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Just looked out again I do wish it would rain instead of this very gloomy grey weather. And I have just noticed there is a strong wind again so I don't think I will be gardening today. Not sure which bit of me aches the most, arms or legs.

good morning allkept waking up again last night and my leg was aching. then the fact that it was so light early kept me awake after 5am.

9 degrees here and a bit grey so not sure what the weather is doing today I have to sort the plants out I bought but have to keep them in over night so they can't all go to permanent containers

Nothing else planned for today. I have a small piece of gammon to cook, not sure yet how I am going to cook it.

just lost the lot.

I too was married on my 21st birthday but I also had my son. I think I had a gold gate braelet for my present and a silver box from my aunt. Still have the silver box which is actually a cigarett box lined in dark blue velvet and used as a tirnket box. I must have the bracelet in my jewekry box but never wear it. Maybe another thing to sell to the jeweler and mums gate bracelet too.

I was married and pregnant on my 21st. My parents gave me alarge needlework box/coffee table. Had it for years but have not got it now. We didn't celebrate 18th when I was that age.

Had the Covid and RSV jabs. Nurse said the arm with the covid was more likely to ache than the one with the RSV.
I have not heard of anyone having any reactions from the RSV.

Phew it's warm out there now , got all the pots filled and reported a couple of plants in new compost ,I just need to remake the bed as I stripped that first thing and did a wash.

Son messaged this morning to say they had sorted out Jakes 21st birthday present ,they have bought him a personalised number plate for his car , my goodness they cost a lot and now soon has got his eye on one too .
I can't remember what I had for my 21st I think it must have been jewellery but I do know I had a pretty garnet ring for my 18th ,to small for my finger now and so is my signet ring .

Jake and his Da were gone by 12, just as Mr Tesco arrived so that is out of the way too. I just have to get my covid booster at 2.36 and then I can relax. I did manage to do a bit of gardening, actually just weeding, this morning while they were here. I am not going to pot on any of the plants that will be outside until next week as either tonight or tomorrow is forecast 2 degrees overnight, could easily drop to a frost,

I had a strange night. Slept well for 4 hours then kept waking up the rest of the night. I feel a bit spaced out today. Hope Vera and I can get a better night tonight.

Another dreadful night. I think my body has forgotten how to sleep. Never mind, I'm still on my feet and sort of functioning.

It's a lovely sunny day and I should be doing things in the garden but I've let the household jobs go a bit lately so thought I'd better get on with those. I've done some ironing that's been hanging about all week and given my en-suite a thorough clean and tidied around generally. If I can raise the energy I'll try and do a bit of vacuuming this afternoon.

When our friend died recently his sister asked me to choose something from the house as a memento and I asked for a lizard wall sculpture. She sent me that and also another wall thingy shaped liked a leaf. That was quite rusty which I didn't mind but OH wanted to paint it black. We met halfway, I said he could paint it but not black. Then he remembered he had some dark green metal paint that he had used a couple of years ago for something else. I said OK to that so he has been painting it this morning and it looks good. We hope the chap who is coming on Tuesday to put a bit of guttering up for us will put these wall sculptures up outside as well.

It's good you have got Jake there today after all AnnG. It will all be done for you while we've still got decent weather.

Thank you for the photos Annx. It looks a lovely spot to walk I love the bark on that tree.

My eyes are going blurry now so I am going to turn the computer off for a while. I might bbl, if not I'll see you all tomorrow.

Glad they have turned up for you Anng. Less worry if its done incase it rains.

Suns out here now and Iv'e had a nice shower and am ready to face whatever the day throws at me now. I want to wash all the big pots for the toms and cues and get the big square tub done for the courgett. My runners still hav'nt come up and thats the second lot of a different kind Iv'e sown now. The second lot of cues are up and Iv'e potted on four courgetts still 4 to do. They all came up.

wMorning all,

Been busy in the garden Mel ,we filled some pots ready for the tom plants and we're back out filling some more this morning , I think if the plants do well I'll be able to supply tesco as I have thirty six plants :-0
The suns shining so it's going to be another lovely day .

Ann thats good the appointment to show how to inject went OK I hope they can help with the pain.

Vera you had a good day yesterday getting all the errands done , look after that plant well as it cost you plenty of pennies .

Anng thats a nuisance about having to wait to get the roof finished but when little ones are poorly it's a worry .

Better get out in the garden before it gets to hot .

Well that changed and they are here now. Jake's partner is looking after little one.

Morning Anng and all,

Its quite bright here this morning andpc says mostly cloudy and its 13 degrees. Hope it brightens more later on.

Just the shop to do this morning and mayempted to the pink drumstick primula down there. I have deep magenta and orange but I seem to have lost the other colours.

