Sitll gto evreyhting corssed, KCT (no, sorry, going to have to stop that joke before tablet has a flight into the garden - predictive text likes to correct crossed finger typing!!) If you don’t hear soon about ED’s tests, get her to ring Drs - just in case they’re arguing about who should tell her - or everyone is assuming someone else will? Phone calls and letters cost money you know
Had a truly awful night last night. Windy stomach. Barely slept. Felt a tad fragile today so I’ve played it safe and stuck to cereal, honey toast and oven chips, breaded fish and tinned mushy peas instead of my usual Friday night chippy treat. Memories of 2015! Feeling a bit better this evening though, so hopefully I’ll sleep better tonight.
Spent the day between the knitting/reading bench, the red tennis bench and battling with the ground elder. All above ground bits removed and some of the roots dug up. Still got loads of digging to do but YD coming tomorrow, so it won’t get done until at least next weekend, by which time the pesky (there’s polite?) stuff will have grown back?!
I’ve also managed to plant up all my tubs so when I’m sitting on my outdoor knitting/reading bench I can enjoy the pretty flahs. Or what’s left after the snails have their midnight feast?!
So glad that the “senior moments” mints have proven sucessful :smileyhappy:
The saga of Son’s broken car goes on. I want/need/have to have my car back as I can’t impose on Daughter any longer, I arranged a hire car for Son from tomorrow, for a week. Told him I had done so. Then I got a message from him to cancel it as Daughter is going to lend him her car. School run for GD has apparently been sorted, Daughter has her hubby’s van available in the evenings for the shopping and will walk to her work. No she won’t, as I obviously owe her a trip or two. As I said before it’s a family thing, and that’s saved me £273 for the car hire.
Hopefully Son’s car will get fixed in the next week. Two reliable mechanics have advised him to sell it as fast as he can and buy a Ford!
So that will be another story about the buying of a new car, which Bank of Mum will probably be paying for. Must say however that Bank of Mum has bought many things and every penny has been paid back. It’s a good way to avoid interest! Perhaps I should start charging a little:smileytongue:
Walked up to town today, no rain today thank goodness. Now have everything I need until I get the car back and can revert to my usual lazy self and drive up.
FF, great savings for you, what a difference in price of JCJ’s daughters hire and your price!!
Great that you can help when needed especially a car, fingers crossed (yet again) he has a new car very soon…
Did some dectective work and you were right JCJ, it would be a skin cancer. Actually found photos of 2 types which to my non medical eye look very similar to mark on leg. Also now know what he was talking about regarding veins, so if cream doesn’t do anything have a rough idea what will happen. So with new knowledge am off the “feeling apprehensive” bench and onto the “it’s ok” bench haha.
Quiet today, no quiet time yesterday, cooker man came and fixed seal in around two mins, just closed the door and buzzer went, it was ED and GS, we watched the torrential rain and heard the thunder, his face went funny when he heard the rumbling but after initial rumble he was fine.
Am expecting everyone apart from YD (still on hol) tomorrow.
Is dinner still happening tomorrow evening (if you are ok) JCJ?? xx
YD just set off for home. I hope she has a better journey than the one coming here; she didn’t get here until after 4 yesterday due to a windscreen wiper disintegrating, a lorry driving so dangerously that she had to stop and report it and an accident which closed the A5!
Sad to see her go but looking forward to our camping trip in 8 weeks time.
Dinner was/is roast pork, roasties, roasted beetroot and parsnips, carrots, cabbage, apple sauce, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and gravy, followed by apple strudel (supermarket frozen) and ice cream.
We went for a walk at a nearby water park this afternoon. Oh boy, oh boy it was hot! OH really struggles when it’s hot so we had to hide in a bird hide for a while. He worried us by falling asleep! I was mentally wondering how we’d get him back to the car if he was seriously ill!! He seemed better after his nap, and better still after I left them on a shady bench and went and fetched the tea makings from the car. Nothing like a mugatea and a couple of partially melted posh Jaffa cakes to restore the tissues? I was driven mad by the mosquitoes biting and was glad to get away from the water. Expected to have to apply the antihistamine cream when we got home but, so far, I’m ok.
