What are you all up to
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Sounds similar to what we use brue, she has the same, plus she tried "Blitz that Mould" which did not entirely shift the black either. OH reckons it was too far gone.
We are a bit worried now for the grout in our new shower areas. Previous tiles were done with epoxy grout, which is pretty impervious, and we had no mould problems at all in 33 years, but now we have the BAL microban grout, as does DD.
She has bought some grout sealant to apply, I think we may do similar. At least we have much bigger tiles than she does, so less grout. And we do not take long showers or have one of those overhead rainfall heads like they have.. Her mould problem just seemed to suddenly "explode", maybe lack of good enough and regular enough cleaning. I think they took it week about to do the cleaning. They now have a cleaner in every Monday morning
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Wimp. It's no good proclaiming that sort of mileage. Mine was down a bit last year but I generally do a thousand a year. Mind you, walking isn't too bad. It's my back that is the Achilles heel. A weird anatomy you might say.
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I'm lucky that with my advancing years, I'm excused sailing club work parties.
Anniversary's are always tough times. Must be the season for MOT's. Had the motorhome done today. I mentioned that I had a problem with both rear lights out but apparently not so. Note to self - do check lights when it is dark, they're easier to see.
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DK, 500 miles in nearly 3 years that's not even half a mile a day. I must do more than that just round the house, are you sure it's working 😉
WN, phew you were lucky there, good to hear you had a nice walk.
Kj, I would say it's the not wiping down after every shower that encourages mould. Mould loves warm wet conditions.
It's a rule in our house last one to shower has to dry it out. Works a treat with the GKids doesn't half get them out of bed quick 😅😅
Another busy day up at our son's house, today I tackled the kitchen. Window cleaning first, what a difference once it was given a good clean. I don't think the frames have been cleaned in years. Then it was onto the fridge freezer, tall pull out unit next to it, worktop and 3 drawers beneath. Bit of lunch then I washed down the hob, splash back and the cooker hood. All stainless steel so lots of polishing clothes to get a nice finish. The built in cooker and microwave were next, more stainless steel 🙄 just got the cupboards under the sink and hob to wash out tomorrow. Then a bit of touch up painting and some sealing, that will be the kitchen finished.
OH tackled getting rid of all the rubbish that has been building up clearing the house out. The window fitter finished fitting the front door and side panel, so looking good there.
I was about to leave but the sun came out so I spent an hour clearing the moss and weeds from the back path and part of the patio. Good days work but I'm starting to feel my age, knees getting a bit creaky and my back isn't talking to me anymore 😅😅
Tomorrow I'll be up there again but I'm having Thursday off. Hairdresser and the cat has to go to the vet for her booster injection.
Right must go and get dinner on.
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We found Whitehaven interesting too.
We have found that too, Kjell. Good walks to the south of the harbour up on the clifftops. Worthington is worth a miss though!!😄
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We moved on today to one of the sites that would appear on a list of our favourites if I'd made one, ( See my post on the CL section). Considering that it is Half Term it is very quiet up here, even around Keswick , and there is only one other caravan on the site we are on tonight, although there may be more coming towards the weekend.
Since I started to record the steps I walk, 31st Oct 2021, I have done just short of 10 million steps, an average of around 20,000 a day, and a distance of at least 4230 mls.
WN you should purchase a lottery ticket tomorrow with the luck you have at the moment. Good to read that by managed a decent walk without your stick, and you were well restrained with that young lad as OH would have been very tempted to push him off the boardwalk had he said similar to us!!😁
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We had a chuckle over the ‘old people’ comment Wherenext. Since we have been here in Macau we have had to be using public transport, (which is excellent by the way). We take our granddaughter to nursery mornings and collect in afternoon, we, or more particularly me, are always given a seat by someone on the bus, I never realised I looked so old until now!!! We had the weekend in Hong Kong, well Sai Kung in the New Territories, where our other grandchildren live and on the MTR (tube) there not one person offered their seat, even in the priority seats! Huh!!! Our new grandson 6 weeks old now and getting a bit more interactive.
