Diary summary week ending 13th July 2024

[Viktoria]

Well , Brigidmac, I would love a dog but sadly could not take one for walks,
however when the access in and out of my garden is properly sorted I could take a dog to a very nearby sports field with a good perimeter walk ,my scooter is all terrain.
There is a playground with swings etc ,enclosed so no dogs there and two football pitches so no dogs there - well I wouldn’t  let mine there ,but I am too old and have been rushed to hospital twice so I am really unreliable .
Not fair to burden my son ,who is all day working on computers just as if he were in an office ,his life is dictated by those,that is his employment .He has no set routine as it depends what is coming in internationally . When there are little lulls he does a bit of work in his house which he is getting to his
taste .That is next door.He has no Broadband there yet but is therefore on hand here mostly if I am suddenly unwell again .

No ,my pet owning days are over .
Cheerio, off to get “ dashing away with the smoothing iron “ —— who remembers that from schooldays when we sang folk songs rescued from oblivion by Cecil …..Sharp?


That is not fair to a dog either, I feel very sad at birds in cages ,Guinea pigs and rabbits in hutches and aquariums ,love cats but not how uncontrollable they are re using the garden as a toilet,and other people’s too .
I don’t like cat litter trays and my utility room is off my kitchen and two sides all windows so like an oven in the Summer.Yuk,imagine a litter tray in there .
The access to the garden from the kitchen is by French windows so nowhere for a cat flap which would anyway allow a cat to use my or other people’s
garden’s .
No, I am doomed to a petless old age now!

Much cooler night and funnily enough picked up a book at our local Tesco charity book stall ,about a young woman renovating a period cottage and is tricked by a neighbour into having their ex racing greyhound “ for a few days”
but the neighbour doesn’t come back .
The description of the weekly Farmer’s market venue makes  me think it is Ludlow market hall which is as in the book on stilts .

Well now 8-20, so will get up ,have a cup of de- caf tea and iron the bedding from sons’s bed I washed yesterday,before it gets too hot.
Then bath and hair wash .

Salmon for  tea with new potatoes and new peas.
Tesco delivery at nine - ten ,pm.
Cheerio, look after yourselves thanks for your kind wishes ,and I really do miss the fish and hope they can find each other in a much bigger pond ,they have been together for eight years.
Viktoria.

[Gillg]

Viktoria
You could always get a stick insect!  I used to threaten my children with one or two of those when they begged for a dog.  Wouldn't want a pet now - they are too expensive to feed and pay for insurance and vet fee cover and I certainly wouldn't want to be picking up dog poo.  I am fond of dogs. but make do with my friend's sweet little Border Terrier.  Like you, I don't like animals in cages or enclosures. 

Do you really have to iron sheets in this hot weather?  I have been known to wash and line dry mine and put them straight back on the bed in very hot weather.   It's around 25 degrees here now in Devon at 10.30 a.m., so heaven knows what it will be at mid-day!  Our concert yesterday evening went well, though there was a lot of use of programmes as fans.  Everyone sang heartily, especially a little choir of under 10s and our shanty choir of men, and our choir enjoyed our performance, too. 

Take care, all, in this extreme weather and keep on drinking (whatever your choice of refreshment).   

[louisa maud]

Thankfully today is much cooler, dull and overcast but inside is 25 degrees.

 My  friend has 2 dogs, one a pup bought recently, the older one, a white ball off fluff was making such a racket he was sent into the garden to behave, after a little while he appeared  inside, no doors open, the little rascal  had got in through the cat flat, wasn't silly was he,? they don't even own a cat, recently  moved into the property, so the cat flap has to go, he might get stuck..

We have never had an animal although as a child we had cats, a dog, chickens and my dad bred canaries, because I worked I didn't want a dog causing a nuisance  to neighbours, doesn't stop my present  neighbour though who has a dog that barks everytime someone passes the door or a car and howls when left alone,  they are in but it takes them a long time to call it to be quiet, so although I do like almost any animal we don't have any now, my daughter did have a rabbit though.

The quiz went well, my husband and I aren't quizzers, left it to our daughter and family,  we came 3rd, one question they got wrong after I told them the answer and they chose to ignore me, I was right,  how many hubs has the London Eye got, no prizes  for guessing but does anyone know and why the number. We raised a staggering    £565, well worth the effort for church repairs.

