August Bank Holiday Monrday

and despite the forecast we have sun, not been out so not sure how cold it really is, again yesterday the heat went on for a while, it was so cold. Saw in the paper yesterday the forecast is for high temperatures next week, freezing one week, boiling the next, the weather is certainly changing.

Managed at last to sew the binding on the last mats yesterday, they have been staring balefully at me for the last week. So I am working on something else now, not sure if its going to work, will have to see.

No plans for today, we very rarely go out on Bank holidays and as the car is still waiting for the garage to re-open we will not be going anywhere soon. Just hope we do not need it in a hurry.

Supper tonight will be the rest of yesterdays chicken with veggies, dessert is on the back burner just now.

Another cold day

 Yesterday I was so cold at one point I was shivering, so on went the heating for an hour. The sun is making an appearance now and then, but its still quite cold. Autumn is on its way. The dry weather has affected quite a bit of the garden, the blackberries have withered away as have the courgette and cucumber plants despite being flooded with water. We did have some rain during the afternoon, and the light was on in the sitting room before 8 pm....uggg, dark nights on their way. Have put off having the grass cut until next week.

Veg etc prepped for supper, we are having roast chicken, not made my mind up about a dessert as yet, there are two choc ices in the freezer, may well have those.

DB was out in the garden for about 3/4 of an hour yesterday, he was pinning down strawberry runners, something we do each year. We have requests for 24 plants from DD2 and our cleaner. We need 36 runners to root, we need 12 ourselves.

Not too happy, tried to download an update for my machine and it will not download, says there is no app on the computer that will open it???? beats me.......

Bad night last night first one since DB came home. 2 am and I was still awake. Usual Sunday breakfast in bed, so we were late getting up.

Cold

I was so cold yesterday we put the fire on in the sitting room, this morning is little better, my hands are freezing now. It comes to something when you have to put the electric blanket on in August!!

We had several very heavy downpours yesterday and the wind got up, its still blowing this morning the trees in the garden at the back are dancing about, no garden work for me today. I did manage yesterday to get quite a few of the screws out of the arch, but some were very stubborn, I guess they are rusted in. DB managed to break one or two bits off. I took the cuttings from the roses yesterday, need to dig a trench now and put them in, they need to be buried at least 3" deep, so will possibly put them in tone of the veg beds until they have rooted.

Our garage seems to be closed, possibly the chap is away on holiday will see if anyone is working on Tuesday, I really need to get the problem with the exhaust system fixed in case I need the car.

No plans for today except to keep warm, it must have been cold yesterday the boiler switched the rads on.

Request for sausage and mash tonight, we will finish up the crumble from the other night.

Its a bank holiday weekend

and guess what, its raining although its not expected to last, tomorrow should be fine.

I had an order from Morrison yesterday, it should have arrived between 4 - 5 pm. We eventually got it at 8.30 pm. There had been a problem with their system going down. Thanks to the driver who apologised profusely, poor chap it was not his fault.

At last I got my hair cut, so no longer look like the wicked witch of the west.  What a palava though, masks, plastic aprons which I was given to bring home with  me, hands sanitized and also the cash when I paid.

nothing much going on, no gardening as its raining, I will go out tomorrow and see if I can find a couple of decent cuttings from the roses on the arch and try to grow them in a potato.

Supper tonight id fish and chips with more of the apple and blackberry crumble for dessert.

Hairdressers

I have an appointment at lunchtime, my hair has grown approx 4" during lock down. My neighbour likes it longer, but it has thinned out so much I look like the wicked witch of the west, it also starts to curl which I hate, will be so glad to get it off!!

DB had a good day yesterday, I managed to cut the thick stem of the roses with the loppers, and the arch is now lying on the grass. I am going to take 2 cuttings from the roses and see if I can root them in a potato, that way we can get the roots dug out of the old ones. DB picked beans and restaked his tomato's, we also found 3 strawberries!! Lots of runners we need to pot up 24 at some point.

Apart from the short time in the garden we had a restful day, I did not want him racing round trying to catch up with everything.

Two loads of laundry done. I now have shirts to iron, whilst DB was not able to lift his left arm above his head he had been wearing short sleeved shirts. Now he has had his pacemaker check he is free to do anything except play golf.......not a problem, he hates golf.

Request for supper, frittata and salad with potato salad. We picked up some fallers from the apple tree, I still have blackberries in the freezer from last year. So apple and blackberry crumble for dessert tonight.

Home

I collected OH yesterday afternoon after arranging for him to be brought to the South Door where I was waiting in the car, we arrived home at 4.30pm.

I was shattered after having a bad night Monday, we were in bed just after 9am and both slept through, although I had to get up to the toilet, it was after 8am when I finally got my feet to the floor. 

We had shocking news from a friend in Scotland, her 3 year old grandson has leukemia, he is to have a 6 week course of chemo. So worrying for them all. K lost her husband late last year, so a real blow for her.

The wind yesterday has loosened the apple tree,, I guess we are going to have to do something about it. I also need to get someone to help me get the arch up off the floor, the roses on it make it very heavy so I am going to have to cut them off. Thank fully the wind has dropped. It was pretty horrendous during the evening.

Laundry in, its going in the dryer, the forecast is for rain and its very cloudy just now.

Supper tonight will be the mince and dough balls we should have had last night. Just need to make the dough balls, DB had a cooked lunch at the hospital, so we had tuna and cucumber sandwiches and yogurt instead of supper.

Another storm

Close on the heels of the high winds at the weekend, the wind is back and we have heavy rain. I am hoping it does not cause too many problems as hopefully DB is being discharged today.

He phoned me just after 8am, very chipper.........he has his medication but needs his discharge letter, he is going to make enquiries about how I go about getting him. I have put out his rain coat, he will need it.

Another bad night, so tonight will have to be early to bed, if it continues I will be sleeping in the sewing room until my sleep pattern returns to normal. At least I can put the light on and read.

I was going to do another load of laundry, yesterday I got the bed linen washed, dried and ironed!!! yes ironed. 

Two sets of mats to sew the binding down on, I seem to be loosing my quilting skills a bit, I guess because I am not using them, had a problem with binding the two smaller mats, rather than join them in the usual way I had to fold over the edge and tuck one piece inside the other. Its not so neat as the way I usually do them.

DB has asked for mince and dough balls for supper, so I will start cooking the mince shortly. will also prep the veg.