Glad you got home eventually @rowlandscastle444 Ā ā¦ oneās own bed is always best, all other things being equal šĀ
I was chilly in the night and got up to make a hot drink and put another layer on the bed. It took me a while to get back to sleep. Thankfully the only job I have planned today is a trip to the farm shop this morning ā¦ I donāt think Iāve ever woken in the night because I was cold ā¦ certainly not in this house ā¦ and it certainly wasnāt freezing outside .., think it was about 4C. I hope Iām not coming down with something š¤Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Sorry you woke feeling chilly in the night Dove, perhaps your OH had pinched more than his share of the duvet and left you feeling a bit chilled. Safe journey home @Busy-Lizzie, hope you find all is well at your Norfolk home. Has anyone heard from @Hostafan1, surely it shouldn't take this long for the installation? What is he doing for heating/warmth at the moment poor Hosta? Blue sky and sun here this morning, had almost forgotten what it looks like, but heavy showers are forecast later it seems.
You beat me to it @punkdoc ā¦ poor @Hostafan1 needs a holiday to help him recover from the awful effects of the last one ā¦ letās hope this one does him good not harm. š¤Ā Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glorious sunshine here, although lots of cloud bubbling up. A quiet day today, we are off tomorrow to Oxford for the weekend, for daughterās birthday. Not looking forward to the drive there, so will spend today putting together our bit of packing, clean at least the lights on the car, if not the whole thing, and OH can check the tyre pressures etc. So out of practice now, hard to believe I did a four hour return commute to work for a year, although thatās now nearly twenty years ago, so not really surprising. I still keep forgetting Iām not as young and fit as I was then!
Morning everyone,Ā wet and miserable here again.Ā Late start here as we were out last eve at a recording of Have I got news for you.Ā It was in Hammersmith so a bit of a longer journey than usual.Ā Ā We have to go washing machine shopping today. We called out an engineer yesterday who told us the repair would cost almost as much as a new one. For those interested full cost horror revealed on the curmudgeon thread.Ā Just as well we have savings to fall back on.Ā
That was quite a commute you did @ergates!Ā Good luck with your drive to your daughter's.Ā I hate driving at this time of year - windows misting up, low sun getting in your eyes, not to mention those blessed LED headlamps that blind you in the dark.
How lovely to be in the audience for Have I Got News @Allotment Boy!
I did go out last night after all.Ā A friend was going to the concert, so I went with her as OH not at all keen on going out two evenings in a row.Ā It was fantastic!Ā The concert was based on the book White is Black which is an autobiographical account of a French respiratory doctor's life and work - his wives, lovers, patients and who ended his career in Norwich... he was also a pianist.Ā And funny.Ā My friend and I were there to seeĀ our musician friends (pianist and cellist) perform the considerable musical element of the narrated performance.Ā The small auditorium was packed - but the audience was not the usual audience (arty types) for our friends.Ā This audience was very well dressed and mostly older.Ā It was only later we realised - they were all doctors!Ā The show had been put together by someone who knew the author when he was alive and many of the people in the audience had been his colleagues when he was in Norwich.
@Dovefromabove A few years ago I started wearing a set of thermals in bed at night in Winter.Ā It was a change for the better (I had previously found if I woke during the night, the cold tended to make it difficult for me to get back to sleep again).Ā Might be worth considering.
A minor tale of woe for you folks.Ā On Tuesday afternoon one of her neighbours had taken it upon themselves to (very kindly) do some cleaning in my Mother's house (although the house was pretty clean already).Ā The product they were using was applied in the form of a spray, and the air was full of it when I walked in.Ā I have dry eye, so my eyes are easily irritated, and so shortly thereafter a stinging and burning sensation began in my eyes.Ā Went to the bathroom and washed them out by holding my head under the tap for several minutes.Ā Stinging & burning sensation continued unabated.Ā Next morning I washed my eyes out using the shower head for 20 minutes per eye, stinging & burning continued.Ā Yesterday I went to the Minor Injuries Unit (taking the cleaning product container with me).Ā There they took my eye pH, checked my vision and put dye in my eyes to check for damage.Ā Everything seemed OK-ish.Ā They gave me ointment which I am faithfully using 4 times a day.Ā If the stinging & burning continues I am to go back next week (it seems to be continuing at the moment).Ā I did take some photos in the car park outside the M.I.U. which I intend to share with you good people at some stage (when I arrived there it was a bright Autumn day, but when I took the photosĀ - as I was leaving - the day had become overcast and surprisingly cold, so the photos won't be very pretty I'm afraid).
For all those good people who have read this far, a little treat for you:Ā A number of years ago a shop selling camping equipment put the following sign in their window during the January sales: "Now is the Winter of our discounted tents".Ā Best wishes to all.
"If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing" Marcus Tullius Cicero (in a letter to Marcus Terentius Varro, 46 B.C.)
@punkdoc- I think the author of the book was more like you!
I think cleaning products have a lot to answer for with regard to respiratory/skin/issues @Badly_Maintained.Ā Who knows what chemicals are in them - and how those chemicals react with other chemicals in other products?Ā We only go for eco-friendly cleaning products - or good old vinegar and soda or lemon.Ā We don't think we need surgery-grade surfaces in our home!
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Glad you got home eventually @rowlandscastle444 Ā ā¦ oneās own bed is always best, all other things being equal šĀ
I was chilly in the night and got up to make a hot drink and put another layer on the bed. It took me a while to get back to sleep. Thankfully the only job I have planned today is a trip to the farm shop this morning ā¦ I donāt think Iāve ever woken in the night because I was cold ā¦ certainly not in this house ā¦ and it certainly wasnāt freezing outside .., think it was about 4C. I hope Iām not coming down with something š¤Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry you woke feeling chilly in the night Dove, perhaps your OH had pinched more than his share of the duvet and left you feeling a bit chilled.
Safe journey home @Busy-Lizzie, hope you find all is well at your Norfolk home.
Has anyone heard from @Hostafan1, surely it shouldn't take this long for the installation? What is he doing for heating/warmth at the moment poor Hosta?
Blue sky and sun here this morning, had almost forgotten what it looks like, but heavy showers are forecast later it seems.
Hosta is ok., he is off on holiday next week. Some Winter sun will do him the world of good.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have to go washing machine shopping today. We called out an engineer yesterday who told us the repair would cost almost as much as a new one. For those interested full cost horror revealed on the curmudgeon thread.Ā Just as well we have savings to fall back on.Ā
How lovely to be in the audience for Have I Got News @Allotment Boy!
I did go out last night after all.Ā A friend was going to the concert, so I went with her as OH not at all keen on going out two evenings in a row.Ā It was fantastic!Ā The concert was based on the book White is Black which is an autobiographical account of a French respiratory doctor's life and work - his wives, lovers, patients and who ended his career in Norwich... he was also a pianist.Ā And funny.Ā My friend and I were there to seeĀ our musician friends (pianist and cellist) perform the considerable musical element of the narrated performance.Ā The small auditorium was packed - but the audience was not the usual audience (arty types) for our friends.Ā This audience was very well dressed and mostly older.Ā It was only later we realised - they were all doctors!Ā The show had been put together by someone who knew the author when he was alive and many of the people in the audience had been his colleagues when he was in Norwich.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I think cleaning products have a lot to answer for with regard to respiratory/skin/issues @Badly_Maintained.Ā Who knows what chemicals are in them - and how those chemicals react with other chemicals in other products?Ā We only go for eco-friendly cleaning products - or good old vinegar and soda or lemon.Ā We don't think we need surgery-grade surfaces in our home!