Its a shame you are having difficulty get to your rain water butt with the roof stuff in the way but the week will soon go quickly and I am sure he will come as soon as he can. I hope his little daughter is ok and can get the treatment she needs poor little soul.

Now wheres our Mandy???

Got the pics yesterday Annx it looks lovely through the little cops. It reminded me of the time oh and I went on the canal boal back in 2010 with all the lovely fresh greens in the trees.

Good morning all. 8 degrees and sunny.
Jake has had to cancel again as his little daughter has had him up all night as she is still quite poorly.
She is the youngest of their 4 children and I get the impression that she may be the only one who is actually his.
He is now hoping to come on Friday.It is a nuisance as the remaining stuff for the roof is down the alley between my house and next door (the alley is mine and has a secure gate on the road end but the stuff is actually in the way if I need to get to the water butt for new plants.

It’s been a sunny and warm day. In fact this afternoon there was hardly a breeze and it got really hot.

It’s a shame about Jake’s young daughter, AnnG. I hope she is OK. It’s frustrating for you not getting the work done today but better that he stays away than tries to work when he is so tired and has an accident. Fingers crossed that the weather will stay good and he can quickly get the roof done for you.

My goodness Annx, that was a long hair appointment. I would have been getting very fidgety. My appointments take about 30 minutes and I go every 5-6 weeks. I get my hair washed, cut, blown dry and I’m away again. It’s good you’ve got your laptop sorted and OH has had his jab. Hopefully it will be plain sailing with his appointments from now on.

What are you like Mel, lol. Fancy forgetting you had ordered some nemesia and then buying more. They are pretty little plants and keep flowering away all summer without much attention. I’m thinking of getting a few more.

As usual I didn’t have a very good night but I’ve kept going all day though I am a bit tired now. We decided this morning to get some errands done so made a list of all the places we needed to go and worked out the best route round. We started off going into town and left a load of stuff at one of the charity shops, then round to Specsavers to get some clip on sunglasses to wear over my ordinary specs. My old prescription ones are no good since having all the treatment on my bad eye and then the cataract done but I don’t want to pay out for more prescription ones until my other eye is done. £15 clip ons will do me for this summer.

Then we went to Boots for some bits OH wanted; then back to Roys where we were parked for 3 big bags of compost. All the town car parks are run by the local council and all charge the same but Roys is a little bit different. The council run the car park but Roys own the land it is on. The ticket machines there issue a ticket to display in your car and another one. If you are shopping in Roys and spend more than £5.00 you give the cashier this other ticket and they take £1 off your shopping bill.

We left town then and drove to a large builders’ merchant/trade centre where OH got some bits he wanted and then off again to a Pets at Home shop for Sunflower Hearts for the birds. From there we drove to our Perrywoods Garden Centre. We had a large Choisya that died this year and OH dug it out and wants to replace it with another Choisya. I suggested the variety Sundance which we had at our last house and they had some in stock. They had little ones at a reasonable price but they would take quite a while to grow to any size. They also had bigger ones at £45. I gulped a bit at the price but at least you didn’t need a magnifying glass to see them so we came home with one of those.

I was pleased with all we’d managed to get done. After a quick sandwich OH fell asleep and slept for 2 hours! I went outside for about an hour and a half and got some weeding done and planted up another trough and had a general tidy round outside. It was quite hot and my head was aching by the time I came in but at least I feel I’m beginning to make a bit of progress at last

I think I might go and pop myself to bed with my iPad and watch something on iPlayer. I’ve recently seen the first 2 programmes in the David Attenborough series The Secret Garden and really enjoyed them so I might watch another one of those.

It was this morning that they couldn’t come all being well they will do it tomorrow morning. Just hope the rain holds off.
I have my Covid booster tomorrow PM.

Evening All,

More sunshine today, but it's just overcast now. OH went off to his free AI session at the council offices this morning and I rang the computer support people we use. Because of the problems using the laptop it was hard to get into their site so they could access it remotely. They uninstalled lots of Apps that load and run in the background that I never use like AnnG thought of and did various checks. Anyway, the upshot was that my mouse input was faulty. I told the helpful chap that I had been thinking of getting a new laptop as it's getting old in PC years, but he told me that it is a high end one and so why change it if it does what I want and I manage fine with the plug in keyboard. I thought he had a point! So OH went for his covid jab next and they told him they had been waiting for confirmation from the hospital that he had started treatment before making him an appointment for his jab. It sounded a bit lame to me as they'd told him he wasn't entitled to it! Anyway the Head Nurse who did it said to see her from now on so hopefully he won't have further problems as he will need blood tests from now on, We went to Curry's and one of their staff sorted us a wireless mouse, or thought he had till we got it home and it didn't work!! We checked and he'd given us a Bluetooth one instead, so back we went and swapped it. OH took the opportunity to fill his car at Sainssbury's and we said we were lucky these places are less than a mile away. The laptop is fine and whizzing along now and it has sorted the cut and paste issue as well. :-)

AnnG it is good you have another stay at your son's to look forward to so you must be a good guest! I hope Jake's poor daughter was well enough for him to come and finish your roof today while the weather is still good. I hope your hearing aids are working well now as they are so necessary when you need to have them.

