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Eye is interesting today, still feels like looking through a tissue, and it’s affecting my peripheral vision. Was cloudy earlier, but now gone sunny, so had to swap sunglasses. Very frustrating taking drops hourly. Thanks Alicia, I am lucky they get me in the same day. Sounds a nice way to spend the time Anna.
So very sorry to hear about your eye, Desley. Eyes are so important. Hope they soon improve.I went to sleep regardless of the flashing. It seems comforting somehow.
Morning all.Wrist/hand/arm is about 98% better, thanks. Was scary for a few days.
We fly to the UK on Tuesday next. NOT spending the whole sumer again but haven't booked anywhere yet. I fancy Croatia.
Hope everyone's medical issues are soon resolved.My globetrotting is restricted to the virtual kind. I'm doing the Virgin Pulse Global Challenge, trying to increase my fitness. To be honest, the starting point is so low it's not that much of a challenge to increase it.
The sun is out and the birds are singing so clearly during the night I was transplanted to another country as I slept.
Have a good day all.
(And well done the Lionesses for progressing to the next stage of the World Cup with a record-breaking start of 3 oout of 3 wins)
If you can exercise, you can gradually build up fitness.I can't - my cells don't produce energy. It is frustrating.
Please enjoy your challenge.
Morning! Off shopping. Oh joy.Three foxes playing in the paddock behind our garden last night. Just as well the chicken run is like Fort Knox. Must be extra vigilant when she's free-ranging.
MorningSunny but cold here today. Think I'll have to go in search of caffeine, quelle surprise! Sometimes I feel like a stuck record.
Sometimes I feel like a stuck record.
Sometimes It feel...
Okay, I think that joke has burnt out already.
I'm off for a few days in Croatia later this year, Patti. You'll get there first, if you go, so I hope you'll tell us all about it.Kath, shopping, same here but later this afternoon. As you say, oh joy. Sigh. I've now got my new freezer installed in the garage so I can stock it up bit by bit - in case of siege.
Our car is too wide to get in the garage and everyone in our street says the same. We can drive in but can't open the door wide enough to get out. Isn't that ridiculous? I would understand if our garage was built 50 years ago when cars were narrower. But the good news is that it makes a fine workshop and freezer home and, and...
Have a good day everyone.
Has anyone read or heard of The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words. I NEED to buy this book
Well, one to one got cancelled again, which is fine as I don’t like them every 3 months, but not been able to speak to my boss about how I got on at the hospital yet. Washed the towels last night as it was supposed to be dry this morning, pegged them out and then it started raining just before I set off, typically now it is bright! Neighbour decided last night we will start making our own teas again, quite happy about it actually, looking forward to eating some stuff that I like that she won’t eat again, and eating when I want. It was a lifesaver at times when I was doing voluntary work, but now I’ve stopped, I have the time to make my own food. Just need her to take me food shopping to stock up stuff! Peripheral vision is coming back, but still can’t see through bad eye and it is still swollen, although not as painful.Hope you enjoy the challenge Darren. Glad you are much better now Patti, good luck finding somewhere to go. Shame you can’t use the garage as a garage Anna, but at least it has a use! Glad the chicken run is very safe Kath
My father in law always had a Ford zephyr new every year. It was a very big car. He had them from the 50’s to the 1960’s. He got his all the way up the drive into an prefabricated garage with no problem. The man across the road couldn’t get his Ford popular past the drainpipes in the same sized drive. But when modern cars became bulkier but not necessarily bigger pa in law had trouble getting an Austin ambassador up the same drive. The wing mirrors on the zephyrs were on the bonnet and inset, not sticking out like they do now. My garage was built in the 1920’s for a Lanchester. It also had electric doors, unfortunately they were in a heap on the floor when we bought the house and the electric motor was the first thing OH disabled as it was still live but very dangerous.
My drain repairs are ongoing. So is the bill.
Hope your eye problems get sorted quickly Desley. It must be painful and really inconvenient.
Been stormy here recently (in Jersey), but nothing like the ones of the childhood when you felt as if you could reach up and touch the low, brooding, dark sky (yep, Scotland.Hope you're on the mend Patti, and looking forward to your break.
