What are you all up to

Another beautiful sunny but cold day here today, frost overnight but now gone from the cars, ground still frozen in places. 

Bed stripped and remade, washing machine on, free wash courtesy of the solar panels.

Now off to see Mum then up to sons house again to do another couple of hours in the garden. Think that will be the last until we get back from Lanzarote 3rd week in March.

Son will be coming up then for a week to do some work and collect his daughter from boarding school for the 3 weeks Easter break.

Where is this year going.

Have a safe trip brue and DSB and anyone else brave enough to venture out this weekend/week hope its not going to be as bad as they forecast, we have an early morning flight at Glasgow on Thursday.

The two ear tags tell us everything about the cow. One is the compulsory CTS one, showing the herd number and unique 6 digit passport number.

The other is a management tag, showing date of birth and sire. In this case LJE (Llandovery Jinny’s Empire).

There is also a small transponder tag that is picked up by the reader as the cow goes into the stall work in the milking parlour, and so the system knows how much cake to dispense and records the milk yield on the dairy computer. 

But only my scrawling tells you it is a COW!

Animals are more closely monitored and traceable than us humans!

No Val as we'd already eaten in Leeds at lunch time before heading to Otley prior to returning to the Knaresborough site. Enjoyed the dy though.

Lovely day today. Drove to Harrogate and walked down to the RHS Harlow Carr and then back along some of the scars overlooking the valley. Beautiful scenery and enjoyable sunshine. We were well wrapped up, no point in buying this winter gear stuff if you don't use it. A nice bite to eat back in Harrogate at the Coach and Horses (Braised Featherblade Steak and mash for me, yum) before buying some bits and pieces.

Amazed at the number of folk wandering around glued to their phones etc. Hardly any interaction going on at all, and all ages were the same.

Collected my new printer from JL this afternoon, an HP Envy 6200 All in one series. Works perfectly well on USB but I am struggling with wireless. Will have to wait until Simon can come over and help me set it up, he does that sort of thing for a living. It seems that you can have the USB and wireless connected at the same time, unless I have that wrong. 

David

It has been a busy but frustrating week.  We should have picked up the caravan from its service on  Friday, but dealer rang with some bad news.  We had complained that the damper on the tow hitch was not working properly ( we had a  completely new hitch/drawbar front end fitted last year due to cracking in the  bit bolted to the A frame) , so after the ordinary service they had road tested it and found there was indeed a problem....the damper is broken.  Quite possibly has never been right.  

We have requested replacement under warrranty, but it is about 2 weeks over a year since it was fitted, although we did complain to them about it last October.  So now waiting to hear who is going to have to pay for fixing things.  No idea when we will get the van back, and we are due off on our first trip in just over a month.

Earlier in the week I had shampooed the stair carpet for DD, but  a cupboard door had rubbed on the carpet, sucked up the damp and the door surface was damaged, damage came too far up to be planed off.  Should have shortened that door before now.

She had a door she wanted to swap for a bifold, so today I took that door and fitted it instead of the damaged one.  DD and OH went off to Stirling to find a suitable matching bifold, so I have spent all afternoon trying to make it fit the space.  It is the correct size, but somehow it does not fit very well.  Will return tomorrow or Monday to plane off the edges so it fits better.

Sometimes the supposedly easy tasks turn out to be the most difficult!

Tomorrow we are visiting DS and family, so the door may well have to wait till Monday.

Just catching up on yesterday's postings. 

Sorry to hear about the reop, OP hope that it won't infringe on your holiday plans.

Glad that you got to see the Chippendale furniture and his statue, WN.

After a hard frost yesterday we had less this last night and it soon went as the sun was out for most of the day. Had a bracing walk in Scremerston Beach for getting on for a couple of hours. Flyte ran for nearly all of the time so now's resting quietly beside OH. The wind was quite cold and increased in force, fortunately we were walking with it at our backs by then, although it's much calmer on site.