A Week For Five........

 
Gosh it's Wednesday already and these are the first words I'm writing here. We've R and O and the dog staying here this week, so noisier and busier and more cooking and conversations and all good fun. Last night O chose this as our evening film as he's going through 80's films at the moment. 

Hubby has now tiled the splash back in the toilet and hung a new mirror so it's finished apart from cleaning up the sealant round the tiles, which is awful stuff and never goes just where you want it! 

I've also unpacked a mountain of donated soft toys, washed, dried and repacked them ready for the next SERVSC event.

This is a totally worn out dog! 

In fact we are all worn out and very relieved. She has total freedom in our dog proof garden.... or so we thought! She'd been outside quite a while and when I called her in there was no response, she wasn't in the garden and wasn't back in the house, so the search began. About an hour later she came home and the search was called off. There was a little blood on one paw but she's walking fine and she let R and me have a good look and poke between claws etc so can't be anything serious. We will never know how she got out or where she went but for now she's lost the freedom of our garden being the only place she could go without supervision. Hubby has since checked our CCTV and thinks he found where she escaped and has done yet another dog proofing fix, fingers crossed! 

Apparently my craft room has the most suitable sized floor space for the VR equipment O brought with him. 

And added to his 80s films watched list is now this

M came Friday and took O home, R and the dog stayed. Daughter comes home Sunday early evening so it's all here for a Halloween dinner. 

Have a spooky weekend and don't forget clocks go back.

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Not All Moans........

 
Technology is wonderful....... when it works! 

So frustrating when it doesn't! 

Saturday morning the Hermes delivery man rang the doorbell, he had a parcel for next door and we are the default if he's not in. Our Hermes chap is so lovely and knows us all by name and takes great pride in customer service, always pleasant chat but brief as he has so many deliveries to make in the shortest time possible. However this time his gadget wouldn't work. He has to have a photo of the parcel barcode with our doorstep or shoe and upload it to their system as proof of delivery. It took two full reboots and a lovely long conversation before he could shoot off.

Saturday evening I took my phone out of my pocket to see if it needed plugging in and that's when I noticed two WhatsApp messages and a text I'd missed from noon. They were from Daughter who was going to visit but getting no reply assumed we were out. My phone had failed to make the usual sounds grrrrrrrr

We have a printer and it's on our WiFi network, however, when it goes to sleep it's always a nightmare getting it to wake up (yes the printer is asleep and I'm the one having the nightmare).

On a much brighter note O and the dog spent a day here. He's fun company who loves to play games with me plus he spent ages creating shapes with this magnet construction set. It's a very small set that we've had since Son was a child. Now I think I'll add to it within this year's Christmas presents.

This came as shocking news this week. 

Thankfully Hubby and I had our booster this week but still not taking chances and masked most of the time we are out. 

Another job for Hubby when Daughter phoned to say that a whole run of coving had come down in their hallway. 

I was asked to do a little fix too, our NeighbourA brought in the church clock because when the sun shines on it the gold coloured hands can't be seen clearly, so he wanted them painted black. A little daunting as once you start it can't be cleaned off, however I was pleased with the result and so was NeighbourA. 

And now we have another busy but fun week of R and the dog living with us plus O comes for three days next week too. 

Have a good weekend.

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Chilly But Still Sunny............

 
Not the best start to this week as barely Saturday 4am during my usual bathroom trip, mostly with my eyes shut, all three middle toes on my right foot met, with conviction, my bedroom door frame!!! Well aware of Hubby still fast asleep I didn't scream out, made it to the bathroom and back, and even though I did manage to get back to sleep my foot throbbed. 

The day got better (even though my foot didn't) when we went to Son's to have a birthday lunch with him and Fiancé. 

