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Definitely Spofforth. We have used the same picnic tables🤣 There’s a decent little dog walk behind the Castle as well, and we always see kites overhead😁
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Itty bitty day today.
Taxi service for MiL so she could meet up with a friend and have a coffee in town. Some food shopping and also had to call into doctors surgery. Pharmacist told me they couldn't order an item for me as I hadn't asked for it for last 6 months (an aero chamber for inhaler). So called in to order one.
"Why didn't you just ring us?" asked the receptionist. "Your message on the phone says you do not accept repeat prescription requests over the phone". "Does it?" Aaghhhh.
Couple of household chores and that was all she wrote.
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Thanks for the tips on pruning our hydrangea. I think we will just give it a light trim for the moment. As for help in our garden, I think what we need in the short term is someone to help with cutting back our high hedges and shrubs which is too much for us now. We shall do some investigation.
The message on our surgery phone also says they dont accept requests for repeat prescriptions over the phone WN. I wonder whether our receptionists know?!
We decided to treat ourselves to an afternoon out at Elton Hall this afternoon. Lovely afternoon with the bonus of a cream tea at the end!
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MillieH, WN etc,
My prescriptions are done on line via Emis and, fortunately, they do accept and then forward to the surgery, requests for items which have not been requested for over 6 months cos that's about how long I go between one " Sharps Bin " and the next !! incidentally, I notice that the latest ones are of recycled plastic ~~ not sure where from but who cares it will only be incinerated
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We had some lovely rain even a shower this morning, no more forecast, but it was gentle and steady and very welcome.
With regard to climbing hydrangea ours is planted on the west facing wall which catches a lot of south sun too. As you can see it's thrived 😱.
Milliehull I wish there was a personal message method on here. I'm happy for you to ask Rowena for my email address. I know you're in our general area I had someone cut our huge hedges, that surprises you all! The hawthorn hedge along the back garden must by a good 12 foot plus high, we were impressed with him and he'll be back next year. He's local, took everything away, also did the conifer hedge at the side in the front. On fact he'd have done the hydrangea if I hadn't agreed the garden help could do it.
Finding help in the garden hasn't been easy, most who I contacted did reply but wanted regular hours, that can happen eventually if needed, but I need big jobs for the time being. Several didn't understand why I wanted to watch the garden for a year. So many didn't have space! The guy who helps at the moment is happy to do as and when and will come for a half or full day. He also takes all debris away and lots won't. He takes it home to his small holding and composts it 😀. He also doesn't mind whether i help or not.
Once the hydrangea comes down that will just leave a good regular trim to the Virginia creeper, honeysuckle and grapevine - lovely table grapes 🍇 , on the garage to keep them under control and we can start on the one remaining area that hasn't had anything done and had to fend for itself.
Still awaiting a date for the hard landscaping and garage painting, we have one for upgrading the boiler and water tank, so money 💰 being parted with hand over fist but no one can accuse us of not doing our bit for the economy 🤣
Talking of jobs and DIY anyone heard from KjNelln?
Still trying to offload Victoria plums 🤣
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DEBSC,
You really have got me thinking about Times Long Gone with your memories of Rag Rugs under construction !! Just after WW2 I'd toddle home from skool, eat my tea, then lie down in front of the coal fire listening to the Home Service while my Mum was creating ragrugs for the Sewing Circle of the local church. Sadly I never actually saw one of them completed since I would always fall asleep, then wake up when I was planted on my bed !!
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Yes the same table.😁 The post box is situated down a ginnel opposite the castle green.
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ABM we used to be able to order online but turns out the independent website company not very efficient and I only found out when calling into chemist to find nothing there. So not just CT IT that's poor.
Your weather much better than ours Millie. Lovely piccies.
Bakers - SOS - Send Plums. Urgent need. Thanks. WN.
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Bakers - SOS - Send Plums. Urgent need. Thanks. WN.
Never thought go offer them on CT! I have never seen a tree so laden with fruit, we've been picking for a good couple of weeks, no one leaves here without a bag or 3 😁. Offered PYO to neighbours, quite a lot of takers but it doesn't seem to be making huge impressions. I even offered some to the wheelie bin collectors on Monday! Must have been a great year cos we've done nothing other than watch.
Please feel free to whizz over very soon, I fear they're getting past their best. I can also offer a cuppa 😉. In fact there's z very nice looking CL just up the road 🤣🤣🤣
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Looks like we had another decent shower overnight 😀. The improvement in the plants including grass is amazing nature is wonderful.
Counted chickens too soon, garden help has no van today so won't be taking hydrangea down - the offer was there and take away when van OK, so I'll occupy him with a different area. He'll be in a car, so hopefully will take some if not all debris away but our full garden bin gets emptied today so that can have a bit if necessay! I'll not risk being left with debris, can ask A N Other to remove hydrangea but not so easy to get debris taken.
