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II'm glad to read Ros is back to her normal self. @richardandros what a silly question about a lady's hairdresser appointment 🫣🤣. How many years have you been a husband???
@DEBSC I do hope you can get your earwax problem sorted. The suggestion by @richardandros sounds worth pursuing.
FFrost This morning but glorious day. Out with folks from 'our close' for a meal tonight in the village. I've just collected my raffle prize from the MAGPAS light switch on. I'm not usually lucky in raffles but that's a prize from each of the 2 village light switch ons 😀. Was also asked if I was related to our eldest grandson, who has won a prize. I won chocolate biscuits he won flowery notebooks, so I'll do a swap.
JJust Having lunch and a break from putting up Christmas decorations very slowly....
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@DEBSC OH often has a problem with ear wax, and when I get fed up with shouting he gets an appointment with our local NHS group. It’s a local group that offers out of-hours GP services and other things not now covered by GP surgeries - i.e. maybe another method of ear wax removal. It’s called Nimbuscare in York and is owned by all the practices in the city and a wider footprint, hence us! Probably not as far as Devon 😀, but I wonder if there is something similar near to you perhaps? They have always been pretty good for the ear treatment, it still costs £50 but they have always been good, so he has been lucky. I assume you have tried the softening with warm olive oil prior to the sucking out process? Good luck next week.
We have had an exhausting morning cooking a Vegetarian Wellington, this was a trial run to see how it worked as the list of ingredients and method did look a bit daunting but I thought it can’t be that difficult- it was! Our Daughter-in-law and granddaughter are vegetarian, Kate always has been but granddaughter only the last couple of years. I usually take the easy way out and get something from M&S, but thought I’d make the effort this year and make something as they are visiting us here for a few days from 28th December (2 Christmases for us). We shall eat it for dinner tonight and see if all the effort was worthwhile before we decide whether to bother again in a week or two!
Haven’t even thought about any Christmas decorations yet!
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Today started sunny, but has rapidly deteriorated and we now have the heavy rain, as per the forecast. Wind getting up too.
We are both still coughing frequently, we have some cough mixture and things to suck, which help a little, but it is dragging on, as is OH’s sciatica.
Today we are battling on with making the curtains for Nathan’s bedroom. Work on them stopped when I fell and broke my ribs last December, so they are very delayed! It is a huge window, the room was the kitchen in the original house, so a lot of fabric to handle.
We are now at the stage of attaching the curtain tape, so the end is in sight, and the loose linings are already finished. Before the hem is done we will take them down to DD to hang up to check exactly how long she wants them, then they can be finished at her house as she does have her own machine. Will do a double hem so she has some spare fabric should they shrink when cleaned, they are cotton, and as the background colour is a creamy white, they will need cleaned off and on.
Tomorrow is OH’s birthday, so we are invited to dinner with DD and family, and the in-laws, I believe she is doing roast beef with all the trimmings, looking forward to that. On Monday we have the dentist, but I also need to pick up DD after she has delivered her car for its first service as the dealership is some distance away. Then she needs to borrow one of our cars as the garage have said there are several software updates to be done and they will need to keep it for a couple of days. Not sure why it will take so long. Think we will take both our cars there tomorrow and leave one with her as Monday is already going to be busy.
I would have thought that she could get the garage to do a pick up and drop off, she says they did not offer it, but she was rather late in booking, so maybe it was not available.
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@heddlo you're very brave to tackle the veggie Wellington. We watched the programme about M&S Christmas. Their beef Wellington is £195 this year 🫣..but the work that went into it.....
@KjellNN I really hope you and your OH feel right soon. Birthday greetings to OH for tomorrow.
Snuck a few minutes on here, as I've almost finished the decorations. We don't do very much, but they seem to take an age. I think we'll be the bar humbug of our close outdoor light wise - we do have a good show in the close, but we have a kitchen in the garage where the lights need to go out the window. I need an agile person to get the lights from the switch over to the window and out........ Luckily the otherwise is usable but useless from the light prospective... I have the pleasure of putting away the Christmas Dec's and emptying the kitchen/dining cupboards for the refit starting on the 5th..... Good job the savings on the units was worth the disruption 🫣
We've just had, what I could see if it, a fabulous sunset with beautiful colours. Not quite sure of the position of the setting sun at this time of year but it was silhouetting the church beautifully, which is due south from us!
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@DEBSC we have a few 'private' people that do ear syringing around here. I havent used them but SIL, who has trouble with his ears, has used one in particularly (ex NHS nurse) and says she is excellent. It might be worth googling to see if there are any in your area
Our SIL is vegan. Luckily we are going to theirs for Christmas day and he is doing the cooking.
@KjellNN happy birthday to your OH. I hope you both feel better soon. This cold seems to hang around for a while.
We have had a lovely festive afternoon taking our 2 great grandsons (with their mummy and daddy) to see Father Christmas. Youngest at 4 months was a bit bewildered by it all! However eldest was very excited and loved it, as did we. Such a special experience.
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Thanks for the ear advice, yes I did try all other options before Specsavers but no real choice here. And I’ve been putting Otex, as recommended by the pharmacist, and olive oil in once a day each for 4 weeks now. Seems nothing will shift it.
I purchased a carpet shampooer yesterday as the lounge carpet was a bit grubby by the door, despite always taking our shoes off indoors. Well the colour of the dirty water shamed me. So then I did the white carpet in our bedroom (yes a silly colour choice that I’ve come to regret) that didn’t even look dirty but still brown water came out. I’ll do the other carpets after Christmas.
Our daughter, daughter in law and two granddaughters are vegetarians, not sure about a veg wellington @heddlo but I did make Jamie Oliver veggie gravy yesterday to try it out, oh so many ingredients, but it’s nice, in the freezer now.
Just had to stop writing this to go out and wave to Father Christmas on his sleigh, all lit up. It’s the rotary club collecting, lovely tradition every year. The little ones opposite loved it.
Friends coming on Monday, ear appointment Wednesday, hairdressers Thursday and dentist Friday. So quite a busy week ahead.0 -
Birthday greetings to your OH for tomorrow @KjellNN and I too hope you are soon over your colds, which do seem to be dragging on somewhat.
Last night it was freezing when I took Flyte for his last walk and the temperature hadn't risen much this morning, but just enough to dispel the ice from the car window, however it was exceedingly foggy. This had gradually dispersed by 10:30 when we went for a walk along the canal adjacent to the site and eventually the sun came out as forecast. Our son and DIL, and Leo their working Cocker, came round after lunch for a few hours, and it was lovely to see them. Lots to chat about, catching up with their news and exchanging presents as we won't see them again for a while.
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