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Morning!I've been battling with the totally different skill that is sourdough baking. I've got 50 years of traditional bread-making under my belt but they count for nothing! I've had a loaf rising in the fridge all night - yes, really! And now I have a lovely loaf. You have to start your learning all over again. That's my version of home-schooling. Keeps me out of trouble, anyway. Mostly...
I hope all those suffering ailments come through them without too much trouble. We had our first Covid jabs on Friday - a few cancellations or no-shows for the Pfizer and they ring round the local surgeries for names as they can't afford to waste them. We hit it lucky.
Glad you've had your jab Kath and feel fine after it
Good stuff Kath! Having my jab tomorrow.
Lovely to see you Jud and yes, there's hardly a day that goes by when I don't thank heavens that this happened now rather than when McMini was really small. He's now 12 and luckily for me the school organises online lessons which he is enjoying and working hard at.Desley, I hope your eye is getting better. Ro, hope your boiler is soon better! Alicia, glad your vertigo has gone. I've been doing the epley manoeuvre too.
Mum had her jab yesterday and I have finally finished emptying out the cupboard McOther wanted me to empty and absorbing the stuff into two other cupboards and a filing cabinet. To my horror I found a whole load of Mum's correspondence which I haven't replied to. When her friends write to her she doesn't know what to do anymore so I write back.
Now I just have to wrap up a load of stuff in acid free paper and box it up and then I can put the printer on the surface where the boxes of stuff that need wrapped are and get on with what I am supposed to be doing, which is incorporating the beta readers' comments into my manuscript and sending it off to be edited.
Also have to work out a lot of stuff I need to do for my print books so I can batch it all at once with the new covers. I need to get a wiggle on there. Onwards and upwards.
M.T. wrote: "Lovely to see you Jud and yes, there's hardly a day that goes by when I don't thank heavens that this happened now rather than when McMini was really small. He's now 12 and luckily for me the schoo..."At least you're doing work on your books. Good for you!
It's not homeschooling when someone else tells you what to do - and that's the problem. Forcing you to keep up with someone else's curriculum is worse than school.
The school district offered me their curriculum the first year I homeschooled our eldest. I said thanks, picked it up, was absolutely appalled at its idiocy, and never even replied to their letters for the next 15 years.
The point of following your learner, plus making sure there were no basic deficiencies, was completely lost on them.
They can't. Not with the system they have. I could be done if most things were computerized and the teacher was there as the untangler as needed. They lose control that way, but the kids would learn a lot more, each at their own speed. Many a time having a grownup to explain a point was all it would take for learning to resume.
Morning. Looks like we'll have the second jab just before Himself's birthday in late April. Excellent stuff. Hard frost here today but we've escaped the snow. As someone who always feels the cold, this weather would keep me indoors without a lockdown.
Sunny, blue sky every which way I look, and cold. Great for taking a stomp. Invigorating, to say the least.
Totally agree Alicia, it's more e-school that McMini is doing. Kath that's great news! Mum is on for her last jab in April too, naturally I'm in Suffolk, in the vaccination fail zone.
Anna, definitely. I have spent the afternoon listening to a podcast on my headphones while I detected on my garden again. I suspect I've removed anything of note now. It's all good practise for when I get out again though. Found another 3p on the lawn so I'm now up to £2.37 and a half.
Evening, was a bit shocked to see some snow when I got up, typical when I had to go in the office, scraping ice off the inside of the car wasn't fun at 7,30. Had a couple of nice chats with colleagues this morning, which is nice. I actually feel quite content at the moment, but then feel bad as people are struggling. Glad you have been able to do stuff MT - how do you get £2.37 and a half? Yes Kath, I think this weather is making it easier to stay inside, in one way it's good my friend makes me go regardless or I wouldn't have left my street this weekend.
It's been another gorgeous day here, and although it was frosty I was surprised to see some of the rock pools still had ice on them, that's unusual.Having a wee dram tonight to celebrate the bard's birthday, but no haggis as we had that yesterday.
