Good morning everyone on a winter Tuesday. Warmer outside in the garden than in my house - roof insulation has its downside.
Finished fitting the new locks on the back door, ran into a bit of a problem with one of the mechanisms interfering with the locking but a spacer solved that problem. Not sure why it happened but will investigate more fully later, at the moment it works fine but it took a while to solve.
Once I have finished this post and had a coffee will start on the front door, it should be easier and quicker because (in theory) I know what I am doing.
Still haven’t made my trip to the dump probably good because I now have even more old electronic stuff for the recycling depot and another trip to Bunnings is in the offing.
Not much is happening for me today other than working on the door locks.
A local community centre has a breakfast & lunch club on Tuesday, where I am a volunteer cook, so I’ll be going there soon
Then return via a supermarket in the afternoon as I’ve let my own food stocks run a bit low
It’s going to be another hot and sunny day. I will soon make a trip to the hospital to pick up my pills. They can’t be collected from a Chemist’s for some reason. Some friends are visiting this afternoon and I expect that will lead to a walk and an ice cream at the Canal Centre cafe.
The builders are busy filling the building base up with concrete. They came early while the day is cooler. This is the state of things before the concrete goes in. It looks quite tidy after a good clear up yesterday…
Morning all – another sunny start to the day – temperatures forecast to reach 25c
The beast again left one small deposit (I think she is merely demonstrating her dominance!). She allowed me to pet her for a while but when I opened the door to let her out she ran away from me. I will have to pop back in later to see if she has changed her mind
Watered the neighbours garden again last night – have to say the strawberries are looking very good!
By the time I got back from the shop yesterday it was too hot to do the ironing, so that is the plan for this morning.
We are getting close to our cruise and still a million things to do before we go. In between that we have my father-in-law’s health issues to deal with which is taking time away from doing chores. Mrs G is off to see occupational health nurse and sort out test results for him and deal with hospitals and prescriptions. It’s a never ending saga all mixed in with contentious “family politics” we could do without.
In the meantime, its a quick coffee and outside and cut the back garden and clean up our drive otherwise my grass will be ten feet tall when we get back, more so if we have rain in the meantime. If I have time, I may just wander up and feed the swans and cygnets which is just up our road.
I also wanted to order a new lens for our trip and my stockist has been out of them for ages. I looked last night and they have just got one in - problem is they may be able to get one to me before we go, so I will just have to put up with my old one.
