What are you all up to
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@DEBSC good to hear from you. Small steps, but in the right direction. I'm glad you're being looked after we'll. You wouldn't be allowed the flowers in hospital 😉. Yes I agree there shouldn't be an age discrimination for such screenings. I believe the smear test is earlier. I have tge 'pleasure's a mammogram on the 6th. My 2nd since we arrived, so within 3 years.
Lovely Day here, I've started to pottering tge garden BUTtge grass is squashy and wet,in dire need of the top being taken off 🫣. Weeds are coming out reasonably but tge clay on the hand fork is claggy! I've got washing blowing on the line. Rain forecast again tomorrow but a few hours without is welcome 😀
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@DEBSC - Here's hoping it's just recovery from now on.
@InaD - Can't quite believe it myself. Best wishes
@DavidKlyne - The ladies used Riveira Travel for their river cruise in Portugal and recommend them. Just as an aside OH said that the Duoro (and Rhine) are tidal and the vessels of Viking were too tall to pass under some bridges at high tide and had to either wait for the tide to fall or use bus replacement service so beloved of our railways, whereas the lower ones of Riveira had no such interruption to their schedules.
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OH had an appointment in town yesterday and after crossing at some traffic lights(man on green) heard a bang to her left. A takeaway delivery cyclist had run smack bang into the rear of a stationary car at red lights. She immediately helped the cyclist to the side of the road and collected his bike. The man was in agony and looking at his leg OH was pretty certain he'd broken it. She collected his bike whilst someone rang for an ambulance and heard one of the drivers say to the driver of the damaged car that the delivery man had been checking his phone when he collided with him.
Lovely morning here so we took MiL to Loggerheads Country Park between Ruthin and Mold and the ladies went for a walk on the good paths whilst I headed up the hill on a longer walk. MiL walked a fair way. The walker's tyres were rather filthy when they got back. A cuppa and a quick visit to the tourist info shop followed. MiL really enjoyed the change of scenery.
Back home for some outside jobs as tomorrows weather doesn't look good.
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@DEBSC - so good to hear that you're back home. That's the worst part over - here's to a speedy and full recovery.
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@DEBSC So glad you are now home and on the road to recovery. Wishing you all the best. A friend gave me the contact details for both mammogram screening (every 3 years) and bowel screening (every 2 years) so I now make sure I contact them and keep up to date. They are local numbers but I am sure people can find their local tel. nos. through the NHS. As you say it is so important. Take care.
Lovely day here today - sunny and warm 🌞 at last. Make the most of it while it lasts.
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A much better day with lots of sunshine. Did Drybrugh abbey this morning, lunch at the hotel next door and Jedburgh abbey and town this afternoon. Rain back tomorrow though but who cares.
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@DEBSC pleased to hear you are doing well. I referred myself for a mammogram last year (over 70) as my younger sister had just been through your experience, it was her last (age referred) mammogram and they found something, although she could not feel anything herself! It was an easy referral and fortunately for me all was ok, I’m glad that I had one though. Safety first! Take it easy and best wishes.
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Thanks for the update @DEBSC , and glad to hear you are making progress.
Glad you hear you now have a date for the hip @InaD .
Thanks for the photos @Cornersteady - never tried haggis... it's never really appealed!! Ithink I'll stick to black pudding from McLeod's in Stornoway. We did enjoy our short stay at Melrose CAMC last summer though, although I was less impressed with Stonehaven - the site was fine but the surrounding roads were a bit of a nightmare. I did try a battered/fried Mars bar, which was OK.
Enjoy your trip out @nelliethehooker .
David
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@Bakers2 ... now you're making me feel guilty!! 🤣 I was looking at our garden thinking I might pull up a few weeds.... then went shopping instead!! 🤣🤣
@milliehull.... there is a tiny shop and cafe abut 5 miles away from Ruth's on Harris, but they don't have much more than tea bags, biscuits andthe odd cake, from what I remember, but she works in Stornoway so is there anyway a few days a week anyway.