I wasn’t dreading going back to work tomorrow, apart from wondering how over excited the kids will be: their residential is Friday to Monday! However, I’ve just had a text from the teacher I work with. She’s been ill since Wednesday and won’t be in for at least the next few days. Great! They hadn’t better ask me to cover the class. Or go on the residential with them. I’m practising that NNNNNo word!
Forgot to say Katy (marbles? What are they?) stomach issues cleared up on Friday, with careful eating - I probably overloaded my digestive system with too much fat. The drawback of no gallbladder. So much for the promise of being able to eat “normally”?
I’ve got my car back, yippee!:smileyhappy: And it’s been washed, it’s now a silver car not a brown one!
However, the sorted school run (although a friend on Tuesday) seems to be me on Wednesday and Friday! I asked Daughter how it was sorted and she looked at me and smiled…Ok, that’s me doing the school run then, not a problem. My turn to give her lifts.
Son has been helping his mechanic friend with his car and the new clutch is in, gearbox put back together and just awaiting the gear linkage to be delivered and fitted. So progress is being made.
Hope you and OH are both feeling better now JCJ. Thank you for my lovely dinner. Keep practising that NO word and then you’ll be able to use it quite naturally. Residential? Just NO!.. you’re needed at home to look after OH!
Woo hoo FF’s car is home from extended holiday, hurrah!!
You will just be glad to get back to normal, even with a school run or two added in:smileyhappy:
Glad your OH was better after his rest and hope you have not been bitten, ouch.
Lovely your daughter was there.
Thank you for dinner, yummy as always…
Been superly lazy today so onto the “bad behaviour” bench for me, haha.
Had a call from YD this morning, laughed a lot on hearing her hotel’s breakfast menu, she says food is horrific, believe me she wasn’t exaggerating, sounds yuck!
Should have gone to supermarket today because it would have made tomorrows jaunts so much easier, oh well…
Residential = 3 nights away at an activity centre for the Y6 kids and some poor long-suffering staff. Friday to Monday so it means they don’t get a weekend! It’s a great experience for the children though: for many, it’s the first time they’ve been away from their parents overnight.
Supply teacher in today and she was good. She’s coming again tomorrow so it looks like I shan’t be asked to cover. Phew! Been doing a lot of running around supporting her and finding resources.
Two lots of super news from YD: she’s had a promotion at work - she’s now chuffed to bits to be Senior Software Developer, so she’s glad she stuck with that firm and didn’t accept the other job. A colleague sold her a car really cheaply, so that’s solved the commute issue. She parks a mile from work so she still gets to do some walking to and fro. :)
The other good news is that they’ve just had their house surveyed so that they can switch mortgage lender - their 2-year fixed rate has ended and the new payments will be ridiculous. It was always their plan to switch when the fixed rate ended. The survey has valued the house at 20 grand more than they paid for it, and the new mortgage payments are £90 less per month than they have been paying. Win. Win. All that hard work redecorating and doing the garden has paid off - would have been an even better return it wasn’t for the 6 foot sink hole in next door’s garden!
Wow to your YD and her promotion! Well done to her. And the house news is fantastic. Investment in property is still the way to go. And a £90 reduction in the mortgage is just the icing on the cake :smileyhappy:
Car has just sat outside the house today until I went to work in it and it’s still there now… It’s just so nice to know that I could go somewhere if I wanted to…
School nice and clean tonight, because of my endeavours over half term and because half of the school were out on a trip.today
Good luck on your jaunts tomorrow Katy, don’t overdo it.
Lots and lots of woo hoo moments going on in Benchland:smileyhappy:
FF’s car is there.
JCJ’s daughter’s promotion and house value, fantastic news, well done her!!!
Did manage to get stuff done today, wonderful weather just now. Had a look at some holiday clothes but nothing I really wanted, did shopping, collected euros for YD, visited Mum and went to supermarket. Just took my time, no rush haha.
