Diary summary week ending 13th July 2024

[louisa maud]

Gillg,  my husband prefers sheets and blankets also, I have just washed my blankets and and bedspread   a throw, I hate it, so often I get out of bed in  the night and catch my feet in  it, years ago I made my own fitted bedspread but then we changed to a king size so it had to go, can't really see a nice fitted one I like, so I am stuck with trying to remember not to trip over the throw.

Viktoria, I really don't know how you manage to pack so much into a day.

I rescued a butterfly on my windows behind the net, took some catching I must say.

Church has new fund raising committee, mentioned before but we have a quiz night tonight, went early to arrange the chairs,  just hope it goes well, not done one before but you will always get those who are negative and there is no need, all for the good of the church for on going repairs.

27 degrees in my garden, I won't be sitting out there.

Keep cool folks

LM.

[KGarrad]

27 degrees in my garden, I won't be sitting out there.

Keep cool folks

LM.

32c in front, south-facing garden; 20c in back yard, north facing.

[Viktoria]

My French windows from the kitchen always swell in the heat, I had to hose them down yesterday evening so they would close for the night.

Well fish gone and I am sad really, they are going to a well stocked big pond -
They have only really known each other for over eight years ,I will worry about them .
They came every morning when I tapped the edge of the raised pond.

I will have to get a dog!

Son just rang,has arrived safely .
Must check up on eldest son, not been very well this week ,gets severe indigestion from time to time.

Hope your Quiz night does well L.M.You too seem to do a lot as many of us do, even those with difficult conditions, it is our generation I think ,many born in the 1930’s. To be fair I think life is very difficult often these days for the younger ones, mortgages for example - phew - we would be living in the coal scuttle as that was all we would have been able to afford !!!

Cheerio folks.
Viktoria.
Hope all have a restful night,not easy with high the temperature.
Cheerio.

[louisa maud]

Think i would  be in the background 20 degrees,

Hot and bothered now having  to get dressed up for the quiz evening

LM

[brigidmac]

not been on here for a while
27 degrees here too.
i went out this morning to check on 2 friends one who has hurt foot so i took. shopping but i cant carry much

tne other who has been left in charge of 4 dogs for the day . 2 which hed never met before and wasnt told about til this morning

respective owners went to seaside 4.30 am to beat heat and havent given. a return time yet 
nor have  they checked in . which i think is really bad

if theyd paid an official dog carer im sure  it would have been over £160

.i came home to cool flat curtains drawn &high ceilings cos its a victorian house divided into flats . i tried to have a nap can hear the. gentle sound of tennis ...live from tne courts at the back  of back garden . no noise from any neighbours & no TV

temperature predicted to fall at 7pm and if i decide to catch the end of cosmopolitan carnival theres a bus around 8pm when temperature will be 23 degrees   
local reggae band is playing at 8.45pm
and i can go to bed a bit later than my usual 10.30pm

[BumbleB]

Hope your friend in charge of 4 dogs is still OK!! 

I hope that she/he does not volunteer again  - disgusting

Good luck with everything else.

[DianaCanada]

We are having a very hot July here in the frozen north.  It felt like 40c with the humidex today.  I went out this morning but went early enough to escape the worst of it.  In a little while will take the dog outside - am dreading it.
Duvets are not very popular here despite the cold winters.  Most of us go with sheets and bedspreads and maybe an extra blanket.

[brigidmac]

jebber et al  big andy pandy made me laugh to . sisters & I were dressed as Bill Ben flowerpot men & little weed  aged 5 . 3 and 1 ish but we didnt have a TV in those & i think when we got one aged 14.11& 9 the program had stopped .

sorry about your. fish Victoria  is a dog the best replacement .
how did singing go  Gill
& quiz LM

Bumble friend  separated the dogs after 7pm & told owners he was leaving them too it . they were still in skegness im not sure how far that is to leicester ...i know its the nearest seaside but we are in centre of England . their relative lives there so it wasn't just a jaunt . + he hadnt been expected to sit with them whole time. he'd only discovered there were 4 at 7am in the morning when he.d been left a request & leads to walk 3 of them.
so he didnt exactly volunteer & definitely wont again !

while I was  there the snappy one went for 1 of the others twice ....its a risk .

another of my friends is an experienced dog walker & trainer of 18 years and was asked to look after an Alsatian for a week

she met it + owner once & realized it was jumpy but the second time it jumped on her for no  reason with owner present and  bit her  quite badly ...
owner wont compensate so its going to court. .
she was shook up & had to go hospital it hasnt put her off dogs ....just Alsations.
i wonder what will happen to the dog if its a public danger .


 

[KGarrad]

Had plumber and handyman in yesterday.
Apparently I had a leaking WC, and wet-rot floorboards!
Turned out to be a bigger job than expected, and they will return on Monday.
Meanwhile, I had to be out of my flat yesterday, and (fortunately) will be out for most of today.
Have reverted to flushing with a bucket of water!