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OH said recently that she realised she must be looking old when people started offering to help her with the trolley in the Aldi car park!
Does not happen across the road in the Waitrose car park, but it is nice and flat and smooth. The Aldi one slopes, has badly placed speed humps that the trolley has to go over, and she did have a very heavy trolley as shopping for DD.
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Lovely photo Heddlo, interesting to hear what you have been doing, must be nice to take your granddaughter to nursery. OH took our son to Sha-tin when young and it was a memorable experience!
Nice and sunny today and lots of early shrubs coming out to brighten things up.
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Don't forget at Waitrose you can always request help in store taking a trolley to the car as you can instore if find shopping is difficult. Often seen members of staff going round with disabled customers.
David
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Nice camellia brue👍
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I expect every year I put a photo of the Camellia on CT TDA.
But it never fails to impress, it got a bit battered by the extreme cold recently but has recovered. It's called St Ewe...you might have heard of that village in Cornwall? I knew the head of the village school there from many years ago, she had many tales to tell! 2 -
Do indeed know St Ewe😁 Nor far from Caerhays, so Camellia Central🤣 We have never been to Caerhays yet, but we love Lanhydrock and Trengwainton at Camellia time. I don’t have the right soil, so it would be pots for me, plus you see a lot beaten by the frosts up here. Beautiful shrubs though. We had a tiny bit of rain overnight, hardly worth mentioning, but it’s fetched things on a bit this morning. So dry at the moment where we live, I am having to water primroses and pansies in containers. We shall probably get deluged in April/May🤣
Day off today, lots of little tasks to catch up on. I survived the cycle test run a couple of days ago, OH is fitting new handlebars and brake assisters for me, the stuff it came with weren’t quite right (serious lady cyclist, very experienced, I need something less technical). It’s my birthday present project, so just mulling over a site where we can go so I can do a proper ride. Derbyshire trails would be good, mid week, not too busy. Depends if motor is fitted.
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Great photo brue again wrong soil here what little bit we have got.
Just got back from shopping in Villefranche and saw rolls of artificial grass on offer so did general shopping took to the car and then back in for 5 rolls of grass plus 2 small rolls of screening and another trough container so a full car on the way back, did get 2 cap sleeved tee shirts for me at just under 5 euros each and mostly cotton as I do not like man made clothes for the summer.
A dull and damp day here after the lovely spring weather we have had.
There could be water restrictions earlier this year as we have not had a lot of rain over the winter even been a shortage of snow on the Alps and Pyrenees.
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Well I've just had a pleasant surprise! Car went in for service and MOT today - and I was expecting a BIG bill. Brake pads haven't been changed since about 21k miles and it's now done 61k - so I was sure they'd need doing plus possibly new discs. Turns out it's sailed through it's MOT - not even any 'advisories'. No work needed apart from the service. It's now 8 years old and I've never had a car this long before but since it's a brilliant tug, I think I'll be hanging onto it for a while longer.
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Yes, we saw the sign in Waitrose re help taking things to the car, but the car park is rarely busy so getting a good space is easy, and it is totally flat over the whole area, being built from scratch, so no problem with trolleys.
In contrast, the Aldi store used to be a Homebase, so they did not do anything with the car park, just divided up the store, so there is also a Home Bargains. The CP slopes in multiple directions, so manoeuvring a loaded trolley is not easy, and the speed humps just make it worse.
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"it's a rule in our house last one to shower has to dry it out. Works a treat with the GKids doesn't half get them out of bed quick"
yup great believer in clean as you go, we have a large wet room designed to be wheelchair friendly, we have 2 squeezys, 1 hand held, 1 on a long pole, hand held used mainly on the glass parts, pole to do the floor, we then spray round with Mr Muscle shower spray, no problem with mold, good idea to open the window slightly as well especially if you have no extractor fan. we dont use the regular bathroom much except when we have guests so this is not a problem
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I never realised I looked so old until now!!!
