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[suzysunshine7]

I'll cut you a Slice, trim the middle bit out, and take the topping off ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

I am feeling SO incredibly blessed today ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>

After a rough night of barely even managing to doze I woke up feeling absolutely terrible this Morning and also really down and extremely depressed with it all as well.

Everything pretty much started off badly mainly because I was originally supposed to be going out with Mum either yesterday or today - but, with one thing and another, it soon became obvious a few days ago that it just wasn't going to be possible.

My lovely Neighbour couldn't drop me off anywhere because he has got Car trouble, my Mum couldn't spare the time to be with me anyway because my Dad is currently suffering from very bad episodes of AF. And I'm not really up to managing being out on my own at the moment due to being barely able to straighten up my Back and to walk more than a few steps, I also have one of my Arms strapped up and in a Sling and the usual limited use of the other one - plus Tia sadly seems to be having one of her rather quiet and weary days which means she wants/needs company and lots of extra care and cuddles.

At 1am on Tuesday morning I went online and arranged for a Tesco Home Delivery Order for today including some very much needed bits and pieces to make up Sunday Lunch and the four Easter Eggs that I really wanted for my M&D - with fervent hope in my Heart but no real expectation of them still being available and in stock today with it getting to be this near to Easter Sunday. And, sure enough, three of the four Eggs were showing up as being sold out and unavailable online as of 9pm last night.

I also hadn't managed to get the absolutely wonderful Fran who does my Nails at the Beauty Salon a 'Leaving To Have A Baby' Card or the Gift Voucher either that I wanted to include in with it and her Maternity Leave will be starting this Friday! It was all turning out to be a disaster of a week with me just feeling ever more helpless and hopeless by the day ;o<

Then! ... first thing this morning the Postman only turned up with the Simnel Cake that I just ordered yesterday! - and it looks both amazing and delicious! - YAYYY!!! ;o> ... and he also delivered a last minute (bought at 4pm yesterday) blind panic Amazon Order of a 'Leaving To Have A Baby' Card as well - and it's not only really beautiful but is also exactly what I was wanting for Fran - DOUBLE YAYYY!!! ;o>

Then! ... my Neighbour unexpectedly came round at Breakfast time and told me he was planning on walking to the Shops, as his Car is still out of action, and could he possibly help by buying anything that I might want?! - so I gave him the Money and he came back a couple of hours later with the Gift Voucher that I wanted for Fran's Card! - TRIPLE YAYYY!!! ;o>

Then! ... Tesco turned up an hour ago AND all of my Order including the four Easter Eggs were delivered! - and all of them in perfect condition as well with not a single bash, a scuff or a breakage! - WOO-HOO!!! ;o>

Everything could have so easily have stayed completely pear-shaped way on all of these things today - and so I reckon that I really must have a Guardian Angel that very kindly watches over me ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Good to hear that most of your plans came to fruition, suzy :)

[Val]

This is Suzy (in the words of Michael Rosen):

I tell you--
I was so happy
So happy I tell you
I could have grown a tail--
and wagged it.

And justifiably so! Great to hear of your good day Suzy.

[suzysunshine7]

HA HA HA HA HA!!! ... you really hit the Nail on the Head there, Val! ;o>

After I posted I suddenly felt completely and utterly exhausted so, although I rarely ever sleep during the day, I decided to just go with it as my Eyes were pretty much determined to keep on shutting themselves anyway ... and I've just woken up, rather bewildered and disorientated, to find myself staring right into the sparkling Eyes of a happy little hairy woofer who is lying alongside me and wagging her Tail like mad as if to say "Hello! - is you awake now?! - 'cos my Tummy says that it's my Tea-time"

LOL!!! ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

I'm punch-drunk exhausted so I'm off to Bed early for a change ;o>

It's certainly been a quite amazing day luck-wise! - perhaps I should have also bought myself a Lottery Ticket as well whilst on such a winning streak?!! - LOL!!!

One of the best bits was Tesco happening to deliver (within the 4 hour Slot that I chose) barely a couple of minutes after M&D had just bobbed out to go to the Drs ... so I got to sneak their Easter Eggs into the House and get them safely hidden away in the bottom of my Wardrobe without M&D getting to see them yet ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Never works out that way for me - every time I book a four hour delivery slot (very rare these days) mine always turns up in the last half hour of the slot, which means that by the time I've put it all away, it's time for bed.
I never manage to get a slot for earlier in the day as I really begrudge paying too much for delivery, especially given what they charge for the one hour slots - no staff concessions there, unfortunately.