"Red sky at night, shepherds' delight, red sky in the morning, shepherds' warning."Here on the coast, I saw a very red sky earlier, so be warned! ;o)
£2.37 and a half? Well spotted, Desley! Gee, M.T., a real halfpenny from distant, pre-Covid history?
I’ve just heard a friend of mine’s husband has died of covid.. He must have caught it at work, been on oxygen all week in hospital and now very sadly passed away. My daughter is really struggling but not covid. My husband is really worrying about the house in France. He’s really finding restrictions hard to cope with as it’s his nature to plan everything. No use telling him not to worry - he won’t change now.
Trying to juggle everyone’s problems is getting to me.
Not waving but drowning. Xx
Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "My husband is really worrying about the house in France. He’s really finding restrictions hard to cope with as it’s his nature to plan everything. No use telling him not to worry - he won’t change now.Trying to juggle everyone’s problems is getting to me.
Not waving but drowning. Xx ..."
Looks like you're a well matched pair :-(
Hope things pick up for you
Bum, Lynne I hope things get easier. Brother went to Mum for the weekend and was very upset. In his usual kneejerk way he wants to scoop her up and take her back to his place to live, bless him. I think she cried when he said good bye.
It might work but I don't know if I'm just saying that because I've lost the will to keep fighting the battle to keep her where she wants to be. He does more in a day than I do in a week so he doesn't understand that a couple of trips out to the garden centre, a coffee at Marks and Sparks, church and a visit from one of my father's old colleagues is a pleasant week's activity for her.
As usual, McOther has come up with an excellent solution which is to take her there for a week and keep doing that regularly to see how they all get on. I know lovely bruv is just worried but I wish he'd just leave things alone instead of giving me a fucking coronary every few months. She can't come and live with either of us, we have no downstairs bathroom or bedroom and at Bruv's she can't get into the garden because it's down a flight of stairs. I'd say both of those are deal breakers.
That said, she's not doing lockdown well and I am sure a visit would be good, and they have a dog, which she'll love. Her family had dogs when she was a kid and she's pretty much forgotten about the cats we had.
Urgh, back to rain, disappointed as it was supposed to be snow, I'd have enjoyed that. what an awkward situation MT - I think a visit might be good for a break, but I'm unsure if it would work permanently, wouldn't she be confused and start asking for home? Sorry that things are so hard for you Lynne, wish I could say something to help
Odd isn’t it. I’ve let a lot of steam out thus morning. only talking to friends and proper sensible talk with OH. It’s still raining cats and dogs but I do feel better and more positive. Thanks all
yeah we're back to grey doom 'can't tell where the sky ends and the sea starts' sort of dreichness today.You need to look after yourself too Lynne, it's a weight to be carrying everyone else's worries as well as your own x
Desley, yep, I think she would.Lynne, glad you've let off steam a bit and sorry things are so tough.
Ro yeh, we have that here today too. I can't speak for the sea but it waited until I was as far away from home as I was going to get on my errands and then pissed it down on my nearly dry washing!
Thick fog here. Daughter’s partner’s aunt died as well last night.
Not good as she was waiting in hospital for a care package to be put in place and the general hospital sent a patient there, tested but didn’t wait for the positive result and allowed her to mix with other convalescing patients. No words !
M.T. wrote: "Bum, Lynne I hope things get easier. Brother went to Mum for the weekend and was very upset. In his usual kneejerk way he wants to scoop her up and take her back to his place to live, bless him. I..."
Taking her to his house would also give the caretakers some respite - if you think they would benefit.
The realities of caring for someone at her stage of life are immense. Trying - but possibly for more than a week? - would give you all some useful information. But the stairs are a dealbreaker - if she wanders, too.
If he doesn't try, though, he could have regrets later. That alone might be worth him trying.
