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Wow, that is large! Glad you are having a good time Alicia. Didn't realise the move was so quick Patti
Yep, it'll be a change for the new school year, Desley.You're really getting around, Alicia!
Believe it or not, I have zero plans for the day!
And the new Stephen King is released today.
Hmmm.
What to do, what to do...
It's a lot of work, Patti - but we have to get out of one place and into our forever home (that sounds like a pet) before I completely run out of steam - and the ability to adapt.Then well have a much easier time traveling - no house and other stuff to worry about. I desperately need to get back to writing.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "The ELC garden here was infested with slugs and snails a couple months ago.We sent the kids in to collect them and the garden is doing well now."
Food prices are ___________ Extrocious /atrocious in this pub we will go the another one .
David must have to be a very reasonable because Alder __________ pester /cajole him.
The parents must have reasonable when it comes to _______________giving money/taking money to children.
‘David, you be reasonable because there is way either Alder will give you back or not .so therefore he is so ____________ crafty/wastrel by nature.
'This pant is so fitted one ', I don't think so that will go on me .it should be a bit * sloppy.
Sakshi implored.
Why did they decide to go another canteen?
It was really so atrocious in that canteen so that they decide to* grab food at another canteen.
They goes to another place because _____________________. They found such staled foods in that canteen/the prices of foods were a bit *steep therefore they decide to _______________________do with another canteen. /*make do with another canteen.
Shaikh wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "The ELC garden here was infested with slugs and snails a couple months ago.We sent the kids in to collect them and the garden is doing well now."
Food prices are ______..."
I am in the hope that, I would have answer from the UK person or the native speaker
Morning, everyone. Howling winds all night here.Glad your holiday's going well, Alicia.
Shaikh wrote: "Shaikh wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "The ELC garden here was infested with slugs and snails a couple months ago.We sent the kids in to collect them and the garden is doing well now."
Food pr..."
From where did you copy and paste that, Shaikh?
The whole thing would need to be re-written to make it correct, I'm afraid.
Morning all. A strange thing happened yesterday. Out of the blue a literary agent emailed me about something I'd sent them 5 years ago. They had been reading the first chapter I had sent them and had enjoyed it. They'd like to see the full manuscript.After five years! I know that messages in bottles can take ages, but this is weird. I didn't know that ghosts could rise from the slushpile after so long.
I had to email them back to say that they could read the full manuscript if they wanted (I've got it on a hard drive somewhere). But wouldn't they like to look at the five novels and three non-fiction books I've written in those five years?
Weird. Very weird. I'll let y'all know if anything interesting comes of it.
Oh, that's exciting Will!I do hope something good comes of it!
Morning all, quite cool today. Hopefully another quiet day. Very interesting Will, hope something comes of it. I do hope you find somewhere Alicia. Ooh, I know what I'd do with zero plans Patti
What would it cost to get them to Cornwall?
Thanks, Desley. I'm sure we will - eventually. One more place to see on the way home - hope we can pick one of them and they have space. The one we saw already has a two-bedroom apartment - small, but they don't have many bigger ones, and none available. It'll be interesting living in a very small place.
Small places are fine as long as they're well designed, Alicia.It was a huge learning experience for me when I left Canada and saw the size of homes in the UK.
The entire one bedroom flat Dave and I first lived in would have fit comfortably into the living room of the one bedroom apartment I had back home.
A full manuscript request's no bad thing all the same, Will - good luck with it!
Will wrote: "Morning all. A strange thing happened yesterday. Out of the blue a literary agent emailed me about something I'd sent them 5 years ago. They had been reading the first chapter I had sent them and h..."Just adds credence to the saying that nothing goes to waste, Will. Good luck!
Morning everyone.
Overcast here. Ideal for himself to retire to the potting shed and assemble our hanging baskets which he regards as his job and which I'm glad he still wants to do.
Walking down to the hairdressers later and hoping my layers have grown out enough to do a re-shape.
Good luck, Will! Quality will always be appreciated eventually.You've beaten my 2 year to a rejection letter record by a country mile!
Morning!By 9am I had walked more than in the entire day on Sunday. That's productivity for you.
Now, to continue being productive. I'd rather read.
p.s. I loved Cyprus the time I went there. We slept on the roof :o)
Yes, I bet it will be interesting living in a smaller space Alicia, but the way I look at my lack of garden is one less thing to keep on top of :-) That is very impressive Jud. Work have sent out a consultation on working hours, so will be interesting to see the results of that.
Will wrote: "Morning all. A strange thing happened yesterday. Out of the blue a literary agent emailed me about something I'd sent them 5 years ago. They had been reading the first chapter I had sent them and h..."Even if it's strange, it must have been a happy day. Your words moved and agent - a notoriously hard thing to do.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Small places are fine as long as they're well designed, Alicia...."I'd move a wall or two - but they may not let me. Also, we NEED a king-size bed - it was the first thing we acquired when we got married, 43 years ago: we need space. But I think we can accommodate the bed if we give up a living room...
You have to have your own space, and no expectations of anything else ever. It's daunting - but the community is so very nice, and the nurse has ME/CFS herself - something I've never had. Lovely woman. We'll look - and then decide - and it'll be okay.
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Oh, well that was bigger than I expected.
Are you fidgeting with widgets Jud?Afternoon all. At home painting today because there is a perishing wind from the east and I don't want to be out in it. People keep asking me if I've been on holiday - no just been weathered down at the harbour!
Younger daughter is twenty one tomorrow, scarcely seems possible.
I am fidgeting with widgets. I am procrastinating. I have been trying to chase people for information but they are not answering the phone
I've done more than just read today. I went shopping this morning, put a chilli in the slow cooker, made meatloaf and mashed potatoes and a Thai red curry.
