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Been a long day today had to be up and away from home at 6.50 as the car was booked in for its MOT and service the Volvo specialist we use is in Glasgow and car had to be there for 8 normally it’s about a 45-50 minute drive but I wanted to be away early as the M77 on a Monday morning can be very busy. Pulled in through the gate at 7.57.MOT was fine had to get two new tyres though and got a full service done so had a bit of a bill but hopefully thats it for another year. Spent some time in the city centre while the car was in garage city very quiet had a walk down by the river but it was bitterly cold and icy so ended up sitting in Wetherspoons with a coffee. Got home just before 3 car was cleaned while the garage had it but by the time I got home it was filthy again so will need to give it a clean but that will need to be at weekend as we have a lot on this week. Bitterly cold here and it’s expected to get colder later tonight so not planning on going g back out.
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Thank you for your good wishes.
We had a lovely lunch and I kept my purse closed at the garden centre.... There's a first time for everything! Mind up the poor plants in solid pots ❄️🥶🥶.
The A roads were good and not as busy as I thought they might be, teacher only day here too.
@Wherenext that was really lucky and great timing to snap up such a quick replacement appointment. Delighted tge supermarket shelves were stacked with essentials 🫣
@Francis, not going red, hopefully the large bill for your car is sufficient for the year. @Francis @Francis
We're nicely cosy in the lounge - the sun streamed in earlier but now the fire's oon and curtains drawn.
Stay warm and safe folks
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Hope @nelliethehooker's visit to the hospital went ahead today and went well.
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@DSB I hope your family were able to get home without any problems.
@Bakers2 Happy anniversary, I hope you both had an enjoyable day.
We can see the southern end of the Lake District hills and only the tops are showing white, from frost rather than snow @DEBSC
Pleased to hear that there has been no change in your aneurysm @richardandros you must be greatly relieved.
All those that need to head out over the next few days please take care..
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Thanks for the thought @Wherenext, all went smoothly and I was back home by 9:20 after a 9:00 appointment. All I can do now is wait for the result of the biopsy, 4 to 6 weeks, before they decide the next course of action, and then perhaps we can get ahead with planning our 2026 trips. You were fortunate to pick up that alternative appointment, well done.
It has been another sunny day, cold but with no wind. The ground was covered in a very thin layer of frozen hail, like caster sugar, so not slippery thankfully, most of which has gone now. Looks like a clear sky so it will be freezing again tonight.
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Best wishes to those having, waiting for medical stuff. It’s a two 🥶🥶 on the shiver meter here today, very hard frost, but no snow round home. I think it will be white over up at Mum’s as she is a good bit higher than us, so hoping nothing freezes up there.
We are on various errands today. Nothing overly exciting, just things that need doing, way too cold for garden and garage, but will check greenhouse and new little heater. I have some quite delicate stuff in there, aeoniums, geraniums, so hopefully will be enough to save them.
We made the mistake of taking a look at series 1 of The Traitors last night, in the search for something different to watch. Very different to the only other Traitors we have watched (Celebs). Full on vicious in places, 🫣😳 We ended up staying up far too late/early, but it definitely draws you in. The scenery where it is filmed is absolutely stunning. We have no idea on who might be the last person standing, but OH has identified every make, model, modified version of the LR Defenders in use🤣🤣3 -
Very icy and just as cold here @Takethedogalong. MiL going stir crazy so we took her to a garden centre up the Wirral. Main roads fine, the hardest problems were getting her into the car and getting out of the cul-de-sac. Both done very gently. We got a disabled space right outside the door of the garden centre, so couldn't have gone better.
She does was she does best, just meanders and disappears from sight in a trice. We could do with fitting a tracking device on her somewhere. Home for lunch. I have to go out again soon, to pick up her medication. OH rang pharmacy on Friday last. Couldn't find it, rang yesterday and was told they had found it. Its been sitting there since 28th.November! But we had a 2 month prescription filled and picked up on the 6th.November! So plenty of sorting to be done and I think we'll change pharmacy when matters settle down as this one doesn't even let you know when meds ready.
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Postscipt to previous post. Got to pharmacy, explained why we were there. They searched and searched but couldn't find any meds. "Are you sure the person you spoke to said they were here?" This is when I decided to let OH do all of the talking and I went to the nearby library as I wouldn't be have been as diplomatic as OH. So, another trip to town in near future to pick up mysterious meds.
Right, we'll have a coffee and settle down at home. 1 sip later an email arrives telling me my order from a shop is being sent out for delivery. As we received said item on 1st.December I was perplexed. So another phone call later and lo and behold a box hadn't been ticked saying the item had been delivered. Meanwhile OH sent off for a small paint box. Order arrived, wrong box! but same barcode as right box! It's no wonder we're on B.P. tablets.😁
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Margaret has two hospital appointments this week, on different days,.One is a diabetic eye test and the other a hip follow up. Simon is taking her for one and other we will go by taxi. Too much to hope that in the age of AI that perhaps the system would arrange both appointments on the same day?
