Travelling On

apple_muncher

Miss you karma. Hope to hear from you soond

Karmacat

Hiya!  The visit was kind of high octane - bro. was desperate to work on my garden, chopping back the bay laurel, and also wanted to admire my kitchen, which we did plus sister noticed the effects of the cleaning, which was very cool Then we drove 4 hours each way to see the Norfolk rellies for fish and chips at Gorleston, which is their home from home,and after quite a bit of recovery time I've started to deal with the aftermath – a pile of laurel about twelve feet square, four feet high **faints** I mean, he's not far off 70 – how can he do that much? Lost in admiration!

I also got introduced to the modern world, ie out and about post-lockdown. Gulp. Scariest thing? Public toilets, sorry for the TMI.

But when they were both here, I managed to set up the living room so that we had Social Distancing and somewhere comfy to sit and put our drinks and our lunch. It felt barking mad, but it had to be done.

I'm still working on the laurel, but I'm also queuing up the tasks in other spheres, and I've somehow agreed to redesign the garden to make it better for an "older" person, more gulping there.  Fencer still hasn't contacted me, so I'll give it a little while, but I might look for someone who does whole-garden things.  We'll see.  I want to catch up here first!

themadvix

It sounds like you had a lovely time with your siblings! Agree completely about public toilets - although I’ve found that they are being cleaned more frequently, at least. Post-use and post-handwashing hand sanitiser is the way forward, I think.

It sounds like your brother has done a huge amount of work in the garden, well done him! I’m sure that’ll help you hugely.  I don’t think 70 is what it used to be - my FIL is 70 and fitter than he’s ever been with his part time gardening job.

beanielou

Glad that you had a good time with your siblings. 

Karmacat

Thanks both!  Yep, he was amazing - he had a lot of physical jobs earlier in life, but for the last 20 years or so he was in my line of business   

Today: well, carry on with the laurel, play with the garden design (I can't help it!) but also get the new computer up and going - I'm having trouble logging on, including the router going offline, which I *think* is being caused by the computer.  Don't know, we'll see.  Coffee and food first, though I got up so late  

rtandon27

Well done on forming full sentances before coffee! I'd have needed at least two to accomplish that feat!😙

Glad to hear sibling meet-up went well!

teapot2

Glad the visit plus all arrangements for social distancing went well:)

Karmacat

Thanks you two I've just done some work on getting more of the laurel out to the front, and swept up lots of detritus, existing and recent Finding it very difficult to make myself work on hte new computer - I don't think I'll try today, just keep going with this one, and try to update tomorrow. 

beanielou

Is your DB coming back?
Maybe if he is he could help you with the computer? 

Karmacat

He isn't, beanie, its 300 miles and he now needs to be on hand to help his DiL shop for her family (his eldest grandsons) and her parents, who are both very ill, plus getting the kids to school.  He has a lot on his plate day to day, which is why we really wanted this to be a holiday for him.

I have a new computer that should be fine - as long as the new router carries on working!