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Today, I shall mostly be...
Today I shall mostly be ... being hot! - LOL!!! ;o>And doing endless piles of Laundry ... where on Earth does it all come from? ;oO
I did the last couple of Washes the day before yesterday and there is only three of us plus a little hairy woofer here? - yet I've done four loads already and I've still got about three more to do?!!
One thing I've greatly appreciated being stuck out here in the east coast armpit of NE Lincs is the moderating effect of the North Sea; cool sea breezes in Spring/Summer mean it's rarely stifling and, since the sea is slower to cool than the land in winter, we rarely get hard frosts either.There's only the two of us but it's 3 loads a week - 1 for bedding, 1 for towels and bath/pedestal mats and 1 for clothing. The latter is mostly Mrs Neck's since she'll only wear trousers or a skirt/dress for one day and then in the wash. My jeans/shorts can usually walk themselves to the basket when I'm ready to wash them!
Six loads and I've still two lots more (one of the little hairy woofer's Bedding and another one for all of her Dog Towels) to do! - LOL!!! ;o>Two loads were my Duvet, and then M&D's, which I like to do every fortnight or so - so that explains away some of the Laundry I've been busy with today ;o>
It could end up in being 9 loads in total as I might just squeeze in washing a couple of Tablecloths ... Oooh, and then I really ought to get down to washing my brand new Towels as well before I start using them ... !
I think I need TWO Washing Machines!!! ;o>
Lordy, our duvets get done once a year! If you do them bi-weekly, how do you get them dry in winter?
Tumble Dryer, Mr B ... three lots of 20 minutes at High Heat and they are bone dry and ready to go straight back onto the Beds again.My Dad quite regularly spills things on the Bed, like half Mugs of cold Tea - and I do like to keep up with having everything fresh and sweet-smelling ;o>
EDIT: I've also just switched over M&D's Duvet from their 7 Tog to their 4.5 Tog for the Summer - so their 7 Tog needed washing before being sealed in the Vac Pack Bag and put away until Autumn. I tend to stick with my 4.5 Tog all year round but like to wash it at least once a month to keep it lovely and fresh.
The hidden cost of caring and also needing to take care of myself, I'm afraid.
I wash bedding and towels (just the one load) fortnightly. I have 2 duvets - one winter, one summer- but they're both feather and down so are never washed. I wash my undies by hand and all other clothes in one load fortnightly. I don't have any sort of drier and just hang everything on either the radiators or racks ('maidens'). I no longer have anything that needs ironing! I think I have laundry down to a fine art.
You should get yourself a magic clothes basket.We have this amazing basket, you just throw the dirty washing in it, and a few days later they reappear all clean and folded.
You might be able to get one on Amazon or similar.
I was up at 6am, and it was already warm here, pure blue skies, going to be a scorcher.
Had a first swim in a lake yesterday evening, it was wonderfully warm. Gonna repeat today.
"Gonna repeat today"man with a time machine, obviously!
Post Soviet wrote: "Had a first swim in a lake yesterday evening, it was wonderfully warm. Gonna repeat today."Good for you, nothing quite like a swim to cool off.
A nearby lake is a great thing in these times.
In Kerry the Guards were manning checkpoints on routes to the beaches, and turning people back over the weekend.
"In Kerry the Guards were manning checkpoints on routes to the beaches, and turning people back over the weekend."Oh. different picture by the Killykeen Forest Park, co Cavan (10 miles from my place), quite busy with people sunbathing, cycling, swimming etc, no guards on sight. Looked safe though and people keeping distance.
Yes, cooling off & good physio for my hip arhtritis.
Kerry is a lovely place, been there a few times with a tent, stayed in campsites in Tralee and Killarney.
Finished fitting carcass over berry shrubs in our allotment with proper sturdy anti bird net. Everything grows like mad, never seen this like before.
Serial wrote: "You should get yourself a magic clothes basket.We have this amazing basket, you just throw the dirty washing in it, and a few days later they reappear all clean and folded.
You might be able to get one on Amazon or similar..."
Does it tell you in the manual that it also adds a small amount of cumulative poison to your meals each day?
Gordon wrote: "Serial wrote: "You should get yourself a magic clothes basket.We have this amazing basket, you just throw the dirty washing in it, and a few days later they reappear all clean and folded.
You migh..."
Mmmm I have been feeling a bit peaky recently :0
Isabella wrote: "And the horrible, scratchy labels in the necks of blouses, t-shirts etc that really irritate the skin. The worst ones are on knitted fabric, it's so hard to get them out without pulling or cutting ..."I agree wholeheartedly with that one. I cut them out of any new ones i acquire. Why are they so itchy?!
I've probably mentioned this before - my husband won a T-shirt in a competition. He never wore T-shirts so gave it to me. It had a Guinness harp logo embroidered on the front. Not only do I hate logos but it was tickly cotton so I carefully unpicked every stitch.
