What are you all up to
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What a productive morning I’ve had. 😊 I found two bags of sloes in the freezer, (whilst trying to make room in the freezer for mother in laws shopping). She currently has her own shelf in our garage freezer for extra meals to be stored. It makes life easier for us doing her shopping at the moment.
Anyway the sloes were picked last autumn and frozen ready for use. This morning I have made sloe orange gin and sloe raspberry vodka. (Left over bottles found in the cupboard from Christmas) They’ll be ready to bottle in about three months. (Just after lockdown?🤔)
I've also gone through every cupboard in the kitchen, cleaned, checked dates and restacked. Steamed the floor and cleaned the work surfaces. A good sense of achievement but I can feel a lazy afternoon coming on.....😊
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Just finished polishing the caravan - now all gleaming. So much for having a lazy day after my 4am start! Seemed a shame not to take advantage of the weather - contrary to the forecast, it's glorious here - shorts and T-shirt weather! So frustrating not being able to go anywhere
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Thanks David, I will have a look.
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A busy day today. Why I ask myself? You've got loads of time to do it but the weather tempts you outside and there goes the day.
We (Mrs WN and myself) have been trying to get some order into the weed patch that masquerades as our garden and we did another couple of hours on it. It is starting to look a bit better.
Either side of lunch I decided to clean the oven. Did it not so long ago but we've had a couple of roasts since then so thought it better get done.
I don't care when the birds wake me in the morning as it's one of natures presents as far as I'm concerned. Strangely I don't have a problem dropping off after listening to them.
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Because we live close to the flight paths to Heathrow and beyond, albeit 80 miles or so away, the sky is often criss crossed with any number of vapour trails. But this is today's scene! 👍
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Same sky here Moulesy!
OH and I were just admiring it. We are reminded of our youth, clear skies and hardly any traffic. Had it been back then we'd have been knocking on doors asking friends out to play in the road. 
We've had increasing air traffic over the years, too high to make much noise but enough to smother the skies with vapour trails. We get military air traffic too, that tends to rattle the ceiling lights but much quieter just now.
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We have a few kicking round the house, but I seldom think to do them to be honest. But time is perfect at the moment. I usually start one only to find that the table I am using is too small😡 But have got organised this time.
All ours come from charity shops, including this wonderful Wentworth wooden jigsaw....... It’s only 500 pieces, but the pieces are very unusual shapes, so they take an age to do! Very satisfying, and this just happens to be one of my favourite Turner paintings. Look closely, and you can make out pieces shaped like a dolphin, a ship’s wheel, lighthouse, submarine, fish, etc... and some triangular shaped edge pieces!😯 Look up Wentworth Jigsaws, very different, and if you two David’s enjoy normal ones, you will love these. It cost me £1.50😁
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The Fighting Temeraire. I have done jigsaws with what I call strange shaped pieces before. Different makers often have different ways of cutting the pieces but prefer the more classic shapes.I usually buy the Ravensburger Christmas special edition jigsaws every year and usually one other. The Christmas ones I keep but others I donate to our pensioner group as they are always popular. Whether its the way I sit but I always get a back ache if I spend too much time doing them. Often do them when I am watching TV. I did come across puzzle that was a picture of hundreds of Emoticons which really difficult, not sure I am brave enough!!!
David
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Plain it may be, Brian, but not very different from this one which sold for over half a million quid at Christie's!
https://images.app.goo.gl/Tum7hAyP3XUo3ULGA
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Tales of the Riverback today, a walk along to Cox Green a little village (or Hamlet? - hang I'll check - yes a village is a collection of houses and Hamlet is a play by Shakespeare) on the Wear. Also the top and bottom views of the Victoria railway viaduct which I was staggered to lean was built in 1836-38. I remember when trains used to run over it
A lovely warm day.
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You have just solved a niggling problem for me! Why is my back aching, of course, it’s sat doing the jigsaw!👍
Mum and Sis have dozens of jigsaws, old classic ones. I am going to loan a couple, one is of old fashioned chocolate wrappers, very nostalgic.
Have you seen the fabulous 3D jigsaws you can get? I think they might be Ravensburger. We got a globe for some friends last Christmas.
I like the map jigsaws that AD sent the link for, something to consider. I love maps.
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Hamlet is also a Panatella, so 'Close, but no cigar' ...
Steve
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Same here always get backache doing them unless I'm in the caravan, the table there must be at the correct height.
I've got loads of jigsaws some not even out of there rappers, I've got a habit of picking them up whenever I see something I like.
I've done one that had 'Cadbury' rappers, also a baked beanz one but the hardest one I did was of the night sky, great once completed as once it was dark it glowed.
