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Glad you got to the Wedding Jeff, a happy and sad occasion too, I expect , missing loved ones.

Sunny here now but what a night!
Hailstones so loud !
Windy and cold albeit sunny.

Heart Clinic today ,lots to sort out no prescription as yet from Health Centre for my next drug which was to replace one I had to stop on Saturday.
All so befuddling .

Must pick up my watch ,new battery ,it had to go back to Accurist to be waterproofed again and I paid for that but found it’s guarantee etc I had paid up front for lifetime batteries , including re sealing.
So a refund I hope.

Son’s Birthday today, 65,he looks about 40 at most ,no wrinkles ,tall and very slender.
He bought himself what he wanted and I have paid ,a rack for a decommissioned very old rifle .
I also got him a vase,black and white Art Deco style ,he likes that and as it is of the  ( 1929) period when his - and my- house was built he is revealing some nice original details.
It will be years before he moves in at this rate!

My sister is 90 on the 20th, but won’t celebrate,she ignores birthdays .
I will send a plain card ,I have one  of those from the BBC programmes, Spring Watch ,of a glade in a wood carpeted with bluebells .No words!
Just saying hope she has a lovely day.

Well I have not had any notification of many posts,not sure what is wrong.
I do check and find them if I search others’ posts ,but they are not coming up in unread posts .
It will be something daft I have done .

My brown- garden and food waste need a good scrub out as the little bags we are given by The Council are very biodegradable!
Rot away quite quickly so I double bag, but it needs a good scrub out with a brush the builders left ,kept for that purpose only.
Next time it is emptied I will do it.

Cheerio, look after yourselves.

Viktoria.


original  details .

I don’t know if they have written about the mines you mention ,but Ivor J.Brown and Fred Brook with Martin Allbutt have written about the Shropshire Lead Mines .
They are cavers and have researched those mines extensively ,particularly The Snailbeach one.
D,R, Adams wrote about the Llanymynech  Ogof ( number in 1970, new edition edited by A.J. Pearce in 1992,
No numbers for that one
A phone number only I am afraid but The National Association of Mining History Organisations might have info :- 01629583814.
Not sure if that includes Wales but they might help somehow .

Viktoria.

Many years ago there was a” theory” that house mice carried a virus , it could affect humans and was implicated in cancer cases, I am sure it was spurious !
Just like the bogus Canadian research that linked the MMR vaccine to Autism in children.

I really can’t stand mice and rats ,it is the bare tail,I can handle Hamsters and Gerbils .Their tails are none existent or furry. but rats and mice - tails like miniature snakes——- yerrrrrrrgggghhhhh,
We had - probably a field mouse - in our kitchen once, the CouncilPest  controller came etc.
He explained how they could squeeze through such small spaces as their ribs can move in so they are smaller.
They run over all surfaces so a real deep clean was needed , we had a cat too!
The mouse was soon caught .

Well off to the shops with my trusty trolley, I like to go on my own and plan my route ,if my son takes me it is not as convenient ,surprisingly .
So I sneak out before he gets up. He works long hours with different time zones etc , so I sneak out quietly on Saturdays so he can have a bit more sleep.


Hope you all have a nice weekend.
Viktoria.

Well for a Northern Lass she portrayed a Cockney so well, utterly convincing .

What a difference to today’s “ stars”——I do not recognise the vast majority at all.
Kathleen’s generation were much more private ,we really only knew what we saw on screen.So much pleasure given and by today’s standards at very low cost.
Best wishes in your quest and thanks for  the memories!
Viktoria.

A Hornet perhaps.?


I found a VineWeevil in the kitchen sink a day or  so ago, they do get in the house occasionally but near the front door with the garden just close by ,but in thr sink, it would have had to climb the units which are a glossy black, unless it went up the walls and across the ceiling——

Sun coming out now after a wet start .
Drugs review this afternoon ,between the  Health  Centre and the Chemist ———always errors and if a new prescription all goes out of regularity and I get sent drugs I have not been prescribed for ages!
Cohens took over Lloyd’s, and what a difference !
The staff are not friendly or obliging.
At our Lloyd’s they were all  local people and very obliging re prescriptions for holidays before the due date etc.
Not at Cohens.

Never mind a small irritation by comparison.
Can pick up my glasses with the new prescription lens, the opticians keep emailing me for feedback but last time the bifocal line was so high it cut right across my line of vision so I am holding back re comments etc.As yet!
At £299 for new lens in my usual frame not a new frame is expensive !
More expense tomorrow,Dentist ——- that will be another “ Ouch”.

Well hoping all are safe and those unwell get some improvement .
Cheerio.Viktoria.