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Hell to all.
WE have just had the thunder Florence, woke this morning to a very windy but dry day, since dinner time the wind abated a little & down came the rain, quite heavy as well, then the thunder moved in.
The power went off about 1/2 an hour ago but was back on in seconds !!

I have lost some of the tv /sky channels at the moment, mostly the ones I tend to watch so I'm hoping they return soon, it's so quiet & lonely here without the tv.

Take care everyone.

Joan.

Afternoon everyone looking in today

Well I had a rude awakening this morning at 8am as a loud clap of thunder woke me up! Boy it was loud and not something we get that often up here!

i waited for the lightening to follow but it never came just more thuinder so i jumped out of bed and headed to the kitchen to get the kettle on incase the electric went off.
It didnt and by 9.30, the thunder had moved over towards NE Scotland. It did pour hard though, torrential and we are on flood alert towards the end of the week.

Its blowing a gale here but had dried up so much so my grasscutters came and decided to push ahead with mowing today as the rest of the wind is awful.
So glad they did it and it looks very neat now.

I tel the chemist today to see if my calf and foot wraps had arrived and was told yes, they are awaiting your collection!! i said well someone was supposed to tel me & let me know when they arrive but obviously they didnt. Luckily daughter is at the dentist today in town and has been & collected them for me.

I then tel the drs and just got a phone call back from the district nurse who is coming tom at 10am to fit the wraps and.... I need a FBC, HB1AC, LFT & Kidney plus BP!! Oh my full MOT lol

Might as well get my moneys worth while they are here lol

The cold salmon salad I made yesterday was so delicious as the salmon just melted in the mouth and there is plenty tuna pasta left for tonight to have with a jacket potato so thats tea taken care of.

When I was younger we had our main meal which we called "tea" at 5.30 every night. Dinner was what some call "lunch" and always at 12.30.

My nephew has his meal at 5pm on his own each night as his mum waits for her hubby who isnt home until 7pm and they don't eat until 8pm! He is self employed so comes home when he finishes a job!

If we were eating out after 6pm in the evening, we would say we are going out for dinner as in evening meal.

The post was here before 10.30 so I'm guessing no mail plane today.

Hope all is well with everyone

Florence in the hebrides

That 's the trouble with getting rid of things. You may not have used a particular item for years, but as soon as you throw it out you're sure to find a need for it!

Yesterday I got rid of 15 shoe boxes. Well, at least I flattened them and put them in the recycling bin ready for the next collection. I've still kept five - just in case!

We had the forecast good weather here today, thank goodness, though the sun didn't come through until about lunchtime.
One dry, warm, sunny day - wonderful. I have cut all the grass, which had grown long. I haven't been able to cut it for a couple of weeks because of the daily rain, and tomorrow we'll be back to showery weather - but at least the grass is now cut, so it'll be OK for a few days.

It has been incredibly hot here, it is still 24° now. Luckily the house stays nice and cool, so I have mainly been watching the Olympics . It is going to be even hotter tomorrow and they are forecasting thunder storms which I love.

After my father died, we were faced with clearing out the garage, workshop and shed. They were full of the sort of stuff you are talking about Joan. Luckily, he went before my mum, so we had plenty of time to empty everything out, it would have been a nightmare if it had been the other way around. He had a massive collection of rusty tools etc.

OH had several goes through his stuff before we moved, so there isn’t that much, but I am sure that it will soon build up again.
I was looking for a casserole dish yesterday, then I realised that it was one of the things I sent to the charity shop.

LOL Florence, I don't heveatn have a mobile phone to tell me the time, I do have to rely on the various clocks throughout the house.

I have my hubbys wrist watch, a very ordinary simple (old fashioned ) type, gold coloured & it fits me, but I can't get used to having something on my wrist, I would so love to be able to wear it.

It's been sunny & calm here today, & rather warm.
Our daughter & her tribe came over to mine earlier to look through some of the tools & other various items cluttering up the garage & workshop.
Most of the stuff is of no use to me & much of what they came across should have been thrown out long ago, soo many old nails & screws & the like, lol.

Our son cleared out the other half of the old steading long ago of much of the same.
My hubby never threw anything away, just in case, lol.

Enjoy you meal Florence.

Joan.

PS Joan, I don't own a watch either lol. My phone tells me the time or the various clocks throughout the house.

Afternoon everyone looking in.

was supposed to turn out warm at 17 degrees this afternoon and no wind but we now have cloud and its starting to rain so that forecast was completely wrong!

However in the morning I stripped my bed and got all of the washing dry so that was a bonus. I had bought myself a new bed set in purple pin tuck. Was a bit of a pain to iron lol but now on the bed, its looks lovely.

I decided after couple of days without much appetite, i would make a salmon salad today. I made 2 bowls of pasta/tuna one GF and one normal. I like sweetcorn in mine as well. 2 fillets of salmon, lovely when cold, potato salad and some crusty bread rolls. We were going to make soup but changed our minds as the kitchen was so warm, the thought of soup went out the window lol

So now all ready and chilling in the fridge for later.