Just a heads up for those who have Apple Devices - have you downloaded Wednesday's security update? Apparently very vulnerable without it 😱😱😱
Enjoy your day folks
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Thought I'd have a proper catch up on here over breakfast, 1st time I've had a proper opportunity, and the dreaded server errors 🤬🤐😤.
Can't even get the right thread to comment on! So sorry you'll have to read as this is an open tab.....
Well I'll have to find something else to occupy me for until my help arrives.......
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So glad to bring back happy memories ABM. Mine are similar, Gran and me sitting in front of the fire while she pulled scraps of material through sacking.
Bakers 2 - Nice to have the grape vines 🍇 but every time I read about them I wonder how you keep Dora away from any grapes that may drop. I think having a dog would make me too stressed to grow grapes. I was making a fruit salad and a couple of grapes escaped onto the floor, visiting, scrounging, dog made a bee line, touch and go for a minute as to who got to them first, didn’t know that I could move so fast.
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I used to have to do a convoluted gp based email to get repeat prescriptions and then wait a week to pick them up from the pharmacy next to the surgery! However after taking up the NHS app ordering system the wait shortened and this week it only took a day from order to arrival. Well that's one NHS improvement I hope.....
We had a sprinkling of rain overnight but not enough to really water things, at least the water butts are full after the earlier downpours.
Another local event coming up and another cake to bake today! (Orange and carrot cake from the BBC Good Food website, very glad that's still "on air.")
Hope everyone has a good weekend, I've been a day out this week and it feels like Saturday...⏰️
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OHs son has completed the two POAs for OH so we are having a get together Sunday morning for all concerned to sign them and I will send both registered mail on Monday. when we are hopefully back at Peterborough travel Sunday PM FM site staff very helpful as not sure of arrival time when I contacted them,
Ps it can take twenty weeks for certificates to be issued.for POA
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Still here B2, just been rather busy.
We have/had visitors, so that meant a lot of tidying and cleaning, and then entertaining. At the moment we have my sister here from Norway, also my sister in law, and a couple of weeks back a niece and her husband were here too for a few days. They had never been in Scotland before, so I had to be the tour guide.
Now, we are also back looking after the wee ones 2 days a week as school is back up here, plus DD has brought out her list of jobs to be done, again!
The last 2 visitors go home on Tuesday after my birthday on Sunday, so things will be a bit quieter then, though we are in the middle of ordering stuff for bathroom project number 2, and we have our next trip away to plan.
I also have some bits in bathroom 1 to finish, hopefully next week, but at least we are able to use it now. The new shower is very good, no more climbing into the bath, and everything fitted as per the plan.
In bathroom 2, the builders will be doing more of the work, so I will only be painting the ceiling and laying the flooring. There has also been a mention of some things to be done outside before winter sets in, so plenty to keep me busy!
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Housework, gardening, and dog walking for me today. OH has a hospital appointment this afternoon, the third one in three months. Since his big aneurysm operations nearly four years ago he has to have twice yearly scans and an X-ray. For some reason they are all done at different times for different areas. So very regular trips. Not complaining, in fact the opposite, good care during the op and after, and it’s very good to know that they keep a close eye on him. The real issue was the wait for the op, a very scary time, knowing what could happen if it burst. In fact that’s when we had to give up caravanning, too much lifting and heavy moving.
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Just picked a good 160kg of Victoria plums, still more to come! Now put them on the village website. The cul du sac can't cope either 🤣🤣
DEBSC in the house that Jack built 😉 our veg plot is at the front of the house, so Dora doesn't have 'free access' thankfully.once the hardlandscaping is done she maybe able to get there more easily will have to contemplate.
KjNelln good to hear from you, visitors, your own jobs, childcare and daughters list - your last is worse than mine 🤣🤣. Happy birthday for Sunday, I hope the family really spoil you- you certainly deserve it. 🎁🎉🍾🎂🍰
Right still kicking my heels awaiting waterboard official,so better see which job on the list I fancy. I certainly have a large choice 😱
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I was out picking raspberries and plums yesterday evening. Been a fabulous year for fruit. We have a plum glut, I am giving away to neighbours at the moment. No rain last night, we were supposed to get a good downpour, but it never arrived.
I finished restringing a lovely set of freshwater pearls for a lady who owns a deli next to craft emporium where I sell stuff last night. Beautiful pearls, she just wanted a simple re string, nothing fancy. Had some free crystals arrive as well to try out. Swarovski’s (beads to make your own jewellery) are getting quite difficult to find in UK now, I usually get mine from Lithuania, but the import costs have rocketed since Brexit.
