I had a terrible night in that hotel near the ferry port. The shouting, singing and knocked over furnture was coming from above our room so at 2am I went upstairs and found it was more hotel rooms. I knocked on a door and found it was a group of young Indian men from Manchester having a birthday party. I had heard girls but didn't see any. They were very jolly and apologised, said they would go to bed in 5 minutes as they had to catch the ferry too.
I went back to bed and the noise stopped at around 3am. There weren't many people on the ferry, apart from the usual lorry drivers. No sign of the Indian lads. I wonder if they missed it. We'd got up at 6.30am as it sailed at 8.30.
OH had rented a cabin so I was able to get some sleep. The pillow was comfier than the hotel one and, despite noise from the engine, I managed to sleep. The sea was quite calm.
We had to collect OH's car from Stansted Airport then drive seperately back to our cottage. There was a lot of traffic and it was dark for the last part but we got home safely. Sitting room was 8C so we put up the heating, lit the woodburner and went out for dinner in the pub in the next village.
It looks very cold and bleak outside this morning.
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Good morning everyone.We have black ice on the road outside our home . Traffic is crawling. LB if you go out please take care and keep warm. Busy your night in the hotel sounds bad . All that noise must have been very disturbing.Good job you had a cabin so you could get some sleep on your journey . Anyone going out please take care .
I just nipped out to put a bin roadside (gave it a bang to free the lid). Might go for more grit later as it seems no-one else has followed my lead It appears that it isn't going to clear naturally for a couple of days yet.
Chunks of ice have been falling off the roof and attempting to decapitate anything in pots against the house
Morning all. What a cold night, house was only 16.4 this morning, lowest it's ever been. Warmed up now though with heating on. Have just feed the birds and one regular blackbird came down onto the fence and waited for the food! Must be starving hungry. Busy,oh no, bad night on that ferry. Some youngsters just don't think about how their noise will affect others do they? Glad you've got home though. Now try and take it easy. LB, if you go out take real good care on the roads/pavements. Looks really bad outside here at least. Might go out and sprinkle some de-icing salt around. @Jacquimcmahon, I wasn't impressed with outisde either🤭😂
Good afternoon all. I did decide to go to the Foodbank after all. It took me 30 minutes to get the ice off the car. Drove very carefully to Bestie's to pick her up. We were rushed off our feet all morning packing for several clients including an elderly single gentleman, a young couple who live in a tent on the canalside and larger families with pet dogs.The stories are quite upsetting and I feel especially sorry for the young couple who have been living in that tent for over a year now. We always put in lots of extra treats for the families with young children. After I dropped off Bestie - she was having to take her Mum for an appointment - I drove home carefully and was greeted by one bin in the middle of the driveway, which is par for the course, and I was immediately made aware of how treacherous the Crescent was. I was slipping and sliding all over the place. I dislike being unsteady underfoot. Only one of the two bins had been emptied and the green (garden and food waste) bin still has to be attended to. I really hope it gets emptied today.
I am so sorry that you had such a disturbed night before your ferry crossing Busy. It will be nice for you and your OH to sleep in your own beds and get the home warmed through.
How old are your kittens @Jacquimcmahon? This new baby I've got is really keeping me on my toes. I love that he is such a confident kitty. I have to admit that my lap is not big enough for him and he sort of hangs over both sides.
T'Bird, if you get chance to look in, I think he is going to be a snuggler!
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Our chap has been and gone and the old outside security light has been replaced by a lovely modern, slimline light. If it produces sufficient light we will get him back to dismantle and dispose of a second light outside that has never worked since we moved here. He would, of course, make all the electrics safe afterwards. We are really pleased with his work although he did have a cough, poor chap, and he wasn't young either😲 but still working in this type of weather. LB, well done on going very carefully to and from besties and the food bank. I couldn't believe it when you said a couple were living in a tent.....in this weather .....they must be absolutely frozen. How on earth do people survive out in this cold with just a flimsy tent material to keep out the elements? Your food bank is producing a helluva service for those poor souls. Well done to you and all the other volunteers. You must be their lifeline indeed. Mums house has now been cleared. Brother is going to pop along and just check everything is sorted and then, not too long before the new people will have possession.
Well done to you and Bestie, LB, for doing so much good at the food bank. That poor couple living in a tent. Surely they could be housed somewhere. Immigrants get housed in hotels at our taxpayers' expense. There is a hotel full in our local town. Why can't people who are already here get housing?
We went to the SM this morning for the week's supplies. There is a big metal shelving unit there for groceries to be given to the less well off. It was full.
Glad things are progressing with your Mum's house, Hazel. I hope you are feeling OK about it all. My parents gave the home I grew up in to my sister. They asked all of us first. I was fine with it as we were already living in France. My parents downsized so I had never lived in the house they left, apart from going to stay with them. My sister sold that house a few years ago. She wanted a smaller house and a bit of land for her horses.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hazel, you sound really pleased with your light. I hope it does give you the illumination you are hoping for. It sounds as though you might just get the other one replaced as well A few poignant moments for you Hazel but just think of all the fresh memories you have created in your new home - a lot surrounding a certain little human dynamo known as 23!
Thank you for your kind words Busy. Bestie and I are just two of the many volunteers who do this work for the Trussell Trust. I am very puzzled about the young couple as we also provide counsellors who can point people in the right directions for many kinds of other assistance.
