Kerumbs! I see what you mean Biglad 4 pages already and March hardly started.
Sorry I'm forgetting my manners , Good afternoon all, Bright and sunny but very cold wind today. Its been a busy few days here, @Lizzie27 yes they still do work experience we have our youngest GD here this week as she is doing hers at our old place of work. Luckily my wife was there a bit more recently than me so still has good contacts. The only problem is that as the labs are so heavily regulated now they can't really give her anything practical to do. In my day we would sit them in a corner and let them "play" with some water or saline with colored dye in it to simulate tests or even give them some outdated real reagents and let them repeat test some negatives with some positive controls (they were safe as otherwise inactivated), so they could see what the tests were like, now they can only let them look and do a bit of paperwork. No gardening today, partly giving the muscles a rest but also waiting for windscreen repair man as I picked up a stone chip, there is always some little niggle going on isn't there.
My son was aware and responsive and nodded or screwed up his face to answer me … he’s had more physio today and I think he was a bit tired. He did drift off to sleep for a bit. The nurse said he’s doing fine … long way to go but doing fine.
Now we’re sitting in a field gateway in a pretty valley near Gt Dunmow … the AA man has gone to get a new Slave Cylinder for my car .. poor thing sprung a leak of vital fluids!!! He says he can fit it and drain it and fill it all up again here in the gateway … might take a couple of hours but we’re watching four buzzards floating high on the thermals, the sun is shining, we’ve got our lunch sandwiches and drinks to finish and each other to talk to. It could be much worse. Last time we broke down it was just coming out of the Dartford Tunnel 😱
So don’t worry, we’ll be fine … i knew I should’ve brought my knitting 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Granny gives you a house to live in. You spend £1.6m of your own money doing it up. She's hardly cold in her grave and your lying, cheating , adulterous Dad takes it from you and gives it to his very dodgy brother.
A storyline from 80s Dynasty? no, the royal family in 2023. Parasites the whole bunch of them, except Harry it seems.
Hope you get back home safely @Dovefromabove. It's lovely to hear that your son is now responding to you and making progress. Hope he enjoyed his shower yesterday.
Interesting dream interpretations @tui34, goodness knows what you'd make of mine last night. Managed to sleep for nearly 10 hours with just one loo visit but not sure it did me any good though. Felt a bit 'fuzzy' all morning.
It was cold at 5c but with brilliant sunshine and eventually got up to 9c after lunch so I just walked round the garden admiring all the bulbs in flower, roses shooting away and doing a little bit of weeding in one of the terrace beds - easy because it's at my waist level. Then I finished making up grandson's bed and cleaning bathrooms ready for their overnighter later. I do like occasional visitors as it motivates me to do the housework!
It's nearly six o'clock and it's still (just) daylight - goody!
OH is gradually getting more mobile. His leg was swollen, now very bruised. I washed his hair this morning.
I went to Morrisons this morning as OH felt he would be OK on his own and we were starting to run out of a few things. We only have a small freezer. I was glad to see that the fruit and veg shelves were full, no shortages. They even had ironing water in again.
We watched another episode of Merlin while we had our snack lunch. I'll miss it when we've watched it all, but then I thought that about Granchester and Father Brown. Merlin isn't at all the same story that I read when I was young about the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin was old and Guinevere was a princess. In the TV one Merlin is young and Guinevere is a serving maid.
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Sorry I'm forgetting my manners , Good afternoon all, Bright and sunny but very cold wind today.
Its been a busy few days here, @Lizzie27 yes they still do work experience we have our youngest GD here this week as she is doing hers at our old place of work. Luckily my wife was there a bit more recently than me so still has good contacts. The only problem is that as the labs are so heavily regulated now they can't really give her anything practical to do. In my day we would sit them in a corner and let them "play" with some water or saline with colored dye in it to simulate tests or even give them some outdated real reagents and let them repeat test some negatives with some positive controls (they were safe as otherwise inactivated), so they could see what the tests were like, now they can only let them look and do a bit of paperwork.
No gardening today, partly giving the muscles a rest but also waiting for windscreen repair man as I picked up a stone chip, there is always some little niggle going on isn't there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Granny gives you a house to live in.
You spend £1.6m of your own money doing it up.
She's hardly cold in her grave and your lying, cheating , adulterous Dad takes it from you and gives it to his very dodgy brother.
A storyline from 80s Dynasty? no, the royal family in 2023.
Parasites the whole bunch of them, except Harry it seems.
Hope you get back home safely @Dovefromabove. It's lovely to hear that your son is now responding to you and making progress. Hope he enjoyed his shower yesterday.
Interesting dream interpretations @tui34, goodness knows what you'd make of mine last night. Managed to sleep for nearly 10 hours with just one loo visit but not sure it did me any good though. Felt a bit 'fuzzy' all morning.
It was cold at 5c but with brilliant sunshine and eventually got up to 9c after lunch so I just walked round the garden admiring all the bulbs in flower, roses shooting away and doing a little bit of weeding in one of the terrace beds - easy because it's at my waist level. Then I finished making up grandson's bed and cleaning bathrooms ready for their overnighter later. I do like occasional visitors as it motivates me to do the housework!
It's nearly six o'clock and it's still (just) daylight - goody!
I went to Morrisons this morning as OH felt he would be OK on his own and we were starting to run out of a few things. We only have a small freezer. I was glad to see that the fruit and veg shelves were full, no shortages. They even had ironing water in again.
We watched another episode of Merlin while we had our snack lunch. I'll miss it when we've watched it all, but then I thought that about Granchester and Father Brown. Merlin isn't at all the same story that I read when I was young about the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin was old and Guinevere was a princess. In the TV one Merlin is young and Guinevere is a serving maid.