What are you all up to
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So sorry to hear about your aunt @Takethedogalong ... all our thoughts and good wishes..
David
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Checked over the caravan internally yesterday, mostly all fine. Alde system needs a little topping up, and fridge will not, so far, start up on gas. Will try it again this weekend. It has always taken a while to light up when not used for a bit, but yesterday I had to give up. Hob, grill, oven and Alde all working fine, let them run for a few minutes and tried fridge again, but no luck.
If I cannot get it going then we will need to decide whether to ask dealer to look at the problem. Still have to empty gas locker and check dates on gas hoses, also check tyre pressures, and hope that there is no problem with the mover.
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Thank you for the kind comments, she will be much missed, 84 but with some long term health problems, and dementia. She had no quality of life left, compared with what her life had been up to three years ago, but considering her health problems it was a good age. The really sad thing is she just didn’t make it to see her first great grandchild, who is due early next month. It’s a little girl, and will have her name as part of given names. We have all sorts of beautiful paintings she has done, and I have a pencil sketch of me she did for my OH back before we were married, she was a really gifted lady.🥰
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Always tough to lose a good 'un @Takethedogalong
Looking out at the back wall whilst having breakfast it looked like it had been ravaged by a swarm of Sand Martins. All holes being inspected by the various small garden birds, mostly for food, but I suspect one or two for nests. Luckily the infilling brigade arrive on Friday.
Doctors appointment this morning. Do you ever get the feeling, when every other person has been in to see the various doctors and you are now the only one sitting there some 45 minutes after your appointment time, that your allocated Doctor may have dozed off or gone home? You start to wonder whether you should remind the receptionist but just as you are gathering the willpower to do it out strolls the Doctor and calls you in.
MiL has had to lie down this afternoon. OH decided that today was the day when they would go through MiLs extensive wardrobe and put aside clothes, mainly bought for foreign trips and holidays, for charity. My goodness that woman had some seriously high quality casual wear and evening dinner outfits. She's stated that her foreign trips are over so a bit of a sad day for her. We'll give the really good stuff to those charity collection people that took my maps and books recently. The "ordinary" UK casual wear will go locally. Anyone 4'10" in our town is in for a treat.😁
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count your blessings WN, my Mum wouldn’t part with a thing, and there’s even lots of my Grand Parents stuff here. Some of it is very interesting, almost other worldly given the age of some of it. I started to sort through some stuff……keep, throw, sell, my Sister spotted a vase I had put in the charity box, she scanned it with an antiques app, and it’s now out of the charity box🤣
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Sorry to hear about your aunt Takethedog. Lovely that the new baby will bear her name. Our Daughter and our Son both wanted to call any first daughter after my dear Mum. Our son and DIL won the ‘race’, then three months later our daughter had her first daughter and she was also given the name as a second name. So both granddaughters are now named after my lovely Mum. Mum was also a brilliant artist, we have her lovely paintings around the house as daily reminders.
Yesterday we watched a three hour documentary on The War of the Roses, which we really enjoyed, I love history, especially Tudor history but knew little about how these wars started. I’ve enjoyed reading everyones travel posts, and about the gardening and the new boarder to fill, that would excite me. Getting a bit stir crazy indoors as the sky gets bluer and the buds are popping out. OH collected the ordered Tesco shopping today and I did manage to help him put it all away. Can’t shower yet so he managed to help me wash my hair, felt better for that. So getting there but slower than I would like. I’m sure the spring weather might spur me on. I watched a gardening programme that recommended Sweet Woodruff, which I could put as ground cover on a shady bank that needs a makeover, so making plans. Also enjoying reading of others holiday plans and their future possible bookings, can’t book anything this season so I’m glad that we have the caravan as hoping that we can just maybe head there between any future treatments and fortunately we won’t have to book.
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A friend of ours lost her Uncle recently in Doncaster so they have been over to start clearing out 6 wardrobes full of his suits many not worn masses of brand new shirts trousers and shoes and apparently rather a lot of Toby jugs and the house was full of all sorts of things they are going back next week for 2 weeks and the funeral whilst they are there and reckon they will need 3 skips to clear the house and he had changed his car for a new one last October so they will keep it and bring over here plus a lot of paperwork for the car.
Not sure if you like Hardy Geraniums Ttda for your new borders as I had a lot in Somerset and easy to look after and very hardy in all weathers, Sorry to hear about your Aunt.
Weather has been mixed wet and windy yesterday and then foggy start and then some sunshine and more cloud today, shopping done plus a call to local Pharmacie for OH as they left a message yesterday all sorted now, Monday we cleared a old wooden shed that we took down awhile ago so a trip to local skip along with with a few more folk and hope to get another trailer of a few more bits of shed and other stuff.
I did post on what have you seen and put a picture of a Red Squirrel on our window feeder and so far no comments.
