What are you all up to
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Bright and sunny this morning, grey and light snow this afternoon.
Started looking for a decorator to come and paint the outside of the house, first one came this afternoon just waiting for a quote. Another 2 or 3 then we will decide who gets the pleasure
last time it was done I did it but there is no way I'm doing it again, life is too short to be spent up ladders.WN your OH isn't the only one with a list I have one too and its getting longer by the day
if this weather carries on I'm not going to get the garden done before we jet off to Lanzarote, that will put my plans right out the window
Off to the Scottish caravan show tomorrow, will need to get another mortgage the price of parking there ยฃ8 what a rip off, thankfully we won tickets so saved money on the entry price, don't think we would have bothered going otherwise.
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C C C Cold again !! Came home early ,,again !! weather closed in with sleet and fine rain Brrr !!.0 -
My OH has a permanent list!
Today we have ticked off 2 things....sorting Christmas paper, ribbon etc..........and finding space for the bookcase for OH's cookery books, as it had to be turfed out of the kitchen.
She has obtained long boxes that hold rolls of paper, and a pile of smaller boxes from Ikea, and is intent on organising everything. We found a shelf that was not being used for much, so all the Christmas stuff is now stacked neatly up there.
With a bit of moving around of small tables, a suitable space for the bookcase has now been made in a corner of the landing not too far from the kitchen, and most of the books have found a home. She has a lot of recipes not in books, so will sort through all those now and keep them in 2 magazine files. Anything that does not fit will have to go!
Much tidier in the spare room now.
Next on the list is a rather more time consuming kitchen cupboards reorganisation.
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Now there's a thought !!
Would it be possible, strictly on the QT of course, for club members to arrange a Swap Club whereby peoples of a certain age could get a Bus Pass Swap as and when they cross the national borders between the Scottish - Welsh - English countries.
Might take a bit of thinking about, might just chat to one of our other members for clarification / advice, Wonder if Merve will be at N E C ??
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DD lives out that side of Glasgow so I have asked for her suggestions.
She suggests parking in Scotstoun, just off Dumbarton Road in Duncan Avenue, Dunglass Avenue or Ormiston Avenue, they are on the north side of Dumbarton Road. If there is an event on at the Scotstoun Arena there will be signs displayed and then you cannot park there, but there is also parking on the other side of Dumbarton Road.
Then take the number 2 bus towards town and get off at the Berkeley Street stop. By then Dumbarton Road has become Argyle Street. There is a Tesco express on the other side of the road just before the stop.
From there you cross the road and walk down to the Exhibition Centre Station and over the foot bridge and you are there.
However, a bit of an adventure, and the possibility of missing the stop as you are not familiar with the area, and getting lost. Plus she reckons bus + walk could take you 40 minutes each way.
She reckons that for ยฃ8 she would rather pay for the parking! Especially if the weather is poor.
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Thank you for the birthday wishes.
Expecting weather from the tropics to arrive this weekend, wet and humid ๐ฒ, been rather lively up Fiji way but no, as yet, cyclones.Taking advantage of our o grandchildren care day to do the washing, rain was forecast cloudy and windy but dry til now ๐ and catch up on here before doing a walk around Hamilton Gardens acres and acres to explore some formal and enclosed, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese etc etc, rose garden which is huge and we've fallen in love with one called 'magnifiscent' plus wild areas, huge lake and a tea shop ๐best of all completely free - well if you don't want to part take of the cafe offerings.
Street art, not graffiti, is widespread here on boxes and walls. Artists are commissioned and even bus shelters get the treatment. Here are a couple of examples from New Plymouth.
The last photo I snapped as it amused me. It was on some fencing for the Gardens Arts Festival - but I wonder at its meaning. All other posters just had their name, logo, Web address etc.
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Not a good day here......I'm waiting for our heating engineer to arrive to see if our combi boiler can be mended and brought back to life or if it's going to be a VERY expensive day ๐. The heating is OFF ๐ฐโ๏ธ So that he can work on the boiler so I'm sat trying to keep warm. The boiler is 12 years old so I'm not sure what to expect.
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Yes, she did the cooking and I did the eating!
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So do ours KjNN, but we just put the bus pass on the electronic machine thing as you get on the bus and the driver never looks at them these days.
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The lack of HW when a combi breaks is the main reason why we would not have one. Space heating is not a major problem as there are alternatives.
At 12 years old it has possibly come to the end of its life and is uneconomic to repair if a major fault, they just don't make them like they used to!
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JVB66 - We're lucky to still have the gas fire in the living room and the plinth heater in the kitchen so we can easily warm two rooms up. It's the rest of the house that relies on radiator heat and no shower. We can live without the radiators but no shower before going to work wouldn't be nice. It's just made us take an impromptu local CL holiday from tonight until Sunday and then we'll bring the caravan back home and park in on the front lawn. I've warned the neighbours about the caravan incase they think we've gone a bit mad when they see us having a cuppa in the caravan. ๐๐ The good news is the engineer has reshuffled his jobs and can start the work next Thursday.
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Sorry forgot that some who post on here are still of "working" age
enjoy your own CL
Still really cold here OH still walking Rosa
i have next appointment at Hospital on monday,Sent off Passport for renewal last Thursday new one has just arrived
I think it may outlast me
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12 years its just a baby, ours was installed in 1979, 39 years old, and apart from a new electric timer, no problems. Heating engineers advice is not to change it as modern boilers are not as reliable.
Day has warmed up a little, now 4C but due to wind feels a lot less.
Still trying to decide where to go this year
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