My Day

[addicted]

Wolsley Hornet. Lovely little car.  My  mum used to drive one,  She loved it.

 

 

Carole

[BroadAmbition]

Look what I picked up today, 4 x coaster mats for mugs  / glasses etc.  These will get taken down and put onboard 'B.A'

Never seen em like these before, two ladies that do the button / scoring have started producing them at our local clay shooting ground

Griff

 

[CambridgeCabby]

Like the coasters , I’m on my last two NBN beer mats , anybody know if there are any more of these available for sale 

[Chelsea14Ian]

I have some ,if your interested. If you pm me your address, I will get some to you,once we get back to the boat.

[Chelsea14Ian]

This evening,we had a knock on the door. It was two chaps with a box and a letter.They moved in early January. We have said the odd good morning  etc.In the box was six very nice home made cupcakes.and the letter was to say Hi and to introduce themselves. They did the same to a number of houses around them What a nice thing to do.

[BroadAmbition]

Through my 'Office' window and cctv monitor I see this morning there has been a ground frost overnight, plenty of frosted car windscreens and garage roofs but it's proper bright and sunny, currently not a breath of wind.  Clay shooting this morning for four hours-ish it'll be 'Bang On' when its warmed up slightly

Griff

[ExSurveyor]

The cleaning starts tomorrow, but the task is huge. Seven months of neglect soon accumulates.

At least the sun has been out.

[YnysMon]

Gosh, all that just after a few months. Whenever we’ve passed your boat has always been immaculate.

[ExSurveyor]

By Wednesday it will be back to clean and shiny.

[ranworthbreeze]

On 11/04/2021 at 18:20, psychicsurveyor said:

The cleaning starts tomorrow, but the task is huge. Seven months of neglect soon accumulates.

At least the sun has been out.

Hi Mark, it looks like you are turning into MM.

Regards

Alan

[Chelsea14Ian]

Today we've got the ball rolling. This morning, Marina and I tidied up.I did little painting jobs and we had the Estate agents round. So the house  will be on the market. We look forward to the next stage  of our life.

A few photos before and after our bay window. 

[SwanR]

Hope it goes well Ian. Look forward to hearing all about it. Are you waiting to sell before you start looking? We did a lot of research online at this stage. Spent hours on Rightmove!

[Chelsea14Ian]

We aim to sell first,then look . We're with a few agencies in Norfolk. Just have to wait and see.Since last Friday I'm now retired, even though  I've not worked since March last year.

[ExSurveyor]

53 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said:

I'm now retired, even though  I've not worked since March last year.

Snap, officially, sort of semi retired as of Friday, although I do have rentals that take some time up.

I now consider myself retired, although I have done very little actual work, other than oversee the closure of my main surveying business, since March last year.

I am adapting, painfully, to doing physical tasks that I would normally avoid but can't justify paying others to do.

Good luck with the house move.

[Helian]

1 hour ago, psychicsurveyor said:

Snap, officially, sort of semi retired as of Friday, although I do have rentals that take some time up.

Likewise, pretty much "in the same boat", pardon the pun. 

[addicted]

Both of us had our 2nd jab today. We were lucky as Tony's appointment was  10.00am and mine wasn't until 5.20pm, but  I went in with Tony and asked if  could  have mine done at the same time and  and they said that  as mine was due on the same day then it would be fine. Job done.

 

Carole

[ExSurveyor]

Tomorrows job would appear to be cleaning the little Broom scorpio.

How can so much mould grow on every surface. I normally strip out the seats and cover up over winter, couldn't last year. Lots of elbow grease will be applied tomorrow.

[Chelsea14Ian]

Ask MM,he may have the answer!

[ExSurveyor]

21 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said:

Ask MM,he may have the answer!

He will say " WHAT, clean it "

[addicted]

Happy to report no side effects from our 2nd jabs (Pfizer) other than an  increase in the amount of tenderness in the area in which it was administered. But  still relatively small just a slight bruised feeling and minimal stiffness in the muscle

 

Carole

[addicted]

Further to my last post, Tony had a very sore head that came on about 6.00pm last night, it was not a headache as such just very sore to the touch a bit like neuralgia, it's better this morning but not totally gone. a couple of tablets sorts it out. Paracetemol or similar.

 

 

Carole

[Jbx5]

Had the same type of head ache for 4 weeks since my 1st jab, this week it seems to have eased somewhat as I wasn’t really looking forward to having my 2nd one!

John

[Chelsea14Ian]

Advice was from memory, if you have a headache for four days,after the jab seek medical advice. 

[addicted]

Tony's head has totally cleared up now fortunately.

 

Carole

[YnysMon]

Well...my yesterday anyway. Not the best day. 

Graham and I had been intending to drive to Bournemouth and back on Friday, as Alec doesn’t think he’ll be getting any face to face teaching at Uni this year and has decided he may as well pick up his stuff. However, on Thursday we got a call from my father-in-law’s neighbour to say that Dad was complaining of not feeling well and that he was looking very weak and had lost weight. We haven’t seen Dad since before the lockdowns and it’s almost impossible to get him to answer the phone. We have been resorting to send him cards through the post asking him to phone us. He promises each time to phone us regularly but never does. Last time we saw him he admitted he was having difficulty remembering things.

So, we ended up going to Holyhead instead and had rather a shock when we got there. There as hardly any food in the house for a start. Just some bread and milk. I won’t detail the mess we found. Shortly after we got there phone rang. It was the surgery asking Dad to go in for his second Covid jab that afternoon. We suspect that, like us, they hadn’t been able to contact him. Whilst Graham took him to the vaccination clinic I did what I could to clear the worst of the kitchen mess, then we got Dad away for the journey back to MK by shortly after 5pm.

Today he keep saying he must get a train home and that he’ll be fine at home...it was just that he hadn’t feel feeling well for a few days. (The mess we found was more than a few days worth). Which leaves us in a quandary. We really don’t think he can look after himself any longer and think he should stay with us. We understand that he wants to be in his own home though.

Its so worrying. I think the best we can do is to phone social services and the Dr’s on Monday to ask for advice.

We are feeling immensely guilty that we stuck with ‘the rules’ and didn’t check him out earlier.