Get a grip woman!

foxgloves

You are always so busy, @Suffolk_lass. Glad to hear the naughty heating is working, anyway.
F

beanielou

Hope all your deliveries come.

Suffolk_lass

I stayed in yesterday and did indoor stuff, except when stir craziness meant I insisted Mr SL sit with dog and read while I shot over to the other side of big local town to deliver the 72 toilet rolls that were cluttering up the house (Big River subscription) to the TT Food Bank. They always seem so surprised but I have been taking the same amount every other month for 6 months now and regularly see the same person. They never write it down so I suppose it would be a surprise. I would be planning better based on these regular donations. Having seen them and watched, it is moderately chaotic and I could not volunteer in such a disorganised place without taking over and making organisational improvements.

I made the last two courgette and lemon cakes for the year, and froze them, and also did lemon and thyme stuffed lamb's hearts for supper (with potato, carrot and cabbage). Proper old-fashioned, slow cooked dinner that was £1.89 for two hearts.

The boards for the toilets were delivered and are under DH's motorbike, in the cart lodge. My new (to me) computer arrived five minutes after I left for the foodbank so DH received that. The 40cm high railings were delivered too and when I get the hedges done I will push these in the ground to make the borders dog-proof. The remaining item from my subscription has not been dispatched (Big River EU) Christmas prep chocolate - and the item I was waiting on for the Village Hall (which was collected by Yodel on 4th October) remains MIA so I have asked for a refund. Yodel never fail to disappoint round here. Value of goods makes no difference. They just never come.

Today we are in and out with our friend (who we are paying), pruning, cutting hedges and clearing garden waste. He has moved from farm work (manager) to self employed garden maintenance. I've just persuaded him to try my tummy protector belt (aka short bungee) to stop his lack of bum causing his trousers to fall down. I use one, through the belt loops and hooked onto one, not going across my navel, so not digging in, as I loathe belts and this stops my trousers falling down! It's not a fashion statement but it works. I think that, despite his assertion that he has no hips, it works for him too and he is slightly impressed.

DH was attacked by our bees as he opened them to feed them syrup. He's not happy!

I must go out and get my rake to clear more up after my 15 minute break.

beanielou

Poor DH

Suffolk_lass

The product of the day's activity was 16 of those 1-ton aggregate bags full of garden clippings in 3 large caged trailer loads taken to the farm for burning. I was a little tired yesterday!

I had to be up and dressed by 07.00 as the toilet I ordered was coming. It was expected -7.00-08.00 and was here at two minutes to 08.00! Still, I made rock cakes and eventually bread (very slow to prove). We had our supper as a late lunch, intending to have soup later but skipped it as neither of us were hungry. It wasn't the cheesy leeks I made though, it was the rest of the small batch of buns that were consumed with a cup of tea! 

I need to push money to our friend to cover the work and the rat bait he bought for us at the Country Store and item for the Village Hall Cash and Carry. And I have now claimed back from Big River as the seller of the item for the VH has not responded. Our friend got them for us instead. I will add this to the amount I pay him, and claim for the three things from the treasurer

Suffolk_lass

I'm at home with the animals this morning after DH got up just after 6 (that is 3 hours early for him! - not asleep, just in bed, or sitting on the edge, frittering away the morning[I am a lark, can you tell?!]) - he has gone to the north of the county for his local bike jumble and has actually taken two exhaust pipes to sell. I wish I had thought to suggest he take the axle stand too. Anyway, I have been pottering on here and have prepped veg for dinner (number 3 of the six chickens has been defrosted and we will have a low-key roast). I do have a bit of a list

 Among other jobs:

1. I turned the heating off completely last night. I need to reprogramme the heating controller so it can run on the programme rather than the brutal manual on-off approach that means I regularly leave it on by mistake. 
2. I need to time machine image one computer to the other (!) and 
3. I want to get some honey jarred up and labelled. 
4. Oh, and I must-must-must read the book club book as it was my choice. I have five others I want to read and just lack the discipline to sit and just read. Thank goodness December is "read your own choice and report back" month
5. I want to feed more syrup to the bees here - I need to do this before it is too cold overnight for syrup.
6. I want to plant some bulbs too

beanielou

Exactly why I don’t do book club anymore! 

Watty1

I'm not sure many of my book club read the book but we have jolly good fun anyway. I confess more than once I've had to resort to online summaries as I've not managed to read the whole book!   i still love our book club though, a fun and free evening out (the library provides our books and the librarian just chooses for us).

Suffolk_lass

All day trying to sort this new computer out. How very testing (not quite the words I am using but it sums it up nicely!)

foxgloves

@Suffolk_lass - I consider myself fortunate that Mr F loves setting up new tech. It bores me rigid.....not the using of it in my everyday life & interests, that's all fine, but the setting it up, making it talk to the printer/scanner, faffing with settings, etc. I could do it if I had to (as long as our home remains swear-box free), but am more than happy to leave him to it.
Hope by the time you read this, you have made progress with it.
F