I’ve had a horrible day so I’m frazzled. The hospital messed up arranging something for my Dad and I’ve been trying to sort it whilst juggling work. Plus other various minor hassles. Just one of those days.
I did notice how loud the birds were this morning, about 6:30 am, so that was a lovely sign of Spring coming.
Take care you guys. Let’s hope we all have a good weekend - good sleep, no falls, no dramas and a sprinkle of something pleasant.
Book club meeting for me this morning, my chosen book was discussed, Trust by Herman Diaz, great feedback although I was a little irritated by people who came and hadn't ( or ever intended to) read the book. What's the point? 🙄
Then, our Soirée Célibataires this evening, went very well actually. Three sets of people even exchanged numbers.... Success at last. 😁 Tricky to manage though. Good job I'm the chatty, friendly type. Think I could have got myself 3 dates if I'd wanted, typical, I've been alone for years then get several offers at the same time. Everyone had a lovely time actually, so that's good.
Tomorrow I really must get around to housework, ironing and packing for my ski holiday, not sure in which order though. 😅
Good night all. 😘😘
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Evening all. My apologies for the lack of communication over the past week, it's been a mad house here. Lots of housework at the end of the last week plus rearranging the sleeping arrangements to give room to G/daughter, her 6 year old son and her partner due for a visit. Wonderful to see them as I have not seen them since last Spring - daughter regularly returns to Sussex to visit everyone down there but for various reasons I am not really up to a journey of that length, cant take the chance of a possible long hold up on the motorways.
They went home at lunch time and daughter has long since gone to bed, exhausted, but I managed a sneaky sleep after they left so am now here visiting all of you.
Some of you may remember me asking for advice on here last month about clearing my many pictures off an old laptop? Well G/daughter got it all sorted for me via a stick and uploaded them all on this laptop for me. However for the last two days strange things have been happening .............. 24 hours after she finished the uploading, this laptop suddenly went into overdrive and started uploading more and more pictures! Not been able to use it for nearly two days until now as more and more pictures have uploaded/appeared each day, and not only has it been using all its 'power' to do this work, it has been pinching power from daughter's laptop too much to her annoyance!
Well about 8pm tonight it posted that it was finished and all up to date, it sprang back to full strength (so did daughter's laptop), hence how I'm on here now. But I now have some 5000 odd pictures to look at, all set out in labelled folders and dated as well. But amazingly it has managed to retrieve all the missing pictures that I had lost to outer space from another unrelated older laptop (thanks to someone trying to off load them for me to another stick and losing everything - 7 years of my life I thought were lost forever).
I am not going to ask this laptop how it did it for me when no one had asked it, but it has my very grateful thanks as you can imagine.
Sorry haven't had the time to read back, will tackle that in the morning, but sincerely hope you are all coping ok and that life is being reasonably kind to you. This very happy old lady is off to bed now, have a good weekend folks.
We had a heck of a storm yesterday afternoon. I checked the gauge this morning and there was 19 mils there. So, that’s a positive, but we were a bit shocked about the ferocity of the storm. Very heavy rain/hail and extremely ferocious wind behind it. Poor Pixel parked herself on the head rest of my chair and observed it through the windows. All sunny and still this morning.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Here I am, wide awake far too early … I have tiptoed down and got myself a banana and a decaf … now I’m back in bed and OH is still sound asleep so I thought I might as well say good morning to you lot 😊
You storm sounds quite dramatic @Pat E … glad all is calm now.
How lovely that you have all your photos back @AnnaB 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I too, was awake very early this morning @Dovefromabove 4.3O in fact although I was in bed at 10 last night so can't complain - but it's going to be a long day!!
I heard the most beautiful birdsong yesterday morning at 7am @AuntyRach I had to stop and listen - I don't know if it was a lark or a nightingale (it was still dark) but it really made my day. Just one bird and I was sure it was sitting on the pergola in front of the kitchen door. It wasn't there this morning.
My first experience with Valerian @punkdoc was when my late husband was undergoing chemotherapy and was very ab.... shall we just say cantankerous! Visiting my brother in Switzerland, my sister-in-law made me this tisane - I slept really well and brought a packet back with me made up by a herbalist: camomile, lavender, melissa, yarrow, orange, passiflora, a hops cone and of course valerian root. It worked for me I gave some to my nursing neighbours as the husband works mainly nights in A & E. It didn't work for him - he's another sleepless wonder!!!
