Good morning everyone. Warm and sunny and calm here. Pottering about indoors but al set to go and do some potting outdoors once I've finished my cuppa. Have given up coffee (leaded am and decaf pm) and switched to tisanes of "menthe réglisse" (mint and liquorice) and am sleeping a lot better and waking up ready to go.
I have no idea how our grapes are doing @tui34. Far too fiddly for me so I delegated them to OH. He's golfing this morning but will be home in time to pick some blackberries and strawberries for mini pavlovas.
Hope all is well and you get some sunshine today.
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I think Hosta went to a garden show and was intending not to buy any more hostas. Wonder if he managed to avoid temptation!
It's very grey and muggy this morning, we're off again later, been invited to a friend's Golden Wedding Anniversary in Hampshire. I think I'd better take two outfits, a linen summer dress and sandals if it's warm & sunny (please) and trousers with a warmer nice top if not. Hoping to also visit Jane Austen's house if we've got time.
Terrible news from Plymouth, my daughter drives through there on her way to work but thankfully was working from home yesterday.
Crikey @Hostafan1, you must be knackered. What happens to OH when you go to a garden show? Does he go with you?
He came with me. The nice man on car park duty let me park in disabled area.( I reckon terminal cancer counts as disabled ) but we didn't walk round much more than about 2 hours. Some massive lump of a woman was trailing behind a little girl who shot off and vanished. 10 mins later I could hear both of them calling out for each other , a long way apart. I told Hubby to stand where he was, ran off and found Granny, told her where GD was and led her to re unite them. Not a word of thanks
How rude, poor Hostafan. We went out for coffee this morning, settled ourselves in a nice corner table. Elderly lady with son and granddaughter came to the table behind us, and parked her walker right behind me, effectively blocking us in. Lady said sorry, but no effort on her part or her son’s to move it and let me out. I made a meal out of clambering out, OH only slightly ostentatiously managed to nearly fall over it. Left them to it, no point in making any more fuss. Son hadn’t bothered to respect the polite request notice asking customers to wear a face mask while queueing to order, so wasn’t expecting him to suddenly display any manners. I did my good deed for the day earlier. Lady tried to come in to buy coffee, but her rather nervous collie dog was very reluctant to accompany her. Turned out he was frightened he would slip on the wooden floor. As she went to leave, we offered to hold the dog while she placed her order. Dog was as good as gold and very friendly, and owner was extremely grateful. Little did she know that we might have been tempted to take the dog and run! We do miss having any pets, but son’s dog, who stays with us for holidays etc, hates other dogs and would try to make mincemeat of any intruder animal.
Text messaging !!! I hate it. I had a phone call from the Hospice Nurse this afternoon to say she was trying to organise morphine patches for husband. At 19.10 I got a text to say " the prescription is at Boots and you can collect it any time until 6.30 tonight , or after 9am Monday " WHY DIDN'T SHE PHONE?????
Evening all (maybe morning actually). @Hostafan1I undersand your frustration, but am very guilty of texting rather than phoning, I find telephoning very intrusive, and the background noise here all the time makes it difficult. However, your message seems like a telephone call would have been much more efficient.
I have just finished work, exceptionally busy day, and I mean exceptionally busy, nearly hit the 3000€ mark....busy all day and then we had our Moules & Frites night, 50 meals booked, went like a dream, so relieved, virtually all French guests and me (English) cooking moules frites. We are doing a Burger & Blues Night next Friday and many of the people this evening booked immediately for that next week. Such a good ambience here tonight though, we've definitely created something very special, the pressure builds.....
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good morning all.
I have no idea how our grapes are doing @tui34. Far too fiddly for me so I delegated them to OH. He's golfing this morning but will be home in time to pick some blackberries and strawberries for mini pavlovas.
Hope all is well and you get some sunshine today.
Cloudy and mild. We are off to Morrisons. See you later.
I hope @Hostafan1 is OK and got some sleep last night.
I think Hosta went to a garden show and was intending not to buy any more hostas. Wonder if he managed to avoid temptation!
It's very grey and muggy this morning, we're off again later, been invited to a friend's Golden Wedding Anniversary in Hampshire. I think I'd better take two outfits, a linen summer dress and sandals if it's warm & sunny (please) and trousers with a warmer nice top if not.
Hoping to also visit Jane Austen's house if we've got time.
Terrible news from Plymouth, my daughter drives through there on her way to work but thankfully was working from home yesterday.
@Busy-Lizzie. lasts night was a bit of a nightmare. Up about 8 times.
Some massive lump of a woman was trailing behind a little girl who shot off and vanished. 10 mins later I could hear both of them calling out for each other , a long way apart.
I told Hubby to stand where he was, ran off and found Granny, told her where GD was and led her to re unite them.
Not a word of thanks
I did my good deed for the day earlier. Lady tried to come in to buy coffee, but her rather nervous collie dog was very reluctant to accompany her. Turned out he was frightened he would slip on the wooden floor. As she went to leave, we offered to hold the dog while she placed her order. Dog was as good as gold and very friendly, and owner was extremely grateful. Little did she know that we might have been tempted to take the dog and run! We do miss having any pets, but son’s dog, who stays with us for holidays etc, hates other dogs and would try to make mincemeat of any intruder animal.
I had a phone call from the Hospice Nurse this afternoon to say she was trying to organise morphine patches for husband.
At 19.10 I got a text to say " the prescription is at Boots and you can collect it any time until 6.30 tonight , or after 9am Monday "
WHY DIDN'T SHE PHONE?????
I have just finished work, exceptionally busy day, and I mean exceptionally busy, nearly hit the 3000€ mark....busy all day and then we had our Moules & Frites night, 50 meals booked, went like a dream, so relieved, virtually all French guests and me (English) cooking moules frites. We are doing a Burger & Blues Night next Friday and many of the people this evening booked immediately for that next week. Such a good ambience here tonight though, we've definitely created something very special, the pressure builds.....