Diary summary wk/ ending Sunday 1st March

[Caw1]

Hello to everyone!

My goodness here we are coming into yet another month, hopefully we’ll see better weather for all with the temps at least getting into double figures and some sunshine 🌞 .

Hope everyone has a good week and stays healthy 🤞.

Two weeks to day we will see our Son and D-I-L very excited as it’ll be the first time in 6 years since we last saw him…. Not that I’m wishing time away but it can’t come soon enough.

Take care all and looking forward to hearing everyone’s news.

Caroline

[Roobarb]

Well done on starting the new diary Caroline, LM was encountering some technical problems. How exciting to have your son and his wife visiting, you must be counting the hours!

Much milder here too, although there's a cool breeze today.

A couple of months ago I had a large pyracantha removed from my garden, it was getting far too tall and was shading my patio, and I was envisaging problems in the future. It wasn't cheap to have it removed but was worthwhile. Some time later I realised that I had two of the same shrub at the back of the garden that I'd grown from cuttings and I thought I might end up with the same problem with them. Although they reached the top of the fence they weren't particularly wide so I decided to have a go myself. The stems were quite thick and although I already had some long handled pruners they didn't open wide enough, so I bought a pair that had lots of good reviews for this sort of thing. Anyway, I had a go over the last couple of days and by putting one of the handles on the ground and leaning on the other I managed it.  Now I just need to cut it in two to be able to get it in the garden waste bin!

[BushInn1746]

Hello All

I hope you are staying healthy too Caroline. I managed to polish off that Quiche  this morning with red wine, porridge blueberries, banana, etc.

I thought no L.M., starting off the new week and I though perhaps this error message was the culprit!

I had to ring the pc people a few weeks ago and explained to a lady my system had updated and I couldn't shut it down and had to leave it up all night and she said I want you to hold in the on/off button until it shuts down. Now I want you to start it up and we ran through a few checks and she said anything else, so I proceeded to ask her how to access something else and cannot remember what now, but I changed whatever it was at the time.

I have been having error messages too 

Beautiful this morning and thank you Voluntary Weather Forecaster-in-Chief (V. W. F-in-C) weather this morning as per 'forecast' Roobarb and had a walk (good job I did), because sun disappeared and rain has been streaming down all afternoon    unbelieveable.

Definitely, something weird going on with the weather, we have been discussing the weather on a health forum.

I suppose we have to be thankful for short sunny spells!

Viktoria, Cork Tiles, sounds interesting.

Take care all, Mark

[louisa maud]

I am still getting problems, I wonder why the decision is shut down so soon considering that some are having  difficulty to open up the forum

LM

[Caw1]

Well that was a long day not being able to post!
Hope everyone’s ok and not had withdrawal symptoms…

Thanks bushinn.. I’m trying to stay healthy.. lost half a stone so it’s not all bad.. still awaiting biopsy results..🤞🤞

Roobarb- when I was reading about you tackling your plants I had visions of you with your big pruners trying to chop your wayward plants down.. not an easy task so hope you’ve recovered from your exertions..

Well today has been glorious down my way.. washing dried, little gardening done and OH is threatening to mow the lawn tomorrow 😳 the temp at its best was 17C just a jumper on and no socks didn’t feel chilly at all.

By contrast talking to my brother in Canada on FT this evening they’re temp is -14C and over 6ft of snow in their back garden.. but 5 deer feeding on the carrots they give them…

So two exciting times to come Son and wife for a visit and now my brother and wife coming in May which will be wonderful.

Take care all and hope everyone’s able to get on now… wonder what the glitch was…anyone know?

Caroline

[BushInn1746]

Hello All

Been better here today too.

SUN MADE AN APPEARANCE for most of the day   

Oh Roobarb your forecast came good and warm   

All the best Mark

[louisa maud]

Oh, I'm alive !!
Been a lovely day here, looks as if tomorrow  will be nice, bed linen day.
So pleased someone has come through,   felt cut off, silly isn't it but I got the "error" everytime
Only connected via this email, not tried it any other way, tomorrow  maybe.
Canada I understand hasn't had much snow this year.
Hope everyone else manages to get rid of the error
Take care

LM

[Roobarb]

Caroline, I managed to chop the removed branches in half, ready to go in the bin. They won't be going i yet though, my bin is already full awaiting the first garden waste collection at the end of March. I'm hoping to stop the pyracantha sprouting again, I had some Roundup that's been in the garage for umpteen years so I sprayed a bit of that on the stump, hoping it might do something but not really expecting it to. I was talking to a friend about it yesterday, she said she'd had problems with a buddleia bush that she hadn't planted popping up, she put a pot over it that cut out the light and rain and that saw it off. So I'm going to try that.

I'm pleased you've been getting some good weather Mark. Forecast  here is mild into next week. It's lovely to see the spring flowers popping up, I have some lovely crocuses growing where I grassed over a flowerbed in the front lawn.They can stay there. 

I Googled when to cut the lawn as mine are looking so messy, it said end of March and even then it depends where in the country you are. Apparently the frost can damage the lawn. Not sure if I can hold out that long!

[radstockjeff]

Hospital visit yesterday to see the surgeon about my pending hip job. Lovely chap, he did my left knee replacement back in 2011. All the pre op assessments seem to be ok,. within the limits of my medical history and it looks as though I might be getting close to the top of the list.
Fingers crossed.
Appointment on time and all over within half an hour including some more xrays.
Well done NHS.
rj