I'm now sitting with a can of juice as my left knee was beginning to hurt as I had been standing a long time.

Hope everyone else enjoying their Sunday

Florence in the hebrides

Good afternoon, it is nice and sunny now.

I have just had to phone the plumber who installed our Nest thermostat in May. It is suddenly losing the settings for the date and time and won’t connect to our internet :-(
I have googled the fault and tried everything to reset it, to no avail. Luckily we don’t need the heating and only have the hot water on for an hour a day. We still have an immersion heater on the hot water tank, so can use that until we can get it fixed.

We are having a quiet weekend as the girls are away. Eve has gone to London for the weekend to stay with her best friend. Her father took her and is staying with a friend . My daughter has taken Esme to Alton towers for the weekend, although they will just be in C Beebies land and not on the scary stuff. They are staying in a Premier Inn for two nights which Esme loves. She FaceTimed from the car this morning and I asked her if she had slept well. She said she hadn’t because Emma ( her doll) had woken her up seven times in the night. Luckily my daughter said that she had a really good nights sleep :-)

We were the same with meals, back in the " olden days" when I was young!
Main meal at lunchtime (or dinner-time, as it was then known), and a high tea at teatime - maybe scrambled egg on toast, or some other light hot course, plus bread or scones and cake.

My habits changed when I went to uni, as the students' hostel I stayed in provided a main meal in the evening, included in the cost (ah, yes, those were the days!).
Then later when I was working, it was just a sandwich or something like that at lunchtime, with the main meal in the evening.

As for jewellery, I don't have anything particularly valuable. I do have lots of chains and pendants - nothing chunky - but only ever wear two or three of them.
I haven't owned ear-rings since my early 20s, when I sometimes wore clip-ons, which pinched my ears painfully. I've never had my ears pierced.

I only wear my wedding ring. My engagement ring lives in a box and hasn't seen the light of day for many years. I have a couple of dress rings which were my grandmother's, but they don't fit me.

I used to wear a watch until I retired. After that I only wore a watch if I was away from home and had to catch a train or keep an appointment.
Nowadays I have a personal alarm watch which will tell me the time, but I normally keep it switched off to save having to keep charging it up every couple of days, and also to avoid making emergency calls by mistake.
If I ever do need to make an emergency call (haven't so far) , it will switch on very quickly.

Oh, I couldn’t do without my all singing, all dancing Apple Watch Joan .

My mum liked jewellery as well, although she couldn’t afford much when we were little. She treated herself in her old age :-D She bought a gold bangle for me and one for my sister. She said we were to remember her whenever we wore them. I had mine on a couple of days ago and of course, I thought of her.

Argh yes, those were the days Linda, when most mams stayed at home & dads coming home at dinner time for their dinner, when life was much simpler.

I wouldn't want to eat a heavy meal as late as 6-00 never mind at 9-00, lol.

I have never hankered over jewellry, I don't even wear a watch,
So very different from my mother who was very much into such things, she couldn't get enough, lol.

Joan.

When I was little, we always had our main meal at lunchtime, then just sandwiches at tea time. That was the norm then, but I suppose that women didn’t work after they got married. Now most women work and men don’t come home in the middle of the day, things are different. A lot of people seem to eat very late though, if we haven’t had dinner by six, I am starving. Often when I call my brother he will be saying that he needs to make their meal and it is nearly nine pm :-S

I like wearing my necklaces and pendants in the summer when I am wearing dresses or v neck t -shirts. In the winter it is normally jeans and a fleece top, so I don’t bother then. I always wear earrings though .

Hello Linda, pleased to hear hubby is feeling much better, & now he's back to doing the painting again, no rest for the wicked as they say.

I'm not a jewellry person at all, just 2 rings to my name, my wedding ring & another that was also from hubby, it's one of those 3 rings in one, know as a Russion wedding ring, I don't have an engagement ring we never got engaged officially, we just "assumed" we woud marry each other, LOL.

We always used to have our main meal at tea-time, then when Jack became ill he would have his meal a little earlier in the afternoon, since he died I have made the change to have my main meal nearer dinner-time so that it's not too close to my bed-time supper of Porridge usually.

It just suits me better now that I am on my own.

The rain camme on this afternoon, not much thank goodness, & I gave up on the afternoon film as I had seen it before, settled for a bit of housework instead, lol.

Joan.

It is very cold here today and windy. The forecast for the weekend and the first part of next week looks very good.
I have very little costume jewellery, as OH worked abroad for long periods of time, he was given daily cash allowances , but didn’t really need them, so he usually brought me jewellery. Lots of gold and white gold, many sets with matching earrings. I will have to go through it all with my daughter so she doesn’t think that it is just silver. It is a great pity that I don’t have swanky places to go to wear it all, Morrisons is a bit of a let down.