Jeepers Desley hope your eye clears up, and Patti your wrist.Glad all is well for everyone. Niece seems a lot better, is being treated with epilepsy meds and will have a scan in early July but it’s not any of the really nasty things as they show up in a blood test. No storms here, but I found Mum’s lost her engagement ring only for her to lose it again a couple of hours after I found it for her. Luckily she lost it in the strawberry bed so I broke my gold duck with the metal detector and found it for her. She was overjoyed and I’ve told her not to wear it on her finger - she has arthritis and sometimes it fits and sometimes it flies off depending on how swollen her finger joints are. So she has suggested she wears it round her neck on a piece of green gardening string! 🤣🤣🤣 I suspect it will be a ribbon or wool in the end.
Must be about the best thing I ever found.
Cheers
MTM
A shadow box, under glass but very visible on the wall, might work for your mom (if she doesn't keep trying to get it out).
The sun has got his hat on, though I'm not sure why he needs one since he's the thing that most people wear hats against. Anyway, with the promise of storms early next week, I'm just going to be enjoying seeing the sun outside the stuffy office in which I work.Living the dream.
I need a better class of dream.
Morning all. Last day of exams for the little darlings today, and sports day on Monday. Not exactly going to be a long weekend, but it gives me a chance to catch up on the marking I have left to do! Nice, bright sunny day in the valley and as I won't be able to make it on Monday, happy Litha to those inclined.
MorningApparently, today is the last day of Kitty going to nursery, she says she's in P1 next week. I need to buy some teacher gifts... any suggestions? I was thinking a Costa voucher for her main teacher but what about the assistants and student helper?
Morning!i nearly wrote sunny but it came over cloudy just to spite me.Difficult about teaching assistants etc as you don't really know them or their taste. I think these things escalate. In my day a nice card with a personal message would have been considered perfectly acceptable.
And it's sunny again! Oh, now it's gone. It's going to be one of those days...
Same here, Kath, but the clouds seem to be winning.There are fewer jobs in my diary today so I might make progress with either reading or writing. At last.
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Really happy that daughter no2 (who's on her hols in NZ) has sent me a message to say she's been awarded her degree with first class honours :D (she won't let me post it on fb and I need to boast s..."Congrats to daughter #2 Rosemary. It must be something in the air, as I'm recovering from the party we had on my daughter getting a First in Medical Sciences(Neuroscience), and I feel like boasting too.
M.T. wrote: "Jeepers Desley hope your eye clears up, and Patti your wrist.Glad all is well for everyone. Niece seems a lot better, is being treated with epilepsy meds and will have a scan in early July but it..."
Perfect use for a metal detector, Mary!
Sorry I've not been posting, it's been a busy old time, away with work, then house hunting as we're looking to move so everything is even more manic and stressful than normal! On the flip side, got some good news, as one of my books has made the last ten in The Adventure Writers Contest, so I'm pretty proud of that!
Well done, Ben! I've just written a short story for halloween. How bizarre is that?
Bright and sunny today, so eye isn’t happy! Luckily it’s a short day and then I can go back to sitting in the dark. Did the food shopping after work last night, but neighbour is still picking me up after work, not sure if she has plans to go anywhere, although I need to nip to the co-op. Was an interesting shopping trip as I had to buy more food than normal, and as I wasn’t expecting to go, I had left my shopping list on my desk, and of course I forgot things! Don’t know if it is my eye or knee, but barely had an appetite this week. Glad niece’s tests have ruled out nasty things MT, and glad you found your mums ring. Don't recall ever giving presents to my teachers Jud! Sounds a bit awkward if more than one of them.
Lovely day here, been weeding for a short while. The novelty wears off very quickly. I’ve been taking the grandson to school this week to give him a shorter day there. He’s only 4 and 8 till 3 is a long day when he’s getting over yet another virus. I daren’t mention presents for teachers etc to my daughter. I don’t think they did them when she was at school either. It can become competitive I’ve heard.