Talking of staff concessions, last week we were all given a voucher for a free hot meal in the staff canteen - a voucher that is valid for this week, while I am on holiday!
Even if I had been at work, the canteen doesn't open until half past ten (the opening hours are based around the warehouse shifts), quarter of an hour after my standard finish time so I'd be at home by the time the canteen opens. If I finish late, then the canteen has invariably closed so this voucher isn't worth anything to me.

[Lez]

Here, all time slots at both Tesco and Sainsbury’s are 1 hour. Tesco charges £2 to £7 depending on the time. Sainsbury are £1 to £6 and on Mondays to Thursdays delivery is free after 2pm if you spend over £100. Sainsbury’s also use a green van symbol to indicate when a delivery is already booked for your area so they can save travel time and petrol.

[[deleted user]]

Just tried to set up an Iceland account for home delivery only to be told that they don't deliver to our area?
Every other supermarket delivers out here, and it's not as if we're off the beaten track.
I'm absolutely gobsmacked!

[[deleted user]]

Another lovely day here - all the doors and windows are wide open, and I've just heard the first lawnmower start up! :)

[suzysunshine7]

It is indeed a glorious day! ;o>

I can hardly remember when we last had such a warm, bright, and a dry Spring-time as we have had this year? I've been busy, busy, busy and happy, happy, happy all morning and it just feels SO good to be alive and to be feeling like I really am getting back to being my sunny little self once again ... YAYYY!!!

I'm actually looking forward to Easter Sunday this year ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "Talking of staff concessions, last week we were all given a voucher for a free hot meal in the staff canteen - a voucher that is valid for this week, while I am on holiday!
Even if I had been at work, the canteen doesn't open until half past ten (the opening hours are based around the warehouse shifts), quarter of an hour after my standard finish time so I'd be at home by the time the canteen opens. If I finish late, then the canteen has invariably closed so this voucher isn't worth anything to me."

Have you tried swapping them with someone for something far more useful? - LOL!!! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Non-transferable, no monetary value and voucher number noted upon issue, so I can't even give it away.
The question was asked, but we can't even use them in the store staff canteens, only the canteen in the depot :(

Probably for the best really, as it would have been a fried breakfast, which I'm trying to be a good boy and avoid :)

[suzysunshine7]

Lez wrote: "Here, all time slots at both Tesco and Sainsbury’s are 1 hour. Tesco charges £2 to £7 depending on the time. Sainsbury are £1 to £6 and on Mondays to Thursdays delivery is free after 2pm if you spe..."

Tesco here offers up two options on Home Delivery ... the Hourly Slot can cost up to anything between £4 to £14 - but the Flexi Four Hourly Slot costs a lot less at around £1 to £7 with the very rare odd Slot suddenly showing up once in a while for just 50p ... and at least twice now over the last couple of years I have even managed to book myself what I call the 'Magic' Slot for £0.00p! ;o>

We also have the Green Eco Slots showing up although I notice it far more on the Asda and Morrisons Websites here than I do anywhere else.

[[deleted user]]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "It is indeed a glorious day! ;o>

I can hardly remember when we last had such a warm, bright, and a dry Spring-time as we have had this year? I've been busy, busy, busy and happy, happy, happy all ..."

Nothing like a bit of nice weather to help lift the spirits, is there? :)

Been busy here too - we've had a bit of a clearout to make some room in the garage, resulting in two trips to the tip, now that we've found out where it's moved to!

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "Just tried to set up an Iceland account for home delivery only to be told that they don't deliver to our area?
Every other supermarket delivers out here, and it's not as if we're off the beaten tra..."

I see this complaint posted up all the time in the Comments Sections on their Facebook Posts. Iceland also have quite limited stock available online as well as instore - but they have just launched a new-look upgraded Website so maybe they will expand their Home Delivery Service more into other areas of the Country?

