Hey, Hey it’s Saturday so good morning morning to you all on this warm start to the weekend.
The predicted storrn yesterday was a bit of a fizzer, during the night I was woken by thunder but this morning discovered a measly 3mm in the rain gauge.
Have been making a single chock for my camper, somewhere on my travels I have lost one so am making a replacement. My camper has no brakes so if the ground is not absolutely level there is a chance it might move while I am in it. Gravity and all that.
Saturday is open house day viewing here,lots of properties for sale.At least one in every street we passed.It can get a bit fraught because the dog doesn’t like their flags.And why do some agents put their ugly mugs on the posters?None of them ever look trustworthy.
Good morning all, woke up to another dull, rainy day just like yesterday. Looks like our October Summer is over, it’s still quite warm though. I’m waiting to get my olives harvested but at this rate they’re all going to fall off, especially if it becomes windy. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Another Saturday another rainy day! It was absolutely pouring down at 8 o’clock when I let Annie dog into the garden. She made a quick dash out and back. It’s just steady rain now. The sky is brighter so I have hopes that it will clear soon. I want to visit the Village Hall this morning where they are holding a Plant and Craft Fair. It would be better to walk up there because the car park is very small and will fill up quickly, so I’m hoping the rain will soon abate.
I had lunch out with a friend yesterday and I really enjoyed it. We went to a small restaurant within a barn complex of different outlets. One of these was a ladies’ clothes shop that we decided to visit. However, when we entered we found that, although the clothes were really nice none had a price tag - so following the adage that if you have to ask the price you can’t afford it we left empty handed.
Good morning!
Cloudy, dull, and raining, but not too cold
My urine infection has reappeared, or perhaps it was never really cured in the first place -
I hadn’t been feeling too lively for a few days, then woke up about 03-00 on Wednesday morning and had a painful pee
I was determined to deal with it asap this time, so laid siege to my doctor’s surgery and got more tablets by Thursday morning
Now I think there has been an improvement, and I feel a bit better already, but I will, of course, finish the tablets
Other than that, nothing much to report; I’ll spend today with general pottering and keeping up with the tidying that I have finally completed.
Morning all – heavy rain overnight but bright sunshine now and promised for the rest of the day, with more rain tonight (of course!)
Hope you feel better soon zuludog
Had to cancel my dinner with neighbours last night – as the day progressed yesterday began to feel really unwell, temperature and feeling exhausted. Had an early night and feeling a little better this morning, although not 100% so doing very little.
Changed the bedding this morning – that wore me out! Will take advantage of the sunshine to get it dried but not sure when I will get around to ironing it (yes I iron sheets!)
3 books being delivered today so that is something to look forward to
Good morning - A grey showery day but I’ll be dodging one or two to get to the local mini supermarket along the road. My turn to do the looking-after as Mrs mart isn’t feeling too good.
@Bruce A good sturdy-looking set of steps there Bruce
@zuludog These types infection can certainly make a person feel bad generally and be a devil to find the right antibiotic. Having taken a number of my current course, there seemed to be a kind of lifting of a fuzzy veil yesterday evening and maybe normality is returning. I hope you too feel better soon.
@SheilaP There seems to be a lot of this sort of thing going around. I hope you aren’t dragged down for too long by it.
Wishing everyone has the the best possible day in view of circumstances.
Good Morning Everyone…
I only had time to read the good morning thread yesterday but not enough time to write anything…I was going for a hearing test at 12:00am and they moved it forward to 10:45am so in order to do my walk, have a shower and my breakfast it was a bit of a rush…
It turns out I can’t hear some top end frequencies, probably down to industry and age, and I was prescribed some hearing aids that cost quite a bit…(don’t ask… ) anyway, I tried them out and could hear Mrs Fox clearly from three rooms away…I don’t know if that’s a good thing…
I’ve been very lucky this week, I’ve walked in some glorious weather, and the times when it chucked it down was on a rest day. So today we did the Tesco shop in some appalling weather but Saturday (as you probably know by now) is a rest day…
Pie and pea supper tonight at the church hall, so quite a knees up…
Local gossip coming your way tomorrow…
Good afternoon all. It was wet this morning but we still strolled with the wee dog but she loves it anyway. And one of our friends met him with and his too dogs, Springer Spaniels like ours. Then went down to a neighbours house the take her small dog out. She, and ours, are no bother at all And now we are having a special chicken dinner.
The sun is out, weather is calm, a high pressure system is upon us, and the waters have cooled enough that the latest threatening systems have been squashed.
I’ve driven the 1.5 hour trip to the university to take my daughter to a physical education symposium. The campus is lovely - forested with heritage marine oaks and pines of all sorts, so while she takes in a few lectures, I’ve been walking the trails and am now at a picnic table soaking up the sun and forum.
@Bruce, I like your chock work, but I am wondering why you chose that shape instead of something akin to a triangular prism. No doubt, you have some insight that I don’t have.
