General Chat

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

Good luck with your move Sylvia. Mr Owl is in a fair amount of pain despite the strong pain killers but he hopes it will start easing a little within a week. We are now planning where I put things so Mr Owl can reach them as I have work tomorrow and Saturday. I am also trying to attack one of my cats (Meg)with a pair of scissors as she has a few small knots in her fur. It will far easier if I can get them out but Meg hates me trying to find them.

Good luck with the move Sylvia. I hope your new home is comfortable for you and that you will be able to relax knowing that your OH is cared for. No doubt you will spend a lot of time with him so hopefully that will help him to adjust as well. I am sure though, as well, this day and moving will give you some sad thoughts so I wish you strength to deal with those and you know that you take happy memories with you.
We will be looking forward to hearing how things go <3

Best of luck Sylvia. I hope your husband soon settles down in his new surroundings and you can both start to enjoy a calmer period in your lives.

Take it as easy as you can, Sylvia.

It's so good that the movers are doing all the packing, unpacking, etc, for you, as you're having a stressful enough time without that - especially in all that heat.
And very good that your daughter is there to help.

Maybe next week you'll be able to relax, and settle in to your new place. Enjoy using your new kettle and toaster!

I hope your husband soon gets used to the new arrangement. It must be a huge advantage that you'll be under the same roof, as it were, even if not actually in the same rooms.

Good luck with Your move. Take it easy in the heat and I hope your OH soon settles.

Hi everyone

Well, yesterday was D-day for OH ............ told he would be leaving the hospital around 10 am, but the Hospital Transfer didn't show up until around 1 pm. So it was almost 1:30 by the time he arrived at the new place where I was waiting for him. He was more than a little tired and confused by then.

I'd already been back to our house once by then (we're less than 5 minutes by car, but I have to get taxis both ways!) because Amazon had sent an email that a rather large parcel I'd ordered would be arriving on the 6th instead of the 8th! We got OH into his small apartment (known as a studio here, I think you'd call it a bed sitter). He has his own bathroom, a small kitchenette with fridge, and then bedroom/living area combined, although there is a small window-less room that some people turn into a cozy den. He was confused for most of the rest of the day ........ couldn't seem to understand where I was going to be. I did stay to have dinner with him after another visit to see if the parcel had been delivered (no!), then saw him up to his room and handed him over to his care-givers.

The parcel was on the doorstep when I got home, rather large for containing a kettle, toaster and a box of 2 night lights!!

Tomorrow is my D-Day ............ and I am completely exhausted, with stuff still needing to be done by the time the movers arrive at 8:30 am. Daughter and her son arrived early afternoon, and she very kindly took the car insurance (which ran out yesterday) to the agency to renew it. One of our nieces and her husband are buying our 2006 Subaru Forester as a car their daughters can learn on! Then they went to see OH for a couple of hours, before coming back to order in Japanese food, and then off to bed ............ we're 4 hours behind them so my 7 pm was 11 pm for them!

I'm hoping to get a good sleep tonight, then the next time I get on here will be from my new abode!

Hope the 2 hurt OHs are recovering nicely ........... Tawny, it must be head for your OH not to be able to drive or work.

It is hot, hot, hot here, with over 90% humidity on most days, some days it has been 100% humidity, but it isn't raining!

Take care everyone.

Oh dear poor hubby Linda, hope hes topped up with painkillers!

Good evening, it has been cloudy here, but warm, we had a few spatterings of rain, but not much. I took Esme to the theme park again. We only went on the horse carousel, but we did do six shows which she loves. We normally leave in mid afternoon, but today we stayed until the end. The shows are all interactive for the children. She did the three disco shows where she dances along with the cast on the stage for half an hour non stop. At the end of the last show, they had a foam party which she loved of course.
Poor OH had a bad day. He said one of his wisdom teeth was hurting a few days ago, so he made an appointment with a new dentist here,private of course, or he would never have got one, That was at 8.30 this morning. They said that it needed to come out, so they would contact him later in the day to arrange a time. He went shopping, but then phoned to say that they had a cancellation at 9.15 if he wanted to go back which he did. As I was out with Esme by the time he finished, I had my daughter primed to collect him, but he rang her to say he was fine, so walked twenty minutes home. He only realised how much it was going to hurt when the anaesthetic wore off. He has been watching the Olympics all day in bed

Morning Tawny and everyone looking in today.. Yes one never knows when someone might visit so a quick hoover and your home will be all spic & span Im sure.

Its cloudy but dry just now but....there is torrential rain forecast for later and there is a county show on which is the norm here!

