suffolk_lass

I think the fact that my Mum has got used to being in on her own for most evenings has meant she is content in her own company. My Dad died when she was 64 so at 90 she has got used to it. She rejected the possibility of another relationship early on in widowhood and was doing all her socialising with friends and family in the daytime. She was having a little vent about the amount of time some people spend on the phone and how little she is getting done, when we caught up last night.

"I found a box of curtains on a shelf in the big (walk-in) wardrobe in the West bedroom..." - so started last night's catch up. That meant she lifted a huge box off the shelf above her head. There is no point in saying anything but the prospect of it being too heavy or her being up a ladder in the house on her own and falling would never occur to her. In her head I think she is about 45. I suppose it keeps her young.

greent

Ah - that sounds just like my Nan before Alzheimer's aŕrived - fiercely independent When my Grandad died back in 1996 my Nan was 66 and started volunteering helping 'the old people' (some of whom were younger than her) and going to line dancing classes  

Wow! to hair length - How long/ short was it before? 

Suffolk_lass

I suppose my hair was grown-out short - approaching 3 inches (8-10cm) and itchy and shaggy looking - about 5 weeks past when I would have got it cut. I delivered flour to another lady in the Village yesterday and was seen... I keep forgetting. It is just easy now and not itchy so when she said she liked my hair, it quite surprised me.

I hope it is a degree or two warmer today, we agreed it was just a degree or two too cold for hot drinks outside yesterday - fine while we were working but just sitting was a tiny bit too cold. We should have sat in my greenhouse. It was lovely and warm in there. My hyssop and nigella trays are germinating and 4/6 sunflowers (Russian Giant) are showing

More plants coming out of there now but I really need to clear some weeds from borders before they take over. Nettles, docs and bindweed are the priority, then invasive plants that are straying. I just need to clear a bit more in the bed I have started first - gooseberries have all set fruit and it is going to be easier to see and pick of I clear the willow herb and stachys (lambs ears) that have spread into that bed. I also have a third blind blackcurrant to remove (turned into a large flowering currant) - they are hard work and take two people, two forks and a spade with loppers on standby. I do have flowering currant elsewhere - just don't want it in the fruit beds. I need the room being freed up in the greenhouse to start some roots and brassicas and I have Hollyhocks, poppies and dierama seeds to try. No need to worry about not having enough to do here...

Busy_Mee

You were quite brave SL, clipping your hair off but it sounds like it has been quite successful.
 I don't suit short hair. I have only had it short twice in my life, once when I was twelve and got nits  . Everyone mistook me for a boy. I then experimented again in my 30s and the photographic evidence demonstrates what a mistake it was. Much hooting of laughter from the fashion police.

 I have quite an angular face so need some hair around it to soften it and so am just letting it grow at the moment, apart from my fringe, which I just keep snipping at.

We are also doing lots of gardening here. I have lots of seeds on the window ledge and Mr Mee is doing battle with the shrubbery.

Suffolk_lass

Busy_Mee said:

You were quite brave SL, clipping your hair off but it sounds like it has been quite successful.
 I don't suit short hair. I have only had it short twice in my life, once when I was twelve and got nits  . Everyone mistook me for a boy. I then experimented again in my 30s and the photographic evidence demonstrates what a mistake it was. Much hooting of laughter from the fashion police.

 I have quite an angular face so need some hair around it to soften it and so am just letting it grow at the moment, apart from my fringe, which I just keep snipping at.

We are also doing lots of gardening here. I have lots of seeds on the window ledge and Mr Mee is doing battle with the shrubbery.

I can't hear that expression without The Knights of Ni (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) sketch and the voice of Michael Palin in my head 

Suffolk_lass

Monday morning and there I am, awake before my alarm at 05.30. Well once awake, that is me so have dealt with the clean washing that was in the airing cupboard, emptied the dishwasher, listened to Wake up to Money - all about restarting the economy - and caught up with all my online banking shuffles.

I must finish my Book Club book today. It was my choice and I have enjoyed it more than last month's - I hope the other women have too.

Husband removed the other Blackcurrant that had gone blind and turned into a flowering currant - my word there were deep roots. We have agreed to edge the bed with old roof tiles instead of the scaffold boards that have been there for more than 10 years and are rotten and disintegrating.

I planted (yet) more seeds as something is systematically munching its way through my bean plants

themadvix

Thanks for mentioning Wake up to Money - in like Moneybox, but hadn’t heard of that. Will catch it on the app.

Pesky slugs- do you use anything to deter them? I’ve got some wool pellets in order - seemed to work really well on my cabbages last year.

Suffolk_lass

It used to be better than now in my opinion - they recently dispensed with Mickey Clarke, the financial journalist who had been on the programme since the station started. He used to be on with Andy Verity and then Adam Parsons and Louise Cooper - all now gone and presented by people I am less familiar. In fact I owe our mortgage deal to that programme. When we added £90k to our house borrowing back in 2002 (a previous house) I asked the advisor to bring in some tracker deals and lifetime fixes. The Scarborough BS had a 4% lifetime fixed rate deal we just missed so we went with the Skipton tracker (BOEBR+0.49%) and have kept it ever since. 2 houses, IO since 2004 when DH lost his job and decided to retrain as a teacher, and paid off over well over £220k of the capital. I should contact them really about paying it off but there is an early redemption fee and admin charge that the paperwork says we will incur that is more than the interest we will pay by keeping it alive until August 22!

Potted on lots of things in my greenhouse (love it in there, can you tell!?) and planted out more pak choi and lettuces. The next batch of lettuces are germinating, but no signs yet of the spinach or third batch of runners and borlottis. The re-hashed bed is looking good. My new strawberry plants look healthy in the sink by the patio door and all the potatoes are showing through. We still have lots of weeding to do and I need to spray some ground elder if it is not windy today. Might sprinkle some root seeds and spread the netting we have over the bed to stop the pigeons. 

I'm not sure it is slugs - it could be caterpillars as we had brassicas in the bed most affected last year and the cabbage whites were everywhere!

DH went shopping and phoned to say Morries had a 16kg bag of bread flour he had picked up. It wasn't on the list (!) but he thought we could get it in case anyone in the Village wants some (!) - I had 25 kilos of bread flour delivered last Monday... I felt like Mrs Miller as we delivered 9 kilos of white powder in plastic bags to houses in the Village. He obviously had fun, explaining that prospect to the queue and cashier in Morries too. Little bags of cash keep arriving in our letter box. To their credit, Morries have not changed the price and 16kg was just £9 - I have charged £1.20 for 2 kilos as the strong zip bags I am using were expensive - one of my large purchases in February when I went to the C&C.