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@RedKite Hardy geraniums😱🤣 I had a garden full. Back when I worked as a volunteer for EH (Gardener) we had access to all sorts of freebies, and I brought home some of the Black Widow geraniums. They are lovely, but the pesky blighters seed everywhere, so I started cutting the seed heads off as they finished flowering. I do like the ones that don’t self seed as voraciously though, got a couple of these. I won’t really have to buy many plants, as I shall be splitting some, and all the ones in pots can now go into the ground. I have a Jasmine climber, two lovely Clematis, lots of Scabious, Crambe Cordifolia (huge) and I love Crocosmia, have lots of Lucifer to spread out, and some lovely orange and yellow variants. Rudbeckia, Astrantias, Dahlias, I love the Bishop ones for their black foliage. Plenty of seeds to set as well for fillers, Delphiniums, Hollyhocks of lots of different shades. I shall be having lots of fun🤩🌻🌼🌸🌺
@DEBSC I love history, anything 1066 up to Stuarts (I get annoyed with the Stuarts, they were a disaster most of them) but War of the Roses is very much my favourite period. There’s a lot of the historic places and events around us, not too far away, so we have in the past based the odd tour around visiting some of the places associated with various people from that time such as Middleham Castle, Sandal Castle, Pontefract Castle, Sheriff Hutton, Towton Battlefield, etc….. I can recommend some really good books, factual and history based fiction around the time, plus a couple of watchable TV dramas, let me know if you want any? Possibly the most chilling thing from that period I have ever seen was inside Tewkesbury Abbey, where one of the biggest, most decisive battles was fought around the Abbey. Inside the door of the Sacristy, it is plated (for extra security) with armour recovered and beaten flat after the battle. The square bodkin arrow holes are there in the armour, deadly to anything inside the armour🫢 Clarence and his wife are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.
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Can I ask you Ttda how you put my avatar in red as I do not know how to do it tried it and all of it in black heyho, good luck with your new border just wish we had better soil here instead of stone everywhere.
Glad to hear you are improving Debsc and hope you can at least sit outside if weather improves.
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@RedKite - I'm using a MacBook. The system you are using is important as some operating systems have problems with the ampersand and name combination. However assuming you have a fairly up to date Operating system the press the ampersand key (@) and the start typing the name and a column will pop up with possible names. The more of the name you type the easier it is to see the one you want, then choose. It should then turn red.
If you are using an android system then quite often you encounter problems and are unable to complete the procedure.
Hope this helps.
Regarding your mention of your Red Squirrel there are 3 "comments" all of them "Likes" which is in itself a comment. It's a good photo.
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Sorry, @Wherenext but this is an ampersand….. &. However, the 'at' symbol….. @ has been given a couple of similar names.
Some people do seem to have operating system/device related issues but, like you, I use iOS and it works exactly as you describe👍🏻
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With regards to the troubles getting the @ name to work, on Kindle, I find that the slower i take it, a letter at a time, after putting up the @ symbol the more likely it is that the name I am wanting to address will appear, although not all the time. As an alternative I just highlight the red "@name" and then copy the text and then paste it where I want to put it in a posting.
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@Takethedogalong history recommendations for books etc always welcome thanks. I was on a works course in Tewksbury staying there for a few days, this was many years ago. To be honest many places in and around the town gave me an uncomfortable feeling and I’ve never wanted to go back. I did go into the Abbey one evening, wish I’d known that Clarence was buried there, not a nice character though, what was wrong with those brothers! I found Worcester cathedral to be really interesting, Henry V111s brother Arthur is buried there, I believe Elizabeth 1st visited.
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@Takethedogalong so sorry to hear about your aunt, and although her demise has not come as a surprise to you all it must still be a distressing time.
Hope that the wait at the doctor's was worth it @Wherenext and there were no unsuspecting surprises. I think both you and Mrs WN deserve a medal for being able to persuade your MIL to part with some of her wardrobe, or perhaps it's just gives her reason to buy some more, different outfits.😁
I wonder how you managed to damage the axle so much that it requires replacing @Oneputt could it be the result of the conditions of our roads do you think? It was nice that you could visit your brother and also see others of your family during your visit.
@KjellNN hope you are able to sort out the problem with the gas and don't have to take your van into the dealer's to get it sorted.
Pleased to read of your steady improvement, it is something that certainly can't be rushed, take care! Could you please tell me the name of the documentary on the War of the Roses that you watched, as we too have an interest in that period of history! @DEBSC
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@Cornersteady I too was able to see those two planets last night, and Mars too, but doubt I will be able to do the same tonight because of cloud cover and lots of ground light.
It was raining when we got up but had stopped after I had taken Flyte for his first walk, so we were able to get the van out and loaded in the dry. It rained on and off on our trip across to Leeds area, and could see a smattering of snow on Ingleborough, but it was fine again when we arrived on site. We had further showers in the afternoon including some hail, but the forecast is for good weather from now on for the next few days.
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