Well, peeped out of the bedroom curtains this morning to a garden covered in ice!
Frost on the utility room roof(single storey) but bright sunshine!
How lovely to see so many wild animals.
Just grey squirrels here ,birds and ducks on a pond ——- another poem springs to mind- something like “five ducks on a pond ,what a memory for years ,remembered with tears”
I will have to look it up now.No other wildlife ,
Just phoned my husband’s sister 83 today.
Her son had just called so will phone back later.
Yes dogs are expensive,our little Patterdale/ Jack Russel was very hardy but now and again needed treatment .
I was with Pet Plan which started if atŁ15 a month in 1994 but as she got older got to Ł49-99.
Cross breeds are cheaper to insure than pedigrees but now genetic faults are manifesting themselves with Labradoodles,Cockerpoos ,etc and the man who started the cross breeding to try to eradicate inherent faults admitted he really regretted it.
The yearly vaccinations are never on the insurance.
Are you still O.K Mowsehowse ?
Baby birds, what a privilege to have them in your garden, hard to leave them alone as you do worry about them, but never interfere is the golden rule I think.You obviously adhere to that.
I must get on with my kitchen ,where do the crumbs come from in the cutlery drawer?
I don’t like this kitchen/ diner!
Thought I would get used to it but to see the sink when eating Christmas dinner,
Not a real problem at all I tell my whingeing whining self!
A clip round the legs that would get me in my Mum’ s Day!
Oooh she was ‘ard!
Hip somewhat better today up to now.
Must uncover the Sir Tom Rose, I protect it from the frost at night.
Next but one neighbour was busy with a strimmer in his back garden yesterday, he has it all paved abd gravelled but the flippping horsetail weed flourishes,he does not use weed killer.The thought of all those little bits that
can regenerate !I only saw three bits in my garden last year as I am obsessed with eradicating it,he is OK and we have a laugh but the best thing he can do now is to sprinkle garden lime liberally ,it hates that.
Hope everyone is well, lots of Spring cleaning and reorganising going on,is it a custom peculiar to Britain? In Belgium it was Het groot schoenmaak ,every week! .
Most houses had tiled floors and the skirting boards were tiles ,like a shallow paddling pool- so a bucket of very hot water with “ soft soap “ was flung down and swished around and then dragged our with a “ trekker”,a heavy duty squeegee on a broom handle
which effectively pulled or “trekked “ the soapy water out leaving an almost dry floor which could be buffed up to a soft but safe sheen.
All pouring over the step.
The floor cloths are huge and can be folded over the trekkers and the floor is “ zwabbed “to the soft sheen.
Phew, and we lived next to the owners of the house we rented ,there were friendly “ visits” ie inspections .
I always left a key when we went on holiday but she had one anyway as of the two sets back and front we only had two each lock ,there are three keys to a lock .I could tell she had looked under beds etc as being a typical Belgian huisvrouw ,she was a big girl and needed to press on the beds to get up — leaving her hand impression on the covers.
Never mind ,I was not going to let England down was I!
No fluff was ever found.
Well must phone sister in law back and friend in Shropshire ,have to time that, her son stopped the cares out of concern so he does all she needs and I try not to phone when he is busy or having a sit down .She likes Yardley’s
Lavender ,so refreshing I think when you are ill in bed.
Her Birthday 29 th May.
Thanks for the news everyone,things are getting better generally but Hyndburn is very high at the moment
T
Wonder what will the result be of the Elections?
I am supporting the candidate who will endeavour to halt the building on green belt land which in our borough is almost almost always Ramsbottom and is transforming it from a little market town to a suburb of Bury .
I won’t say more as it would be political.
Cheerio, thanks for the news .look after yourselves
Viktoria
