Afternoon🙂 - and a very grey, wet and miserable one it is too. Quite a lot of flooding on surrounding access roads - some impassable - so glad we don't need to get anywhere anytime soon. Bit of sleet mixed in with the rain but nothing to make a pretty view like Rubee has.
Infection rates are causing problems around here. Just been told that garden bin collections have been suspended UFN because they need to concentrate all the workforce onto essential bin emptying. Our postcode was on the news last night because the local Royal Mail sorting office has been severely disrupted by Covid. Nearly half the staff off sick or isolating. Some people have received no post at all in January. We've certainly been getting ours only every 2 or 3 days - and then sometimes not until well into the evening. Poor old posties - they do a first rate, highly personalised service around here and I know quite a few of them are doing hours of unpaid overtime.
Hope the boiler is ok Hazel. Always a concern at this time of year.
Glad 'sco was nice and quiet for you LB. It was the same for me yesterday. I know it doesn't represent a sustainable future but there's something rather nice about no queues to get into town, plenty of parking and lots of space to do your shopping.
Did you notice any empty spaces on the shelves? There were a few starting to appear at W'rose. Things that are almost certainly due to supply issues rather than any panic buying. Felix and other catfood shelves were very low indeed as were the oriental ingredients - especially soy sauce of all things...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Afternoon all. Rosie, wear armour! T'Bird, as our friend Joyce would have said it is dreich! The only things that were noticeable by their absence on the shelves were tins of baked beans and spaghetti but as my 'sco is in Heinzland I'm sure that they will be restocked very soon. Everything else was in abundance. Biglad, your pictures are delightful. Thanks for sharing.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Well it was just raining when I set out for work this morning. It started snowing about 8am. It was so bad by midday that OH said I was to leave my car there and he would pick me up. We finish work at 10 to 2. It is normally a 15 minute drive. I got home at quarter to 5. OH has got to take me to work for 6 o'clock in the morning........if it has stopped snowing by then.
Hi folks. Looking after the boys today. Gabriel has lots of spots but he’s happy and smiley. He broke free from my iron grip on the school drive when we fetched Jonah this afternoon. He ran so fast I couldn’t catch him. The top of the drive terminates in a muddy farm field and he face planted in a really muddy puddle had to virtually strip him off before I could put him in the car lucky I had a blanket to wrap him in. I’ve had to wash and dry all his clothes and scrub his shoes. He wasn’t particularly bothered he just said don’t worry nanny it’s only a bit of mud, as I scraped it off his face.
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Infection rates are causing problems around here. Just been told that garden bin collections have been suspended UFN because they need to concentrate all the workforce onto essential bin emptying. Our postcode was on the news last night because the local Royal Mail sorting office has been severely disrupted by Covid. Nearly half the staff off sick or isolating. Some people have received no post at all in January. We've certainly been getting ours only every 2 or 3 days - and then sometimes not until well into the evening. Poor old posties - they do a first rate, highly personalised service around here and I know quite a few of them are doing hours of unpaid overtime.
Hope the boiler is ok Hazel. Always a concern at this time of year.
Glad 'sco was nice and quiet for you LB. It was the same for me yesterday. I know it doesn't represent a sustainable future but there's something rather nice about no queues to get into town, plenty of parking and lots of space to do your shopping.
Did you notice any empty spaces on the shelves? There were a few starting to appear at W'rose. Things that are almost certainly due to supply issues rather than any panic buying. Felix and other catfood shelves were very low indeed as were the oriental ingredients - especially soy sauce of all things...
At least my preliminary excavation work is being appreciated by our feathered friends
@Biglad you wasn’t kidding! great photos, already it’s a big hit with the wildlife 😀
OH has got to take me to work for 6 o'clock in the morning........if it has stopped snowing by then.