I'm hoping Dave will clean the kitchen so I can get back to my book.
Jud wrote: "I am fidgeting with widgets. I am procrastinating. I have been trying to chase people for information but they are not answering the phone"What's a widget?
Will wrote: "Morning all. A strange thing happened yesterday. Out of the blue a literary agent emailed me about something I'd sent them 5 years ago. They had been reading the first chapter I had sent them and h..."Good luck Will, you never know!
Apparently, the thing I posted above is a widget.
I've just spent a very frustrating morning listening to social workers earnestly and with conviction explain that a 70 year old bloke convinced that he can see A) wolves snarling in the yard so he can't go out of the door
B) 4 orangutans dancing on the social workers' car
C) an invisible woman who keeps trashing his kitchen
has adequate mental capacity to refuse to be hospitalised for psychiatric assessment, should he so choose.
You couldn't make it up, could you?
Sorry to hear things are tough Lynne. Finally got into the sun. Spent the day having a broken boot catch fixed supposedly under warrenty. Garage told me lotus would never give them this on warrenty - iit failed after 6 months but thought that they would give it to me if I approached direct. So now I have to wrote to lotus direct. Garage reckons I will get some kind of goodwill payment but I still had to pay today. It was a £17 part but unfortunately 4 hrs labour. Total £200. Ouch! And yet more administrivia. Seems the less time there is the more I have. I have to write to the National Trust, too, giving them permission to contact me because apoarently forking out for life membetship has left them confused as to whether I want them to send my my handbook and magazine! Plonkers!
Mum is in a state about the neighbours again. Sounds as if they've planted their new hedge further into our garden than I agreed. Will have to have a look tomorrow. He rang yesterday and has asked me to look and tell him if there's a problem with the position so he's clearly expecting me to object. To be honest I think he's just a bit of a div. He has a high stress job with lots of travel, a wife and a little one and his mum is very ill. I have sick parents, the menopause and a kid. We're just both crap. Will need to ensure we write everything down so there's no confusion.
On the upside I'm relaxing in the garden at last. Just penning the letter to lotus.
Morning all ...
Will wrote: "I've just spent a very frustrating morning listening to social workers earnestly and with conviction explain that a 70 year old bloke convinced that he can see A) wolves snarling in the yard so he..."
If it's any consolation Will, a friend of mine spent a night asleep in her car with her young children when her husband got early onset dementia and had a waking fit during which he appeared to be trying to kill them all and even then she had to fight to get him committed. You do have my sympathy I hope you manage to get it sorted out.
Cheers
MTM
Will wrote: "You couldn't make it up, could you? ."fantasy writers have to have a firm grip on reality to be considered reasonable
Reality doesn't work under the same constraits
Will wrote: "I've just spent a very frustrating morning listening to social workers earnestly and with conviction explain that a 70 year old bloke convinced that he can see A) wolves snarling in the yard so he..."
Reminds me of an incident when I was in hospital for my dodgy ticker. In the middle of the night the lady in the bed next to me had a very bad turn. She didn't know where she was. She wasn't entirely sure who she was. She couldn't tell the doctors what was wrong with her or where it hurt. For that matter, she couldn't understand why all these people were hanging around her bed and she really wanted them all to go away.
And in the middle of all this, one of the doctors asked her "can you remember how many arteries were blocked? Was it one two or three? Can you remember which arteries?"
Not surprisingly she didn't get a coherent answer.
When my MIL was in hospital for several reasons, one was a waterworks infection. The Salvation Army choir came to sing for her. The cats on the shelves up there (no shelves - no cats) got on her nerves though. Once better she got her marbles back. Mary, your blog was terrific. I hope it helps to write it out and get some of the stress on paper. Trollop was one of my Dad’s favourite words. Brought back some memories, thank you.
Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "When my MIL was in hospital for several reasons, one was a waterworks infection. The Salvation Army choir came to sing for her. The cats on the shelves up there (no shelves - no cats) got on her ne..."Delusions are a bad sign. Sorry to hear that.
I'm reasonably coherent, and the hospital experience (9 days in two different ones in two states out of a 16 day period) was a horror. They don't let you sleep, too many new people for an introvert, and no consistency in THEIR rules. Each doctor, etc., who came through the door had something different as THE answer.
I may be awake in the middle of the night but at least I've got a really book to keep me company.
A really what book?
Morning. Saw Sir Ranulph Fiennes speak last night, absolutely fantastic, very funny and compelling. Now I have to leave for work in 10 mins and I'm still in bed. Eugh.
I should go back to bed at some point.Not for a bit. I've got coconut macaroons in the oven now.
Good morning, I’m in bed too, but only just as big dog sneaks onto our bed for a morning cuddle so I’ve got no bedclothes and about a ten inch wide edge to cling on to. It rained all day here yesterday. Nice and sunny in Wales, I know. He’s worried about his new lawn now.
Alicia are you moving into a retirement complex. I don’t know what you call them in the U.S. my husband’s uncle and aunt lived in one near the Blue Ridge Mountains. They were very well looked after.
Made it out the door in 13 minutes so not bad. Arrived at work in plenty of time as well :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I should go back to bed at some point.Not for a bit. I've got coconut macaroons in the oven now."
You finally got to them.
Yep, I did, now sorting the flat is finished.
Morning all. Planting up the hanging baskets today. Ninety of them. Luckily I have a team!
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It's going well. The first community, in Stockton, California,
really put out the welcome mat. I drooled over the staff I could use: fitness, pool, nurse - to get better.
Aloha, everyone, from the beautiful isle of Maui where we have a week with the kids (and the fire alarm just emptied the whole building into the courtyard at 6 am). Mahalo!