Good morning to all who follow here, a twelfth of the year gone already! Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun?
Went shopping this morning after my walk to get a few odds and ends, I had intended to buy a fruit cake but spotted this instead for the same price, reduced from $14
I am writing this iñ a lather of sweat, just mowed my grass on a warmish, humid day. Once I have cooled down a bit will have another shower. I left the council’s grass which is growing nicely it is made even more noticeable because I mowed a little bit where I put my bins. I doubt my protest will have any effect but it does make my job a lot easier. I also leave all the clippings on the footpath as they fell.
Good morning everyone, Mrs Fox is attending a ‘function’ in Wakefield today about an hours drive away so I’ve had to adjust my routine. Did the weekend Tesco shopping yesterday and didn’t get out for my walk until late. Rest day today apart from the drive, catch yer all later…
Today is my fortnightly big clean, one of my Carers brings his wife and teenage daughter for 3 hours and the house is done top to bottom, cleaning , ironing , carpet cleaner etc,
The teenager does all the techie stuff, the house is being made a Smart Home bit by bit.
Daughter is incredibly fast at doing things and being a teenager she communicates by ignoring me.
Ive been looking at what next to book at the theatre/concert hall . My year is filling up with plays , concerts and shows , each month , So much to look forward to this year …
@Bruce that Roulade looks delicious,I notice its only got one star , who cares at our age ,its not like you would be eating it day in day out every day …
Hello to @swimfeeders nice to see you adding a post .
I wonder if @SheilaP is alright she normally post by now ,
This is one of those rare days where the river is still and the surface is a perfect mirror. I am hoping for a dolphin sighting before the tide and breeze stir things up; their wake are so much easier to spot on days like this.
Eliza, if we were closer geographically, I’d be calling you up to coordinate plays and concerts . Those events are the spice of life that carry you away. It’s nice to read that there is so much culture in your area.
@Bruce, you certainly hit the jackpot with that lemony dessert. That sounds like a perfect treat on a warm evening. There’s no mowing going on around here, and I miss the scent of fresh-cut grass and I am still amazed at how your lawn grows in that heat.
@OldGreyFox, good for Mrs. OGF for shaking up the calendar a bit. I hope you get that walk in. Rest days are so important, but it’s so difficult to let a day go without being outdoors. Enjoy the drive!
@swimfeeders, my goodness! It’s nice to hear from you! It sounds like you are well-situated and I hope you are doing well.
I have started the work of packing boxes with the mind of listing the house for sale in early March . Thanks to home decorating television shows, it has become the expected practice to strip one’s house down to bare bones to make it look empty and sleek for showings. That means that this not-so-sleek-and-empty house that is lively and full of the accoutrements of a busy family, needs to be boxed up and stored away. Every item wrapped and put into a moving carton requires a decision since I won’t be seeing it for two years.
This Saturday promises to be a lovely one for running and yard work - not a bad way to start February!
@Surfermom yes my closest City is blessed with a Theatre joined onto the Concert hall,
and also we have a Playhouse ,and The Albert Hall( not the Royal one in London).
And coming up soon is The Light show with different sights around the City , which I would love to go to which is a night time event maybe get my son to escort me round . , then on occasions we have Street Foods events from around the world , and also Foreign Market , usually German goods … it as plenty of Culture for everyone .
On the subject of packing away in boxes , I did this and crammed them in my wardrobe along with the days washing hastly hanging my underwear just inside too, only for a viewer to go open the wardrobe doors , and see my underwear on show ,
I was told by the Mother of the man looking round dont worry he’s seen plenty of them , I could have died .
I love this story! This is what my mother used to refer to as “real estate cleaning” - the sudden shoving of all things unwanted into closets, under beds and…apparently…into wardrobes , when an unexpected guest arrives at the door.
It is going down well I have half left for Sunday. I am always saying something similar to my doctor over my painkillers or sleeping tablets (useless things) when he cautions me about becoming addicted - what does it matter if I become addicted to his drugs?I’m nearly 80. BTW I am not addicted to them but it seems to be a stupid thing for him to be concerned about at my age.
There are two jobs I dislike intensely, Mowing and house painting, the only thing that stops this grass is winter, shade and drought. The one good thing is that this grass doesn’t grow in winter once the temperature drops below 20°C. However I have some happy photos of it short and showing a tinge of brown during a prolonged dry summer, loved the 10 years of the millennium drought - hardly mowed at all.
I am tempted to water the council’s grass just to ensure it grows to its full potential but we are supposed to be in a La Nina events so I shouldn’t need to. Average rainfall is actually higher in summer than winter
That is my eldest grandson since he became teenager- always says, “Hello”, always polite but otherwise I think I cease to exist as far as he is concerned…
Wakefield was busy and confusing, bring back the confidence of driving through the busiest cities when I was a courier, driving hundreds of miles every day…The world was my oyster, but now it’s my crayfish.
Nevertheless I managed to deliver wife and daughter to the venue on time and then go to visit a nearby running shoe outlet and lunch. Lunch was easy to find, but not decent running shoes.
When I came to Australia I thought Sydney drivers were a bunch of pussies after driving in London. Then I moved to Wollongong and thought what a treat it was. Now if It drive into Wollongong CBD I consider more than three cars at a traffic light a traffic jam and am absolutely terrified when I have to drive through Sydney on the way to somewhere else.
I would do that Bruce if I ever visited London again, not so much the long drive or the traffic or the various congestion and pollution charges, but what can you do with the car when you get there…?
. Those events are the spice of life that carry you away. It’s nice to read that there is so much culture in your area.
, when an unexpected guest arrives at the door.