Prosperous & Creative Soul & MFW Year 3

lucielle

Glad the handyman came and you achieved so much. Fingers crossed he comes tomorrow. 

L

LadyWithAPlan

Glad you sound better and house progress is being made - loving your gardens pics 

TallGirl

What fab progress with the handyman much better to have access to stuff and easier to get rid of it all now you have pictures so no excuses just list it and hopefully people can pick up at the weekend and you will feel so much better once it is gone. 

As for the bamboo I agree it is quite boring like that. It would be much nicer to have stuff trailing down over the stones and if need some height at the back. I do like grasses obviously in the picture they are all brown and finished. If you cut them down the fresh green stuff will look so much better. You can rake through them like a brush to get all the brown bits out without damaging the new stuff. A few grases here and there can look good with other plants but if you do not like them then get rid. You could alway offer people to come and dig out for free they are very trendy now and saves you having to do it. 

EssexHebridean

Ahh now you ARE sounding better SH - I'm glad you're doing so well and got to spend time with family at the weekend too!

The handyman is also on a roll getting through your jobs - excellent stuff!

ohdearhowdidthathappen

Hi SH
Sounds like a lot of changes in your life since I last visited your now ‘old’ diary. Will catch up on this one asap 

Merlin's_Beard

You definitely sound a lot brighter and like you're getting back into the swing of things!

mark55man

so pleased to see you are getting better - take your time recovering though - give yourself a back to work plan at home as well as work

savingholmes

Thanks Jwil, DIA, Skint, Beanie and FS

I had a good day Monday - but the handyman took to his bed Tuesday so no real progress since then. I attempted to hoover the living room Monday evening and moved loads of stuff out the way - and it's still there. I pretty much hoovered the room - but then I thought I'd move furniture around - and kind of got stuck as my energy ran out. It hasn't returned yet!!

savingholmes

Thanks Lucielle, LWAP, TG, EH, Merlin, Mark and @ohdearhowdidthathappen

The handyman said he'll be back Monday.

 TallGirl said:

As for the bamboo I agree it is quite boring like that. It would be much nicer to have stuff trailing down over the stones and if need some height at the back. I do like grasses obviously in the picture they are all brown and finished. If you cut them down the fresh green stuff will look so much better. You can rake through them like a brush to get all the brown bits out without damaging the new stuff. A few grasses here and there can look good with other plants but if you do not like them then get rid...

I want things that drip down or climb up the stone. Someone also suggested I paint it which I'd consider - but you then have more upkeep. I hate bamboo. I only like 'grasses' that flower e.g. like irises or crocosmia. I don't mind the Cordyline (red leaved thing to the right) - it can look nice - as long as it's not at a height / angle where someone could get it in their eye etc. 

My stamina evaporated again. I was freezing cold all of Tuesday - possibly fighting off whatever bug the handyman has but warmed up slightly yesterday but not achieved anything more. Been watching some Narnia films and started listening to related books.

Today I had to be up early and travel to where I used to live for an (unrelated) hospital appointment. She felt I needed to extend my sick note and even then only got back a few part days of the week rather than all of them. After the appointment I nipped in a few shops to pick up a handful of items I haven't found here. I stopped at a cafe car park for a work call about my possible return. They'd be open to me starting back small but would potentially want me to be fully fit unreasonably quickly - so need to consider that some more. I had a salad in the cafe before heading the final bit home. I'm now utterly wiped.

mark55man said:

so pleased to see you are getting better - take your time recovering though - give yourself a back to work plan at home as well as work

I think you are right on this. I have a good day and think I'm sorted and feel guilty for being off - and then spend a few days recovering. The medical person said that was really normal with how ill I've been and that you really do lose muscle as soon as 8 hours of being ill/stuck in bed. Scary thought. I've put on a couple of pounds the last few days - she told me not to be disheartened by that as it was probably me putting back on some of the muscle I'd lost! We've agreed my next appointment for a couple of months time and she said it could be by phone which would be much easier. She also thinks I need to put in a formal complaint asap to the other hospital.

I have a counselling appointment tomorrow so no doubt I'll discuss all of this in more detail then too. 

Thanks all for caring. It really does give me a lift to see your responses. 

@ohdearhowdidthathappen
Catch up: I moved to a house full of bodged jobs and urgent maintenance jobs but with amazing views. Had to fix the roof, gutters, soffits, fascias and pointing. Roughly 3 weeks after the move I ended up in hospital for 8 days. Now in the sixth week of being off sick. Hopefully I will get better soon. Hugely better than I was. DD is moving with her BF's family to be within about 20-30 minutes of me mid month with this being her nearest decent shopping town - so all change for her too. DS got a new, much better job with commission that he starts around end of May/early June.

MovingForwards

Glad to hear things are improving, try not to overdo it as it's still early days.

Plants look good and there's always the option of painting the raised bed, injecting some of your persona.