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Evening all. What a bitterly cold day it has been. Down to -8C at our local weather station last night and I don't think it's been above 1C all day. Managed an hour or so in the garden on Tuesday, went to a talk in town yesterday but other than that I've been concentrating on indoor tasks!
Some of those 'tasks' involve planning what we might do in Buenos Aries before and after our cruise. Must admit to having mixed feelings about being there but it is the start and end point for the trip. Some areas sound completely lawless (lots of gun crime) and with an inflation rate of over 200% and political instability, there are many unhappy citizens. Quite a few demos, strikes etc. Fingers crossed I'm just overdramatising things in my head. Have to remember many thousands of tourists visit safely each year without issue!
We're going to Berlin for a couple of nights next week and I'm glad to see it's forecast to warm up a bit - it can be very cold there in winter (but preferable to the summer heat). Hoping to do a couple of museums and see a few sights - but it will be very much a cheapo, flying visit to keep OH quiet. He always, always gets cabin fever in January.
Hazel - glad to hear things have gone well with your mum's house. A painful time for you all but better to have things sorted out.🙂
LB - Cricket sounds as though he is happy in his new home - I am glad he's a snuggler. Nothing quite like a cat cuddle is there? I've enjoyed rather a lengthy one with next door's cat this afternoon. He was absolutely soundo (Ante = sleeping deeply) on my lap having little cat dreams about chasing rabbits. Twitchy paws🥰 Such a sweetie.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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I had a terrible night in that hotel near the ferry port. The shouting, singing and knocked over furnture was coming from above our room so at 2am I went upstairs and found it was more hotel rooms. I knocked on a door and found it was a group of young Indian men from Manchester having a birthday party. I had heard girls but didn't see any. They were very jolly and apologised, said they would go to bed in 5 minutes as they had to catch the ferry too.
I went back to bed and the noise stopped at around 3am. There weren't many people on the ferry, apart from the usual lorry drivers. No sign of the Indian lads. I wonder if they missed it. We'd got up at 6.30am as it sailed at 8.30.
OH had rented a cabin so I was able to get some sleep. The pillow was comfier than the hotel one and, despite noise from the engine, I managed to sleep. The sea was quite calm.
We had to collect OH's car from Stansted Airport then drive seperately back to our cottage. There was a lot of traffic and it was dark for the last part but we got home safely. Sitting room was 8C so we put up the heating, lit the woodburner and went out for dinner in the pub in the next village.
It looks very cold and bleak outside this morning.
LB if you go out please take care and keep warm. Busy your night in the hotel sounds bad . All that noise must have been very disturbing.Good job you had a cabin so you could get some sleep
on your journey . Anyone going out please take care .
OH claims it was -7 when she was out earlier.
I just nipped out to put a bin roadside (gave it a bang to free the lid). Might go for more grit later as it seems no-one else has followed my lead
Chunks of ice have been falling off the roof and attempting to decapitate anything in pots against the house
Busy,oh no, bad night on that ferry. Some youngsters just don't think about how their noise will affect others do they? Glad you've got home though. Now try and take it easy.
LB, if you go out take real good care on the roads/pavements. Looks really bad outside here at least. Might go out and sprinkle some de-icing salt around.
@Jacquimcmahon, I wasn't impressed with outisde either🤭😂
LB, well done on going very carefully to and from besties and the food bank. I couldn't believe it when you said a couple were living in a tent.....in this weather .....they must be absolutely frozen. How on earth do people survive out in this cold with just a flimsy tent material to keep out the elements? Your food bank is producing a helluva service for those poor souls. Well done to you and all the other volunteers. You must be their lifeline indeed.
Mums house has now been cleared. Brother is going to pop along and just check everything is sorted and then, not too long before the new people will have possession.
We went to the SM this morning for the week's supplies. There is a big metal shelving unit there for groceries to be given to the less well off. It was full.
Glad things are progressing with your Mum's house, Hazel. I hope you are feeling OK about it all. My parents gave the home I grew up in to my sister. They asked all of us first. I was fine with it as we were already living in France. My parents downsized so I had never lived in the house they left, apart from going to stay with them. My sister sold that house a few years ago. She wanted a smaller house and a bit of land for her horses.
Some of those 'tasks' involve planning what we might do in Buenos Aries before and after our cruise. Must admit to having mixed feelings about being there but it is the start and end point for the trip. Some areas sound completely lawless (lots of gun crime) and with an inflation rate of over 200% and political instability, there are many unhappy citizens. Quite a few demos, strikes etc. Fingers crossed I'm just overdramatising things in my head. Have to remember many thousands of tourists visit safely each year without issue!
We're going to Berlin for a couple of nights next week and I'm glad to see it's forecast to warm up a bit - it can be very cold there in winter (but preferable to the summer heat). Hoping to do a couple of museums and see a few sights - but it will be very much a cheapo, flying visit to keep OH quiet. He always, always gets cabin fever in January.
Hazel - glad to hear things have gone well with your mum's house. A painful time for you all but better to have things sorted out.🙂
LB - Cricket sounds as though he is happy in his new home - I am glad he's a snuggler. Nothing quite like a cat cuddle is there? I've enjoyed rather a lengthy one with next door's cat this afternoon. He was absolutely soundo (Ante = sleeping deeply) on my lap having little cat dreams about chasing rabbits. Twitchy paws🥰 Such a sweetie.