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "Nothing like a bit of nice weather to help lift the spirits, is there? :)"

I've really missed just being me and being happy in myself. It's been such a very long and, at times, a horrendously heartbreaking journey to get myself from 'there to here' over the last 16 months but I do feel more and more often these days like I've pretty much almost made it now. Even my M&D say that they can feel it and see it happening in me as well ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "Been busy here too - we've had a bit of a clearout to make some room in the garage, resulting in two trips to the tip, now that we've found out where it's moved to!"

They'll have to try much harder to hide from you next time around - LOL!!! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Silly sods put a notice on the gate saying where they'd moved to :)

[suzysunshine7]

Well they quite rightly deserve all they get then! ... Hee, Hee, Hee! ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Awww, I was playing peek-a-boo with the little Girl across the Road this morning - her at her Front Window and me through the Blinds in the Front Bedroom ... and I've just answered the Door and been ever so sweetly and very shyly presented with a little Cadburys Caramel Egg!!!

Apparently their Nanna brought them all a big basketful this morning and she asked her Mum if she could cross the Road all by herself just to give one to me, bless her precious Heart! ... x

I'm NOT crying, honest?! - I've just got the Sun in my Eyes! ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>

[[deleted user]]

That is so nice :)

[suzysunshine7]

She's almost six years old and such a little sweetheart ;o>

[[deleted user]]

About the same age then as our oldest Granddaughter - she will be six in August :)

[suzysunshine7]

Awww ;o>

Their Grandad is at the House almost every day doing various building work inside and out. He could quite happily talk the hind Leg off a Donkey as he works - and I could just as happily sit and listen to him all day long as well as he has a very heavy Irish Accent that I've not had the pleasure of hearing for many a year now. His voice brings me so many wonderful memories of my beloved Nan and of growing up in my first childhood Home ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Fridge cold leftover Chinese Takeaway for Breakfast ... Yummy!

Chunky Fish Fillet Butties all round for Tea as it's Good Friday ;o>

[[deleted user]]

We had breaded Southern fried chicken thighs and chips with beans and a small pot of gravy each for lunch and are contemplating cheese salad sandwiches for supper, when I can be bothered to trudge into the kitchen to make them :)

[suzysunshine7]

It's been too warm today to want to eat a lot or do much, hasn't it? ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Definitely, though we did manage a stroll down the shop earlier to pick up some cold lagers and Guinness :)

[suzysunshine7]

... and a small Bottle Of Crème De Menthe for you? ... Hee, Hee, Hee!!! ;o>

[[deleted user]]

Ha!

The Guinness was mine, and very enjoyable too :)
I was introduced to Guinness in my early teens, along with homemade wine and mead by my Granddad.
Not so keen on the wine or mead these days but still like a drop of Guinness every now and then :)

We're off to Sheffield in a bit to go and see our Granddaughter, who we haven't seen since just after she was born :)

[suzysunshine7]

Ohhh how wonderful - I hope you all have a fantastic day together ;o>

[Lez]

I’ve just seen an orange-tip butterfly! Just flying over so no photo opportunity.

[suzysunshine7]

Oooh Lez Lee - how lovely ;o>

We mainly get lots of white Butterflies fluttering around here.

EDIT : Mum says that Orange Tips are attracted to Brassica Plants such as Honesty because while they are Caterpillars they feed exclusively on the Seed Pods.

[suzysunshine7]

Cottage Cheese on Granary Toast for Breakfast and Fruit Salad for Lunch.

I haven't christened Tea yet but I'm thinking that it might be Salad ;o>

[Helen The Melon]

Lez wrote: "I’ve just seen an orange-tip butterfly! Just flying over so no photo opportunity."

Tricky little buggers to photograph. I think I have some photos from some of the butterfly surveys I did last year, but not of male orange tips. I'll see if I can find them & load some up......give me a few mins......

Edit: can only find decent Speckled wood photos at the mo, I took them to illustrate how well camouflaged they are (they're a bit, um, "where's Wally"-esque?). I have some Comma, Scotch argus, Small heath, Ringlet & Fritillary pics too, but they're not v good.

[suzysunshine7]

WoW, Helen, they look so beautiful and blend so well, don't they?! ;o>

[Helen The Melon]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "WoW, Helen, they look so beautiful and blend so well, don't they?! ;o>"

Yes, they're v hard to spot. Those two were basking on the path I was walking along in the woods. Took me ages to get half decent photos.

