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Morning folks
Hope everyone is feeling chipper today despite the weather, unbelievable isn't it?,
One good thing is the rain is doing my garden good
LM
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Light rain was forecast for yesterday - but it never materialised!
Winds and rain put paid to the TT Races. Senior TT was cancelled for only the 2nd time in history.
Brighter, and warmer, weather due from tomorrow.
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Good to hear you enjoyed your trip to your daughter's Viktoria.
Gillg, every year a friend of mine complains about 'flaming June' and I always remind her that it's often cold and wet in June! I think we did really well with the weather in May this year, lots of sunshine and warm too.
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Viktoria
I'm glad your trip went well. You obviously had fun with the grandchildren, too. :)
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Good to see you back Viktoria, you were missed. Glad you enjoyed your time with the little ones, they grow so fast you miss such a lot when you are separated by distance.
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Yes, Flash Harry used to come every weekend as his Daddy was working for his Mum ,fitting out the showroom etc and F,H’s Mummy worked in the Nursery of one of Bury’s best school ,to have worked there was a recommendation in itself so she did not want to break contract , so grandson had his little family all together on Sundays then FH to himself on Mondays , it worked very well .
He is a very hands on daddy.
At Eye Clinic today, all is very well and Mr.Agrawal the Consultant came to see me, me although I was being attended to by one of his staff ,another lovely person.
Really cold today and heavy rain.
I had grown three pepper plants from seeds I saved from peppers.
Growing well but one partially pulled up just before I left , no idea what would do that, but all three gone now-
The sweet Williams from seeds are 18 inches high and full of flowers ,also,poppies doing well, no flowers open as yet.Cosmos likewise.
Hollyhocks- nothing.
Last year I “retrieved “ some hollyhock seeds from plants in a cottage garden near my daughter’s, spilling in to the pavement so I picked some up. They have not germinated at all .
Went to a “ Wartime 40’s dance on Saturday evening in the Village Hall, the area is strongly connected to The Battle of Britain so lots of RAF uniforms.
A real Swing Band, and many dancers jitterbugging etc.
Quite nostalgic .
Grand daughter’s wedding plans falling into place ,August, all quite informal but sounds lovely ,a real village wedding .
“ Wild “ flowers in Church, but don’t worry they are cultivated ones , and grown specially, people sow their seeds in various places in the wild after the wedding when flowers are dry.I can imagine quite a few do germinate so that is good.
Hope all are as well as can be expected, I know many are being very brave.
We do think about you ,
Cheerio . So nice to be in contact again.
Viktoria.
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Just checking in for the week's news from you all. At least it seems to have stopped raining!
TY
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Just watching a History programme .Professor Alice Roberts,just shown the section of the Roman wall, complete with the Ash tree, so filmed some time ago, it truly was magnificent ,shown from the air but at an angle .
What a pity.
Viktoria.
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Did you mean the Sycamore Tree? At Sycamore Gap.
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Yes,of course, as usual I rushed in!
Thanks , it really is a shame it has been destroyed ,what a mindless action!
Viktoria.
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Some funny things happening in my garden- well,my little apple tree,a Bramley, has lots of little apples on it but today I noticed blossom too!
New blossom, it is a good while since the first blossom was on - that weeks ago.
The “ June drop” has happened ,tiny apples all over the grass.
My C ox’ s had lots of apples but all gone—- not ripe by any means so must be birds or squirrels—-
Lovely day ,much milder and very sunny.
Lots of washing done .
So sad the air crash, very strange re the landing gear and flaps ,not retracted.
Amazing that a passenger survived.
Ordered a suit for Grand daughter’s wedding in August ,navy blue silky and I have a lovely off white / ivory jacket if it is chilly , navy shoes and bag .
Now hat? I have a plain off white fine straw fairly large brim that would take a navy ribbon / bow trim.
I might look like a mushroom though ,I have shrunk both vertically and horizontally !
Had a bad day yesterday ,chest pains like very bad indigestion , it did respond a bit to Gaviscon , but all night.
Better this morning however.
I never know what to do, but if it had been heart related would surely not have lessened after Gaviscon, and something more dramatic surely would have happened ——
So a quiet day today, and feel O.K.
Had a light tea and so far O.K.
Hope all are alright,many have very difficult conditions to cope with.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
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Hi Viktoria
Sorry you have been uncomfortable, hopefully you will feel better tomorrow, are you doing to much?
You will look the bees knees as they say at the forthcoming wedding , I am sure you could put a nice ribbon round your hat.