I've also done a few 3D ones, Tower Bridge, Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower and an Edwardain house, these were funny to do as they were made out of foam. I've also done the Globe from Ravensburger. My BIL is an avid car booter, so he picks them up for pennies. He's really missing it just now.
Have you tried doing them online on the computer, I got my Mum into it before she moved into the care home, it would hold her attention for ages, the benefit of it is that you can pick how many pieces you want the jigsaw to be and what kind of shape to the pieces, so 'Classic' or 'funny shaped' etc.
the jigsawpuzzles.com sorry forgot how to make link live.
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It has been a lovely warm day here again, though it was very cold overnight and we had the heating on for a couple of hours this morning. Looks like it will be cold overnight again tonight.
Brought up more boxes of photographs to sort and stash in their new home, I can see there are still plenty for me to scan. Spoke with son to see how their house alterations are getting on, and with daughter to advise on materials for some shelves she wants to make for her garden storeroom.
Later, while OH went for milk (Lidl) and some frozen items (Farmfoods) just over the road, I unloaded a lot of stuff that has been living in the car for a few weeks so that I could access the filling point for the AdBlue. Major operation as it also involves removing the spare wheel, but that should be it for another few thousand miles now.
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Further to that !! Went to "Lidl" today for foodstuff's,,bought my usual ready meals,,£1.69/£1.89/£1 95 all weigh 400gms.So a better purchase content & weight/price wise than "Parsley Box" ,BUT i had to GO SHOPPING !! 
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Kjell,
I have the AdBlue pleasure to come, and will also have to lift the spare wheel and do the decanting of the liquid to the valve controlled filler. I had expected to carry out the refill within a week or so of our return from Spain at the end of February, but Tig hasn't turned a wheel in 4 weeks, so I am keeping a beady eye on the 1/2 full AdBlue bought in mid-November, and a new 5 litre container, purchased in mid-February for expiry dates!
Steve
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If it works like ours, you have to fill in at least 5.7 litres in one go for it to register you have filled. You also need to wait till it says to fill.
It is apparently possible to overfill, but it seems very difficult to find out exactly how much the tank holds!
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OH had a quick look at the Parsley box stuff the other evening, she thought it worked out VERY expensive.
We tend to combine shopping with exercise these days, only go at quiet times, and keep our distance from others.
Shopping does slightly break the boredom of staying in all day.
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One small thing today, I managed to get a "pointy" cabbage for a neighbour in our Waitrose click and collect, she was delighted, just as I was when some broccoli turned up in our random veg box...it's like finding buried treasure. I also had some luck with the neighbours relatives who I texted for paracetamol, they have a stash at home and are sending some on. Then I hit the jackpot this evening and found a delivery slot instead of another click and collect...my little world at the moment!
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Another fair day here, sunny at times but still a nip in the air. I spent all morning painting the dining room skirting boards and around the door frame, while OH took Flyte for the morning walk. Had a lazy afternoon till I went out for my walk, another 5 mils, and didn't meet too many folk with them all carefully sticking to the 2 meter rule. It was pleasantly warm so just shirt sleeves, shorts and a gillet. We have a brilliant red sky just now. Wish I was able to post a photo of it.
Edit. Oh it worked!
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Well, I'm surprised that the photo has come out as well as is has. I'm using an old Kindle Fire to write these posts and it has only a selfie camera, so taking a view is a bit hit and miss.
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Sister had Mum doing puzzles on her ipad👍
Cycle ride for me today, I am really enjoying it now. Looking forward to taking bikes away with us again. Pottering in garden after lunch, bit of house tittyvating, and then a bit of this and that.
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Photo is great Nellie. That looks like one of the War of the World’s Ironclads in the distance......😁
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The letter for my BIL finally arrived from the Government/NHS
4 pages of it.It details how he is able to claim a food parcel once a week, its quite a comprehensive list of food, no fresh meat but looking at it just about enough to keep you going if you can't get out or get online orders.
They are not going to claim it as they say they don't have monetary issues or issues getting shopping. For some this letter will be a life line.
BIL had a bone scan on Monday and on Thursday goes for a CT scan, no more chemo as that's now finished. Hopefully his tests will come back with good news.
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Fingers crossed all goes well TG, chemo is horrendous at normal times, let alone now.
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Kj - yes it is possible to overfill - without it pouring out of the tank. I had this problem with my Touareg a couple of years ago when, despite knowing that the tank was full to the brim, the warning message to fill up wouldn't go out.
It turned out it's to do with the sensor that tells the 'computer' that the tank is full. It's an ultrasound one, not a float switch as I would have thought it would be and if there isn't a sufficient 'gap' between the sensor and the top of the Adblue, it gets confused.
It turned out that all that was required was a software update and once this was done, I haven't had a problem since.
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Although my Pug is Euro 5 and no ad-blue, there is a blanked off fill point just under the fuel fill as well.
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