My dear neighbour at my previous house bought us a “ Ruby Wedding “ rose ,but it was a single ,like a deep red briar rose.
In a big container and sadly not able to take it when I moved here.
Much cooler this morning ,woken early ,very early - by a slanging match between big birds ,black with grey heads so Jackdaws, squabbling with Rooks and Wood Pigeons as big as chickens !
The language!!! Phew.
Mine that is —— no they were so raucous !l
It was barely light .
Tidied all the front garden yesterday.Weeded and tidied the dying backSpring stuff , weeded out the odd few Aquilegias self sown in the Cumberland green shale ,also little ferns that have come from nowhere .
Washed the door canopy and door and window frames and sill.
Hosed the green slate path.
Good fun.
Then my tiny little friend came in absolute panic — her fridge was going to blow up!She knew for certain it would ,there was a terrible noise !
Now she is pretty deaf ,so I went round and it was making a noise but I was surprised she could hear it .She thought she had done something wrong by
pressing a switch,which actually is what turns the light off when the door is closed.
However there was no light so the bulb must have”died’’.
She insisted it did not have a light but so poorly sighted she would not really know.It is quite narrow so I held it in both hands and it was vibrating and there was a rattle which disappeared when I moved it slightly, however the outside was very hot.
Inside barely cool ,so I turned it up to maximum and will call this morning to see how it is and if any cooler .
She is a worry ,buys via a shopper for which she pays £40 per two weeks ,that is not what she buys but the shopper’s charge!
She had a pack of six chicken slices ,she freezes them ,thaws, takes one and puts the rest back to re freeze .
On the pack from Aldi it says not suitable for freezing!
I can not convince her she should not do that ,has no understanding of food poisoning etc.And she does not seem to have any ill effects!
We have been through all this a while back. I gave her little bags to freeze individual slices but has nit used them.
Her Bosch washer sits idle as it might blow up, likewise her microwave .
Hand washes at 89!With a daughter not far away
and one just buzzed off to Cumbria .
When the knocking in the water pipes alarmed her she phoned her nearest daughter who has no real contact, her son in law answered the phone and said it was the weather !Not to worry them with trivial things.
Oh dear!
Poor soul ,but I have never known anyone with so little understanding of everyday things .
Could not understand how electricity could make a fridge cold - well her electric fire only gets hot so how do I explain that!!!
With difficulty !
I am fairly certain her fridge is not getting cold enough ,nothing felt cold in it .
Has just paid £290 to her house contents insurance,a quarterly payment .
Yet will not claim for anything ,says she pays her way and does not like to
owe people for jobs etc ,defunct equipment ,and cannot see she is paying twice .
It is a great tragedy she is left alone as she is . I won’t have anything to do with her money so my help is limited ,her daughters are very untrusting people and rightly so with such a vulnerable person ,but she needs much more help than they give.
Well time has elapsed since my first tablets of the day so a cuppa ,all ready to get dressed to go shopping my son will take me probably if I can’t sneak out!
I must watch “ The Great Escape” again ——
Here is me moaning about being take shopping when I want to go alone and mooch around etc and my tiny friend who needs so much help would be so grateful for such help from her daughters.
Shame on me !But I like to keep walking and active, I feel rushed as he needs to get back to the flipping computers .
I ought to be more assertive !
Lovely to read your news folks ,hope those we know are not well have some benefit from the good weather .
Cheerio for now.
Second tablets time soon !
With me it is not “ The Bells The Bells”but “ The Pills The Pills!” .
Viktoria.
