Wet Sink and Sky.......

 
With all the plumbing checked when the new boiler was installed, Hubby was still trying to find a way to improve the pressure of the hot water coming out of the mixer tap.  Taking it all apart again he thought it must be the small bore tube inside the tap head, so he tried to drill it out a bit but only succeeded in making it unusable. We have a new tap head on order but until then we have Hubby's temporary solution! 

Two more tap heads later and it looks better and maybe a little faster. 

Lots of rhubarb to pull and I've found a new recipe for a rhubarb cake. It was yummy. Three boxes of stewed rhubarb now in the freezer too. 

Out of the blue I've received a summons for jury service! Hubby has been called twice during his adult life, I've never been called before. It's not till the end of August and I'm hoping it will be interesting, not gory or boring, fingers crossed eh? Amazed at the few people I've told many of them were really negative and expected me to get out of it. Of course I'd accepted. 

There has been almost nothing worth watching on TV for a while now (apart from sport) and a few of our favourite series have reached their final episodes ever. Then I saw this

For something to have great reviews for 20 years it has to be worth us starting. We had avoided it before as we already watched Casualty, Holby City and The Good Doctor but now only Casualty remains. Series 1 Episode 1 of GA was really good and we met so many different characters. We've watched two more since. 

I'll not say too much about last Sunday night's football, but eventually England's two goals got them through. At about 75 mins Daughter and O arrived back from Kentwell hoping to unload her tent and roofbox, but we made them sit and watch the end of the football first which unfortunately went to extra time, another half hour! While watching she told me how she'd chopped the top off her finger with an axe. I found her some extra dressings to take home. It proved impossible for her to do the roofbox with Hubby so they unloaded everything with O's help and the box stayed put. 

Glad I'd chosen a roast dinner of meatballs that didn't suffer being so delayed as it was nearly 8pm before Hubby and I ate. 

And then it was July! Gosh half this year has gone! 

Tuesday was a medical day. In the morning I had the full hearing test at Specsavers. As suspected I would benefit from aids in both ears so that's the direction I'm going. Then straight to the hospital and a quick sandwich in the Costa there, then admitted as a day patient for a small procedure. It rained on and off but thankfully we seemed to dodge the worst of it quite well all day. 

Hubby took the car back to Audi for them to sort the loss of settings problem, hopefully just a bit of software, but very annoying when all radio favourites and other things Hubby had set come back sometimes but often don't and have to be set again! He got the car back with a temporary fix as the main people still work on this as Hubby isn't the only one to have this fault. 

A very important Thursday as it was the 4th July so USA independence day, also the UK general election day, however more important for me was seeing the  Thomas Wolsey 550 parade in Ipswich. This was nearly a year's work coming together for the team and Daughter as the lead of music and school's involvement teaching the children of five schools the songs and dance moves, she also lead the whole procession of about 400 including the Colchester and Cambridge Waits musicians. 

I couldn't actually be there in person but followed all the reports on social media, Daughter's radio interviews, local press and local TV news both BBC and ITV. So pleased it didn't rain on their parade. Sorry that was a bit corny but it's been raining a lot this week. 

After all that Daughter came over to finally remove the top box from her car. You might see from the photo above that her index finger is still heavily bandaged, healing slowly but challenged with all that performing and playing, so M came too to help Hubby raise the box into it's garage roof harness. After they left we nipped down to vote. 

Friday morning we woke to our new Labour Government with Sir Keir Starmer as PM. Wonder what changes that will bring. 

I'm feeling sad about Hurricane Beryl doing so much damage through the Caribbean at the moment. Hearing my name so often on the news is making me feel a bit responsible. 

Here our forecast is for an umbrella weekend, so keep yours handy.

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