OH is feeling a lot better today, he has just been putting masking tape on the double doors between the lounge and dining room, so he can paint them. Each door has four glass panels in it and with two sides to do, that is a lot of tape. The tape is bright blue and it act looks very nice against the white of the door and the glass. I said he should leave it there :-D

I will have to make the cottage pie soon, we have our main meal in the evening, not lunchtime

Hello to all.
It was a nice sunny morning but it keeps on dulling over now, it's rather sindy as well so I have been put off venturing outside.
Trying to keep on top of the weedkiling but the odd showers we have had make that task difficult, such a waste of time & effort when the rain washes off the weed killer !

I am just about to have my main meal, sliced tatties once again with something ? not decided what yet, lol.
I managd to get my weekly shop done yesterday, I wasn't sure about daughters foot but she is over the worst & driving is ok, thank goodness, she has some very colourful bruises on her thigh where the lid hit it when dropping down onto her toes.

So sorry to hear about Tawny & Lindas hubbys who are experiencing pain etc, I do hope they will be on the mend very soon.

Best dish up my meal before the afternoon film starts, I'm a bit late with it today but I had a phone call when preparing it so that put me back a bit.

I had a couple of off days this week mainly because of playing some of my CDs, playing our favourite songs trigger soo many memories.

Take care.

Joan.

Afternoon everyone looking in.

Did a good spring clean today and found 3 hot water bottles in daughters bedroom still full of water!! They had slipped down the end of the bed she she would have forgotten they were there. I had stripped and remade her bed when I made the discoveries..

Tawny I'm sure you can text the odd message to Mr owl just to check in with him. Hope he's feeling a bit better today.

Linda, I did have a small stand for necklaces but yes they did all seem to get tangled up. Anyway I had a declutter and some were so old, I chucked them, nothing valuable just costume. My earrings i keep in a box but don't have that many as again, I threw out loads from years ago I didn't wear anymore.

I seem to be having to dust every other day which seems a lot but the surfaces of tops and book shelves do gather the dust. Does anyone else find this?

I shredded a load of paper and receipts and did the accounts so all up straight
now. So resting with a coffee looking at the news and seeing what's happening today in uk and around the world then back to my crocheting a shawl as more wool came today in the post.

Any spare sun going please as its so miserable and wet up here, really need some Vit D lol

Have a good day all

Florence in the hebrides

Good afternoon, well it is two minutes past twelve.
I am hope that your OH will cope without you Tawny, at least you can have your phone on you for reassurance

My OH is much better today, I am going to make a cottage pie for dinner tonight as it will be easy for him to eat.

I have been sorting out my jewellery this morning. I bought a small stand to put all my necklaces on as if I can see them, I will wear them rather than just having them in a drawer out of site. The stand was too small though, so they were getting tangled up. There wasn’t a mirror in the bedroom, so I have bought a free standing full length mirror cum Jewellery cabinet on a stand. It looks very nice in the corner of the room. It has a led light all round the outside which I assumed was run from batteries, but it needs to be plugged in, so I have just ordered a usb extension lead. I have also ordered some more hooks for the inside as there are several wasted rows designed for the type of earrings which have the hooks through the ears, whereas all my earrings are the stud type. Now I can get rid of my large jewellery box and the stand which were on top of the chest of drawers. That leaves an empty space which is just crying out for a nice plant :-D

Morning all, Hoping your move goes well Sylvia and your husband feels better soon Linda. I’m working today so leaving Mr Owl on his own for the first time since he got home. I am allowed my phone on the shop floor though as long as it’s out of view of the customers so he can contact me if needed. I hope everyone has a good day whatever your plans.

I hope that everything goes well tomorrow Sylvia and that your OH settles in as well.
It will be sad leaving your old house, but it is surprising how quickly you adjust to a new house.
I hope your husbands pain settles down soon Tawny, moving must be very painful for him.
My OH got up this mo and Sid that he was fine, but after a short while decided he wasn’t because his mouth was hurting, so he went back to bed and listened to the radio all morning. He actually hadn’t been feeling very well for a few days, very achy with a sore throat, so he probably has a bug. He did a Covid test a couple of days ago, but it was negative. He has started eating bowls of Weetabix mushed up with milk, so isn’t starving.

Afternoon all

Good to know all is progressing well Sylvia with the move. I guess, you will naturally have mixed feelings as you are leaving a place you have been living in for so long. It will take some time to adjust for both of you.

I wish you well and once you are settled, you will be able to tell us all your new stories.

Poor Mr Owl Tawny, only rest and time will heal him. As long as he has all his needs close by and the remote control oh plus a phone lol, he will be ok once you are at work.

Linda hope you eye and hubby's mouth is much better today and healing well..

My tesco order came dead on 11am which was fab as I got it all away quickly and then started on my job planned for today! i emptied the whole freezer and reorganised it so now, I can find things much more quickly. Daughter had bought a bulk amount of stir fry pork which she put into many freezer bags about 10 in all but oh, all squashed in here & there!

So i reorganised it so much better, chicken with chicken, fish in a different drawer etc and then chips & veg. i simply cannot abide it all mixed up ;-)

I have wrapped daughters birthday gifts and hid them in my wardrobe so another job off the list. i am now resting as legs were aching with a large coffee and a jam doughnut...naughty but nice lol

Not a great day, very low cloud and windy and no sun!

Florence in the hebrides