Blimey, I’m knackered. Have been filling in forms, including the massive one for dad’s reassessment, yes that’s right the pension went up by £20 a month so everything has to be resubmitted. I haven’t got half of it because he died before it was sent. On the upside, at least if they make us pay full fees it’s only going to be a month. Also been filling in other forms to inform various bodies that dad is dead. It seems to be taking forever but I definitely put in some good spadework today. Hoping that, if I haven’t broken the back of it I am, at least, on the brow of the hill!Cheers
MTM
Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "Lovely day here, been weeding for a short while. The novelty wears off very quickly. I’ve been taking the grandson to school this week to give him a shorter day there. He’s only 4 and 8 till 3 is a..."I only found out that teachers received presents when I happened to pass a table full of them with notes attached. I rushed out and left a little one with gushing thanks (which were deserved) but I left it anonymously!
Good of you, Lynne, to be so thoughtful to a little lad.
Jud wrote: "MorningApparently, today is the last day of Kitty going to nursery, she says she's in P1 next week. I need to buy some teacher gifts... any suggestions? I was thinking a Costa voucher for her mai..."
sorry but I'm the generation which never even considered getting teachers presents!
Jud wrote: "MorningApparently, today is the last day of Kitty going to nursery, she says she's in P1 next week. I need to buy some teacher gifts... any suggestions? I was thinking a Costa voucher for her mai..."
It’s lovely that you want to buy gifts for them, Jud, but honestly, if you want to get something, get supplies. Coloured pencils, highlighters, a role of pretty tape - things they can use up.
Most of my outlaws are teachers, as am I. Honestly, we don’t do it for the gifts because seeing them grow and develop is what we do (🤢 I know). But seriously, the amount of chocolate and stuff we end up with sometimes can be both embarrassing and impossible to deal with. Classroom supplies, however, will never go to waste!
Probably not what you were expecting, but I’d really appreciate it if it were me.
Wow, two sunny days in a row! It's unheard of. Surely a sign of the impending apocalypse.Today I shall be shopping for my son's prom suit. It's one of the few imported Americanisms that I appreciate. He doesn't appreciate the fact that he has to dress up.
Have a great day.
It’s lovely that you want to buy gifts for them, Jud, but honestly, if you want to get something, get supplies. Coloured pencils, highlighters, a role of pretty tape - things they can use up.What a nice idea! And I suppose it does benefit a teacher (which is the idea behind pressies, I think) to have lots of attractive teaching materials at his/her disposal.
Will all teachers be willing to give up their chocolate supply though? Maybe a little choccie bar as well, eh?
Looking back, I can see I have much to thank teachers for and I never got round to tracking them down in time. Sigh.
That’s a really good suggestion, Gaff, I wouldn’t t have thought of that. Me too, Jim, I’m sorry to say but our teachers were lucky to get a goodbye or thank you. In fact my old school Facebook group has probably thanked teachers that are still with us far more than we did while we were benefitting from their knowledge at the time.
Lovely day in the west today. Perfect for digging the rest of the drains up. Can’t use the loos so I’m not slurping too much coffee.
Morning all, woke up feeling really drained, which meant I couldn't go out with a friend. Really need to do some housework today, sun is shining here too, but that might mean I have to sit inside with the curtains shut rather than outside enjoying it! As I'm now feeding myself, I'm looking forward to having a chippy tea.Hope the drains get fixed quickly Lynne. What a good idea Geoff.
All fixed. I can go for a wee. 😁
Dug-up loos here too, Lynne. Hubby decided to lay a wooden floor in what we call 'the little loo'. This was when the carpet layers were here recently. For the last few days the loo and cistern have been sitting on our lawn (at the back, thankfully) while he measures up and does who knows what.Fortunately, it is not the only loo in the house.
I was quite happy with the old flooring but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Sigh.
Our loos are all a bit dodgy but we ignore it and hope it goes away. Luckily it usually does, although we have had to call Mr Dynorod a couple of times. By some weird fluke we have two exit pipes so if one’s blocked the other loos are working and if the other loos are blocked the other one is ... yeh, anyway.As a thank you to everyone in here for their support over the past few months, I’m giving away a short story. It’s the one people get, exclusively, when they join my mailing list but as everyone here is supportive and lovely, and it’s sort of like a mailing list because I give you poor buggers the same information you can get it here until 1st July.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/bpk5o5obux
BTW, nobody has to sign up to anything, you just press download ... if you want it.