I had a lovely time with my neighbour last night who spent the evening with me and we had a good catch up and put the world to rights as you do.

Today, not much on except carry on writing up the tree Im working on until its re written.

Hope everyone else is having a good day

Florence in the hebrides

Morning everyone, 15 degrees here and windy but I can still see the sun. Listening to the men outside collecting the glass recycling at the moment and wondering if I need to do much today beyond running the hoover incase my in-laws come round.

ArgyllGran, you can moan as being up here in Northern Scotland with rubbish weather, we are entitled to moan lol. It sure bucketed later on and that continued for the rest of the day. had a mini powercut when i was in the loo lol but it came back very quickly.

Another country show tomorrow and the forecast is worse than today grrrr

Yes the poor plants, they dont stand a chance!

Tawny glad your hubby is back home and hope he recovers soon.

I do admire your stamina and patience, Linda!

Pouring with rain here again. Day after day - so depressing.
Garden plants have been battered flat by yesterday's downpour combined with strong winds.

I don't have a TV picture now either, as the rain water clinging to a tree nearby is interfering with the satellite signal. I'll have to get a tree surgeon to fell or at least reduce the height of the very tall leylandii-type tree.

However, I can watch most things on my tablet in the meantime.

The weather's sure to improve as soon as the schools go back - 20th August in this part of Scotland.

Oh dear, I do seem to be moaning!

That is a lovely sunset Florence.
I am so sorry to read about your husband Tawny, I hope he is home soon

It turned into another lovely day here. I was intending to take Eve on a treasure hunt in the town centre at lunch time. The local volunteer run heritage centre has produced one to raise funds. If you complete it and hand it in there is a prize draw. My daughter loves things like that, so she brought Esme for the first forty five minutes, then had to go back to work. Eve and I finished it off, then went for a drink and cake. Tomorrow, I get to take Esme to Lightwater Valley again, I can’t wait :-(

Evening all, Sunny here now and 17 degrees so a pleasant evening. Mr Owl is home now with one disk cut in half and orders not to work for at least six weeks or drive for two. I have two two small furry beasties (cats) still sunning themselves at the moment in the last of the days sun.

Oh my new profile picture was of a sunset taken locally awhile ago....when we had some sun lol

Morning all

Oh dear Tawny, so sorry to hear this about Mr Owl. Here's hoping he will make a good recovery and the operation released the trapped nerves.

Drier day here but very blustery as is the forecast for the whole week with torrential rain tomorrow grrr

I just took delivery of a very large box which said "live plants inside," i was quite excited as thought someone had sent me flowers although, its not my birthday :-S
But when I opened it up, all became clear.....4 new tubs for planting flowers in. The company had used one of their boxes for live plants to send them in!

However, Im glad they arrived so quickly as it originally said 20th August, so turned out well.

Well better get the vacuum cleaner out and have a tidy up as a friend is coming after tea at 7pm for coffee and a catch up which Im looking forward to.

Hope everyone else is having a good day.

Florence in the Hebrides

Morning everyone,

I’m up bright and early for work today and right now it’s dry and a little cloudy but it’s supposed to reach 19 degrees by lunchtime which is when I finish today. I may be off to the hospital later as Mr Owl ended up in the city’s Royal Hospital waiting on an MRI which confirmed what we didn’t want. The nerves in the bottom of his back are trapped again and he had surgery last night as Cauda Equina is classed as serious though not life threatening. Here’s hoping everyone has a good day.

Tawny

My eye is slowly getting better , thank you Florence. I can tell when it is getting time to put the eye drops in because it feels sore.
It was a nice day today. We got the bus into Harrogate because I wanted to buy some new shorts and OH wanted a few things. I looked in a couple of shops with OH tagging along, then we went to Mountain Warehouse where he bought two pairs of sandals and a pair of trousers. At that point, I asked if he would like to go home while I continued shopping. He was all for that as I was because he doesn’t understand the concept of browsing around. I managed to get a couple of pairs of shorts in Marks and I bought a top in TK Maxx. I still want a particular type of shorts and a new pair of trainers, so I will have another look in a week or so

Morning all.

very blustery day here with showers and of course it was bin day! But they just came and I managed out quick before the shower came and got it back in its place.

I am going to be writing up family tree stuff for the rest of the day as I have quite a bit of info to digest now and sort out. that will keep me busy for sometime. As im home alone, i wont get interrupted.

Linda, hope you eye has improved.

Sylvia, hope the move is going well and hubby is ok

Everyone else looking in, hope you all have a good day :-D

Florence in the hebrides