What are you all up to
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Sorry you had a wasted time at the hospital WN, what a palaver!
Corners, the Cumbrian pics are great, our son and family are having a break up there just now, they hired a boat on Windermere yesterday, sent pictures of the whippet on the lake...
Meanwhile we've just handed back the visiting terrier, taken delivery of a broken oak cupboard
and OH got a bit more wood cutting done before the rain arrived.B2, no duvet changes here we like our all year round lightweight wool duvet, it seems to work at all temperatures.
Millie glad your holiday won't be interrupted next year. OH is waiting for a Dec eye appointment and we're wondering if they've remembered, the system was changed last year.
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That's half of the problem, Brue. You're left wondering whether they've forgotten you.
Funny how things sometimes work out Millie. I'm due to see our Kidney Consultant in a fortnight. The last appointment in May was cancelled as the Consultant returned to Malaysia which was fortunate for me as I wanted to be away in the 'van.
He was wonderful to get along with. He cited a differing attitude to him since you know what started. Hope my German lady Consultant who sees me occasionally doesn't take umbrage as well, as the English one retired last year.
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Did hear that on the news, and we couldn't understand why he was up there. Seems like a silly prank that went wrong and he paid the ultimate price. So sad.
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What a palava, WN, hope that your other appointments go to plan.
Glad that you had a good trip to NI, millie.
Great pictures from your Lakeland trip, Corners, you certainly had good walking weather.
After shopping at Aldi & Morrison's in Bridlington we went to Fraisethorpe and Flyte had a great time in the beach.
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Grey but dry start to the day here, last for a while according to the forecast so towels are being washed as I type 😉. Weather may mean we get to see DIL as well as son this weekend 😃. Son has dental appointment Saturday morning and it's OH'S birthday Tuesday so it will be lovely regardless at the weekend 😃
Cleaner due today, won't we be smart? Garden posh too! So we'll absent ourselves doing a food shop. (Might be nice if I knew number I'm catering for and whether it will be Friday night onwards 😂😂). Never mind I'll cater for full house and freeze leftovers, always lovely to have something I prepared earlier 😉.
Enjoy your day folks
Ps brue I'm curious about the wool quilt, I believe it was discussed a while back? How is it weight wise? OH does like the weight of the winter 10.5 tog duvet and reckons he slept better..Actually I quite liked it too, though I did fling it off a couple of times!
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B2 have a look at the Devon wool duvets web site. I find ours just the right weight all year round.
Well it has rained and rained here. Luckily this has dampened off the smell of muck spreading in the field adjoining us and will help it go into the ground faster. The field hedges have been cut so we can see out a bit further. Lots of birds on the feeders today, I think the field work has brought them in closer.
Might have a lazy day and have lunch out.
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All the washing from the cruise is now up to date, the grass has been cut, the motorhome has been collected after its damp treatment, and I've four nights booked at Chertsey with the "other lot" and the roofer is booked to sort out the refurb of the flat roof over the lounge extension which started leaking the day before we went on the cruise. All I need to do now is put up a sign saying "political canvassers will be shot on sight".
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If you can find a reliable purveyor of such signs & the requisite sawn off 12 bores, buck shot, rice and rock salt CY , then I'll have one
!!Brue, I filled the bird feeders at about 09:30 today, went to Aged Sisters for a relaxed chichat and got home at approximately 12:15 to find ALL FEEDERS EMPTY but nothing on the ground so some well fed birds out there. But don't tell the birds about my request to CY
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I am not sure that is very fair. Most of the people that canvass are just ordinary members of party they support doing their bit for their cause, and it seems in any weather - I am sure they all prey for a summer election
rather than one two weeks before Christmas when everyone has probably got other things to do. I will treat canvassers in the same way I treat people of certain religious persuasions with politeness, charm but firmness. I will probably also explain why it is not possible to vote for their favoured candidate in the same manner. Edit, just thinking about it unless you live in a marginal constituency its more than likely that you will have a leaflet put through the door rather than a real person!!!David
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Three very different responses to the door steppers so far then
.I have a special receptacle for the 'leaflets' mentioned -- it's large, grey emptied fortnightly and full of other recyclable goodies. It sits alongside a similar sized Black bin for non-recyclables especially those of a humanoid appearance
.Now I'm off before we get "Locked"
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I’m the exception in our house - I read the canvassers’ leaflets before recycling them.
