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S Sue - honestly it makes you wonder why some folk chose the career they are in! Clearly one DN in the wrong job!
Cranky - I know how evil gallstones can be ( DH suffered all last year) but in the liver!! Yikes! Sounds dreadful. Glad that's gone!
Yesterday evening was lovely
First off we had a surprise FaceTime call from DD, showing us her new purchase. A modern alternative to using rags to make ringlets. She looked very strange, like a sort of mad clown, but it was good to see her being light hearted and back to herself.
Then DS appeared on the doorstep with DGD. They'd come to show us their new car which had been delivered that day. Bit chilly out there but good to see them. And DGD seems much brighter with the thought of returning to school on Monday. Car is nice too!
Had a walk to the village this morning. Was actually sunny, though still cold.Think that will be the sum of today's excitement!
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Excellent News Alert !
New boiler next Wednesday. I chose the company, husband and wife team. I went with my instinct and research and although they are a small company they offered a deal where we pay for the boiler but installation/labour costs to be paid over a year. Zero interest. I feel this is a massive win. They both come across as really honest and certainly over the last 2 years out of the 5 different companies we have had in everything he said, all advice, has born out. We can manage without hot water and heating for the next week.
Am so pleased because whatever happens I know there will be a working system in this house.
Now to tackle the fire alarms as OH decided to dismantle them. Not sure why. Small steps. He seems happy with the decision so that makes me happy.
bala
xAKA : Bala La Boo & Bala Baloo
According to a lovely poster I am Bala the Brave who wrestled a Tiger. You know who you are.....
I HAVE A GOLD STAR and A MEDAL and a Title !17 -
Evening all.
i couldn’t have the jab because of previous anaphylaxis (which caused a cardiac arrest) and because it was caused by two different antibiotics. Got to wait for a call to hear what special arrangements are made, probably to have it at a hospital so there are resuscitation facilities. Bit frightening but better to be cautious than the alternative ☹️17 -
SSue thinking of you.
1 We had to go out to pick up specialist ferret food, and it was lovely to get out and a scenic route back
2 A long chat with the in laws, so lucky to love them both.
3 Dinner was an easy cheesy veg pasta bowl.
4 Candles lit, book to read but I can’t get into reading tonight.
5 We are booked in for the vaccine literally one after the other.
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3 started posts have disappeared in last 4 hrs.
Now occupied with friends and family, all in quake-affected zone.
This is why we had to practise crouching fast and small beneath our desks at Nelson Park primary school in the 50s. Recent knowledge of the big Napier 'quake was still very fresh. Normal part of NZ life.
These are biggies:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/new-zealand-tsunami-warning-after-69-magnitude-earthquake?fbclid=IwAR38EAM1dr0dZqqomoQcZeM3FjRst8x5K2kbOAqz0wwvUIa9O5aJJOhO4Q8
One old schoolfriend's sil is Mayor up North, on tvnz, telling everyone there to go up high. T and D are high up on old volcanic hills anyway, bush country. We are all having 4-way chat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56285659
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1. Chaffinch with nesty bits in beak has decided at last, after much property viewing😁. Right in &'s bathroom corner. It's been used twice in years past.
2. Took someone sans transport, safely, for jab at Town of Horse racecourse. Very slick. Astra Zeneca. No 15-minute wait afterwards, which surprised &.
3. Rugby Club virtual bingo thing organised for Saturday will be fun. &'s stonking large rumtopf and Christmas cake, donated for crimbo raffles back in November, will be rocket fuel prizes now😁.
4. 28 février St Hilaire batch of marmalade is super v.g. 12 large jars done. Pink grapefruit, limes, lemons, only 2 oranges.
5. Topsy turvy Food Hub roster yesterday meant big river walks instead. Loads of bread fed to fierce swanny swans - we conversed - ducks, terns and 1 coot. Fair few miles trekked, seeing ongoing works for the Chisholm Trail, under its new bridge and old rail one, with trains going both ways. All good. Back to black green tea in thermos - and car - as rain became persistent, then heavy.
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Thinking very much of you and OH, Suffolk Sue🙏. & read that particular Dylan Thomas poem for her person, too - nearing 21 years ago.
Good that McCulloch is back home - slowly does it.
DfV, mhags - always with you on these 1st days of successive months.
And if it's not too late, here's sthg slightly Haggis-like for your dd's special birthday.
Can't paste it. Ah well.....
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Post, &. Post now. You've lost more than enough today.
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Just now:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/mar/05/new-zealand-tsunami-warning-earthquakes-evacuation-gisborne-live
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Pleasures for today (Thursday)
1) Not a bad sleep.
2) Did 3 loads of drying in the launderette.
3) Hens OK.
4) Had a good dust and tidied up.
5) Been watching tv this evening.15 -
Good morning . Up just before the alarm goes off for work. The mistle thrush singing loudest.
yesterday was a day for working. Had swapped days so I had a stretch off. Kept busy.Nice walk with dog first thing. This morning will just be quick as it won’t be light enough for a long walk.Nice walk after. Watched a huge ball of setting sun go down behind distant hills.Chatters as I put my bins out.I’d optimistically hung out a washing in the morning...I was right to be optimistic!
mediocre tips.17 -
1. All radiators now work downstairs. First time in over 3 months.
2. Some pea seeds planted.
3. Lunch with a friend at her house. I am in her bubble. Spent a few hours chatting.
4. Finally did a menu plan.I am so much happier cooking with one.
5. My daffodils on the table. They still look goid good.14 -
Hope all your loved ones stay safe &
For yesterday,
Setting to and getting chores done.
Out to farm shop, it’s usually so busy as has a cafe attached but I was the only customer in the place. Got everything on list.
We ate main meal at lunchtime as Capt S had evening meeting, spinach & feta filo pie with stuffed mushrooms, yum.
Our young people have recently moved into their first home together, obviously no visits yet but plenty of photos to show us, we have sent various treats through post and each one has been well received.
It was just me and small dog for most of the evening so we snuggled up on the sofa together, ate toast and watched an old Poirot.16 -
Good morning all, pleasures for yesterday....
Watching my skin fade from bright yellow ( I was the colour of the laminate floor after they finished messing with my liver and I'm extremely grateful for their intervention) to a more subtle shade of "fading sunburn".
Coming home. I have antibiotics and I have to go back for an op within 4 weeks or so, but I'm home. Best friend (who now lives up here) came and collected me from hospital.
Best friend came indoors with me and fixed the HT's computer desk and wardrobe both of which had minor mishaps yesterday morning.
The help and offers of help from my friends and my cousin. It's easy to think that you don't have many friends, especially in these unsociable times, but I had so many offers of help either to see to the HT or to drop things off to me.
Putting my pjs on and climbing into my own comfy bed. There's nothing like it is there?
Thank you all so much for the messages and the thoughts, especially you SSue when you are dealing with so much yourself. It means a lot, it really does.
Take care all of you17
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