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Pixiehouse55

Hellooo Mrs Foxgloves and Gang.
Sorry to hear about your ankle Mrs F.  Hope it's better soon. Sounds like you have all been very busy. Well. We have found someone at last to do the decorating for us. We realised we needed a new Garage Door as ours has had it! Someone tried breaking in it many years ago, so hubby put  iron bars etc across inside of our garage door as he has a lot of wood working tools, and stuff I there. Not a bad price for new garage door and the decorating and it's all money that we have saved up. (Must update my signatures) hubby has managed to sell a lot of his tools. I've sold some of my craft stash,loads more to sale. Onwards and upwards. Take Care and keep safe xx

foxgloves

Hi @Pixiehouse55, You are doing well with your clearing out. You can't take it all with you on a narrowboat, though so all good progress for your future plans. Thanks for ankle sympathy. Still hurting. I think it will improve in its own time if I am reasonably careful - hope so.
F x

foxgloves

@Sun_Addict - Yes, it was certainly a 'thing' for nosy people in the 80s - opinionated folk who wouldn't have batted an eyelid if it had been a 23-year old groom! We were in our 30s when we married, so it was perfectly 'normal' by then.
F 

foxgloves

Hello Sunbeams,
Oooh, it's a hot one here! I love the coolness of a summer morning in a hot spell. I was out in the garden by 7.45 this morning. I planted all the outdoor tomato plants in their final positions & rigged up cane/string supports, hoed a bed for the first lot of courgette plants & put them in, watered & planted out a few more bedding plants. Stopped at coffee time as too hot for digging & not helpful for my bad ankle either.
New curtains pressed, gathered up & now hanging at bedroom window. They look so fresh & breezy compared to the old ones which I have loathed since roughly the week after I bought them. Had the LBM not struck, I'd have binned them off & bought new for sure!
I've also planned next week's meals including a recipe I haven't made before from a healthy slow cooker book. Not much food prep to do tonight as I am spicing up leftover chicken & various veggie additions & serving with home made garlic flatbreads from the freezer. 
Had my 2nd jab last night (I know how to gallivant on a bank holiday, don't I?) so am wondering if I'll get side effects kicking in 24 hrs later like last time. Am fine so far apart from sore arm. 
Well, who has time on a lovely sunny day to read my drivel? I'm off to do some piano practice then I think I deserve a cup of tea in the garden. 
Cheers m'dears, 
F xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

Tescodealqueen said:

I think I am quite stuck in my reading or maybe obsessive. Once I find something I like I have to read a series of books and in the correct order and I follow particular characters. Elizabeth Salander, Harry Hole, Jack Reacher. Harry Bosch, DCI Banks, DI Thorne, Wallendar, Vera, DI Perez, Kay Scarpetta, Temperance Brennan. do you see a theme? I may need therapy

I'm exactly the same  and we like similar books too 😂. You should try Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry series as his crime books are brilliant and he's written loads. I'm reading the DCI Lynley series in order at the moment and my favourite character is Sergeant Barbara Havers  😀.

HairyHandofDartmoor

I've enjoyed catching up with your diary Foxgloves. May has been a gardener's nightmare due to all the rain. DH and I had coffee in the garden yesterday and we noted that it was the first time we had done so for six weeks, due to cold or rain every weekend.

foxgloves

Hi HHoD, Nice to hear from you. Yes, not been much action on our coffee bench, either. I am very behind in the garden. Mr F says he'll help me at the weekend, as I am supposed not to be doing too much on my dodgy ankle. 
I loved the Inspector Lynley novels too.  I liked Barbara Havers, as I know what it's like at work when your mouth keeps getting you into trouble!
F X

Tescodealqueen

Thanks for the recommendations HHoD. 
Glad the curtains turned out well Foxgloves. Nice that the weather has turned better, able to get some outdoor jobs done

foxgloves

Hello m'dears,
Ah well, I shan't achieve much at all today. The side effects from Jab no.2 kicked in overnight, waking me with a headache. I still have it & feel sort of generally virussy & yuk. I've fed my sourdough jar ready to bake tomorrow, put some chickpeas to soak, finalised meal plans for next week & started the grocery shopping list. Garden-wise, I have managed nothing more than opening the greenhouse & sorting out some pots of hollyhocks which I grew from some of Mum's out of date seed stash. I've been sitting in the shade reading but I'm going to knit some more of my bedspread now - inspired by getting the curtains finished & up - as at least that will help me feel I've done something useful with my day. Will catch up with a couple of TV programmes too. I think that is as much as this jabby headache is going to allow today.
F x

HairyHandofDartmoor

Sorry you're not feeling too good Foxgloves. I'm sharing your woe as I'm also suffering from second vaccine side effects, which include a bad headache and feeling nauseous. I hope you feel better soon. It shows us how bad we would feel if we actually caught the virus.

I think you've achieved an awful lot considering that you don't feel very well .