David
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Good to hear you are home and being well looked after DEBSC, hope your recovery goes well. Be sure to take things easy for a while, not wear yourself out.
We had an abrupt awakening this morning, DD rang quite early to say that their boiler was leaking, water was “everywhere”, plus Callum had banged his head and could not tell them how or when it had happened, so she was about to take him to the Children’s Hospital to be checked in case of concussion……please could we get up and come down to her house!
When we arrived SIL had mopped up some of the flood, the boiler is in a store room off the utility room so not too much to damage. From her description we had expected to be met with a raging torrent from the back door, but fortunately that was not the case. From a look at the boiler it seems the leak possibly has something to do with the filling loop, but, having read the boiler manual, everything there seemed tightly closed, so maybe not. I did not want to make things worse so finished the mopping up, put a large bucket under the drip, and gathered up all the soggy towels they had used.
SIL made us all tea and toast while I rang our CH person and left a message requesting a visit ASAP. DD and Callum returned, he seems to be OK, apart from a big lump on his forehead, but they have an instruction sheet on what to check up on should he feel unwell. He has given about 6 different versions of how he came to bang his head, but has settled on “ Nathan climbed up into my bed (he is trying out a low bunk bed) and pushed me in the back and I hit my head on the wooden safety rail”.
Whether that is true is another matter. Nathan is denying it, but he has become rather boisterous lately, so it may well be, we will never know.
Back home mid morning and since it was dry and sunny, I was able to cut and fit the last splashback panel before lunch. This afternoon I have made a start on making the wooden battens that will fit above the panels to provide somewhere to screw our mug racks and hooks onto. Hopefully tomorrow I can start on checking the caravan before it goes for service soon.
While we were having lunch our CH person rang to say he had a cancellation so could come at noon on Monday to hopefully fix the boiler, so that was good. Meantime they have no CH or HW, but fortunately a gas fire in the snug, several electric heaters, and 2 electric showers, so will be fine for a few days.
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@DEBSC I posted at about the same time as you, as I didn't see your post earlier. I'm really pleased you're doing well after the operation. It must be a relief to have that out of the way, you can now concentrate on getting better. I had my last mammogram before turning 70 at the end of last year. I was told that it would be the last one for which I would get an automatic recall, but that I could request one after 3 years, and was given a leaflet about that.
I wish you all the best with your recovery.
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@DavidKlyne @DSB @Wherenext thank you for your good wishes, at the moment it still seems unreal, but no doubt that will soon change!
@Wherenext in relation to river cruising: the Douro is one of the cruises we would like to do and that information about the Viking ships being too tall to pass under some bridges at high tide was very useful, thank you. We've only been on the one river cruise, and that was with Riviera, which we would also recommend, we both thoroughly enjoyed it. However, we haven't excluded other companies, but that was something I wasn't aware of, so that's much appreciated.
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A pleasant few hours in the garden. Cutting back and sorting the greehouse. Gave everything in there a good soak. I actually had a lavender in flower in there.Top taken off one lawn, 2 to go. Plenty more go do. Everywhere very claggy and wet, yet our half barrels were surprisingly dry and I gave each of the 5 20 litres of water, which didn't run out the bottom.
A nice bright day, not with a sky like @Cornersteady 😢. A slight sunset. Washing dried nicely.
JJust About tidied up in the garden as our Northumberland friends pulled on the drive to break their journey down to Essex. Sadly they were tight for time so only a cuppa and comfort stop. Was hoping that we could eat at one of our pubs. Now OH preparing his speciality of egg and chips 🤣.
I think a bath will be necessary, I've not been so active for months..…....
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@richardandros Thanks, hope Paul obliges! We are stopping on a CL at Bewholme Driffield....San Tropez, a new one for us.
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It has also been a lovely sunny day here at home after a dull start. OH got the washing done and dried outside and I was able to get the outside of the caravan cleaned, at last. Productive day on the booking front too with another 3 sites confirmed.
For some reason I am unable to access CT on my this evening although the rest of the club's web site appears to be working as are other open tabs....very strange.…am having to do this on my phone.
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