Enjoy your day everyone

LM

[Viktoria]

Congratulations L.M.that is a good sum .
Hope you had help with putting the chairs  back .
I like quizzes , like Mastermind and Eggheads and University Challenge .
Can’t always answer of course but what bright people take part.
I always feel Mastermind is really really unfair ,each contestant should have the same number of questions in the last round ,some are so long that some contestants get fewer than other participants .
Well a cool drink and then  a fridge tidy ready for my Tesco delivery this evening.
Cheerio.Viktoria.

[louisa maud]

Must say I don't like quizzes,   5 of my team were smart  on films and Bond, James Bond, we aren't but we didn't come home disgraced?,  I am good when sitting  in  my lounge and I have no competition  except the TV

CORRECTION,  it was how many hubs does the millennium  wheel have, not London eye

3 had been to the hall to set it up AM and amazingly quite a few  helped to put chairs and tables away, 3 just got up immediately and went out but hey ho those that stayed did a good job, was a good evening and best of all our Reverend gave a huge thanks you to those concerned, we now have the fete to think about and that has a lot of things going on, new broom sweeps clean as they say,  the old fundraising  committee which I have been on for years needed a shake up, boy have we got it with our new leader, good things lie ahead.

LM

[brigidmac]

Lm i know its a new week but am intrigued about the question you knew + they didnt
+ of course i want to know how many hubs are on the millenium wheel even if I never need to know + will promptly forget the answer .

ive only ever wanted a pet once mostly for reasons of not depriving animals of freedom .
In sahara i fancied a lizard to catch cockroaches +scorpions
did have a kitten for a while but while i was away +a friend caring for it ..it disappeared ..might have jumped off a balcony window . there was no cat food or dog food there in the shops 1980.s so the animals ate all sorts of things + actually clever cats could catch + eat scorpions ..leaving the tails .

My sister got her children 2 stick insects in leicester
they bred + there were 1000.s of babies that were so tiny they could squeeze out of the aquarium thing ..and invaded the house ..it was a nightmare .

Victoria ..sheets DONt need ironing ..in any weather .!
Thats insanity to me !
They probably feel a bit nicer but 5 mins of tossing + turning or sweating + they.ll be in same condition as if they.d never seen an iron ..trust me ,try NOT ironing next time .

[louisa maud]

The answer , sorry, no prizes, you was the one,y one who asked so here goes

32 hubs because I think it represented at the time  the 32 boroughs within London, the boundary lines change so there might not be 32 boroughs now.
 
Must admit I don't iron sheets anymore unless we have visitors,  I used to iron everything including tea towels, not anymore.

Off to the new week Brightman before this one is closed.

LM

[ThrelfallYorky]

Viktoria, many cats are indoor, with a wired mesh cat run for outdoors. One could be built acessible from your utility room. The cat we catsit sometimes has its own "doorkey" to its own catflap in its implanted chip. Can get in and out whenever she wants. That's one solution.
TY

[Viktoria]

Well, having got up,washed and dressed ,brought the milk in ,I went to kitchen and got Aquarian goldfish food ———-
I just keep hoping they stay together but with lots of other fish ———.
Mind you one was a bully so was regularly isolated in a bucket after which it would behave for a while .
I used to put two sprinkles of food a distance apart ,that kept the bully busy so the bullied one could feed in peace at one or the other .

Started organising their pond now as my herb patch and present herb patch to be converted as an entrance to the mobility scooter shed so I  can drive straight in from the lane and no awkward turns and manoeuvres in my flagged area - yard before the garden or patio if I am trying to be posh .

Well a mild morning but a really lowering grey sky which portents rain ( that’s my big word for this week),The gardens need it .

I know it is not necessary and a bit daft to iron sheets but I quite like ironing especially if there is something good on T.V.
I do resent how duvet covers get so creased when being put on!
Why not side openings ?
Well things to do ,hope all are O.K.
I have got  AntiWimbledonitis! I am fed up with the change of programmes and the grunting and screaming!

Look after yourselves . Viktoria.