Diary summary week ending 4th June

[louisa maud]

Morning folks
Unbelievable we are almost into June.

Yesterday I thought was quite warm but it was cold in church despite the sun outside, PM I felt very cold and decided to have a bath to warm up.

I have 6 perennial  plants to put in that should last for a long time, just trying to cut down the amount of annuals I put in every year,  I Iike them and the colours but my legs and back make if more difficult, I will still have some bedding  plants but nowhere near as many as I usually do, my husband  doesn't like gardening so it is down to me, I am trying  to make life easier for me..

My  grandaughter  roaming around Asia will be home first week In  July after being away for 6 months, she is in Bali now and I think she is ready to come home, I will be pleased to see her.

Hope everyone is feeling chipper this week , hoping for some wamer weather, about time .

Take care

LM

[Gibel]

We’ve had sun all weekend which is lovely. I bought some plants for my boxes on the patio but am lacking the energy to plant them.

My pain medication was changed a week ago and it has been a disaster I’m back where I was months ago. Why do they change something when something else is working well? Anyway after only 2 hours sleep last night I decided enough was enough. I found the consultant’s letter in which he says I can go back to the old medication so I have which will no doubt take a while to have any effect. I will contact the Pain Clinic tomorrow and see what they say.

I’ve done very little for the last 3 days, I did make it to church and luckily there was only 2 families there and they’re lovely so it was quite easy for me.

Think I better have some lunch, my appetite has also deserted me so it’s a question of what’s easy!

Hope everyone is enjoying sunshine and no rain and doing all they had planned to do.

[louisa maud]

Gibel, hope you get your medication sorted quickly, rest up and take it easy.

Sun out today, very breezy and cold in my opinion, I have a fleece on indoors today so it must be cold, roll on summer

LM

[Roobarb]

Sorry to hear your medication has affected you so badly Gibel, I hope the pain clinic can sort it out for you. I'd be tempted to ask why it was changed although I suspect the answer might be to do with cost. I know finances are tight for the NHS but they need to take into account the cost to your wellbeing,.

LM, it's been lovely here in the frozen North, , I've been in the garden wearing shorts and a strappy top. However, the wind is coming from the East so if I went down to the beach it might be rather cooler!


* * Added - But the house is quite chilly tonight!

[Nova67]

Thank you Roobarb for your book recommendation on the last thread of The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter.  I am about a quarter of the way through.  It immediately piqued my interest as I like books set in the places I have researched.  My x4 great-grandfather's true baptism is a bit of a mystery but I think it might be the one at North Sunderland, Bamburgh, Secession Chapel of Burgher.  Other people have him as the son of the engine keeper at Seahouses, but that one seems to have died at 13.  Early in the piece, I had to sort out Sunderland from North Sunderland.

Helen Gaynor's books:
https://www.hazelgaynor.com/book-series/books/

[louisa maud]

Been a strange weather pattern, although the sun was out yesterday  I found it quite  cold, this morning , cold again but looks  like rain , roll on flaming June.

LM

[Roobarb]

Nova, I'm pleased you're enjoying the book, I'm finding it very absorbing. And there's the added historical interest in the area for you, I'd never heard of North Sunderland until I read the book. Northumberland is such a beautiful county, I remember in primary school going on a trip to Bamburgh, I was so impressed with the castle, also visited after that with my parents.

Cool here too this morning LM.

[Nova67]

I wonder what my great-great grandparents made of the beaches of Newcastle, New South Wales after leaving the Northumbrian Coast. 

Happy to receive any similar recommendations!

I had certainly heard of Grace Darling.

[candleflame]

Hi all
We’ve been shopping for bits and bobs today in a big shopping centre. You can tell it’s a while since we went bits and bobs shopping - the MandS shop has done away with all its tills and its machines only. I asked about it and was told there’s no tills with staff . The one assistant will assist folk in difficulty, but it was clear the help was intended as a one off of ‘let’s show you what to do so you can do it yourself next time. ‘
Feel so sorry for those who have difficulties and the screens weren’t clean either. Wish you could wear a glove or something , but as they’re touch sensitive screens, I don’t think that’s possible.