Good morning all. Hugs to you @Nanny Beach amd @chicky and anyone else who needs one.  Just called dentist for a check up " 12.20 on Friday morning? "Â
Thanks Dove and Hosta, your Fiesta knew you were thinking of selling it! When mine conked out the other day,I had literally just a few minutes before tapped the dash and said I love this car! They know
Up and out into the garden this morning. Â Emptying wheelbarrows and generally tidying away "teknikle" stuff. Â We are in for some torrential rain over the next 24 hours. Â It is spitting now. Â
Good morning Forkers.  It's bright and sunny with not a cloud in sight and a stiff breeze.  27+1 today so off to a nursery this pm to but prezzies of my choice and then dance class this pm.  We'll have some fizz when we get home.
No Bake Off spoilers here either please.
Have a good time with chicklet @chicky.  Possum did indeed come back more bubbly altho she was also raving about some vegetarian haggis they'd had for breakfast so I'm not sure how positive that is!
No battery problems with our cars - yet - but Sally Zafira, nearly 14, developed a dead headlight yesterday and to get at the front light housing you have to remove the air filter. Clever. I made sure OH took her to a nice wee chappy in le Champ-St-PĂšre this morning and he fixed it there and then.  Meanwhile, Harry needed two new tyres after Possum's swerve to avoid two cats shredded a tyre.  300âŹ. Not clever.
@Nanny Beach - if you don't tell them they won't know you're upset and let down and won't be able to fix it or, worse, they'll just go on taking advantage.  You need to stop that or it will fester and then blow up.
Have a lovely sunny day everyone, if you can and whatever the weather.
@Nanny Beach. Â Iâll do anything for anyone, or give anything, Â I donât want them to be eternally grateful, Â but I do like to be acknowledged, Â so in a way I would agree with your husband. Â We get used to doing everything for the family but there comes a time when itâs your turn, Â they need to be told and the ones that can cope or their own must get on with it. what will happen when theyâve worn you to a frazzle and canât do it anymore..... they will cope. If I get to feeling like that I just read my little meme that I keep in my folder.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Morning all, no sign of any sun here it's cold and grey definitely not gardening weather for me, so decided I had better push the hoover round instead! @Nanny Beach ask your family to give you some "me" time to re-charge your batteries, especially with Christmas coming up, I know what it's like when you feel you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Catch you all later.
I did agree I would do child care when I retired it's a lot easier now than when they were little. It's not the volume of work. It's just I would like their Mum to say thanks when they go home  I collected them from school last Friday,as she was going out for her birthday. She didn't ask new bloke did, said not to worry if it wasn't convenient. Thankfully, hubby decided to come. I'm night blind,the journey is mostly dark, rural. Told the kids they had to be out asap. That all went pear shaped! Grandson went to the wrong pickup point. Am like you Lyn. Was going to give my eldest daughter my fancy air cooler/dehumidifier. Then I thought no,she's buying herself "stuff" she can afford to buy her own. Now ironically she's lost her job!
Poor Nanny Beach. Itâs horrid when you feel overwhelmed. Sounds like it was only hubby who saw your meltdown, could you arrange another in front of your daughter? Like you, I manage to hold it together for years in a row, but the one time I did throw a wobbler in front of the family, I think it gave them all a scare and they were pretty cooperative for a while at least! ( I was trying to arrange a last minute family summer holiday, I spent ages exploring and presenting options, only to have them all rejected by one or another. I finally had hysterics, they were so surprised that they all pulled together and we got something acceptable booked by the end of the day.)
Afternoon folks, although it's dark enough outside I nearly said good evening. Busy morning again, OH drove us down to next nearest shopping street so he could have his hair cut while I nipped into a SM to get the paper, then waited in the car. He then dropped me off at the dentists as my hygienest had had a cancellation. ÂŁ61 poorer, I walked home via the bakers to pick up two of their moreish small batons for lunch. I eventually reached home, only to remember I'd forgotten to post something urgent, so had to get back in the car and race down to the PO before the mid-day collection. Just sat down with a much needed coffee only to have the window measurer call in on the off-chance. We're having our very small en-suite window replaced with a lower opening one so I don't have to climb onto a footstool to open and shut it. he told us it's now scheduled for mid January instead of March which is good news.
