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I spoke too soon, it is now snowing, but just lightly, so I don’t think it will settle.

How frustrating for you not being able to get through to your hubby. Is it a specific number for him, or the general one for the ward? Maybe you can find a different number for the main switchboard, that way you would know if the whole hospital is affected

Afternoon everyone.

We had more snow last night but the roads are clear just now. Every now and then a snow shower comes on a biting wind so it bounces off the ground! Daughter managed to get a few things but not everything like comfort or any cheap fabric conditioned. If I wash the towels without softener, they dry hard and I hate that.

I made a pan of lentil and veggie soup. i grated the carrots and turnip/swede plus onions etc and its ready. Of course had to taste a bit and yes its scrummy which is more than can be said for the brown bread in the machine!!

I followed the recipe that is in the breadmakers instruction booklet and it just hasnt risen much and doesnt look right. This has happened before and I used the brown bread setting???

Anyway determined to have homemade bread, so I found a very easy recipe on the internet and you don't have to knead it yay.... Its proving in the boiler cupboard as nice and warm in there for an hour. Then you give a quick mix before putting in your bread bin. 15 minutes more of proving, then bake for an hour. Im so hoping this one works. :-)

Sometimes, the best things work using good old fashioned hands and not machines :-D

Glad you have power Joan and no more snow. Glad you spoke with hubby. His phone might have been low on battery or something? A blood transfusion will give him a good boost along with the meds. Glad you daughter has calmed down a bit as being overbearing and bossy will not help the situation.

I opened the back door and we had snow against it oo but I managed throw some bird seed out over the snow covered grass and suddenly they were crowds fighting over the seed :-D But the pigeons rule here all 24 of them.

Daughter is on her way home now and should be back around 2.45 and will be glad as the bins have been emptied but are standing on the drive and its quite windy. I cannot go out as far to slippy for me with a stick.

Linda, hope your snow doesnt come to much! Hubby will be missing his walk.

Names, i weighed myself today and have lost 2lbs :-D but i need to lose 2 stone :-D :-D :-D

Right off to be busy and clear up the kitchen now before another mess is made!!

Florence in the hebrides

I am pleased that your hubby is better today and that your daughter is being more reasonable.
OH is building a new desk as the current one I the study is fr too big for the new house. It is a flat pack and he has put it together wrong a couple of times so far. It has a pullout keyboard tray and he has fitted the supports the wrong way round. The tray should just have clicked into place, but it wouldn’t slide in. He knew the supports were in wrong, but “ just to check” he pushed the tray in from the back of the desk. It clicked into place nicely, but now he can’t get it out to turn the supports round. I asked him why on earth,he had pushed it in the wrong way, but he just started muttering, so I have left him to it. Silly man
:-|

Sorry to ignore you Florence, but we must have posted at the same time.
Our snow stopped and there is non on the ground, it is just bitterly cold.
OH managed to sort out the desk, so we have swapped things over. He needs to do cable management to hide all the cables and the extension lead, but there is no point in doing that until we move. It is a shame because the old desk was a large beech table with a tray hidden underneath at the back to hold all the cables. I have just put the old desk on the local free Facebook site, no doubt it will go quickly. We also have three Beech cupboards in the study, but only have room for two in the new house, but my next door neigh is taking one to use in her garden office which she uses as a craft room. I had hoped that she would want the table as well, but sadly it is too big.

That is ridiculous Joan and it will probably turn out to be a waste of time. Couldn’t you attend by ringing your husbands phone and putting it on speaker phone. That way you would be able to hear everything and they would be able to hear you and your daughter.

It is a sunny day here, but the highest temperature forecast is only going to be zero degrees. It is OH’s birthday, so we are going to walk into the market square and have lunch in a nice cafe. That will do for celebrations, pre Covid we would have gone away for a city break abroad, now we are just boring and sty at home. :-(

Joan I agree with Linda that it is ridiculous that they won't delay the meeting in view of the awful weather you have there. We have to use the speaker phone option when OH has Dr. phone calls so I can hear what is being said and can ask questions if needed. Not ideal but better than nothing. I hope you can get there though and have your say as well.
Good luck.

Hope everyone is ok , we don't have snow but it is very cold and I am not going out anywhere. The back garden is frozen so it's drying the washing inside again.

Have to do my shop online today so need to check my cupboards .

Stay warm everyone.

Ginnie

It would probably just add another layer of stress, Joan - but it seems to me that the high-handed way you are being treated (ignored ) warrants a complaint to whoever the top person is at the hospital.

I hope you've added the postie's inability to reach you to your list of reasons (with dates of occasions when difficulties occur) why you can't be the carer.

