Had a good busy day, finished planting and a tidy up - only the garden,the house looks as if vandals have been in!
Started sunny but brisk and is softly raining now.
Tired now but that good tiredness, not the bored tiredness.
Read the meters today, my monthly payments by direct debit have gone up as agreed ,I was not willing to go the whole hog and increase to £250 per month from £90 ,if a shortfall It will be adjusted by a one off payment at the year end , so I increased to £150 , we will see.
I intend to get a small wall mounted water heater in the kitchen ,my sink is so far from the boiler ,yards and yards of water already in the pipe needs to be run off before it runs hot ,fill the bowl, rinse , then the the full length of the pipe is left full of hot water going cold!
The bathroom is directly over the boiler so hot water almost instantly there.
You only heat what you need with a simple wall mounted heater.
Ninety percent of the time I am washing up for only one .
It might seem a retrograde step ,but it will be economical .
I like scalding hot water for washing up and rinsing.
Neighbour has had another small fall ,I heard a bump yesterday at about six in the morning.
It sounded like a car door being slammed.But I had been asleep ,normally if she is up I hear the cistern re- filling ,but not this time,all was silent so I nodded off again for a while.
She seems quite shaken this time ,is in bed , her daughter has been coming and going all day. She lives close by but drives for haste.
Well a nice bath to minimise aches and pains then bed.
I bought a book of Maths and Arithmetic tests ,English and Intelligence tests.
For admittance to Grammar School ,a bit like the Eleven Plus .
I am doing O.K .
But have forgotten what a Cwt was , a Quarter ,Ton too, so not so good on those sums but the others OK.
Good fun.
Well another cuppa , then Antiques Road Show, bath and perhaps an early night but Morse is on late, he is so like my OH.was.
Those blue eyes and white hair!
Viktoria.