The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

MrsFarmer19

Morning all!

I've been offline for a while, thought I'd have a peep on here today! 

I'm still off work, waiting for occupational health to ring at 10.30am, hopefully this time they'll actually ring me!  Still taking dog to vets every week, she needs bathed every other day and cream applied to various areas which is quite time consuming but she's a lot brighter today thank goodness!
I've got 3 orders for christmas cakes so need to make those this week and also have a chocolate themed birthday cake to do for Sunday so that's keeping me busy.
Lovely other half and I have decided not to buy gifts for each other for christmas so I don't need to worry about that now.  
I'm feeling so much better, despite my manager ringing me yesterday to see when I was going back to work - not sure she should be doing that tbh!

Hope everyone is ok!

Jxxx

MrsCD

How are you doing, @MrsFamer19?


I thought someone might like to try a very seasonal craft...making an ice picture!

Here's one I made yesterday...

burtha

ohh I was just looking at those last night   beautiful ice thing with leaves in .  May give it a go tomorrow with a grandchild  

MrsCD

Use cooled boiled water, @burtha
It freezes clearer. Have fun! We have to enjoy the simple things, don't we!😁

MrsCD

This was the picture this morning, on the ground after a slight thaw...

MrsCD

Happy New Year all fencers who are still around!! Hope you had a great Christmas and are looking forward to good times this year. I'm going to make the best of what we have and be extremely frugal this year.

MingVase

Happy Christmas Mrs CD

burtha

Happy new year everyone x

pollyanna_26

MrsCD said:

Happy New Year all fencers who are still around!! Hope you had a great Christmas and are looking forward to good times this year. I'm going to make the best of what we have and be extremely frugal this year.

I've been a bit awol Mrs CD. I swear I will never again lift a very heavy mattress on my own. My ribs are still complaining! I love the ice picture . It's pretty icy here and the very early plants are flowering so I think I'll give it a go.

I started watching the Winter Walks that brought such joy last winter. I managed to remember to record a few this time. The Yorkshire Shepherdess  and tonight my favoutite poet the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage on a lovely long walk. Worth catching up on.

It's a nice surprise to check the forum and find familar folk chatting over the fence, Wishing you all the best for 2023. Better health to the poorlies and hopefully an early spring for all.

Take care .

pollyx

pollyanna_26

When I posted a few days ago I meant to ask if Mrs Farmer was ok and her work had made contact to help sort out when she would be well enough to return to work rather than feel pushed into doing so.

I hope either way she is ok.

I think there are a number of regulars with ereaders. I've been wondering whether to get one rather han more and more books. Years ago dd1 offered to buy me the new paperwhite kindle she'd just bought one to replace her original model. It always surprised me as her career was in selling real books.

I had a try of hers but didn't take to it.

Over the years I've downloaded quite a lot of ebooks to my cloud some all the way back to Elaine Colliar who was Memory Girl on Mortgage free in 3 on MSE and smaller ebooks by Rhonda Hetzel in Australia whose big hardbacks I still have.

Most recent one I bought was for the new Windows update. I'd meant to buy the book but ordered the ebook by mistake. I can see the titles of the ebooks on the big river site in my cloud but am unable to read them.

I'm beginning to wonder if I should buy a Kindle or something similar to access those books.

Had an email from youngest dd earlier. She's been struggling to concentrate on books and that 2nd to last Rebus still isn't finished. She'd normally whiz through that overnight.

So she emailed to say she was knitting. Along with make up toiletries etc her boyfriend bought her a Kindle for Christmas/ Birthday her birthday is just a few days before Christmas day so she tends to get combined presents.

She was saying she 's knitting a cover for a Kindlle using some of the Srdar Crofter I took down to her *early in shielding  at the start of the pandemic. I'd almost forgotten filling a very large bag with yarn.

It has reminded me of Mrs CD mentioning downloading Round about a pound a week by Maud Pember Reeves then knitting or crocheting some lovely wrist warmers from an online pattern

Our local Hospice charity shop and the Lifeboat and Air Ambulance shops are good at collecting donations left at the end of the drive.Especially books.

I'm wondering if anyone would recommend an e reader. There are some books i wil keep they're all shelved, organised and dusted but I don't want to leave it to someone else to have to dispose of them some time in the future

Deliveries from the big river site are more difficult now due to unreliable couriers. Royal Mail strikes have affected the post deliveries and binmens strike followed by those at the tip taking action has meant nothing seems very normal.

I'm not antistrikes. My own son a senior mainline train driver is on strike today as a member of ASLEF. his late dad would be horrified . He never went on strike but would never cross an official picket line.

No winter walk to watch tonight. Just another wet and windy weather forecast though friends in Scotland have had worse. Times like this I start thinking Wind in The Willows and can humans hibernate- it didn't work last year. The fieldmice on my Brambly Hedge china wall clock had the best idea. High above the corn stalks in their snug winter quarters

Two comfy armchairs and a roaring fire. Mr Mouse toasting his toes in his comfy chair by the fire and Mrs Mouse carrying supper in on a tray.

I'll be so glad when spring arrives. The Christmas Gift Hyacinths I planted after various Christmases as they give me a headaache are about to flower in the front garden where i used to rehome them . So are the earliest of the Snowdrops so reasons to be cheerful on the dullest of days

pollyx