[suzysunshine7]

We once had to give up on a Walk between a Wood and a Beach on the Norfolk Coast because the Path in front was a huge fluttering carpet of thousands of the most stunningly beautiful turquoise coloured Butterflies and there was no way of walking onwards without stepping on them.

I've never seen so many Butterflies all just in the one place like that before or since then. We just sat down in awe quietly watching them for ages before heading back to our Holiday Cottage ;o>

[Lez]

Good pics, Helen. Do you do the BTO butterfly counts? I do their weekly Garden Birdwatch but I’ve been too dizzy to put food out for a while.
Last month on Talk Classical someone in South California posted a photo of a Painted Lady (butterfly!). He had to look it up as he’d never seen one before, but they were everywhere.

[Helen The Melon]

Lez wrote: "Good pics, Helen. Do you do the BTO butterfly counts? I do their weekly Garden Birdwatch but I’ve been too dizzy to put food out for a while.
Last month on Talk Classical someone in South Californi..."

No, i didn't know the BTO did a butterfly count! This work is for Butterfly Conservation Scotland (Highlands & Islands).

The Painted ladies (& Commas) have only been making it this far north recently. Painted lady mass migration influx varies from year to year, and it's been a few years now since we have been inundated with them up here. It never fails to amaze me that something so delicate and seemingly fragile manages to migrate such a long way from N & W Africa.

[Lez]

The Garden Birdwatch includes just about anything that visits gardens, from bees to deer. I was proud to clock up an albino squirrel a few years ago!

[suzysunshine7]

Well? - Tea went from the idea of having Salad to being Roast Lamb with Cauliflower, Carrots, Mangetout, Sweetcorn and Jersey Royal Potatoes ;o>

The Easter flowers that I ordered arrived late yesterday and they are just so fresh and so absolutely stunning! - lots of beautiful bright deep orange Spray Roses complimenting and contrasting with several huge-headed deep yellow Roses and deep bright blue and purple Irises with a yellow streak, plus a generous number of cerise coloured Spray Carnations and Germinis, all bound together with some yellow Solidago and Salal and Pistache Foliage ... a mouth-wateringly fabulous Bouquet that I'll most definitely be looking to order off Interflora again at some point in the future ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

;o> x ! WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY EASTER ! x :o>

[[deleted user]]

By the time we got back yesterday, we couldn't be bothered to cook anything so we ordered in mixed kebabs, delivery estimate 45 - 60 minutes - turned up in 20!

As soon as the fog lifted this morning, I was out there to wash both cars - they get so damn dusty round here, which really shows up on mine more than it does on Mrs Grizzly's car but, hey, while I'm out there with the bucket ... :)

I was going to follow that up with mowing the grass, but have had to beat a retreat indoors as it's getting too warm for me out there - weather forecast says it's only up to 15 degrees at the moment but it feels a lot warmer to me :)

[Lez]

Whereabouts in Sheffield are your family, Grizzly? I lived in Crosspool for 35 years and worked in Firth Park.

[[deleted user]]

Hi Lez :)

My step-daughter is currently in Broomhall, but only on a temporary basis. Not quite sure where she will end up next, possibly staying in Sheffield or maybe moving closer to us.
She is nearly as bad as us for moving around :)

[suzysunshine7]

Grizzlygrump wrote: "As soon as the fog lifted this morning, I was out there to wash both cars - they get so damn dusty round here, which really shows up on mine more than it does on Mrs Grizzly's car but, hey, while I'm out there with the bucket ... :)"

... "and Reports from Peterborough are just coming in now of a grumpy Grizzly Bear wandering around with a large Bucket. He's telling the local Children that he is the Easter BearBunny and demanding that they surrender their Easter Eggs to him - or else he'll release and set Mrs Grizzly BearBunny on them!" ...

[[deleted user]]

IT'S NOT ME!!!!

I'm still hiding indoors where it's nice and cool.

Besides, if I was that desperate for an Easter Egg, I'd just help myself to one of the dozen in the garage waiting to be distributed amongst the Grandchildren :)

[[deleted user]]

Hang on ... make that ten ...

Number two Grandson has just sauntered past with an egg in his hand saying "I've now had the two I wanted ... thanks" :)