Get a grip woman!

edinburgher

Saw this in your neck of the woods? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61551457 Disgraceful that this is a thing!

beanielou

edinburgher said:

Saw this in your neck of the woods? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-61551457 Disgraceful that this is a thing!

Read & weep.

Karmacat

Given the above, I was expecting something bad, but ... my jaw dropped.  Really shocked.

beanielou

I am not shocked, just sad.
We are going backwards as a society.

Suffolk_lass

Ah yes, I saw that. We have a lot more rural poverty than people realise and a lot of the schemes that people were able to benefit from during the pandemic have ended.

Suffolk_lass

Up at 05.15 as pup is yelping (also developing a little werewolf howl) all night at the moment with his cone stopping him sleeping. I think when it is removed we will have to start again with his sleep pattern. The trouble is that he is a little pack animal and really resents us all going upstairs at night (Stealth cat included), and although tired, he doesn't want to be alone. The slightest noise wakes him and he is just telling us about the alien invaders. The other impact is us falling asleep - me when I got back from the community thing I set up yesterday and DH in the chair last night. He has been brilliant, insisting I stay in bed while he has repeatedly got up to pup.

I may have created a nightmare of expectation when I did a 04.00 stint as I brought my pillow and a blanket down and caught two more hours on the sofa with Pup on it with me, snuggled up. I was just so desperate to go back to sleep though. 

My nod to money saving this morning is instead of making a big fuss this morning, I made soup, using the (electric) oven for 45 minutes while the electricity was still on the overnight rate after bringing to the boil on the (bottled gas) hob.

Still in the dead finance zone this month we have just ordered a few metal rods that will be used to prop the (2) trellis when the decorator needs to paint behind them. After many, months, and promised decorator going completely awol, we have one starting immediately after the holiday weekend. I need to find just over £2k to pay him (about £500 more than the other one, but I actually think this one will come). The house looks terrible at the moment. It is rendered and the paint has gone mouldy at the end where the oil boiler steam over the wall, and fallen off where the guttering has failed on the kitchen extension (of course there is no guttering on the thatched bit!).

Karmacat

It's so horrible to be so sleepless!  Very tricky training a pack animal to be alone overnight, I don't envy you that.  Necessary, but still!

Suffolk_lass

Well, Pup went to the vets and we were expecting the cone to come off, based on the advice from a week ago but no! poor little chap has got it until the scabs from the stitches have gone; 3-5 days. The Vet-nurse was impervious to my comments about us not getting any sleep. So last night he was in the study, in front of the tiny oil-filled rad (on!) with his bed in a pen and the blind down and closed. I'm afraid I woke him at 04.15 when I needed the loo so another early start for me, but hopefully when DH comes down, it will be to tell me he had a good night with no further trips downstairs to take pup out. The milkman comes at some point between 00.30 and 02.30 on a Thursday so we discussed how best to mitigate those alien noises and the study is at the end and quite warm and quiet. Hopefully it worked.

I need to scan the PC with MacKeeper today as it is running rather slowly after DH fiddled with it and it hung. It took ages for the outstanding OS update to complete. On the upside I fiddled on my phone and got the "Wordle" quickly this morning.

Still in the dead zone for finances but I need to work out what I am going to do re shopping as DH goes to his motorcycle rally on Tuesday and I need to shop on Thursday but will be flying solo with pup.

trix-a-belle

I feel your pain on getting render painted, I've worked around all the bits on mine that I could do myself, then got started on what could be done with someone holding a ladder, the top half of 1 gable won't be getting done at all as its almost physically impossible/would cost an astronomic amount to get a professional/appropriate platforms thanks to where their built the conservatory, apparently maintenance access wasn't considered.
Fingers crossed the cone of shame can be removed soon and everyone an sleep peacefully

Suffolk_lass

Got some slightly more complicated bee manipulations going on at the moment and meeting a man in a cafe later... to acquire two charged queen cells he has bred. I think I might bake a quick orange sponge (as several others have this week in other threads (lol, can't get the idea out of my head). We have one vile hive to go into and a split (deliberate) that we want to add a queen to, in order to prevent emergency queen cells being pursued.

Took cone off pup yesterday and so far so good with the licking.

Planted out courgettes that I started at the beginning of the month when we got home. Still got pumpkins and butternut squashes to plant out but they can wait a bit longer (I want to use the potato bed for two or three and I may need to use the compost bins as planters...) DH also planted a few carrots and beetroot seeds, just to get some succession seeds in. Just the massive sink to move today or tomorrow, before DH sets off on his epic road-trip, so that I can refill it with compost and get my snip and come again crops going.

Absolutely nothing happening money-wise but I think I may shop tomorrow, while DH can puppy sit.