@Pat E Friends who live in the Dandenongs (Melbourne) have been having a rough time with these storms. The schools remained open but no power. I expect the pupils were given exercise books and a pen, as they work mainly from iPads these days!! I hope you are all right.
How strange about the photos @AnnaB Comforting to know they are there.
Windy again today but there is sun!! It's very mild for this time of year.
We’re ok today. It looked as though the weather was going to have a repeat performance after lunch, but it fizzled after a bit of cloud and wind. All good now.
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I’ve had a horrible day so I’m frazzled. The hospital messed up arranging something for my Dad and I’ve been trying to sort it whilst juggling work. Plus other various minor hassles. Just one of those days.
I did notice how loud the birds were this morning, about 6:30 am, so that was a lovely sign of Spring coming.
Take care you guys. Let’s hope we all have a good weekend - good sleep, no falls, no dramas and a sprinkle of something pleasant.
Nice to catch-up on all your news.
Book club meeting for me this morning, my chosen book was discussed, Trust by Herman Diaz, great feedback although I was a little irritated by people who came and hadn't ( or ever intended to) read the book. What's the point? 🙄
Then, our Soirée Célibataires this evening, went very well actually. Three sets of people even exchanged numbers.... Success at last. 😁 Tricky to manage though. Good job I'm the chatty, friendly type. Think I could have got myself 3 dates if I'd wanted, typical, I've been alone for years then get several offers at the same time. Everyone had a lovely time actually, so that's good.
Tomorrow I really must get around to housework, ironing and packing for my ski holiday, not sure in which order though. 😅
Good night all. 😘😘
@tui34, yes, there is Valerian in it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
They went home at lunch time and daughter has long since gone to bed, exhausted, but I managed a sneaky sleep after they left so am now here visiting all of you.
Some of you may remember me asking for advice on here last month about clearing my many pictures off an old laptop? Well G/daughter got it all sorted for me via a stick and uploaded them all on this laptop for me. However for the last two days strange things have been happening .............. 24 hours after she finished the uploading, this laptop suddenly went into overdrive and started uploading more and more pictures! Not been able to use it for nearly two days until now as more and more pictures have uploaded/appeared each day, and not only has it been using all its 'power' to do this work, it has been pinching power from daughter's laptop too much to her annoyance!
Well about 8pm tonight it posted that it was finished and all up to date, it sprang back to full strength (so did daughter's laptop), hence how I'm on here now. But I now have some 5000 odd pictures to look at, all set out in labelled folders and dated as well. But amazingly it has managed to retrieve all the missing pictures that I had lost to outer space from another unrelated older laptop (thanks to someone trying to off load them for me to another stick and losing everything - 7 years of my life I thought were lost forever).
I am not going to ask this laptop how it did it for me when no one had asked it, but it has my very grateful thanks as you can imagine.
Sorry haven't had the time to read back, will tackle that in the morning, but sincerely hope you are all coping ok and that life is being reasonably kind to you. This very happy old lady is off to bed now, have a good weekend folks.
Here I am, wide awake far too early … I have tiptoed down and got myself a banana and a decaf … now I’m back in bed and OH is still sound asleep so I thought I might as well say good morning to you lot 😊
You storm sounds quite dramatic @Pat E … glad all is calm now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I too, was awake very early this morning @Dovefromabove 4.3O in fact although I was in bed at 10 last night so can't complain - but it's going to be a long day!!
I heard the most beautiful birdsong yesterday morning at 7am @AuntyRach I had to stop and listen - I don't know if it was a lark or a nightingale (it was still dark) but it really made my day. Just one bird and I was sure it was sitting on the pergola in front of the kitchen door. It wasn't there this morning.
My first experience with Valerian @punkdoc was when my late husband was undergoing chemotherapy and was very ab.... shall we just say cantankerous! Visiting my brother in Switzerland, my sister-in-law made me this tisane - I slept really well and brought a packet back with me made up by a herbalist: camomile, lavender, melissa, yarrow, orange, passiflora, a hops cone and of course valerian root. It worked for me I gave some to my nursing neighbours as the husband works mainly nights in A & E. It didn't work for him - he's another sleepless wonder!!!
@Pat E Friends who live in the Dandenongs (Melbourne) have been having a rough time with these storms. The schools remained open but no power. I expect the pupils were given exercise books and a pen, as they work mainly from iPads these days!! I hope you are all right.
How strange about the photos @AnnaB Comforting to know they are there.
Windy again today but there is sun!! It's very mild for this time of year.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!!