What are you all up to
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Sorry to hear that, but once you do have a HMRC login the details there are very good so it's worth it to keep trying.
All my NI years are there and a forecast of my pension (which is £5 a week short of the max if I don't contribute anymore but that's up to April 2022)
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Trying to find out when DD and family would next want to use our caravan, and where they would like to go, so we can fit in our Easter break after them, not proving easy to pin them down. Hopefully our questioning will encourage them to have a discussion.......soon!
Tomorrow we need to book our caravan service, hope we are not too late to book early March.
Next discussion is for summer, but I may be called for my small Op in June or July, or maybe not, so difficult to plan if deposits are required.
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Best of luck with contacting the tax office. I had to contact them this week with a query. It took them around 45 minutes to answer the phone, and from what I hear, I was lucky.... I hear folk have been heldcm in the phone queue for much longer....
David
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Hope they manage to fit you in for the service, KjellNN. These days I always book the next years service when I go to pay and collect the van after the the current service....then I don't have the worry od them fitting it in within the required time scale to uphold any warranty.
David
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We were looking at local TV last night with pictures of flooding in the SW, it was sad to see Exebridge badly affected with the Anchor Inn and surrounding cottages under water. If you know the club site it's in a nice spot (but luckily in a higher spot) and I hope those affected recover.
Pleased to see the sun out this morning. We travelled to our garden club yesterday evening through water logged roads and tree debris from the strong winds. Hope we get some respite today!
Some visitors due this morning, must get cracking...
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Talking of floods, in the Guardian yesterday they had a picture of Tewkesbury with the Abbey clear of water but flooding all around. Bottom right of the picture I am pretty sure is the road to the CMC site which was underwater. Probably the reason why Tewkesbury is not open all year!
David
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Weather not too bad here (famous last words!!). A sunny morning, but a touch windy in the evening yesterday. Our eldest daughter and grandson are on their way down to visit us from the Outer Hebrides (S-in-L will be dropped off at an airport somewhere on the way - he's off to work in Switzerland!!). Youngest daughter is on the way from Devizes to Plymouth (for a funeral). Just keeping fingers crossed that their journeys will be largely trouble free....
David
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Very strong winds here last night, as I’ve mentioned before I have chronic insomnia, still awake at 4.20 listening to many recycle bins, we get 3 small ones each and two bags, being blown up the road. About to go and rescue what might be ours when OH woke and said he’d do it. Bins and bags, with their contents all up the street. He secured ours but both wide awake then, so a nice cup of tea and a chat til 5am. Nice to have some company in my awake hours. We did then both sleep in till 9am. The food bin, veg peelings, has emptied over our front garden and we have lost a bag, will leave clearing it up til tomorrow in the hope that our visiting badger might clear it up tonight. I do wish that we had one big bin like our Son gets, this mess all up the street happens on a regular basis on collection day. And I feel sorry for the recycle collectors who have to sort it all into the lorry in the street.
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Thanks David😁Well, after 3 days and four phone calls, I am finally sorted. Apparently, I registered a few years ago to use the website, but because I haven’t used it for a long time, it had been Deleted User, so I was putting my old correct details in, but it was locked🤷♀️All I needed to do was set up a new account, but no one told me that it was locked and to do this🤷♀️ Anyway, after going through various set up procedures, involving all sorts of documentation, a smartphone, an App and lots of patience, I am finally in🤩
I’ll just wait for Russians to hack it now……..🫣
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Yes, it was quite a picture that one. It is the Club Site you can see, well under water. One thing travelling around the country during floods has taught us, the Romans and Medieval builders/surveyors knew a thing about building on higher ground. I got home through the Cotswolds in 2007 using the Fosse Way mainly, fields alongside flooded, but the road itself was elevated in most places, we survived. And churches have long been used as places of refuge during flooding. Not always though, Shrewsbury Abbey has a photo of someone rowing a boat down the nave after one flood!
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Husband Henry is currently doing what he does best - sleeping. He’s got his adjustable recliner chair set right now, been for a walk round the house, read Farmers Weekly on his iPad (no post delivered today) and closed his eyes. He had his other hip replaced 15 years ago, and we are both finding it a bit more difficult this time round. I was never meant to be a nurse - especially looking after an “older person”. I’ve switched the morning alarm off and so are getting up later (and it takes longer helping someone get dressed), so I feel I’ve been on the back foot all day. I used to get so much done before breakfast. Fortunately family and friends are being wonderful and helping, especially keeping the log basket topped up, and Aga filled etc.