There will soon be a discussion as to whether we put a Vote xxxx in a roadside field.
I am a paid up member of a political party so will say no more.
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Brian
I remember many years ago, before MK had its own constituencies, Bill Benyon (Grandson of Lord Salisbury I add as trivia knowledge!) was our MP. One day, during an election, I was working in my garage, and who should pop his head around the corner was said Bill Benyon. It was nice to chat but it was unlikely I would vote for him but given I could have met him the next day as a customer I wouldn't have been rude to him. He seemed a very nice person to me and when I had cause to write to him I got more sense out of him than I ever had out of the current incumbent. So I try to keep an open mind about individuals regardless of their allegiances.
David
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Thanks, and to the bakers too.
Well I'm going straight out to buy a ticket. Another brilliant day! That's four on the run. What is going on?
Just did a single today, Robinson. Daughter (aka Sherpa CS) hadn't done it. Being lazy we went up from Newlands hause. Now I have to admit that that first bit to the top of moss force needed far more effort and it was far steeper than I remembered it from 20 years ago when it was a hop skip and a jump. Tempus is on the fugit I fear.
Didn't fancy going down that way so Sherpa CS got the car and met us at Buttermere so a lovely downhill walk.
Again blue skies most of the day. I'm a lucky CS.
Note the road from Rigg beck to Buttermere appears closed if anyone is going that way .
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Thanks and fully agree with you. As Wainwright said
"Surely there is no other place in this whole wonderful world quite like Lakeland ... ? no other so exquisitely lovely, no other so charming, no other that calls so insistently across a gulf of distance. All who truly love Lakeland are exiles when away from it."
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CS. You’ve certainly been lucky with the weather. I remember going once in June. Turned out to be the wettest June on record, just my luck! I’ve only visited the Lakes maybe 3 or 4 times over the years, including this year when we stayed at Troutbeck Head for 5 nights. Next year we’ll be able to travel at the drop of a hat pretty much (the wife retires in December), so we can choose times when the weather is favourable.
I always think that The Lakes are somewhere that everyone should visit, at least once in their life
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We love The Lakes. We used to go every October and February half term with our youngest son when he was at school and then Uni. We did both Skidaw and Hellvelan in our younger and fitter days. Our eldest son and DIL were married in Windermere July 15 years ago and we stayed there with our MH for a week and had the most wonderful weather. Lovely part of the world
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Us too! When we lived "oop nawth" it was either the lakes or the dales every weekend. February half term we got to know the couple who ran the dairy in Coniston and would stay in one of their cottages each year. October would be up in the Keswick/Threlkeld area. Climbed most of the high fells, not sure how many we could manage these days though!
We have some lovely countryside down here, Wiltshire Downs, Cotswolds, Somerset Levels and, of course the Cornish coast, but we still miss our trips up there.
(Yes, David, I do realise your comment was tongue in cheek!
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B2, for some reason I can't get the link to work. All I know is what was said on the news yesterday, but obviously they had it wrong at the time. It would know appear that the poor chap suffered from mental problems. The police are still unsure how he managed to get onto the leaders and why he did so.
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Another dry but cool day today. We went to Burton Agnes Hall, which was very busy with families enjoying the Halloween Trail. Definitely a place worth a visit, fine gardens which must look grand when all the plants are in bloom, and an extremely interesting Elizabethan house. Stopped off to view the tallest single Monolith in England in Rudston churchyard. Strangely enough Thorpe Hall in the village is the current Seat of the Clan MacDonald of Sleat (on Skye)!
Our last night here before we head up to Leyburn. It looks as if I'll have to searching our a dentist while we are there as one of my fillings fell out this evening.
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I couldn't get that link to work. Yes seems he had some issues. Hopefully this one will.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-50239624
Sounds like you'd had a nice day. Sorry to read about your filling. Hopefully it won't give you any trouble before you can see a dentist.
Edit it works on my phone. For some reason BBC links always cause me issues!
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