David
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@richardandros you asked about the sculpture in the photo that I posted last week. This is the response I received from the Countryside Rangers' office.
The sculpture is the last remaining of a series of willow and carved sculptures from the mid 1990’s. The artist did not really intend the American Indian look that it has, but was rather designed to represent the visitors and wildlife that he noticed within the nature reserve. Unfortunately rot has set in at the base of the sculpture and we are likely to have to remove it before the end of the winter. It will then be left to become a habitat in its own right as it gradually decays.
Hope this helps, not quite the result I was expecting.
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Not the best of days for you @Wherenext can you not get the prescriptions sent out to you as others seem to be able to get?
@DavidKlyne I hope Margaret gets to her appointments without any bother, with the disruption that is expected because of the storm that is forecast. I guess that each clinic have their own administration departments, hence the two separate appointments.
We awoke this morning to find the ground covered in a thin layer of snow and the car's windscreen frozen, but the day was initially dry and slowly warmed up. After lunch it started to rain and soon all the snow had gone. We just have to hope that it doesn't freeze tonight.
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Earlyish appointment at our hospital. Parking there is bad at the best of times but worse at present as building work in the car park, so OH offered to come with me, then he could drop me off then search for a car space, however there was parking available as early. Straight in, earlier than my appointment and a really lovely radiographer. So all good, now just hoping that the results are good. Then into town, pleasant chap in the building society served me. Then to my bank, the most miserable woman teller, never seen her before but it was obviously too much bother for her to be working there. I know we can all have a bad day but why do some people choose to work with the public when they just don’t want to. A dry day so off for my walk in a minute, the weather doesn’t look good for later in the week. I need a walk, noticed my trousers were a bit tight this morning, all that Christmas cake.
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Had our latest covid jab yesterday and all ok except I felt a bit off early evening and the most awful headache which is still hanging around hopefully will go soon and got arm ache a lady in the Pharmacie was new to us very helpful and OH a bit woozy am today but ok now and got all his meds even some he did not need yet perhaps with the weather making sure he had enough for the next couple of weeks, OH has a prescription for 3 in 1 Tetanus, polio and diptheria booster so will have that in a couple of weeks
Have got a few snow flakes falling at the moment will see if it settles glad we went out yesterday and did a bit of shopping as well, a very cold night down -9.6C and a sharp frost today but now gone with snow which could turn into rain later.
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@nelliethehooker - between OH and myself we've worked out why the Pharmacy failed. OH picked up her mothers meds on 4th.November for 56 days except for 1 med where the Pharmacy only had 1 month supply so we returned around the 28th and picked up the balance. The member of staff has obviously made 2 errors, firstly moving the whole repeat back to 56 days from the 28th. November and secondly not marking the part order as having been collected making the system believe meds were waiting in the shop to be picked up. They're sorting an urgent prescription. We'll let the dust settle before deciding what to do. Personally, getting another link involved just means one more thing that could go wrong. We'll probably set it up online so that either of us can order at the right time and we'll get notification by text when its ready.
Bad bout of insomnia recently. I used to get this regularly before the Stroke but a benefit of the Stroke has been better sleep due to fatigue. Mind you I made the mistake of reading my results from the blood test late last night. Dare say that didn't help matters.
I thought we'd had a "Supercat" move in somewhere local looking at the deposit on our lawn this morning until OH pointed out that it was more likely to be "Supermole" 😂
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Good to read that between you It has been resolved @Wherenext I hope that next time you don't have a repeat of the problem.
@RedKite I hope your headache has soon gone and your arm ache too. Thankfully it has been nowhere as cold here, perhaps just down to -3C the other night.
Fingers crossed that the results from the x-ray are good @DEBSC The weather forecast for the next couple of days for the South West is rather disconcerting, stay safe.
Not a lot of sunshine today but it was pleasant while it lasted and relatively warm out of the wind. The temperature managed to get up to 7C, fine for a walk around our park this morning. I see that the C&CC are offering a discount of 25% off pitch fees on some of there sites from April to October if booked before the end of March, so it looks as if they are following the trend of the CC.