Glad you have managed to let off some steam and feel a bit better Lynne, sorry to hear about your daughter's partners aunt, so avoidable
Wouldn't it be nice if instead of giving perfume or gardening tools for Christmas, we could give courage and strength for all that lies ahead. Feel for you, Lynne. And there's a good few people to whom (I'm trying to keep the word alive) I'd like to give the gift of wisdom - names will not be mentioned!
I’m trying very hard not to identify with being a hamster. Caged - food in, change the bedding. Round and round the wheel. I’m not too bad really. It’s all the others :0)
Yes, that would be absolutely love Anna! At least you haven't lost your sense of humour Lynne
Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "I’m trying very hard not to identify with being a hamster. Caged - food in, change the bedding. Round and round the wheel. I’m not too bad really. It’s all the others :0)"
A lot of people are feeling like you are Lynne, it's getting close to being a year since this medical unpleasantness kicked off and people have had enough
Unfortunately, at the start of it all, before who or whatever shut them up, the medical peps were saying this would last two years. I suspect it will but summer will be better. I just wonder if Britain will have any high street stores by the end of it. I'm a bit gutted about Debenhams. It was perfect for fat middle aged women like myself, who have to try on everything because they're a weird shape. Also, once you get over a size twelve the stores interpretations of what a size 14, 16 and 18 are vary enormously. It's bloody irritating. I have trousers in a size 16, 18 and 20 that are all the same size.
I've opened the wine early.We've had carpet fitters in downstairs, all day. Up and down our stairs, coughing, and slamming the door every single time. Clearly fitting EMERGENCY CARPETS. If it hadn't been just a wee one-man operation I would have reported them (there's been a painter sneaking in and out for the past week too, but at least he was quiet, again, just a young lad so I don't want to ruin his livelihood). I'm now feeling much more inclined to tell the planners about the nasty uPVC replacement window they've put in though!
Meek Husband is now aiming to overwork their hoover into extinction, by the sound of it.
Blimey R, don't know how they've got so many tradesmen in, thought Scotland was a lot stricter than us
Yeah there shouldn't be any trades in houses at all - except for emergencies... Clearly the rules don't apply to them
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "I've opened the wine early.We've had carpet fitters in downstairs, all day. Up and down our stairs, coughing, and slamming the door every single time. Clearly fitting EMERGENCY CARPETS. If it had..."
My sympathies. We will have painters outside our door for months, as they repaint the entire northeast wing of the fourth floor. They started today. Months!
They will be followed or accompanied by the carpet fitters. Again, probably months, seeing how the first floor went.
Morning. Totally piddling down here. Can't see us getting out for our walk - unlike Jim, I don't go out in the wet.Sad when you know people who have died. They come over as number, statistics, on the daily reports but they're all individuals with family and friends. Each one a major tragedy to those affected.
Little grandson - four - has started school, mornings only, as his mum is a care worker. He loves it. That's one potential battle headed off at the pass!
Take care, all. I feel for Mary with her mum's situation. We've gone through all that - all I can say is you do survive.
It’s a shock when someone otherwise healthy goes to work comes home with a cough, tests positive, low oxygen - into hospital and that’s that two weeks later. The other one was much older and health problems so she was much more vulnerable.My friend whose husband died tested negative - like my sister. Neither caught it from their husbands. There’s some elements of this disease which are hard to predict.
I had to run my car this morning just to warm it up etc so OH could sort the garage out. I couldn’t remember how to switch the wipers off and it’s date said Friday 29th March. It’s going doolally as well.
(Unless it really is 29th March - and I’ m losing track big time)
Morning, wet again, Alexa tells me we have a flood alert, but I'm not convinced. It's my nan and granddad's anniversary today, only the second time I've not gone out for tea for it.
That’s a shame Desley, I hope they had a nice anniversary.
Sorry Lynne, not that kind of anniversary - they died in the same room of the same house 3 years apart!
