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I don't think we have anything firms like that here Sylvia but I may be wrong . It will be a massive help for you as you say. You will be able to do other things without the worry of sorting your house out. I think you are making a wise decision .

When my sister died suddenly I engaged a Probate firm and a firm to deal with the estate agents etc to sell her home. Yes I had to pay for the service (out of her estate) but the value to me was definitely worth it. No one else in the family wanted to take on the work entailed so I decided to do it my way.
I do hope your OH recovers from the op well and quickly.

It is a warm day with sun and cloud quite pleasant really but we may get rain later. Won't mind that as it will water the plants.

Take care all

At least the elbow op is done Sylvia so that is good news. And you are moving foward with sorting out moving to assisted living. that firm that organises it all for you sounds a marvellous idea. I have not heard of anything like that here. So, do you know where the assisted living apartment will be? Even with help it is all very much an upheaval I am sure.

We're in a heat wave!!

Began last Thursday, and today (Sunday) was over 30C outside, and muggy feeling! It will last at least until mid-week. Daughter and I are managing to sleep pretty well by having a fan in each of our rooms, plus two others directing cooler air down the hall.

OH is still in hospital, air conditioned!!

They operated on his elbow yesterday (Saturday), and were faced with the fact that he'd apparently fractured the bone close to this new one about 18 months to 3 years ago :-0 That fracture had healed but the muscles had tightened, so they had to stretch the ligaments. He's in a cast!!

I remember him tripping over a bit of the pavement that was slightly raised outside our bank on the main road some time ago, can't remember exactly how long ago, and that he did complain that he had bruised that arm, but no complaints about great pain.

Anyway, the surgeon(s) had quite the job!

He's now in the 3rd room in 2 days, having been moved up to the orthopaedic recovery ward yesterday evening after post-op recovery, but then moved across that ward to close by the nurses station this afternoon when we told them he had been known to get out of bed in the night and walk! It is not a secure ward!! Luckily the Hospitalist doctors and team are still involved, so we wait and see what happens next.

We still have no idea how long he will be in the hospital, but tomorrow morning I'm going to fill out the paper work for the apartment in Assisted Living, and pay my deposit. Then we take it from there!

Daughter has persuaded me that it will help to hire a local company that helps people downsize and move ............ she and her team will literally take over every single aspect of the downsizing and moving (even going through our clothes!), whether it is within this city or across the country! Costly, but honestly I think it is going to be worth it for me, because that leaves me free to concentrate on OH and our future without having to think about hiring moving companies, what to do with stuff that is excess, etc etc.

Afternoon all.

A fairly pleasant and reasonably warm day today. I have been outside twice looking at everything growing. my Livingstone daisies which i grew from seed have suddenly bloomed and beautiful colours too. I also noticed my holly plant, i bought last xmas has really grown a lot recently.

My neighbour came round for the afternoon as her hubby was working, so we had a lovely blether over coffee and nibbles. She didn't go until 4 so by then was time to sort out my eve meal.

I shall need to go and water the pots soon as I noticed some pots were quite dry even after all the rain we had..The wind has gone down so that's good too.

Linda, my brother owns his own carpet business and always says for reasonable quality anything over £22 per square metre is ok, over £25 is very good quality.

Mine were £24.99 so should last a few years!

We decided to go and look at the carpet shop which we use in town. We were going to walk, but it started raining, so we took the car most of the way. There is some free disc parking a five minute stroll from the centre which we use. They are coming on Thursday to measure up for the vinyl for the bathroom and en-suite plus the carpet for the stairs, landing and four bedrooms. We chose three possible berbers , so we have borrowed the books for those ranges. I thought they would want them back quickly, but he said he will collect them on Thursday, let’s hope no one else wants those ranges in the next few days. As they have done the wood flooring already, they know we aren’t time wasters. I am a firm believer that with carpets you get what you pay for, so choosing good quality in the first place means you aren’t going to have to replace them in six or seven years.
We also visited our favourite coffee shop, it was lemon and blueberry cake for me today. The owner always asks for my honest opinion on her new cakes. Today, I thought that the cake was beautifully moist, but that the frosting was a bit too sweet. She had tried some and agreed with me. I am not critical in a nasty way, she really does want an honest opinion. She always has five different home made cakes as well as scones, apple pie etc. Her Raspberry and white chocolate cake is still top of the list and probably will never be knocked off top spot.

