3 nights to go

and we will be back in the bedroom, might stay in bed all day Friday, just cos I can!! Frost overnight but the sun is out and it has almost cleared. Trip to the next village to put the scripts in for our medication, it takes 10 days for them to process them before we get them delivered.

Load of laundry in, thats everything done, a couple of things will need hanging the rest can go in the dryer, until next week when we start all over again.

There is a constant stream of farm traffic on the lane, they are brining in manure, its a good job its cold, very little smell. The bulbs in the containers are shooting up, as are the grape hyacinths in the front garden. Lots of birds flying around too, the bird feeders have to be refilled every other day.

DB is talking about buying a different composter, it heats up quicker so will process the contents quicker. Eventually he hopes to get rid of the two big composters at the back of the shed.

New curtains in the bedroom. It is called magnolia, different shades of pink

You can see the very feint pink in the paint on the walls. The bed looks very lonely, roll on Thursday!!

Egg and chips tonight, we will finish off the oranges in jelly for dessert.

Where has the time gone?

 We were unable to have breakfast in bed this morning, everywhere is such a mess......believe me, I am not going through it again.....so breakfast in the kitchen. I had to put a load of laundry on, I was running out of underwear and could not get to the drawers. We have both agreed the one room that will not get done is my sewing room!! The thought of having to move all the stuff thats in there brings me out in a cold sweat.

I have told my cleaner not to worry about coming to help me put the stuff back, she really needs to get well before she starts work again. My neighbour will give me a lift with the chest of drawers back into the bedroom. I need to photograph the bedroom furniture and get it onto the internet before the new chests come. I did manage to get the curtains up yesterday, must admit they look really good.

Veg prepped for supper, we are having some more of the pork I cooked, sliced and froze last week.

Mr Frost

has been again, thankfully not too heavy, so the car should be clear by the time we go out. Painter is here putting the blind back up in the bedroom, once thats done and we are back from the market I will put the new curtains up, give them time to hang before we move back in.

Thankfully we seem to have escaped covid, it is long since the symptoms should have shown themselves. My cleaner is better except for the cough, which I know can linger.

Supper tonight will be ADB with oranges in jelly for dessert. 

Hmmmm

We are now on day 2.5, I read that symptoms show themselves on the 2nd day after infection, we are now almost at the end of the week and both ok, so keeping fingers crossed.

I got a letter yesterday to go for a pacemaker check, first for 2 1/2 years. DB does not have to go as his transmits the recording every night at midnight.

Painter will finish this morning, I am pleased with the paint, it looks good a very very pale pink sheen. We are not moving back in, the carpet is being replaced on Thursday, so  6 more nights on the settee for me. I did have a more restful night last night, must be getting used to it.

Sun is out, painter is doing the gloss, then he is finished. I will just have the bill to pay!!

So along with the cost of living rises we are now having to pay a lot more for gas and electricity. We will be ok, but there are thousands who will not. I will have to up the things I put in the food bank box in the supermarket a bit. I try to put things in that have at least some protein in such as baked beans, tins of custard and rice pudding.  Breakfast cereal is something else, usually weetabix. Tins of stewed steak and chicken are really only enough for two, not to feed a family. Will have to put my thinking cap on. 

Usual Friday supper, I have opened a tin of mandarin oranges and made jelly, so that will do us 2 or 3 suppers.                                            

Oh brilliant

Phone call late last night, my cleaner has got covid, so we are having to isolate until Monday. The decorator is here complete with mask, I wear a mask and he stands in one doorway whilst I stand at least 8ft away to talk to him.  We are in the sitting room with the doors closed, only have to go out if we need the toilet.Have made arrangements to leave his coffee on the dresser for him, he will paint today and finish off tomorrow. The paper has dried out and covered all the lumps and bumps in the walls... result...hooray.

Dull morning, DB is going out to the garden for a while, I will prep the veggies for tonights supper. No plans to do anything else.

A calmer morning

my goodness the wind really did its nut yesterday. I had to fetch the chandelier in I was afraid it would drop off the line and shatter. Its warmer today but very grey, think we might get some rain later.

Decorator is here ceiling and gloss today, he has got gloss paint that does not smell,  I used to hate putting gloss on anything the fumes affected my chest and eyes.

Coffee at the little chapel this morning, will catch up with the local gossip. 

We have changed banks and the  new account has gone live today, so I need to remember new numbers for my cards, will have to write it on the inside of my hand when I go out, do not want the cash machine to swallow it!!

Smoked haddock, paoched etc for supper tonight, I have to make a bread and butter pudding with the half a tea cake thats in the fridge.

Its windy again

the wind has got up in the last hour and is blowing fit to bust. DB is in the garden, I have just told him to come in.

Yesterday was a heavy day, we cleared the bedroom including the mattress, its all in my sewing room, there is a passage for DB to get to the bed and thats it.  Decorator is busy prepping the walls and wood work. He will paint the woodwork and ceiling tomorrow, put the paper on on Thursday and then paint it Friday. We have decided not to move back into the bedroom until after the carpet has been fitted, so we will be using the beds for 10 days. I slept ok last night once I got off.

Chandelier has been washed and rinsed in vinegar, just drying off. We usually use the anti static duster on it, but I decided it needed washing, after all its been up for 7 years!!

DB managed to lose one of his hearing aids yesterday, so I guess thats going to cost us. Good job we have a buffer. We are still waiting for the new chests of drawers. 

Quiche, jacket spud and beans for supper tonight, no dessert. although we do have half a teacake in the fridge, might use that to make a bread and butter pudding.