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@Wherenext well thats sounds slightly familiar. As I said on here before, I put my prescription in the GP box way before Christmas as they take so long at the pharmacy lately. As the pharmacy had texted to say some of my tablets weren’t ready I decided not to make too many journeys there and wait for all my tablets to be ready - parking is a nightmare there with so many cars pulling in and out, and as it’s down a steep hill and the paths have been so slippery. Anyway yesterday I desperately needed my cancer pills so went down. Long queue, nice assistant, seems the tablets they hadn’t been able to get were aspirins! They were now in stock but she couldn’t give them to me as the pharmacist was at lunch, 2.30, and wouldn’t be back til 4pm. But she assured me everything else was there, silly me I should have checked, but it was a bit of a shipping order and chemist was packed. Got home, what wasn’t there, my cancer pills! Went back. She said the Dr hadn’t put them on the prescription and she didn’t have any in stock anyway. Very long story short, Drs receptionist apologised, said new script to be sent as urgent. Assistant said she’d order them as urgent. Both ladies were lovely and not their fault. But what is it coming to when a chemist can’t get asprin, (the small dose taken every day) for a month! So Wherenext I feel your frustration. Sorry for the long diatribe, I know there are far worse things going on in life but it is annoying.
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Very grey and cold here, not as cold as previously but we had a light dusting of snow overnight, pretty much gone now. Although our house sits higher up than DD’s, it is actually colder down here. We came out early to go to Lidl, so she had not turned on the heating in the living room by the time we arrived, less than 18 degrees is too cold for we old people to be sitting in!
Heating is now on but taking ages to warm the place up, now 20 degrees. This “open plan” living is attractive, but the big spaces are expensive to heat when there is no sun. OH is sitting wrapped in a blanket but her hands are still very cold.
Trying to decide on holiday plans for Easter and Summer, and a date to book the caravan in for service.
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@KjellNN we made our back room/kitchen area into an open plan when we put our stove in. It’s usually fine with just the stove going, but we also have a doorway into hall from kitchen, and as heat rises, we lose some into hall and up the stairs. So a couple of years ago, when energy prices shot up, we put a thick curtain across this doorway, and on really cold nights, we use this curtain so that we are only heating the room we are sat in. What a difference it made. We have heating on from 9pm to warm rest of house, at least the bedroom we use and the bathroom, and open the curtain to let stove heat circulate as well. We use thick lined curtains across all doors and windows and this helps hugely as well. Even a portable screen might help target heat to where you might spend most time, unless of course you have underfloor or just radiators.
We had a nice walk yesterday, round RSPB Old Moor. Didn’t spot much out of ordinary, but the fresh air and exercise was nice. Today has mainly been spent booking some events for later in year, we have afternoon tea booked on both a steam train and a canal barge later in year, football tickets for end of this month. Have to say, some of the booking platforms are atrocious. We had to phone to sort out both trips, and the football tickets😡 Pleasant human beings sorted things in no time. So much for high tech😵💫
RSPB Old Moor. Frozen solid, bitterly cold, but a nice day. Not much around, but we did pick up three interesting books in the second hand book area.
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Well a change of weather 9.9C this morning and rain overnight and it got to 11C pm so a straight 10 days of fog and sharp frosts and now rain for a few days so nothing can be done outside but I usually get into gardening next month but planning different things to do out in the garden.
Friends popped around late this afternoon after being in Cahors for some DIY bits and they bought me the xmas Gardeners World magazine and Calendar which they bought back from UK just before Xmas so now have something to read.
@nelliethehooker thanks for your kind comments and to say I am back to normal no headache and arm much better today and OH is as well and have done housework and washing today so must be better ha ha washing dried inside, hope your results from the biopsy are ok.
Gosh this storm looks awful for UK tonight I am watching it on tv.
Take care folks.
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We have had a grey, damp and mizzly day, so have not done much apart from our regular walks with Flyte. I have just done a check up on last year's trips. We were away in the caravan for a total of 248 nights, during 6 separate tours staying on 62 locations, although a few on more than 1 occasion. We stopped on many different types of sites; CLs & CSs, Commercial, CAMC and C&CC sites, THSs and a rally, at an average cost of:£17:63 per night, around 50p per night dearer than in 2024.
Stay safe one and all.
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The storm tonight has been horrendous but, thankfully, all over in less than 2 hours.
Daylight will reveal all.
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Sounds as if you have survived it thankfully. Fingers crossed that yourself and no-one else around you have suffered any major damage. Hope it has passed and doesn't return & you able to get a proper night's sleep.
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Not really had a 'storm' as such here, but snow started coming down around 6.30pm and it is still snowing - quite large flakes, but falling fairly normally - not aggressively and no wind, as such. It doesn't seem to be freezing - it's still a bit wet - but the snow is getting some depth.
Spent most of the afternoon trying to contact folk to tell them that tonight's practice was cancelled. We didn't want folk to travel and risk getting stuck.
Now just catching up on 'The Traitors'… 🤣🤣🤣
David
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Just been reading news, you were in my thoughts, hope all is ok down there. We have snow still falling here, but the wind isn’t too bad. Take care.
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Traitors……………….😳cracking episode.
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My friend in Penzance had it worse and her daughter at Lands End more so.
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Sorry you have had it so bad @Tinwheeler. Hope all is well..
David
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