Started planning our Autumn tour last night. Borders, Northumberland and Hadrians Wall we think. Depends on weather🤔
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Repeat prescriptions we use Lloyds Direct they send reminders via emails advising that you need to order ,we then reply to them who then send order to our GP surgery who check It if okay Lloyds Direct keep us advised and then send via Royal Mail 48hr tracked delivery no signing req in normally boxes that are sized to fit your standard sized letter box
It normally works well and you can, if on tour, have it delivered to where you are staying,
At times the boxes they use are bigger and the postman will knock to deliver
I have in the past missed.the reminder email but you can then have a code from Lloyds direct that can be used in any Lloyds Chemist's to have the prescription. made up
it has only failed once in the two years we have used them and they sent the parcel to our home address and not to the site we were on ,and the code was sent to my inbox for use at a local Lloyds chemist
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Bakers2 those are my favourite plums and I have memories of living in Shropshire as a child and we had a huge tree of them plus all the other plums the garden was about 1 acre in size and we grew everything so no shortage of fruit through out the year, over here not such a good year for plums and quite expensive too last year was a glut.
Sounds like you are busy with your crafts Tda.
Had the same day as WN yesterday all over the place sorting things out for friends etc and did not get much here so hoping to have a couple of quiet days then all go again on Sunday as friends coming down on Sunday for them and OH to go and look at a scaffold tower up for sale early in the morning also had a couple of items delivered here for their motorhome 1 is a roof cover and a shower that can heat up by solar now the phone is ringing and it is our friends again.
Looking forward to our 2 site stay next month and hope it will be cooler as it looks we may get another heatwave next week heyho.
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Very jealous about the plums, love them, and jam etc. No room for a tree in our garden. Although we do have a lovely cooking apple tree but the woods being so close and blocking the light is making it lean now, this year lots fell off in the heatwave. Not half as many left as usual.
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We did our POA’s a couple of years ago. They are so important as we realised when my late Mum was ill. So glad she had done hers in advance it made everything so much easier for us all. Ours was a bit complicated by the fact our eldest son lives abroad (and has done for 20 years) he is named as a reserve so most will be left to our UK son. We hope it’s not needed for a long time yet though, but life happens sometimes with or without your control! Envious of all the fruit picking, 🍇🍓🍏 (can’t find a Plum emoji!) wish we were closer we would certainly have some. 😋
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Sign of the times I went to our local PO this morning (in the co op)to get some idea of costs to send the forms ,it is closed until tomorrow as there are not any staff to operate the PO
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I previously read the posts regarding passports and some problems with the photos. Told OH, so we chose a plain wall not too much or too little light and no shadows. One photo said not so good so we re took it. Then both came up good. Just been notified by the passport office that both are passed ok and are being printed. So thanks for the tips guys.
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Snap we did ours once OH came out of hospital having had end of life care 😱. Wills were in place but made when youngest had his sister as guardian, so updated those at the same time. Similar complication with daughter living abroad for 15 years. All worked out very well.
Both my parents made enduring power of attorney, as you can tell a long time ago! Luckily never needed.
JVB you'll get stacks of paperwork back, before during any after. I'm too scared to cull ours but they look the same. Another hold up is getting it through the family court, ours went through so should be straight forward if ever needed.
On the plum front they'd all gone in about half an hour no point on putting a sign up as we're at the end of the cul du sac so little passing trade. However I was able to tell our last caller someone else had put theirs on fb.
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POA's
Might one ask if these are done on a DIY basis and then registered or done via a solicitor? Anyone willing share an idea of the costs involved?
David
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We did our Lasting Power of Attorney via the Office of the Public Guardian. GOV.UK which you can find on line. It cost £82 per application fee.
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bakers2 I have email Rowena to ask her to let you know my email address. Let's hope we get some success. If not perhaps either of the Davids (Klyne or DSB) can help in some way.
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Dk. It's cheaper to do it yourself, everything is on line, if you love form filling it's fairly easy! We went through a solicitor as we have a slightly non standard family eg three children, different parentages and we wanted to make sure everything was totally OK. All three children are now lumbered with it but we like being fair!
I think it cost under 2k but can't remember exactly. I was also so grateful my late Mum did a POA and also made my sister and self signatories to her bank account if needed. This was useful as an interim measure when she became ill suddenly.Let's hope these things aren't needed but sometimes they are, unfortunately.
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We had ours done professionally, got to be right if you need to use them. Did them August 2019 cost was £750 + VAT + Court of protection fee then £328 all joint figures.
Hope this helps, but you can do with forms online i believe. I presume costs have increased.
Our fees also included them being on a register, memory fails a bit , same with our wills central register as so many solicitors merge or get eaten up by the big boys.
I know the figures are correct, cos I keep of book of s uch costs. Blame archive's. Mind you interesting to see how little rates etc were and the cost of nappies or kids shoes 😱🤣 but then so we're salaries!
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