Beautiful day down here too. The wind has dropped and the sun is shining. It was very very hot yesterday afternoon, so dog walks are to be done in the morning from now on. Not a good sign for summer when May is hot and dry like this.
Welcome back @Busy-Lizzie I am sure you will enjoy being back in your garden once again.
My other hip has started to whinge and whine. It's the start of the gardening season and this happens. I'm gutted. I refuse to live on anti-inflammatories and pain killers and an operation won't be imminent of course. I have made an appointment with my surgeon for June and have x-rays of hips booked for next month. Drat!!!
I hope you are feeling a bit better today @punkdoc Good news @Pat E
Enjoy your day wherever you are, whatever you are doing, however you are feeling.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Another bright morning without a cloud in the sky. ☀️ The app says it’s going to cloud over later tho.
Glad you’re home safe and sound @Busy-Lizzie and that all is ok in your garden. Mine’s a mess … I really need to do something with the veg patch at least .. the flower beds seem to be managing ok without me 😊
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It will be a lovely sunny day, early 20s this afternoon. We have 2 or 3 sunny days then a week of rain forecast. I want to go to the plant nursery this morning for some more perennials. They are very seasonal, when sold out there are no more until next year. Hope I'm not too late. Half the price of the GC.
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Morning all, I understand your aches and pains @tui34, my new hip is feeling good, the other one is painful as is my lower back with the osteoarthritis. Off to the SM shortly and we need to get the strimmer fixed somewhere as well, OH has given up with it. A very warm day here also today now that the wind has dropped. Catch up with you all later.
Sounds like a plague of dodgy hips has hit many of us! I had a telephone consultation with the GP practice physio yesterday. Have been referred for X-rays of hips and one upper leg, ( hopefully that is just referred pain from the dodgy hip) then back to see him in person in June. At the moment, I can walk for miles without too much problem from the hip. I’ll also have to take it easy after the op next Monday, so spent a couple of hours in the garden yesterday and got the green bins filled. Had a bit of a fright when OH walked round to the side of the house and disturbed an animal, which disappeared behind the tool storage box. ‘Bigger than a squirrel, but not a squirrel’. I was expecting the worst, a rat, but very relieved when I rattled the tool box, and a rabbit ran out from behind it. Touching wood as I write, we have mercifully not seen any evidence of rats in the garden, despite the size and relative neglect, lots of SSSN ! Across the road, where a stream runs behind the gardens, is a different matter. The neighbours Jack Russell regularly brings home bodies.
it is a lovely day here. But OH is down with back pain which is very inconvenient as he can't lift stuff for me 😜. I have been resisting a house/garden help but if this goes on I will have to find someone, never had a cleaner before, probably will not like having one.
We had a cleaner for a couple of years. The first few weeks, my wife would go round the house, cleaning up, because she didn't want anyone seeing the house in a mess, and dirty. Eventually I persuaded her to leave it, after all, that was what we were paying for!!
Afternoon all, think I shall soon be joining the dodgy hip brigade as well! OH thinks he will need his other hip done within the year (if only!). He had a relatively good night and isn't coughing which is a good sign hopefully. Being a typical man with a cold of course and has only just got out of his pyjamas when I rather pointedly asked him if he intended to dress for dinner!
I ache all over as I've dug up and moved several small shrubs which were still too big for me to manage so I'll probably really suffer tomorrow. Got a bucketfull of daffs to deal with, should I water them do you think?
I also had a cleaner for a couple of months after my back accident - it was absolute bliss. I wouldn't mind getting another one, at least he/she could do the bits I can't manage like skirting boards and dusting high shelves!
I was in my mid twenties and had been married for several years when my grandmother complained that my sister never dusted the skirting boards. Oops, I didn't know you were supposed to!
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Beautiful day down here too. The wind has dropped and the sun is shining. It was very very hot yesterday afternoon, so dog walks are to be done in the morning from now on. Not a good sign for summer when May is hot and dry like this.
Welcome back @Busy-Lizzie I am sure you will enjoy being back in your garden once again.
My other hip has started to whinge and whine. It's the start of the gardening season and this happens. I'm gutted. I refuse to live on anti-inflammatories and pain killers and an operation won't be imminent of course. I have made an appointment with my surgeon for June and have x-rays of hips booked for next month. Drat!!!
I hope you are feeling a bit better today @punkdoc Good news @Pat E
Enjoy your day wherever you are, whatever you are doing, however you are feeling.
Another bright morning without a cloud in the sky. ☀️ The app says it’s going to cloud over later tho.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It will be a lovely sunny day, early 20s this afternoon. We have 2 or 3 sunny days then a week of rain forecast. I want to go to the plant nursery this morning for some more perennials. They are very seasonal, when sold out there are no more until next year. Hope I'm not too late. Half the price of the GC.
Catch up with you all later.
Had a bit of a fright when OH walked round to the side of the house and disturbed an animal, which disappeared behind the tool storage box. ‘Bigger than a squirrel, but not a squirrel’. I was expecting the worst, a rat, but very relieved when I rattled the tool box, and a rabbit ran out from behind it. Touching wood as I write, we have mercifully not seen any evidence of rats in the garden, despite the size and relative neglect, lots of SSSN ! Across the road, where a stream runs behind the gardens, is a different matter. The neighbours Jack Russell regularly brings home bodies.
it is a lovely day here. But OH is down with back pain which is very inconvenient as he can't lift stuff for me 😜.
I have been resisting a house/garden help but if this goes on I will have to find someone, never had a cleaner before, probably will not like having one.
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I ache all over as I've dug up and moved several small shrubs which were still too big for me to manage so I'll probably really suffer tomorrow. Got a bucketfull of daffs to deal with, should I water them do you think?
I also had a cleaner for a couple of months after my back accident - it was absolute bliss. I wouldn't mind getting another one, at least he/she could do the bits I can't manage like skirting boards and dusting high shelves!
Enjoy your evening folks.