Does your husband have Welfare Power of Attorney naming you as attorney? Not that it would apply at present, unless he were to say that he wants you to deal with things now, or unless a doctor feels he's unable to make his own decisions.


Not a lot of snow here, thank goodness - about 2-3cms - but it's like an ice rink because it thawed slightly yesterday and then froze again overnight.
Thankfully, I don't have to go anywhere today.
But it's a beautiful sunny day with clear blue sky, and the garden is sparkling like a glittery Christmas card.

Afternoon all.

Yes we had more snow and the roads now have tracks on them. No planes to the mainland this morning as the runway needs clearing so no post at all.

Joan, that is totally unacceptable!!! Both you and your daughter need to be able to hear what is being discussed. Putting his phone on loud speaker is a good idea as you can then take part in the discussion. Of course you cant be expected to attempt to travel anywhere, that is just ridiculous given the amount of snow you have.

Could you ring your GP for advice if you explain you cant get there and do you have the right to get the appointment rescheduled after all, as you will be hubby's carer, you need to know what is being discussed.

Oh dear, one thing after another and I really feel for you and your family.

What does daughter think?

I had paperwork to find from daughter's schooldays to assist GP with a few matters but as I do keep things.... I found reports from 2006/9 which was perfect and sorted a query .I know I probably keep things for far too long but.... in the grand scheme of things, medical letter/reports should never be destroyed as you never know when you may need them!

Leftover veggie soup and home made bread today plus crumpets daughter managed to get yesterday for lunch. Not terribly slimming but in this cold climate, I need something filling.

Its started snowing again here just hope its not too bad as son travels a distance to work by bus and I always worry for him getting home at 6pm in bad weather.

Hope hubby enjoyed his birthday lunch Linda. Good that you could walk there. How far is it to walk?

Right off to make me crumpets and marmite now.

Joan, hope you get a solution sorted.

Florence in the hebrides

A few ******** :-P :-P needed here.

Why are the hospital dealing with your daughter and not you?

That is just typical Joan and your poor daughter wasting all that time making the drive safe to use.

It was pleasant but cold walking into the square. We went slowly because some of the pavements were icy, but even going slow, it is only a five minute walk. OH bought a date slice to have later and I was very naughty and bought a Fat Rascal, not exactly Slimming World friendly. ;-)

Someone is coming later this afternoon to pick up the desk. It is amazing how big the study looks with the new much smaller desk. In the old days we had a printer and a separate scanner, a computer tower etc. Now we just have a laptop and a combined printer/copier/scanner , so we don’t need a big desk.

Oh my unbelievable!!! :-P :-P :-P :-P re cancelling the appointment Joan

Thank goodness you hadn't already set off through the snow, Joan.


The snow may be a good thing, if it has made your daughter realise some of the difficulties.

I suppose it could be that an important person due at the meeting has been taken ill. Frustrating for you though Joan as you will have worked yourself up for it. Hopefully it won't be too long before they can reschedule.

Good morning on a very frosty morning. OH has gone out walking with his Ramblers group, he must be mad. The worst thing is that he is doing the driving today and the walk starts an hour away in the Dales, not the best drive in these conditions .

I had to be up and ready early as the local charity furniture store are supposed to be coming this morning to collect our dining room furniture which we are donating to them. I thought that they were coming first thing, but there is no sign of them yet. Of course if I hadn’t got ready early, they would have been there at the crack of dawn.

Your area keeps featuring on the news Florence, so I guess that you won’t be getting a shopping delivery any time soon.

Morning all!
You want snow?....we got plenty more last night eeek

All schools are closed, no bus services and am so glad daughter managed to town on Monday.

The garden is a sheet of pure white snow at the back and in the front, its up to nearly the top of my garden fence. The roads have a covering but look awful and explains why I havent seen any traffic on this normally busy rd this morning!

We still have power though so thankful for that.

Joan I hope you are ok in your area although I suspect you will be worse than us?

Linda, what is your OH thinking of lol. I guess hes bored and wants out but at what costs with the bad weather?

On top of the snow we are on storm alert for the weekend but we are use to it here really so winter storms are the norm.

I must tackle the mountain of ironing in the basket before it becomes too big and the vacuum cleaner needs an outing lol

My next scheduled delivery is the 25 th jan, son fingers crossed by then we will all be back to normal!

