Old Style Daily Thursday 16 April 2020

Gers

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Gers

Good morning folks. 

Another quiet start to the day then!  😀 

Yesterday my delivery came on time and broke up the day. The bloke was very good and dropped the bags just inside the front door whilst I stood away. That's the heavy stuff in for the next couple of months. 

The rest of the day was spent in reading. I really wanted to go out but managed to resist a bit longer. Once DM's cleaner is here I'll nip out for a walk. 

DM's crossword friend has been shielded for over a week now though has heard nothing about online deliveries. He normally has one every week and now can't get any organised. I'll have to do some shopping for him tomorrow. He's getting quite distressed about being 'ignored'. I suspect that Tesco are a tad overwhelmed but it's awful to be left in limbo without what should be automatic. 

I hope everyone is doing OK, seems we'll have another three weeks to go. It'll take some grit to get through. Perhaps the sunshine will help. Happy Thursday to all. 

camelot1001

Morning All

Another lovely bright start to the day, I'll leave the washing until I get back from work, we have to strip off as soon as we get home and put everything into the wash and have a shower.

I was back at the allotment yesterday for an hour, all ready for some veggies now, just need them to grow! I picked some more rhubarb and made more jam. I think there's enough for the whole street now! Can't believe how dry everything is, I had to water the onions and will have to go back over the weekend to water again.

More of the dreaded drive done yesterday too, should have it finished by the weekend if the weather stays good. A neighbour handed in some magazines so I spent an hour outside reading and enjoying the sunshine.

Hope everyone is safe and well, we can do this! Take care. XX

TravellingAbuela

Morning folks and thanks GERS. Another beautiful start and forecast to remain so all day yet again.. I even managed another long sleep but will pay for it eventually I'm sure!. 

I ordered some geraniums and fuchsia yesterday morning from the lovely garden centre over the hill. Within 3 hours of my call they had been delivered, along with the requested compost. So that is my job for today. It'll be a stop start affair as lugging planters around is no easy job these days. I could do with a little hand cart!

I rang the Vets and explained that the elusive a/b's for Sparkle hadn't arrived and when they rang me back there was no apology for the oversight (which I assume it was!) Just someone telling me the medication would be posted and should be with me soon and could they take payment over the phone!  

So that's the extent of my exciting news for today! No jobs planned indoors (again!) and my day will alternate between emptying and refilling planters and sitting in the sun reading. When the weather is like this solitary confinement is so much easier to cope with.  Have a good day folks if you can and ((HUGS)) for all in need of them. Take care all and stay safe xx

nmlc

Morning everyone

Gers - thanks for starting us off x

Hugs to those that want/need them, those who are poorly and those who are looking after a poorly person x

Happy birthday to those with a birthday x

DH watching tv, DS1 still in his pit and I'm enjoying my first cuppa and brekkie.  DS2 settled and happy.

Bright sunny start to the day here, air a bit chilly though until it warms up.

Dinner last night was chicken thighs in a sauce, with mash and veg.  Not sure what we'll be eating for dinner maybe lasagne or spag bol.

Now on days off and am taking the leave I already had booked so not back to work until a week on Monday.

Keep safe and well x 

nmlc x 

bellabella

Morning all woke at 5.30 to get DS up for work and his motorbike wouldn't start so i ended up taking him to work just got home so not happy wasted 2.5 hours already today not that i have much to do I need to sort the rest of DD2 bits out that she forgot I may wash the living room curtains but not desperate for jobs so just a quick flit round i think 
Have a great day one and all x

-taff

Morning all. Sunny again, I'm likin this! Not a lot done yesterday, a day of tv watching, reading and general pottering. Today proves to be equally exciting, although i will add a brace the umbrella spur and start the DIY stuff. My weeks have become messed up. WHat with the Bank Holiday I don't know what day it is and we forwent the day of rest last Sunday. I think we need to start doing five on, two off or six and one or something so we know where we are...

 Seed sowing planned for next week, beans, courgettes and cucumbers, which leaves everything else. My intenational kidney seed potatoes turned up last week and they should be able  see where they're going by next week to see the dark hole they're going into. Normally I grow about six or eight beans which is enough for us but I expect I'll double or triple that this year so they can go in the freezer.

DOn't know what the plans are today, we might even go for a bike ride around the block inspired by Ruby

TA, hope the post is super quick, enjoy pottering, slowly! Gers, enjoy your walk in the fresh air. Nelski, hope the burn continues t get better. Hey all reading along, Too slow Thursday....

monnagran

Morning all.