I went with my local priest sick visiting today, so sad, both have either dementia or altzheimers, we don't think we can offer communion wafer to the one who does like communion, she has difficulty swallowing, can't take the risk. Afterwards the reverend treated me to a Rossi ice cream on the seafront, it was very hot , got home eventually feeling quite shattered.
My husband's 86th birthday tomorrow, not doing much except a BBQ in the evening with my daughter and family.
Enjoy the weekend folks, we are expecting a storm, one day if excessive heat and we expect a storm
LM
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Have a lovely day L.M.
Viktoria.
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My new pacemaker was fitted on Thursday during a day case - went in at 8 am and got home around 6 pm. The hospital staff were kind and helpful and my husband is now having to help me out with some domestic tasks, as I'm not allowed to raise my left arm above shoulder height for 6 weeks! Taking a shower is rather difficult because I mustn't get the dressing wet, but that will come off next week, which will make matters easier. Dressing is slow and sometimes problematic, as everything has to be front fastened and I'm used to popping tops on over my head. My daughter will wash my hair for me. There are some prepared meals in the freezer to help for a few days and I was up to date with laundry, cleaning and shopping before the procedure.
I am also going to a wedding in July, Viktoria, and like you will be wearing navy and white, but I won't be wearing a hat and I don't think I will be dancing, either!
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Thunderstorm just passed through - put the kybosh on the TV signal!
Had daughter #2 visiting - mainly for TT, and catching up with old college chums.
But she did visit me twice - I needed help setting up Alexa!
She also joined myself, my mate, his daughter and his ex-partner at our regular Wednesday pub meet up.
It was great to see her; and nice to be able to talk to Alexa! :D
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Our storm wasn't so bad, don't think I heard a lot of it as I had terrible cramp and must have been ooing and aaring most of the time in so much pain.
Wet to start with but the sun keeps popping out, we did need a storm to clear the air but a pity so many things will be spoilt today due to the weather.
Not keen on Alexa myself, use the radio for local updates mainly
Take care
LM
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I like navy blue, more than black .
The skirt is deeply pleated and will really swing when I move.
I have a pair of new navy suede medium height heel shoes and also plain navy court shoes and marching plain navy clutch bag,worn once for my daughter’s second wedding .
It is the bride who will get all the attention and rightly so.
Have sorted out some puppy toys from my last dog , the new puppy has lots but nice to swap and change them . One releases a treat when rolled about , it is adjustable so treats often or seldom but it is good for the odd occasions
when the puppy is alone .
She has a big cage and sleeps there ,but likes it when she is tired and Flash Harry and Kyra know to respect her space.
She has not had her tail docked ,was a Veterinary Nurse’s dog’s puppy.
The mother died after a few weeks so has really been hand reared , but whilst that is in a way a bonus she has not had the discipline a mother dog gives to her puppies.So she needs to be well trained and has already got some
commands .
Well a horrible dull day here.
Eldest son on holiday ,was 68 on Thursday, I can’t believe it , how the years have flown by.
Well ,must get on , hope all are as well as can be expected given I know quite a few are not well.Hope you enjoy the weekend.
Cheerio.Viktoria.
P.S. ouch! OoooLouisa, that is so painful - hard rubbing and if a leg go on tip toes and hard rubbing sometimes helps but check with your Dr as it can be a lack of something in your diet, can’t remember what though .
Hope it doesn’t come back.V.
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Gillg, hope all is well. Thinking of you.
Viktoria, your proposed outfit sounds lovely - I myself never wear any shade of blue, simply hate it.
LouisaMaud, it started chucking it down a bit before midnight last night, and my goodness I could almost hear the ground and plants slurping in delight! No thunderstorms here.
KGarrad, not tangled with Alexa, at present neither videorecorder/humax working -so restricted to "Real time" broadcasting, but spend most of time reading, as news depresses me so much now. I'm becoming a technophobe / luddite, after too many years working with it all!
TY
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I only use Alexa to turn on lights!
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Are you sure Alexa isn't covertly listening in to you and reporting back to Big Brother? Won't have her or Siri in the house as "she" gives me the creeps.
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Are you sure Alexa isn't covertly listening in to you and reporting back to Big Brother? Won't have her or Siri in the house as "she" gives me the creeps.
She needs the "Wake" word to start listening in!
https://www.asurion.com/connect/tech-tips/is-alexa-listening-to-conversations-at-home/
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I am inclined to agree with gillg, I asked Alexa to play
THE INTERMETSO from CAVALERIA RUSTICANA
she had no clue as to what I was asking for.
