Just woken from a bad dream, which is thankfully fading now. Had to chuck the extra blanket off the bed, that might have contributed to it. Nearly 5am and only 2C out. Nothing outside to see, apart from neighbours security light, a cat, badger or fox must have set it off.
We left the heating on last night, just a bit lower than we have it in the daytime. I’ve just pottered through the recent posts on the forum, and a quick glance at the news, (shouldn’t have bothered with that!) The dream has gone now, and eyes starting to droop, so I might try and get back to sleep now. I’m quite warm and cosy apart from my hands which are getting cold and stiff holding my iPad! Hope you can get back to sleep, @B3. Wonder how @rowlandscastle444 is doing in his new house.
Hi @Ergates The new place is going to take a long time to settle in to. We really do have far more stuff than we can house. Plus the usual catch 22 situation. I can't shift the boxes of books until they can go on shelves. Can't put shelves up until I shift the boxes of books.
Plus, wife has changed her mind about where she wants various items of furniture, but can't move them until we shift the boxes of stuff that go in or on them.
You've probably played those games with 16 or 25 squares, with 15 or 24 moving interlocking flat pieces. This house is like that. Only worse. 😳
I can't sleep in a warm room, so the heating has to go off an hour or two before bed. I do have a heated blanket under the bottom sheet, so can warm the bed to get into, but that goes off then. We had snow flurries yesterday, but didn't settle, and has hovered around 0° for a couple of days, but last night I still had a warm period that woke me throwing the covers off, but they didn't stay off for long.
@rowlandscastle444 the tetras of box moving will last for a while , the hubby was amazed how I remembered where I put things , as he just couldn't, but as long as one of you does it will get sorted.😁
I slept well last night, back in our bedroom with OH. He's getting over bronchits, was coughing so much so I went in the guest room.
@rowlandscastle444 when I downsized I had to have the garage converted to a utility room and study before I could unpack all my books! I still have homeless boxes in the loft.
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@Busy-Lizzie I would like to convert the garage to some kind of usable space too. However, my wife would like to put the car in it, when we've got round to moving stuff down the garden. For a quiet life, and a frost free car that will work first time, it will remain as a garage. Plus, she is likely to outlive me, so it makes sense for the space to remain as she would prefer. I will get some shelves up, probably in the new year. Got to buy a rail and curtains for bedroom 1, and for the lounge. The bedroom is more important, being at the front of the bungalow. The lounge is not overlooked.
@rowlandscastle444, having watched our neighbour scraping the windscreen on their car this morning, despite having a triple garage, I would strongly agree with your wife! Having a ready to go car makes such a difference. I’m always concerned that one of us might have to do an emergency run to A and E, rather than waiting for an ambulance, and the last thing one wants to do in those circumstances is have to start clearing ice off the windows. Are you sleeping any better?
@Ergates I must try to clear our garage of all the items destined for the shed or outside. I emptied some of our boxes today, which I'd marked for the room attached to the back of our garage. Over sixty (1lb) jars of stewed apple from the old place. Plus about fifty jars of jam. Then I came indoors and found more stewed apple!! My wife is horrified by the quantity. Should see us through the winter, with apple crumble. As for sleeping - a little better. But what has improved is the peace and quiet. No attached neighbours. 😎
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Hope you can get back to sleep, @B3. Wonder how @rowlandscastle444 is doing in his new house.
The new place is going to take a long time to settle in to. We really do have far more stuff than we can house. Plus the usual catch 22 situation. I can't shift the boxes of books until they can go on shelves. Can't put shelves up until I shift the boxes of books.
Plus, wife has changed her mind about where she wants various items of furniture, but can't move them until we shift the boxes of stuff that go in or on them.
You've probably played those games with 16 or 25 squares, with 15 or 24 moving interlocking flat pieces. This house is like that. Only worse.
😳
We had snow flurries yesterday, but didn't settle, and has hovered around 0° for a couple of days, but last night I still had a warm period that woke me throwing the covers off, but they didn't stay off for long.
@rowlandscastle444 the tetras of box moving will last for a while , the hubby was amazed how I remembered where I put things , as he just couldn't, but as long as one of you does it will get sorted.😁
@rowlandscastle444 when I downsized I had to have the garage converted to a utility room and study before I could unpack all my books! I still have homeless boxes in the loft.
I would like to convert the garage to some kind of usable space too. However, my wife would like to put the car in it, when we've got round to moving stuff down the garden. For a quiet life, and a frost free car that will work first time, it will remain as a garage.
Plus, she is likely to outlive me, so it makes sense for the space to remain as she would prefer.
I will get some shelves up, probably in the new year. Got to buy a rail and curtains for bedroom 1, and for the lounge. The bedroom is more important, being at the front of the bungalow. The lounge is not overlooked.
Are you sleeping any better?
I must try to clear our garage of all the items destined for the shed or outside.
I emptied some of our boxes today, which I'd marked for the room attached to the back of our garage.
Over sixty (1lb) jars of stewed apple from the old place. Plus about fifty jars of jam.
Then I came indoors and found more stewed apple!! My wife is horrified by the quantity.
Should see us through the winter, with apple crumble.
As for sleeping - a little better. But what has improved is the peace and quiet. No attached neighbours.
😎