Lez wrote: "I've probably mentioned this before - my husband won a T-shirt in a competition. He never wore T-shirts so gave it to me. It had a Guinness harp logo embroidered on the front. Not only do I hate lo..."That must have taken ages! What an achievement.
I find that sort of thing much harder since the cataract operation, I'm no longer short-sighted. (Well, physically, anyway...)
Post Soviet wrote: "Finished fitting carcass over berry shrubs in our allotment with proper sturdy anti bird net. Everything grows like mad, never seen this like before."I don't like using netting since we had a beautiful sparrowhawk stuck in the sweetpeas. Luckily it managed to free itself but it was very upsetting. We also had a bluetit caught on a net feeder. My husband managed to rescue it but we've abandoned any sort of nets now. I don't know what the answer is for fruits and berries.
I thought I had a wild animal in the garden today. A patterned ocelot, wildcat, leopard, baby tiger type creature, sneaking through the bushes. However a quick look through the binos and Google check showed it was just a Bengal cat. Relieved but disappointed! Didn't know they were that big or so clearly patterned.
'Relieved but disappointed'.......that it wasn't the legendary feral fierce fanged freakbeast of Falkirk!
Tech XXIII wrote: "'Relieved but disappointed'.......that it wasn't the legendary feral fierce fanged freakbeast of Falkirk!"
Well, I have got new neighbours I haven't seen yet!
Changing the airlocks in my Demijohns, as the wine is going so crazy fermenting.At last enough rain here to actually wet the desert like soil properly.
Watching the juvenile birds in the garden begging their parents to feed them. I was watching one feeding its young from the fat ball feeder, then when the youngster got some themselves the parent was straight off leaving them to it. Humans with adult children still suckling off the parents at home could learn something from that. :0
Lez wrote: "I thought I had a wild animal in the garden today. A patterned ocelot, wildcat, leopard, baby tiger type creature, sneaking through the bushes. However a quick look through the binos and Google che..."Think yourself lucky, Lez..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...
nocheese wrote: "Lez wrote: "I thought I had a wild animal in the garden today. A patterned ocelot, wildcat, leopard, baby tiger type creature, sneaking through the bushes. However a quick look through the binos an..."A pig? Harumph!
https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.u...
Looking for material to make face masks and wondering what to do. Wales doesn't seem to be keen on them, unlike the rest of the UK. It's so good to know that the people in charge have a real grasp of the situation... We're in safe hands, folks!
"Humans with adult children still suckling off the parents at home could learn something from that." - seems a bit harsh on the parents when they've paid the rent/mortgage for years to have to bugger off and find somewhere else leaving the family pile to the ungrateful, just-weaned nippers?
Isabella wrote: "Looking for material to make face masks and wondering what to do. Wales doesn't seem to be keen on them, unlike the rest of the UK. It's so good to know that the people in charge have a real grasp ..."Non-surgical masks won't protect you much if a Covid-infected person coughs all over you but they will show social concern for others. Can't see how they do much harm unless the wearer feels emboldened and so breach social distancing (apparently motorists pass closer to helmet-wearing cyclists and steer wider round those without).
That's like pulling your shoulders in when a bus overtakes you.
Brass Neck wrote: ""Humans with adult children still suckling off the parents at home could learn something from that." - seems a bit harsh on the parents when they've paid the rent/mortgage for years to have to bugg..."ROFL.......
Very good, Brass.
"apparently motorists pass closer to helmet-wearing cyclists and steer wider round those without"
I don't find that to be the case round here - it tends to be the bigger vehicles that give cyclists space while cars appear to want to get as close as possible.
I don't find that to be the case round here - it tends to be the bigger vehicles that give cyclists space while cars appear to want to get as close as possible.
Grizzlygrump wrote: ""apparently motorists pass closer to helmet-wearing cyclists and steer wider round those without"I don't find that to be the case round here - it tends to be the bigger vehicles that give cyclist..."
Do cyclists ride on the roads, then? Round here if there's no cycle path, they mostly stay on the pavement ...
Most of us do, Isabella. It's normally just the younger kids who ride on the pavements rather than the roads. No cycle paths in the village and the paths are quite narrow in places too.
Grizzlygrump wrote: "Most of us do, Isabella. It's normally just the younger kids who ride on the pavements rather than the roads. No cycle paths in the village and the paths are quite narrow in places too."Very civilised. Here, the kids tend to wander all over and the adults tend to keep off the road. I've been told off for getting in an (adult) cyclist's way on the pavement "because the roads are too dangerous". We're not talking heavily used roads but quiet residential roads where the small amount of heavy duty stuff is usually going slowly because they're lost.
To be fair, many pedestrians don't keep to the footpaths and walk along the cycle tracks in a daze...
It's not legal for an older child or adult to ride on a pavement unless clearly marked as a foot and cycle path?
