Simple living in the country - back to basics

KajiKita

rtandon27 said:

I put washing up to dry in the summer house yesterday on a jury rigged shower curtain pole.  It rained overnight and the temps dropped a lot, so it's taken all day today to dry.

We also put together a flat pack bistro set & garden bench thinking it would be a beautiful evening and could sit out and have dinner.  The temp dropped even more & the heavens decided to open.  Dried laundry has been brought in and garden furniture now resides in the summer house along with the gorgeous vase of flowers from the garden that was residing on the bistro table.  SIGH - why does the weather not do what the forecasters say it's going to do? 🤣🤣🤣

Coz then it wouldn’t be the UK? 🤷‍♀️😉😊

KK

Tescodealqueen

Well our rain arrived overnight been up since 4am because our old retriever is terrified of thunder  woke us up and wouldn’t settle. He’s now fast asleep and I am wide awake. Things we do…

KajiKita

Tescodealqueen said:

Well our rain arrived overnight been up since 4am because our old retriever is terrified of thunder  woke us up and wouldn’t settle. He’s now fast asleep and I am wide awake. Things we do…

Awww bless …. 😉😊❤️
Mr KK is adamant that La Belle Floof is scared of thunder. LBF is oblivious…. Perhaps it is Mr KK who is the scaredy-cat here ….? 🤔😉

KK

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear to being scared of the storms! I confess I saw a flash of lightning as I was dozing off, and heard a roll of thunder, but as soon as Mr Cheery had confirmed the router was unplugged, I went straight to sleep 😂

So, today. We are due thunderstorms this afternoon - I did some washing last night so I'll get that on the line ASAP (had a nice and much needed lie in!)

Then a pottering day, which may or may not involve:

* repotting some supermarket basil
* adding new compost to the rose bush in a pot near the house
* watering the seedlings
* checking the hose is working to get water from the greenhouse roof into the IBC tank - still haven't got this quite right and it meant it didn't fill up over the winter 🙄 Hopefully sorted now but since it's about to rain I'll check again
* might do a bit of weeding the veg patch - the courgettes and beans are nearly ready to go out (will wait til after the thunderstorms though)

Also, inside the house
* finish the blog post i started yesterday
* get the blinds up in the bedroom!
* do a bit of sorting in the sewing room - got someone staying over in it at the weekend and while it's decent as it is, I do want to actually get the sewing machines set up in there. 
* bit more batch cooking for the week

We'll likely take a little trip out somewhere at some point too, and I've got another busy week so it would be good to make sure everything is in order before work tomorrow.

Been messing about on the phone a lot lately so I might declare the rest of today an Internet free day and see if I can get a bit more done.

Karmacat

I unplug a lot of stuff overnight, but we had thunder forecast last night, so I unplugged the router too.  And we *did* get thunder, but it was pretty far away.  Still, as they say, if you can hear it, its an issue.

Have a good day today  

Cheery_Daff

Thanks 😊

Well, I got a fair bit of pottering done, but not everything on the list of course 🙄😂

* Got the washing out and dried

* took the furry rug out of the spare room outside and gave it a good bash and brush. I think it needs a good soak in the bath but it won't get one now til we have another guaranteed weekend of good weather.

* Mr Cheery did a load of strimming (i don't normally put stuff he does on my list 😂But I'd been intending to do it myself, and it got done, so...) 😂

* did some sorting in the sewing room

* more batch cooking - coconut dahl this time, and put the cauliflower cheese in the freezer too

* got stuff ready for today

* general clean of the kitchen about 18 loads of washing up 😱😂

* scrubbed the bath

We popped to town as well and now have some lolly ice moulds 😁 And found a new to us cafe, so that was nice as we don't have a regular one in that town other than the supermarket cafe.

Didn't finish the blog post, get the sewing machines upstairs, or do anything in the garden except change the strimmer line and read my book 😂

Work today, and supposedly a dentist trip, although my last five (or is it six now?) have been cancelled so I'm not holding my breath 🙄 Fingers crossed - I've had a temporary filling in my crown since January and it really could do with being done properly! 

In MSE news, I have all meals and snacks packed, dentist work was paid for in April last year (and STILL hasn't been finished), and I've managed to bag a free parking permit for the office, saving me either £7 (for parking on the street) or almost 2 hours of walking back and forth to the car/dentist if I parked in a free spot further away - very exciting!

Cheery_Daff

And I'm here on my own tonight, so a list:

6-7
* make tea with spare for tomorrow
* water the greenhouse!

7-8
* exercise video
* parcel up router and clothes for return
* pay for flute repair and donation from conference
* banking

8-9
* flute practice

9-10
* blog post
* laze around

Tight schedule! 😂 and I may decide to do the exercise video before tea (or not at all if my face hurts after the dentist). But it'll give me an incentive to leave work by 5 - which will be easier if I've actually got there before 9, which I won't do the rate I'm going! 

rtandon27

Cheery - I just love that your list includes 'laze around'

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 got to be realistic! 😂😂

Well folks, I am delighted to report that I did in fact have my long-awaited dentist appointment today! Apparently my last one was in March - I'm actually not entirely convinced about this, I thought it was January... 🤔 Might read back through my MSE waffling to see.

I also wasn't expecting to be charged, but they actually charged me £66 😠 I did query this with the receptionist, enough for her to go and get the dentist, but they insisted it was right. I was under the impression it was all the same treatment plan - I paid in April last year (in fact it may have been earlier) for two crowns - under one payment because they did them at the same time (they offered, I hadn't realised that was an option).

They took forever to do them, then I got an infection under one (after not very long at all, about a month, if that) and had to have root canal treatment, but they couldn't get to all the roots on one day, so I had to go back, they out a temporary filling - and today was them FINALLY replacing that with a proper filling.

OK, that sounds like a lot 😂 and maybe I'm actually getting a bargain. But for me, that all came under 'fitting the crown and sorting out the associated infection'. They pointed out it was over a year, so they had to charge a new fee or something- but it wouldn't have been over a year if they hadn't cancelled the appointment so many darn times! 

Anyway, I don't feel inclined to start a formal complaint about someone who sticks a drill in my mouth regularly , especially not with dentists in such short supply eight now, so I will grumble here, and make sure I keep better records myself next time.

For now I'm just grateful it's done.

Didn't go back to work after, I was in there for over an hour and I'm still quite wiped now. Going to prioritise emergency flute playing, everything else might have to wait...

Karmacat

My sympathies, Cheery.  A bit of tooth has fallen off a huge filling I've got, and when I looked at my dentist's website last night, they said NHS appointments were like hen's teeth, they can't get the staff, so going private is the only option.  If I can't get onto Denplan immediately, I'll have to pay the actual private rates myself.  As you say, no complaints, if possible, to people who stick their hands in your mouth with pointy instruments 😮