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Does he have to wear those thigh high compression stockings for the first few weeks? They were a nuisance to get on! He is probably still sleeping off all the chemicals in his body. Has he shown any interest in doing the milking yet
David
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Early days yet Goldie, I can well imagine it's different this time, no doubt as each day dawns small improvements will show themselves. I think, like DK, all that medication takes awhile to drain out. Good to hear you have some back up, hope things progress well.
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Well today was a much better one weather wise, about time. I had forgotten what blue sky looks like and as for the sun . . . . . . Managed to get lots of little jobs done, can't get into the garden yet as its just too wet. Oh when the sun comes out and we see blue skies I get very active even if its indoors. Kitchen floor got a good scrub on hands and knees, windows go a good clean (insides only) frames all wiped down. Bathroom also had a good clean, tiled walls all washed down and polished up, chrome work all now sparkling. I will need a day to recover now.
OH has been busy to, trip to the recycle centre with a load of electrical bits and pieces no longer required. Then a visit to a glass place as his piece of glass for the 3D printer has got an issue, think a new one will be required. Back home and he managed a few jobs in the MH.
My car has been having an intermittent warning light coming on and off for awhile, we thought it might be the extreme cold weather that was causing it as it looks like it might be something to do with the ABS. Today while he was out it came on again so he went to our garage to get the diagnostic tester on it. Yep its to do with the ABS, car is going in on Wednesday to get fixed, hope its not an expensive job
wishful thinking, of course its going to be expensive.Need to start looking at an overnight halt for our trip down to Portsmouth in April, thinking somewhere between Manchester and Birmingham not far off the M6. It will be a Sunday night so hopefully we shouldn't have a problem getting one. If we leave home before 10am we should be around that area by mid/late afternoon. That gives us plenty of time to get down to Portsmouth, will go to Port Solent and have a meal before the crossing like we did last year.
Looking forward to this trip as the majority of it we haven't done before, will need to get the maps out and work out some stops once over the water.
Have a good weekend folks, hope the weather behaves for you.
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OH rang our dealer this morning and got our service booked for early March, with no problems, so one less thing to worry about.
We had surprise visitors today.......DD messaged to ask if we were home and could they come for lunch? Callum had asked if they could come to visit as they have not been up here since late November, due to the ongoing bathroom renovations.
Fortunately OH had laid in supplies of his favourite.......tomato soup! And we baked part baked crusty rolls in the air fryer.
They inspected the new, almost finished, bathroom, Callum was most disappointed that the bath was gone! We do still have one in the bathroom downstairs, so he reckoned that was OK.
OH and DD had some discussion as to where they might like to go for a week at the start of the school Easter break, so progress is being made. Now we just have to decide where we could go afterwards, we will have about 3 weeks away
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He doesn't have to wear the compression stockings (not sure why), but I do as I have lymphoedema. The weather is still apalling, wind and rain. So there is no inclination to go outside. Our son comes in with updates and we can look on the CCTV!
This morning I was compared to Julie Walters in "Two Soups" as I carried toast and tea to the convalescant's chair. Fortunatley I knew it was in jest. I think.
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Hope 'Mr Goldie' is soon on the mend, Goldie. I was surprised, as well, that I didn't have to wear those stockings after my op last year - but wondered if it was because I was back on anticoagulants as soon as surgery was over?
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My OH has a bad back Goldie, I suffer from ‘bad backs’ as well and said he should move around more. So yesterday he made a cup of tea and brought me one, walking just like Julie Walters, I’m afraid I fell about laughing quoting ‘Two Soups’ 😂.
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He injects himself in lower abdomen every night re no blood clotting, than after 10 days will go onto Aspirin 75. I offered to do the injections, but obsessed too much reading all of the instructions (in the tiniest font possible - I had to photograph it and blow up) - so it as “give it here, I can do it”.
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I wonder what you'll decide to do Francis?!
After another wet and windy night with more local flooding. I might just welcome some cold temperatures if the weather stays dry....
Going to attempt a walk just to get some fresh air. Visited a neighbour this morning who is off to sunnier climes but a quick look at the weather chart has shown it's cold "over there" too, other friends are going skiing where there's no snow. It all seems topsy-turvy !
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David
There are, apparently, valves in the veins above and below the knee the the compression helps to keep them functioning they help in keeping the blood circulating in the legs is my understanding. Under any major surgery you are most unlikely to be as active as you were so every little helps. I wear compression socks on a daily basis, due to a previous leg injury, they are still a pain to get on and off but nowhere near as difficult as the longer stockings.
David
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. And how well they justify those prices 