Daughter and O came on Sunday for a long awaited visit. O had now almost got over his cough and cold so they no longer felt the need to keep their distance. Daughter brought with her a box for me from our lovely friendM 

It was a partly knitted project which I believe her mum had given up on. It's really lovely soft wool and isn't it a beautiful colour. I'm sure I can put it to good use. Thank you friendM 😍

You may remember, I certainly do, that during the second lockdown when the weather wasn't so good and Hubby spent too much time sitting in the lounge, he tried a new furniture layout and failed on finding a better layout to what we already have! At least the heavy stuff got a rare clean at the back. Well......... now the toilet makeover is almost finished (we are still waiting for the tiles we ordered) he's very keen to change the lounge again!!! This time he's thinking about knocking out the whole chimney breast, but thankfully I've got him measuring and transferring to paper to see what fits where rather than physically starting with the demolition

Both had our flu jabs this week. Not suffering too much, both had one restless night and both have achy arms. Hopefully will just be a distant memory when we have the Covid booster next week. 

M bought his first company car and true to all his beliefs on planet protection he bought all electric. 

And all too soon it's Saturday again! 

Hope you've had a good week.

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Jobs They Love.........

 
Well it seems to be a much of a muchness week so far as nothing different happened at the weekend and quite an empty calender apart from Hubby doing a SERVSC talk Tuesday evening and Son coming Wednesday for a visit but mainly to collect wood. A neighbour's daughter had had some big trees cut down and Son is getting a wood burner very soon. Thankfully he has somewhere he can keep the logs to dry and season before he'll need them.

Hubby was bricklayer for two different neighbours. He repaired the bottom of this wall that someone had knocked over while parking.  

And repaired the step for next door as lots of loose bricks had become dangerous. 

This week on social media I've seen both E at work, setting up a museum exhibition

And R at work, running a theatre workshop

All of a sudden our little girls are working adults!

Friday was another have the dog day. 7am till 9:45pm ish. R had the free time (rare these days) to see her dad for the weekend but he couldn't meet Daughter half way this time so they were driving all the way to Weymouth. O really wanted to do tourist things so they left early to spend some time there before Daughter and O drove back. 

The dog was fine as always until the window cleaner came and of course she barked when he arrived and wanted to bark at every window so Hubby took her for a walk.

Even when they got back she kept watching him. 

I've read a great phrase on fb and had to share it. The conversation was about buying good underwear and one woman said she has just bought a couple of brilliant sheepdog bras that round them up and point them in the right direction! 😂

On that thought I'll love you and leave you to whatever you have on this weekend. Today is Son's birthday, and I'm still trying to decide what to wear when we go over to see him as it changes from warm to chilly to wet and windy so quickly at the moment.

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Takes Energy.......

 
Started the week in a bit of confusion. We had made very convenient arrangements for R to be home Monday for her driving lesson at noon that fitted in with M coming to use our gym stuff and the dog being looked after while we were down the drive at coffee morning....... then her driving lesson changed to 9am! Plan B was M coming to collect R and the dog at 8:45am however at 8:15am M messaged to say he'd managed to lock himself and O out of the house and it's raining. Plan C became waking up R and Hubby taking her and the dog home as she has a house key! 

Sunday we had a lovely visit from my nieceV, her husbandD and their two children C age 5 and R age 3. We certainly don't see family enough as we all live quite far apart. V's family live in Surrey but had spent the weekend on the Norfolk coast so included a stop here on their way home. 

It stayed a social week as I met friendM for lunch Tuesday, E called round Tuesday evening, we were out with the usual Wednesday gang that evening

and lunch with friendsL&K on Thursday.

Hubby brought in all the green tomatoes that had grown behind the pump box, they'll never ripen behind there, so green tomato chutney it is. 

Gosh how the weather has changed. We didn't actually manage to get through till October as Thursday 29th September the heating went on, but only for a two hour "take the chill off" boost. 

We've also been hit by the energy companies collapsing, ours went and we got moved to British Gas which will be much more expensive. When it all calms down we'll see what other options are still available. 

That's about it for another week. Take care.

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