Oh, sorry Deskey, that’s sad, on the same day. Bless them. You remembered them though. X
Wow, been a hectic morning, and have another meeting yet! Going shopping for 4 people after work, it's my nephew's 8th birthday tomorrow, I have to get him a cake (sis has given me the money) - he wants a chocolate caterpillar one as that is what his sister had, I hope I don't have to go to too many shops to get that! Need to get some new walking boots too, I've had wet feet after our last two walks, and still trying to get the mud out of the socks! Note to self, don't walk in pastel coloured socks in the future. Yes, we had a contemplation of how my granddad in particular would have coped with lockdown - not at all!
Blimey good luck with the chocolate caterpillar Desley! I have a crack from one side of my ipad screen to the other. No idea how it arrived as you can only see it at the edges but it’s chuffing annoying as it’s the second time and it’s only two and a half years old. I now have the conundrum of whether I claim it on the insurance and if I even can during lock down and whether the insurance will run out (ends in July) before lockdown does. It’s chuffing annoying.Otherwise all is good here. Morning all!
Morning all, was woken up at 5ish by the wind, which is still raging - had to move our food caddies this morning and one of the neighbours gutters is half hanging off, hope he gets that sorted when the weather improves. Glad I need someone to look at my chimney, some odd sounds coming from the back of the house, I can't see that part of the roof. Hope it eases off for our walk, I'm really looking forward to the food we are getting today, and am hoping the cafe has some nice cake today. Luckily Morrison's had the cake I wanted, she'd given me a £15 voucher so got crisps, biscuits, sweets, chocolate and drinks to go with it, I got it bang on, the woman was amazed, I'd been mentally counting all round the shop. Did manage to forget a couple of things, so will have to nip to Lidl later. Good luck with the iPad MT
Morning all, we went for a walk in the wind, the cafe wasn't doing the food we wanted due to the weather, so we just got a hot drink - I got a black forest hot choc which came with cream and a cherry, before I had chance to touch it, the wind had blown most of the cream and my cherry off!! Dry but cold today
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Morning all, we went for a walk in the wind, the cafe wasn't doing the food we wanted due to the weather, so we just got a hot drink - I got a black forest hot choc which came with cream and a cher..."It was a bitter lazy wind wasn't it, colder than Charity here
My friend kept saying she doesn't know what the point of wind is - do you Jim? I tried asking Alexa and she didn't know the answer
Wind equalises air pressure – moving it from areas of high pressure to low pressure. This in turn creates a lot of our weather patterns and helps disperse pollution.It pollinates some important crops, including grasses and cereals and provides a source of renewable energy. It's also great for flying kits and doing sports like wind surfing.
Can't think of anything else just now.
"Bitter, lazy wind." May have to steal that line!
We call it a lazy wind here too, when it can't be bothered to go round you so it just goes straight through! It was like that here yesterday, and there were intermittent and surprisingly violent showers of hailstones. I took the executive decision to remain indoors in front of the stove.
Still, but cold outside down here. Plan is to listen to The White Album top volume on my headphones and continue with this bottle of Jim Beam whilst getting on with writing the final chapters of my book. Now that's a Tollesbury Sunday!
Bitterly cold here too - pie weather. Looking forward to it with a nice glass of red wine. Better get a move on with veg prep. Question for Mary: was your iPad a normal iPad or a mini?
I’m not sure what to get, a mini is very neat and light but an iPad normal is easier to read but heavier with a decent case. My daughters partner cracked his screen so I wondered if they were more at risk than a small one. I’ve had my mini over 6 years and it’s no longer taking the latest updates and it’s memory is only 16gb so I have to keep a close eye on deleting rubbish or it tells me it’s full as the operating system takes up about half.
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Had a wisdom tooth out on Friday. What a very strange experience. Also just finished writing the third story of my latest novel which comprises four stories in all. Cold outside but it's lovely to hear the birds getting their groove on at last!