Diary summary week ending 23rd February 2025

[candleflame]

Stay as positive as you can Jebber.

[louisa maud]

Jebber, you can't afford to worry about indignity.

Take care

LM

[Viktoria]

Oh, I am so sorry Jebber,I hope you have a speedy recovery .
Accept all the help you can, physiotherapist etc.and exercises to help rebuild muscles you won’t be using for a while .
I wonder if Vitamin D and Calcium  would speed recovery —- but get expert advice .

So sorry too about the bladder stones , perhaps you are like many people and don’t drink as much as we need.Again best wishes for a speedy recovery .
Are you in a hard water area?

Fish and chips for tea, so an easy day really.

Shed all done ,just a ramp to protect the threshold now, ,son had a good idea, one on a hinge which really might do the trick.

Well,pots to wash and a T.V evening ( as usual) .
 Best regards to everyone ,and sincere wishes for speedy recoveries

Viktoria.

[KGarrad]

Viktoria - IOM is soft water.

[louisa maud]

I have been awake since 4.40am, decided after over an hour to get up, can't  do much for fear of walking my husband d but he has just got up.

I had a telephone call from a family member I didn't know, 2002 I wrote to her father, then I had a letter from her mother, both since  died , it has taken time  for this person to go through her parents papers and found my letter to then, we corresponded through emails yesterday  so I might be back on the family  tree research again,  been  a bit lax lately as no one is interested, or wasn't till yesterday, so it will be interesting swapping  family history, we both know we had 1 " naughty boy" who spent time in prison, very sad , he came  from a well respected family,

Jebber I wish you well , hope you will be out of hospital soon, just take it easy.

Very dull again this morning g but we did have 3 days on the trot where we had reasonable  weather,  thought I would be able to mow the lawn , now wet again, have to wait for more nice dry days I suppose,  the garden looks awful this time of the year.

Viktoria,  sounds as if your plans to house your buggy is coming together nicely.

Take care everyone

LM

[Gillg]

Another wet day in Devon, with heavy rain and roads full of puddles.  As you said, LM, at this time of year the garden looks sad and sorry, but I walked round ours in a rare rain-free moment and spotted lots of primroses, snowdrops, daffodil buds ready to break, crocuses, hellebores, flower buds forming on several shrubs.  Spring is coming!  There may soon be more dry and sunny days, although March can be testing ("March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" - or the reverse, of course!) the thought of better and longer days and my birthday coming soon cheers me up. 

[Roobarb]

My best wishes too Jebber, I hope our posts bring a bit of light relief for you. That's if you're not too busy looking at the eye candy. 

A bit of rain here early afternoon but mostly okay, although it was pretty windy this morning, could hardly stand up against it! 
I have snowdrops in flower too Gillg, last year a friend dug a lot out of her garden and I was very happy to take some off her hands as snowdrops are notoriously hard to grow from new bulbs. I  couldn't remember where I'd put them but I was pleased to see them pop up in the front garden.

[Gillg]

A beautiful warm, sunny day today (Saturday)!  It's hard to believe, though I understand that rain is forecast to return tomorrow. Coming back from town this morning we saw long queues of cars going into the town, which is by the sea and has a long beach.  End of half term week and a glimpse of the sun had no doubt stirred everyone to get out into the sunshine and have a paddle.

Picked up my new reading glasses this morning and am finding them very helpful and rather more comfortable than my bifocals for reading.  I don't have to twist my neck to find the right angle and of course I have a whole lens to look through instead of half of one.  I was very pleased to be told by the optician that my prescription did not need to be changed, though he did say that I could have another pair if I fancied a change - I couldn't see any reason to fork out another few hundred pounds, so just stuck with my £75 new reading glasses and am pleased that I did. 

Back in the garden my husband has just mown the lawn and I have spied some little blue irises.  Also the camellias are full of bud and some have opened now.  There is a strong sweet smell, which my husband tells me is coming from the Sarcococca (Sweet Box).  It's not something you expect at this time of year, but it's very welcome and this is an easy plant to grow.  It doesn't get too tall, doesn't attract unwelcome pests or diseases, you can clip it like a box hedge or grow it in a pot.  Another good shrub is Skimmia, which has flowers in the early spring and berries later in the year. (We've got one of those, too.)

The birds are getting very noisy these days.  They obviously know that Spring is on the way and they are thinking about mating and nesting.  There's a lot of activity around the bird table, which has been noticed by an unwelcome visiting cat.  He/she gets shooed away pretty smartly and may receive a jugful of water if he is persistent. 

[louisa maud]

The chat about specs made me check,  the bottom part of my bifocals is the reading bit, I had an experiment and the glasses I have for the computer are not a reading  prescription, I will ask my optician, due to go for a check up soon, I will   need new specs as I didn’t change them last year,  only got sun glasses,  so I think I need a new pair of computer specs as well as bifocals, ah well, no pockets in shrouds!!,  can't take it with us.

Jebber hope you manage to read the diary and feel easier, take care.

Viktoria,  gave you been out for a joy ride yet?

Miserable this morning  but it has brightened up, grass to wet to mow and to cold for me to do gardening  today although it is milder.

Take care everyone

LM