Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

KajiKita

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Thank you 😊❤️

In a strange twist of fate the garden society visit I am going on tomorrow will include an ex colleague / friend from the crazy workplace (she also agreed a settlement with them …) who lives miiiiiles away. I saw her name (first name only) on the ‘waiting list’ for the visit along with mine but didn’t think for one minute that it could be her. It’s given me such a lift to know she will be there!! 😊❤️🤩👏

There’s been a LESSONS LEARNED EVENT here today …
Our washing machine has been getting more and more temperamental recently and this afternoon it went into a complete ‘Nah, I’m not a WM. I’m a big, locked metal box with your wet clothes inside me, and you’re not having them!’ strop … I managed to retrieve my washing eventually but it was not happy, at all. Wouldn’t move off the program, wouldn’t drain, nuffink.
I started stressing as a WM is an absolute fundamental for me! Mr KK ended up coming and helping me with it and because the drain valve at the bottom was GRINDINGLY stuck (hmmmm …. 🤔) he had to open it. Out poured all the water I couldn’t bale out from the drum and …
A pound coin
A 13 amp fuse
Various metal nuts
Various metal washers
One solitary metal nail
….!!

I think Mr KK FINALLY understands WHY I am constantly going on at him about emptying his pockets BEFORE loading the poor, long suffering machine. 🙄😂😂😂😂

It’s doing a quick test wash, but seems much happier now … 🤞

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Oh blimey, that's very much 'you are so in my bad books' territory for me 😁

greenbee

Maybe you should suggest separate washing machines?

Brewerspride

Eeek re Mr KK's stuff in the WM. Love the colours of that yarn.

How is madam Chloe?

f0xh0les

I bet the drain outlet was exactly the size of a £1 coin. Those blighters are the cause of most of my w/m dramas.… but I cant help saying thank you to it for gifting me free money.

KajiKita

Sadly the WM is still caput … 😢 Either the valve isn’t opening or the pump isn’t working but after helping Mr KK bale and empty it a second time I couldn’t face doing it a third time this evening to test it again, after we extracted some scraps of fabric from around the impeller. I foresee an engineer’s bill in my future …. And Mr KK will be heading over to his mum’s to get his washing done on Sunday afternoon … Sigh …

Still today I have also managed to clean the bathroom and loo, emptied and scrubbed the top of the kitchen bin, got all MY washing done(!😂), planned a week’s meals and made a packed lunch for tomorrow! Only just stopped …

I remember when weekends used to be restful and easy going 😂

@Brewerspride, Madame Chloe is pretty feral atm and keeps coming back filthy and with clumps of fur missing! She appears at utterly random times and didn’t come back until c. 4am two nights ago! 🙄😂 We of course, are required to be utterly welcoming and instantly provide lap and food on demand! 😂😂

KK

beanielou

Enjoy your day tomorrow. Boo to the WM.

Cheery_Daff

Sorry to hear about your wayward washing machine 😬 Maybe it's something to do with the moon - our boiler overheated this evening because I had the audacity to run a bath slightly to fast 🙄 Have turned it off in disgust. At least it's not because a pound coin i is stuck in it! (We are equally guilty of leaving things in pockets in this house - our drain is usually clogged with plectrums and inter dental cleaners 😬)

KajiKita

Thanks @beanielou and @Cheery_Daff 😊 I will test the washing machine again tomorrow once I know Mr KK will be around to help me empty it again … (hopefully not this time! 🤞🤞).

Garden visit today was interesting. I won’t say enjoyable as it was pretty hot (there were many sun traps that we stood in for long periods of time as the owner talked), the minibus was pretty cramped and airless and because we left nearly an hour late 🙄 our visit was both extended and rushed 🤷‍♀️

It’s a deliberately wild garden. Things are allowed to run an and seed themselves around. Full on permaculture so they see ground elder as a useful salad crop and don’t worry about it growing where it wants to. They do have a lot of space though - 10 acres in total! I found it somewhat challenging to what my perceptions of what a garden could / should be. For me, at this moment in time it was too wild. Just occasionally I wanted more clear open spaces, some prettier plants, some brighter colours here and there. The whole space was gardened the way it wanted to evolve and for the wildlife. The wildlife certainly loved it - we saw dragonflies, masses of butterflies, all kinds of little flying and crawling insects and that was just what was around in the middle of the day.

Perhaps it is just ego driven dominance in me that is reacting to this as ‘not being enough of a garden’. But also may be not, as I didn’t react that way to the equally wildlife busy space of Yeo Valley organic garden … Something to ponder on further as I try to evolve my patch.

I did manage to tie up and organise my greenhouse this morning, though I note my cucumbers are already succumbing to mosaic virus … 🙄😢 I will have ripe baby tomatoes to pick to go with my first breakfast tomorrow 😊❤️

Chloe came home at 6.20am this morning! 😳😂😂 (I heard the cat flap go and checked the time.) As a result she has spent ALL day asleep and has now vanished again … Remind me again why we have a cat … ? 🤔❤️

Made toasted sweet pepper stuffed with cottage cheese and lentils for tea and am about to go out and do some exploratory removal of ‘stuff’ from under the contorted hazel for a bit to see if I can make space for something more interesting … If I can, I will skip the gym and work in the garden tomorrow morning, if I can’t it will be the gym. It’s in the lap of the Gardening Gods … 😉

KK

beanielou

Chloe is some girl.