Productive......

 
We have all had quite a busy week, well busy by my usual standard. 

I have been moving my stuff around, filling charity bags and clearing a bit more space for E's stuff. E has managed a bit more unpacking and sorting her clothes, but as the week got hotter and hotter she decided to order some new clothes as she didn't have enough to cope (only one pair of shorts) and it lifted her mood. The ones that have arrived I was treated to a little fashion show and she has divided piles for keep or return which she will do when the others have arrived. 

Supermarket Vegan food can work out quite expensive so I'm learning what E likes, taking her suggestions and making my version of what I can. Our pasta meal had carbonara sauce and meat in, however for E I mixed the last of her hummus into the last of the pesto so we didn't waste either added to her pasta and added pine nuts too and she topped it with nutritional yeast and we all ate it with the garlic bread I'd made and keep ready in the freezer. 

Hubby has been busy with more neighbour's needing his help. One whose garden backs onto ours and she's having problems with her outside cameras which Hubby is trying to sort. Also neighbourJM asked for help as her shower thermostat has died and the company she rang for help asked for a photo of the circuit board but she didn't know what that was so Hubby went down the road to do it for her (not an easy job due to rusted screws)  and another neighbour came up to us with paperwork asking Hubby to witness his signature on a POA form (always an honour when people trust you for personal special tasks). 

But so much of his time was taken up helping me! 

He said he was buying me a new phone for my birthday (not for another five weeks), but saw an offer and bought it early. I am so grateful but it's so stressful for us both. Hubby has to do all the transferring and problem solving and put up with my  "agitations". I can be an efficient user but I can never be a technician.  Old and new looking the same but that's sooo deceiving. 

I've only just got the new tablet to a user friendly working level and he now needs me to do it all again! At one time I had to leave Hubby to it and forcefully pull some weeds in the front garden! 

So a much better tablet and phone that will do what I want them to do although I haven't looked at all the extras yet. Hubby knows how grateful I am. 

I'd better not even write about getting a cheap clear plastic case for it, involving three online orders, argos, PayPal, refund and ending up with two, as I'd rather not be reminded. 

As Hubby had been in great demand I've done a lot more of the cooking, laundry and general housework. Phew!

Cooling down with ice-creams and melon and I'd made us apple and cinnamon fools but forgot to take a photo. 

Sadly my body doesn't like the heat and I've little balloons on the end of my legs most of the time. 

Thursday E had to be up early for a doctor's appointment, this time at the main surgery in town not the local branch and of course Hubby drove. She came back disappointed that this GP didn't want to refer for more tests other than bloods which have never been helpful in the past, although on Friday E got an appointment through for a CT Scan next week, so maybe the GP had a rethink or discussed it with someone else. 

Thursday afternoon Daughter, O and I had our regular dental checkup. They seem to do less and less now and make you book further appointments even for minor things. O has to come back for a filling, but she said it was a tiny cavity and not so long ago a dentist would have said "hang on I'll pop a little something in there" and for the small build up of plaque on the back of just my bottom front teeth she wanted me to book their hygienist which I never will, and I know my previous dentist and owner of this practise would have just flicked away "...as we're here". Unfortunately daughter does need more treatment. 

And to round of Thursday our usual quiz (on YouTube as a virtual pub quiz) and now as a team of three we have improved the score even though E and I feel we contribute very little. This week was 45 out of the 50 total.  

Having delivered his movie, (written, casted, directed, filmed, edited and produced by him) to college O then made it public on YouTube under his performance persona of Charlie Blackwood.

 Watch it here

I've just reread this to check for spelling and typos and it doesn't sound as much effort as it felt hahaha but surely I still deserve another ice-cream don't I? 

Happy weekend.

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