LM
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Louisa, try the Italian spelling -
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana.
Having put that I think you speak to Alexa—— ?
If so ignore the above :-[
Viktoria.
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Interesting trip out today, 30 miles down the track from Radstock to Stalbridge, just inside the Dorset border and the paternal family area.I have traced, in one way or another, the family back to about 1650, but today was not specifically on that tack.
For many year most of the village, houses buildings and land (now a town!) was in private ownership, but in 1918, for whatever reason, the owner Lord Stalbridge, of the Grosvenor dynasty, decided to put the whole lot up for auction. Recently the Stalbridge History Society have put together a wonderful book telling of that event. For three days this week they held an exhibition in the Stalbridge Hall showing much detail of the outcome of that sale, with maps and photographs and many stories about "STALBRIDGE SOLD".
Although it is my "ancestral homeland" and I have lots of family history information from there, it is many years since I had visited the town.
One of the people to whom I spoke during the couple of hours I was there turned out to be a distant relative whom I had never met but whose family name I could recall from my own FH search.
I brought home with me a copy of the book prepared by the History Group , and whilst most of my nearest relations had, by 1918, left the village, I can forsee many hours of "dipping pleasure" to see what, if any family secrets of mine it contains.
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Isn’t life strange, to meet someone like that is quite amazing.
At a “ War weekend” in Ramsbottom some years ago ,at our Church’s
“NAAFI “ tea room a man came to my stall ( I was doing the cakes) and said he had been told that I had been an evacuee- I said that I had indeed been evacuated , he asked where ,I said “ you won’t know it ,it is in very rural Shropshire”
“ Try me “ he said ,so I told him and he knew the little hamlet - asked did I know ——————, and I did,she together with the daughter of the people with whom I lived for the greater part of the years I spent there ,took me to school my very first day . He was her relative but from Liverpool originally .
Their grandmothers were sisters , and he was related to the people with whom I lived because his aunt had married the brother of the lady with whom I lived.
What a coincidence. And the lady with whom I lived had by a coincidence the same name as her maiden name after she got married .
Are you still with me - it was a coincidence though wasn’t it.
Viktoria.
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Coincidences!
I am going to Stalbridge on 6th July with my sister and brother in law where we will be staying with my cousin and her husband who live there. They moved there when their only son who was in the army then married a Dorset girl and settled in Shillingstone. With no real ties to keep them in Suffolk they moved down to Dorset so they could see more of their 2 grand daughters.
The first time my brother in law visited them said he wanted to visit Milborne Port which he'd discovered was just over the border in Somerset. I'd previously done his family tree and some of his ancestors are buried there. We all trooped out to the churchyard one day and were lucky enough to find their graves. He was delighted as you can imagine.
Most people outside of Dorset have never heard of Stalbridge so to see it mentioned here has brought up lots of lovely memories with, no doubt, more to be made in July.
Annette
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My great-grandfather was the station master at Shillingstone!
I'm sure I drove through Stalbridge when I visited Shillingstone a few years ago.
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KG Not far down the line from Stalbridge. First Sturminster Newton, then Shillingstone. I think I had a relative who was in the Signal Box at Stalbridge at one time rj.
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Coincidences! Such small co-incidences can pepper a life with interest. (Gail Honeyman)
I am going to Stalbridge on 6th July with my sister and brother in law where we will be staying with my cousin and her husband who live there. They moved there when their only son who was in the army then married a Dorset girl and settled in Shillingstone. With no real ties to keep them in Suffolk they moved down to Dorset so they could see more of their 2 grand daughters.
The first time my brother in law visited them said he wanted to visit Milborne Port which he'd discovered was just over the border in Somerset. I'd previously done his family tree and some of his ancestors are buried there. We all trooped out to the churchyard one day and were lucky enough to find their graves. He was delighted as you can imagine.
Most people outside of Dorset have never heard of Stalbridge so to see it mentioned here has brought up lots of lovely memories with, no doubt, more to be made in July.
Annette
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Just catching up with last weeks diary… we have very good friends who live in Milbourne Port!! It’s always interesting when you hear of small places you know quite out of context!
Glad to hear everyone is getting on well and hope for better health for all as the sun is shining and its warm… pity about the gardens though all the watering we’re doing on the veg plot..