Not such good news is that my granddaughter has tested positive although she has no symptoms and is not allowed to dance at her ballet show on Saturday which means our weekend down in Bournemouth with them has also been cancelled. Such a shame, she has been practising for months and is so disappointed. Lots of re-arranging going on as her father, my son, was going to stay here and attend a Bath Rugby match on Friday and then we were driving him home on Saturday. I think he can still come and stay as long he still tests negative, we plan to shut him in the guest bedroom and he can have sole use of the main bedroom. He'll have to train home though. Is the isolation for 10 year olds 5 days or 10 days now? I've lost track.
Sorry to hear you've been poorly following your booster @chicky, hopefully you're feeling better now.
@Obelixx. Pleased to hear that Possum is more chipper following her Edinburgh trip and hope that her near crash has not dented her enthusiasm for getting out and about a bit.
@Dovefromabove, that reminds me, your daughter doesn't seem to have posted much lately, is she okay?
@Busy-Lizzie, it's good your daughter has been brave enough to make big decisions, that's not an easy thing to do as I know from my own experience. I can't remember now (sorry), does also she have children too?
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Hugs to you @Nanny Beach amd @chicky and anyone else who needs one.Â
 Just called dentist for a check up " 12.20 on Friday morning? "Â
Up and out into the garden this morning. Â Emptying wheelbarrows and generally tidying away "teknikle" stuff. Â We are in for some torrential rain over the next 24 hours. Â It is spitting now. Â
Have an enjoyable day all.
Tui
No Bake Off spoilers here either please.
Have a good time with chicklet @chicky.  Possum did indeed come back more bubbly altho she was also raving about some vegetarian haggis they'd had for breakfast so I'm not sure how positive that is!
No battery problems with our cars - yet - but Sally Zafira, nearly 14, developed a dead headlight yesterday and to get at the front light housing you have to remove the air filter. Clever. I made sure OH took her to a nice wee chappy in le Champ-St-PĂšre this morning and he fixed it there and then.  Meanwhile, Harry needed two new tyres after Possum's swerve to avoid two cats shredded a tyre.  300âŹ. Not clever.
@Nanny Beach - if you don't tell them they won't know you're upset and let down and won't be able to fix it or, worse, they'll just go on taking advantage.  You need to stop that or it will fester and then blow up.
Have a lovely sunny day everyone, if you can and whatever the weather.
what will happen when theyâve worn you to a frazzle and canât do it anymore..... they will cope.
If I get to feeling like that I just read my little meme that I keep in my folder.
@Nanny Beach ask your family to give you some "me" time to re-charge your batteries, especially with Christmas coming up, I know what it's like when you feel you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
Catch you all later.
 I collected them from school last Friday,as she was going out for her birthday. She didn't ask new bloke did, said not to worry if it wasn't convenient. Thankfully, hubby decided to come. I'm night blind,the journey is mostly dark, rural. Told the kids they had to be out asap. That all went pear shaped! Grandson went to the wrong pickup point. Am like you Lyn. Was going to give my eldest daughter my fancy air cooler/dehumidifier. Then I thought no,she's buying herself "stuff" she can afford to buy her own. Now ironically she's lost her job!
Not such good news is that my granddaughter has tested positive although she has no symptoms and is not allowed to dance at her ballet show on Saturday which means our weekend down in Bournemouth with them has also been cancelled. Such a shame, she has been practising for months and is so disappointed. Lots of re-arranging going on as her father, my son, was going to stay here and attend a Bath Rugby match on Friday and then we were driving him home on Saturday. I think he can still come and stay as long he still tests negative, we plan to shut him in the guest bedroom and he can have sole use of the main bedroom. He'll have to train home though. Is the isolation for 10 year olds 5 days or 10 days now? I've lost track.
Sorry to hear you've been poorly following your booster @chicky, hopefully you're feeling better now.
@Obelixx. Pleased to hear that Possum is more chipper following her Edinburgh trip and hope that her near crash has not dented her enthusiasm for getting out and about a bit.
@Dovefromabove, that reminds me, your daughter doesn't seem to have posted much lately, is she okay?
@Busy-Lizzie, it's good your daughter has been brave enough to make big decisions, that's not an easy thing to do as I know from my own experience. I can't remember now (sorry), does also she have children too?