Stay safe and keep warm everyone

Florence in the hebrides

No thank you Florence, I don’t want the snow. It sounds to be very pretty, so you keep it where it is :-)

I am still waiting for the charity shop to come for the furniture, there I still half an hour if morning , so hopefully they will still turn up. I have an Amazon delivery due in the next hour. It is a birthday present for my great niece. I need to wrap it and take it to the post office this afternoon, so it will arrive in time for her birthday. If the furniture people haven’t arrived by then, I will ring and see what is happening. They do have my phone number and if they weren’t coming because it is too icy for their volunteers, you would think that they would ring and let me know. We shall see

Grr, I don’t believe it. The charity turned up, but then said that they wouldn’t take it. Firstly because the two cabinets have glass in the doors, so the volunteers can’t carry them and secondly because they are dark wood and they have now decided they aren’t taking dark wood as they can’t sell it. I did show them photos before Xmas and it was fine then, but not now!!!
There was someone on the Facebook site who was going to collect it before Xmas, but I had to cancel her when the house sale fell through, so I have sent a message to see if she still wants it. If not, I will have to put it on the free sites again

On a more positive note, my Amazon parcel has turned up, so I can get that posted.

Oh dear Linda, what a morning you have had!! I think personally, charity shops are a lot more picky thesedays and some are almost run as a business. I know they want to make money for their charity but should be grateful for all the free donations they get surely?

I noticed some time ago, the last time i was in a charity shop, that the prices for things have really increased. I wonder is that a national thing like where you are etc? I remember years ago, my son needed a thick overshirt for his xmas play as he was a woodcutter. So I went in a shop and they had just what i needed but it was £5! So I went down to good old Woollies and there in the sale was one for £2 so I bought it, job done.

With dark furniture, a lot of people sand it down to the wood and varnish. It can look really great.

Anyway hope someone takes it for you and at least your Amazon delivery came.

No such deliveries here. I have seen a handful of cars, no doubt brave carers but no buses or anything else on the rds.

Its getting really windy here and when a snow shower comes, its blows everywhere.

I have finished my ironing and now going to make a sandwich and a cuppa for lunch. Daughter wants to do some baking so will no doubt be plenty of mess lol.

Joan, you were quite right to stay indoors else you may have slipped over and hurt yourself. So if hubby took a tumble whilst being helped, how on earth can you manage him alone at night if he needed the toilet?? He may not want a fuss, but if it had been my dad, I would have complained.

Spoke with dad last night but his xray shows left lung full of fluid which explains him being short of breath but he hasnt been prescribed anything yet to get rid of that?? His speech is really good now almost normal but he sounds very frail. He says he has put on 1/2 stone but now he says he has fluid, that would explain it as his appetite isn't too good. But for now he's holding his own.

Hope everyone is keeping safe

Florence in the hebrides

Good morning to you all, though it's really not that good.

I woke this morning quite early & discovered we had no cold water upstairs, I was desperate for the loo but didn't want to have to flush in case the cistern didn't fill up again.
We have cold water downstairs so I am thinking that it's not frozen pipes but that the holding tank for our water supply is empty ! which would indicate the pump down by the well has stopped working for some reason !

Our daughter is going to come over & check both to assess the problem.

The cold snap seems to have released it's grip here at the moment as I can see dark spots where the snow is melting & we have light rain just now, howeve there is a LOT of snow so even rain won't shift all the snow that quickly.

Yesterday there were icicles hanging from the 2 front bedroom bay windows that are situated into the roof space, there were 16 hanging from one & 26 from the other, only about 3 on each this morning.

As if I haven't enough happening for me at the moment this happens, the hospital are going to have to not change hubbys clothing on a daily basis as I don't have water to wash them & neither does daughter, her pipes ARE frozen ! Nightmare.

I hope the weather is not too serious for any of you.

Joan.

Oh dear, Joan - it's one thing after another, isn't it?
I hope your water situation is sorted out quickly. From that point of view, thank goodness your husband is still in the hospital.

Perhaps the pump is frozen?

The thaw has finally started over here in the west, too.
Most things are still snow-covered, but tree branches and twigs no longer have a layer of snow sitting on them, and there's water dripping off the roof.
A very welcome sound!

A thaw has also set in in my freezer, unfortunately.
It's not getting cold enough, and some food has partly thawed.
I've tried defrosting and restarting it, but that has made no difference.
I've had it for 23 years and 3 months (yes, I keep old paperwork too, Florence) , so it won't be worth repairing, even if parts are available, but it's done very well, so I can't really complain.
I won't order a new one immediately, as I'm going to try doing without it.
I have a fridge-freezer as well as the freezer, and a ridiculous amount of food in the house for just one person - but as I live several miles from a shop, its a security/comfort thing.

I hope everyone else is a bit less snowy now, too.