Heddlo, it's surprising how it creeps up on you isn't it?😂 (All except Nellie that is!)
Glad to read you are enjoying yourselves.
Quite a bit of rain today after yesterday's gorgeous day. So plenty of indoor exercises done.
Lovely photo of your Camelia Brue. We're still waiting for our buds to pop.
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Just had a brief chat with my helpful neighbour who asked if I was feeling poorly again ( sob sob sniffle ) I wasn't really, just feeling a bit down having paid two large bills on line to satisfy United Utilities & similar scroungers as well as Declaring S O R N for my Ducky { STILL no good news there } but at least my cough, temperature and general depression are [ I truly hope ] consigned to history
.Sadly though its raining** in South Cheshire with an appaling grey sky so I'm off to watch some snooker. Please report improving health for all other CTers if you can
P.S. at least the rain is keeping my *Winter Flowering Jasmine* going strong !!
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Hope you are improving ABM, I will join you in a cough or two but OH thinks I am improving.
Tomorrow we take the latest angling club fixtures book to the printers so I get some time out and a change of scenery...and goodbye to all the frantic emails from people who've just noticed they given OH wrong dates etc....
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Ar home there are now plans afoot for a coronation street party...."what, not another one!" I can hear that lady from Bristol saying. We do seem to have had quite a few and this one has been planned so that everyone has time to recover in time for work... not that anyone drinks too much or can't find their way home, just precautionary measures in place....
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Glad that you are feeling better, ABM, and good to see that your neighbour is keeping his eye on you.
Hope your OH is right and that your cough is lessening, brue. Lovely photo of your Camelia.
Smashing picture of your granddaughter Heddlo, and you certainly seem to having a grand time over there.
Poor day weather wise here so we only had a couple of walks from the site, which has filled up somewhat with the arrival of a couple of M/Hs. Good view early tonight of the waxing crescent moon and two adjacent planets, Venus and Jupiter.
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NTH bother! I missed seeing the adjacent planets (Venus and Jupiter) there was a light mist last night which obscured some of the planets from here!
Brue liked the photo of the Camelia.
and now the good news The car passed it's MOT, just hope I pass mine ha ha!
I think the anniversary was quieter than I thought, it kinda built up in my mind to be a bigger thing than it turned out to be.
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A dull and damp day here again but did dry up a bit whilst we went out to collect oak tv unit in superb condition at a bargain price lady selling up due to divorce gave it a good clean and polish and looks a lot better than the old one which was a bit smaller and about 30 years old, TDA if you read this the 2 Labradors were there and very friendly and lady asked would we like them um not what we went for.
Had a friend phone us earlier on she is off to have veins done in her right leg next Friday and not looking forward to it as she has to be at the hospital for 7am but only a day op so will be back out by lunchtime.
Glad your car passed its MOT robsail, OH has his car MOT called CT here in June.
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Anniversaries are strange things Robsail, sometimes they pass with a whisper, other times they rise up and shake us. My parents both departed this world either side of my birthday, so for various reasons I can't let those days go by as easily as I would like to but I think it's the same for all of us? Glad things went peacefully and your car is also ok, now you must look after yourself too!
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Oh gosh, I think I would have ended up with the Labs.
When I was a volunteer for EH, Head Gardener told me he was very worried about keeping his Golden Lab. he had got a new job and she couldn’t go to work with him anymore, and his wife wasn’t into walking her. I jokingly said “we will have her”. I had know her from a tiny pup, saw her each time I went to work, played with her in lunch hour, etc.. The conversation escalated from there, he was so relieved that we would take her on. She pined for a year, but we gave her a great life after that, she was utterly gorgeous. Ironically, the Head Gardener and his wife split up, so Millie didn’t go through that trauma thank goodness. We loved her to bits❤️
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