Thanks for suggesting that, Agingrocker.

I've had a look , and they have one rug which might do.
I'll also do a bit more online shopping around in case the perfect rug jumps out at me somewhere else.

Argyllgran - and anybody else interested.

We have bought rugs rwice from an online company www.rugsdirect.co.uk They are very good quality, reasonably priced, and excellent service. Worth a look.

The whole Morse, Lewis and Endeavour series were excellent. I had the Morse box set and read then three times over the years. I only sent them to the charity shop before we came here.

I can’t believe that we actually won the penalty shoot out. We never do!

Die to lack of anything of interest on tv, I am actually watching England play :-D :-D :-D OMG, never thought I would be reduced to it lol extra time!

AG, oh so glad you got a free return :-D

Linda, Morse is probably my all time favourite :-D

Speaking of good quality dramas - I have LOVED "Ripley" on Netflix.
Black & white, and very beautifully and cleverly filmed.
Also very funny in places in spite of the sombre theme and occasional violence.

It is hard trying to find rugs and doormats without actually seeing them. I wanted a washable doormat for the utility room. It needed to be much larger than a normal size. It was hard to find the size I wanted. I got one in the end which looks OK, but it is more like a bathmat than a doormat , even though it was sold as a doormat. :-( It will have to do until I come across something better in a shop

I have watched some Wimbledon this afternoon and now of course we are watching the football. I don’t mind , as you say Florence each to their own. For instance, I hate soaps and would never watch them in a million years . We tend to watch documentaries, especially history programmes. I don’t mind good quality dramas on the lines of Morse etc.

It's a free return, Florence, so it'll be fine.

Oh no ArgyllGran. If it wasn't expensive, you may have to write it off! Although, when i ordered all those shabby clothes, I did get refunded and a free return so you may be ok, good luck.

The rug arrived this afternoon - and will be going straight back on Monday!
It's advertised as non-slip, and that's definitely not true.

It would be lethal on the laminate floor I intended it for.

I'll just put up with the old rug - which actually looks fine, but the rubber ( non-slip) backing has perished - until I find another .
But not from Temu!

Afternoon all looking in.

Its been overcast and windy all day but have to say the kept kept off and I did get 2 large bath sheets almost dry so only needed 5 minutes to air off in the dryer.

i have been busy spring cleaning lol. Dusted and polished everywhere, vacuumed throughout, ironing and now having a well earned cuppa. The dust collects on a daily basis, its incredible really and there's only me here just now!

The roads are quiet here today so either people away on holiday as schools broke up last week or....glued to Wimbledon :-P Cant stand it soooo boring but each to their own.

I managed out to the bin but wasn't that warm as the wind was cold so I didn't stay out more than 5 minutes for fresh air and then went back inside.

So now having a chill for an hour and then to sort my evening meal but no idea what to have tonight?

Hope everyone well and ok today

Florence in the hebrides

Im watching Doc martin :-D :-D :-D

I haven't been watching the election coverage - it's too repetative.

OH and I are about to watch Channel 5. It's a proramme called Motorway Madness - Hell on the Highway and is dash-cam footage of very bad driving from all over the world. No commentary, and fascinating/horrifying in equal parts. They say noone was seriously hurt in any of the incidents - makes you wonder how they got away with it! :-S

Yes tv is dire at the moment, all sport or repeats .

Have to agree with you Linda about the election coverage on BBC today so much of it was pointless .

Been a lovely day here so have been in the garden tidying and dead heading the roses etc. One of those £2 roses I 'rescued' from Poundland has got quite big and has very pretty white flowers. The other one has a bud on so well pleased with my bargain.
The cucumbers and radishes are doing well also the carrots and caulflowers. The tomato plants have some good flowers as well.
Just starting to rain now .

Hope Joan is ok and also Sylvia and her hubby.

Take care all.

Ginnie

Afternoon all

Not a fab day at all, windy, misty and showery!

Anyway I have been busy making the 2nd batch of jam, this time strawberry and I got 7 jars( larger size).. All worked out very well and jolly tasty.

I turned on the TV awhile ago and on BBC1 and 2 was tennis with footie on ITV. Grrrrrr cant wait for all of it to end so we can get back to the usual soaps and other programmes etc.

Not sure what is on later? I have just finished watching a very old episode of Morse. And now Heartbeat is on.