What are you all up to

Well done Kj.  What a wonderful amount to have raised.

Hope the spring cleaning and gardening at your mother's went well Bakers2.  You will have earned your trip away.

Hope you have a good trip to Devon and Cornwall brue.  Seems like a lot of us are planning to go away.

Son and DIL brought their new puppy over to ours this afternoon to see how she and our 2 cats got on together.  I have to say our cats weren't too keen but we avoided all out warfare.

Nice to see you back moulesy.

Wow feeling rather tired. Blitzed mothers bedrooms hers in particular and went up the corners too in all the downstairs as well. She is 86 and allegedly has a cleaner, but but i don't think she has enough time, neither does my brother, but we can't persuade mother to have more and I don't think I'd want this cleaner anyway. Still she does keep on top of vacuuming and mum dusts. But mum says she has to watch her as she's heading off before her time! Still I've sorted it for a good few months. Hubby made great impressions on the garden. Again a gardener comes in but seems to only potter apart from grass cutting. She likes to keep her independent and we don't want 2 big gardens to do - plus we like to get away in the van and do long trips to NZ. Just waiting for our earlier prepared meal to cook.

Nice to see you back Moulsey, glad you had a good time. Plenty to catch up with 😉 at home and a bit on here.

Milliehull how lovely to have the family and the puppy to visit I just could be jealous 😂.

Ian not everyone gets that lucky 😂😂😂😂.

David got to hear Lizzie home, speedy recovery. 

Hope Lizzie is recovering well David.

Grey and damp here but still no rain or wet, we do need some! But double edged sword now as we're off on Wednesday staying in Essex. Still upside is I can clean the conservatory windows and that's them all done 😆. I know how to live 😂😂😂.  Open to any better offers  😉.

Need to walk into town to bank cheque from mother for getting her cash out - elderly parents ain't simple, sort of glad we've only got one now, but have an aunt I help too. I also have to post her easter parcel to NZ as woman in her post office wouldn't sell her the stamps as mum had taken the bits down with her had them weighed along with the envelope etc as she hadn't wrapped, but had taken the wrapping paper, because she'd need a customs declaration form but didn't offer her one 😯. I know you're thinking she could get her cash there but she feels to vulnerable to get cash as she doesn't know who's watching. Sad world! That local village stores and post office in next but one village has been raided 4 times in the last 2 years so hard to convince her the world is safe.

Also learnt yesterday she's to have a new water meter fitted as the reading meter on the wall outside, no I don't understand but apparently should be exactly the same as one under her sink! Didn't know that was there either and it doesn't.  Last bill estimated a minus reading last September but only be looked at now. We fell about laughing at how little she pays for water and sewage come to that but have no idea on metered water we are still based on rateable value. Suffice to say I thought the DD had decimal point in the wrong place 😂😂😂. There's always something new to entertain us in our world 😆

I can so empathise with your world Bakers, I look after my Mum and Dad with my sister. The world they knew has changed beyond all recognition, and explaining some of the technology is always a good laugh for all of us. 

My mother never wrote a cheque in her life - she would only deal with cash. MIL got to stage where she wouldn't deal with any of her finances so it was all down to us.  I do worry about older people who have no-one to sort all this out for them.

It is a wet grey day here. I didn't see the forecast so have washed all the towels and bath mats.  They are still sitting in the washing machine.  I might  have to put them on the airer in the utility room. Mr H went over to the storage compound with his hand held pressure washer before it started to rain.  He has washed and leathered the caravan but had to come home as it is now too wet to polish and wax it. Hopefully there will be a fine day later in the week.

Looks like you could do with a tumble dryer!

My MIL never wrote a cheque or dealt with household accounts. Held down a very high flying secretary/pa role all her life! She never wound her watch or cleaned her glasses. Hubby used to say to her face she'd be a nightmare if FIL went first - she'd just laugh. Luckily for us she did go first 😉.

Will you all please stop saying it's raining where you are- thank you. I was out for an hour and a half bumped into lots of folks out and back. Very slight mizzly rain couldn't even say drizzle once not enough to wet the pavement!  Now blowing really hard, enough to make walking home against it fun 😉 thus drying things out further. If you send you washing down here milliehull it'll be dry in minutes.....

It's always good to know you're not alone with this malarky 😂. Lucky to have someone to share it with hubby the only one so it would have all fallen on him 😲. She's very good for her age really but does need a bit of support or at least a sounding board. Not keen on my advice but if I tell my bother what I've said he repeats and suddenly it's a great idea 😉.

Reason I help an aunt by marriage is cos she has no offspring.  Mind you she's 10 + years younger than my mum but acts about that much older and is always gloomy.

It's just stopped raining and thus sun has come out. I wonder if it's too late to hang the washing on the line . I do have a tumble dryer but am loathe to use it too often as it costs so much, especially bath towels and bath mats

Oops. Spoke to soon.  I have just looked out of our conservatory window to see this coming our way

Bakers2 moulesy told me how to re-size the photos:

Right click on the photo (probably save it first) select the 'edit' option which will open a windows gallery at the  top of the page there is a 'resize' button which you click on. choose the pixels option and reduce the horizontal number to below 500. Click on OK at the bottom of the dialogue box.  Now close the changed version which should then automatically save it which is why you might want to change the original before editing otherwise you will lose it.

It's a bit of a faff but it usually works for me.

It had been raining in the Cotswolds since last night we managed to get ready for our move to here in the dry ,  but then nearly floated along the Foss Way,   and got a bit wet setting up on arrival , then it stopped about 1330 and the sun has been out since but we are still looking out onto a lake that is covering about a quarter of  our hard stand and most of the road

Ps I think one of the toilet blocks is still owened by the caravan club as it still has a big club sign over the entrance