Another lovely day in prospect.  I just wish that my garden was in a fit state to sit out in and that I had the tools to do something about it.  Not, I hasten to add, that I am a keen gardener, far from it.  To me gardening smacks of outdoor housework, but I do love a garden and have created some out of the most unpromising patches of wilderness.  It seems that I have always had the task of taking over plots that have been neglected for years.
But that was then.  These days the spirit may be willing but the flesh is in a dismal state.

Yesterday I managed to stir my stumps and start to clear the room which is officially the third bedroom, for whatever midget your family possesses.  I hope to make it my study but it presently houses all the detritus that will eventually be housed in the shed.  When the shed is eventually built.  Which won't be until the country creaks back into life and the builder has caught up on his backlog of work.
I hope I live that long.
Anyway, the mess that is in the potential study is gradually being spread throughout the rest of the house.  Sometimes you just can't win, can you?

Poor little Sparkle, TA. Hope the meds come quickly.

Not sure what the day holds here.  I've given up making plans and just see what unfolds, and if nothing much unfolds there is always the sofa and my book.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY 

Honesty is the best policy.  But insanity is the best defence.

dumpling

Good morning everyone  

Another one here who has woken up to a beautiful morning. The sun is shining and the birds are all singing their hearts out. I had a bit of a lie in as I was up past midnight to bag a shopping slot from Tescos. I managed to get one for May 6th!  Oh well, at least I have set up a fresh fruit and veg delivery every other week so we won't get scurvy. 

Steve worked his butt off yesterday in the garden and round the house so I hope he will have a more restful day today. Lee baked a lovely banana bread with the last of our fruit and Phoebe dyed her hair blue. It looks very pretty I think she looks like a mermaid  . I unpacked my yarn and started knitting 2 projects, a pretty doll and a rainbow teddy bear. They are both new patterns to me so I am enjoying the challenge. I aim to fill one of the plastic boxes I have with different toys by Christmas.

Steve is making some homemade burgers for dinner tonight and I will make some coleslaw ( or rather my food processor will). I have many many peppers in the fridge so will have to think of what to do with them before they go off. I predict fajitas in the near future. 

My flipping uti is back  so I am feeling a bit delicate plus I keep getting dizzy spells. It's a bit disconcerting but it passes after a little while. My leg is leaking a bit too, I am falling apart. I don't want to call the nurses so we are managing it at home. Luckily I have a massive box full of medical supplies from where I was poorly last year. 

Right, Steve has made me some scrambled eggs and tomatoes on toasted tiger bread...looks lovely, so I am off. Hope you all have a lovely day whatever you are up to, take care xx

ancientofdays

Morning all and thanks for starting us off Gers. I have just looked back at yesterday's thread, your garden looks really lovely. 
Yesterday I mowed the grass, did some weeding and watering and spectacularly failed to get any housework done, and today I plan to carry on with the dratted front garden borders. I've got a couple of primroses to.move, I would like them in the back garden where I'll see them. All to be done to the accompaniment of violent sneezing. I count myself fortunate as I'm allergic only to the tree pollen at the start of the season. Also oil seed rape but you don't get much of that in suburban areas.
We had mussels last night, Li*ls best, in a white wine etc sauce, you can freeze them. That's the last of those and OH has announced that he considers my pickiness unacceptable and I am going to be served what he calls proper meals. This means, in essence, he gets to cook what he likes, whopping haunches of meat and I have to as well.  We have a load of steak so we will have steak stirfry today. Probably lamb chops too but I really can't bear those. He says I'll be ill if I keep on eating things like a baked potato with cheese, and salad. Well I'll be 69 in a few weeks and I haven't dropped off my twig yet.  Excuse the rant, I'm a bit annoyed but I also think it is quite funny.  Once, years ago, he made me a special birthday meal and he was incensed when I failed to eat it. It was liver. Not as bad as kidneys but still a thing of horror.
Hope everyone has a good day.

Gers

Once, years ago, he made me a special birthday meal and he was incensed when I failed to eat it. It was liver. Not as bad as kidneys but still a thing of horror.

That's almost funny AOD - now I love liver though wouldn't consider it a 'special birthday meal'!   

I phoned Tesco on behalf of my elderly friend, turns out that they haven't yet received any lists / database of registered shielded customers from the devolved government.  It's shocking.  Anyway, don't want to rant here, just to say that I've emailed one of the local MSPs.  Breathing....

The sun has decided to come out. I may do the same.