Cheers
MTM
Up after three hours of sleep. Will get more later. Sometimes the body does that. Brilliant California summer weather - it's as if the rainy and chilly and windy times are just a quick aberration. We skipped dinner and went into the pool outside, and I went right to a concert in the auditorium - classical, local pianist. He played an hour completely from memory - beautiful. Debussy, Liszt, Chopin...They spoil us.
Alicia wrote: "Up after three hours of sleep. Will get more later. Sometimes the body does that. Brilliant California summer weather - it's as if the rainy and chilly and windy times are just a quick aberration. ..."Oh wow! Sounds brilliant.
M.T. wrote: "Our loos are all a bit dodgy but we ignore it and hope it goes away. Luckily it usually does, although we have had to call Mr Dynorod a couple of times. By some weird fluke we have two exit pipes s..."Aww, how lovely of you. Hope you get some more sleep Alicia. I would love a nap, but putting eye drops in hourly makes that a bit tricky! I really do need to get my toilet and taps sorted, must remember to ring the plumber, know what the problem is, but they are such small jobs it's tricky finding someone who wants it! Neighbour just asked if I wanted to go to Nando's with them, but really have my heart set on that chippy tea. Had to say no 4 times before she got the hint though. Still drained and feeling a bit sick, but suspect that is lack of food, I didn't eat all morning. Done most of the important housework, it's lovely and warm outside, normally the kind of day I'd be sat outside, but instead I'm sat with the curtains shut.
Alicia wrote: "Up after three hours of sleep. Will get more later. Sometimes the body does that. Brilliant California summer weather - it's as if the rainy and chilly and windy times are just a quick aberration. ..."Bliss!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Our loos are all a bit dodgy but we ignore it and hope it goes away. Luckily it usually does, although we have had to call Mr Dynorod a couple of times. By some weird fluke we have two..."I do hope things will soon be very much better in every way.
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Our loos are all a bit dodgy but we ignore it and hope it goes away. Luckily it usually does, although we have had to call Mr Dynorod a couple of times. By some weird fluke we have two..."Oh no Desley, I really hope your eye clears up soon it sounds really crap. I hope the book helps too. It’s quite short.
There's a relief for you, Lynne. Hope the eye clears, Desley - - eye problems are my worst nightmare.Spent today clearing the pipes that carry water through the old mill ponds and saw some beautiful electric blue dragonflies. Typically I didn't have my camera on me at the time.
Thank you Mary. Are you OK? You’ve been through a lot, but it can hit hard afterwards when you’ve finished tidying up your Dad’s paperwork. My father worked for Boots in Nottingham. When I had to inform them of his death to stop his pension I hadn’t got an address or phone number for the personnel office so I rang directory enquiries. Sorry no Boots in Nottingham. Boots the chemist? No, nothing. Knowing the size of the factories and warehouses and their flagship shop plus at least a dozen other shops I was very frustrated with the operator. I complained saying I just didn’t believe it and told her to look again. She triumphed at last. She found me a number for a Henry Boot. A greengrocer. 🙄
Hope your eye get s better Desley. Don’t forget to drink enough even if you’re not eating much. Anna I’m sure my husband looks for things to mend before they break.
I envy your weather Alicia. It was lovely here today, but it’s clouded up already with thunder forecast
I hate eye problems. I can't imagine functioning without seeing, especially for proofing. Sorry you're under the weather, Desley, but you must be too nice when saying 'no.' You - we - need quiet time.We had a short period of such heavy wind that I watched a pigeon barely make it to our balcony! It's better now.
Teacher gifts... Stamps, stickers, post it notes... Pop into pound land and fill up a bag... Dressing up clothes, cardboard masks... I much prefer stuff for the class rather than yet another gift card. Unless it's wine. Wine I like.
Power has been off for a couple hours now. Hope its not another all day ordeal.Need to pack.
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