Brass Neck wrote: "It's not legal for an older child or adult to ride on a pavement unless clearly marked as a foot and cycle path?"Speeding, texting while driving, lots of things aren't legal but that doesn't stop some people...
So far today I have...1. Been stranded on Sainsbury's car park with a flat battery. This was the second time in three weeks that the car has failed to start because of the battery. Fortunately, there's a Halfords on the same retail estate as Sainsbury's, so I could buy a new battery and lug it across the estate to jump-start the car. I'm now waiting to summon up the motivation to fit the new battery and spend several hours/days trying to find the code for the radio.
2. Been startled by a noise like a catherine wheel in the kitchen, which turned out to have come from the washing machine. I thought the belt must have broken but in fact, on inspection (no trivial matter), it had just slipped off the wheels. Belt replaced, PTFE washed off hands, towels returned to washing machine, floor mopped. I think everything's back to normal now.
Just wondering what the third thing will be.
Gordon wrote: "So far today I have...1. Been stranded on Sainsbury's car park with a flat battery. This was the second time in three weeks that the car has failed to start because of the battery. Fortunately, t..."
Break a match, quick! 😂
...wearing my new jumper which has a giant bee on the front, hoping I don't attract a swarm when I venture out for my walk later on. Exciting stuff as usual.Oh, delivery person yesterday was stood right in front of my door when I opened it. He was mask-less (unlike most other delivery peeps) & gloveless & tried to hand me the parcel instead of putting it on the floor. Duh. Germs, what germs?
Gordon wrote: "So far today I have...1. Been stranded on Sainsbury's car park with a flat battery. This was the second time in three weeks that the car has failed to start because of the battery. Fortunately, t..."
Heheh, today got my wrist watch battery replaced by... supermarket owner in nearby village, jewellery shops as unessential closed now, you know.
Planting up plants galore. All that digging has finally borne fruit.
Waiting for the DPD man to turn up with Su's expensive Microsoft tablet to replace the one that she dropped on the flagstones in the garden two weeks ago. It was due between 11:06 and 12:06. We are parcel number 29. The tracker shows that he's been delivering parcel no 28 for the last three and a half hours. He's been all around us on the little map that shows where he supposedly is, but never here.Also trying to get hold of Microsoft support to find out why none of the MS Office applications that I bought and installed yesterday will actually open from the Start Menu. So I can't activate them. But all the online MS help just tells you to open an application, sign in and enter the product key. Managed to get hold of a human on the phone eventually and a support case has been raised. So now I'm waiting for some progress on that as well.
Is it too early to start on the booze?
I think you know the answer to that, Derek!
If I start on the booze now, I'll be incapable of cooking dinner later so the answer is "yes it is too early'. I just wish it wasn't.On the plus side, I did manage to get rid of a carful of rubbish at the recycling centre this morning. The garage has never looked so empty. The pre-booked appointment system seems to be working quite well.
Cooking Vensison, wow was it good. A friend who shoots dropped us some yesterday. Cooked it with homemade chips, greens, mushrooms and red onion.
I'll join you if you do, Derek?I've put it off and put it off for a few weeks now but kept on with going back and looking at them again and again until I finally realised what I was doing and just how many hours I had wasted in doing so ... and so I finally committed myself to buying us a Fingertip Pulse Oximeter off Amazon yesterday ... and after all of that mithering and dithering and do I? or don't I? 'ing it arrived today ... within just 15 hours of ordering it!
I tried it out a few minutes ago and for the briefest of minutes had a bit of a panic over wondering whether I had died already but maybe hadn't realised it yet?!! ... until I rechecked the Box and hidden away in a section underneath I found the two Batteries needed to power it! ... DOH!!! - WHEW!!! - LOL!!!
Make mine a VERY large Port & Lemon please! ;o>
"had a bit of a panic over wondering whether I had died already but maybe hadn't realised it yet?!! ... until I rechecked the Box and hidden away in a section underneath I found the two Batteries needed to power it! ... DOH!!! - WHEW!!! - LOL!!!"
ROFL.........and then some.
You are VERY funny, Suzy.
:)
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She's already lost her Mum to Covid - and now her best friend too who used to work alongside her - and has gone back into Work today at our local Hospital with a great big Smile once more plastered onto her Face and wearing some beautifully made Scrubs that have been donated to our Hospital Trust by our local FTLOS Group.
To actively set about bringing on a second wave, as some folk seem to be intent on causing, will bring Nurses like her to their Knees. Many of them are beyond being constantly exhausted and stressed-out and running on little more than empty. We surely owe to those who are still every day actively out there fighting to protect us and to save our lives, as well as to ourselves and our families and friends and Communities, to admit that we got so much wrong previously, to learn everything that we possibly can from all of this now, and to do our very best to try to get it right for everyone from now on.