Yes my hair colour usually takes half that time and I don't think she had anything on her mind as she was chattering away about her holiday and makeup. I think she might have forgotten she hadn't finished my hair as I was out of her view! I usually take somehing to read the times I have the colour done. I told OH I should have taken his copy of War and Peace the time it took.

Mel, mum used to plant Nemesias in a raised bed when I was little and they are a pretty flower. I didn't know you could root cuttings from them in water though. She also had Lupins and I loved the bicolour ones of those.

Yes shoes do vary a lot Vera. I won't bore you but I used to mark and cut ladies' sole shapes for a process dad did for shoe trade customers. It was amazing how the widths varied in the different styles and these were just the high heeled ones. I have always preferred comfy trainers for walking too. I called in a garden centre today for some leather gardening gloves and had trouble getting any to fit me. My hands are quite broad but with shortish fingers, so not pianist hands! The small gloves in various styles were too tight to get on easily and I ended up with medium ones, but with some of the styles with those the fingers were over half an inch too long and no good for pulling up smallish weeds. Your trip out sounded good apart from getting there and back which must have taken longer than usual and you are going to have a nice display with the planting you have been doing.

Better get my evening tablet now and check we are locked up

Been potting up courgetts, the nemesia that arrived in the post and had to come in for the silly little labels I bought online. They are so small I shall have to use both sides just to get what they are on there.

Had to come in for a drink anyway.

Posties just been and I had forgotten I ordered 6 plug plants of Nemesia and two are the same as the ones I bought up the shop this morning. There should have been a pink one in the six.

Just been up the village to post a parcel and outside was all new plants and I just could'nt resist three lavender and pale yellow Nemesia at £2 each. They are nice bushy plants and I may be able to get some cutting off of one of them. I'll let you know.

Morning all,

Quite bright here this morning and its 12 degrees and no wind to speak of. Stu was really hungry when he arrived yesterday evening which was good cos I cooked loads and a pineapple upsidedown cake for sweet.

It sounds like Vera and Annx had really bad parts of their day yesterday. three hours in a hairdressers would drive me barmy. The trip out and home sounded awful with all the holdups but it sounds like you enjoy the house with it not being too busy inside. I always think May is such a good month to visit gardens with all the fresh green trees and spring flowers out.

Annx your hairdresser sounds like she had things on her mind yesterday leaving you all that time with the silver foil on your head. Did she realise she had left you all that time? Glad I don't have to go through all that, I would be bored out of my mind.

Mandy it sounds like the funeral went off ok and when you mentioned about the two young boys it put me in mind of William and Harry all those years ago.

Did I say BIL came and mower twice yesterday? he cut the front lawns with the mower that dos'nt pick up then with the mower that does. This time too he did the orchard which was about nearly a foot high as he's left that for weeks. It dos' nt matter as I don't like all the bulb leaves cut down till June so the leaves help with next years flowers.

Well I think I have bored you all enough with my writings so I will now leave you to the rest of your days.

Good morning all, 8 degrees and bright but quite a threatening sky. I slept ok, a bit disjointed with dreaming, a bit of leg pain (expected because of all the walking yesterday) and knowing I mustn't oversleep because oj Jake coming. BUT.....

My plans have changed, Jake has cancelled as he has been at the hospital all night with his young daughter, this has happened before, she seems to suffer badly with colds, coughs etc (sounds like asthma actually) Anyway he has had to cancel as he has been up with her all night. (Can't say I want him up the ladder having had no sleep.) Annooying but can't be helped. Hopefully he will come tomorrow morning.
That sounded a bit of a nightmare, tiring journey on your trip out. Traffic is so bad these days I wonder we ever get where we are planning to go.
Nice to meet with your friends and wow, you have been busy in the garden again, must be some energy there somewhere.

ann that was a bit of a long hair appointment. I am glad I stopped having colour on my hair. Actually it is more or less now the colour I was lways hoping for.

I wonder what is wrong with your PC, It sounds as if something is downloading on start up and stays running on the background. Hope somebody can fix it for you.