@OGF, I am glad you had that hearing check, but I am sorry to read about your hearing loss. All the men in my family eventually need them as a result of too much time around jet engines. Good of you to put your head down and get on with them. I am a firm believer that we get them youngest people in your lives who feel awkward about having to repeat themselves and slowly stop talking us. Since those are the voices we love to hear most :smiling_face_with_three_hearts, it’s a very kind endeavor. Mrs. OGF, will just have to be reminded that the mumbling and grumbling she has prosecuted against you will now have to be done more - quietly .
@Rose2, I am crossing my fingers for your olives. What method do you use to harvest them? Do you mechanically shake the tress and then collect them below?
I hope the clouds clear where you all are today and that the fairs, dinners, and shopping are pleasant today.
Hi Foxy …)
For what its worth I have had a hearing for a few years now. I also thought it was probably because of industrial noise. Since then I have a hearing aid from the NHS and it seems to work fine.
I have the free Medicare hearing aids but never wear them, I find being able to hear my own breathing when I put them in slightly disturbing (?). God knows what they cost because the frequency adjustments are sent to the Netherlands and they arrive from there.
My loss is high frequencies too, for example I can’t hear my son’s ship sonar at all and the lowest quality MP3 sounds exactly like the original recording to me.
At home I don’t need them, I just turn everything up load.
I take them with me when I stay at my daughter’s because she complains about having to repeat things but even there rarely wear them. I have learned to nod intelligently and say, “Yes”.
I am fairly certain there was something in the wedding vows about, “Thou shalt not ignore thy wife,” or am I getting confused with Moses? Either way, bad, bad, bad.
Hi @Surfermom, thank you for keeping your fingers crossed for our olives. On small private properties like ours, we usually use manual rakes to pull the olives down from the branches, falling onto the nets. There are also mechanical rakes which are faster but risk damaging the olives. Large industries obviously use mechanical devices and shakers, otherwise it would just take too long.
We don’t get a harvest every year, depends on so many factors, the climate being one of them, sometimes there are hardly any on the trees, so not worth all that work to pick them. Alas, I lost my husband suddenly four years ago, we used to do all this work ourselves, now I have to call someone to do it for us.
There is nothing like the taste of extra virgin olive oil made from your own olives, no comparison to what you buy in the stores. I am also very fond of my trees, cherished memories of the times me and my husband spent together harvesting them, it breaks my heart looking at them, wondering if they will have a chance to turn into olive oil.
Thanks Surfermom, yes, after the third “Sorry” or “Pardon” it gets a bit frustrating for everyone so I tend to nod and shake my head in hopefully all the right places.
The audiologist agreed with me when I said I can hear perfectly, I know people are speaking to me, but it sounds like a foreign language and I can’t make any sense of it. The reason is because I can’t hear some parts of a word that are spoken at a varying frequency that I can’t hear, so it all sounds like gibberish. It’s mainly women’s voices as they are at a higher frequency.
While using the hearing aids Mrs Fox was actually in tears in the shop when I could hear her perfectly from three rooms away, and I couldn’t believe the sounds that I had been missing. You don’t realise how bad it’s got because it’s such a very slow deterioration over the years and your brain compensates.
I don’t think I could pull that one Mr Smith because she will be expecting something spectacular after spending that amount of money. I’d better get out the paint and wallpaper…
Thanks Besoeker, I’m glad to hear that you have had some good results with your aids, the audiologist said that it will take time for my brain to adjust to hearing sounds that it hasn’t had to process for such a long time. He reckons that it will take about six weeks, and then I should return to him for some fine adjustments.
Same here Bruce, I nod and shake my head and hope that it’s in all the right places. I find it worse at a social gathering with lot’s of background noise, and I can’t hear what someone is saying even when they are sat next to me.
I could probably have got the same devices on the NHS for free, but I would probably have passed away by the time I received them. There was a bloke in hospital the last time I was in there who told me that he had to wait weeks before the NHS supplied his new batteries.
I was surprised to hear that these latest devices have built in rechargeable batteries and each night you put the whole hearing aid in the charger and it will give a good 24 hour charge by the following morning. They are also equipped with AI that automatically adjusts the input so no need to mess about turning them up or down or even turning them off. I suppose they are a bit like my pacemaker/defibrillator the bloke at the hospital can adjust it on his computer.
The audiologist reckons I should wear them all the time (except bedtime) so that my brain can adjust to the new input.
With £10,000 for my pacemaker/defibrillator and £5000 for my hearing aids, I’m worth more in scrap value than I am as a person…
Oh, that is very sweet of her, OGF. I am sure this will improve both of your lives.
As for “Pardon” and “Sorry,” it drives me bonkers that Americans invariably reply, “What?” and rarely “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you.” I picked up “Pardon” after seeing a British television show many years ago because it seems so much more civil and I taught my kids to reply in kind. I had plenty of practice with my my jet-fighter dad who held off for years getting hearing aids.
Congratulations - and I, for one, think you are worth at least a little be more than your bionic parts !
Keeping my fingers crossed.
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