Have spent most of the evening on the phone, after 35mins on hold, gave up, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, will try again tomorrow. What’s the point of call centres if you can’t speak to anyone?? Can’t find an email address either, so annoying.
No chocolate fell into my basket but strawberries and lashings and lashings of cream did, hee hee.
Yay, been to library, round town and to tesco. All in the car so no aching back or hip, no sitting on benches feeling aged, only a 50p charge for the car park. And £41.12 spent at the garage for petrol. I lent my Son the car with a full tank of petrol, it came back empty…but he did apologise and ask for it be put on his “slate”. It will be, I’m only generous to a certain point :smileytongue:
School run tomorrow, I have to be at Daughter’s for 8.30 am. Really? That is about the time I usually get up! I am not a morning person (unless at Norecambe, that is different). I think years of working 7pm to 4 or 5 am has permanently altered my body clock.
After dropping GD at school we are off to get sand for a sandpit. Have I ever said that Daughter cleans for a local school? They were throwing away a sand pit. Daughter asked if she could have it, answer was yes, so a pressure wash later it’s now ready for sand.
Just leaving the shed with a cream moustache, thanks Katy. I refuse to buy strawberries and cream until Wimbledon otherwise I’d be eating them nearly every day and they wouldn’t be such a treat.
Dashing to shed… You didn’t leave many for me did you, you greedy guzzlers!
We had strawberries and creme fraiche watching the red tennis the other night which was just wrong - should be green tennis with strawberries! The strawberries were cheap though, and delicious. I think I’m actually starting to prefer them with creme fraiche - originally born out of necessity, now I buy it from choice.
Talking of red tennis, FF, did you see the Djokovic match this evening. Wow! We recorded it earlier (in Sai******* shopping and eating dinner) and just finished watching it. Incredible.
Having an airport day tomorrow at school. Whole school arriving as if to an airport. Each class “flying” to a destination relevant to their class topic this half term. We will check in bags, go through “scanners” (made from cardboard boxes) go through passport control (me) to get our (made yesterday in school) passports checked and stamped (the school logo stamp that I use in the library books). Staff posing as cabin crew, airport security, baggage handlers etc. Letter home to parents about it, telling children to bring an overnight bag, their boarding pass (made today in class) and passport. Final sentence of letter advised parents that, as we’re not REALLY going anywhere (airplane is chairs in the hall and an inflight movie on the projector screen) they still need to collect their children at 3pm. I kid you not, one parent actually rang in to ask if she had to pay for her daughter’s flight to Australia and if so, how much? Australia and back in a day?!! Impressive?
I suggested a bar in the “waiting room” (spare classroom) so they could all get rata**ed before their flight. Hehehe
Totally knackered now. I built a plane in the hall this afternoon!
Ooooh FF playing in sandpits and JCJ building planes, what are you both like?? hahaha.
Sounds like such fun.
Glad you enjoyed the strawberries, instead of running to the shed, was running somewhere else this morning haha, that’ll teach me.
Tried again this morning phoning, still same message “due to high volume blah, blah” am giving up it’s not urgent just a query but will mention when I do see a human, grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Another lovely day here:smileyhappy:!
ED visited today and am meeting her and GS on Fri, she’s lost just now cause all college work is finished, still no word from consultant, no news is good news.
Mother has a new mobile phone and cannot work it properly…had to phone warden today to sort her out, haha, she thought I was my cousin phoning to get in her house, I could hear her buzzing no one in, saga went on for ages…I can hear her but she can’t hear me…move the phone to your ear please…
If they all got rata**ed before the flight it would be more realistic :smileyhappy: What a brilliant idea to have a plane and passports etc. I’m going to mention that to my ST when I see her.
Yes, I did see the Djokovic match, like you I’d recorded it and I kept waiting for him to turn it around but…oops. So many new players getting really good. I’m a great fan of Zverev and was very disappointed when he got the hamstring injury against Thiem, that could have been a very good match.
I managed to get to Daughter’s at 8.40, and GD was duly delivered to pre school on time. And I remembered to go and pick her up at the right time. Result. We got the sand and whilst in the shop I bought a pair of trainers. They caught my eye, I tried them on, very comfy, they’ll do for work and just £12! Bargain!