Great strawberries this year and I’ve managed to make sure they don’t get eaten unlike our mostly grown lettuce, beetroot and would you believe runner beans all been shredded by those dastardly pigeons… unbelievable never happened to beans before now we have CD 💿’s tied up over everything to stop them any further… my poor OH is beside himself 😢.
Enjoy your trip down south Annette… how are those lovely twins doing?
Gillg - pleased to hear you’ve had your pacemaker fitted and hope you’ll soon be up to speed and living a normal comfortable life.
Viktoria- - you continue to amaze me every day with all that you do and hope your vehicle issues are resolved … wonderful you were able spend time with your family in Suffolk a lovely county and know Framingham well!
LM hope your husbands birthday went well and you enjoyed some family time. Thankyou for continuing to start the diary every week too.
My best to all those I’ve not mentioned too.
Caroline
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My great-grandfather was the station master at Shillingstone!
I'm sure I drove through Stalbridge when I visited Shillingstone a few years ago.
When my grandfather was born, in 1876, Shillingstone was called Shilling Okeford :D
Confused the heck out of me at first!
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Caw1
Thanks for your good wishes. I'm getting on well, though it's really difficult not to raise my arm above shoulder height. I did a bit of ironing this afternoon and it has worn me out! I'll be glad to get the itchy dressing off on Thursday and to get through the 6 weeks' arm raising ban. We'll be off to my nephew's wedding in 4 weeks time, so that's something to look forward to. My daughter washed and blow dried my hair yesterday and made quite a good job of it.
Waiting to see if the bride will wear our 130 year old family veil, which I have entrusted her with. I fear it will be too dark a creamy colour for her dress. It will be a navy and white ensemble for me.
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The twins are coming on fine - completely different nature's as I've mentioned before. They finish at pre-school next month and start at the 'big school' in September (not 5 until December). Mum now buying school uniforms. Gulp! Where has the time gone? Macy is very much a fashionista and chooses what she want to wear each day. How she'll cope with wearing a uniform every day I don't know.
I see them every Wednesday and I'm currently knitting clothes for their dolls.
Annette
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My twin granddaughters start big, big school in September!
Can't believe they are 11 1/2. :D
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KG - good luck to the twins, and to all school children :)
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So nice to hear about “ the little miracles” how time flies.
We followed their progress as they got older after such a worrying low birthweight.
Well Gillg I am hoping for a pacemaker but had not realised how complicated they are re normal life!
What is your heart condition? Unlike me you don’t mention it so I wish you well with your pacemaker and that it is very beneficial for you.
A sunny mild day here , had a few tiny strawberries with my Weetabix, little Alpine ones,such intense flavour ,just a few at any time are ripe.
Well, prescriptions just delivered and guess what—— all correct!
Usually there is a phone battle re missed items etc.
One of our two local Chemists closed- a Lloyd’s branch so the other had a big extra workload ,but seem to be getting it all in order now.
Cohen’s .
Well, a water shortage predicted ——- and after so much rain, , but if not “ harvested “ well just rainwater.
Look after yourselves folks .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
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Heatwave?!
14C here!! :(
57F in old money.
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25C here in sunny Northamptonshire…. Plants need rain though!
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There will be a water bann soon.
Lm
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A sunny mild day here , had a few tiny strawberries with my Weetabix, little Alpine ones,such intense flavour ,just a few at any time
I have had a little strawberry plant growing in a pot in the top of an old chimney pot for years. This winter it was looking very tatty and I nearly disposed of it but my daughter’s dog loves the odd little strawberry so I didn’t have the heart to throw it away. She visited yesterday and enjoyed her little treat so I am glad I didn’t.
Daughter and s-in-l are in the process of moving from Worcester to West Yorkshire so big change for them.
Pinetree
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We are having a bumper crop of rather large strawberries this year and they are sweet, too. All the other veg in our garden are growing well. They must like this changeable weather. It's a bit hot for me. In the mid-twenties this afternoon.
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Our strawberries 🍓 too are wonderful this year, large flavoursome and juicy… netted over to stop the birds eating them and definitely a bumper crop. My family will enjoy them this w/end when we visit them in Brighton.
I love this warm weather with a gentle breeze but avoid the garden until early evening when it’s cooler and shaded.
Think we’ve had more bbq’s already than we did in whole of last year!
Hope everyone is able to enjoy some warm sunshine so good for one’s soul…
Caroline
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W/E 15th is in danger of being closed down, we are now on to W/E 22nd June.
Just saying!!!
LM