Breaking news… Son’s car appears to be fixed. He’s been test driving it around the village where it went to be fixed and all is ok. Son and Daughter meeting tomorrow to swap cars back. Might have to give her a lift there.
I’m still on the school run tomorrow morning, then I go to my friend that I don’t clean for, and then the pick up from school at 12.30.
My KS2 teacher tonight apologised for the state of her room, told me to leave it and she would sort it in the morning. Ok… I had a look at it, decided it really wasn’t that bad. They’d been tasting food from different countries. I cleaned it (but left her all the plates to wash up). An apology for a mess goes a long way with me , if they say they’re sorry, I’ll clean it, if they don’t, I won’t!
Gosh another lovely day here, just faffed around today, did do the windows yesterday so that’s enough for one week, haha.
Went to docs today and am being referred, said it would be around 4 weeks, they will take a biopsy then see how it goes from there. Operation or creams. He said there still is a possibilty it’s not but it does look suspect, am alright as it looks like it would be a non melanoma, was more shocked last week on hearing the “C” word again. So am ok, no tears shed.
Had a check of area we are going to (hol) and there is a natural hot spring, really fancy that seemingly gets rid of all aches and pains woo hoo!!
Also checked train fares for Norcambe, will book when I come back:smileyhappy: xx
Yay! To son’s car fixed and everybody getting their own cars back. Yay! to feeling better about potential c-word again (but we’ll still keep hoping it’s not!)
I know what you mean about apologies going a long way, FF. I’m always much happier to go the extra mile if I’m asked nicely and it’s not just assumed I’ll do it! Mind you, most of the time at work, now, I can sit back and watch someone else being put upon just like I used to be!
What was it Billy Connolly said about Scottish weather, KTC? Scotland has two seasons: winter and June! Glad you’re enjoying your summer/June!
Wow!! Time to book trains??!..I’m on it!
When do you go on holiday, Katy? I thought it was 5th June, but you’re still here so I must have mis-remembered?
An hilarious thing happened, yesterday, at our airport day. All staff dressed up as different airport staff (I was passport control so I wore the skirt suit I wore for YD’s wedding). A male TA (the only man on our staff) came as airport security - he bought an inflatable gun and flak jacket and wore black shorts and t-shirt with gun holsters and hand cuffs. One of our dinner ladies commented, when he’d left the hall but was, unbeknownst to her, still within earshot: “He can strip search me anyday!” He said “I may be out of sight but I can still hear you!!” Bright red faces all round and much hilarity in the staffroom later!
Exhausted tonight, but managed to swim my mile - just. I was a bit delayed leaving the house (chair had firm hold of me!) and then the roads were partially flooded after a heavy downpour so I had to drive carefully, meaning I got to the pool a bit late. 189 lengths left. 3 weeks should do it.
Looked at prices, outward journey is a fantastic price, coming home costs 5, yes 5 times more, grrrrrrrrrrr. So will hang off for a bit…
Went for a walk/sit down near the river today, GS was mesmerized, we were there for ages.
After ED & GS left had a wander around and bought 2 pairs of shorts, came home and tried them on, yuck, so will take them back tomorrow. Have to go into town anyway for hair chopping, my fringe seems to have a mind of it’s own this time or I am going for the floppy look??? Have just looked online and have seen nicer shorts, should have just done that in the first place:smileyfrustrated:
Hair chopped, not growing length wise but growing side ways??? What’s that all about??
Shorts returned to shops:smileyhappy: Checked the ones in store that I have ordered online and I really like them, don’t know why I didn’t do that in the first place…especially as I had a gift voucher for that store! Marbles have gone walk-a-bout again methinks.
Also have a new small bag, just easier to manage, have just spent around half an hour trying to work out how to manoeuvre straps so it’s an across body bag, grrrr.
Am going to lie down now.
Have not heard that before re Billy but it’s def true this year xx
Feeling a bit better this evening though, so hopefully I’ll sleep better tonight.
